skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My idea of an Office Space remake ten years ago was the gang is hired back, kept on for a year and then forced to cross-train their overseas replacements to get a severance package. Not terribly original but definitely what was happening then.

Now I imagine Gary Cole reprising his Bill Lumbergh role but he's shaved twenty years off his resume. He has a man bun he has to dye, rides a scooter to work (which he despises) and woefully misuses modern platform terms and "may mays" in typical /r/fellowkids style.

The main characters are rehired as part of a lawsuit settlement against Silcon Valley's rampant ageism. fRAGILe has taken over (we must acknowledge our weakness to transcend it) and each day is started with a scrimmage that includes mandatory hugs, incense and mediation. No one is allowed to discuss development progress because it brings too much negative energy.

Completely ignored by their coworkers the old gang invent something that makes the company a takeover target. Rather than acknowledge their worth and shatter SV group think about anyone over 25 having a good idea much less give up equity, management gives them all awful reviews and fires them, returning their shares to the firing manager. (It's assumed if you got rid of dead weight you did the company some good and should be rewarded.)
Only if you expect it to look like English spelling specifically?

If the benchmark instead is other European languages, pinyin seems reasonable. The mapping of Q is probably the most unexpected feature.
I think WPD is genuinely important. There are edgelords, sure. Watching and thinking seriously about what I saw there changed my perspective on life.
i think you'll find that the M3 name is already occupied.
I doubt that number has much to do with leave benefits because from what I understand those benefits have only increased. I think it would be much more cultural and generational.
> Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing.

The Lombards, Saxons, Franks, Magyars, Mongols and many, many others would disagree. And the Khmer, Mon, Viet and Tai.

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/03/26/communities-only-e...

> Overall it is worth reading Imagined Communities because of its purported cultural significance. But much of it is so garbled and unclear I’m not sure what people are taking from it, aside from the proposition that the modern nation-state was invented in the last few centuries due to modernity. In the end the book is kind of a long tautology.

Azar Gat’s Nations is a far superior book.
"That being said, if you’re making a game, it probably won’t work in cross-platform"

I feel like gaming is the easiest thing to do cross-platform since you don't rely on any native UI and OpenGL is pretty similar on different platforms. Unity, Unreal Engine, and many others are designed to target many platforms.
Letting the other people do the talking doesn't mean turning totally mute.

You need to keep the other person busy by providing them topics to talk about themselves.
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Dr Sarno litreally gave me my life back. Suffered back pain which I thought was from sitting and coding for 11 years. I had no idea emotions can have an impact on physical pain. real excruciating pain that went away almost 3/4th of the way through the book. this sounds so sales pitchy but mind body connection is real I think how now we wonder how doctors in 1950s said smoking tobacco isn't bad for you, we will wonder in future on how doctors denied the mind body connection.
The goal of Pinyin was to be a pronunciation guide for Chinese people who have no preconceived ideas about what letters make what sounds. It works great for that. The problem is when foreigners try to pronounce Pinyin using their existing knowledge of the Latin alphabet. Inevitably they end up pronouncing "Xiaomi" as "Jow-me", etc!
> Yes, you can legally change your name but it takes a lot of time and effort and could cause you a lot of grief with your family and professional confusion.

It took me 45 minutes at the Births/Deaths/Marriages office. If I recall, it cost $60.
The important parts of your business are in the backend, and should be accessible in json format. If you have a good api, developing native clients should be simple and fast.

But what I have seen are very confident web frontend devs (and product managers too) who only consider web solutions, and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work.
Very ironic. People in my office work just 8 hours yet the open office plan leads to a lot of those 8 hours be some sort of socializing or chatting - wasting the company's time and money.
I bet Reddit does pretty well on long tail queries. It's one of a few high pagerank sites that has a little content on just about every subject.
I even thought it might've been about the model BMW used to make (maybe it had pioneered something by having a more programmable ECU?)
The Gen2 Nissan Leaf has an "e-pedal" that works differently so I can't speak for that, but for the Gen1 Leaf and a 2018 Model 3 you absolutely use the brake pedal. The difference is that Regenerative Braking just changes your timing when switching from Accelerator to Brake, it doesn't eliminate it entirely.

Have you driven a standard transmission ICE? Downshifting into a lower gear is a very similar experience to regenerative braking. It's an aggressive deceleration that will slow the car from high speeds but it's no replacement for actual brakes.

For someone inexperienced with an EV, the lack of Regenerative Braking would feel like driving a normal car. For someone familiar with it, you're immediately aware of it's absence. In an ICE you coast by taking your foot of the accelerator, in an EV you coast by applying 10% pressure to the pedal (I made that % up). The reason you need 10% pressure to coast is that anything under that amount is where regenerative braking functions. So there's a weight to the pedal that isn't there when regenerative braking is gone.

