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T R A I T O R. And, just like the NBA, Blizzard, Elon Musk and Hollywood, condoning random executions for organ harvesting and imposing China's totalitarian will and values on the rest of the world with their actions. If we don't resist now, the Western world will become even more Orwellian/Kafkaesque.
I would also expect other LiIon (LiFePo specifically) cells to similarly benefit, making powerwalls for homes,both grid-tied and off-grid, much more affordable.
If we're talking about damage to the cochlea:

- We don't really care if we further damage the hair cells that don't work.

- Outer hair cells amplify sounds. If they don't work, well, gotta amplify them some other way.

- A phenomenon called "recruitment" can cause loud sounds to be more painful for those with hearing loss. So you may not be able to amplify everything.

Hearing aids are a bit more sophisticated than an amplifier; they also act as an equalizer, compressor, feedback cancellation, and a bunch of other features of dubious benefit.
Sounds like you want email.
> 1994 Internet let you talk to people and exchange information around the world — things that you couldn’t do before.

You could. There were phones and snail mail after all, weren't there?

They were slow an expensive just like wire transfers between US and EU bank accounts are: 2-3 workdays and a $35-45 fee to move around a few bytes in existing financial messaging systems. Pure madness.
I wonder how much of this increase is people using bang commands to search other sites using DDG (where DDG just redirects the search to the destination site, like how the Firefox search bar has the option of searching on other sites, but with additional network trips). Whenever I have to use a non-Firefox browser that doesn’t have a separate search bar (with configurable search engines), I use bang commands to get to Wikipedia or IMDB, for example. I also use !s (for Startpage) and !g (for Google) when the DDG results aren’t satisfactory.

DDG is still not a perfect replacement for Google for me, but it is a replacement most of the time, and it is my default search engine on browsers I use.

One feature I don’t have on DDG after all these years is limiting the search results to the past year. I go to Startpage whenever I need that.
I'm not interested in posting it on HN (though that is a good way to improve ranking on Google). It's a small static website with a political theme. The title is fairly unique, but not made of uncommon words. Every now and then I search for it on Google and get a good laugh from all the garbage that shows up.
If the president of the college can't even remember what a Van De Graff generator is... you're going to have a bad time
It’s interesting you take the position that Walmart should irrationally pay more when their current workforce is clearly fine with the arrangement.
Good idea, actually. I’ll try a local taylor.
For the long shutdowns, you probably want to make the `DefaultTimeoutStopSec` config shorter, so that systemd doesn't wait as long for services to stop before sending them a SIGKILL.
In contrast to what?

This is how the article describes the focus of the article.

The buildings are severe 1970s concrete. The radio station is in a yurt. ... if you’re used to the grassy quads of state flagships or the rich Gothic and brick of the Ivy League, Hampshire’s austerity is striking. On my visit in the spring, tarps covered study carrels in the library to protect them from a leaky roof.
Infection actually also leads to inflammation, it's just a different kind. There is acute inflammation and chronic inflammation. Acute inflammation is good as it leads to your body healing. However, if the inflammation doesn't subside, that's when inflammation becomes chronic and eventually, disease occurs.
100% merino wool hiking/running socks are perfect for hot and humid. I've ran +20 hour ultramarathons in hot conditions with them. They are much better than cotton. Plastic socks are good for 1 hour gym sessions.
"Barista" is a job title in damn near every small town across America. Any big enough to have a starbucks at least.
Punishing people for the light turning red when their back tires haven’t fully made it out of the box has nothing to do with safety.

If it was about safety, it would only hit people when the crossing traffic light turned green.
> I wish we could have a thread (possibly even a monthly thread here, like who is hiring) where people could mention their blogs, web sites etc.

I dig the sentiment. Isn’t that what Show HN and posting links to blog posts does though?
There's a very strong correlation between students who sign up for those kinds of classes and who would've otherwise gone onto the college pathway anyway.
at the expense of killing innovation company wide.
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For the record, School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Tsinghua University has always been having high caliber business leaders, Nobel Laureate, central bank governor and government officials on their board.[1] e.g.

In fact, I doubt any school has a better advisory board than that of SEM of Tsinghua's, anywhere in the world.

Even Hardvard / MIT / Yale's school dean/provost are on Tsinghua's board. If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong.

