skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THE ENGINEER IN QUESTION WAS ALSO SEEN PICKING HIS NOSE AT HIS DESK AND WIPING HIS HANDS ON THE MOUSEPAD. RELIABLE WITNESSES REPORT HIM BEATING HIS DOG ON XMAS THEN SUBSEQUENTLY TELLING AN OLD LADY NOT TO HAVE NICE DAY.

WHEN QUESTIONED, HE RESPONDED WITH, "IT'S ALL IN THE STEVE JOBS BIOGRAPHY, LOSERS," AND REFUSED FURTHER COMMENT FOR THIS ARTICLE.

In other news, Facebook is seen going all out in its attempts to get its actual crimes and misdemeanours off the front page.
Google is doing a Yahoo.

(trying to) Forcing bad products (g+), adding a top bar everywhere (look! we are a portal!), and cheaping out on labour which leads to missing out the only people capable of innovating.
Seems like someone could create a little program that could let you choose time specific fonts. Though I really can't see much use in such a program other then something someone might produce just for practice.
I use it too. I like to self-host my commercial projects, and when I decided to move away from Subversion about seven years ago I did consider Git, but the ease of self-hosting Fossil made the choice for me. Just plug it into apache httpd and off you go. Some time later GitLab became available, so now I'm also running a GitLab instance. But the Fossil server has much smaller footprint and is easier to manage.
But we're talking about a plane here... the margin for error must be tiny.

They're actually surprisingly resilient, being purposefully designed that way. Look at avherald.com for all the things that happen to planes daily, yet don't make the mainstream news because no massive injury or death resulted.
Yacc is a very important part of UNIX because it allows one to create a parser for a language with limited knowledge of parsing. Of course, if a language is very complicated, it is better to create a special purpose parser, but with yacc one can easily create parsers for most simple DSLs.
But what share of the aggregate benefit? How is the growing gap between productivity and wages explained? It's still a race to the bottom, it's just that the bottom has risen a bit.
> I’d argue that if you’re good at developing software, you are probably passionate for it.

Developing software is all the same, right?

Just like everyone tuning the engine in their race spec roadster must love doing oil changes and swapping rusted brake discs on their neighbor's 15-year-old nissan micra?

I know a lot of people who are passionate about the beautiful software they get to work on their spare time, on their own terms.. software not tainted by dysfunctional corporate culture, legacy, deadlines, budget constraints, ever growing technical debt, etc. I suspect most of them don't expect to find such passion-worthy projects in a commercial setting. It is quite likely that they won't love their job, even if they can do a heck of a good job at it.

So yeah, that kind of description can be a bit of a turn-off.
Good idea. This would be useful for sure.
They call themselves "academic scholars", however what they did was nothing less than an act of war against sovereign entities and their contractors. They should expect nothing less than retribution. This is just how it works.
Jeff Bezos gives a pitiful amount of his $160B fortune to charity
We have 5 articles referencing Facebook on the front page. It’s gotten out of hand. HN is dominated by whining about Facebook lately. None of these articles have substance.
Elsewhere on HN: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-solar-gcl-i...

Chinese ripped off U.S.-based solar, went crazy, drove margins to 0%, overproduced, dumped in U.S., reduced U.S. profit incentive in solar development, and are now going to restrict supply to try to get prices up.

Meantime, we've had less serious R&D investment in solar than we would have had otherwise.

So, no, globalization doesn't always work especially when one of the other majors is a state-directed Communist country.
They always supported self publishing with CreateSpace. Not sure what changed? Did they start doing Marketing/sales for the books? Article is not readable without login it seems.
That's true, he knew me because of the work I was doing on my 20% project. This was a small stealth-mode thing which was a pet project of his. So I mainly just lucky. Meanwhile, the guy who sat behind me, worked much harder, came in earlier and left later, and turned out mountains of high quality code never got promoted (he retired).

But Google prides itself on being a meritocracy, when really it is just another case of "who you know" is as important as "what you know"
I won't write a long whiny post, but when I left in 2009 it was really bad, at least where I was.

Since the committee that promotes you don't know anything about your daily work, you're free to lie about your accomplishments, and the promotion essays I saw and were asked to endorse took credit for vastly more than the person had done.
I believe that Bezos will eventually commit to philanthropy full time. For now, let him work on his company!
Yeah, unfortunately, spying on people is the norm. I have little confidence these business models will work in the long-run. Hopefully.
Thank you for the kind words. I have no immediate plans for changing the palette, but you should open an issue here https://github.com/script-8/script-8.github.io.
It'd be easy to split them by year or subject, as that's provided by the arXiv.
Yes. It is by far the best place I've ever worked.
To me it matters very little if that same industrialisation and growth in consumption dooms us to a future of dying biospheres and growing atarvation, conflict, displacement, etc.
Heh, Amazon
People who serve SSL out of their Java servlets by installing certificates to random Tomcat and Linux system directories are already a little crazy.

