skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, any barriers to trade are bad for both parties. India will suffer more from this. And the Indian government almost certainly would not want those caps. But it is a misconception to assume that successful Indian startups were founded by folks who got their experience in business in the US. Indeed the most successful Indian business founders are entirely home grown: (See Infosys, Tata, Flipkart -- sold to Walmart now). I say this despite being one of these who got their experience working the US on an h1b, and then came back to India to start a business. The experience abroad was useful. It certainly broadened my horizons. But frankly, I don't think it made a whole lot of difference to my becoming an entrepreneur in India.
Btw, gooogle.com isn't a TLD. com is a TLD, gooogle.com is just a domain (sometimes called a second-level domain, but--eh).
Well it still is their responsibility. It's like Dr Frankenstein letting the monster lose on the village and then going "hey guys well I sure don't know how to figure this stuff out".

If the government, the military, academia, the police or anyone else would let their inventions lose on the world in the manner the private sector does and leaves it to us to figure out how to clean up the mess we'd call them insane and demand them to be shut down within a week.
Hah, leftie here with the exact same score as you. I’m probably going to be thrown out from any statistics they derive as an outlier because I’m a high school dropout programmer who ravenously read books in his youth.
I believe you have the article backwards. I think the author wants atexit() from DLLs to prevent dlclose() from actually unloading the code, so that his library's atexit handler can run at exit? But libc on all these platforms actually invokes atexit handlers from shared libraries at dlclose(), or not at all.

It's kind of confusing to me why the author wants this or believes it should be the default behavior.
Just to add on:

NPCI is a not-for-profit organization which is a consortium of banks and is promoted by the Reserve Bank of India. And these guys absolutely kill it. I moved from India to the US last year and payments are overall so much more complicated here. I have to download a third party app and even my bank, at least as far as I can tell, doesn't have a straightforward mechanism to transfer money to other people without using Zelle.

NPCI came up with IMPS, which is also what UPI is partially built upon I think. IMPS worked for basically every bank and you could transfer to every other bank instantly, usually via that bank's app or website. UPI almost took it to an IM-ing money level.
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Can't make calls through the site with Firefox
Import tariffs are a big reason why Apple’s market share in India is abysmally low. The products cost a lot more while affordability and income are also relatively lower (on average) compared to other countries.

iPhone assembly in India started a few years ago, with Wistron and more recently, Foxconn, setting up facilities. So far these two assemble only the older models, and the volumes may not be very high. But they will accelerate the pace since Apple cannot have local stores, due to regulations, unless it sources at least 30% locally. It’s been trying to negotiate better terms with the government, but hasn’t seen much success since many other smartphone makers have facilities here (the government once said it would not provide preferential treatment to anyone).

Next year (2020) or 2021 may be the year when flagship iPhones are assembled in India, even if volumes are lower.
Why do feel the need to misrepresent my argument? When did I say that management contributes nothing of value? Of all the arguments I was expecting, this one surprises me as it makes no sense.

Capitalism works on leveraging advantage to pay workers less than the value that they create. Do you have anything to say about that, or are you going to continue to suggest magic discount coupons (UBI) which are worth less than the value a worker creates are something besides slavery with extra steps?

Feel free to scoff/mock me for questioning sacred holy capitalism - when immoral ideals are questioned and no logical answer is available, history tells us emotion and feelings are the standard responses.
From the FAQ: "The master list includes 60,469 words and 304,275 nonwords. From these you get a random sample of 70 words and 30 nonwords. The word list should contain almost all English words (non-inflected forms)."