It's hard to explain without driving an EV but it would be like using a computer mouse without the scroll wheel. You're keenly aware of it and if it's not there.
I have a couple:
- The Gulag Archipelago & Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
- Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
- Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian
Having spent time reading the standards recently (and implementing some toy decoders) I've noticed a pattern in video codec designs, starting from the very first one:

H.261 - simple, not much more than MJPEG with P-frames.
MPEG-1 - basically '261 with B-frames, pretty simple
MPEG-2/H.262 - MPEG-1 with more complex interlacing stuff
H.263 - no more interlacing, better low-bitrate performance
MPEG-4 - absurd complexity that no one turned out to use most of anyway (3D scenes, face animation(!?), etc.)
H.264 - back to regular video, with better I prediction
H.265 - complex again?

Of course they do get more complex over time, but it seems like a cycle that alternates between incremental-yet-significant changes and huge redesigns that don't seem quite worth it.
Facebook acquires Chainspace, its first blockchain startup
>>It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years.

The kind of things happen when their goals get set like:

1. Increase mobile app sign up/usage by 30%.

2. Revamp UI and launch by 2019.

etc etc.

People optimize for what they are asked to, setting fire to pretty much everything around.

>>They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out.

Kind of strange, because they rewrote their whole site in Python, which was originally in Common Lisp. All of that to solve this problem.

Seems like it was just a project for some one at Reddit to get a promotion.

OKR are a gift that keeps on giving.
And you think an isolated incident somehow proves a trend or is otherwise concrete evidence of repeat violations? There's zero evidence of a systemic problem.
Can’t edit the original comment, but Karamazov went through review at SE and is now available at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/the-brot...
Native development can also be cross platform vs lock-in oriented. Depends on what tools are used.
Google’s annual revenue
This lets you do it without an account though. An order of magnitude more people use reddit logged out with no account, than those that have an account.
Not sure where you are. But in Bay area, American Chinese cuisine and authentic Chinese cuisine are different genres. As a Chinese I never go to the former unless I have to.

Better to ask your Chinese colleagues for suggestion.
The thing I remember most about Office Space is how the questions asked in Contextual Inquiries sound exactly the same as the questions asked by "the two Bobs".

In the winter of 2008 (the real estate crash) I was in charge of designing a new UI. I sent a UI/UX team to do a contextual inquiry of our biggest users. Unfortunately our Finance customers freaked out at the contextual inquiries because they thought we were getting rid of their jobs!

You tell me if this sounds like a Contextual Inquiry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmuI5W694o
Art of war.
Litterally apply it to things in life successfully every day.
My understanding is Pinyin was created to improve literacy rates within China, not as a bridge to western languages.
That's two events mixed together.

There was an amnesty similar to what you're talking about in 1968 with the Gun Control Act, and it's the only firearms amnesty that's been offered.

The "Firearms Owners Protection Act" of 1986 (why is it that these bills always do the opposite of their title) did not have amnesty provisions. The big thing it did was ban civilian ownership of fully automatic firearms with specific exceptions where stringent requirements are met.
> I believe the U curve he's seeing reflects the process of DSLRs transitioning from being an equipment restricted to professionals, getting popular during the 90's/2000's (pressuring manufacturers to produce cheaper, more lightweight lenses), and finally transitioning back to professional equipment, as cellphones and smaller cameras picked up on image quality.

IDK about that analysis, amateur photography wasn't invented by the digital age. Nikon and Pentax both have a lot of small and light primes and zooms.
Read Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Azar Gat.

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-ha...

> Basically, Gat is refuting a modernist view, which has arguably gone from being revisionist to normative, that the concept and execution of a nation is a historically contingent construction of early modern Europe, and more precisely Revolutionary France of the 1790s.
The Growth of IPv6 in the Asia Pacific Region
Source.com (YC W17) Is 100% Remote and Hiring a Sr. Rails Engineer
An Overview of the Index Changes in PostgreSQL 11
Are you guys running Knative or similar to handle the serverless workloads in your edge ?
Quest bars are amazing... Wish they were vegan though. I miss em.
It is, just like H.264 and XviD (MPEG-4 ASP) before it. Pirates do not care about patents, only the technical aspects.
Strongly agreed. I once went to a sichuan restaurant with a Chinese friend and he asked for the "secret" menu. He ordered a bunch of things I'd never expected to try before, like spicy pan-fried pork intestines.

It was incredible food. Literally the best I'd ever had. I made a habit of bringing American friends to this restaurant all the time, asking for the secret menu, and ordering things at random (because I couldn't read anything). Never was anybody disappointed and it became a weekly thing to go back and try new food.

The food was so good that it led to me going to China just to try even more authentic Chinese food.

I think there's this idea that Americans are afraid to try authentic foreign cuisine, but at least with millennials, I think it's the opposite. We grew up with TV shows about people eating "weird" food. We want to discover new things.
Two great podcasts to hear David speak about this and some other things.

