skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny. I'd generally be more skeptical of an essay coming out of China because of China's ideological control. Few authors will argue contrary to the official narrative.

That said, here's another perspective on China's recent rise, translated from Chinese:

> The argument is simple: when China joined the world economy in the reform and opening era, capital flocked to China to take advantage of low-wage labor and what Qin calls China’s “low human rights advantage,” i.e., the state’s commitment to development at any cost (land-confiscation, suppression of workers’ rights, exploitation of migrant workers, etc.). Over time, China became the “world’s factory,” producing quality goods at low prices, at the expense of jobs and tax revenues in the developed world previously inhabited by the capital that had now fled to China. Despite a surplus of capital and increasingly frequent labor shortages, the naked power of the Chinese state keeps the machine running, lending the profits back to the developed economies so that the “exchange” can continue. Such debts only intensify the crisis of the developed world, as governments are already attempting to supply more “welfare” to increasing numbers of unemployed despite a fall in tax revenues.

https://www.readingthechinadream.com/qin-hui-dilemmas.html
Oh thank you, I didn't know. Perhaps I'll go a bit more easy on them. But mergers and ownership handovers aside, it still left me feeling betrayed.
The bull market has been long. The crash is inevitable to be within a year or two. Of course various doomsayers have been vocal for a long time, but things eventually must come down.

When people like Ray Dalio are vocal about it there is something to it.
Can you download them without subscription? Or if I became a subscriber, would I be able to download previous issues too?
Links say you need to log in; by “anyone” do you mean subscribers?
But we have many terms that are not clear cut in most western languages either.

Ask people what they consider cyan vs.turquoise, and some will insist they are the same and some will insist they are distinct. Ask them to draw a boundary between either and blue or green, and the boundaries will be different.

Ask them what is magenta vs. purple vs violet or even pink and again some will insist two or more of them are the same,and some will have strong opinions of what falls on either side that may not match the ’objective' categorization.
Astronomers discover vast ancient galaxies
Only if the guys working on other systems are less talented. If equally talented guys work on other systems then it's not a hit job, and I'm sure google puts its best guys to find holes in google products.
What Do Programmers Need to Know about Third-Party Services?
I run it in one of my computers, the small X230. I kind of regret I went with the current; running snap takes some time and I generally do it on Sunday mornings to keep packages and system up to date.

Stable would be much better here. The system just works, is always on when I open the lid and connects to the wifi fast. A perfect system for Sunday morning HN reading marathons.
No, the reserve is measured by volume, and when the oil price goes up, the physical volume of the reserves increases. The reserve very literally gets bigger.

I said this already -- the volume of the reserve is not related to the amount of oil in the ground. It's the amount of oil that can be _profitably_ extracted _at current market prices_. If the price increases, so does the reserve.

Similarly, if the oil price falls, the oil reserve shrinks, despite the amount of oil in the ground being the same.
It took me some time that the author is female named Victoria Kirst with 6 years at Google and 1 year teaching at Stanford CS193X http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs193x/
I have to agree with you on this one. I too thought they were trying to sell us on a computer being sentient. But sentient is just code name for their "brain" they are building. Clickbaity almost.
I rebuilt my personal website with GatsbyJS
Linux journal, firefox and others are all victims of the free of charge obsession of the foss movement, and they all struggle financially. Hoards of developers want to escape their jobs and join wilderness of independent software development, yet they write software that’s free of charge, reducing scarcity and enabling their cloud corporate overlords to monopolise everything they touch at near zero licensing costs.

End the free of charge part of foss and save these great products by charging at least enough to stay afloat.
The "opinions" part is true, and has implications on whoever is paying for the software and whoever is maintaining it (with their own opinions, of course).

A company/client will often make decisions based on "opinions" too. "We need a website, what should we use to make it?" It's a bit of a blank canvas situation at first where a developer/engineer could come in and say "We should do it X way with Y libraries because <some opinion on why it's the best stack>". Devs could have totally different takes on the same canvas by a matter of opinion.

