skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a summer internship at HP while I was in college. (I graduated in 1992.) When I graduated, the assumption/expectation was that they would offer me a job. They hesitated, and a manager who was unusually nice to me explained that HP hires people who will stick around for many years -- and thus, they weighed every hire carefully.

He went further and said that several years before that, when there had been a recession, everyone at HP -- all the way up and down the ladder -- worked 9 days out of 10, and took a 10% salary cut, in order to ensure that there wouldn't be any layoffs.

People spoke about the company, and how it treated employees, with great pride, and the way that they treated workers during hard times was one major reason for that.

If nothing else, I learned from these stories that the boss/owner should be paid last, after all of the employees receive their salaries. I've done that whenever I've had employees, and I credit that lesson not just to general business ethics, but to a sense that business is about much more than just profit.

It's hard to imagine a modern company taking such steps to avoid layoffs, but the story continues to inspire me nearly 30 years later.
I do wonder if, as we keep progressing down the hiring to fill a company with a maximum number of equally-weighted populations by various identity characteristics, if it will some day become trendy and hip to choose your employees based on who would be most productive without regard for the effect on the identity dimension distribution.
You have to be brilliant to get into Qinghua. Same is true with MIT. However, having known Chinese students who got offers to both Qinghua and MIT, the choice for them was really a no brainer.
> I think the real way to equalize OSS software is to make it partially OSS ... maybe any company w/ < 10 mill profits it's FOSS, any company over that has to pay in man-hours (contributions) or $$ to use the product.

A friendly reminder that it is Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Beer. Doing what you suggest is a good approach for Free Beer, not Freedom.

Qt has the perfect business model for OSS. Respect the LGPL license for Qt and get it for free without any extra restrictions. Or go straight for a commercial license. Plus they sell add-ons and other software and support around Qt.

And considering all the places where Qt is used, I would say they are very successful at it.
The naive myth of architecture as “free goodies”
I think a public and a personal gain would suffice.

Even if it's only that their own stocks would gain with market access in China...
"2020 was the year that would decide between two pizza deliveries techniques. Amazon-Google drone-based delivery or the MIT's supersonic pizza railgun"
In a way, I miss the naive old web. Now you get popups, requests to have your location, prompts to sign in before you can get deals, etc. In many ways a simple web form asking for pizza is a better user experience.
Oh that's strange, pretty sure mine is a 2015 model. (Although I would need to check).

Once it works, it's actually really great, I mainly use it for my terminal and browser debug tools. It's nice to have some extra space.
Big names are important in China just like elsewhere. Does this board actually do anything or is it just a Guangxi play?
It allows for permissionless systems, decentralized organizations, built in incentive models, built in authorization systems, trustless smart contracts.....I'd say it's a pretty huge leap. The issue is that everyone always just talks about it being a currency and the news makes a joke about it similar to what was done with the internet early on.

The other thing is that governments are greatly hindering growth. Enterprises really want to get involved but are forced to take it slow and be careful of all their actions for fear of legal reprocussions. Of course governments aren't happy and don't want to support it because it puts government currency at risk, as noted by US representatives.
I didn't expect a reference to the Wheel of Time.
It's much more than just a volume problem. This article describes it: https://medium.com/@AMP/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ec...
many more Uighur Muslims have to die

Consider that Western companies make a huge fuss about “diversity” over here but not one single one of them has ever hired an Uighur in China.
This is very unfortunate, even through the writing was on the wall already for a while [1]

I used LoD often. It was just perfect for on-the-go javascript hacking. In fact at least 200+ commits to the Kea project [2] were written with Linux on Dex.

The only issue I had was that with larger projects [3] when running in the Mate desktop environment, I quickly ran out of inodes... and there was no way to increment them. I had to turn off many things in vscode (file watcher) and my projects (recompile on change) to have an usable system.

Time to look for alternatives. In the worst case I can just connect to a VNC server somewhere (LoD also used VNC), but that requires constant internet access and has issues of its own. LoD was just perfect for quick code writing in airplanes, etc.

[1] https://www.sammobile.com/interviews/dex-product-manager-new...

[2] https://kea.js.org/

[3] https://github.com/mariusandra/insights
SCO is synonymous with evil old school unix. A lot of mainframes ran it, and my first job was dealing with some old SCO/ATT bastardized system. Interestingly enough, I never bothered to know what SCO stood for until now.
Consult Chinese speaking people? Try something then ask advices. Iterate quickly a few times and you should be set.
My t440s screen just died :(
I definitely like the model that's used by the Python foundation and the like -- respecting Freedom, but making profit through consultancy. That was what kind of inspired me to make Immutable Coffee.
Change is absolutely not, "by definition", an improvement. It can be. And it can be entirely the opposite.
Weworks failure is softbanks day of reckoning
I guess I have a naive view. I think of "buy" as something which is a capital expenditure, can be depreciated, etc. while "rent" are things which fall under operational expenditure.

