skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Apple during the 64 bit transition. The answer is that 32 bit was quite painful to maintain.

The 64 bit transition was a compatibility break that enabled shedding technical debt, like NeXT-isms that no longer applied. In particular it added the ObjC 2 runtime, which allowed features like adding a variable to a class without needing to recompile subclasses.

So long as 32 bit is supported, it is difficult for Apple to use these features internally. If you add a variable to a class you break the 32 bit system. If you add a variable conditionally under an #ifdef then it is annoying to manage the separate build configurations, or disparate 32bit/64bit behaviors.

This only applies to the Mac; iOS always had the modern runtime. But macOS engineers are very very happy to see 32 bit go because it was painful to support.
What customer data?

Congratulations, in your efforts to be contradictory, you've managed to completely missed the point. I'll keep it simple, "hey, Outback customers, they're watching you with surveillance cameras!" What? Still looking for a snappy, rational comeback? Then let's try again: "hey, they have cameras trained on your children!" There, I put a trigger word in there that ought to tell you that a well-reasoned argument is not the point.

The point is that Outback is being dicks to our fellow laborers. Is that not enough? Workers of the world, unite!
To be honest, "10 years of experience" in this industry means nothing.

I have worked with (and interviewed) A LOT of devs with 10-15 years of experience who can't do a basic fizz-buzz (I'm exaggerating, of course, but really, really weak devs who due to whatever reason didn't bother to improve their skills past what they learned in school in 1980s).

Even $60,000 can be acceptable for a dev with "15 years of experience", if his skills are worth $60,000.
You don't need to pick all of your managers, coworkers, and clients. That's the point of vetting a company culture before you join. In general, the culture should be a reflection of a shared ideology for business and interpersonal behavior. There is a ton of room for variety within that, but it pins some underlying important traits.

Being a good culture fit does not mean you have to like them so much that you're inviting them out for a beer. And in order to really be a long term competitive company and team, you need to be able to be unified first. If there is significant internal turmoil, or people are unmotivated, uncomfortable, threatened, etc. you will never be competitive. "Building character" is generally code for "deal with this crappy situation", and life is too short to make people miserable. You can get a diverse group of people without making all of them unhappy if you select for people who can work together.
"iCloud did <x> to my files" is not an anecdote. It's an assertion of software behavior. The fact that only one sample is being provided does not magically make it an anecdote. You can say the person reporting the bug is a liar, but that's not how quality assurance works in the real world.

Most likely the bug they encountered happens in a specific scenario, but regardless, "personal anecdote" or "it works for me" are not appropriate ways to respond to a bug report, let alone one about data loss.
Then you have a "trust" problem which is another matter.
> It's generally a function of network cost versus infra cost, and so the 'equation' solves differently based on the longest tech cycles,

It used to be OpEx was easy, CapEx was hard to get approved. As people took advantage and OpEx went through the roof people are getting alot more pushback on reducing OpEx.
And that he is far from being the genius investor the Japanese media tries to make him
SailfishOS comes to mind. But it's not on par with Android (yet, or ever), however it's Linux, the real thing.

I learned about it in the AskNoahShow ep.144 titled "SailfishOS" [1], you might wanna check it out.

It runs notably on open-source phones from Sony. You can bet that's my next toy!

[1]: https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/144
Money is more important to Tim Cook than Human Rights
WeWork is the dominant player as the overwhelming trend in business is towards flexible and remote working.

If even a small percentage of companies adopt the Gitlab model, WeWork is going to be extremely successful. And given Softbank's business model is designed for long term, strategic bets there is no way I would be cutting losses just yet.
No it doesn’t. Read the deal. SoftBank will buy up to $3B in stock from existing shareholders, including employees.

They are bailing out employees and investors. People will at least get something.
Bash is depreciated in favor of Zsh in Catalina. Regardless of you where you get bash from, I prefer brew, a nag message is presented to the user about Zsh everytime a terminal session is initiated:

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

The export I provided prevents this nag message from being displayed for Bash users.
Huh? What does that have to do with this? I was countering the point about closed system "being better" for users. Not the technical merits of control
It depends on the city, hehe :) In my childhood kids from "bad" families would easily convince you that you're risking your kids every day they visit that school :) My parents were convinced when one of my schoolmates broke 4 fingers of his arm while was beating the face of my another schoolmate - half of my schoolmates had police records.
Wow, what a fall from grace. Weren't they valued at 72 billion earlier?
I took a look to see if Softbank was hiring any vetting-watchdogs to prevent this in the future.

They had one open position. It required all applications to have an extensive history at a prestigous VC firm, i.e. they are looking for people from the in-group.

