skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially those highly critical apps absolutely depend on the the ability to recover via reboot at any moment. There could be random hardware glitches, or software crashes -- and the fix is to discard the RAM, very carefully verify the stored persistent data, and re-create the state from it.

Famously, during the moon landing, the computer had an error and crashed, multiple times [1]. The landing was still a success because while the navigation state was explicitly saved, everything other state was reset. Good thing the designers did not use persistent memory!

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control...
Is Apple release cadence a 6-month length now? My company just suggests an upgrade to High Sierra a month ago. They don't even go for Mojave yet let alone Catalina. No wonder everyone is complaining about the quality.
I'm far from an advanced user, but I use rebase fairly regularly for long running feature branches. As the parent branch continues along, I periodically rebase complicated feature branches so that I'm doing a number of small easy to handle conflict resolutions, rather than one almighty one at the end. I've never had any trouble, and I'd never considered it to be anything out of the ordinary or anything other than basic!
Most of that clothing is for consumption for the western world, of which the USA would probably be first and European Union second.

The third world often gets sold the remnants and retainers from the first world.
I don’t know for sure, and I bet some of it is gamed (all the popular AMA type and celebrity worship or marketing crap sure is), but I think I’ve been able to glean some real comments in the niche sections, based on the history of people giving recommendations or multiple threads over the years with similar conclusions.
Canadian Election: CBC News Projects a Trudeau Minority Government
Did you read what I said?

Comparing IQ as a measurement to measuring height would require we create a non linear unit of measurement so that humans fit into a normal distribution of "Height Quotient" where most humans are 100 units tall. Then every few years we adjust these units so that most humans are always 100 units tall

100 IQ fifty years ago wasn't the same as 100 IQ today
Where it would be most definitely not a toy after a few iterations.
Fashion is such an inscrutable practice to me. My closet is full of clothes but aside from my formalwear every shirt matches every pair of pants. When I get up I pick a set at random and go about my day. I don't own anything I don't like and I don't keep anything I can't wear so what's the point of choosing what to wear when it doesn't matter to anyone else? Throwing away a shirt to make room for another shirt is like throwing away a hamburger so you can buy another hamburger.
Could you elaborate on the similarities?
The motivation is always the ability to sell ads against the results.
There's a middle ground in there that's completely safe but also very unpleasant. I might exaggerate it as a "screeching halt". It should not be required by the letter of the law.
For BoA we need to consider that is a Bank and many of the information they store may be too sensitive to pass it to a third party which as we know always have security issues. Better to deal with those internally. Many factors to consider in this case: real estate, expertise in-house to build data centers, budgeting, technology required. In our case without Cloud would have been very difficult to bootstrap our business and manage it, as most of the budget was to hire engineers to work in our product and pay bill.
I don’t know how stock options work. If you’re laid off do you no longer have access to them?
In well maintained networks the management interface (IDRAC, etc.) for each server is placed on a separate VLAN which the servers cannot access. This isn't to say that cheap providers actually do this, or that the VLAN can't be accessed by a compromised technician's workstation/laptop.
My experience working at an aging e-commerce company that has their own cloud: totally shitty.

They used off the shelf management software that they misconfigured. Getting VMs was so painful and they never worked correctly.

When I came back from paternity leave, they had gotten no response from their automated system and deleted all my VMs even though they could have seen heavy usage. If they had manually followed up they would have gotten an out of office email but they didn't.

Those are just two of the examples of how terrible it was to use their internal cloud.

You are always going to be five years behind if you do it internally. That might be a good cost calculation and I wasn't in a position to argue.

But, it meant innovation was terrible there.
This kind of stuff is really the best that Softbank could find to invest in? I am not sure I would want to be one of the people who pulled the trigger or advised for these deals, when the backers start asking where their money went.
Wait, are you saying Google is the new 'Ask Jeeves'?!? :)

Kidding. Anyway, DDG has been my default for months now. Absolutely love it.

The only thing I've really had to change, is to remember to type in a city/ state when looking for local businesses.

Other than that, it feels so great to not be the product!
There's a glaring issue with Ben Thompson's essay, in that so far as I'm aware there is no independent US tradition of "estates" independent of either Continental or British European formulation. Rather, there are the three Constitutional branches of government, the legislative, executive, and judicial. One can find informal references to fourth (and occasionally higher) branches of government. But not "estates" as such, within the US.

Otherwise, you will find frequent usage of "fourth estate" in the traditional European sense, almost always referencing the press.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22united+states%22+%22fourth+esta...

I'm trying to decide if this is a major or minor flaw with Thompson's essay. Either way, the claim without reference suggests a sloppyness or lack of diligence, which calls into question his larger points.