He was on JRE last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4

And Peter Attia's Podcast (Peter is probably the Number 1 guy atm when it comes to information on Longevity, The guy is absolutely amazing).

https://peterattiamd.com/davidsinclair/

Both David and Peter have books coming out soon. Can hardly wait.
Software Composability in Crypto
Had a 2011 MBP with an open recall for an AMD graphics card issue. Took mine in, opened it up, and the genius said yup it’s a graphics card issue. Just need to run this test to get your refund.

5 tries and an hour later the computer crashed during each test. Came back 3 separate days talked to everyone I could and the computer couldn’t complete the test. Sorry you can’t get recall if the test isn’t run rule are rules.

Haven’t bought a MBP since because the new prices are insane. I’m not risking a $2.5k-3k laptop dying in a few years, or having keyboard issues, or the display-gate issue. Everything is glued in nowadays you can’t even replace simple parts.
SymPy is somewhat like Mathematica where it presents a wrapper around lots of underlying solvers. Z3 is one particular solver for a category of problems.
Oh man, I'm having a much harder time with LastPass on iOS than on Android.

What's an easy way to generate a new complex password when a dumb old site forces you to set a new password? It was very easy for me on Android, but feels quite difficult on iOS.
Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52M Series A
And that meaning, "going round in circles" is tacitly encoded by it's very use.
Wow, those percentages are really close. From your opening sentence it seemed like you were going to say something like 60% and 20%. Seems there's no point at all :)
> The transceiver on board Longjiang-2 was designed to allow radio amateurs to downlink telemetry and relay messages through a satellite in lunar orbit, as well as command it to take and downlink images.

This is so cool and would have made such an impact on me as a kid if I got to see it in action. I wish we could better demonstrate this sort of thing in middle school or high school science classes, such as how easy it is to download a weather satellite image live, via SDR.
This. Can't recommend RedReader enough.
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
Totally changed my view of running a business and gave me real structure and clarity about marketing is and how to effectively do it as a small business.

Highly recommend if like you are like I was - wondering when and how the next client was going walk in the door

https://www.amazon.com/1-Page-Marketing-Plan-Customers-Money...
Hmm, not every one is like that, there are some no doubt, I remember seeing an add for books by the meter many years ago to fill up your shelves.

For me, I love books, have since I was a kid. I used to love having books on my book shelf and looking at the books every now and then, and remembering the stories. When having friends over looking through the books was something we did (that and CD's/LP's), likewise going to friends places and looking through their stack was always fun. I'm always keen to discuss books I've read and recommend books I enjoyed, or in this case changed my view of life, there are a few.

Now they're all on my ipad and I can carry my library round wherever I go. In many ways I think people are made of stories, we all have our stories about ourselves and people we know, and the stories we read and share are just an extension of that. The stories are about people we may never know and things that we may never see, or never even exist, to want to share these with others seems natural to me.
"Perhaps you can spot an elephant in 象"

The animals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script#/media/File...
> especially that it will be very hard to prove anything with just one employee.

As long as your real life identity isn't linkable to this comment, that is.
QB64 is a modern extended BASIC+OpenGL language that retains QB4.5/QBasic
Maybe just pack it in if it's not succeeding that you can't accept maternity leave? How long have you been doing this?
This sounds like an abrupt and possibly unexpected departure of Angela Ahrendts (whether voluntary or forced), since Apple is assigning one additional division to Deirdre O’Brien. It’s not that she (Deirdre O’Brien) would be incapable of leading both people and retail, but Apple looks like a company that needs more focused attention on products, services and retail.

Could it be that Apple is searching for someone to head retail and that this is just an interim appointment?
I wonder if the common trend for Vietnamese restaursnts to have Vietnamese words in their names is as much about cultural pride as it is that there are so many possibilities for puns, e.g Pho Real, Pho King, Pho Keene Great, Un Pho Gettable, Bun Me.
i think its worth noting that at least the summary presented on this page could be sliced into two sections

1: different usage of accessories to make the occupants comfortable, e.g. warming up interior for longer, running heated seats...
2: physical changes that affect the overall car: denser air resistance, higher rolling resistance..

the one point that is specific to an ICE engine is friction from running colder oils, the rest seem to apply to both ICE, hybrid and electric vehicles, the latter two more so.

overall the takeaway seems to be that most losses in an ICE vehicles are not about the powertrain, whereas a hybrid/electric vehicle has almost all the losses of an ICE vehicle but with significantly more battery degradation.
Very interesting. GMail uses Monday, but I'd have changed that a decade or so ago had it been otherwise. I checked on kde calendar (something I've never run before) and it's using my en_AU locale - and it's picked Monday. But http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=en_AU suggests the CLDR identifies AU as 'Sunday as first day of week', which is highly alarming. Do you know if MacOS uses CLDR, or would it be picking up Apple's assumption about AU locale preferences? (Do you have colour or color settings in your control panel?)
Look at the flip side - if a big chunk of people go for those memes, it takes pressure off the price of houses. I would love for houses to become unfashionable. Then I could buy more house for less dollars.
There was a Taiwanese-owned restaurant here in Minneapolis for many years called Evergreen, which is a _very_ Taiwanese name, just translated into English.
Show HN: Foo bar baz
Different people will have different comments on this post I think.