I think a less-incestuous vetting strategy would give more honest results. Too bad, I think there's a lot of people on HN who would excel at this position despite not having worked at a big VC.
Birdyrooster is not a mod. If you want to see this note more, you can post it yourself, just like they did.
I keep reading about that real estate company - make up your minds is it a tech company or not?
(May 2016 story; incident is from 2006)
But the reason they liked 20% ownership at $50bn is presumably because they thought they can cash-out at $80bn+. This cash-out valuation was not value-based but growth/hype-based. It seems that weworks will no longer be valued on growth/hype, which means that the value of weworks is much lower.

Liking 20% ownership at 50bn doesnt mean you like 70% ownership at $8bn. The value of the company had significant future growth/hype component which required other investors to pour additional money in to keep up the growth, that is now gone.
Yeah, I totally agree. I love Python, but I can't stand Python's async situation. I don't like Go, but I think its concurrency is miles better.
The drivers ed manual states that you must stop if it's safe to do so.
You could also say that society subsidised your education and will do the same for other, future citizens.

Also, most families who were eligible, maybe even your own, got the benefits of the tax breaks available to parents.

For some reason many people seem to have a blind spot where they believe that benefits for "parents" or "children" aren't relevant to them if they aren't parents right now. But every adult was a child! ... "like, sure, but what have you done for me lately?".
You could try loading the link in an incognito window. That is how I am able to get past the block. It is a shame that it is not easily accessible.

When I first saw this article last year, it was very jarring. As events unfolded in 2019, we are already seeing a significant deviation to the predictions presented in this link. Was hoping to get some discussion going regarding the change in outcomes. I feel a lot more hopeful that the future will have some sort of middle ground that is better than the predictions presented here.
How does it count as a transition if everything just breaks? Them giving you warning doesn't make it a transition, it's just an EOL with advanced notice. A transition implies that you're moving from one working state to another, or replacing the old thing with a new one. How am I supposed to replace unmaintained/old software when there's no new 64-bit, notarized version of it?
Of course not, monads are so 20th century... The October 2019 way is to only work with stacks of TripleZippersInvertedStateTransformerLens, and I know you know it!
The Guardian, WP and NYT did just fine with Snowden's material.

So I guess in your mind it would also be perfectly fine if someone tool all your data including your passwords and released it to the public, right?
It's probably easier to install than the typical sensor loop under the asphalt. The camera and cpu could be on the same circuit board as one of the LED lens units, which are already sealed units heated against snow. It would need an additional comm line down to the controller from each light head, which might just be a cable pull through conduit.
Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
I'm a youngish developer (28y/o), and the constant recent comments of people predicting a new burst have made me curious about how life changed for developers at the time, and maybe what to expect if such a thing were to happen again.

I've heard stories of rich startup founders losing everything back then, but not much about what happened with the average devs. What was it like, living through those times? Did many people change careers? was there still a thriving industry in less risky tech companies? did salaries drop? I'm basically clueless about the whole thing.
This is a wonderful story, and a good example of the sorts of hidden value our so-called bloated government bureaucracy can provide.
I've known more than a few restaurant managers in my day, and I have zero confidence any of them would have been able to keep a secret if they were actively surveilling their customers.
I see the chans today as inseparable from the social silos. There's a two way dynamic in play. The chans are to social media what the gaming discords are to the games they shadow. It's where people go to cook up strategies to play the social attention game, and it's also an echo chamber where new memes and such are cooked up.

The whole thing needs to be nuked from orbit.
lack of intellectual, or substantiative content.
chronic misinformation, and social engineering campaigns.
surveillance and weaponization of data, and influencing.
This is just fuzzy reasoning that draws conclusions not justifiable from the facts. It wouldn't be reprehensible if not for the fact that academic credentials are being thrown around to give an heir of legitimacy to what would be charitable to call opinion.
I know Americans love to throw the homogenous at us in Norway. Sure I can get it, although more people are foreign born in Norway.

Buy Switzerland homogenous?!! Are you smoking crack? Do you have any clue what you are talking about? The US is far more united as a country.

Frankly I think there is an underlying American racist assumption to these claims.

Americans view diversity entirely in terms of skin color. They think culture, mindset and values are embedded in your skin pigment.

By American logic Hitler could not possibly have been a racist because he was just killing other white people.
So is this effectively a triggering of the partial ratchet noted in the S-1 (i.e. SoftBank gets shares if valuation falls)? Or a whole new deal?
Would you say this is due to architectural limitations in how 32/64-bit are implemented in OS X, vs the way compatibility works on say Windows or Linux? I know people have claimed that part of this is due to the need for system binaries/etc to all include full 32/64-bit versions.
It's not unreasonable at all. We essentially do that already with finance.

