skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I've heard it referred to as 'socialism for the rich'. Or really imo my reading of practical communism. Basically if you 'know a guy in the party' you're good. But it has the veneer of sounding good. This is my take on Benioff and people like him.
>>Couldn’t one argue that their strength in cost efficiency was largely built on the theft of IP?

There are plenty of accusations that this was the case -- I'm not going to comment on the veracity of those accusations. However, if it were true, then that would certainly be a huge factor why Huawei was able to catch up and overtake other domain players within a relatively short period of time.

In defense of Huawei, I would like to point out that Bunnie Huang[1] noticed a certain type of generically Chinese innovation leading him to coin the term "Gongkai"[2][3], the effects of which led to him cataloguing and writing a book[4]. I think the combination of this laissez-faire "flexibility" around WTO-mandated IP rights and a grueling and debilitating 996[5] work ethic helped Huawei, among other Chinese companies, to catch up with Western firms pretty quickly.

[2] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107

[3] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

[4] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4605

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
If you're interested, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming winds up writing a Scheme interpreter in Scheme.

This is part of a proud and surprisingly long-standing tradition. The first Lisp interpreter was originally written in Lisp by one person, and then hand translated into assembly by another. This came as a surprise to the rest of the lab who had intended to work on an actual implementation in a year or two. You know, some time after they came up with a real syntax for it.
Absolutely right. Look at the profits if the incumbents over the last 20 years. Look at the huge number of vulnerabilities for Cisco alone and in many cases the ridiculousness of them (passwords, keys, backdoors). They largely became a licensing, consulting and training company.
You're in good company. Fear of public speaking is (one of?) the most common phobia(s). For one example, Warren Buffett was terrified of it - and took specific steps to overcome it, including taking the Dale Carnegie course on public speaking - and when he withdrew from fear before it began, signing up for it again. https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/3-steps-to-overcome-stage-...

The key seems to be repetition - just do it, realize it is OK, and do it again.

Good luck!
Rich Hickey has some nice talks about why separating the data from the methods is really beneficial.
Highly competed, but few seem to have staying power.
Transparent AI can transform learning
It was a younger workplace where sexual comments were not uncommon from either gender. For the most part, the more attractive you were the better liked you were by your peers. I actually had a pretty fantastic female boss when I was let go who was helping me work on being less socially awkward. She left me a glowing review on my LinkedIn and she was aware of everything that transpired and what was said. People who know me think this is funny, because they know me and how easily mortified I get when I say something I don't intend to. I'm significantly better now, but it's taken a lot of effort on my part. I've never been an overtly sexual person so this was a really odd situation for me to be in. In the end I ended up with a new job in a different place for lots more money.
They're not seventh-round worthy, perhaps.
Without the proprietary and exclusive hardware, something like CUDA would DoA. Wolfram is trying that, as MathCad and Maple did back in the day and still MATHLAB kind of pulled off (Octave is coming though). This is a pretty steep slope they're fighting against because many programmers don't want to give away that sort of control easily. I remember when closed-source SmallTalk was the norm in the 90s, also Fortran systems or EIFFEL. Borland, Delphi, Watcom did okay for some time but they didn't lock you in so hard - it was "something standard with extensions" (a bit like C# which by the way, I avoid on these grounds alone).
I do use Firefox regularly on my computer at work and on my Wintendo where I'm not that concerned about bookmark syncing. Tree Style Tabs is a favorite feature (especially at work where I end up with a lot of tabs open), although I wish it didn't require poking around at Firefox's internal CSS to get rid of the window's normal tab bar.

EDIT: Just installed 67 on my Mac. Initial impression - it's snappy, but the main reason I don't like it is down to the trackpad response. The rest of my OS has bouncy overscroll, and Firefox doesn't.

This probably bugs me more than it reasonably should, but what can I say? I'm a consistency snob.
"Legacy code isn’t tech debt either: it was right for the time." really? Isn't that what technical debt is, solution that no longer fits the current problem?
> don't think those things can exist apart from religion (at a cultural level, anyway), because as soon as you decide morality is relative then everyone is free to choose the morality that is most convenient for them/their tribe.

You've confused absence of moral relativism with religion; the former does not require the latter, and most non-religious people are not moral relativists, at least in the sense of the strong meta-ethical relativism which would justify the claim above.
I think everything you’re saying is right; but also it doesn’t matter. When my mum asks me which computer to buy, I’m not going to recommend the computer that has defects that I can explain away. I’m going to recommend the machine that works out of the box, where I won’t have to goof around with graphics drivers via PPI or whatever to make an external display work.
I could turn that around to you: why would you expect someone removed from a schedule for being known to be disruptive, to not be disruptive when removed?
No. See https://opensource.org/osd
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> I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point.