I think I am just as sharp as I ever was. I am in my early 50s. I do not however think I am as fast as I used to be. I can feel that. My understanding and abilities are solid as ever but I can see younger guys grokking things faster than me.

I also require way more sleep than I used to need.

The good thing though is that I have seen a LOT of things in my career in computers/programming/devops/engineering/math. So new things are just variations on things I have already seen over the years.
I haven't read the book but I feel like it would make me even more grumpy from noticing even more poorly designed things than I already do.
Yeah, it really sucks that the developers of TCP didn't foresee these issues in 1981 when they first designed it. I can't believe they were so short-sighted.

Okay, enough with the sarcasm. Is it too much to ask for historical perspective in protocol design?
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to create a stackoverflow like thing for Farmers?
Tell your opinion about creating a stackoverflow like thing for farmers specifically.
* Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson

Much of our upbringing and education is underpinned by the assumption that "talent" is a real thing. Peak dismantles that assumption pretty thoroughly. The implications are far-reaching and I recommend it to everyone.
Z3 seems cool and I want to try but I must admit I fail to see how to use it for a real world project. Do you have a blog post talking about your Z3 use for your project?
Charles Perrow's "Normal Accidents". It's sort of the beginnings of a general theory of systemic risk in technology, moving away from the particulars of various technologies or management strategies. There are several technology areas he fits into his model, including civilian nuclear power, jet aircraft, chemical processing plants, and cargo ships. The model focuses on what kind of energy density is involved, how complex the actually-existing engineered system is to be in order to achieve its objective, and how bad the situation is when unexpected interactions (arising from the complexity) lead to the energy being released.

This kind of clear, higher-level thinking about technology is rare and valuable. In the IT world, there's presumably a way to use the model, substituting "data" for "energy", but I've never seen (or come up with) one.
Your comment actually serves to highlight how inappropriate it is to suggest it is racist.

1. The character was originally written as Iranian, then rewritten to be Jordanian. He is not Indian. I don't see why the name would be easy in India. They hired an Indian actor to play him, which is probably the only questionable thing in all of this.

2. The name isn't a real name. You can try to search ناجحينانجر‎ (Nagheenanajar), ناجحينانذر‎ (Nagheenanadhar), ناجحين النذر‎ (Nagheen al-Nadhar) or ناجحين النجر (Nagheen al-Najar) and see that you won't have much luck. At best it is a full name (both first and last) in and of itself. It's clearly written to be difficult to pronounce. I imagine the actor sat in a room and practiced for a couple of hours to be able to say it as easily as he did.

3. I'm from that region of the world, my first language is from that region of the world and I can tell you whole heartily that that name is extremely difficult to pronounce. I tried about four times and gave up. It's only when writing it in Arabic script that I was able to make sense of what I was reading. At best, the Latin spelling used is a butchering of the Arabic spelling.

Anybody with a name like that would know it's difficult to pronounce as well, I don't think they'd be upset - and I don't think they should have a right to suggest that others are being offensive when they have difficulties as well.

There are real applications when people are being dicks (some people would intentionally mispronounce my father's first name, which is pronounced as it reads and is four letters long..) but the Office Space name was intentionally made to be ridiculous.
Beginning to think your business doesn't deserve to exist.
Still very poor hardware decode support. What good is saving a few GB of HD space if your phone runs out of battery 3x as fast because it's having to decode in software?
No, Swift needs the static signature of the library for dynamic linking too, by default.

You are correct that Swift wants to be able to change signatures without recompiling clients ("resilience"), but this is very limited, especially for changes that would affect the `inout` checking (e.g. one cannot change an argument to be inout): https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/LibraryEvolu... (note the list of non-permitted changes includes changing types).
That's rather like the story of Nasrudin and the Sultan's Horse.

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sufism/Nasrudin
Apple Care+ does protect against liquid damage. It's $300 for an accidental damage incident, whether it be water damage or you drop it off a bridge.

Also Apple Care+ is $379 in the US, not $500.
Animal Farm can really be read as Orwell's retelling of Trotsky's "The Revolution Betrayed"
Until recently Reddit wasn't hosting any images or video on their own servers. That was a recent "innovation".

They could also feasibly curtail the custom styling on subreddits to reduce the space burned on hosted images there for backgrounds and headers.

Besides that all Reddit ever was was a lot of text.