skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Apple, they seem to have a very close and special relationship with Foxconn in order to ensure the quality of production. So while it is a similar arrangement, it seems very different to me.
This is from May 2018 and while it's interesting the product the essay is written to support...is no longer a thing. Well at least Zac learned a lot by time, I hope it wasn't a waste of...
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Do you have a link to the device that you're talking about?
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Final Trailer
You mean Satyam?
Sorry, yes, Its fibre channel.

There was a full rack switch, which must have been easily 400 + ports.
Data Structures Part 2: Indices
Another way of framing that: BOFHs went from being necessary to the business to preventing the business from acheiving its goals, and got replaced by competition that was more amenable at a higher price.

They weren't seen as so unprofitable they had to be eliminated, but unprofitable enough that competition could triangulate their price vs pain.
And in either case, when they are relevant enough, they are not forgotten.
It amazes me how long and how slowly the value of our money can be eroded without casing a hard crash. This has been going on for over 100 years in the US. Money used to pay things used to be gold, then fully gold backed, then partially gold backed, then no gold but security backed, then securities are diluted more and more. The next logical steps would be that the central banks buy up the bankrupt economy and introduce social credit as currency which is backed by surveillance.
Theranos did with fake IP

Yes, I agree that Tata and similar companies are on the level of Theranos.
learning kubernetes here too. helm seemed to be the answer but...

i spent hours trying to make helm work on my mac and in the end gave up. the original error was with comparing floats in the latest version. that error seems to pop up every now and then in their issues list. now, there is no way to install an earlier version. not with brew anyways. installing from binaries or sources is nightmarish. and when you do, it might not like your minikube setup. and yaddi yaddi yadda...

it feels odd and strange to me that the trend nowadays is to accept these complicated systems and be amazed by how complicated they are...
Interpreted Programming Languages (2016)
Question, how does it compare to Unix? It seems to be a mainframe OS.
Depends, if you want to create an independent company of governement influence.

He's 10 steps behind, his internal mail in Apple showed that.
That's a cynical, conspiratorial, and woefully uninformed take on this.

On the most basic level, what you're suggesting doesn't make sense: "getting ready for a bailout" doesn't imply any real action any government would take.

If anything, being warned about financial instability will lead to an increase in requirements for banks: capital requirements might increase, M&A might become harder, etc.

But those are the sort of changes banks would tend to hate, because they necessarily reduce their opportunities to make money.

So I believe you're reacting to seeing "McKinsey", and it triggers you into running your conspiracy-themed sentence-generation Markov chain. In the process, it reveals that "government" and "finance" figure large as sinister agents in your belief system.
> making profit through consultancy

This incentivizes making software that requires consultancy (or at best, disincentivizes fixing issues with the software that would lessen the income from consultancy).

Your profit should come from the software being the best it can be (not to be confused with having the most bloated feature checklist) by itself, not by anything surrounding it.
This is great, never even heard of them before! Would you happen to have other suggestions to Google service alternatives?
> Muller and co-author Karen Clay looked at the substances hanging over U.S. cities and found evidence for three potential sources of the pollution rebound: increased economic activity, virulent wildfires and a smaller number of EPA enforcement actions. It is important to note that the pair have not made any causal links between the three suspects and the increase of air pollution.

>The U.S. economy has picked up steam overall since 2017. More economic activity means more vehicles on the roads, driving more miles and emitting more pollutants. It also means more factories producing emissions along with consumer goods.

>Soot is another contributor to the pollution jump. The economists traced a rise in airborne carbon particles in part to wildfire activity in the West since 2016. (Wildfire activity didn’t play a role in the pollution decline through 2016, they said.)

>Finally, they also looked at pollution and enforcement trends. If polluters for some reason fail to follow Clean Air Act rules, PM2.5 can pick up. Clay and Muller found that EPA enforcement activity has trended down since at least 2009.
Foxconn has a very direct impact on Apple's product, so any issues with quality would come back to them pretty quickly. Foxconn also has an ongoing partnership which I would expect to be worth a lot of money to them.

On the other hand, everything I've seen so far outsourced in IT in a standard way could come back in any condition. Worst case, it's unusable, but contractors get paid anyway and move to the next client.
> If you’ve run a “apt-get install mysql” in the past decade, high chances it setup MariaDB instead, getting aliased and substituted transparently.

Is that true on Ubuntu/Debian? I couldn't find a source for this.
I have wanted this for years! Thank you!
Fourthly, we're now in the longest economic expansion on record and overdue for a recession, which a number of economic indicators seem to imply is coming in the near future. A looming cyclical collapse in demand for office space is not something any of the valuation models being applied to WeWork seem to be taking into account.
Strange to see that the authors of the LLVM project, Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve are not present given that LLVM has been used by many large companies (Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, ARM, AMD, etc) and projects like Rust, Julia and Swift.

