skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly.

Not that much different in concept, apart from the foldable screen, to the W series: W2019, W2016 etc that are $2k flip smartphones. Clearly sell enough of those to keep turning out new models each year.

The form factor is still wanted in Asia. I wish there was a little more variety here too, just not at $2k.
Employees only win 21% of the time. Almost half as often as federal courts and over half in state courts.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/#ep...

Plus, private arbitration is private. The terrible things the companies do to employees don't end up on public records. You can't even tell how often they are being taken to inverse kangaroo court.
>> overly expansive ownership claim

Yeah, that particular clause gave me a looong pause before signing their contract, in fact I even seriously considered taking one of the other offers I had. This is why you see all those "happens to be owned by Google" disclaimers on open source projects. This means the person wrote this code on their own time, yet it's owned by Google anyway, which IMO is total employee-hostile bullshit.

I would not sign something like that contract today. At the time, though, the money differential and the allure of having Google on my resume outweighed the concerns. I have since discovered other companies can be a lot less possessive of the stuff I build on my own time and dime.
The more appropriate analogy is that trading stocks is like gambling. And it's not even analogy. Unless you really know what you're doing, trading stocks is gambling, just with less house edge.
A density of 10^5 is eight orders of magnitude beyond “ultra high vacuum”, which is about 10^13 particles per cubic meter — or 10^-12 times normal. Poster is more correct to say “dozens” (four orders of magnitude) than that it’s not a vacuum (eight orders before the edge of ultra high).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum

Poster was completely correct that this accounts for only minuscule interactions such as surface oxidation and teensy drag over prolonged interactions, and nothing like the “atmosphere” behaves.
> For all the crap we give China and their authoritarian government, airport security is FAR easier at every Chinese airport I've been to. Walk through a metal detector and get a quick non-invasive pat down.

flying domestically I had my eyes scanned and thumb print taken, and was tracked more or less everywhere I went.

Are you arguing this is a good thing?
The Federal Arbitration Act, and a SCOTUS favorable to corporate interests.
You're point is valid, yet I still find it very unlikely.
At some point after numerous tries you might even start fooling yourself (and others). I'll give the guy a chance though.
I really like to listen to Munger, Buffett, Dalio and recordings of Jack Bogle.

These guys have won the game, they are trying to teach others how to do it. We have much to gain, just by listening.
We did the same thing. $30,000 every 6 months or so I believe. Absolutely insane.

Took 1 day to rewrite.
Yes, I am one of them. They are not a fly-by-night company with a random Kickstarter. Of course it was a calculated risk, but it was worth it at the time, and it seems to be panning out in my favor. If you consider everything that people preorder on Kickstarter without due diligence, it would stand to reason there are some people that do due diligence and preorder something like this.
Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)
What's the binary blob / firmware / accelerated gpu driver support story on the pine64 devices?
Update: pricing page is now shown here:

https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
US plans to strip H1B immigrants' spouses of work permits
This resonated with me too. In particular, one of the things that's always made software approachable to me is that my failures are hidden on my machine where no one can see them, so I have almost no inhibition.

Learning any skill that requires social interaction is much harder for me because then all of my social anxieties and fear of failure kick in. I would love to learn a second language, and this is the main thing holding me back. I think I have the right mental skills to put the time in and wrap my head around it, I just break out in a cold sweat when I imagine horribly mispronouncing something in front of a native speaker.
TL;DR: lawsuit claims dude's boss had unreasonable-but-believable demands on availability, yelp denies it. No real information is given as to the up-front understanding of expectation, nor evidence for either side.

I'd be interested in the details once everything is decided, but as it stands there just isn't much to do other than speculate....or crack jokes about reviewing Yelp.
I'd much rather expand the domain of small claims court, than create a parallel, privately-owned legal system. Even if it started out perfectly fair.
> Reality is what exists no matter if you choose to accept it or not

Is it? How do you know? You can't prove it. Reality to you is what you experience and you can never know what anyone else is experiencing. Reality is not objective, it depends on an observer. In fact if there are no observers, then there's no way to prove reality exists (and the concept wouldn't even make sense).

Even if there was an objective reality that was the same for all, "a reason" is a made up human concept, it is not a fundamental thing of nature/reality. You are even trying to define what a reason is in your comment.