So just multiply by 60k for how many you know. You've also got the info you need for stuff like stddev.
vast.ai is even cheaper https://vast.ai/console/create/
JIT is well outside the realm of the C standard.
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On a second run I got

Barras (French baras)
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(Biography) Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras. 1755–1829, French revolutionary: member of the Directory (1795–99)

Rigorous methodology this is not.
Next we need to figure out how to replace the low-paid workers who just retired.
Auto NO answer to “know your location”, “send notifications”, “accept cookies”?
Any good way to auto-get-rid of these distractions?
Years ago I read LaBerge(?)’s book and went way down the rabbit hole of many techniques to detect a dream state. Each one of them worked for a short while and then my dreams would have them all working properly. Eventually I was basically unable to distinguish reality. There are problems with that. First was that consciousness never gets a rest, and I felt like an insomniac. Secondly, I was remembering way too much, and most of it was incredibly boring. If it wasn’t boring, it was scary in a way that dreams are not supposed to be. At some point I swore I had been awake for 3 days in full sunlight with a terrible headache doing nothing but repeated reality tests, which would occasionally fail. So I stopped, slept, and never tested reality again. There were times I achieved lucidity by other means, but never reality testing. Overall, however, highly recommended. The world between my ears became endlessly fascinating, and that brought me through many times when I had little else.
There are no (talented) fresh college grads who are having trouble finding programming jobs. The whole "they took our jobs" fallacy is just that: a fallacy.
> Regarding machines like Shapeoko. These are very nice and make a lot of sense for the right type of work. Once you start to worry about tolerances, finish, speed, repeatability and other factors there is no substitute for 7,000 lbs of industry-standard machinery.

Oh no doubt at all. My PoV there is that a person with adequate clue can upgrade and calibrate a Shapeoko3 to be suitable for projects like this. Would it take tonnes of time and effort... sure.

Would it be a production run...? Super unlikely. :)

It's the kind of thing that - for a project like this - you'd do it for an amputee friend, relative, etc. eg doable, with the right motivation
If someone suffered more than you, your suffering is invalid - is that your argument? Trying to understand what you are arguing.
https://forvo.com/word/scheduled/#en is very interesting
The size of their pool is slightly over 60k.
I thought that too, then I got one of the new MacBooks and used it for about a week. I stopped noticing that the escape key wasn’t a key somewhere between day 5 and 7. It’s very easy to hit, as you can trigger it by tapping anywhere on the edge of the touchbar (not just the graphical button), and thus I think it becomes very easy for your muscle memory to adjust.

I would still prefer a physical function row, but it’s not that big of a deal. And actually some of the controls on the touchbar are really nice, for example the volume and brightness controls for changing all your connected displays at once.
Production capacity may move out of China, but it would most likely be assembled by the same (Chinese/Taiwanese) companies who are doing it now in China, like Foxconn and others. That’s the only way this can move forward at a quicker pace. Some of these companies have facilities and people in other countries.
Bit of an empty threat. Probably hurts America more than India.
Lol. "should contain almost"
Could they have avoided the ransom by having daily (or hourly) backups to non-rewritable (write once) media? So the malware won’t encrypt the backups, obviously.

I think that the last day’s work (or last hour’s work) will be lost or will require a lot of manual fixing regardless of whether they pay the ransom. If they pay, they’ll still have to fix partial database transactions, corrupt files, etc., for the attack date. If they don’t pay, they can recover from earlier good backups and reconstruct that one day’s worth. My reasoning is that the attack date’s data is going to be corrupt and untrustworthy in either case, and it’ll be equal work either way. (Or at least it’ll be less than $600,000 of work to fix that one day.)

I imagine that they either weren’t doing backups at all, or their backups were directly accessible and writable by the malware.
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Honest question: have you ever ran into a situation where reducing binary sizes dramatically improved either performance or disk-space utilization?

The reason I ask is, even as "bloated" as software is these days, I could fit ~100,000 fat 10 megabyte Go binaries on my SSD, without bothering to reach for compression. In practice, binaries on disk always pale in comparison to the amount of disk space I spend on media files, caches, backups and imaging, etc.