Amazing?
May our fundamental constants maintain uniformity! [And they should, I hope, and this change is a _good_ thing!]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism
> I don't see that explanation anywhere

If you don't see an explanation anywhere, it's because you don't want to see it. I have written like half a dozen.

> That's a nice platitude but not an explanation for why someone saying they need something means that they actually need it.

Ditto

> It's not a factor because convenience is not something you are owed.

Non sequitur

> I need to eat because the needs that underpin survival are the default assumptions made by an intellectually honest individual when the term "need" is used. When I say need I mean a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism.

That's two contradictory definitions, survival and well-being is not the same. Even under this definition, you still haven't provided the extraordinary proof necessary for the extraordinary claim that nobody needs Facebook. You've merely asserted it – somehow believing that your assertions about the lifes of people you don't know are more accurate than what these people believe.

> An individual's right to access Facebook is more fundamental than Facebook's right to operate their computers in a manner that is consistent with their prerogatives?

Facebook does not have any rights to begin with. Like all companies, its only legitimate purpose is to serve the public – which is why the convenience of the many trumps the desire of one Mr. Zuckerberg to control Facebook.
While switching to the simple option may help the likes of Uber defend themselves on the legal front, the switch may not be that simple to implement and will be costly on the business front (if not making them cease to exist). First, the switch will likely lead to an increase in ride fares and a decrease in user experience. Second, it will be increasingly difficult for the Uber's management to justify its massive operating losses, when they cannot say to their investors "hey, we can always increase the price at will".
This is exactly the kind of job suited for automated driving. I wonder if there will be automatic-only highways soon spanning these stretches of the countryside, or whether such a thing would even help.
Brace yourselves for standards fragmentation.
> Legacy code isn’t tech debt either

“Legacy code” is usually a label applied exactly to identify that code which has been determined to represent technical debt.
Dutch spy agency investigating alleged Huawei 'backdoor'
Why can't selflessness, altruism and honesty prevail under the influence of secular government? I'm not saying our current governments have achieved this, but we also see a great deal of selfishness and dishonesty in religious groups. We do have secular incentives that encourage altruism (eg. charitable deductions and state honours for people who contribute greatly to the community) and legal (conviction) and social (expulsion from public office) punishments for dishonesty in some cases. Isn't it conceivable that if these secular tools were used more effectively, we could achieve a non-religious society that values selflessness, altruism and honesty?
And they were. Today they aren't. What's your point?
> Why not simply lower your screen brightness ?

On at least two cheap laptops I have used recently, the display driver steps down the overall display brightness when large regions of the screen are dark.

Windows 10 on an HP Stream 11, Intel integrated graphics and Intel display driver.

I can turn down the manual brightness to its minimal setting.

When large windows with white backgrounds are on screen, the backlight brightness increases. Decreases again when the windows are off screen or closed.

This does not change the manual brightness setting.

I have yet to find a tweak to disable this.
lol no they aren't
> marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all.

It so obviously isn't it's painful to imagine this is a widespread belief. Marriage exists to reign in men, monogamous marriage doubly so.

Progressives have no idea what they are toying with, they are literally children playing house with grenates.
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I deal with the reverse of this problem all the time. Living in Japan, my bank cards (and other ID) all have my name in the Japanese order, with my surname first followed by my first name and my middle name last. Without fail, the staff at the counter will address me by my middle name, on the assumption that foreigners' names have the family name last, so that must be the right name to use.
The precision 5530 is an absolutely fantastic machine. Best laptop I’ve ever owned. I was a MacBook Pro user since 08, and when it came to replacing the ailing 2013 MBP, I was not at all impressed with what apple had to offer. Fedora was a great experience (using i3, but gnome is pretty nice too), and I haven’t looked back at all. The only downside is that I can’t do iOS development on it, but that can be handled with a VM where necessary. I only wish dell made them with an AMD gpu rather than the Nvidia Optimus garbage.
> Huawei's strength comes in their ability to provide an end-to-end turnkey solution for both types of networks at competitive prices with hardware & software that works

Plus an army of support engineers to help you turn-up and operate your new network.
That's way worse than no driver. By 'crash', I mean the whole kernel crashes. And, by the way, it does advertise linux support (for linux 4.10, but that's in the fine print).
Interview with Huawei's Founder Ren Zhengfei
OK what? Both statements are objectively true.
Agreed. Technical debt is the accrued cost of maintenance -- underpaying maintenance is a typical recipe for poor outcomes.
> I really just want my data

Is data posted on FB by other people, which just happens to be (partly) about you, "your" data?
I think that's pretty presumptuous. My experience is that rust's checking is great, but much easier and safer concurrency can still be enabled by some work with data structures and program architecture.
> Also, the US government isn't stealing US IP and giving it to Chinese businesses. The PLA is, and their ties to Huawei run deep.