With that in mind, I can see support contracts as an operational expenditure.

But if "over half of industrial robot purchases in North America have been made by automakers" then that's a lot of capital expenditure. I never got the feel that the companies which make modern industrial robots primarily rented them out (akin to IBM's renting out of tabulation machines 100 years ago). I really thought they mostly sold the robots.
I don't think it's disingenuous when it's a personal blog, which comes with an inherent "for my particular use case".

The problem is when that context is stripped away by aggregation sites like this one where tons of articles we read are from publishers and the expectation might be that the author did some research, tried different things, and was trying to write from a more objective or all encompassing view point.

I have the same problem with articles where the title will read like it's going to be a regular news article but instead it's a 6000 word story on the authors journey to uncover the information and how it made them feel yadda yadda. Not really the publishers fault, I'm sure their reader base knows what to expect (I know I've learned to stop clicking links to The Atlantic), but ends up misleading the potential reader from elsewhere a bit.

When this happens I think the fault is with the aggregator not allowing or enforcing proper information labelling. Not the author being disingenuous.
Cloudflare most certainly disables zones on the free plan that use excess bandwidth. Enterprise contracts are also negotiated based on transit and those prices mirror comparable CDN services.
I don't like articles this blatantly manipulative; it is an unfortunate character flaw if anyone thinks the most important part of a military invasion are photos of 10s of mutated children.

This particular instance is horrible but also unimportant. The US killed literally thousands of civilians when they invaded in 2003. There is a long, long list of worse things that the US military has done; even ignoring anything prior to the Iraq invasion in 2003.
PKU also. I think the cool kids mostly prefer PKU over more utilitarian Qinghua. I never really like the latter’s campus, way more sprawling and nowhere as nice as PKU across the street, but I’m biased.
Refining is just electrolysis though and which could be done in the sunny parts of the world.

What you have here (potentially) is solar storage that can be shipped in ingots
As a user, why would I care how inconvenient it is for a trillion dollar company to support their software?
The bad cert is for https://pizzahut.ca/ but https://www.pizzahut.ca/ is fine.

The cert loaded on pizzahut.ca is for shortener.secureserver.net. The cert for www.pizzahut.ca is good for *.pizzahut.ca, but they're just not loading it for pizzahut.ca. :/
Yes, I’d agree that in general the clean and widely accepted thing to do would just be to transliterate the names using the usual set of naming characters. Chinese people really do not care about the semantics of foreign names, just as Westerners will usually ignore the connotations of foreign names (unless especially weird, e.g. “Long Wang”).

However, in the communities where these politicians are campaigning, there’s a really sizable number of Chinese voters, and I think the thinking is that a more native Chinese name will be more memorable for people. Foreign names are often less memorable than native ones, and if someone doesn’t define their Chinese name at all, multiple transliterations can arise which affects searchability. After all, as a politician, your name is a big part of your brand.

If you accept that premise, then spending time to choose an appropriate name is an important step - after all, semantics do matter to some extent for native names in any language. Perhaps not to the extent shown in this article, but (for example) you would not want to accidentally choose a name that misgenders you or (worse) offends your voters.
Not really, Samsung is well known for having their own customisations to AOSP.

Your link is just the latest example how Android is not really Linux.

Project Treble drivers, NDK constraints, white listed syscalls are all examples how userspace just gets to see a selective POSIX like OS.
I am a big proponent of liberal education. I believe liberal education is the foundation of western democracy. However, I am also of the mind that one cannot pay $70,000 per year for a diploma in Ancient Greek (as much as I admire the pursuit). I think we are rapidly moving towards the past where liberal education will be reserved for the elite. The upper middle will go for more specialized Vocational education in CS, engineering, and the like. Given that I got my degree in physics as part of a college of arts and sciences I believe deeply that I received a better, more well rounded education than my peers in engineering and CS. This in turn has allowed me to make better decisions where I weigh the ethical nature of what I’m deciding.
First of all it's not just flagship devices, here you go -
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

Also all Chromebooks produced 2019 and onwards will support Crostini. Flagship or not flagship.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/291185-all-chromebooks...

Chromebooks' update model, speed and security are way ahead of any Linux vendor. Security is the pride of this product. And the hardware quality is great too. What you buy is your prerogative but the ability to run both Android apps and also a Linux install makes Chromebooks a good value.
Using cloud services saves a business from having to have a whole vertical stack of expertise in house. And for banks, these infrastructure engineers have to be available 24*7.

For many companies, hiring and talent retention is a problem. There are some risks that are not as superficial as dollar signs on the balance sheet.
I based the Canada on oral communication and the Mexico on textual communication. I've never studied Cantonese.