Here is a partial list:

- Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of Huawei UK

- Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

- H. Lee Scott, Jr., Former President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

- WANG Qishan, Vice-President, People’s Republic of China

- Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital

- Mary T. Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company

- Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

- Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev

- CHEN Jining, Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government

- Elon Musk

- Mark Zuckerberg

- Michael L. Corbat, CEO, Citigroup Inc.

- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

- Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

- Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

- Nobuyuki Idei, Former Chairman and Group CEO, Sony Corporation

- Muhtar Kent, Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company

- Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR

- Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

- Ramon Laguarta, CEO, PepsiCo

- LIU He, yes the chief U.S.-Sino trade deal negotiator, Vice-Premier, State Council, People’s Republic of China

- Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

- Pony Ma, Core Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Tencent

- Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Walmart Inc.

- Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

- Nitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean, Harvard Business School

- Richard C. Levin Senior Adviser and Former CEO, Coursera President Emeritus, Yale University

- Brian L. Roberts
Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation

- Ginni Rometty Chairman, President and CEO, IBM

- David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group

- David C. Schmittlein John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

- Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone

- Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman, Nokia Corporation Chairman and Founder, F-Secure Corporation

- Kevin Sneader Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company

- Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

- A. Michael Spence, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

- YI Gang, Governor, People’s Bank of China

[1]: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html
Open Source is not like a normal product. It's hobby software put together by volunteers for free. You get what you pay for. If you ever use open source software that I published for free, I am promising you right now, it is not secure, it has not been audited, you should not trust it.

That said, a lot of open source software actually follows pretty good security practice in general, and is eyeballed by some smart people, and so you generally get a little better quality than you'd get from a bunch of devs locked up in a cathedral that don't have to fear people pointing out their embarrassingly insecure bugs. But all that does not stop kernel.org from getting compromised, which has happened. So, don't count on auditing, but the code isn't terrible, but that also doesn't mean anything.

The best practice I've found to deal with that is to run old-yet-supported-and-patched software and hope it's old enough that if there's something wrong with it, hopefully somebody has caught it. You don't really get that benefit if there's one single source for all the source/build artifacts, but it can work for artifacts that have many mirrors and have good signing practices.

On your end, you need to check for and update known-vulnerable versions of software. You have to do that for any software, but especially OSS, where there is no sales or support associate that's going to e-mail you to tell you to update your applications. You can easily be running OSS software which is known to be vulnerable.
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Damn. I’m surprised I never heard of you guys at the time. I was 20ish around that time living in St Pete. Was seriously looking for an “internet job” at the time even though I had almost no advanced experience. Things sure have changed since, especially since I moved to SF a few years later.
Looks awesome. If CodeFund could be of any help ping me Justin at codefund.io
Every disease has some agent that causes inflammation. As already mentioned, not all inflammation is bad. Acute inflammation helps the body eliminate the agent and thus heal. When you're talking about inflammation that underlies all sickness, you're talking about chronic inflammation. This occurs when inflammation doesn't subside which leads to your body attacking itself.
This is such an interesting topic. I've actually just written an article about leading diseases that are caused by inflammation, if you're interested: https://www.iamliesa.com/inflammatory-diseases-inflammation
You can watch a lecture from anywhere with a cell phone. Those books could be easily distributed digitally. With enough effort, even copyleft.

College is in serious need of disruption. Most degrees add little value compared to their current cost. But the cost doesn't have to be so high.
I have to point out a little pedantic irony here and let the crowd obliviate me if warranted.

You're poking at the lack of science knowledge and then immediately misuse "your". I'm not a grammar nazi but I think this underlines that we're all good and bad at various things.
Ya, I feel like this must be coming from the younger crowd who is just used to seeing all the cloud marketing comparing cloud computer to building your own data center.

Anyone who has been in the industry since pre-cloud explosion knows that most people just rented bare metal and at the more complicated end they might purchase their own hardware and colocate.

And for those that own their servers, many lease them and HP or Dell or whoever maintains them on site if anything goes wrong.
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CapEx vs OpEx isn't about raw numbers, it's about who can make the spending decisions and how quickly they can be made. At most companies getting a couple additional servers is a lot easier when you're running on public cloud vs running on-prem.
This may be the most A-list group of people I've ever seen assembled for anything. It screams how important China is.
When we graduated from law school a friend of mine called our state bar association and asked about the ethical rules regarding an attorney calling themselves "doctor" since we have JDs. The answer for our state is that it's fine unless you practice in the area of medical malpractice, in which case it might cause confusion with clients and will be considered on a case-by-case basis if there is a complaint.
I love my x220 i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samgung EVO Pro... The thing flys..
Nah, it's more likely than not that they are from family of average means who are being offered a cushy package by the government to study abroad and keep them out of the country for a few years until they grow past the more rebellious age.
>I would feel weird about giving myself a rare and ultra-high-prestige name.

