skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was laid off in 2001. In the second of 4 waves. Prior to the first wave one of the co-founders flew over on Concorde to tell us that each of us could save $5/day there would be no layoffs!

I got a reasonable package, 3 months salary, and 2 weeks later joined a new startup (which a few years later was acquired). I actually saw an increase in salary. Those two factors compensated somewhat for the layoff trauma.

People who had solid skills like C++ were fine, generally. It was those with only HTML who had made good money in the 90s and never upgraded to real programming that suffered the most.
Not sure what your definition of fraud is (for me it's more like what the British India company did). Wining a tender process that probably needs fixing (because it's obsolete) is not fraud.
As far as I've seen that doesn't support translating web pages other than copy-pasting the text you want to translate... Unless I'm missing something. So HN, tell me, how do I get to that functionality, if it's there?
That is one of them, yes. The challenge is to find all possible configurations.
I do know the difference, I'm just not convinced that it is much worse to be politically motivated in your killing rather than just crazy.
This is a lie.

"The clock ran out" only on some of the crimes he was accused of. Sweden simply dropped the case (i.e. decided not to proceed with extradition request) after he got out of the embassy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_...

> the questioning pertained only to the open investigation of "lesser degree rape", whose statute of limitations is due to expire in 2020

> Following Assange's 2019 arrest, the case was reopened under prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson. In September 2019, she revealed that she had interviewed seven witnesses, two of whom had not been previously heard, but had yet to determine how to proceed in the case.
Innocent until proven guilty.

But in the meantime: medicated into oblivion so he can't adequately defend himself.

"Concern for his mental health" is just an excuse for "medically lobotomized".
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Never heard of that website so I give it a try.

It says "[t]ranslate from any language", but doesn't seem to support Chinese or Japanese at all.

To me, translating other Western languages to English is never a problem. I can use any half-decent online translation services and the result is totally understandable.
Why is Richard Stallman's photo not present?
The conclusion in 1 seems to be "These findings indicate that stereotypes are not the only force at work when someone is labeled either mentally ill or a terrorist.", which is highlighted in a large font. I thought you were arguing the opposite?

And in 2, the question they examine is "whether people with negative attitudes toward Muslims perceive Muslim mass shooters as less mentally ill than non-Muslim shooters". That seems like a very biased group to ask, to say the least...
I thought it was the corruption
I was doing an internship in 2001 during my master and at the time many people wondered if one shouldn't quit univeristy to start a high paying job (people would hire you no matter what).

Fast forward 1 year later, i started a PhD in a research lab working on sound hardware / software in the SV. The day i arrived i noticed something weird : the first floor of the pretty big building was completely empty. There were still computers and mugs on some desks, but other than that it looked like a weird epidemic killed everyone.

I learned later that half of the employees of the research center (including the local boss) had been fired two weeks before i arrived, and everybody had been moved to the second floor.
I couldn't complete my PhD because they wouldn't finance new research anymore, so i went back to France and look for a job. After a few months trying to look for work in the audio field in vain, i finally ended up finding a job at a consulting firm, doing mundane backoffice development (database, web-based interface, in corporate environment).

So, basically it went from "we'll hire just anybody, even unqualified", to "PhD looking for a job" in just a year.
I like the stark, high-contrast style of the photos.
I bought my mum a MacBook Pro, I honestly can't remember what year or which CPU. She told me last week she had someone put a new battery in it and an SSD to replace the spinning disk. She's still well happy with it.

It's a good point about the planned obsolescence: I've dropped this machine so many times it doesn't quite close properly, the aluminium around the top of both USB ports and the HDMI port are deformed, I've had to clean metal particles out of the MagSafe2 connector many times, I work in a metal fabrication workshop so metal particles follow me everywhere.

Six year old machine still in reasonably good condition and works fine.
As a counterpoint - at CircuitHub, we migrated from NodeJS / Angular to Haskell / Elm and couldn't be happier.

I think a core reason for our success is that we built our team from experienced developers that had built large applications in other languages. Then arrived at Haskell as a better solution.

I have heard some negative experiences that I would attribute to a few different factors.

1. Lack of Haskell experience in the early team.
2. Lack of experience building large real-world applications (too academic)
3. The startup/group didn't achieve product-market fit, and Haskell was scapegoated.

None of these problems are Haskell specific, just run of the mill team issues.
The more I think about this, the funnier it gets. How long would it take to unpack a drone, put a power source in it, and install a 1g shaped charge on a drone and pack it away? 30 seconds? It seems like something you wouldn't exactly want to rush.

So with 3 terrorists, assuming they worked 16 hour days, they'd have their devices ready in 4.75 years, assuming they didn't take any holidays.
During a C1 German course I took, I tried writing an essay In English, using deepl and then submitting it to the teacher. Only manual thing done is choosing the correct alternative from the list of words deepl gives you.