So I would say, in this case, you calling other people willfully ignorant is just the way you deal with your reality to accept it and reject what the other person is trying to convey.
What do you mean by recommend a TUI? A program with a TUI or a framework for building TUIs?

mc has a great ncurses-based TUI.
Per capita may be $225 but gambling isn't distributed evenly through the population. I live in a country with very relaxed laws and I've seen the social problems that unrestricted gambling leads to.
> I hear the U.S. Constitution described as a social contract. Should it be relevant (as Lysander Spooner believed) that all of the signatories to that contract are dead?

Thomas Jefferson, it should be noted, believed something very similar. In a letter to James Madison, having earlier in that letter recounted some (no doubt less systematically gathered than a modern reader would prefer) statistics and concluding from then that the mean remaining life expectancy of a randomly chosen adult was in the neighborhood of 19 years, and having made based on that arguments about the proper duration of validity of public debts argues thus:

“On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.—It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to 19 years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be indeed if every form of government were so perfectly contrived that the will of the majority could always be obtained fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves. Their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils. Bribery corrupts them. Personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents: and other impediments arise so as to prove to every practical man that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal.”

https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/tho...
> why not delude ourselves into believing that there is, in fact, meaning in our lives so that the remainder of our life isn't spent in misery?

I believe I already stipulated to religious belief as a way out of this quandary.
The recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires that any collection of biometric information to be disclosed and along with who the data is being sold to. The law goes into effect on January 1st, 2020 so we'll know then and in the future if they are doing any kind of personal identification at all.

Given the tablets can't even scroll through a list of movies without lagging and show everyone the same 2 minute Honda commercial before each movie despite already knowing who you are from your ID and frequent flyer number, I'd venture that the airlines haven't figured out how to do eye tracking yet.
Not common at all. Unless you are a college student (most people I knew went intern->part-time->full-time)

But most employers are open to them. I used it as a negotiating tactic, where they offered 15% more than I had, and I countered with 20% less time :)
It is, not the best title for releasing something imo.
I'm roughly the same way. When driving the choice is that I either miss something on the road or miss something on what I'm listening to.

I usually take public transit to work, but the buses are too noisy for me to actually get anything out of a podcast. I could use noise canceling headphones, but I find those just make the bus sound weird instead of getting rid of the noise.
Why isn't forced arbitration illegal?

We're getting there: https://www.fisherphillips.com/resources-alerts-kentucky-bec...

States still hold a lot of chips when it comes to rulemaking over what is and isn't allowed w/rt employment types and agreements. It's a bit murky though, when it comes to Federal power weighing in on employment contracts at the state level (outside of things you've come to expect like protected classes/EEOC, workplace safety, and accomodations/accessibility for workers with physical impairments).
VirtualGL, maybe? https://virtualgl.org/About/Introduction
Last company I was at, our ERP transition took years
Markets are like crack: very addicting. Futures especially. It can be an unhealthy obsession where you cannot sleep, constantly doing a prediction loop watching where the market goes 24 hours a day, sleep deprived, drawn to the ticks up and down.
Because email does not do as good a job as social media for most people. If it were so great, how was there sufficient demand for social networking companies to grow large? Even in the 1990s people used usenet because social discover and public conversation over email is cumbersome.
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Wow. This mans brain operates differently than mine (in a wonderful sense).
There’s no scenario where a legal proceeding between employee and a large company is fair. The main advantage of court is the ability to appeal and the public nature of the proceedings.

The only fair fight is if you have a competent union. That comes with its own problems.
I would consider most GNU/Linux distros to be giant piles of shell scripts.

Yes! That was one of the primary motivations for my Oil project [1]. I was building containers from scratch with shell scripts (in 2012 or so, pre-Docker), and I was horrified when I discovered how Debian actually works.

Why Create a New Unix Shell? http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html

And of course it's not just Debian. Red Hat, Fedora, Alpine, etc. are all big packages of shell scripts, often mixed with other ad hoc macro processing or Makefiles. Alpine does this funny hack where their metadata is in APKBUILD shell scripts, which is limiting when you want to read metadata without executing shell.

I also point out in that post that Kubernetes is pretty new (2014) and it has 48,000 lines of shell in its repo.

