skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "ancient", really. Things are largely the same in Russia as they were 150-200 years ago, they even have something like a Tsar now: Putin. People are largely the same, too. Sure, there are cars and cell phones and internet now, but at a deeper level the people haven't really changed, and they can still imagine the life of a 19th century Russian aristocrat or commoner much better than, say, someone from the US or Western Europe, perhaps with the exception of France, owing to the cultural affinity between the two countries' aristocracies in the 19th century.

>> is one of the most enriching things you can do short of traveling

I agree with you there. I was just explaining to the OP the likely reasons why he didn't enjoy what I consider to be one of the best novels ever written.
Surely they can fire people at will? I recall something similar though it might not be from GitLab. A long list of justification why is it good for remote employees and the local economy not to be paid on pair. It was smug and insulting.
Fair. Then I guess my argument boils down to, "I wish high-school teachers and a bunch of other people stopped doing that".

I can appreciate the argument of a work of art being like a mirror, where looking at it reveals as much about it as it does about the person looking. I can appreciate "hunt the hidden metaphor" exercises and even "bend the interpretation so hard to make the book be about something it obviously isn't" games. I've done both, and I enjoyed it - it's a nice workout for imagination and arguing skills. But I wish it was presented as such, clearly labeled as intellectual entertainment. As it is, the way I - and perhaps many other people in this thread - was exposed to literary criticism always made the critics look like historians - dispensing factual, if not always obvious, knowledge about works of literature.
I think the idea is that Europe would rip out all Huawei components after the scandal, requiring a revamp of both 4G and 5G networks.

I doubt the US is that much ahead of Europe. It's true 5G networks are yet to really roll out, but with the higher population density the 4G coverage and residential internet is better in most of Europe, making the current 4G network suffice for now for many people.
Whether or not it was the intention here, leaving a common or garden vulnerability as a backdoor gives excellent plausible deniability. "Whoops, we overlooked that" is much easier to explain away than an obviously designed remote access mechanism
Layout is a subject that feels a little bit like a mystic art. There are really no books or accessible material about it, that I know off.

No, the TeX book doesn't count. Looking at the source of Chrome or Firefox doesn't count. Stretch source doesn't count. W3C CSS specs definitely do not count :-p.

I know that there are some papers floating (pun not intended) but I wish somebody wrote a serious book about layout algorithms! Even splitting the words of a paragraph into an optimal shape is something that is surprisingly more complicated and rich topic than one would imagine [1].

Do you know of any resources/docs/papers/implementation-notes that you would recommend?

1: https://xxyxyz.org/line-breaking/
Using US Tor exit nodes (as an exercise or obligation, not out of personal necessity), I often see access denial pages by Cloudflare, up to and including within the last day.

Cloudflare is much more permissive if you enable JS for the site. Then, if you're going from a Cloudflare error page denying you permission (presumably because of Tor), you might reluctantly decide to enable JS, and reload... then you'll probably load and sit on a different Cloudflare page for a few/several seconds, before the actual content page probably will finally load.

For the scenario above, I don't know whether the site owners (usually news sites, in my case) are aware that their site has been made difficult or more dangerous to access, for some people who feel threatened/oppressed in their countries.

I appreciate that Cloudflare infrastructure is probably under constant abuse, including through Tor, and of course I don't have any snap answers for what they should do differently. What I mention above is just some of the behavior I can see.
They have not opened yet here, but I have signed up for them. As they charge slightly less than the market rate for office space here in my city so I see it as renting office space and getting a complimentary frat membership.
No, when reading the whole article, there are much more varied interpretations.

Bloomberg added the 'political' backdoor spin.
You usually end up with overlapped left over portions of old networks. Paris is a good case study for that, the entire underbelly of the city is an nightmarish amalgamation of tunnels and pipes.
I believe it's both. I mean there could be some backdoors and there are some vulns portrayed as backdoors but probably the situation is no different for any other manufacturer. But since there is a campaign against Huawei everyone is concentrated on researching and reporting problems with that particular brand while ignoring all the others
Any suggestions on what to do about it?
My full name is very common. I share it with an actor, a photographer, two designers, and one basketball player. Three of us have personal websites and one of us has a Wikipedia page.