The Teacher said that it was amazing and that many native students she had couldn't write that well.
If all my neighbours are getting one or two deliveries per week, there will be drones in the street all day.
You just can't stick to the topic, can you? You seem to have specific obsessions that you feel the need to drag into the discussion. Get some fresh air and try behaving like an adult.
I see a lot of comments here attributing outsourcing firms to fraud. Let's remember that these cos. win contracts fair and square by taking advantage of myopic tendering processes.

If there's something to blame then it's obsolete tender process that make it impossible for quality vendors to compete or for outsourcing firms to make realising proposals.

Overpromising and underdelivering is not fraud. Fraud is what VW, FB and Theranos and the likes have done.
Should anyone run a sub-4 minute mile? Should anyone be 7 feet tall? Should anyone make the world's largest pizza? What other outliers are you going to put yourself in charge of regulating?
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For me, the most crazy change was several stories in the early 2000s of running into (literally) used car salespeople who mentioned they were software devs for a while in 1999. They were hustling cars in 1997, hustling code in ‘98 and ‘99, and back to cars in 2001.

I spent the crash in the financial industry which was hit in its own way: one fire-sold company office, one closed satellite office with a job transfer to a consulting company maintaining the same codebase for the company who closed the sat office. That last was my worst job ever but paid rent. The day the final retention bonus/bribe to take the consulting gig hit my bank, 6 of us resigned to come over to our next early-mid-stage startup. My ex-colleagues from the original office seemed to have slower job searches but all found interesting and fruitful work. (The office was a D. E. Shaw & Co. office: fully staffed with higher than average caliber devs. All found work reasonably quickly.)

In the 2008 GFC, that was much less a tech bubble and more a general financial issue. Our company just grew more slowly as the world worked itself out of that crisis, so I have no meaningful insight about that one.

To the extent that this “bubble” feels much less severe than 1999, I suspect more than 3/4 of qualified devs will do just fine in any tech bubble burst. Terrible devs barely hanging onto their job now could easily be shaken out into another field. That might even be better for them overall.
Stallman isn't a face of open source, as he frequently claimed so himself. He is a face of free software[1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Except that would allow people to reverse engineer the code which I think is one the main reasons there is still a lot of services that are in the cloud.
The general trend with cloud investment is that it makes utmost sense early in a startup or business expansion when time to market is the most important and uncertainty is high, but once the business stabalizes the assets move in house because of costs.

The cloud is powerful, but for long running businesses who can afford to invest in the competancy it's stupidly expensive. Hybrid cloud installations are ever more the norm, private clouds increasingly capable (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), and toolsets like Kubernetes reshape how a lot of those legacy apps get looked at.
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I still think open source is a subset of free software, and Stallman deserves a lot of that credit.
Nice to see this get a little traction ... I've posted the puzzle here a couple of times in the past, including posting a link to this article, and it's never got traction in the past.

It's such a lovely puzzle, and the meta-puzzle is fascinating. Once you have a few configurations, how can you know that you have them all.

It's like accounting for corner cases in code and user-interface design and implementation. How do you know you've accounted for everything that might happen, especially when dealing with the unwashed masses.
Almost a non event for me, I was working for a small, but not a startup anymore, successful company that was lucky enough to not get severely hit by the bubble.

Salary raises were lower, and bonuses more modest but overall we continued as usual.
A later study by (former IPCC) Dr Judith Curry has gone more into this [1]. And the report I referenced was even later. The comments on that page BTW make abundantly clear that scientists do not agree at all that the sea level rise is accelerating, and even if it is, if it's more than a minute amount. Most of the rise graphs focus around satellite measurement starting from 1993 which seem to show 3mm/year rise, and attaching these number to the graphs of sea level tide gauges is heavily disputed as scientific heresy. Additionally to get to that 3mm the satellite measurements had to be corrected, an action which was explicitly rejected by the recent Deltares report I referenced.
So, whatever people may think, acceleration is not a fact, and even the scientists that believe it, think it's very small. It's the alarmist media that blow it up to huge proportions.

As a side note: I have been following climate news closely since a year now, and I have to say, I'm noticing strange patterns, in for example picking starting dates for graphs. Read for a recent example this article[2]. And I have noticed many occurrences of this, including from Goddard (part of NASA), NOAA, but also other institutions. This makes me suspicious.

In my own country the Dutch Royal Meteorological Institute, was accused of erroneously changing past temperature data - supposedly to correct for changed sensor setups, to make heatwaves in the first half of the 20th century disappear. I read that report, and it was very careful, and very thorough. But the Meteorological Institute refused to discuss it. It's these things that make me very suspicious. There are more examples, but I won't make this overly long.