If I were to ask people "What type of car should I buy?", I would likely get a whole variety of answers from hybrids to SUVs to European and Japanese cars based on who I asked and what their own preferences and tendencies are. I may end up happy or I may end up unhappy depending on which opinion I'm swayed by and how much rigor I put into investigating the different opinions.

Software can be very similar when people providing the "opinions" are caught up in looking to use specific tools over trying to figure out an appropriate solution. When developers/engineers/designers/managers immediate choose tools as a blanket solution over understanding the scope and use-case for context, it's a sign to heavily question the authority of their opinions.
You are correct, the word that is today translated as green "Yarok" meant yellow in those days.

It is used to describe gold and an egg: http://www.balashon.com/2006/08/yarok.html?m=1

The language shifted not the color.
I'm keeping it pretty simple and minimal to keep it fast.
Patreon has three membership plans for creators, none of which are actually 10%. :) The basic one is 5%, the "pro" one is 8%, and the "premium" one is 12%, which is targeted more at companies/teams than individuals. (It comes with a dedicated account manager and I believe some kind of shipping/fulfillment system for physical merchandise.) Their payment processing fees are also actually lower than what you'd pay Stripe directly for pledges of $3 and under.

Patreon isn't problem-free, but I think they get dinged a little too hard by folks sometimes. It's not very easy to find a competitor that offers comparable value-added services at significantly lower cost.
A List of Low-Code Blogs
Did you consider that up to a certain point any framework, be it home grown or commonly used, makes things more complicated?

Simple cgi endpoints and static files for any css/js should be our starting point and any web developer should understand them. When the problem becomes bigger and more complex is when we should start looking at frameworks.
Less physical space = less cooling requirements
To be fair, you'll get the "service battery" message even if you place an original Apple battery in the iPhone. A used device that was serviced perfectly well but not by Apple will still display this message. All this means is that the battery wasn't replaced by Apple themselves.
In the absence of artificial light, people mostly sleep when it's dark.
There was a Microsoft Research paper several years ago which looked at the relationship of exploits to age of code in BSD kernels. The number of exploits in older code diminished over time, but that was often offset by the higher prevalence of exploits in newer code. That much is intuitive, but it's good that there's some well researched empirical evidence showing that that's the case.

We can hypothesize that better languages and better mitigations (e.g. ASLR) can improve the situation across the board, and I don't doubt that that's the case, but I haven't yet seen the evidence. (Maybe I missed it?) It's probably too early as it's difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons across those aspects.
The yellow/green thing from the Bible is simply a mistake in Wikipedia.

The word that today means green "yarok" was used in the past to describe gold and an egg: http://www.balashon.com/2006/08/yarok.html?m=1
Are you aware of matrix? Their olm encryption scheme is capable of PFS, but it's not used exactly in order to provide history.
My question is why /any/ UC employees are still working for Elsevier, and why are they submitting to those journals.

Cus are tax payer funded, and Elsevier makes its money by taking exclusive right to publish that research and then selling that at 100% profit.
Free of charge foss is bluntly silly unless it’s software that saves lives or greatly progresses science. To think there are so many great devs out there, spending their own time and dime to build free of charge software which is then commercially exploited by cloud providers is just sad.
How do you propose that we charge for FOSS?
A blogs website whose logo is a big M?
(shameless plug) Just for kicks I wrote the client side of https://watch.ly/ without any frameworks (but used less/ejs/express).

Also winricklabs.com

It's a nice breather after writing AngularJS for six years... I'm sure with the next complicated UI I'll use some big framework (Spring+Leaflet or Angular...)

However, I think the goal should be to reduce complexity and have your business/product be focused as possible.

Watch.ly is literally just live hit counters. The live part gets challenging at some scale. But the product is focused.
> Written only in consonants, the true pronunciation was forgotten by them.