That's true of most cloud infrastructure. If you deal with Heroku, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, etc. there is a ton of shell all over the place. With buildpacks, Travis CI, etc.

And that's obviously not because the authors of those projects don't know what they're doing. Shell is still the best tool for that job (bringing up Unix systems), despite all its flaws.

The world now runs on clusters of Unix machines, and in turn big piles of shell scripts :)

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New release here if anyone wants to help me test: OSH 0.6.pre15 http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/02/18.html

Caveat: it's still too slow; I'm mainly looking for people to help test it.

Running bats tests with it would be great. I don't know how bats works with the @test annotation? That doesn't look like valid shell syntax.

OSH also opens a lot of new opportunities for people interested in testing / static analysis and shell.

There was some discussion here, even related to bats, but I'm not sure where it went: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/200

[1] The other being how hard it is to write an autocompletion script!
This looks awesome! I can't wait, been trying to buy a Pinebook but for some reason either they keep hitting my spam filter or I never hear back, just used my protonmail email to see if it's just that.
I can tell you right now that traditional specs will be worse, but freedom specs will be better e.g. runs mainline Linux, hardware baseband isolation, kill switches etc.
I live in a place (Canada) where even some non-essential products are monopolized not by private companies, but by the government. In fact, the only monopolies of which I am aware are created and mandated by government.
You need O(log(n)) of bits to write down the input. So the output size is indeed exponential.

Size of input: O(log n)

Size of output: O(log(c^n)) = O(n)
Malaysian here. I'd actually love to have even a quarter the salary of Americans or Europeans. Combined with the low taxes and far cheaper living costs, it's probably higher pay.

Also frankly speaking, American devs are a lot better. Interviewing candidates in both Malaysia and Indonesia, if the higher paid senior ones can reverse a linked list, it's considered quite good. Western companies have much higher standards.
The headline is at least somewhat misleading. The plaintiff did not work in software, they seemed to have worked in physical security. It sucks that there was work to be done on a major religious holiday, but it seems reasonable to me that there's an expectation you are 'on-call' outside of normal work hours for a role like that. I'd really like to know what the job expectation was going in.
The South, of course.
It's possible to run Android apps in Linux.
Actually... https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4758...

Before Mindstorms there was a 9V system. It was really basic though: batteries, lights, motors, sirens, and wires.
Just curious, why wouldn't you use Thunderbird or something like that?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Battleship, /usr/bin/sort, Calc, Notepad

Maybe S. Meyers Books would help more: https://www.aristeia.com/EMC++.html
Ten Bullets [video]
Trump made up the "6G Technology", right?
It's amazing to me how attitudes have shifted so critically.

In the 70s, 'Hogans Heros' was a hit tv show. It portrayed the Nazis as bumbling idiots, but still it was a topic that was featured prominently in the show. I bet today people would be fearful to say they watched such a show.

The same thing is true of the 'Dukes of Hazzard'. Imagine it: A tv show where two wild young men drove a car that had a Confederate flag on the hood, and the horn played 'Dixie'. (Even though the show famously portrayed African Americans only in a positive light.) Today, people are ashamed to admit they watched the show, had t-shirts, etc. Yet the show was wildly popular back then. (And race relations seemed like they were better at the time, TBH.)

It's good to make progress in calling out evil, but things feel a little odd in this area.
Who would have thought that the company that extorts businesses to bury negative reviews isn’t very nice to work at?
GTK3 has had an HTML5 rendering backend for a while now, but it does fall under the "streaming pixels" category: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
The article says he claims he was fired based on his religion, but it doesn't sound like it was related to religion. It just so happened it was a religious holiday. Maybe there is more to the story, but it sounds like he could just as well have been golfing.

Either way, Yelp sounds absolutely toxic if they required him to be available like that. Expecting anyone to be available 24/7/365 is absurd. Set up an on-call rotation. Establish escalation chains. Designate backups. These are basic procedures. If this guy was so critical that there was no-one else in the company that could do whatever it was, hire someone else.
It's not about whimsy being "too much". It's that it conveys an unprofessional and immature image, which may result in people taking their business elsewhere.

I too looked at this page a few years back. And I was not impressed. I wouldn't find it appropriate for e.g. a medical company which does "serious" stuff to very rigourous levels of quality controlled design and verification. But equally I don't think it's appropriate for this company either. Maybe a games company which is focussed upon making things which are fun. I think we will have to agree to disagree on its appropriateness.