You'd have to be a real maniac to serve TLS in someone's random C framework.
There's an issue for this: https://github.com/script-8/script-8.github.io/issues/41
You're saying it's not terrible, but you had to state "Please cancel my subscription" four times and respond to their questions/suggestions, all of this after you already expressed that you want to cancel just to get there.

What happens when you try to cancel outside business hours? Do they have 24/7 support, do they just let you cancel, or do they tell you to try again the next day?
For giving them money? Where do I sign up to become a victim?
It's still not necessarily the better idea for them.

Some percentage of people who just bought a mixer will get a product they aren't satisfied with, for whatever reason. That population has a much higher change of buying another mixer than other people. And mixers are probably far more expensive products.

I have no idea if, in an absolute sense, there's more chance you'll buy a cookbook rather than another mixer, but it wouldn't surprise me either way - on the one hand, obviously most people don't need two mixers. On the other hand, plenty of people who buy a mixer will never buy a cookbook in their life, but literally 100% of people who bought a mixer have proven that they were at some recent point in the market for a mixer. I'm not sure which effect wins out here.
Ask HN: Weekly News Summary?
I'm trying to avoid the 24 hour news cycle, but still want to keep informed of global events.

Does anyone have recommendations for a curated weekly news summary, be it a newsletter, website, or such?
In my case, fear of this sort of thing is why I could not let my manager know that I was planning on leaving. He would not have intentionally screwed me over like this, but I was afraid somebody above him in the org chart would.

I felt really bad that he went to bat for me for the promo.
The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?
Back in 2010 He said that he regretted writing that message and that he'd matured a lot. The decade that followed that apology, his subsequent actions time and time again spoke much louder.
Geolocating SSH Hackers in Real-Time (with a Live Map)
The phrase “a good work ethic” to me describes what you are saying exactly.

I am not passionate about computers, I like solving problems and streamlining the tedious. Personally I don’t have a passion for my company either. I like them, I like what they pay me, and I like the benefits and culture.

I see my paycheck as a business transaction that is favorable to both myself and the company I work for.

With that being said, I do actually enjoy the work I do, but would never use the word passion to describe it.
The problem here is you are familiar with Docker but not LXC which has suffered serious misinformation from the Docker ecosystem.

A little bit of research will show it's far simpler to use and manage than Docker [1], and because it offers a standard OS environment with support for standard networking, daemons, logging, no enforced use of layers or ephemeral storage it doesn't need an app to hang around and manage its networking and other subsystems.

It offers seamless migration of workloads from VMs, is compatible with the ecosystem of apps and orchestration systems without the need for any special daemon handling, network or storage management that comes from a custom environment, thus simplifying container use and management.

[1] https://www.flockport.com/guides/say-yes-to-containers
A Thai person once told me they were raising a generation of copiers, when 1 person would start a karaoke bar, the street would be filled with them soon. I also heard stories of Chinese copying entire machines for manufacturers in the west and expecting support on them. I don't understand your reply I'm saying western culture may have strange standards, Or, different at least.
Does PayPal allow that? If they are smart, they'd put into their ToS that in order to use PayPals subscription feature to receive money, you have to agree to let people cancel through it and honor this.
Because foot diseases are a common thing: jock itch, athlete's foot, toe funguses...yeah, your feet should be clean, but unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the folks insisting on taking their shoes off are the ones that don't understand that their feet are a problem. (Not always, but I've definitely been grossed out in an office before, as well as on a plane. Ugh, don't get me started on the guy that went to the plane bathroom barefoot, doesn't affect anyone else, but OH MY GOD.)
Have you considered that maybe their work is their hobby, and a huge part of their life and purpose?

I work somewhere where a lot of my coworkers and management are incredibly dedicated and passionate about what we do. They will show up and go apeshit on a project for 12+ hours a day for a month at a time because they're excited about the challenge and the outcomes. Even when they're not working on such a schedule, they often go home and work on personal projects that parallel what they do in their work. There are plenty of days where I can't wait to get to work; all issues outside of it take the backseat. No matter how bad those issues are, I have no choice but to get over them, because my work is never finished.

I'd imagine that some jobs would be grating, but there's a lot of them that would never get old for some people.
It's not free, but it's much cheaper than the cost a normal publisher would spend to get the same exposure.
I am not lawyer, however the border-zone sure seems unconstitutional to me...and if arguments for it Constitutionality rely on the idea that the border zone represents a very restricted edge case, then this excellent article clearly makes that position a farce.
Nonfiction author here.

Some potential advantages Amazon may have over other traditional publishers:

Massive amount of data and high-powered data science. Can help inform decisions about what to buy, how much of an advance to pay, etc.