It feels safe to say the second syllable beginning with N in Mandarin was just good luck though. I might have swapped out the N for L anyway if I had known the Jyutping.

An example of a distinction that would have come through fine English -> Mandarin being lost by apparent transmission through Cantonese exists in Los Angeles, 洛杉矶. The Mandarin is luo-shan-ji, which annoys me every time I need to understand or produce the name. Mandarin has no problem distinguishing s from sh.
Amusingly, the date on this article and the fact it still loads today.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-...
> Regardless of OS, the author _really_ needs to bail on the 5400rpm HDD and get a solid state disk in there... especially if you're gonna call it a workhorse!

Apple themselves needs to bail on the 5400rpm HDD
I didn't say indie games were better, nor did I imply that most indie games are better than most AAA games.

But I strongly disagree that the most creative or the best game will ever be mainstream. When is the last time a AAA game came out like Baba Is You? Celeste? Hollow Knight? Those are games I play and replay because they're so enjoyable and memorable. Nintendo makes great games but I don't feel any of them are quite the same experience as the best indie games I've played.
There are many ways.

So first there are luxury jeans. Not going to expand on these since the name explains it all. For 1000$ you do get a very premium product.

Then there are e.g. all the japanese brands : Momotaro, pure blue japan, samurai, studio d'artisan, evisu, etc.

Pretty much all the japanese jeans are made out of denim that has been fabricated on very old machines.

Why ? They have a lower yield (which partially explains their price) and also they do create very interesting denim variations that the more efficient machines used by fast fashion are not (yet) able to reproduce.
They are also very well made with lots of more or less useful details. E.G. customized rivets with the brand logo are very nice but not something only the wearer will see.

With use, these jeans fade and are truly beautiful. It is fitting that many japanese brand do this, it is very wabi sabi. To be clear, while the construction and fit are very good, it does not make a 200$ jean magically last twice as long as a 100$ one. However, they come in a variety of fabric density, most of which are way heavier than what typical fast fashion offers. The jean will still break over time at its main pressure points, typically in the crotch and at that point it is expected that they will be mended.

There are also pants made of technical materials, like e.g. what outlier is doing. These are truly awesome to wear when it rains : they are breathable but repel water.

All of these are roughly in the $200-400 range but often closer to 200.

Then, you can also go to levi and they will make you a pair of denim tailored for you. It will roughly cost $500.
And ten years later they were innovating online again with "slash-pizza": https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/commentary/game_over/column...
I am typing this from a late-2013 MBPr. It has been rock solid until Catalina. Now it occasionally reboots while its closed and there's something going on in the system settings that tells me I need to re-log in to some services, then errors out when I click on the button to proceed and do that.

Not up to quite the usual quality, definitely.
Speaking from experience, sshuttle is way easier and more robust than using OpenSSH's built-in SOCKS proxy.
Easy solution, redirect to the proper fqdn (with www.) or request a multi domain certificate including both.
Naming things is hard but these names are awesome
WeWork is not a Silicon Valley company.
I guess this confusion is why a lot of professions use "chartered" to signify this.
Yeah, looks like regional redirect. For me redirects to .lv which returns SERVER NOT FOUND error. Probably should have been PIZZA NOT FOUND error or PIZZA UNDELIVERABLE.
Many likely Samsung saw no business value on doing it further, no different than other failed attempts.

They are well know in the Android developer community for their AOSP customisations (down to the API level and having a Samsung Android SDK).

https://developer.samsung.com/samsung-dex
Would be nice in an app so you dont need the network.
Let’s be honest.

Wework is good business if they can become cash positive. They have a brand, more and more people are going remote, there is a bug market for pricey and google-like coworking spaces.

It doesn’t matter if they had a bad CEO, or if they can’t IPO anymore, there’s no reason this wouldn’t become massively profitable in the next 10 years.
Having worked at many large companies, I can honestly say that Google was the best behaved company of all of them, by far.

I think the difference is that Google has a relatively large contingent of "activist" type employees, and they're given a lot of latitude to speak their mind. When something bad happens, everybody hears about it because the employees are the ones shouting it loudest from the rooftops.

Their track record isn't perfect, and Dragonfly particularly strikes a chord with me. But other companies do worse, and you're just much less likely to hear about it.
In CA, my understanding is that you have to have "entered the intersection" before the light turns red.

The problem is, I've never known if that means entered the crosswalk or passed through the crosswalk and entered the rest of the intersection.
When did that happen? Assuming we are not talking about Azure China.
YeahNo Bot
Wow, very prescient amazing article!

Quote near beginning to put things in context of where we were back in 1994 :

“ To participate in the pilot, hungry Santa Cruzers need computers with Internet access and a version of an Internet interface program called Mosaic.”