I've adopted the alias "r3bl" to counter that, so that there's something easy to remember and somewhat unique that others could type into a search engine. ".com" was of course squatted, but as far as I could tell, it was pretty unique (with one "e" emitted and one "e" replaced with a 3 like a True Hacker). Now I share that alias with two esports teams and one Silicon Valley company that could afford to buy ".com" from the squatter. I appear anywhere from #1 result to not on the first page at all, depending on your location.
Is that place with the big Google cube? Indeed there are quite a few of these co-working places there.
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AWS Blog Posts – Different Authors – Same Content?
While searching for data streams on AWS I came across two articles set a year apart - which have more or less the same content with a few words shifted around.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/streaming-changes-in-a-database-with-amazon-kinesis/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/stream-changes-from-amazon-rds-for-postgresql-using-amazon-kinesis-data-streams-and-aws-lambda/

I am wondering whether this was done intentionally (as in SEO) or ......?
I'm a very strong Concourse proponent. We've been using it exclusively for three years, and it's better than anything we've experienced that our customers use (I run a consultancy).

We run Concourse London User Group, and the first few instances were like some kind of Jenkins survivor's support group.
Globally internet access is still growing at an incredible rate. Hundred of millions of people are accessing the web for the first time every year. It'd be really weird if Google wasn't seeing a lot of that growth affect their revenue.
I'd assume he meant the "internet" in this regard. It's hard to see things such as Facebook, Twitter, and the increasingly dystopic efforts to get people to click on ads driven by companies such as Google, as being anything but a serious net negative for society. And these sites for many people, and I think it's probably safe to say the majority, effectively are the internet.

Obviously it's an unprecedentedly amazing invention. You have access to an infinite amount of information that is mostly free or can be made to be free. For instance if you want to learn astrophysics in your spare time, you can - for $0. And not just learn it but receive access to instruction from the most well regarded instructors at the most well regarded institutions, alongside supplemental materials. And all for $0. That is just such an incredibly radical shift in society.

But most people don't do things like this. The internet is also a source of endless mindless entertainment, the ability to engage in echo chambers based on your preferred views, and to otherwise engage in pointless bickering and gossip. And this behavior is heavily driven by companies who profit extensively off this form of "engagement." Who's making money when you download and sit around watching Susskind's videos and engaging in the corresponding course work? Nobody. Thus, there is a strong disincentive by many to discourage this sort of behavior in lieu of passively consuming crap interleaved with as much advertising and 'messaging' as can be jammed into it.

It's ironic. The internet was going to be the great equalizer in society. But I think it's probably driving a bigger divide in society than ever before. Because now for those with intelligence, drive, and motivation there's less than ever stopping them from achieving great things. At the same time for those who do not have drive or are easily distracted there are now more ways to mindlessly waste an unlimited of time in self indulgence - and mostly for free!
In the same vein, I consider it a dark pattern when companies don’t have a a public email for recruitment purposes. Ideally, every opening should have an associated email answered by a real person. It’s kind of rich to expect candidates to upload custom cover letters, CVs, samples of work, but only expect them to receive template replies. Some companies even state that replies are not guaranteed.
Do you suggest asking people directly what are there most pressing problems helps? Or do you think it is better to observe people struggling with something and then propose a solution and have them evaluate it.
I'm not from the US, but the Wikipedia article makes me think that some people over there have lost their minds and have too much time on their hands.

I recommend studying organizations like the NKWD and Stasi, if completely generic phrases are being eliminated from the allowed speech just because a small group of persons have also used them.

So if I'm using the phrase "campus craziness", it now means that it's a "dog whistle" and I'm 100% aligned with Tucker Carlson and all of his views.

If I say "It is fine to be white", is that not a "dog whistle"? What expression passes the NKWD test?
You could try to reduce the size with TopoJSON

https://github.com/topojson/topojson-simplify

https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1...
The Economist frequently publishes corrections. I've also seen them note when one of their stakeholders is also linked to the topic of an article.
Even people with the url will usually just search, not use the url. Even less so if it's on a business card (even if it's a QR code).
Mean Well RS-25-5 is $10 and it's a good quality manufacturer https://octopart.com/rs-25-5-mean+well-3991989?r=sp&s=rB_LI6...
By the time they publish a correction it's late; they've already made money.
> Why is this a problem?

Because when the light goes green zombie drivers looking at their phone move forward without checking that it is safe to do so.

You need to be aware of your surroundings ... including the (motor)bike who has just carefully manoeuvred his/her handlebar past your wing mirror, so you don't punt them into the ground. This is why we have laws, tests, licences!
> everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they [..] provide evidence that it was true

Call me a cynic, but I'd hope all of us would want to take that approach with every source.
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Students shouldn't confuse being educated with having a high mark on a test.

It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes, attributed to Mark Twain, but a bit of googling suggests that the attribution is questionable. To paraphrase:

Never let schooling interfere with your education.
looks? naa thats not the problem.

Its badly laid out, inconsistent and worst of all lazy loading. So its not like you click a button and everything displays.