Large coffers. Can take more risks in what to buy and make competitive bids.

Priority of placement. Amazon the retailer gets a cut of every sale. Amazon the publisher gets another. Clearly, it makes sense to prioritize Amazon's own titles against similar titles from other publishers, unless sales of the non-Amazon title are expected to be substantially higher.

A couple of disadvantages:

Agents are wary. They know that cooperating with Amazon is going to threaten the health of every other publisher.

At least in the short term, authors are going to perceive having Amazon as a publisher as having less cachet. It's largely known for its self-publishing arm, and authors aren't going to want their books to be misperceived as having been self-published, where quality is pretty abysmal.

Don't expect your book to end up in brick-and-mortar bookstores.
While I can believe that multi-user with Keepass would be problematic to say the least, multi-device is not. I've been using it for years with several devices syncing via my own NextCloud instance.
In that it adds complexity to have two tools vs one. And in the wild will add risk of mistakes and wasted time due mixups since they overlap and have incompatibilities. I’d rather give a team one tool, the only reason this is two tools is because they were independent projects, but they realy should be one conceptually.
The mechanical fragility of thinner silicon has broadly stalled the progression toward even thinner wafers/cells. It's a pity since the optically/electronically optimum thickness would be thinner than is common now, and thinner wafers would yield more wafers per ingot.

Do you know how Jinko is handling such thin wafers when they assemble their own modules? If they're making cells of such thinness they presumably have found a way to do it; nobody can afford to accidentally break half of their cells on the way to modules.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/d...
> No, but someone giving bread away for free and doing that wouldn't be so clearly bad.

I would say that's even worse. By giving bread away for free, he's making it impossible for other bakeries to compete unless they do the same thing.

This is why there are no serious competitors to services like Facebook or GMail. It's impossible to compete with free unless you monetize the data.

I say this as someone who pays for ProtonMail. Do you think it's possible to convince friends and family to start paying for email as well when they already get it for free?
From 12 years in electronics, I can say that:

Humans are bad at doing tasks that are very simple, but repetitive and requiring 100% correctness. QC is one of them.

Computers on other hand, are very good at doing exactly same thing, finding out common irregularities that can be preprogrammed.
Sounds like 90% a political issue and 10% causes by globalization. Slightly adjust a tariff and the above situation is impossible but globalization can still occur.

I’d be curious to find if there are international dumping laws or something similar. I’m on mobile, but I know the us has them.
I don’t live or work in CA, so that would be quite a feat for me wouldn’t it.
> an actual user preference for 'free with ads and less privacy'

Users don't have a preference for less privacy; that's not the choice they're presented with. They're presented with no choice at all: just "free". The "less privacy" part is never explained to them up front or given to them as an explicit choice; it comes out later when the companies get caught.
> julialang.org
> no mention of "license"
> "Julia is a NumFocus project"

it is a non-profit corporation, but still a corporation. Whose life depend on donations from the owners of the other languages you compared julia against.
Except that FB now has a consistent track record of leaking those "mails" (or friend lists, or interactions, or whatever) to 3rd party entities that I've never authorized to have that data.

Gmail on the other hand has one of the best security track records in the industry, minus state-sponsored snooping (but that's a bit of a different issue, I think). There's zero instance of my Gmail mails being used by Google in anything other than algorithmic ad targeting.
We're so privileged to be in a market where we can be so discerning.
As a software guy I’m... astounded. That’s incredible to me. Hats off to you, brother. And thanks for sharing your experience.
Their support pages didn't seem to have any information on how to cancel. I emailed their support and requested to have my account deleted and got a polite reply from a human the next morning saying that they had done so.
Moral of the story: if you're going to backdate documents, use a VM with period OS/software. It probably wouldn't hurt to use antique printers as well.
They usually do, it's just that most people don't think of sending physical mail, nor do they consider it a reasonable way of dealing with such things (and they're right).
This site is accurate for my level - https://levels.fyi
Spouses can get their own visa and work.

Spouses were not able to work since the invention of H1B decades ago.

That rule changed only in 2014 and Trump hasn't cancelled it yet despite talking about doing so for almost two years. If he doesn't do it in the next year, chances are spouses will still be able to work without an extra visa.
I think it's a matter of time until people start valuing privacy enough to overcome the threshold to pay for email. For us, our thresholds were lower due to our knowledge in the tech space.
Yeah exactly why I always commit renames right away and atomically. I mean it's a _relatively_ rare thing and when I have to do it I just want to make and record the change and then move on. Renaming and then modifying a file in the same commit is slightly sloppy imo. Not to say that the tool couldn't be doing a better job.
I further hope that like Bill Gates, he will use his corporate management skills to bring about revolutionary philanthropic benefits like Bill has done towards health and medicine
Do you have evidence that globalisation and inequality are linked?
The global poor are better off, as well as the top x%. The losers seem to be the developed world's middle/lower class.