GNU, GCC, are also free, libre and open-source software (FLOSS) which its very surprising to see the creator and founder Richard Stallman to be missing in this website.

Without him, Linus might have chosen to have kept Linux closed-source.
He's on the other website, Mugshots of open source
Telomeres and Aging – Review Article (2008)
I assume you're asking how one gets karma on this site.

In short, submit things that people find interesting, and make comments that people find insightful or useful. If someone thinks your post or your comment is valuable, interesting, insightful, or otherwise a "Good Thing(tm)" then they will upvote it, and you will (mostly) get a karma point.

Not all upvotes are counted for reasons that are not made public, but are related to 'bots, voting rings, and other "bad actors".

For reference, I've upvoted your question, and I noticed a couple of other people have done so as well. So now you have an extra karma point. My advice, however, is not to worry about it, to submit links you think are interesting and relevant, and if you can contribute positively to a discussion, do so.

Good and relevant content is everything.
Pretty much.

Its not so much the availability of physical servers (although that might be an issue) it was the features, and the time it took to port new bits and bobs.

A classic example is databases. We had a puppet script that provided a HA-mysql cluster. However, it was very fragile, never really worked and I'm mostly sure the backups never actually took place.

It would take me (a devop who was tasked with doing this sort of thing) the best part of 3 days to setup and verify. The whole thing collapsed when the DBA that made it left.

RDS is a one click operation. yes its more expensive to run long term, but the saving on staff time was enormous. I will never go back to inhouse rolled puppet, unless it was proven to be outstanding.
When I was a contractor in fintech, I did a lot of work for one guy on and off over 10 years. He was always very prompt in paying, and I only found out after some time that some of his clients (big banks) were very slow to pay him. At one point he paid everyone contracting for him out of his own pocket for nearly a year. None of us were exactly poor, but it contrasted with other clients who were happy to pass payment delays straight on to me!
8 sentences, so $2.00 total

China participates in ethnic genocide, organ farming, cyber warfare, and you want us to believe that "the media" is biased? Go back to r/sino
I'm not sure where you're getting that from — it isn't mentioned on the about page[1].

I suspect you've made that assumption because they happen to be diverse, and the stereotype is that computing itself tends not to be. However, I think that is exaggerated, and projects such as this one aim to redress the balance.

But I don't think that's the primary aim at all — the primary aim is to exhibit photographs of people involved in open source, in an attempt to raise their profile.

> The project is comprised of portraits of notable and unsung heroes who dedicate themselves to the creation and advancement of our open source technologies.

[1] http://www.facesofopensource.com/about/
Source? Article says top design speed is 350km/h.
But do you honestly believe he will be relevant enough in 10 years?
No doubt some will remember him, but I say way more people will know Snowden than Assange in ten years.
Why would the gender even be relevant?
Following the WikiLeaks story from its early days until today leave me incredibly demoralized and to be frank, angry. If I where to list the amount of injustices WikiLeaks and those who have associated with them have suffered, I would sit here all night, and I strongly suspect that is by intelligent design.

This story, if the end of it is as it seems, it will mark a shift in the perceived ideals of the "free world".
> It seems that if he is found guilty, nobody will accept that.

It depends what they find him guilty of and what the sentence is. It is unacceptable to have someone on trial for openly telling the truth about what a foreign country is doing.

He went into the Ecuadorian embassy saying that the Swedish case against him was basically trumped up and that he was going to be extradited to the United States. His justification for staying in the embassy on the basis that he would be extradited to the US if he walked out. His excuses were dismissed by critics as unconvincing. He is now out of the embassy and, surprisingly, appears to be going through an extradition process to the US.

The US is reaching out and nabbing him on the flimsiest of pretexts; more a process crime than doing anything material. Australians in Europe cannot be reasonably held subject to US laws related to classified documents. And how materially he helped Manning is a very open question. Maybe the US government is going to have something convincing but the odds are great it is some word game that they are going to try and nail him with.

> Can we just let that case be heard and stop assuming that every actor here is a Bond villain?

If the US government is going to treat Assange the way they treat other non-US-citizens they don't like then by the time the case is heard it will be too late.
Usually only the country one would move to is restricting movement. So what the hell are you talking about?
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His filesystem was revolutionary and open source and should be mentioned in there - in fact I'd still go to him if I needed a filesystem.
I would not go soliciting marriage advice though :(

More seriously, I think it's wrong to sanitise technological and scientific history when afterwards it's decided that someone isn't a good person. Footnote to that effect; sure. Leaving them conspicuously absent, less so.

edit: though, as the photographer is seemingly taking the portraits himself, I can imagine some devs are easier to get to than others.
Your "next logical step" isn't logical in any sense of the word. You're just recounting a few steps of history (that actually went along with increased stability of the financial system) and then suddenly suggesting it's a preamble to some scenario that's currently en vogue among the paranoid.