No, it's stealing "allies" IP and giving it to US businesses [0] while subsidizing Intel to the tune of billions [1].

Still, nobody writes headlines along the lines of "State-sponsored Intel processors come with ME backdoor for government spying." instead we get, super trustworthy, articles how the NSA totally helped with disabling the backdoor [2], because a sucker is born every minute.

The absurdity of it all is immense, yet still seems to elude most US Americans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

[1] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/intel

[2] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-no...
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I hear you. Liu's outlook is deeply pessimistic. His obvious scientific background knowledge seems to be infused with a dash of western, neoliberal ideology-- that it's just dog-eat-dog out there, and we're all in it for our own self-interest.

It's a bit ironic considering Liu is Chinese- wasn't China's Ming Dynasty the first to land on America in the early 1400s and historically demonstrate that exploration and discovery weren't necessarily accompanied by colonization/enslavement/destruction?

That example gets held up a lot when mainstream historians spin the narrative that Colombus et al enslaved/raped/pillaged because that's just what societies do (while ignoring that it was the debt that the explorers owed to their financiers that drove most of that bad behavior).
It's great that you can talk about this with humor (I actually laughed out loud and had to explain to my wife what it was about). I hope you can see that the event had nothing to do with the quality of your work, and more than that, it shouldn't make you question writing it in the first place.
yes precisely my thought
I suggest that all code is a liability, rather than a debt per se.

This assumes all things can be usefully viewed through the prism and language of economics (though my gut feel is few things can or should be).
i understand using family name first for leader/president or public press, but iirc most of the asian country still using given name before family name in their passports
"Science progresses one funeral at a time" -Max Planck
What wrapping rope around the Earth reveals about the limits of human intuition
Boy, how the tables have turned.
I was hoping I could get away with an honest simple question without having to qualify all the assumptions and naïvities in it.
Ah, you have discovered one of the Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names[0].

[0]:https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
They have announced a free fix for displays on 2016 models:

https://www.apple.com/support/13-inch-macbook-pro-display-ba...

And a free fix for keyboard issues on all butterfly keyboard laptops:

https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

For now the display fix is only for 2016 displays; though I suspect with more bad press they’ll extend to 2017 and 2018 models too.

I have a 2016 model which is starting to get the stage light problem. I wonder if it’s worth getting it fixed now or if I should wait until it gets worse before taking it in for servicing.
Most of my friends who are good at skateboarding or surfing have 2-15k followers, regardless of whether or not they're sponsored.

They do almost no personal branding, they're just well-known in their area. I imagine it's the same for most sports with a lot of participants, save those with a high financial barrier to entry (e.g. racing cars).
sounds great, sounds smart, is more true than not but the problem is, you don't have any solutions while the dumb-ass christians do.
Can it analyze dynamical systems, solve complicated integrals, reduce and solve equations, display dynamic plots of all these things, do social network analysis, statistics, machine learning and data wrangling all in one notebook, out of the box, with simple calls?

As a reminder, nothing in the Wolfram universe is really unique, nor it is the best individual implementation.

The selling point of any Wolfram product and its underlying engine is that it can do all these things out of the box, in one notebook or WA query.

I am not trying to be an ass. It just really seems you misunderstand the "competition". There is a failure path for your project:

It COULD do anything, but it actually CAN'T do much out of the box. This limits your target audience to people who want to implement WA themselves, but with a framework.
Please do consider this is not what WA offers. At all.
US slows approval for Chinese workers in chip industry: report
World's biggest cave is even bigger than we thought
Responsive grids and how to use them
Weren’t many of the programmers in the 50s and 60s women? The gender divide didn’t start to get really bad until late 80s, from what I understand.
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NY has a robust public transportation system. SF does not. Commuting via car, parking, etc creates a floor on who can participate in SF’s economy.
Still no 32GB RAM option on 13”. Still no option to remove Touch Bar. Still almost the same keyboard. Pass.
It's also notable that those countries don't have noticeably worse standards of living than countries with a state religion or less religious freedom, and Europe attracts many migrants from such countries.
Note that we use ANGLE on Windows to work around that specific problem.
I'd like to see a source for your "clear majority" claim.
If you only hear it spoken, or you don't understand the naming convention and start making guesses about what you think is going on. People in countries where middle names are normal also tend to make the assume that one of the syllables is a middle name.
I heard a recent conference talk where it was referenced as “Revenue Generating Code”, rather than “Legacy Code”.