We don't just blindly trust the company's tweets about finance until they are somehow eventually proved wrong. We require accounts to a certain standard and for them to be audited, and listing brings standards of financial disclosure. Obviously this isn't perfect either.

Seems reasonable to expect some duty of care and accountability for other matters of the company - the research that proves they knew smoking causes cancer, the blind eye to conditions or pollution, the scam javascript to fake up some artificial scarcity in booking, the illegal pricing scheme. The list is long, and history is full of examples.

Seems fair to require them past some point - of employees or turnover maybe - to prove they are fit to inhabit the world with the rest of us.
I think we almost have enough technology for someone to build the manna system for a restaurant (1). What do you guys think?

Instead of monitoring what they do and punishing them why not just tell them what to do at all times?

(1) https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
You have me at a disadvantage here because I'm not sure which sentences you're trying to emphasize or how they relate to the debate.

It sounds like you're saying that you're so right, self-doubt would be an unnecessary encumbrance.

How many words of Chinese do you know? How much Chinese history? Have you ever seen a subsistence farmer?
Can't believe I got downvoted for this. Would be worth a whole blog post. Start with the fact that only approved banks have access to the "cheap money" that the Fed loans or are targets of the Fed's open market operations.

Or, start with the phrase "bad money chases out good."
I don't think their brand is "tarnished." The only people they are beholden to are their LPs, who I assume endorsed this deal. None of the actions they have taken as an investor should make others view their money "toxic."

WeWork is just going to have to transition from wartime to peacetime. Ben Horowitz has a great article about what this looks like [1]. They're going to clean up the books, stop making risky acquisitions, and focus on the core business instead of side projects. After a few years of being "boring" and improving margins, then they ostensibly will look like a much more stable investment to public markets.

[1] https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/
You do understand how he made that money right ?

Knowledge about business -> Current net worth
I have no research to point to, but my personal experience is very different from this. Sure, everywhere has it's own downsides, but that does not mean that a company is either terrible to work for or everything is failing. That's a really naive stance to take, and it's very defeatist.

> ... that's probably also why so many found their own companies or just freelance.

Fair enough, if you're in a work environment where you feel this way, I suggest trying to find a better work environment, or doing like you said: start a company or freelance.

I personally know a lot of places where they have had almost no churn in 5-10 years, they're having a lot of success, and everyone is happy and mission driven. I'm totally willing to say they may be the exception, but don't write off the work environment as a whole. Or do and go find your own thing, but don't just be unhappy.
I use it all the time! But also worth remembering that !$ is the object of your last command, so you could do something like

cp /some/tortured/path/to/file.txt /some/other/path/file.txt

chown myuser:myuser !$
It really depends on how much control on the life cycle of state exists between the user, program and operating system. More to the user, easier to press reset and clear the state. More to the OS then it needs to have some clear guidelines about how to deal with bad behaving programs. If its all up to the programs then it will probably be very brittle since applications may not implement what's needed to clear state when necessary. Although if a program crashes you'd expect that the OS would clear its state.. which I assume is the case.
Well, yeah, it does, but that's an odd example I can't say I agree with.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lifehack
Furthermore, according to https://craft.co/wework/funding-rounds, WeWork has already received $12 billion plus in equity investments (not counting debt raises). Softbank alone has already put in $9.4 billion in equity + $1 billion in debt.

So it looks like they've already destroyed $4 billion+ in value. I'm curious how the more financially astute than I see this as anything besides throwing good money after bad?
I'm reminded of a friend that belongs to a union. He got in because he was waiting tables at a diner the union guys when to. One of the guys retired and they strong armed him into applying.
Again, where's my sledgehammer?
It's not grace if it's mostly smoke and mirrors: it's hubris.
Green tea in the morning. Espresso after lunch. Maybe another tea at tea time, Earl Grey, hot.
> insisted on always reformatting as exFAT, in spite of Win10's 4+ GB .wim files

exFAT doesn't have a 4gb limitation like FAT32
That's a false dichotomy. Is Amazon a retail company?
This is so far out of what I, a west-coast american, can actually accomplish its kind of funny. I know you are being serious and those are all great suggestions that I would love to implement, but to address them: things are so spread out here I literally can't get to work/a grocery store without a car, there's a single farmers market, which runs for 4 hours every Sunday once a week and doesnt cover everything in plastic. Its literally unobtainable for someone living here. Maybe directly inside the city its possible to go carless and shop only at farmers markets, but being downtown would be way too expensive.
We here at Pacific Health Dynamics, Sydney, Down Under want to give a big thanks to Evan and the core team for all your hard, free, work!

We've recently hit 100k loc for our main frontend written all in Elm. The journey from inception 2.5 yrs ago has been amazing and now we're in full production mode, reaping the rewards of purity and the type system.
Blockchain tech and ethereum is a failed project, IPFS is an unfortunate casualty of collateral damage.

