skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not the only one.

OP is clearly in possession of a solution missing its problem.

"We are all clear about how we want to 'fix' Slack by making it disappear, because, uh... it's just... you know... like, bad, and stuff. So... How did you all 'fix' Slack?"

The reality is that there's probably some ruffled feathers because price, third party paranoia, parasitic dependency lock-in, or disruptive loss of control in the social order is emerging as silos collapse and middle manager sociopaths lose their vice-like totalitarian grip on the comings and goings of their subordinates.

The truth is, Slack is just a chat window. What makes it different is that it's not free, and HR doesn't receive a backdoor into private direct messaging without purchasing "compliance exports" and even those aren't observable in real-time.

This stipulation has some merit. Slack can backdoor any and all messages in real time, and just because they usually don't doesn't mean they can't.

The travesty is that your typical HR stooge (or condescending desktop IT Napoleon) isn't standing up for what's right. They only raise a finger to complain about how they're unable to share in what's wrong.
Sorry about that! Wasn't the first time I've heard this suggestion -- I'll definitely look into supporting this.
> Oh, and another thing that isn't new: initially buggy releases of macOS

True, but the combined bugginess of iOS 13 and Catalina is astonishing. Shit really went wrong with this cycle. I am sure they will get it under control, but it’s so bad right now that I’ve actually told people considering entering the Apple ecosystem to hold off for a while until this dumpster fire is put out.
By the time Classic and Rosetta were retired I didn't miss them because everything I cared about had gotten upgraded.

This is not true of my 32 bit apps.

For some reason people were still releasing 32 bit apps as late as this year. Maybe it was because Apple didn't warn users about this until Mojave was released, which was barely a year ago.
both comments are very handy to know! thanks. i remember trying to get internet access on my Nokia 7650 back in the day, and been given HSDCA and GPRS as options... larger downloads usually worked out cheaper on HSDCA (it was charged per min, no bandwidth limit, bar the standard limits) but GPRS worked out handier for "browsing" which, back then, was not standard either... big difference between now and then...
Never seen CodeFund before, but I love what y'all are offering. I'll be in contact.
> Can it keep growing forever? If not, how much longer can it keep growing?

I mean, I guess the strict answer to the first question is "no", but the answer to the second question is - it can keep growing for so long that it really doesn't matter.

There's no real reason to think that we've reached the end of innovation - we keep innovating, we keep finding ways to squeeze more stuff out of less material and labor - the economy keeps growing.

There are people that argue that innovation has slowed down - but I don't think everyone agrees, and even if they do, the mechanism is not well understood. And most importantly, even if it slowed down, it doesn't mean that innovation stopped.

> Should we alter our economic system to account for the change in economic environment?

Well it depends on what the change is and what our goals are. Most people who want the "economic system" changed have, I think, different goals than the ones who want it kept the same (e.g. what is more important - growth or equality? There are real, honest debates one can have about this, but if people land on different sides of this, obviously they may want different changes enacted).
[Update: Now availablGmail dark theme for Android and iOS officially rolling out
Chromebooks now support a Linux installation officially in the form of Crostini. It runs securely in a VM and work is done to make your linux apps and sharing as first party options in Chrome OS. Crouton was never an officially released and supported product by Chrome OS. Crostini is.
Maybe they can’t be bribed with cash, but could they be bribed with a nice contract for the company they founded? Or threatened for access to a market?
I have the same problem, got registered, upvoting someone's posts, and do not see that my upvotes count.
Didn't know they had Google Analytics back then.
Developer Aesthetic: A Command Line
> I am sure we can both imagine people who were disappointed in 2007

Was it to the same extent that people are complaining about MacOS Catalina though? This is the first update that I don't like, and it's because of the lack of 32-bit support. Being forewarned about 32-bit going away doesn't make my 32-bit applications run on Catalina.
> they need to have functionality that is actually time saving.

Robot vacuums didn't achieve this for me, I'd have to spend more time removing "clutter" from the floor than I would vacuuming and half the time it'd get stuck on something anyway. Some of that clutter was me being messy, but some of it was things I liked to keep handy under the couch. As advanced as they are, they're still stupid machines that don't properly adapt to humans.
My win10 pc at work is living hell, but I’m 95% sure this is all the corporate spyware and anti malware shit my employer throws on top.

Windows 10 vanilla is probably pretty nice.

[edited to clarify the source of the problem]
Indeed.

Now all of the infrastructure is built. Oversaturated and consolidated.

At least the game dev scene is vibrant, even if overcrowded.
I don't think that's the case here - see my other longer comment, but I think ETW uses the PEBS sampling events, so the instruction is usually the slow-to-retire one, not the subsequent one.