Perhaps your concerns about virtual memory are true, but looking at top on a machine running Firefox with many tabs open, Discord (an Electron based application,) 3 GNOME Terminal windows, HexChat, Wine, and Telegram... I still don't crack 100 tasks. Still.*

How about a server environment? Well, saving memory is certainly valuable on a server, but I would fail to imagine a scenario where you want so many different distinct binaries running that it would make a major difference in utilization. The shared memory savings that come from dynamically linked libraries are effectively removed when using Docker because each Docker container is going to have its own isolated system libraries and many of them probably won't be the same anyways, and yet I've never had any Kubernetes system where the majority of memory usage came from binary sizes.

I suppose if every single system binary was statically linked, you would maybe be able to notice some kind of difference. But honestly, probably not, unless you were really searching. Usually disk usage of binaries is a much less important concern than CPU and RAM usage, especially across large fleets.

*Though, that was only checking under my local user; it does turn out that there are a fair bit more tasks, but a good amount of them are actually kernel tasks. There's 400 counting kernel tasks, but only 191 not counting kernel tasks. Still not a very large number, in my opinion.
It's just crazy to many of us that a reinvented IRC is suddenly "not dead" and in vogue again. Not unbelievable, just kind of surprising how quickly text chat on a channel format was cloned, rebranded, and valued for billions.
Does the price actually depend on whether you are using a GPU or simply an instance you choose? Let's say you need to do some work that will require a GPU, so you spend 5 hours setting up an environment, doing some light programming/experiments in an Jupyter notebook, downloading datasets, looking at the data. Then you train for an hour then one more hour looking at the data, drinking coffee, stuff like that. Then train again.

So you were using the environment for 10 hour, but only 3 of them in total were using GPU. Will you pay for 10 hours of GPU usage, or will only 3h be expensive and 7h cheap?
I kinda thought your point above was pretty muddy:

> We seem to be maintaining the idea that full time employment is necessary for life long after that's no longer been the case.
Is this printer special in some way?
I personally use a 3rd party client which uses actually native code rather than electron https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
So slack sells ads that you can target down to what toothpaste you use and how racist you are? Since that was the last major innovation in stealing user behaviour since google. Also what is their russian state mafia stake in slack? That was a big win for fascists investing.
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> In Rust, all the unsafety of C is just 1 small keyword away.

I really don't understand why people constantly bring this up. What's supposed to be the problem in the first place?

Want a safe program? Just don't use "unsafe". Perfectly doable for the vast majority of programs.

Java has its "sun.misc.Unsafe". In addition for being unsafe by default when it comes to modifying same data between threads. It doesn't enforce synchronization, so Java programs incorrect in this aspect compile just fine.

> It's very hard to integrate Java and C. People don't normally do unless they have to. Random third-party libraries from internets usually don't.

I don't see how this is related to the discussion.
I have lucid dreams every now and then accidentally but they all kind of ruined the experience. Like having a cheat code to a game.

Perhaps someone would share why they like doing this? I dream almost every night and they're quite entertaining except for when they turn lucid.
Look for some of the negative posts from posters on the cscareerquestions subreddit. This is an attitude of someone either living in Silicon Valley or just repeating what they've heard.

Edit: Here's two people, OP and the comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/bpj0m2/i...

Getting hired as a new grad is hell - it's impossible to make a resume any two people can agree is presentable enough, 1/500 postings respond to you, the employment gap out of college grows and grows, and student loan repayments loom around the corner, making you wonder if you'll have to get some McDonalds job just to pay them once they enter repayment.
That just shows how much IRC is worth.
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Because its smart to pay someone to do something for you if what you pay them for it is less than what you earn yourself in that same amount of time.
I agree that the usability has been declining.

The threads feature is pretty close to useful, but it still buries information and it isn't clear to other users in a channel when a thread becomes "live" again unless they explicitly follow the thread or make a comment. Both of those actions require excessive clicking on the desktop client (at least for Ubuntu).