As for judging people based on their actions and output. It took them over two and a half years to update their images for Ubuntu 16.04. Where are the Ubuntu 18.04 images? It's nearly a year already. Maybe I'd have a better impression if they could maintain their service to an acceptable standard. As it is, this lack of timeliness was a huge letdown, and cause endless frustration and setbacks on the teams I worked on who depended upon these images being up to date and not full of incompatible language and tool versions.
What makes you think people wouldn't otherwise blow their money on something else if they couldn't gamble? The next high for them could be any other sort of get-rich-quick scheme, or state sanctioned addictions like alcohol and cigarettes. Why do you think it's up to the state to tell people they can't waste their money or ruin their own lives?
Arbitration comes from agreements on how to settle future disputes being legal [1]. If two company agree to settle through a chess match between their CEOs instead of suing, by all means let them.

This is obviously problematic in cases where there is a significant power discrepancy (employee-employer, producer-consumer etc), or where arbitrators are paid by a single party. Despite this, US suspreme court has held that they are still valid [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems_Corp._v._Lewis
I'm not sure what a good mid-size project would look like, but one thing that really helped me was implementing structures/algorithms using C++11's features. It aided in not just getting a feel for them, but also what finding out features I liked and didn't.

An example might be implementing a linked-list or tree with `unique_ptr`, while using conventional pointers for the doubly-linked `prev` part. The goal being exploring the idea of ownership and automatic memory management.

Personally, the most helpful way I learned about using C++ was to try features and hear which ones people liked/disliked and why. The discussion (and sometimes drama!) made things more memorable.
> as it stands there just isn't much to do other than speculate....or crack jokes about reviewing Yelp.

Or we could debate the merits of managers and/or company policies requiring "24/7/365" availability, even without enough evidence to make an informed judgment in this particular case.

I personally think it's bullshit.
The more secure and exclusive your server the less utility it provides to the network at large. Great for privacy, useless if you wish to connect with a broader community. Also assumes that both internal and external security are solid. They're probably not, and covert mining isn't that hard.
An official hand picking contractors out of good judgement is called "corruption", at least around the EU. The contract must be awarded the one who makes the best promises, if the controversial wording is excused. Public agencies may do work themselves, of course, but that tends to attract a more common type of criticism.

I know nothing about this particular case however. It may very well be a royal fubar every step along the way. It was just interesting how some thought the government responsible even for private companies found breaking the law.
> Have money, and use that money to pay for above-average treatment, and you will have a much better time dealing with the criminal justice system
His book on the topic "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" is also a fantastic read.
I spent a week or so (in 2013 or so) trying to understand the notes and I believe also a youtube lecture. Novel named concepts were simply used without any introduction, now I don't mind naming some new mathematical object with a relevant name (used to calculate amplitudes), but only after rereading the notes and rewatching the lecture did it eventually click: the diagrams depicting schematically the amplituhedron with a bunch of points ... it's a convex hull. Any sane person would introduce each new concept - and I really don't mind giving it a pet name - as long as it is defined in terms of well known objects or concepts. If one can't bring up the effort to just write: "the amplituhedron is defined as the convex hull of a set of points" how can you expect your audience to put in the effort to understand what you are trying to say? Also define what the points represent, give concrete examples, what are the coordinates of these points? etc... After multiple times finally realizing what the author was referring to with a new concept or procedure or so, and then always realizing he could have said the very same in much simpler terms I just gave up trying to decode the rest. Now we are about 6 years later, and there is a wikipedia page, but unless there is a clearly written text that starts from well known concepts, and introduces new ones in terms of known ones instead of using them without introduction and assuming the reader can read your mind... unless there is a clear text I see no point in even trying. If anyone knows if the situation has changed please point me to some clear explanations, otherwise I have no choice but file it under the "suspiciously obfuscated: either malicious or inept" category...
I just finished reading Bad Blood and it details how they went to extreme measures to ensure that the FDA never saw their Edison machines like barring entry to the lab on the day of an inspection, putting security guards in front of the door, and lying when asked what was inside.

While the inspector could have pushed the issue, I don't think they 'failed massively'.
Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!