I believe cmp/jne macro fuse on this CPU, so you actually will never get any samples on the first of the two fused instructions: rather they all show on the second one. You see this same effect on Linux when sampling with the cycles:ppp event.
The DU projectiles are intended to fragment in ways that lead does not, as on impact parts of the projectile shear away and it "self-sharpens" when penetrating.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4004-safe-alternative...

The energy involved is also more than sufficient to hit that temperature. When a high-velocity shell impacts something it will deform and convert a lot of the kinetic energy to thermal.

The whole thing doesn't melt, but parts of it do, and the vehicle it hits gets absolutely thrashed.

These things cut through pretty much any armor like it's not even there. During the Iraq war they'd even hit tanks by firing through the tops of sand dunes, aiming using thermal imaging.
I don't understand why people are not pointing out the obvious: there is a correlation with rising obesity rates.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

40% of the adult US population is now obese, 70% is obese or overweight. Overweight people have a hard time dating, for those obese it is even tougher, and many give up hope. Men have a further problem: obesity is very strongly linked to diseases that have an impact on their ability to have an erection.
But in all fairness, if you actually implement that ”best practice” HA infrastructure, you will also be miles ahead of almost all internal IT departments.
This is not strictly Pizza Hut's first website.

Pizza Hut's first website was built in 1994 [1]. This webpage has Javascript (1995) [2] running Google Tag Manager (2012) [3]. The article about Pizza Hut's first website [1] provides more context than just the webpage.

[1]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Advert...
It might not sound like a lot, but it saves us 15-20 minutes of cleaning per day. We have 3 kids and get about 1-2 hours of free time per night. So its 12-33% more time to spend doing whatever we want rather than cleaning the house.
"Y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software),

and high-speed pizza delivery."

—Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Unix Turns 50
Uk gov spends more on AWS than it does for EU membership.
Good tip to check the console.
So Softbank will have invested nearly $16Bn (10.5 already + 5 now) in something that even they think is only worth $8Bn? Am I reading this correctly because that makes no sense whatsoever. Except for Neumann who walks away with his $700Mn regardless!
Furniture is now very cheap (also low-quality: Ikea, etc.), while housing is (in many areas) extremely expensive, so it's no wonder that people can be in a bad economic situation while being able to change furniture. Of course, it's sad, it should be the other way around, but it's the way current prices in most places work.

It's like the typical criticism that young people complain about their salaries but buy flagship smartphones. Yeah, iPhones and the like are technological wonders and 50 years ago they would have been a dream, but in many places they cost the equivalent of two weeks of rent... so why in hell would they not buy them? To save for two whooping weeks of rent?
I wonder how you define old and many.

If you're 36, you look around one day and realize you're the "old" dev. That's kind of the reality of the software industry, though. I moved into FAANG from a different engineering discipline, where engineers increase in value as they get older. In software, sadly, age isn't much of an asset. Most of what you spend your time learning today will be irrelevant in a few years.
internet was a safe place!
Right, but there will be an error where you consume myIntValue:

const myIntValue = f()

// Error TS2365: Operator '+' cannot be applied to types 'Promise<number>' and '2'
const myResult = myIntValue + 2

async function f() {
return 42
}
I didn't have any issues with my personal laptop (2013 MBP) (which is superior, by far, in almost every way, to my work laptop, a 2019 MBP).

The only difference I noticed (and I don't really have time to obsess over little details) - was that WINE was broken.

As far as my work-laptop goes, I'm just going to hold off. I don't really need any of the new features; and I don't rely on WINE for anything I do for work. I just don't have any strong feelings for a major OS X update right now.

I think the last time I even used Safari was about 5 years ago for testing a website I was developing.
Mother of God, you are right! You just changed my life for the better.
> What's worse, someone being a prima donna or the unchangeable facts of AWS operation policies?

There's this great thing about BOA-sized support contracts where you get to call up the senior product managers and demand that they build the features that you want. And if you're not happy about something, engineers will drop what they're working on to appease you.

I wonder how many customers were interested in setting up a Custom Keystore for KMS on CloudHSM?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/are-kms-custom-key-sto...
Some parents feed their kids growth hormone just so they don't end up being too short. Certainly there's nothing wrong with being short, but we do this for all sorts of things where we know people are at a disadvantage with. We give kids braces, vaccines, etc. How are any of those different? Assuming, it was a healthy and vetted treatment, how would it be different?
Some pointers for developers trying to introduce automated testing
Sidecar is officially supported only on 2016 and later MacBook Pros.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT210380#systemrequirements

I use a 2015 MBP too, so I'm glad to hear it does work and thanks for the workaround.
Does WeWork ever need to IPO?