Er... 司馬 isn't that rare, and people would rather advise you to select a rare but prestigious family name, rather than a rare and unknown one.

It's like given names in English: if you pick a rare and unknown name (or even a common one with an unusual spelling), people are just going to go "huh?"
A few hacks that don’t fully solve it but do help to some extent: adblock plus, just read, incognito mode, searching the article title and clicking through from google ( or the “web” link here in Hn ).
No, it wouldn’t make sense for me to make the 95/5 distinction only to prescribe a 100/0 response. My post was a call for sober judgment, which is admittedly not very popular here.
To be fair, this kind of diversity is important because in the US it still matters (very much!) what you look like on the outside, regardless of how long your ancestors have lived here. It'd be great to be in a post-racial society but we're very far from that.
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HN is the best unbiased source of news we have....because of these flags and other moderations.
I think it is trade-dependent. Certainly a good welder will weather cycles better than a finish carpenter.
Most degrees add little value compared to their current cost.

What are your definitions for "most degrees", "value", and "cost"?
I moved to the US in 2000 with a Ph.D. in computer science to join a startup that was supposed to become the new Cisco. I had no kid at the time and had an H1B visa so i stayed on for the first paycut, the second paycut, the office downsizing and the third paycut. Had a rough few months when the investors finally pulled the plug and i had to find someone who would transfer my visa in 2005, but by then things were on the rebound.

A lot of the american guys who left around 2003 got in real estate and house remodeling, setting themselves up for another burst. The immigrants went to take on boring jobs maintaining legacy code or installing Oracle solutions for a few years before things warmed up.
So one thing people seem to be ignoring is that cloud != automated provisioning of VMs by engineers.

There’s so much more AWS, GCP and Azure offer these days that trading away all the stuff like metrics, monitoring, dynamo-dB, s3, lambda, scalable RDS, Spark pipelines and generally a whole suite of products that go into building a modern web app for some scripts that can provision on demand seems to be a poor choice.
There was an NPR podcast about the guy who runs the fund recently. He’s sort of an adrenaline addict, addicted to risk
I'll be honest here, cry me a river. Everyone who joins a pre IPO company should value their stock at 0.
> $200k for an undergrad degree is very far outside the norm. Don't get me wrong, the norm is still pretty shit. But it's about an order of magnitude less shit than that

That may be, but when the 6 year graduation rate is only 60% thats a lot of people paying "still pretty shit" in exchange for actually nothing.
He cashed out close to $1 billion while he had absolute discretion to do so.

He’s winning hard.

Don’t get married to a position, and that means concentrated shareholdings of a company you started too.

Its not a nightmare. There’s no embezzlement charge looming based on the things we know, no securities fraud based on the things we know. Softbank wants to turn it into a typical Japanese Zombie company with “totally fuckable sovereign wealth money” quoting the show Succession, and he’s out with no strings attached.

Thats the dream.

NEXT!
Why now? Are they using Tim Cook or is he a visionary?
While poverty has an absolute dollar point. Say someone making less than X would definitely be poor.

But what's interesting is that it also has a relative point. If a person lives and works where the majority earns and spends a million dollars a year then someone that makes and spends $300k will feel poor since they can't buy the same amount of goods and services. Yet, most people would laugh at calling someone like that poor.

An interesting example is how the children of John D. Rockefeller were raised. They were raised without the trappings of wealth. The clothing of the younger kids were hand me downs, they got a small allowance and they had to do chores around the house. Yet they lived and went to school in the richest area in America and their father was the richest man in the world at the time. I bet those kids felt disadvantaged since their peers had the trappings of wealth. Yet we would all laugh at the thought.

Another interesting example is Gavin Newsom, California's current governor. When you hear him speak about his childhood you get the idea that he was raised in a very poor area in California. He actually grew up in one of the most affluent areas in San Fransisco. I bet his family was poor relative to his peers so, therefore, he feels he grew up disadvantaged.
So true. It’s a mindset issue. Be a maverick. Don’t let big corporations brainwash you. Also, why GitHub is so amazing :-D
>I wish more gov workers were like this.