"backed by surveillance" simply does not mean anything. At least not in the sense of "backed by" as used in those other cases.
Well is not the first time a US citizen kills an european one in an accident and gets away with it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo_Peter
Shouldn't the badge have a green checkmark to show everything's ok? Or is no maintenance intended supposed to imply your code is broken?
I've lived through the dot-com burst, 4 recessions, 3 stock implosions, 3 personal tragedies, and more mergers and acquisitions than I can remember. I have written millions of lines of code and have never missed a day of work.

It has had nothing to do with choice of technology, industry, physical location, contacts, or luck (I think).

The only common denominator I can cite is finding out what people (customers or employers) really need, figuring out how to build it for them, consistently building it, and staying friendly and helpful throughout.

Do that and nothing else matters. Don't do that and keep worrying about it. It's that simple.
For my small personal projects, xampp is sufficient.
Nothing I've read on the site suggests that it intends to be exhaustive. You could interpret this paragraph in several ways:

> Faces of Open Source is an on-going photographic documentation of the people behind the open source revolution. The project is comprised of portraits of notable and unsung heroes who dedicate themselves to the creation and advancement of our open source technologies.
If the title of the article is anything to go by, it will be mere luck if one system services and another doesn’t.
In tech world languages are like a religion. Their choice does not really have to make sense. Hence unless it is 100% total proven failure the affiliates will try any means to protect/advocate/spread whatever language they like.
didn't you wear any protection?
Maybe if they’re not doing their jobs properly, but even if their company is sending pretty much all jobs off-shore they still need someone to verify the quality of the contributions from those people, and that’s where your job will be.

Besides, my big company is starting to bring more and more jobs on-shore again after finding out that doing it all off-shore doesn’t actually work.
Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
A nonprofit may be a great model for you and I love nonprofits.

It’s been traditionally difficult for open source software organizations to get recognized as a 503c nonprofit (which allows people to make tax deductible donations). Things may have changed, but the IRS has struggled to decide if FOSS is truly volunteer work or is more of a tax shelter. A nonprofit can also be more overhead in terms of structure (you need a board), record keeping & accounting than an LLC (but not much more than a C-Corp).

Unless you’re operating model depends on donations, it might be worth staying an LLC for a while.

Check with a lawyer, accountant, or Stripe Atlas for real guidance. It’s been a while since I looked at firming a company.
Jesus fucking christ.
But whoever makes that Fiat Ducato or equivalent for space will make big bank. Different markets warrant different solutions, including custom.
Yeah I think it should at least not be red, indicating there is some problem.
Highly recommend speaking with an accountant. E-Residency has some service providers they vetted here https://e-resident.gov.ee/marketplace/service-providers/
TOTP is vulnerable to phishing.

U2F is not.
> Amusingly, the date on this article and the fact it still loads today.

I expect it was more recently put online from the archives, but retaining its date of authorship (as it should) rather than being originally published online in 1994 and remaining there since.
No he didn't, he just proved the wellknown and widely implemented Schoenhage–Strassen conjecture from 1971 to be correct.
Which was O(n log log n), now implemented for O(n log n).

Schoenhage–Strassen is used for multiplying large numbers with >30.000 digits. Below Karatsuba is used, and for >trillion digits Fuerer could be used. What he did was to improve Fuerer's method from 2007, nobody is using yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCrer%27s_algorithm
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Schwarzman building has unrestricted internet without needing to jump through any hoops--just connect to the wifi and you're good to go. I don't _know_ that the uni is shipping a vpn, but...
It’s super strange cause I contributed a typo fix to the python doc and have yet to get a phone call.
Thank you Mozilla! The translation capabilities are the only reason I still have Chrome installed on my phone and laptop. And they are vital to me, since I live in a country whose language I still don't speak.
The badge should be yellow. Implying a warning.
Olympics is perhaps not the best example considering how their treatment of black power salute incident still remains a black mark on their reputation.

>If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with.

And so what? I'm perfectly able to distinguish somebody's opinion from the official position of Blizzard and wouldn't hold that opinion against them.
I worked for a tech support and CS outsourcing company. I was developing the tools they would use for call logging and associated things.

They were growing rapidly by offering support services to all the new dot com startups. Hours were long, the pay was decent and my head was being fried by having to juggle multiple tech platforms and languages thanks to the differing requirements of the clients.