And there are certainly questions to be asked. The claim that the so-called Fifth Estate is free of gatekeepers is specious, as Jon Evans pointed out at TechCrunch (posted yesterday to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306086): Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage.

Whether the gatekeeping is one of blocking specific types of content, or amplifying others to the point that unwanted messages are completely drowned out really doesn't much matter. Attention, individual or collective, is finite, and whatever means are used to deny it, the end effect is the same: a message is lost.
I worked at a company called Hydrogen Media in St Pete, Florida. We had a bell that would ring only when we got a million dollar deal. It rang multiple times a day.

Our office was insane. Exposed rafters with the trusses and everything painted black. Our walls were deep blue but had blue neon running the length of the room on all sides. No overhead lighting.

Our developer floor was elevated with sub-floor network cabling. We had a dev floor about 100 yards by 50 yards, the size of a football field, roughly. A little shy of that. Private offices had glass walls facing the dev floor. Our sound studio (these were the flash days) was a hollowed-out VW bus in a soundproofed room.

We had a fire pole from the bosses office down to the dev room, conference tables with in-layed TVs. It was pretty wild.

In my time there, I built ~400 replicated sites for Colliers realty, DuPont Registry's website, a bunch of websites for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Tampa Bay Lightning's website among others. We were printing money.

The crash hit hard, and Hydrogen Media dwindled. Massive layoffs, and eventually it renamed to Bayshore Solutions and relocated to Tampa where they still do business to this day.
it SUCKED. pretty much beans and eggs at my house for quite some time...
The claims about ProtonVPN have been disproven.
> SoftBank doesn't appear to be in the business of theft, but rather in the huge-risk/huge-payoff gambling/investment business.

It would appear that way. I look at through the lens of Facebook buying an Israeli VPN provider that it then used to buyout up and coming businesses[0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
I was working at a startup that had SF and Mountain View offices at the time of 9/11. SF offices for tech companies were somewhat unusual then, though a lot were under construction. Most companies still had their main HQ somewhere on the peninsula. Although the tech decline had started before 9/11, it really seemed to pick up speed after that. I remember one of the company execs talking about the next round of funding and basically saying investors were "holed up in their bunkers" - that is, not funding anything. I did know (talented!) programmers that lost their jobs - one even collected unemployment for a time. In early 2002, the company I was at closed the SF office, and then I was also unemployed.

After a few months, I found a replacement job at a non-startup in South San Francisco. The pay was OK but work was a bit dull. After a couple of years I moved out and haven't been been back except to visit. Spent a total of 6 years living in SF and working around the area, from 1998 to 2004. While there, I saved very little money and also never made anything from stock options. When I left I had about about 30K in my 401K account and 20K in savings. Hopefully startup compensation is better today. I know the rents are still insane.

I'd say from a programmer perspective the 2000 bubble bursting was bad but not catastrophic. If we are now in a new bubble, I hope it won't be too bad if it bursts. But the industry employs way more people now and is much more fundamental to the overall economy. So there is cause for concern...if suddenly 10s of thousands of programmers are out looking for work, that ain't gonna be pretty.
> You're saying it wasn't dissolved for bad actions?

correct, neither the federal government nor the state(s) they incorporated pursued dissolution or revoking the incorporation charter. they became defunct from their finances and reputational problems alone and chose to spin out some aspects of the business to attract more clients, which they didn't necessarily have to do. the judgment nuances have nothing to do with the accuracy of this. all we are talking about is the incorporation statutes itself, and this is not an example of that being leveraged to discontinue an entity.
Normal people finally got on the internet and the average person can’t create shit. All they can do is bitch and moan, be horrible to others, and be surveilled and controlled. And that’s what we got.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I thought drones in warzones have already been used to target people and explode at head level.

Maybe not crates of miniaturized ones with facial recognition, but precursors.
>Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously.

Agreed, and as I've pointed out elsewhere[0] (see also the parent comment[1]), his ideas are also not that new. I think it's quite sad that people somehow think that, because it shows how history -- even the development of ideas in the 20th century -- can be so easily forgotten.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319970

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319584
> what to expect if such a thing were to happen again

Expect to be unemployed. If don't think there will be a stretch of time in your future where you won't be unemployed for a while, think again. Have a backup plan. Have savings. Move in with the parents and bus tables, try a different field you have a little experience in, keep in touch with people. It's a lot less scary if you're prepared than if you wait and see.
I don't understand how you'd even go about making a $300 pair of jeans. Are they a special material that's impervious to rain but breathes like cotton? Are they extra tough so you'll never wear holes in them? Some kind of fancy dye that never fades in the wash? Are you buying clothes from Sharper Image?
I was at a dotcom that busted (after going public). Developers were laid off left and right. But the internet economy hadnt taken hold yet and the tech companies were mainly still old school shrink wrapped software.

i started my own company at that time and there were a ton of developers desperate for work.

