skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does a rising tide lift all boats when you systematically take people off the boat?
In the video, is the last application that opens when Longhorn starts up a package manager ? I've never really understood why both Microsoft and, especially, Apple have never tried to adopt a model similar to the one used by Linux distributions, positioning themselves as the intermediary between the end users and application developers. I suppose this is because they were focused on enterprise customers, and there was already a model in place for shipping software to such customers. However, for home users, installing applications have always been a tedious process that is full of risk.
It makes a lot of sense if you own the garden and charge people admission. ;P ;)
OP, here's one small method in my tried-and-true box of methods for a job search (hope it helps):

Don't apply to a job posting or through a portal. Instead, hop on LinkedIn and search for recruiters that work at the office you are applying to. Start your search with all employees from the relevant company, then filter for location and for title. For title, you will usually find a recruiter or general hiring manager by using terms like 'Talent', 'Talent Acquistion', 'Recruiter', etc.

Put the names of the recruiters you have found for the jobs you want to apply to in an excel spreadsheet. Then, go to a site like hunter.io or rocketreach and find the email address format for all the companies you want to apply to. Usually, the first or second format you find will be the right one (if an email gets rejected then just try a different format).

Attach your resume. Put "RE: [the specific job] Role" in the subject line. Then, write a very short email to the recruiter or talent coordinator or whoever telling them that you are X and are interested in the X Role at their company (i.e. software engineer interested in the Software Engineer role at said company). Ask them if they would have time over the next week to connect over the phone for 15 minutes. Then say you would like to share your story and learn more about the company and the role.

Lastly, tell them that you look forward to connecting (this explicitly puts the ball in their court).

I've had great success getting interviews with this method (half the time the recruiter will skip the phone chat and just fast track me to an interview). I know others who've used it to similar success.
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So it’s basically the Chinese Social Credit System, only privatized and reframed as the traditional consumer credit score in use since decades.

Creepy as hell... but it’s good that the excesses of online tracking have brought this whole “dark entanglement” into public scrutiny.
Progress monitor: monitor a job's progress
I've been on both sides of bullying.

In one context (school), I was somewhat of a bully. I was bigger than the rest of my class, and I often attempted to assert my dominance, usually by making jokes at people's expense. In another context (competitive sports outside of school), I was typically the primary outsider who was bullied in just that manner.

I don't know where (or if) to draw a causal line, but I do know that memories of both sides of that equation seem to involve deep-seated insecurities and feelings of inadequacy.
I just interpreted as Google trying very hard to make sure that it isn't the Walmart/McDonald's/Uber of the industry - the huge lightning rod that has to deal with the public dislike of the consequences of that industry.

It has been successful in many ways, since Facebook is largely the one taking the hit. Zuckerberg is the famous CEO having to deal with the politicians, but most people probably don't even know who the CEO of Google is.

Of course, behind the scenes I consider Google as damaging, if not more damaging.
If you use all 3 desktop OS, it doesn't take very long to notice macOS has the worst code quality.
Maybe all solely news media companies should be non-profits. Current incentives have led the news media to churnalism, sensationalism, and the near extinction of long form journalism.
You could also run it in Wine.
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For starters, the "classic" approach needs a dongle with explicit support for OpenPGP. With the U2F support one could use the cheaper U2F-only ones.
I am with you on the applications that still work thanks to all the love and tears of the MS engineers.

A document file that can still be read decades later should be the norm though, and Office 2019 needing to 'upgrade' them is less than ideal.

At that time I think people already smelt that important docs would need to exported in something else (ex. PDF) just in case MS changed its mind about how text or layouts would work.
the comment I was replying to was specifically about tax (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21443141)
Backwards compatibility shouldn't be some 'amazing feat' - it should be the norm.

I should be able to fire up a BASIC script from 1970 and have it still run. It shouldn't require me hours of hunting retro-computing websites for the right simulators - it should just be part of the OS.

I don't care how - whether that be emulation, or maintaining direct compatibility.

A set of emulators for all ancient computing platforms only comes in at a few megabytes, so there really isn't an excuse not to include it.

Why you say? Two reasons: 1. maintaining backwards compatibility isn't hard - you just switch to emulation every time you want to 'get rid of cruft', and then what happens inside the emulated container can be frozen in time and requires no maintanance. 2. Every time one breaks a legacy bit of code, all the users of that code have to do some work to re-invent it. It would be like shredding Leonardo da vinci's work just because we have better painters now.
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I like this idea, it makes sense to integrate a particularly low spec machine into the development process and I wish more developers would do it.
Had both. Now have a 32in 4k. Go with the 4k but 32in. 28 is too small and over 32 is too bog
An alternative company which actually seems to do good work w.r.t. safe languages is Alacris/LegiLogic. Though I haven't found the operational semantics of the language there is a public compiler that can be found here: https://alacrity-lang.org/codeeditor
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I hate to say it but environmental circumstances and resources ensure it will always be "yes".