Juan Benet and the team at Protocol labs is the definition of top talent, it's too bad their work had to be stymied by an industry that basically cannibalized itself at the hands of idiot entrepreneurs (I'm looking at YOU Jeremy Gardner of Augur...)
Got stuck with a huge tax bill on my stock options when Yahoo went under, took 10 years of brutal back to back contracts to pay it off. The state didn't care that I had nowhere near the opportunities again they just mercilessly hammered me for taxes until I paid it off a couple years ago but took nearly 15 years to pay off the tax debt and meanwhile I could invest in nothing else.
What is the point they will have missed?
> Apple are trying to make things better, and I think that is honorable.

Unwanted help isn't help at all
Much of management's function is to measure and improve worker productivity. http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery...
Because they exempt themselves from liability.
After about 5-10 minutes, Uber will cancel a ride if the driver makes no progress toward the pickup spot and local traffic does not justify the lack of progress. I don't know if it affects the driver's rating but it definitely doesn't affect the passenger's rating.
It is very easy. For work you have the standard business casual. From bottom up it is black shoes (but not necessarily super shiny), black socks, slacks that are either black, grey, beige, or brown and a colorful checkered or striped button down shirt. Also, a belt. The shirt should be colorful but without too bright colors or contrasts. You can find the whole thing at banana republic. The good thing about this style is that if the pants are neutral color enough, you do not have to worry about matching shirt to pants.

For life outside of work, comfortable shoes and socks not necessarily black but subdued color, jeans and a button down shirt as well. Here the button down shirt may be of brighter colors or coarser materials, etc.
Vanguard and forget it.

https://ritholtz.com/2014/02/the-best-investment-advice-youl...
Self-promo: I'm currently building software called Thanks For Sharing.

At launch, we'll be focusing on features that help employees to provide feedback to their organization leaders.

We're also exploring requirements for building out internal knowledge bases for organizations that have more sharing and communicative elements. Link in my bio if any are interested.
It is not misleading at all, you have to learn a new language, learn to deal with a different government and laws, we are talking several years of effort until you get accustomed.

The differences between accepted social behaviour in Britain, Spain and Poland are significant too.

Sure, if you came from Saudi, you'll feel more out of place. But it's not trivial.
My guess would be that the system restore checkpointing functionality ends up holding a lock by necessity while it manipulates internal state. It would be really hard to make that sort of algorithm lock-free and preserve data integrity guarantees - I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for writing it.

Obviously the lock shouldn't be held so long and so often though...
I’ve found the same, especially annoyingly ddg often gives me answers to much easier, less specific questions than the ones I search for. Like a keen Stack Overflow user.
From my observations during the time, what your experience as a dev was depended entirely on what sort of company you were working for. If you were working for one of the SV hotshots, then the odds were that you had a rough time of it.

However, most of the devs I knew (including myself) were not, and that set of devs were no more affected by the bubble burst than society at large was.
He's showing appreciation to the Party who made him a hundred millionaire.
Softbanks model isn't proven yet. They overinvest and create unicorns in the expectation that the 10x extra cash will cement market leadership for the startup.

That doesn't mean much if the market does not materialize, which is possible because remote work does not require shared office space. Currently the trend is that connectivity removes the need for an office entirely, not generate more demand for them.
Same could have been said for AirBnb, Boston Dynamics, SpaceX etc.

Many of the best companies look like risky bets at the start.
I make my project got 8k GitHub stars
I can confirm, Russia has extremely low English competency. 3% sounds about right from my experience (I live here). Which is a good thing of course, as it forces me to learn Russian.
If all DuckDuckGo did was proxy my search request through to Bing while stripping away all identifying information, while not storing any identifying information themselves, they would still achieve the goal of securing my privacy.

It's not about search engines seeing search requests, it's about tying them to particular people.
>All U.S. citizens need to realize that publicly traded companies are NOT U.S. companies.

Maybe if the company isn't based in the US, but a company founded by a US citizen, whose headquarters its entire existence have been within the US, which has never had a CEO without US citizenship, can surely be expected to not associate with a power structure(the CPC) that fundamentally disagrees with our basic beliefs. Selling & manufacturing their products there? I can tolerate that - a Chairmanship is a bit too much for me.
Not quite. I live in a republic. The majority wins elections but still don't get to totally trample on the minority, because we have a limited government.

Now, a union election isn't a government election, so that doesn't totally apply. But, for example, the majority has decided to pass legislation that makes my current state a right-to-work state, so a union can't require me to be a member, even if they win the election.

Of course, unions could campaign to change that law. But that's a different set of elections they'd have to win...
Hi, my name is FAANG and I’m addicted to money