No, you click a button and wait 1.5 seconds whilst everything jiggles about.
You summed up perfectly my experience with WeWork and co-working spaces in general. You have to pay for the month, but I was only using it 2-3x a week -- I mean part of a WFH job is to get back your commute time! Those few visits felt pretty empty. I also made no friends from the events, as it seemed people had friends already.

At the end I just opt'd to save my $400 monthly payment and go back to coffee shops, and have some extra cash.
"Any other media publication" did not publish an almost identical sensationalist story a few months back, which turned out to be unsubstantiated crap.

Had any website other than bloomberg published this, I might have read past the headline.
I'm an (for now) EU citizen, and British citizen.

Further, laws depend upon which country you are in, not citizen of. If I Followed UK law in the US, I wouldn't get very far.
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My own recollection of the pre-Google era of Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, etc was that search engines already accounted for the lion's share of content discovery online. My gut feeling would be that it might have been even larger back then than it is now, considering the role that social media play nowadays.

What it was like before then I can't say as I'm not that old, but I imagine that URLs would have been made known through the usenet, irc and so on, which were also more multicast/broadcast in nature than word-of-mouth in the sense of people who actually personally know each other in meatspace communicating point-to-point.
Fascinating how I agree with the headline and disagree with the article completely.

Personal websites are a lot easier to control and chronicle what you want them to. They also help with SEO and also community building if you desire that.

When I didn't desire that, I was very content being a "need to know senior engineer" behind the scenes. I gamed my third-party recruiters to do all the work for me and we all made money.
He's one of my favourite ex-coworkers. His knowledge of audio electronics is superb and his thoughts on subjectivism are worth a read.
Absolutely, I find the increase of our politics and media attacking 'The Russians' and 'The Chinese' in recent years very concerning. Especially with the lack of reflection on our own actions both nationally and internationally. Like pervasive surveillance, hacking, military aggression and influencing elections, just to name a few.
I'm not sure if this counts as I intended to start a business.

The business was a grocery price comparison app. There were some legal issues with crowdsourcing prices, so instead we decided to just create a generic recipe app. Instead of monetizing that app with ads, we would use it to sell groceries.

But first we wanted to test out if there was any market for recipe apps that sold groceries. So we narrowed it to a subset of keto diet recipes.

I hacked together this 'market test' app in 2 weeks. A lot of it was hardcoded which ironically made the app faster than anything on the market. We added a hacky chat just to get feedback, but turned out to be a core feature later. It was also done in Malay language, so we could limit any damage to a very small group.

We released it, and within 24 hours, got 1000 downloads.

The "buy groceries" tab was just there to collect analytics on whether people were interested. About 3% of the users really wanted it. In fact, there was a huge market for keto diet ingredients especially in less urban areas, where these ingredients were hard to find.

We got a nice cash flow, but trying to get VCs was the downfall of the company.

Despite really good traction, VCs thought the market was too small. We joined a couple of accelerators where everyone thought it was surprising how well it did, but wouldn't fund it. We had a couple people who nearly invested, but they probably got buyer's remorse before putting the money in. A year later, a large startup we were renting space from offered to merge. I told them I'm tired of the broken promises and just wanted to sell the company. They gave us a good sum, a little more than what we expected to raise in seed, except that it ended up in our pockets.

The other downside was that we created a monster. We made a keto community, a group of people obsessed with losing weight, to the point that they would pass out. There were some ridiculous recipes proposed, like people who ate fried fish with chunks of butter (heart attack central).

The startup mantra is going after a few customers who love you rather than many who kinda like you. Our customers were cultists. Our suppliers also told us they faced the same issues so we chose to ditch the market.

Post-acquisition, nobody wanted to focus on the cultlike keto customers. We rebranded and targeted a subset of health customers. But this was one of the many businesses they were running. The bosses were too busy splitting their focus on multiple things. It was different to a small startup where this was the only thing going on and we just had to make it work. Eventually, it became priority #3 to a lot of people and died of neglect.
I used to think the same way as you. Until something happened in my life that changed me.

I used to have a very fruitful open source life. I have a personal website, a blog, etc. Some of my libraries are useful and reasonably known on my niche.

Then I had a child. Everything changed after that. I suddenly don't have time or energy to devote to open source any more.

I am the same person as before, but if you looked at my online activity before and after, it's like two different people. If you "give points" to the person who had a lot of personal free time in the past, you'll be missing the one who doesn't know (but is just as capable, he just has other things to do, or less free time).

With students it's the same deal. If you give points to the ones with a very strong online presence you are prioritizing the ones which have the luxury of free time to invest. You will miss on the ones who, say, are taking care of an elderly person, or have to work in the cafeteria every day after class in order to make ends meet.
I was very much tempted last year, I went so far as to spin everything up and test.

