skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
megaremote seems to be located in Australia and was looking for work in May[1], the claim they work for slack seems to be complete fabrication/wishful thinking/cynicism

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797592
Awesome list for Free for Dev resources:

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Been busy, but my god you're a jackass. If you're going to cite evolutionary biology when examining people's motives, you should at least familiarize yourself with the proximate vs. ultimate cause dichotomy. It explains pretty clearly what you seem to be missing about why people have children.
It's like a car moving A/C controls to a touchscreen. Yeah, it's "the same"... but the lost of tactile feedback is a pretty dramatic thing. You really notice it when you use one.
I find Slack to be a good incremental improvement over whatever AOL/MSN/Yahoo/Google IM front-ends we used in the old days. Otherwise nothing new.
> All things considered, China will be the bigger loser here, but America doesn't stand much to gain, other than some overall strategic leverage.

That is what it has been about. Geopolitical dominance and leverage. Your statement is like "by preparing for Olympics America doesn't stand to gain much, except a few medals, global recognition of sporting prowess, and a healthy cultural of staying fit".
It's directed energy weapons. Crossing the beams to produce interactive floating three dimensional shapes.

It's not (ayy lmao) space aliens. It ain't martians.

It's new technology flexing from all the countries that have the budget for carrying on vehicles these high powered lasers and beam forming phased array systems.
It's not even remotely a replacement: there is zero tactile/haptic response indicating you've pressed the key.

Caps lock is superior to the original escape key location, though, IMO.
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Article says "other Southeast Asian countries" though.
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I was curious to compare Apple's revenues from China with the payments it sends to China for manufacturing.

Revenues (official data): ~$50B/year, down from $80B/year a year ago.

Costs attributed to China are very hard to measure. A lot of the official "manufacturing cost" of the iPhone doesn't actually stay in China (as chips, screens, etc. are all manufactured outside of China, and simply assembled there: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-12/apple-...). According to one source (https://theconversation.com/we-estimate-china-only-makes-8-4...), about ~$8-9/phone stays in China. Also, Apple makes ~200M iPhones a year (not all of them in China, but let's ignore that).

Assuming my numbers are not too far off, Apple contributes ~200M x $10, or just ~$2B to the Chinese economy by manufacturing the iPhones there.

It seems that if China restricts (or even merely discourages) people from buying Apple products, it will hurt Apple a lot more than Apple could ever hurt China.

Of course, China cannot do anything to Apple without US retaliating. But as the trade conflict escalates, this threat loses its power as there are fewer things to retaliate with.
I've only used discord -- do threads exist on slack? Or is GP right and lack of threads is a major downfall of chat apps, including slack?
I'm curious if that $1000/month is going to get printed as newly minted money or if it is going to come from taxes or other government "revenue"?
We have a new bike share in our city that started last fall. Their prices are higher than car share and the riders are scarier on bikes than behind the wheel.

They are electric pedal-assist bikes as well, and provincial laws require the use of a helmet. How many people who use a bike share bring their own helmet with them? How can a company create a business model that obviously & intentionally breaks the law? Because uber & airbnb taught them to disregard the rules, heavily subsidize your product and your users will force the change you require.
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Dude, when you see the valuations of other unicorns you're gonna be soo pissed...
There was a really great real-world-ish equivalent of this called Chain World. A game of Minecraft on a USB stick that you were to play as normal but promise that, if you died, you'd quit the game forever and give the USB stick onto someone else. They'd then respawn in the now-abandoned world you'd been building.

Unfortunately it didn't work out (too much attention basically). Here's the story: https://www.wired.com/2011/07/mf_chainworld/
Isn't everything you post on FB available for anyone to browse?
I'm an avid vim user, and the touchbar escape key gives me no trouble whatsoever. Since it's a single button on a far end with space between it and the other buttons, it's hard to miscalculate the position of the tap even without looking. There was no learning curve; it didn't take time to get used to it.

I suppose it's just a matter of personal preference and habit, though. Maybe some people have trouble aiming? I really thought I'd miss the tactile feedback (as has been the case with similar touch devices for me in the past), but in this case, I don't really notice it.
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The CEO wasn't the one asking the question.
Viewpoint diversity? Republican/conservative seems to be the default state in most corporations.
As long as those are countries that the US wouldn't eventually end up having a 4x trade deficit with, it should still be a good tradeoff for the US. That's a reasonable expectation since barriers for US companies to operate in those countries are lower than in China.
While I'd normally agree, in this case, I have to disagree. Because the position of the button (proximity to the edge of the case and top-left corner of the keyboard), I have no trouble hitting it accurately without looking.
" It was incredibly bad. Notifications would sometimes never arrive, or arrive hours delayed. Chats would take minutes to load. Messages would sit, spinning, waiting to be sent. It was like using 2G on your phone."

