skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower cost manufacturers are already migrating away from SE Asia because of rising labor costs, driven in large part by competitors expanding into the area for the local market (e.g., auto manufacturers) or moving away from China.

The climb up the value ladder is very real, and it's only partially being driven by the political climate in China.
You'd need to arrange for the linking process to result in identical (and identically-aligned!) code pages. If you're going to all the trouble to ensure that, why not just write it all to a file and call it a shared library?
I'm also on the fence about upgrading. I am thinking of just buying a mac keyboard so I have an escape key. That key is very essential to my workflow. Do you think it's a good idea?
That was very insightful. Thanks!
How do you “buy” a .edu email (without signing up for a long and expensive course or college)? I’ve seen some hacks online to get one for free, but not sure if they work.
Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
Overheard that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. I am relatively new to software engineering professional field (about 2.5 years).
>... Canada is the largest importer of shark fins outside of Asia.

Wow, TIL. Thank goodness then, that's likely a substantial cut.

Worth nothing tho that the USA, also a G20 country, has had arguably similar bans since either 2000 or 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_finning#United_States
Is there an apk to download and install? I looked for it and failed but I'm using my phone and I could have missed it.
Why is renaming of 'facebook credits' to 'libra' so important to anyone?
It is currently abhorrent. They do appear to be updating regularly, but so much of the UX should have been fixed at the beginning.

- Messages don't get delivered for hours on mobile.
- UX is so bad I don't think they are even dog fooding. eg, copy and paste a code block and it will capture a bunch of meta information
- teams aren't followed by default, so half the team had no idea the data was there
- this means nobody uses teams but chats, which are only recently pinnable (!?!?)
- the pages, plugins and sharepoint files is great, but too restrictive.

Compared to Slack or Zulip, it is still very behind. However, once our 70k organisation moved to office 365 and started using teams, we sheepled and didn't want the team to use a fragmented tool and bit the bullet. So yeah. Watch out for teams.
Does that mean Zulip is worth $16B? Cos it is awesome and self-hostable if you want it to be.
You think enterprise companies switch a product they’re already using with all the integrations to another (possibly inferior) product just because of price? That’s not usually been my experience
84% with no false positives. I missed mostly medical lingo, one legal term and "stitchwort" which I did suspect was a plant but I had no idea which one.

This is pretty much what I expected, since as a non-native speaker; though even if you told me what stitchwort was in Finnish I'd still not know what it actually is besides a plant.
Does anybody have any idea how pricing of this will open up compared to an IPO? They are doing a direct offering (DPO), which essentially means no new shares are being allocated and there is no underwriter which typically means the price can be way more volatile on opening day since no underwriters to control and establish pricing. DPO as I understand you are buying shares directly from people who already have them.
Thailand and Vietnam together are larger than France and Germany combined.

They're not a replacement for China, obviously, but they don't have to be. A large part of China's role in global high-tech manufacturing is final assembly, which can and increasingly is being done everywhere.
Isn't this off topic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe a new Mazda will be up your alley!
PISA scores are controversial to use as a comparison between countries. And yes China, Macau, and Hong Kong are likely using some creative strategies to boost their scores.

"This year, Chinese administrators chose their students from a group of cities and regions aptly named B-S-J-G, after Beijing, a province-level municipality, Jiangsu, a province on the eastern coast of the country, Guangdong, a southern coastal province, and Shanghai, a province-level municipality. Previously, Chinese authorities had chosen Shanghai as mainland China’s sole representative, whose students finished at the top of all three subject areas in both the previous two PISA studies in 2012 and 2009.

Now, if all countries were to take this approach, we would see London selected to be the sole representative of Britain, or Boston and its suburbs representing the U.S. This year, in fact, saw a separate score calculated for Massachusetts, which if taken as the nation’s results, would grab the top spot in reading with eight other nations, 2nd place in science with ten other nations, and 12th in math.

If we dig deeper into the sampling, we come across another potential problem with the PISA testing: that the sampling done on mainland China (Beijing, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Shanghai) and other cities was not taken from a wide variety of schools. Rather, the very best schools were chosen and the very best students were cherry-picked from those schools."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/01/04/are-the-pis...
From their FAQ, "...a proficient native speaker will know some 40,000 words of the list (i.e., 67%) ... [for second language speakers] our estimates range from 6,000 words (10%) for a medium proficiency speaker to 20,000 words (33%) for a high-proficiency speaker."

So well above their estimates, but they don't extrapolate on the source of those numbers - they might be available somewhere at http://crr.ugent.be
You got a chance, people should get a chance, but it's not true that everyone does get a chance. Some people are just dealt a bad hand and get no lucky breaks, and have no path to leave mediocrity despite their effort.