So the theophoric names use vowels unrelated to the original pronunciation? Those names all postdate the loss of the vowels?

I would be pretty surprised if that were true. Are the vowels in theophoric names fixed by some consideration other than the vowels in the word from which the names derive?
Tesla's are quite heavy as far as sedans go. I think that enhances their safety in car v car crashes. The average car weighs 2,871 lb. | The average sedan weights 3,351 lb.| SUV avg: 4,437lb | Truck: 4,710lb | 18 wheeler: 15,000 "tare weight" (empty) | 18 wheeler loaded: 80,000lb | School bus: 23,500-29,500lb

Notice the teslas avg weigh more than everything but the semi's. 3: 3,552lb-4072lb | 60D 5,072 lb (2,300 kg) | 70D 5,072 lb (2,300 kg) | 75D 5,140 lb (2,330 kg) | 90D 5,271 lb (2,390 kg) | P90D 5,381 lb (2,440 kg) | 100D 5,421 lb (2,459 kg) | P100D 5,531 lb (2,509 kg)
kinda related: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=11672&page=1
Is 'MoviePass' limited to one cinema chain? AFAIK Cineworld's unlimited pass is only good for films at its own cinemas?
Too Busy to Prioritize?
Flask and postgres
As a pilot, I'm really sorry about the state of infrastructure at the destinations, but we need fax or phone sometimes.

For context: Imagine a crew room, with an old yellow looking windows 95 machine as the only "IT service" and only GSM-speed (or no reception at all) mobile internet in the area. The machine doesn't really work, or is on a dialup connection (yes this still exists).

These are the cases where we use the phone, or write the plan manually on a form and fax that. The phone has a high risk of mistakes, because you're reading lots of numbers and codes so it's easy to misunderstand one.
Bug bounties. If people want a feature or a bug fixed, they can vote with their wallets.

That strikes me as an equitable model. However we need to culturally accept this idea before it can gain traction.
Exactly. The language of the article itself doesn't affect on the content or the credibility.

If anything, the Chinese government has higher incentive to clamp down the Chinese version as Chinese content has a wider reach and thus higher impact on the local people.
List of 6 Places to Visit During Hajj Pilgrimage
for me to hire someone like you the main question is that you have a good idea of what you are getting into. without any relevant work experience i'd worry that you might find that this new field is not for you, and you'd rather do something else. (i know i can expect you to try your best to keep the job, but i'd like to know before hiring if you'll enjoy it)

you won't need a bootcamp, but you should at least be familiar with the territory.

aside from that, try some thinking outside of the box. what other experience do you have besides programming? what industry knowledge have you gained from working at a medical device company?

are there any startups where you can use that industry knowledge?

or try freelancing? what are the pain points in the medical device industry? can you solve them and sell those solutions?

as mentioned, for regular employment 150k is kind of a ceiling. to go beyond that you need to do something to stand out.