Yes. The Vision Fund, like all VC funds, has a finite lifespan that all the investors agreed to when they funded it.
If you actually pulled that off, you could be the lucky recipient of a $375 million investment from SoftBank!

https://www.google.com/search?q=softbank+zume+pizza

(Full disclosure: I tried the pizza. It was... not very good. Amici's next time!)
25 monthly until they are done
Having a backup still doesn't excuse Catalina for that bug.
If they've already invested $10.5Bn, that money is gone (especially if WeWork fails).

If they truly think they will get $8Bn worth for investing 4-5Bn now, it's a rational choice.

Adding your past investments to the tally is an instance of the sunk cost fallacy.
Not a battery. It's a fuel cell that's "burning" aluminum by oxidizing it.

Once the reaction is complete, you end up with basically aluminum ore that has to be re-refined, at great energy cost.

My guess is that this is highly inefficient and will not turn out to be very useful.
Windows 64bit mostly uses 32bit shims which call the 'real' 64bit API. This means that 32bit support is almost no-cost to maintain - I am certain MS will support 32bit for the next decade at the very least - but at the cost of having the 64bit API itself slightly less breaking compatibility so shims are easier to make (e.g. "long" is still 32bit). Arguably MS would have made the same API compromises anyway just to make porting easier.

Linux has some 32bit shims in the kernel and a few separate syscalls, but userland does the separate libraries approach where all 32bit libs are separate than 64bit libraries. So the kernel pays a small cost, while userland needs to maintain separate versions of the libraries - which often costs very little (many can simply be recompiled, this is open source after all), but can bite the maintainer sometimes.

MacOS uses the fat binaries approach, where every binary carries all the arch versions. I don't think the system supports a different method - so Mac pays a bigger cost than Windows or Linux in order to maintain 32 bit. Also Mac kernel API is unstable by design, and I guess Apple would like to drop some older stuff. For better or worse that's the Apple Way - they don't maintain anywhere as much backward compat as other platforms.
Edtech: Supporting the safe use of technology in learning
> Or that his real name is Zimmerman.

I've read that a number of Chinese with the surname 欧阳 [Ouyang] logically chose the English surname O'Young, confusing a lot of people who were led by the name to expect someone more Irish.
Why a social credit system is so scary
Seems to me 2013 was the real sweet-spot for MBP.

I still use mine almost every single day. It's a beast, and has been very reliable. Keyboard is WAY nicer to type on than the current generation. It's a little thicker and heavier, and lacks USB-c ports, but it's still damn fine.
I fully agree with the author, and I am also worried about how Apple treats its users. And I am also an abandoned Aperture user, with huge libraries full of organized albums with non-destructive edits. I still do not know what to do about that.

Having read most of the comments, I got the impression that you could correlate them with age. Younger people are all "Catalina works for me! Progress! Change is necessary! What are you whining about?!". Perhaps I can relate because I've been using computers for >25 years now, and I'd like to see a division between rapidly changing things (like my applications) and foundation-type stuff that I need to get work done (like computers and operating systems).
From the end of 2000 to the start of 2002 I did a stint at a web agency right out of high school in order to save up some money for college. Roughly a month or so after 9/11 150 out of the 300 employees were laid off.
> how many more Uighur Muslims

Sadly it will take a LOT more. Public outrage has an increasingly high tipping point and a very short lifespan. Governments, Corporations, PR agencies all know this. Is the average person on the street even aware of the plight of the Uighur Muslims? Contrast that with the recent forest fires in Brazil.
Some flagship Chromebooks do, not all of them.

So if one is paying flagship prices, then why not just buy a regular laptop from a Linux vendor?
I bought a Sony Xperia XA2 Plus for this express purpose.

A couple of things:

fastboot oem unlock is a one way trip, it blows some kind of fuse and you can never relock the bootloader. While I give Sony lots of points for having a page showing where the UART is in their phones, they lose all of those points for deciding that unlocked devices can no longer get OTA updates, even when reflashed to a stock ROM.

Sailfish was really, really janky when I tried it, I couldn't even turn on developer mode without signing in to a Jolla account, then it hung for at least 5 minutes trying to enable the developer mode.

For the XA2 Ultra, there's also no LineageOS build.
So the rumour of Qinghua uni shipping a VPN from under the counter is true then?
I would go one farther. I won't join a union, and I won't work in a union shop.

If my company goes union, I'll go work somewhere else.
How to Find or Locate a Missing PST File of Microsoft Outlook?
Hence the failed PS2 attempt to retake the PC market.
Reddit is definitely being gamed, started 1-2 years ago. And it's a lot harder / impossible to identify fake recommendations, so I'm very suspicious of it.
I think a lot of people don't agree with you, talked with some people of Tibet just, last night ( 6 hours ago)

Let's say they hate China's forced influence, not earned.

We can put other places inside of China even on the list ( Taiwan and Hong Kong). The politicians didn't earn their spot. They got placed there by Beijing.