So I would recommend looking really critically at any climate news, since in my experience most scientists do not agree on a lot of issues, despite claims to the contrary, and the subject is very heavily politicized.

[1] https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/27/special-report-on-sea-lev...
[2] http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2019/10/illustrating-the-c...
Faces of Open Source, seems like the key bit to answer why.

And, as should be obvious, it's not an exhaustive gallery of faces of people involved in Open Source.
Damn how are they not being liquidated to pay for their own class action lawsuit?
A recent major Windows update deleted user documents as well. [0]

Catalina's file loss was confined to iCloud Drive during the beta, and what happened to me was in the Music app after release.

I grew up with Windows, and the recent problems with macOS are still not bad enough to make me want to go back to Microsoft.

macOS is the occasional burn, while Windows is a constant assault on multiple fronts. UI, spyware, performance, security, consistency, aesthetics, accessibility, lack of a multi-platform ecosystem (phone/tablet/TV) and bugs of its own like every other software.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+update+deleted+docum...
It sounds like the textbook definition of a publisher.
> "Stormy Peters is an open source advocate and evangelist. Peters founded the Open Source Program Office at Hewlett Packard and has since held senior positions at several open source related organizations including the GNOME Foundation, Mozilla, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Red Hat."

And just like that, "advocating and evangelizing" is apparently all it takes. Can also call it what it often actually is - virtue signaling - but that's not very popular with the kids these days.
I amused myself with the math that results if our 3 crazies have to hand load 1g of shaped charge on each drone (assuming that you can't exactly subcontract out this "please make our killer drones for us and don't ask any questions). It came to a mere 4.75 years of 16 hour days for the 3 people, assuming it takes 30 seconds per drone. No time off for holidays.

It's pretty amazing that someone can spout off about this so confidently, with zero ability to do simple common sense back of the envelope calculations.
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Sorry, yeah, that's a good point. Now I'm at home I can check: High Sierra.

I usually only update when I either need to because a program I want to run doesn't support the old OS, or the OS stops receiving security updates, or if I get really bored one night.
A badly written, rambling article that seems to provide no insight and declares Docker dead because k8s is the flavour of the month. I felt stupider the longer I read on.
The number one face of free software, the one who spawned the creation of a whole open source UNIX OS is not there, it's really amusing how some decision like this could be made.
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"The entire fee is passed on to the driver."

https://help.uber.com/riders/article/lost-item-return-fee-?n...
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Good point, there is still a barrier between how people deploy (kubernetes) and how people develop (docker-compose). And it's not just different syntax, developers typically never have to deal with concepts like ingress and persistent volume claims. Things like converting compose to k8s manifests don't really help developers to understand how kubernetes works in production. As a result, Kubernetes tends to help to reinforce the need for ops people, for better or worse.
iOS is a different OS but using the same Darwin core operating system, including XNU, the C library (+ a bunch of other ones) and launchd.

Unix command-line tools aren't present except the bare minimum for crash dump purposes on release iOS. The full set of BSD tools is present on internal builds and they're installed while jailbreaking.
Doing it with the intention of underdelivering and ballooning costs and time to make more money is fraud though. And make no mistake, no outsourcing company goes to a tender intending to be on time and on budget. It’s not good business for them.
No, that is not the issue. That's just a Gish gallop-like defense coughed up now.

It's not true that you have to limit harm to the government's taste in order to be considered a journalist, and it's not true that Assange did not try to limit harm either.

> Those sort of subtleties are important when you're going to be arguing in front of a judge.

Not in front of this judge. If there's one thing the case against Assange hasn't been, it's subtle!
This feels like an important distinction between a platform that contractors can come and offer their services on and a business that has full fledged employees. When Lyft controls pricing and all of the information about pricing, it’s laughable for them to make the argument that “we are just a platform, people come here and operate their own businesses on their own terms!” Action by lawmakers to right this wrong will be less painful now than it will be the longer we wait.
Agreed, Linus is at the top and his Kernel uses Stallman's license.
One thing is to have a such train, the other thing is to build the track. I think it is really hard to build a smooth track for such speeds but it seems they could do it.
If I can extrapolate from his behaviour correctly, Stallman would refuse to have his face willingly associated with the term "open source", even if it cost him his photo on this webpage.
WL partnered with journalists from all the world. Questioning if he himself is a journalist is rather dishonest considering he thinks himself one and he is responsible for millions of informative, ground-breaking articles written worldwide.

The Australian Journalist should not be concerned about precedent set in a US court against a US citizen.