The most frustrating part for me is that keyboard navigation for threads is nonexistent, and it forces you to weave in and out with your mouse.
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Exactly. You can just swipe the corner of it like you're brushing off dust or something, and it will register as a click. It's probably less effort than having to mash down a button that far to the edge of the keyboard.
Do we know the problem is in the software? There's a lot of other things that go into securing a large system like this, training and testing staff to resist phishing attacks, apply security patches promptly, maintaining least privilege as requirements, hardware and staff change, etc. It seems to me that unless your software package encapsulates every use case and enforces the security protocols itself the only defense is an on-site security professional who is listened to.
I believe you can email your pitch deck in and get a code to apply.
I never understood what Slack did better than Hipchat, and not in a nerd sense of "well Dropbox could be replaced with rsync, a VPS and some shell scripts, m'glayven". I never understood how they killed Hipchat, IRC, or anything else. I don't know if they have a strategy to deal with things like Microsoft Teams that is very attractive to companies who already work with Office 365/Active Directory or if they can really do anything about it. So, I congratulate them on their success but I, too, am utterly mystified.
Nothing says all this factory capacity needs to move to the same country. There would be a lot to be said for splitting these factories across 25 countries rather than settling on "the next China"
If they can’t be elevated at present or in future, then that ought to be an edge case. If it is widespread then we have a a larger societal problem to deal with than merely setting a minimum wage.
Flamin' Hot Cheetos are junk food that millions of people love. In America rags to riches stories tend to involve someone who found a way to make the lives of others - many others - just a little better than they would otherwise have been. Teaching dozens or hundreds of students another language is great. Feeding millions of people a food they choose, for whatever reason, over whatever else they could have bought with that money or eaten for that snack, is a big deal.
Not a lawyer but apparently the term "B1 in lieu of H1" exists and is mentioned by more-or-less reputable lawyers on the web.
If I were working for minimum wage, I'd be looking for a better job and not pinning my improvement in financial status to a political pie in the sky.
To be fair, it is actually far from trivial to determine whether a value is a numeric value in JavaScript, and most all-in-one utility libraries (jQuery, Lodash, etc.) java something of similar functionality. If there is one function that needs its own NPM entry, this probably is.
Nuclear energy does pose environmental risks though--specifically with respect to mining, spent fuel storage, failure scenarios and decommissioning. Now you can make the case that the benefits outweigh the environmental impacts (I personally think this is the case), but to imply there aren't valid environmental reasons to be against nuclear energy is ignorant at best.
> Apple is a monster, representing alone a good chunk of the trade.

Country | Company | 1Q19 Vol | 1Q19 Share | 1Q18 Vol | 1Q18 Share | YoY Change
–––––––––+–––––––––+––––––––––+––––––––––––+––––––––––+––––––––––––+–––––––––––
1. Korea | Samsung | 71.9m | 23.1% | 78.2m | 23.5% | -8.1%
2. China | Huawei | 59.1 | 19.0% | 39.3 | 11.8% | 50.3%
3. USA | Apple | 36.4 | 11.7% | 52.2 | 15.7% | -30.2%
4. China | Xiaomi | 25.0 | 8.0% | 27.8 | 8.4% | -10.2%
5. China | vivo | 23.2 | 7.5% | 18.7 | 5.6% | 24.0%
5. China | OPPO | 23.1 | 7.4% | 24.6 | 7.4% | -6.0%
| Others | 72.1 | 23.2% | 91.9 | 27.6% | -21.5%

Apple is 12% of the smartphone market and falling, they're no monster. They're huge by market cap but not by handset volume. I'm not denying that they're a significant player but let's keep things in perspective. If anything, Samsung is the monster.

> Apple is an industry leader, and this will cause everyone to think about their situation in the same way.

I don't think they are. Arguably Samsung is on the hardware front. Google is on the software front.

> I think this year is a major change point for China and the world, as the 1990's were fast but quiet, the 2000's it came to everyone's attention, the 2010's concerns started to rise outside the border […] Combined with a natural slowdown which would have occurred regardless.