And now more and more countries want to remove the debt from China's debts, along the one road, one belt.

Also, that belt is not earned. It was pushed by Beijing through fake investment propaganda, since the investments are debt loaden.

Even their friend Russia is looking for closer ties with alternatives, since trading with China has been a one-way road only ( trade resources and that's it )

Let's face it, China has put itselve on the top because it could move 1,4 billion people into cheap labour, first in China and now across the one road and one belt. All the rest was lies ( market access), market protection ( can't get your money out, enter the market with a required 50% partner) and scams ( debt loaded colonisation, fake 20-year lasting WTO promises,..) and fake numbers ( only China knows the real growth number and value of business in our stock market, we don't have access to it)

Best thing is, while it's trying to colonise Africa/Asia. We still threat them as it's a developing country, with all the benefits ( for them) that come with it.

We are so dumb.
> I also don’t understand the author’s lack of love to just using the straight phonetic translation (either first-last or only first/last name)

Yes, this is especially strange given that the Chinese script evolution was mainly phonetically driven. Most characters cames from writing a word with a same sounding word then disambiguate it by adding a determinative (radical). Even in the PRC simplification scheme, one of the key method was to replace an existing character by one that is read the same (which overload the meaning of a single character).

> Sure it’s nice to have a Chinese name that sounds familiar, but would you expect your (say) Indian immigrant colleague to adapt an English-sounding name when moving to Canada? Yeah, we don’t mind you using your native name either.

In the Indian case probably not, but in my (European) country people are often glad that Chinese people have a local name, even if they find it funny. Chinese phonology can be quite hard for foreigners, and the pinyin system with consonants that are not transparent (h, j, q, x, zh, ch) and hide some vowel letters doesn't help at all when names are written down. I noticed for instance that I'm the only foreigner calling my Taiwanese girlfriend by her Chinese name or a derivative, while other people don't even ask her given name past the English one she chose for herself.
It was late '99 or early '00 when I went to work at my first "tech" startup. We'd raised 70-something million, and all the stars were aligning. We'd go to lunch and bring a calculator so we could work through "worst-case scenarios" millions of dollars were in our future. I remember passing up other job offers that also included a lease of a new BMW as part of the signing.

Of course, with the down-turn, and given that we were effectively trying to position ourselves as CRM middleware, all bets were off. The business dried up, and our burn-rate was through the roof. Word got out the day before about the upcoming layoffs. The next day there were kegs of beer that sat out in the engineering pits.

IT had a helluva time, as a lot of people walked off with their laptops and company-issued phones. The dirty secret was that there was also a complete (still shrink-wrapped) palette of brand new 2U Dell servers in the loading bay that mysteriously went missing in the CO office that day.

Like a naive babe in the woods, I survived the first 2? maybe 3? RIFs. Even as I was building a website that listed all of our hardware and furniture for sale, and unracking and packing all the servers from the colo—I still didn't get it. Reality hit like a brick.

I was lucky enough to fall in with a good group of folks who continued to follow each other to other companies either as employees or as contract work for the next few years. There were maybe one or two scary months, but overall it was manageable. (Also lesson learned: your network is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING)
Well, maybe you could think about it like this:

If they don't intervene, they lose all their previous investment guaranteed. So just consider all of that previous investment gone (sunk cost).

If they invest $5b they may make an $8b valuation. And they may still think there is upside beyond that.

Not sure if that's what they really think, but a lot of posters here seem to accuse softbank of sunk cost fallacies without considering that they are surely aware of investing 101.
We knew it was the beginning of the end when the price on the snack vending machine went from 10 cents to 25 cents.
There was a fork of one of the bootloaders (littlekernel?) allowing multiboot way back when. There's also at least one EFI bootloader which would in theory allow an easy/nice boot menu - reflashing to switch sounds extremely painful.
> I dig the sentiment. Isn’t that what Show HN and posting links to blog posts does though?

Thanks!

The reason I want a semiregular thread is because given the amount of work that goes into many show HNs I guess most people here are wary of posting their blogs as "Show HN".

Posting it in a "Ask HN: who is writing - October 2019" thread might be less scary.

If anyone posts that within a few minutes I'll upvote it (I have enough points so I don't need to start another valuable thread for that.)
> Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.

Qinghua is more of an alternative central party school than Harvard.

The amount of kids of all kinds of influential people there is over the top
Show HN: Coordinate work in Real-Time via live video with a sense of privacy
For a long time after 9/11 there was a huge pullback on consumer spending felt like a mini-recession.
> Differing views and solutions to national policy were encouraged based on the famous expression by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong: "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science".The movement was in part a response to the demoralization of intellectuals, who felt estranged from the Communist Party.

> After this brief period of liberalization, Mao cracked down on those who criticized the communist regime.

This is just a ploy by Google to flush out dissenters.