I think people are downvoting because they disagree with you and not explaining why.
Its unfortunate the non-Christian crowds don't emphasize charity. I agree that lack sorely tests individual liberty.
I don't support monarchies. Neither does Hoppe, or this book. He proposes only that monarchies are better than democracies, which he also doesn't endorse. I myself don't have a strong opinion on the question. I was referencing, without endorsing, an interesting theoretical explanation for the observation made in the parent comment.
Great deal, thanks.
I think it's relevant.
I live in Vietnam (originally from California).

I'm watching all this with great interest. Everyone thinks Vietnam is some third world poor country, but the reality is that there is massive amounts of money here. Hai Phong in the north is a HUGE port. Samsung already makes about 80% of their phones in this region and it is only growing as Trump drives huge amounts of investment.

It is very easy to get goods shipped over from China (I've driven the backroads and seen it myself). Assembled in Vietnam. Shipped out of Hai Phong, and totally avoid the tariffs.

Also look at what is happening in Sihanoukville, Cambodia with Chinese taking over the entire city. It is a major shipping point. Very interesting times indeed!
I switched from Apple to Lenovo and am quite satisfied... expect for the trackpad. It really is a competitive advantage Apple has.
Making something hotter is the food equivalent of "Uber for" in the startup world.
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Sullenberger' flight in a 737 MAX simulator shows how pilots ran out of time
My cofounder at gliph was convinced of the same and I do not blame him for it. We were in the heart of secure messaging / starting group chat when we ran out of money pursuing a marketplace. Justin Roiland even hosted his official Rick and Morty group chat with us.

I think to many highly technical people Slack is a “reinvented” irc. But I was ok IRC stealing mp3s from bots in the 90s. And I’m on Usenet now.

Slack is nothing like IRC.
>There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly.

I'd say there is one, the available population to work. India is really the only country that could come close just based on pure population and I don't see there being a drive to do that.

Rather anything that came close would have to be a combination of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. all working to grow their manufacturing bases to come anywhere close to what China can do when it comes to setting up factories in the near future. Longer term maybe some African countries will industrialize that way, but I don't see a place meeting the scale of Shenzhen/Dongguan manufacturing ever again.

I recently got back from visiting a factory in SEA, and spoke quite a bit with the people there about how the area is growing from a manufacturing standpoint. They have definitely taken notice of what is going on with China at the moment and are trying their best to take advantage of it, but it isn't even close to what I've seen in China.
One billion hours is about 100,000 years and plenty of bacteria reproduce faster.

There was also probably at least 500 million years of only single cellular life.

1 billion seems in the neighborhood of the number of generations or maybe even a few orders of magnitude too low.
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Slack made 140m in the first quarter of this year, their valuation is based on how fast they've grown their business and how fast it continues to grow. They don't sell ads, they sell seats, they're a SAAS company. 16B is not insane for a company that has grown revenue at their pace and continues to grow revenue.
Interesting info, thanks. Never heard of Wistron before. The 30% rule seems like a reasonable bar in order to foster local growth, do you think? High import tariffs I'm not so sure about. Some might argue it's protectionist but I think there's nothing wrong with protecting parts of your economy that are weak. See: “How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor” by Erik S Reinert

https://www.amazon.com/How-Rich-Countries-Poor-Stay/dp/18452...

As India becomes wealthier and if Apple can move production of all of their models there relatively soon that should set them up nicely to capture a larger chunk of that market.
Played for hours, made it to the "next" stage. Seem to be missing a key hint. All the prompts to wax poetic seem pointless. Maybe just send out hints as you figure stuff out instead of getting in touch with your inner emo?
Rocket.chat and Mattermost are also great open source alternatives. I was surprised I couldn't find an open source plugin for live chat with Slack. Rocket.chat has that built-in and I host it on a VPS.
Love it. One of my early websites was trying to build something like this (in style at least, I didn't have any interactivity).
I believe you can turn this off from your phone: Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices
I found the test significantly easier on subsequent attempts, as I familiarized myself with how strict (as it turns out, not very) their definitions are - I wonder if they will do any correcting for this?

(Scores for reference: 70, 77, 87, 84, 84, 84)
thought this looked interesting a couple of months ago, still looks very interesting now.

transpiring to c means you can sneak it in at work, which is nice
What happened to releasing the source code today? https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1137750611389288450
Their new license is considered non-free, even though I think nobody has yet certified it as such from a legal point of view.
While messaging apps have tended to be cyclical, I'd argue Slack has become much more than a simple messaging app at many large companies with their integrations and bots, and they are intrinsic to many teams' workflows (e.g. "ChatOps" is a real thing).