Although the economy is slowing slightly most agree it is still growing in the 6% range. Given that most economists believe that China has more or less the largest economy in the world in PPP terms even taking into account that their regions definitely tend to over-inflate key numbers. We can see by metrics like electricity production and consumption that the economy is probably the largest in the world at least according to the CIA Factbook anyhow.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

> This is a new chapter.

I agree. People keep underestimating China.

# Last year China built ~6,000kms of high-speed rail, actually increasing the rate of build out in the face of an economic trade war. To put that in perspective that's more kms than Spain has ever built and Spain has the second longest high-speed rail network on the planet.

# Global patent applications leader starting from 1980 (a proxy for innovation) …

🇯🇵 Japan: (1980 – 2006) (26 Years)
🇺🇸 United States: (2006 – 2011) (5 Years)
🇨🇳 China: (2011 – Present) (8 Years) [Currently double the USA]

# In 2013 China became the third country ever to soft-land on the moon.

# “China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources, with over double the generation of the second-ranking country, the United States.” according to Wikipedia

# Has the largest electric vehicle market in absolute terms and is on track to be 50% of the global market by 2025
Can you really drill down into the specifics for why that is a bad future?
I believe hipchat was a paid product, which stunted it's growth compared to Slack. Slack is 'free by default' but converts users to paid.
That’s good to hear. Good luck! The world needs ScreenHero!
I have _never_ used teams. I have seen it creep up in enterprise focused orgs but I have still never used it.

As a remote worker Slack is my office, essentially, and I think it's done an amazing job at being an office for remote first companies. I can't speak for Teams.
> I never understood what Slack did better than Hipchat

Stay up? I was at a company that was on Hipchat, and we really liked it, but the amount of downtime got to be semi-unbearable. We switched to Slack and it had much better uptime.
That would shield American companies from the geopolitical risks posed by an erratic/belligerent American government of the type currently in office, but it doesn't necessarily make sense from a purely economic point of view. There is a lot of electronics manufacturing know-how and infrastructure concentrated in China, and we all know about the theory of comparative advantage.
One thing that can’t hurt is that Stewart Butterfield is well connected, and got all his friends to push Slack at their startups.

I was at a startup, we used a mix of Hipchat (business types) and IRC (developers). A marketing/social media guy who was buddies with Stewart joined and insisted we should all switch to this, and there we were, dogfooding Slack (this was closed beta days).

Hard to beat free user acquisition.
For that to be true, there has to be too few skilled employment opportunities available in the entire economy to provide employment for college graduates. A position neither you nor the author of the article have provided any evidence to support.
The ‘total count’ is in hundreds of thousands, especially since the test includes some specialized terms. A comprehensive dictionary is estimated to have over a million words, but that might include trivial variations.

Meanwhile, a native speaker's everyday dictionary is typically on the order of ten to twenty thousand words. No way that their ‘reserve’ knowledge extends twenty times beyond this. I'd guess maybe several thousand infrequent and specialized words, with which the total knowledge would still clock in at low tens of thousands.
I also love BTT, but opening/closing tabs is much faster using ⌘-T and ⌘-W.
To me the succes of Slack also shows how invaluable it is.

Companies jumped to it very easily. Everybody just started using it. And the moment something better comes along Slack will be forgotten.

I think this is different from Facebook. Company employees come and go so they don't value what they put on Slack very much. And for companies the history on slack is also not very important.

Well that's how I see how Slack is being used inside different companies.
Their FAQ claims 60,000 ("The word list should contain almost all English words...") so 48k+ works known, which is somewhat more believable. OED 2nd Edition (1989) has 171k full, current entries [1] (and another 47k obsolete, which I will disregard), so 137k+ words, which is quite a few but perhaps not beyond the realm of imagination.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are...
MacBook Pro 2013 user here, and the trackpad is a huge reason I'd continue to stay with Apple.

I don't know why other manufacturers can't seem to get it right.