But other interesting predictions:

“Instead of simply letting people order a pizza, why not let them design it as well? Instead of showing an ordinary menu with a list of toppings, show a picture of a pizza with the toppings clustered on the side.”

And then :
“Why not customized T-shirts? Log on to the Internet and browse through assorted logos and designs. Mix, match and modify them to suit your interest. Then superimpose them onto the virtual T-shirt on the screen. Hit the right key and within 48 hours your new shirt is Fed-Exed to the desired address.

Of course, this network designability concept easily extends to bouquets of flowers, boxes of chocolates, fruit baskets and the $6.85-billion annual market in mail-order clothes shopping. It would be perfect for all kinds of gift giving.”
The sunk cost fallacy has a name because people keep doing it, even knowing what it is
There are many places for this.

It depends how thoughtful you want to be about your style though ?

If you do consider that your style is your public API and a mean of personal expression, it needs a good amount of trial and error. The first english speaking place that comes to mind for this is the subreddit malefashionadvice .

There are also companies (that actually target engineers because it is a very engineery thing to do) that will sell you a "uniform" made of 3 times the same chino, 3 times the same hoodie (maybe some color variation), some simple tshirts and undergarment and done.
Many people did not realize that IT infrastructure is a utility, it should not be owned all the time by most of the companies but purchased when needed. AWS couldn’t exist if it wasn’t better than on-prem IT. How better is defined is different case by case. Usually it includes TCO, ROI, turn around time, efficiency in terms of capacity management and fee more. These are the things many small companies do not have to deal with or easily solved. Yet there are many companies choosing AWS to solve these problems for them. In my experience AWS really start to make sense if you are spending more than 100.000 / month on infrastructure.
we don't abbreviate ice cream. That's illegal.
Comparing Beauty in Math and Art
> Is the list supposed to degenerate to noise?

Happens both on Safari on my iPad as well as on my Android phone with Firefox mobile.
Quantum Version of Silicon Valley's SeeFood App
Security tests pre-launch are pointless. Developers are taking over AppSec
The Web was a huge driver of Unix adoption. Before the Web came along, Unix was on the ropes. The conventional wisdom was that Windows NT would eventually finish it off, owning the server space the way regular Windows owned the desktop. But all the early tools for standing up a Web site were Unix-centric, simply because the Web's roots were in science and academia rather than traditional corporate computing. So when the Web started getting big, Unix started getting big too, and never really stopped.

Presumably someone at SCO thought an online pizza ordering service would be a good way to demonstrate the value a Web site could have for businesses. And that demand for Web sites would in turn mean demand for SCO's Unix products.
Can't reproduce. Probably an A/B test
This is just one person's slide deck. It hasn't undergone peer review and doesn't address conservation of momentum.
I call it the method of creating self-feedback. Everyone starts off by using hunches, "taste", and the opinion of the crowd or authorities.

But to get beyond that - and getting beyond playtesting, data-collection and other brute force feedback mechanisms entails doing so - one has to systematically devise original feedback signals - pass-fail checklists, writers' rubrics, dependency graphs, workout logs and so on. Once you have the framework in hand and have validated its philosophical premise to some degree, you can feed your work and ideas through it and it automatically corrects you and guides the ideas away from major fallacies.

Of course, some amount of experimental data helps, but the huge amounts we have grown accustomed to have a habit of producing a lot of busywork - a product tuned and tweaked and prodded to improve this or that short-term KPI or audience appeal metric - without striking at the critical issues that one can probe with a bit of followthrough on self-feedback.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113070

I sincerely doubt, if this study is an accurate indication of the harm from Depleted Uranium, it is even close to the defects caused by lack of medical care and supply line issues caused by war.

Babies with mutations for any reason in any hospital look as horrific as those photos. And most are preventable today in many parts of the world for far more mundane problems, like not having access to a doctor or proper nutrition.
Another option is Outline VPN, Jigsaw/Google's open source implementation of Shadowsocks:

https://getoutline.org

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server

Shadowsocks is more resistant to censorship from adverse actors (such as the Great Firewall) than OpenVPN.

Outline's user experience is the best I've seen among self-hosted VPN solutions, as it includes apps for both the server and the client. The server app is suitable for use in organizations, and can manage VPN profiles for multiple individuals.
There's only one state in Australia that has mandatory registration of engineers. There are several more states that are currently starting up mandatory registration schemes, and of course the national professional bodies operate voluntary registration and accreditation schemes.

Now of course that doesn't mean that you can just start building bridges as a non-accredited engineer, I expect the courts would look unkindly on you in a negligence lawsuit if your company had engineers that couldn't demonstrate their professional qualifications and development.

This is seen as a problem and the professional bodies are pushing more states to adopt mandatory registration, so we'll see more of that in the next few years, but it's not like Australia is a land where bridges fall down weekly without mandatory registration.