I see Slack as more akin to something like Excel, where people who really depend on it (in a way much more than person-to-person chat) go beserk if it's taken away.
Notice how all these have an esc key.

That should have been a hardware key!

A message from the Vim gang.
There is no longer any excuse for Go to exist.

There is no longer any reason for separate scripting languages.

There is no longer any legitimate reason to write C code.

Rust had better watch its back.

I may soon begin to resent C++.
Slack didn't clone text chat. They took the best parts of text chat, Facebook (reactions), Reddit (threads, edits) and terminals (simple UI for applications) and merged them into a single tool. I'm currently using HipChat and the difference is night and day. Slack makes large, busy chat rooms coherent in a way that just isn't possible with other text chats. And because of that, it opens new completely new possibilities (channels to support customers, channels to use as long-term references, etc.)
I work for the city of Skanderborg in Denmark and we do a few things to avoid it. One is to monitor our entire storage for malicious code and automatically isolate suspicious activity. Another is to do frequent backups of everything on our network shares and one drive for business which is where most employee data that doesn’t belong in a specific system lives. Our servers, database clusters and vital systems are all isolated from the employee network and also frequently backed up. When we get hit, it’s usually employees reading private email and we’re typically able to isolate the ransomware before it spreads from that specific employees network share. Once we kill it, we restore files to the most recent backup and roll their machine.

It’s worked well so far, but we do have an IT crew that would make most places jealous and IT is an area that is notoriously undervalued in the public sector.
Is there some sort of prize in the world of programming languages for coming up with names where you have to append "programming language" to every search query to find what you want?

If so, all the single letter languages are getting stomped by Go, which is already used for a verb, noun and a preexisting programming language [0].

The technology to pick new and easily searchable names has existed since it was invented in 2005 by computer scientist Randall Munroe of xkcd. Language designers should use it. There are still unique 4 letter combinations available!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go
Are you seriously trying to tell someone what they want, when they clearly and rationally laid out specifically what they actually want?
That's exactly right.

However, it does the downloading/starting in a really convenient manner. I wanted something I could just quickly type into a terminal without having to browse some GitHub release page.
Huh. Wasn’t Facebook forced to add a export data button because of a law?
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That's cool, I did the same a few years ago and got an email from Slack asking to put this green banner at the bottom saying it's not affiliated with Slack.

https://wakatime.com/slack
https://github.com/vlang/v says the source code will be released on 2019-06-22.
This is very useful for searching youtube subtitles.
I don't really get excited by new languages but I must say I really like what I'm seeing here going through the docs. This is what I wanted nim to be, but with the safety.

The standard library and package manager + packages will make or break V.

[edit] ow, not open source yet.
Call it demystification. It happens in every field. For me, it was when exotic vocabulary lost its luster, and my writing improved. (Ah, youth.) It happens in relationships too. Demystification is generally forward progress.
Me too.

I enjoy driving a manual ("stick") and distrust auto-braking/lane assist/etc. My car has airbags, ABS and traction control so I'm happy with the safety features.

No way will I buy a car where essential functions are touchscreen operated, or with any phone-home "features".
Had a chance to eat there as a child. One of the good things in the world - free food for all, cooked and served by volunteers, no religious or community affiliation needed.
The web lately did more for my dictionary than books, since I'm pretty much living on it while I'm getting my books in audio form. Audio helps with training to understand spoken language and improved the numbers of ‘read’ books a lot, but there's definitely the downside that unfamiliar words often fly by without impact.
Agree. About the breaking the law thing though: it's a B2B. Most "breaking the law" companies seem to be B2C.
Yes that is quite the anachronism these days.
It doesn't escape input from the user.
Are there many ways to use anything from FB on a non-smart phone with no internet?
You missed the third one, which is used a lot in desktop software and application servers, plugins and dynamic configuration on production.

In name of stability, one may say to run external processes with shared memory instead, but now imagine the resource usage of something like InteliJ or Eclipse using only processes for their plugins.
Different article about same subject discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20199667 (60 points/59 comments)
Notifications are easy if the integrations exist.
I'm curious but too lazy to look it up myself. SO I'll just ask.

How far does the 'linux' specification go. Say I want to run a V program on AIX what kind of libraries will I need?