https://jonathanstark.com/ has some good arguments about that pay ceiling. it applies to freelancers billing hourly just as much as it applies to employees because in both cases you are paid for time. to earn more, you need to break out of that.
Good catch! I will adjust my original message with an edit. That is straight up anti-competitive. Egg on my face for giving apple the benefit of the doubt.
Why User-Centric Design Holds Importance in Mobile App Development?
Coolest 2019 Tuscany Festival
Blackhat 2019 – Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Encryption for Chat Manipulation
I agree that Apple's News service is disappointingly pedestrian. The reason for its mediocrity illustrates the problem that original publishing has with the current market.
When these mega corporations post their yearly earnings, those earnings are the result of a focus on the lowest common denominator. The Art, Music, Culture stuff doesn't mean much aside from marketing. Any business that gets its primary funding through niche markets withers after they scale to their maximum sustainable size.
If this aims to enumerate all the vectors, it seems to be missing the lower level radio & networking attack surface - eg the WLAN one that was a high-profile Project Zero finding some time ago. And common networking things like DHCP client, mDNS, VPN protocols, etc. Probably there are WLAN driver style vulnerabilities in the cellular side too.
They did have a word for blue, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet
The studios haven't given any permission, AList is still a small minority of overall ticket sales, studios are obviously hesitant to launch the nuclear option and pull films entirely, especially over what is now a small amount. That doesn't mean they can't or won't going forward, however. Just like you would take the short-changing employer to court, so might the studios. But you'd probably keep working at 140k per year while the lawsuit is pending, because it's better than zero and you'd expect to eventually be made whole.
Markets aren't "free" in the sense that you mean if they are externalizing their costs. They are, in fact, distorted markets in which the cost of goods is pushed into the future.
A link to the Google Maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Three+Rivers+Wildlife+Mana...
Ask HN: Paid News vs. Free News
I’d like to pay for quality journalism, but I often wonder if the full and unfettered access to articles on multiple platforms is actually worth the cost. Why isn’t there a usage-based model across multiple outlets that isn’t based on ads?
If you think Vienna's air is clean, you didn't measure during winter and/or during an inversion. You absolutely need air purifiers.
It is fashion because on modern GPUs is easier to optimise what actually needs to be done, and combine passes as well.

During the early days of GUI development, immediate mode won because scene graphs are more demanding in regards to memory consumption, and graphic chips were quite limited anyway.
Yep, I can see how beginners or god-level guru could turn that into a thousand characters one-liner.
> I hope that in future the module system that will be introduced by C++20 will eventually kill CMake.

To the contrary - with modules more powerful build systems are needed that the ones which exist today. See this post for a CMake dev : https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/axnwiz/cmake_gcc_modul...
> We can't even accurately estimate the cost of a complex project given our choice of tools, let alone talk about costs and ROI with different toolchains for the same projects.

No industry can, unless it's something that has been done repeatedly before. If you ask a frontend designer specializing in WordPress to make a theme for WordPress and implement it, they can estimate it accurately.

What is thoroughly missing from this debate is the age old project management terms of scope and risks. As soon as you enter unknown land, the risk goes up. And risk means uncertainty and probably expenses. And if the people writing the checks change the scope, the original estimates goes out the window. If you're making a building, it's easier to understand that you cannot just change the scope after the blueprint is made. You have to get an architect to remake it, and everything done and ordered so far may or may not be salvageable. It happens in all industries, but just more so in software development.
>However, if you could find a position TEACHING at a bootcamp that would be better.

I disagree. From what I've seen of bootcamp instructor postings over the years, they usually pay terrible, and OP said they're already pulling in over 150k.

It would make more sense for OP to just deep dive on modern JS web stack, or Rust, or whatever new technology they wish to become proficient in on their spare time if they must. Side projects are a great excuse to do this. Then make the career change jump after they're proficient.
Suppressing Vibration in Animatronics
We already discussed this. iOS has a huge attack surface that can only be patched via system updates, which is horribly bad design and terrible for security.

And your theory isn’t supported by facts on the ground - we have statistics about the percentage of iOS devices running the latest version of iOS versus the number of Android devices.

Since iOS annoying asks you to upgrade when there is one available and you are given a choice to automatically update when you’re not using, do you have a reliable citation showing the number of iOS devices without the latest version compared to the number of Android devices? Or do you just have a hunch?
Thanks you for your comment.

"I would never rely on a computer-based solution for this."

Could I know precisely why ? (your answer could help a lot).
> but how much do the Linux community gets back

If I had to guess, a few 100 million dollars in developer time and training.
> This is to reduce congestion and encourage more environmentally friendly methods of transportation.

A similar policy operates here in the UK, except that the parking allowance is significantly less generous.

I find it utterly asinine because it is not paired with the necessary corollary: you can't "encourage" more environmentally friendly methods of transportation, you have to actually - you know - take action and build the infrastructure.