Because of the huge internet companies that are voraciously hiring and that have huge warchests, I think it will be different next time around.

I can see IT at non tech companies getting laid off and having trouble finding work.
For Neumann this whole thing must be such a nightmare. On one hand you did it. You built a huge company and become super rich at the end. But on the other hand the IPO blew up, the company is losing billions, employee options are fucked, "everyone" thinks you're an idiot, etc. If it was me this would ruin it all, especially since he has been living the rich guy lifestyle for many years now. I hope he didn't do anything more shady than we know though because the next saga to this story could easily be securities fraud, indictments, investor lawsuits, etc, etc. This amount of capital doesn't usually blow up quietly.
People refer to this as the greater fool theory. Softbank never believed that valuation. What they believed was that there was someone dumber than them that they could trick into buying it from them leaving themselves with cash and the other person with the overvalued asset.

In this case it turned out they were the first and final fool and they were left holding their own bag.

And thus they essentially sacammed themselves(or really their investors) out of billions.

You'll also hear this referred to as a pump and dump. Pump up the value of some asset and then dump it on someone else.
Suggesting that the speed limit is "driving too fast :)" in good weather is ridiculous. If there is a problem, it is completely on the yellow light.
The problem here is that startup employees have a combination of high risk with low expected reward compared to big company employees. It doesn't make sense to be a startup non-founder employee nowdays.
Essentia+Mattress+Savings
This is typically true of all contract law. "In perpetuity" is not a thing and if it is, it usually nullifies the contract.
For sure. But of the capital they managed, how much belonged to someone else? Did that someone else trust Softbank (for example) to do their due diligence before making a significant investment in WeWork?
Lots of MOPs - Millionaires On Paper.
Indie movies are a small niche. The creation you talk about is in the same ballpark: it exists, but mostly negligible.
What are AWS to do if their demand suddenly falls and they have enormous amounts of idle hardware?
I went to law school, which was a huge mistake. It was fun, but working as a lawyer sucks - depressing situations plus no matter how good a job you do, some random judge can ruin your client's life. Went back into tech and I do a tiny bit of law on the side. Still paying for it. Oh and now I make about half what I was making before the crash and pay much more in taxes.
During my first attempt at grad school, my fellow students (all mainland Chinese) informed me my name was "ugly" in Chinese. So, I chose 田十牛 "Tián Shí Niú", after the fact I'm a bit from the country, and my favorite character's name (Number 10 Ox). They thought this was hilariously rustic.
Release of the Year: What’s New in Ubuntu “Eoan Ermine” 19.10?
Sounds like a James Bond plot to me.
As someone fluent in Russian (and reading Russian news sources regularly), I'd have to say that the level of propaganda in their news is significantly lower than in US (in fact, even their government news orgs tend to report US news more accurately and with less spin than major US networks). The propaganda is mostly in the positive spin on Russian events, the international news are reasonably level-headed. The popular belief that all media in Russia is government mouthpieces is simply not true - it doesn't take much to find media outlets intensively critical of Putin.

They cater to niche audiences, though... Putin remains wildly popular in Russia, and for a bunch of good reasons, such as overseeing tremendous economic growth (Russia's per capita PPP GDP grew 3-fold during his reign). Suppressing domestic terrorism and semi-criminal oligarchs (who rode to their riches on the wave of Yeltsin-era state asset privatizations) are also among the reasons for his popularity. Annexation of Crimea, surprisingly, too - that land has a special place in Russian history, marking a major military success in the war with Ottoman Empire (allied with British and French).

The murders of journalists is not a clear-cut issue (as it is portrayed in the West), as most victims got themselves entangled in mob politics or really shady business dealings (which, given that a significant part of "business elite" over there has criminal past, would surprise no one). There's no strong case for linking these to the actions of the central government. There is a lot of speculation, though. Basically, Putin is KGB (FSB now) man, but even during Soviet times assassination of political opponents wasn't their modus operandi (they either got people through legal proceedings or pushed them into exile - you can't find anyone more effectively critical of Soviet regime than Solzhenitsyn, and he was simply allowed to leave).

AFAIK there are no current bona-fide journalists being detained in Russia for being critical of the regime. Assange, on the other hand...
sorry, but too many annoying advertisement tricks

(check typos: e.g. "Mozzila" )
Benchmark is a major investor, actually. But it sounds like they might be getting the short end of the stick on this deal, like almost everybody else.