If you look at recent history, the rich have tended to do well during relatively quiet times but less so during turbulent times (like wars), so I'm not sure its a good idea to hope for a situation where the rich don't do well.
> why not just clone twice?

Sometimes this is fine, but if the history is large enough (like in the case of the Linux kernel), it can start to get out of hand space-wise. If you have a deduplicating filesystem, that can help, but only so much.

Of course, there is a way to use clone which hardlinks the objects.
"85% of People Hate Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Says"

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/212045/world-broken...
One thing that I learned about reverse engineering is that you can often get very far by just recognizing/guessing what formats and libraries were used by original authors. The article seems to at least partialy confirm this view.

On vocational school we could elect to do long term project instead of practical graduation exam. In my case this involved reverse engineering management protovol used by Merlin Legend PBX in order to port its DOS-based configuration utility (which was in fact emulator of MLX-20L operator phone) to something more modern (and multi-user). One of first things we did was running the binary through strings and ndisasm (I probably still have the hackedup tool to convert MZ EXE to pseudo-COM that could then be read by ndisasm, which was motivated by fact that for various reasons we could not use IDA). What we found out was that it used some weird Unix on DOS emulation layer from AT&T which included Unix-style ncurses and terminal emulation layer.

We tried both to analyze the binary and sniff the communication. At first we thought that disassembling the code would be faster as we had only limited access to the PBX itself and were somehow afraid of bricking the thing. Oneday I just gave up and spent few hours hacking up a way to actually look at the UART data (there were two issues with that: the PBX was somewhat picky about accepted RS232 levels and then slight logistical issue of having preferrably a laptop with two serial ports in early 00's). After we had this ugly mess of wires with four DE9 connectors and active RS232 buffer (powered from adjustable bench supply, needless to say that our advisor was not too thrilled that we decided to connect this thing between somewhat irreplacable PC and still considerably expensive PBX) we found out quite quickly that the actual configuration protocol consisted of XModem for backup/restore, straight ANSI terminal emulation for initial session establishment (and in theory for weird "use PBX as outgoing modem" feature), essentially binary block oriented terminal protocol (think contents of PC text mode framebuffer with one attribute byte for not every character, but block of 8, always sent as whole line) wrapped in weird HDLC subset for the actual interactive configuration and weird handshake reminiscent of OBDII serial protocol to switch between these modes (which probably took the majority of time to reverse engineer).

Interesting aside is that the above mentioned binary block protocol was also used for the UI of almost-ISDN phones that went with the PBX in question. We had access to ISDN protocol analyzer which worked perfectly for normal call flows, but reliably crashed (and not with any kind of meaningful error message, it just overwrote half of its display with random pixels, started ignoring its keypad or otherwise started behaving weirdly in somewhat random manner) any time we did anything more complex. Somehow I think that finding signal that reliably crashes firmware on test equipment which is explicitly designed to debug problems on such interface is achievement in itself :)
Consider that it might be an abuse of power for companies to use information asymmetry to create an unfair pricing mechanism.

I think companies should pay employees what they are worth, after taking a fair cut. Common opinion is that should pay what they can get away with, using any and all cultural forces, information asymmetries, etc available to them.

One of the ways companies pay women less is by taking advantage of the fact that women are less likely to think they are worth as much as they are. It's easy for companies to take advantage of this things, so they do. I still think it's wrong.

I won't think less of you for disagreeing, because as you say it's quite normal. I would say it's a common wrongdoing. Many/most employers aren't aware of the harm they are causing. And common (therefore often subconscious) wrongdoing is a lesser evil than conscious wrongdoing. But it's still wrongdoing.
A DNS flag day
absolutely this! Gervais principle is a very valuable (and entertaining) way to decode what is going on in the organization.

The one bit of advice I would give to someone trying to use Gervais to understand someone in the organization's motivations : just because they may act according to Gervais doesn't mean they are bad or evil or broken in some way.
Don't know how it is now, but most of my promos at Microsoft (in 00s) were unexpected by me. I just kicked ass, and my managers delivered the goods. I liked that system. That's how it's supposed to work. :-)
Give you three options:

1. delete all your posts the same way they would be deleted if you went to them and pressed the delete button.

2. Anonymize them (replace user name with "deleted user <randomnumber>").

3. Keep storing the username

After that, delete all other data (profile, settings, e-mail, password hash, ...)
> There are exceptions, such as semiconductor chip lithography, where you are always working at the limits of the process.

You know, a modern semiconductor fab can have more metrologists and inspection engineers, than actual process people.

The more advanced the node, the more it is a black box, where you can not intervene in the process in any way other than initial inputs.
Mobile phone carriers take your money and still sell your data. Same for some credit card companies.