I think you missed the point of this story, then, that all the propaganda about all government workers being lazy, useless idiots is just that: propaganda.
What exactly is this? Comments so far are all dunking on it, but it's on nasa.gov, so .. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I had a job until oct 2001. Then laid off. Traffic got a lot better too.
Onions (Tor)

Darkmarkets which are Onions are a big thing which were just for LARPing in the past.

But the next big thing 10 years ago was Uber which was not a toy. It didn't sneak. It smashed regulatory bodies and corrupt monopolies as people cheered. People really don't understand it's also changed the fabric of society. It's far easier to see in developing countries.

What is the real insight we can use here?

It's probably more, some toys will become big, but it's hard to think of examples. Bitcoin has only gone from a toy, to a toy people can see will leave the toy stage.
Cloud providers can launch and advertise and advocate every little product they're able to refactor out of the prevailing development and systems engineering practices, but transit remains expensive, and basically consistently so. Not only that, but AWS transit is like 20x the price of boring old hosting providers, providers who don't also charge for egress.
It is (was?) a place of free exchange of ideas, without ego. You have no updoots to collect, nobody can be downdooted for not conforming to groupthink. Anyone who tries to establish an identity on the site is lambasted for not respecting the anonymous nature of the discussion.

There will always be a place for truly anonymous discourse. For a time, that was 4chan.
Ok we've taken out
the bit about design above.
$750 vs $50,000 for a modestly priced 4 year university.

If absolutely nothing else, that $50,000 almost always includes room, utilities (electricity, water, high-speed internet, cable,) furniture, at least 3 meals a day, medical care, and a gym.

So you'd need to add the cost of those to the $750 for it to be a fair comparison.
> To be fair, true developers were not really negatively affected at least not more so than other professions.

I did fine in 2009 when I was laid off, getting a job in a month, but hiring can be random and I knew some great people that struggled to find their next role. Some developed issues as a result that raised the bar yet higher. People are crazy and irrational so never take these things personally. Deliver good work and keep acting in good faith to find a place that will treat you well. Smart people don't want to live in contexts of misery.
Can you elaborate on the importance and how that factors into Apple’s strategy? Saying that China is important and Tim Cook is Very Smart doesn’t make for a very enlightening comment nor a suitable rebuttal. If you’re onto something, I’d like to know what! :)
That's what the headline did not elucidate well.

People should at least read about Tsinghua University first before automatically judging it for being Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University
Weirdly, it had very little impact on me. I got my first dev job in December of 1998 and was let go in early 2000. Then I did contract work for O'Reilly (yes, that O'Reilly). We ported a pretty horrendous forum web app (WebBoard) written in VB to Perl on Unix. In early 2001, just as we were finishing, they announced that they were shutting down their software division.

Around early 2001 I started at a new startup in Minneapolis. It lasted less than a year, but they let us know when they were running out of money a few months out, which I appreciated. No severance though (they were really _out_ of money, I believe).

I ended up doing contract work for them after I was let go (they stayed alive for another year or so with just 3 people, down from 12). I also had some other contract work I found through a friend I'd worked with at my first position.

Eventually I joined another startup in 2004, which also went nowhere but took several years to do it. I left before they sold for a pittance because it was deeply dysfunctional.

I never felt like the crash severely impacted me. I never had any major downtime and while I didn't do contract work 40 hours a week when I was doing it, that was as much my disinterest in work as it was the work being available.

I think I was lucky enough to have the right contacts and a good rep in the Perl community, which combined to let me find a reasonable amount of work to last out the crash time.

Also, I was living in Minneapolis the entire time, which was (and is) _way_ cheaper than the bay area or NYC or any other hot tech area. I think my wife and I paid something like $1,200 a month for half of a large 3 story house (the entire first floor with 3 rooms + 2 rooms upstairs) back in 2001. I think in SF that would've gotten us a closet, maybe two.
Looking through the list of the 350k couple, the main things that pop out:

1. $8000 a year for "entertainment"? Somehow they thought including Netflix in the list will make us ignore the outrage that the number is! Best guess is probably a couple music festivals and a couple destination weddings every year, without regard for whether they are totally worth it.

2. A three week vacation doesn't sound bad but surely it can be cheaper than that!

3. Noticed when I moved to New York, that an expected spend for a date night can go north of $200, even when couples barely make 6 figures each. Sounds like someone sold a lot of people lies similar to De Beers about what needs to be spent to truly buy romance. Guessing this couple has similar ideas!
I agree the opening copy needs to change. We're going to push a couple updates tomorrow after we go through all the feedback we've received. Thank you for checking it out.