However since the reliability has improved 10 fold in the last year, it seems less worthwhile.

I do however have a number of gitlab runners running on our own stuff. WE also have an autoscale integration to save money on GPU machines.
>Chinese company licensing their technology to a US company
that would be a remarkable plot-twist

On the other hand given how sophisticated these things are , even if all the source code is available you can't be 100% sure to spot all the bugs/vulnerabilities/backdoors. I guess this applies to hardware equally well.
Where are you located? Because here in Stockholm they charge about market rate. I looked at some of their competitors and most were more expensive.
It's been in the GB range when I used it in the early 2000s. Always wondered that myself.
You didn’t look too hard then. Deja vu got released recently. It’s a chain from unprivileged to bootrom. Got fixed in 8.0.0, the very latest firmwares. Look it up at https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Switch_System_Flaws

It’s currently the only known chain, and might be the only one in existence. And yet it’s a big threat. In practice, A Dark Room isn’t a particularly interesting entrypoint due to requiring an usb keyboard (web browser is easier to open). But it's understandable that Nintendo would want to keep those entrypoint to an absolute minimum. Especially since newer hardware revision exist which fixed Fusee-Gelee, the BootROM bug you talked about.
My guess is it's not an organized smear campaign. Rather, it just happens to be a hot topic these days, an easy way to gain some clicks and subscriptions. Kinda like UFOs, government conspiracies, "Elvis Presley Seen Alive" etc., but for a slightly more sophisticated audience.
It was Obama that pivoted to putting China in the "big bad" portrait frame, though at the time scary foreigner wasn't an important part of the incumbents political strategy.

China has also relatively recently gotten a more hardliner leader, which is bound to sour relations with "the West" to some degree as he imposes weird restrictions on human rights and reverses the trend towards openness of years prior.

But the US now has an openly racist and explicitly nationalist (in US terms) president, so open conflict with the primary enemy was guaranteed from the start. For deep ideological reasons it is necessary for the current administration that there should be conflict with the rest of the world. With this sort of focus by the administration the media reporting is bound to follow to some extent.
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Make the rope half the length of the cabinet door, and instead of hanging it way out at the edge of the door, hang it halfway towards the hinge. The rope will hang slightly higher but it'll fit neatly inside the cabinet when the door is closed.
Who would benefit from Huawei being out ? (genuinely curious)
That’s sort of like a parody I would write to prove my point.

You’re clearly emotional about the topic, to a degree that cannot be explained purely by doing a few interpretations in school. I don’t see, for example, this sort of venom directed at sports, even though I have heard more anecdotes about the dread of PE classes.

I could also make the same sort of claim about science and math: namely that school did little to inspire any sense of wonder and appreciation for the subject; that it tended to dwell on the rote application of some learnt rules to slightly varying problems without capturing the essence of the subject.

I have an inkling that people here might agree that some amount of rote learning was necessary for sciences to later be able to appreciate them, and that some of us may not have been ready to appreciate those subjects fully as early teens anyway. To not extend this sort of benefit of the doubt to the humanities them seems baffling. It may be explained people never going further in those fields and therefore not evolving the understanding that lets them reinterpret their early experiences. Or it’s an almost active socialization, a choice to fully identify with one group of academia and to deny the other’s validity in an in-group/out-group dynamic.

It’s also somewhat indefensible to claim “pure bullshit”—one just needs a single counterexample to show this, and others in this thread have brought up law as a rather impressive example of the power of interpretation. Personally, I’d point to Hannah Arendt, but I’m sure there are other philosophers for everyone. Heck, even Ayn Rand is squarely in the humanities. Or Carl Schmid if you like Trump, or Hobbes if you hate everyone.

Oh, and I just noticed this, Frankfurt’s On Bullshit is itself very much in the humanities’ wheelhouse.

Were the interpretations you were taught mere bullshit? I bet if you were to go back in time, or pick up a textbook, you’d find that no, they tended to be, if anything, a bit too much on-the-nose. Of course it’s not just about a white whale, but about something in the human experience that we can see far more often than any hunt for large marine mammals. But as teenagers, that sort of introspection was liable to instill a certain amount of existential dread, and quite possible ruin the easy enjoyment of what is otherwise an engaging but rather superficial adventure story on the high sees.
OTOH, a lot of those markets coming on stream might have a lot of "zero-rated" providers - Google makes a lot of money from ads when people search on the open internet. Less so when most of their activity is restricted to a few apps because consumers don't have to pay for the data use.
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