That was my hipchat experience a few months ago. Thankfully I don't have to use it anymore
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Can confirm. Desktop Linux-using ops staff here, we're moving from dropbox to onedrive in the next ~month, and I'd switch from Slack to Teams if it didn't suffer from the same problem all MS IM products (UWP/Chromium Skype- & Lync-based alike) seem to face: intermittent failures to push notifications.

We route alerts through IM primarily, and are remote-first. I get that some folks here complain about their inability to ignore chat notifications, but there's a decent chunk of us that need to find our uninterrupted time where we can, not when we want.
I completely believe it. I spent two months in Hyderabad. India is WAYYY ahead on the payments game.

Every business, no matter the size, accepted mobile payments (usually PayTM, but I saw support for PhonePe, Zeta and others). The US is super behind on this; very, very, very few retailers accept Square Cash, more accept PayPal, none of them accept those payments easily. Any app that does mobile banking requires KYC verification. For mobile payments, usually support soft KYC, which you can easily fake, but only lasts 180 days. For anything else online banking related, hard (in-person) KYC was required.

Every terminal supported credit/debit cards (though using international cards was a crap-shoot, and AMEX even more so) and all of them expected Chip + PIN. People were legitimately surprised when they saw that I had to sign. Some didn't even ask for the signature because they weren't used to it.

Everything in India uses SMS OTP and requires an India phone number to receive it. This was super annoying before getting a Indian SIM card, but once I did, I realized how nice of a system this was.

There were many things about the India experience that I wasn't a fan of; paying for stuff was definitely not one of htem.
> I understand the arguments about supply and demand of labour, but I'd have more respect for Facebook if they demonstrated awareness of this issue.

It is a very politically correct statement, which, as it usually happens with politically correct statements, really says nothing. I mean, what exactly do you propose they should do about it?

I am the last person to defend Facebook, but, seriously, they are running a business. That is, essentially, finding a way to do/own/produce some stuff while spending less on it than you receive for it. And cost management is all about supply and demand.

After all, it's not like Facebook wants to pay engineers $150k/year and for them to be happy. It needs good engineers and the only way to get them is to keep them happy, or else they stop coming. Engineers are not really special, they are not even exactly more necessary than cleaners, and loaders, and content moderators. The only difference is, demand for them is higher than supply.

And that would be tragic in a sense, if everyone would be randomly assigned a role and if you draw an "engineer" you are lucky, but if you draw a "content moderator" you are not. Or if we were talking about some factory in some giant village in Vietnam, where no matter how smart you are and no matter what you do, you'll be working much harder job in conditions far, far worse than described for $500/year and you really don't have any choice.

But we are not. No, this is Florida, $30K/year and these are people choosing the job of content moderator over a job of an engineer, either because they don't want to or cannot do otherwise. They while many of them may have stories that can be seen as tragic (because who hasn't, really?), they are no more victims than anyone else born into living a life on the Earth. And thus, hardly entitled to anything.

Let me be clear: I really hate Facebook and I find companies with a modus operandi like Congizant's distasteful to say the least. And I can see how Cognizant can be held accountable for giving somebody a false hope, luring into doing the job while promising something else. But what exactly do you want for Facebook to do? They want a service as cheap as possible, they get asked a given price, they agree. That's it. It won't save their reputation after an article like this (because, well, public relations...), but it seems just fair.
>Good. We need more of this kind of thing around here, and less negativity and the "luck is everything, effort is irrelevant, sit on your ass and wait for the government to fix all your problems" bullshit that we've been overrun with lately.

What a thoroughly disingenuous strawman.
I don't know whether to up or down vote your comment.
Agree, the dock is what the touch bar should default to. I do wonder, if any, what the battery impact is with Pock?
>If you can think of a practical way to unionize workers on a 1-2 year contract with a high turnover rate, I'd love to hear it.

Adopt the Danish model, make it mandatory for companies with workforces over a certain size to at least vote on unionisation. Will shift the default from not being unionised to being unionised except for cases were the workforce is actively convinced its detrimental.
It's probably a lot more than 300 and China can turn off the tap on day one.
According to the article by "ask a mexican" (can't find it atm) but at the time frito lay had an active "solicit business ideas from all levels of the company" program, and they really meant it (some companies do not when they do these sorts of things)
I think it's mostly investment in education. Certain cultures value education more than others. Certain states enforce more challenging and advanced curricula than others.
Seem to be still pushing some small UX features but that's all I know
Anybody who thinks they know for sure that slack can't possibly be worth $16B should go back and read some threads from around the Facebook IPO (like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4320585). It's very easy to write reasonable sounding things - making accurate predictions about the future is much harder.
AI effect also stems from naming your research "AI" which is pretty broad and it's meaning can change with context.