Then came the bust. Within a matter of months we went from having 2000 support people on site to just 400. To survive the company started targeting non dot com clients. For the most part that meant providing CS support for companies like utilities and retail stores. Standards went downhill and ethics became something other companies thought about. We also lost our on-site subsidised canteen.

One of our post bust clients was Comet, the now defunct UK electrical store. We provided technical support for their extended warranty holders. One of the requirements that they insisted upon was requiring the customer to attempt a full re-install of Windows before agreeing to send out an engineer. I thought this was dodgy AF, especially since the support staff were so untrained. They were making customers reformat their drives because they didn't know how to change the keyboard layout from US to UK. Part of the support staffs training was to be told that the DOG debug tool could fix noisy hard drive and they would ask callers to use it to destroy and recreate the FAT. For an IT support company they knew very little. Their head of training, who had no formal IT training of his own, had some crazy ideas about to fix computers.

One day I got a phone call and the caller introduced herself as "Hi, I'm xxx xxxx and I'm a researcher from BBC Watchdog, just to let you know I'm recording this call and it may be broadcast". While I was trying frantically to flag down a manager, the caller was demanding that I answer questions about an 85 year old WWII veteran who spent 10 years scanning photos of his army friends only to lose all his work because someone told him to reinstall Windows. I didn't usually get phone calls seeing as I was an in-house dev, what happened that day was that the everyone else had been told not to answer the number Watchdog called from (there was previous) and the phone system bounced the call around until muggins here picked it up.

I left soon after that.
Banks are extremely nonfunctional in Baltic countries probably because of how little people live there. I think there is a large potential for good international banks.
I think this speed is just for headlines, morjority of trains on the line run at 250km/h, because it's a lot cheaper than running them at 350km/h.
Apparently was a (sophisticated) just so story ...
http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/
Love the gnome business plan, I'm a huge South Park fan.

But I do think there is real value in it for some people (especially digital nomads) but things like e-Residency running a company remotely definitely aren't going to benefit everyone, building a solution that solves every person's problem is a crazy undertaking
>Real champions want stronger competition

OK, compete as a man.
Interesting! to see how to run money laundry like a tech company.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/10/17/a...
Call Congress and Tell Them Not to Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
If you have $50million+ you can deploy on capex in one shot (economies of scale negotiation doesn't work well at lower numbers), and you can hire systems engineers (C/C++/Go/Rust 5+ years systems experience x 20 engineers), you can put together a single tenant compute cloud needed to run a typical Internet facing web/mobile application with all the bells and whistles (lots of app server clusters, db clusters, big data clusters, GPU clusters etc with HA, scalability, security, DR etc). At this point, capex/opex cost will be easily 30% lower than the best negotiated bulk price from public cloud.

It is worth doing this if your in-house engineering team is at least 100+ app service developers and have high feature churn rate.

But be warned, your systems engineering / shared technology team should be level-headed and mature and rest of your app service engineering should be good too to pull this off well. If not, you will be in serious developer productivity pain and there won't be quick and easy fixes once you have put down the capex.
London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
- Value the team not the employer, you might meet them again elsewhere, while the employer might fire you at the first crisis.
I think I do understand it well. A family is not a magical space where you suddenly cease to be human, where you own emotional needs and states suddenly don't matter due to other people needing something.

The caring work is a work that requires you to force yourself (or manipulate) or pretend emotions no matter what context. That is just what it is, that is inherent part in it.

And when you are being tired, made passive by daily routine, want a nap, have stress, that is when it becomes even more difficult to be emotionally in that supposed magic space. Or at least, it is not automatic.
It's the other way around, "Free Software" is a subset of open source
The strong does always have power over the weak. The right that exist right now is because someone powerful enough to fight for it and maintain it, otherwise those right doesn't exist.

Rights are subjective, meaning it depends on the particular society, even it may have different meaning to everyone. Example: The rights for woman in Afghanistan and USA are different.
A "forward-thinking" project shouldn't have been written in C. They should've used Rust.
>do another bailout.

I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but in theory, are governments even capable of doing another bailout?

My understanding is that public debt in most Western countries (not sure about China/India) is through the roof. Other than printing money and risking a cataclysmic devaluation, what can be done?
Given how it's such a common thing that it doesn't surprise anyone on the engineering side of things, I'd expect that the corporate management would've wised up to this already. This makes me wonder if both sides of the deal are in on it, and are together extracting money from the larger corporate entity.
My experience so far is that DeepL gives the best translations, then Bing and last Google.
This essay I recently saw on HN comes to mind: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/10/19/empathy-and-su...