I found it be a pretty accurate summation that gives some perspective from the other side.
I've been running macOS on both my XPS 15 (9550) and desktop (Haswell i3 based w/ Nvidia graphics). The experience is good on both systems but they definitely have their caveats.

The XPS is probably the most positive experience thus far, it'ss a 9550 with i7/16GB RAM/1TB NVMe/GTX 960/4K. It's currently running Mojave 10.14.3, everything except the SD Card reader and Nvidia GPU work (including the touchscreen, WiFi OOTB, Bluetooth, etc.). The GPU really isn't a problem, Intel graphics work with full acceleration and anything GPU-heavy gets done on the desktop. Helps with battery life too; my system's battery health is down to ~45% but I can still squeeze out a good 4 hours from it. It's not very well supported, you really gotta stay on top of updates and be ready to fix what breaks, but when it's running it's a dream to use.

The desktop on the other hand is a completely different beast. It's got an i3-4150/8GB RAM/GTX 980 and currently running High Sierra 10.13.6 (because of a lack on Nvidia drivers in Mojave). Getting it setup was a little bit of work, the WiFi/Bluetooth card needed an enabler kext and audio needs a bootloader tweak to work, otherwise it's functionally indestinguishable to a legitimate Mac; It can even be updated through the Mac App Store, iCloud/iMessage works, Handoff works.
archive.org to the rescue. They are a charity. Give them money.

https://archive.org/details/Apple_iPod_Introduction_2001
I was referring to the instant -5 downvoting seconds after posting, which usually only happens if you insult someone or offend. I really worried I said something rude!
I had to have my mid 2015 rMBP battery & top case replaced by a premium service provider in New Zealand due to a bulging battery. Thankfully I still had a couple of weeks of AppleCare left as the bill came to over $1300NZD ($850 USD). A $199 replacenent would be a dream.
Was it not possible to replace the battery?

I do not mean officially, just get one in there, unofficially.
I'm fairly sure my 2012 core-i7 MacBook Pro with SSD and 16GB ram still has comparable performance for most applications. Single core speed has pretty much stagnated over the years.
Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion
Camille also has a blog at http://www.elidedbranches.com. I second the recommendation.
There is no such thing as economic violence either. The word you are looking for is discrimination.
This made me smile. What a wonderful story, thanks for sharing!
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No this is great, because "two programmers" most would automatically assume are men. Maybe once shit has been sorted out and its not some fantastic amazing thing that women are in tech and it becomes more normal we won't have to state "women programmers" but until then, I'm down for this.
> "it also means that scientists can work at the highest level of precisionon any scale, without losing accuracy"

Still waiting on scientific journalists to reach the same precisionon.
> Loss of MagSafe (this one still hurts).

I've been wondering for a while now why USB-IF hasn't defined a standard magnetic connector. I'm surprised none of the flagship smartphones or laptops have tried to push their own magnetic connector. They're desperate to differentiate themselves in the current market and wireless charging is falling behind quickly due to physical constraints.

I use a volta cable for my phone and it is wonderful. It handles power and data just fine. My only issue is that I have to use a dongle.

There's clearly demand for it. Magsafe and volta have proven its effectiveness. It would be a great solution for portable consumer electronics like laptops, cameras, tablets, and phones.

What's holding it back?
Easier, perhaps, I doubt it's easy for anyone, ever. Maybe if you work at some higher abstraction level. But just understanding those bipolar transistors is quite a challenge. You can measure them, but understading why what's measured happens...
I built a desktop a few months ago after 10 years of laptops. Wow, what a difference time makes! It's incredible what you can get on even a modest budget when speccing desktop components.
Why bad? Both can works in some situation for some people.
encouragement != being put on a pedestal.
Good. Finally something that doesn’t depend on some weird artifact lying around somewhere losing mass mysteriously
Good commentary, well & clearly stated!
I hope so too, but I think the kilogram is just a base unit, not a fundamental constant? :-)
Why is 'women programmers' or equivalent the 'in' or PC thing to say? It doesn't make sense, 'women' is a plural noun; here it's used adjectivally. I've never read 'men <noun>' by anyone literate.

Two _female_ programmers.

Or hey, as another commenter points out, who gives a shit that they're women? You don't achieve the (presumed) goal of it being unremarkable whether a programmer is male or female by remarking on it every time one is female.