Say for example, I go on a quest to create "AI" from scratch and start with inventing string interning to keep track of symbols. It would be pretty big deal for me, but it would absolutely not be AI which was an ill defined goal from the start.

String interning though will be useful for a lot of disciplines, and a good marketing department will start calling it AI to get more moolah out of it.

This is exactly what happened in the 80s and its practically what is happening today. "AI" is a great motivator to call any of your project a success, because it encompasses everything. Programming Languages, GUI, Networking and whatnot have come out of "AI" research.

In my books, AI just mean one thing. A general purpose machine that can do anything that a human can or more. Not chess, not starcraft, not spying, but everything. People have started calling this hypothesis strong AI, but I think AI will do. This should be the final goal. Anything before that, Programming Languages, Deep Learning, Networking, Hardware Design should be called by their own names and merit.
It really doesn't make sense to me that software isn't created at the government level for cities and states to use. This way it's easier to make sure everything is functioning properly and the cost is only paid once.
We're a small team of a bit more than 10 people and slack has definitely improved our lifes.

Before there was always someone moving around to talk to someone else or internal E-Mails which are equally bad.

We use slack sparingly and only have a few channels with many people. Most things happen in private channels. We always "idle-ping" other team members first and do not expect an immediate response.

The result is a much calmer office. People move around less and there is less chatter. And we still have the option to use group chat if required.

We even added a channel where new commit messages are automatically posted. A wonderful thing to keep informed about what's going on and you can take immediate action if you see something strange.

I think this all falls apart if our team size would increase. But I believe for teams with less than 25 people slack is perfectly fine. Above that size notifications probably start to be annoying.
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I still have a T420 for the keyboard and have no plans of leaving it.
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BetterTouchTool is well worth the money.

Recommended setup (mine):

One giant button in the left corner that says "escape escape escape escape escape" (what it does should be obvious), and one tiny button in the right corner that brings back the normal touch bar. (And nothing else.)

Also, make those buttons white text on black. At least it's an OLED display, so parts of it you want "off" are actually dark.

Even just the lack of a bunch of distracting flashes as it changes when you switch apps is a relief.
Then why doesn't India restrict inflow of US citizens in return?
Interesting, but I wonder how this works in purely namespaced systems - if non standard names are more popular in, say, maven.

I don't know. I'm unconvinced that this is a meaningful metric, and I worry more about typosquatting/ malicious dependencies, which, to my knowledge, crates.io does almost nothing to proactively deal with.
I remap capslock to "Super" (the logo key), which makes it much easier to invoke keyboard shortcuts like Super-L (lock screen), Super-left/right/up/down (left-maximize, right-maximize, full-maximize, restore), and Super-F (fullscreen).
FYI 'those countries' mentioned in the article already have a big trade deficit, even bigger than 4x.

Source: (e.g. Vietnam/US) https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5520.html

And I can't see those SEA countries importing anything from the US soon. The demand isn't really there.
Must feel bad to be Betamax.
Can you speculate on the composition of debris or other material one would select to mitigate hypersonic threats? It seems that energy weapons would be ineffective due to weather attenuation and limited dwell time on the target at hypersonic speeds.
Non-native speaker, got a score of 63% with 1 false positive, so that makes it 60%.

However, it said that it is relatively high for a non-native speaker. How did they reach this conclusion?
Interesting, works even for pt-br vs pt-pt!
I have to agree. The problem is not rainfall. There is plenty of water. Indeed it is expected that global warming will result in greater rainfall not less. The problem is infrastructure. That is a matter of time and money. It will get solved.
Something something. Corporations are hive mind AI optimizing for growth and profit. They don’t give a shit. Amazon doesn’t give a shit unless it impacts the bottom line. Google barely has support and YouTube kids is full of questionable content.
I'm in a chat or two as a "single channel" user only, and I'm external to that company. It's not uncommon and depends on the scale I think.
> Of course, China cannot do anything to Apple without US retaliating. But as the trade conflict escalates, this threat loses its power as there are fewer things to retaliate with.

It did, and not so few times. There was a case in 2015 when some low level customs bureaucrat made Apple C-levels loose sleep for close to a month when he arrested the whole new model iphone shipment just before the holiday season on grounds of them either having a typo in the declaration, or something equally silly
That's how I would use it.
The cynical person in me can't wait for IPhones to start costing $2k instead of 'just' $1k.
Turns out that immediately destructing and unmapping the library is the behavior that is most useful to applications, however.
I want to live in this world where disk space is free and unlimited, but it isn't and has never been.