Example: I live about 10 miles from the office and would cheerfully cycle into work come rain or shine because it would be great exercise, but there is no safe cycle route, so I'm forced to use some form of motorised transport (I have a car but usually ride a motorcycle). Buses are available but they're once an hour, take too long, are often tardy, and don't run late enough into the evening.

Depending on where you live there are better options available (guided busway paired with a cycleway, or the train) but there's no joined up thinking when it comes to more sustainable transportation. The result is that vast swathes of the area around Cambridge (UK) are either inadequately served, or not served at all.
there's a charitable way to read that, which is that they did ample statistical modelling/risk analysis of CDS and "concluded" they were safe enough to bundle mortgage debt under. Then you could sort of "blame math" (or the abuse thereof) in that circumstance. I know CDS is only like 1/10 chapters of the whole crisis, however.
It turns a black box into black hole, making it basically impossible to hack unless you have prior knowledge of what is on the other side.
> With Qt you have to struggle to compile a massive library which inevitably won't work. After sinking hours into compiling it,

why would you have to compile Qt if you just want to make an app ?
Agreed, now that they've created a constant supply of drivers and riders, it's much easier to solve the chicken and egg problem by piggybacking on that supply. For a while now, I've been thinking that someone should create a simple smartphone dispatch service that operates as a service to drivers, just takes a very small fixed cut, and allows them to put out ask prices, while riders put out bids. Then, this thing matchmakes and hands the rider off. The experience would likely be more variable/less controlled, but it also seems more likely to be economically sustainable, and give some freedom back to the drivers.
>We have Teslas that don't have anywhere near this kind of security or redundancy "autopiloting" themselves right now on highways.

Not just Teslas, modern vehicles in general. I would say that in terms of security Tesla is probably doing a more bang-up job than the other automakers; it was only a few years ago that Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely killed a Grand Cherokee on the highway.
They have one for iOS.
Paper is here:
https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/publication-proces...
And how many trillions in "I.O.U.S" are circulating in the US financial system?
I can’t/won’t pay 500$/mo for news on all the sites I occasionally read. I want to pay 50$/mo to have a slightly higher cap than 5 articles/mo across all of them. Why doesn’t this exist?
Hong Kong activists use 'Pokémon Go' and Tinder to organise as police crack down
Elixir and gRPC strong road to production
Are you personally a part of the linux community? I mean: Do you maintain some free tool, or are you essentially like those big corps who use free tools and never pay pack?
Best Politics Dissertation Topics
Db-scheduler, a simple cluster-friendly task scheduler gets Spring Boot support
Isn't the average 10 years?
Although I am not a fan of Apple, their Memory Pressure messages on iOS are really useful to prevent this. You get warned as a programmer to clean up your memory if possible, otherwise iOS shuts you down.
.ui files can also be parsed at run-time (with QtUiTools iirc)
It sounds like a new version of SIOP, the Cold War program to produce a plan for nuclear war based on computer simulations incorporating data on assets, capabilities, etc. of both sides. It was the inspiration for WOPR from WarGames, though the real plan required humans to actually run the simulations and make command decisions.

That name is stupid. It's like aspirational marketing. It reminds me of the artificial intelligence from Team America: World Police, called INTELLIGENCE.
You only get data from those when the phone is in bluetooth range. That's not very useful for long-term measurements. Unless you buy cheap android phone as a basestation I guess.
Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism
It's dumb money. A bunch of irrational investors that seem to be influenced by charismatic CEOs more than by actual business models.
Thanks for your answer and happy to make this wake-up call.

I don't want to promote a product as I am looking for feed-backs, especially on the idea of "doing something in case of ...".

But soon I will open a "show HN" and it will give you a second wake-up call.
AMC, and only AMC, has determined the price upon which AList reimbursements are currently being based. The success of the program seems to rely upon this number, yet they have no guarantee, implicitly or explicitly, that studios will continue to accept this rate. So yeah, a signed contract that spells out the terms would make a pretty big difference.