What about the 'windows' specification. Do the redistributables support windows 2000/7/Vista/8/8.1/10

We have a lot of different systems on our clients, mac as well. It would be nice to read concrete requirements for running to really see how much effort rolling out a V application would be.
In this community of logical thinkers, we will each think what we think, and not say much for now...
Nowadays sure, but historically that's not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack#History_and_percep...
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Try "February", and cringe....

> "Here are 4 tips that should help you perfect your pronunciation of 'February':

> Break 'February' down into sounds: [FEB] + [YUH] + [REE] ..."

Ugh!
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I find these languages that are developed behind closed doors and have no source published a bit frustrating. Even more so when they make big promises.

Just like you can no longer charge for compiler, I don't think it's possible in the future to not publish the source. The truth is, there are plenty of actual open source alternatives to C (zig, et al.), what makes some shadowy language a reasonable alternative?
What if the OS could map a shared object that resides in one section of memory into the virtual address space of multiple processes?
A very good solution here is ZFS. Office file server runs ZFS and makes regular ZFS snapshots (hourly, or more often). Snapshots are immutable so even if the employee machines get infected, nothing can be lost (except the last N minutes since the last snapshot).
Obviously, still have to do backups (off of those snapshots).
It would be best that there be no decoupling. The decoupling is driven by a belief by some in the American government that they can somehow blunt the economic development of China and maintain American geopolitical hegemony into the foreseeable future. That's a very dangerous thing to attempt to do, because it sets the two countries on a definite path towards conflict. The question is really whether the United States is willing to accept its probable status as the #2 power in the world in a few decades, or whether it will make a serious attempt to retain its current position. Certain people who are influential with the current occupant of the White House, including Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, truly believe that the latter option is possible, and are willing to enter into a major conflict with China.
What did they say when you contacted their support?
San Francisco has moved to ban e-cigarettes. Juul has a backup plan
This confuses me. I have used Bitcoin as a method of purchasing goods and services and it's quite easy, and indeed fun. Buy some BTC or some Koinye or some other space cash and have your funs.
Don't, especially because it's Chromium and because it's from an ad company.
Already now, the main reason users uninstall apps is to play disk space tetris.
If you really want low cost to compute for Deep Learning and you needs lots of compute and don't want to pay for V100s, then the AMD Vega R7 is the card for you. 700 dollars, 16GB Ram, 1TB of GPU bandwidth (higher than the V100!), works with Tensorflow (pip install tensorflow-rocm), and about 60% of the performance on resnet-50.FP64 is not fully gimped (it is halved, i think - so still quite good). Put lots of them in servers with PCI 4.0, and you can do great things. Here's a recent talk on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neb1C6JlEXc
You still need a wire from the touchscreen to the chassis.
As short info, Zygote is gone on Android Q.
Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
I don't necessarily think Slack is worth $16B any time soon, but I actually do feel like my searchable Slack history stretching back ~5 years is one of the most valuable resources I have at my fingertips on a dailt basis. The search quickly pulls up stuff from years ago even stuff from before we changed the subdomain for the org.
This is something I really want to see us do in San Francisco and the rest of the US. We can build a world where everyone has access to free food, and I think we should.
REAL Thinkpad users will only ever use the little red stick and disable the trackpad (just joking). But it‘s worth a try, takes a couple days to get used to first.
Journalists publishing stories around ad tracking should be aware of that they are doing the same thing.

The user would be better off privacy-wise by not reading the article.

They could still have ads but why add tracking?
I don't know exactly what made them add that feature or when that happened (it was before 2011, I think), but AFAIK they never outright blocked you from even viewing older messages. And even then it was possible to scrape it I think, if my Googling right now is any indication.
This will speak to your soul, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
From the article: "In December 2018, scientists at Google AI ran a calculation on Google’s best quantum processor. They were able to reproduce the computation using a regular laptop. Then in January, they ran the same test on an improved version of the quantum chip. This time they had to use a powerful desktop computer to simulate the result. By February, there were no longer any classical computers in the building that could simulate their quantum counterparts. The researchers had to request time on Google’s enormous server network to do that."

Now, yes, this article sounds bullshitty to the extreme - it's worrying the extent to which it manages to not quite get around to any technical detail except for helpfully explaining what exponential and double-exponential means. Number of qbits? Which algorithm? Who knows? Is it even an algorithm that anyone cares about ("ran a calculation").

Also, from long experience, I'm used to seeing the person with the "next big thing" (GPGPU, FPGA, custom ASIC, etc) always managing to creatively find mediocre algorithms on the CPU to compare it to.

However - even given all that skepticism - it's hard to dismiss the growth that they are rhapsodizing about as 'flat' (assuming it's real). I suppose we'll see.