This case could be quite different from Uber per the thesis of this article by Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2019/neither-and-new-lessons-from-ub...

While Benchmark was looking to preserve its assets from being squandered on possibly the startup-catch of a lifetime, Softbank on the other hand relishes being the Big Stack Bully, leaning hard on their portfolio companies to aim for home runs everytime, and their excessive leverage allows them concessions from companies most VCs can only dream of.
I worked at a place starting 1998 that blew through 48 million dollars in the span of two years. I was employee no. 7, and we grew in those two years to 250+, offices in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and New York City. I remember the crash where my project manager was not looking too hot one day and he told me he had lost $100K in stock valuation the day before. We all had thought we were going to be rich. In 2001 I quit because I was so stressed out. I mean, I would walk to work through sunny SF thinking, "Please, let a car hit me today". Not that I was doing anything stupid toward that end, and not that I wanted to die; just wanted to be laid up in the hospital for a while.

I quit in May, the company died a painful death about a couple months after that. I heard it was pandemonium there. They simply could not raise any more money. Plain and simple. But of course, I had no severance and no unemployment.

But whatever. It was what it was. I basically got stoned and played video games for the next 5 months. I really needed that. Fortunately I had some money saved away because at that time I wasn't doing anything with stock trading. So there was that.

From October to February I looked for a job, and got hired at a pretty good place, but wow the sentiment was completely different.
Avast Antivirus confirms it was hacked
They are so far in the whole on this company it wouldn't be wise to let it die. I doubt they want someone else in charge of what they funded.

After they clean the company up it will be a good business. It's just not a tech company and never was a tech company but there is still good money in leasing office space for $1, making it look nice and then subleasing it for $4 or $5, they just need to knock off the bull shit.
There are lots of inexpensive hearing aids available on amazon right now.

They say they are personalized, but that seems to only be for physical fit.

I suspect, but do not know for certain, that they also need to be tuned to the individual sonically. This would be make things understandable instead of shrill, and prevent additional hearing loss from overamplification.

Maybe the same as getting eyeglasses that don't match your prescription.
I believe we're already past that point. Search for the term "reputation management". Some companies ARE willing to pay money to rebut a negative viewpoint with a human voice, and Reddit is by no means immune to this.

I don't think the question should be "if" it is happening, but how far some companies go (behind-the-scenes) to use human voices not only defend but advance their position.
"ass" -> ads, right?
? I live in Canada. Professionals of all stripes are expensive everywhere, but the US is exorbitant for other reasons.
This is very interesting, but I have a lot of questions about how "keeping documents as in-memory object" works in practice -- because files gives us lots of features we depend on, without even realizing it.

- Upgrade software: right now, my "txt" files are independent from "/usr/bin/emacs". I can upgrade emacs to the later version, and use it to re-open the same documents. This does not seem possible if by file is "text window + object pointer + editor code".

- Move/copy files between machines -- I can copy most of the files, but not objects. I can also save older versions, send them by email or messengers, and so on.

- Recover from bad software -- the other day, my computer decided it wants to have a full-screen uncloseable window. A reboot fixed this right up. Good thing it was not persistent.

- Recover from crashes. What do you do if you write a presentation, and a programming error causes program to stop responding if you ever draw a green circle of certain size? In regular OS, you restart your software, load the latest savefile, and avoid green circles in the future. In PhantomOS, looks like you will be screwed.

The only thing that Phantom seems to offer is snapshots, but they are pretty extreme (the whole system is reverted), and even then, it only helps with some classes of bugs, the ones which are obvious enough that you notice them right away.
Shortly after i signed up for this beta with the Note 9 I got a survey email from Samsung asking me questions about monetizing this feature.

Given the lackluster development of it (like one or two releases, that was it) I suspect they discovered there wasn't enough money in it to justify the further development.

Pretty disappointing.
And in case anyone was wondering, the "New Gold Mountain" is another name for Melbourne[0].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1
We Work leases the vast majority of their space so SoftBank isn't buying up a bunch of real estate.
Naked shorts are still legal if you're a market maker, for example. They're not entirely bad, it's sort of like credit - it's only bad when you fail to deliver. If you do deliver then it's great as it lubricates the system. See "Regulation SHO":

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm

Not sure if this was the case at your company, i.e. if they had the permission to do so. If not then I don't know why they didn't prosecute that trader. Most organizations cannot do naked shorts and have to pre-borrow securities.
The last time I saw the areas covered by a PE exam for Software Engineering was maybe 25 years ago, in California. Over half the exam was electrical engineering. Less than a third was actually about anything related to software.

Near as I could tell, it was a rent-seeking and exclusionary agenda of some entrenched parties. The proposed exam requirement for software engineers didn't go anywhere.