Don't kill the messenger.
There's a musician called Kebu, who's work has high similarities to Jean-Michel Jarre's. Question: if Kebu was born the time Jarre was born, wih the same influences, and the same opportunities, could he have created his music without the set path of Jarre? (This is not in any way attacking his work, it's merely a theoretical question).

Visionaries are extremely rare. Most of us follow and copy existing work. All that said, I think your words are a bit too harsh. Average person are not that bad at creating, they are bad at willing to create, they tend to lack the drive to do so.
It's the people who wake up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just sell things faster", they're not really looking to improve your life, just the bottom line.
> Countless cost projections on top of a complicated billing system

I think it's a loooot easier to design and build a cost-efficient multi-tiered high availability application than it is to make reasonable cost projections in whatever micro-currency every seconary and tertiary service uses.

And I'm ever surprised by how time-intensive it is.
What I can tell you with some confidence is that something like the dot com bust can never happen again in our industry.

The strange thing was how suddenly it happened. It felt like the majority of projects got defunded in a matter of weeks or months. Our funding disappeared as the VC firm collapsed together with its parent company. Our customers (telcos) stopped approving any new projects that weren't guaranteed to be profitable within the quarter as they were hit by a ruinous bidding war for frequency sprectrum at the same time.

The reason why I'm saying it can never happen again (in this particular industry) is that tech/internet was a tiny and isolated part of the economy back then (called "The New Economy"). Today's tech industry is huge and very diverse. It's part of everything now. The largest corporations on earth are now tech firms. Back then, there was nowhere to go for many employees in that sector (at least for a while).

I was fortunate enough to have saved a bit of money, partly because I had refused to take stock options in place of proper payment. So I was able to self-fund some projects that I was interested in with a goal of creating an organically growing company. I've been avoiding the whole high growth VC culture ever since, which may have been a mistake in purely financial terms.
Bell-Labs is originally Bell System, then AT&T. Then AT&T spins Lucent Technologies. Lucent merges with Alcatel. Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent 2016.
I think we all know why Hans Reiser isn't there.
He absolutely will not be forgotten. He is a hero. Even now he has a wikipedia article, multiple movies about him, tons of support from the people supporting the freedom of information and those who are sick of the secretive bullshit going on behind the curtains.
There's already a system for it: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
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This must be old. Guido hasn't been BDFL for a while now. And the achievement gap is very wide between people on the list. You have inventors of the internet and several dominant programming languages alongside some "advocates" nobody has ever heard of.
Find a company that uses it and wants to see it continuing to be developed in a way that works for them, and ask for them to employ you.
1. Broken on Firefox on Android, text unscrollable.

2. Where the F is Stallman?
Most countries are ran far worse than a company. If citizens had the option to freely jump between countries, most of them would go bankrupt, that's why they rely on coercion. Very few countries are ran efficiently and they re typically very small like Singapore.
As long as it is regulated and sanitized and can be surveilled. Especially the latter is an undeniable fact in my opinion. Although that battle seems to shift to government just not being able to do that as easily, the ambitions were clear as day.

There is still an unlimited amount of content, but the rules have changed significantly. And mostly not in favor of users.

The article offers bad examples, but monetary interests and copyright changed the nature of most content.
Close to impossible to find a job as a new graduate.
Actually I'm not anymore.

I think it's mostly that, even when people think America is bad sometimes.

They know that China is much worse. That's why I'm upvoted a lot on the topic above it.

At least, for the US they have to include all of the world to find bad behavior.

( Excluding Trump era ofc, but that's why impeachment is coming)
For 99.9% of the uses, k8s is a cannon, while the problem you're trying to solve is a fly.

Use the right tool for the job, please. Trying to force something, just because it's thw buzzword of the day, will only waste money and bring suffering.
Which is exactly what I'm doing as a freelancer as well.
> It sounds like you're saying that you're so right, self-doubt would be an unnecessary encumbrance.

What sentence gives you that idea?
The Holy Order of Git Commit Log Bikeshedding and Overengineering have their field day. And they all have it wrong. Any commit log that doesn't compile to an automated build script isn't worth the bytes it's made of.
In the firm I made my internship, we have to use German in every communication. I use DeepL to check my E-mail or help me write speech for the presentation, etc (not a native speaker). The translator is wonderful!
> * Ordering could easily fuck up somehow. Eg. Send multiple identical pizzas cus you pressed the button multiple times, cus the 1st time u pressed it nothing happened. I read about this actually happening recently.

I don't think I've ever had an online order experience any of those problems. On the other hand, I've had countless phone/human interactions that have led to order screwups, usually misspellings of my name/email/phone number despite my spelling it out for the person.
Nomad is great, and easier to grasp than Kubernetes, and with Consul you also have have DNS-based service discovery for your Nomad programs.