A primary goal that you don't really cover is conserving not just disk space, but memory. The disk space saved is a proxy for memory savings, which are (even more) valuable. Shared libraries linked in to multiple independent binaries can consume little to no additional memory due to the magic of virtual memory. The same does not hold true for static-linked libraries in multiple binaries.
Everything is a walled garden, if you're that paranoid just pipe everything into your own DB through API capture.
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Well...bate is common internet slang for masturbate.
Didn't estimate my vocabulary, just scored results of my test.

From the description I was hoping for a statistical estimate of how many English worsd I know...
It bothers me that the people mistake the stylised atom drawing for some JS library.
"Geopolitical dominance and leverage."

???

So America will be paying through the nose in hard dollars for a trade war with China ...

... so they can get what exactly what (?) from 'Geopolitical Dominance'?

Where does the money come from exactly in some extra 'Geopolitical Dominance'?

Cars? Better trade terms? Cheaper goods? Better IP?

Your argument is upside down:

The whole point of 'strategic dominance' is to be able to create value for citizens.

Making citizens pay a 25% tariff for the hope of some future intangible return is basically ridiculous.

The best outcome for America in this situation is a good trade deal with China.

If neither the US or China blinks on this, it will be very damaging for both countries, net.

There's nothing to be gained by either the US or China with a permanent trade war, it defies reason.
Took me a while to get an offer out of college even with an internship of experience, years of volunteer coding contributions, etc. And got some absurd offers in the range of 30k before finding a real one.
On the fly memory dedupe is incredibly expensive. Especially compared to just not duplicating in the first place.

Also, it's quite likely that static linked libraries wouldn't be located at the exact same page offsets every time they're linked in to a binary, making page-level dedupe not useful.
many do leave as the turnover rate is extremely high, but with an increasingly underempoyed white collar workforce and rising rent and healthcare and education cost there's a pretty huge pool of reserve labour to churn through.

This is really just a giant meatgrinder for the population outside of the "cognitive elite" class and probably a good sign of things to come for the workplace of the future of half of the population.
I don’t get the point of animal torture videos. The asking of meat consumed in the world is ludicrous. Eating meat is supporting animal torture in a way.

Just saying.
This remapping is the #1 thing that made using Vim easier. Not to mention escaping out of dialogs in macOS is much easier than lifting my hands off my keyboard.
I got “gaucho” and that scored as an English word. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it used other than to talk about Spanish speaking cowboys.
Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.
I've found exceptions are really good for getting relevant context since you can always get at least a backtrace. This is one bad thing about errors-are-just-values; you get nothing besides what the callee decides to put in the error. Especially with monadic error handling, where it's so easy to just pass the error on up, you can easily get a error value from some deeply nested call and no idea what went wrong.
What advantages does Slack have over Zoom? Microsoft Teams seems to compete more with the latter than the former.
I don't think this can be right. the Oxford English Dictionary has over 300,000 main words, and I got a score over 80%. That would suggest I have a vocabulary of 240,000 words, which seems a bit high, to say the least!
I'm not actually accusing you of that, just jokingly exposing that baseless speculation is sort of useless. We're just picking what we want and then rationalizing.
Its not just the capacity to make a screw - its the contract with Apple that they will buy it once your investors have started paying for the company to make it.

Good luck merely getting registered as a new vendor for anything a multinational company makes.

Let alone winning a tender.
Stuy Town is great. Gets so much hate. But I actually miss walking my dog around Stuy Town and speaking with elderly locals who had lived in the same apartment for 50 years more than anything else in NYC. The inner walking loop and fountain are great and they added a cafe a few years ago. Only issue is the distance from the subway.
Slack does have threads. Everyone at my company is quick to remind those who don’t use them.
sorry, it was simply a question, not a criticism.
I feel this way too. The only way I can describe it is like pressing the sprint button in the video game is the only way to get any work done anymore, because my natural curiosity is largely gone. Wait until I have enough mental energy to deal with a task, press the sprint button, and wait until I can do it again. I wish I still enjoyed programming/software like I used to, but it's purely work to me now.
Am I able to see both the app icons and the control keys at the same time like the screenshot (https://pock.dev/assets/img/preview/pock_preview.png) shows?
I think it might actually just swap the buttons if you are left handed
> Something like Uber or Lyft works

Neither of them is making a profit though!
I'm not the for-profit spokesperson, you're the for-profit spokesperson!!
It's the government. He probably needs to find long lost keys to SSH in, file four forms (each in triplicate), and receive approval from each person to get it out.
Didn’t realize there where non-words in the tests and was getting disheartened at how many words I don’t know...