Probably even if we went to dystopian radical equality measures like mandating all kids be kept in government creches which would play hell with mammilian bonds and rightfully piss many people off.
There have been a lot of posts and responses about Libra. The core of it is that FB wants to be an unregulated bank. That is all this whole thing is about. Given the current (and post 2020 political realities?), it is no wonder all the established payment companies tapped out. This effort will be delayed until their is a government structure willing to look the other way. It will also be really interesting to see how this gets rolled out against GDPR and other European laws.
Good point. I think the challenge is trying to figure out what is BS put out by the oil companies (that never showed peak oil) vs BS put out by other people (that I guess inaccurately failed to include technology improvements in their forecasts).

I think the part that is fair is the belief that we would run out of oil to the point that we wouldn’t be able to make plastics. That’s just me not taking into account of the supply demand curve where plastics would be able to use oil even if we were not able to affordable fuel cars.
There's offline Office 2011 for Mac. It seems to be available on Ebay. And apparently the 2016 version also has an offline edition.
I think Foursquare offer pretty much exactly that. They pivoted a while ago to focus on B2B location API stuff.
The old .doc format was basically serialized C structs, and it's still supported, you're encouraged to upgrade it for security reasons.
Congratulations!

I see that Project Jengo started right about the time the Supreme Court put a stop to the Eastern District of Texas Court prostituting itself as a service to trolls [1], and that this case was judged in the Northern District of California.

Things are moving in the right direction, but we also need the USPTO to do its part properly.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/patent-cases-in-...
A lot of very interesting information has been published by LIGO and in the popular press (no insult intended, but based on what you're saying I'm assuming you don't have any deep understanding of modern physics experiments).

I wouldn't put too much weight on Hossenfelder's blog posts. She is very angry when things don't go exactly her way (in this case, IIUC, she's basically trying to hold LIGO to an unreasonable standard before accepting proof, and casting some aspersions which only experts in the field would be capable of evaluating).
It's a jet car. It has crossed the "power is no longer applied through the wheels" threshold a long time ago.
Fertility has already fallen below replacement levels in most of the world. The only exception is Africa however carbon emissions from that part of the world are so small it barely makes a difference. Even if you wanted to focus in on Africa you will find the countries with the highest emissions like South Africa have a fertility rate barely above replacement level.

The reality is nearly all the increases in population are built in already, it's caused by people surviving into old age. The population is going up and nothing can be done about it.

This is why arguments about population are pointless with regards to climate change, we resolved that years ago through education and better health provision.
I'm against loan forgiveness. I went to an inexpensive local college, took the public bus to class, lived with my parents (I realize I was "privileged" enough to be able to do this), worked 25 hours/week while going to school, and took as many classes as possible at a low-cost community college that could be applied for credit to my 4-year degree.

I graduated with no debt.

I don't think others should also suffer. That's why, I want the government to stop backing student loans, and make new non-government loans like any other loan, including bk discharge.

Tuitions would drop rapidly, and nobody "in perpetuity" will have to suffer.

Most people who are against forgiveness are also against continuing to write new loans!
I try to do the same on a work desktop but it doesn't matter because xagt.exe

Who knows what it is reading and writing that can't wait while I do npm install
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Why don’t we have our governments fund the development and maintenance of infrastructure and platforms that enable competitive products and services?

We know governments aren’t good at innovation, and they have little incentive to provide great products or services. But, we know they’re well capable of building roads and bridges.
- The administrator can enforce use of hardware-backed keys [1]

- U2F Tokens cost $8-$25 and are significantly cheaper than full-blown Yubikeys

- U2F Tokens do not have a key limit, which enables using a unique public key per server for privacy/anonymity

[1] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT...
Someone once owned the land on which all of Europe's railways are currently running quite nicely, thank you. It's not really a convincing argument against building railways in general. Public service or private enterprise, it's pretty much guaranteed that existing occupants of the land will get shat on by whatever interests stand to profit from doing so, but that doesn't mean that building the thing doesn't benefit the community as a whole.
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Do you believe that bitcoin is useful as an actual currency? As far as I can tell, its only use is to buy drugs and other illegal things online.
Report back, I'd love to know.
I remember old terminals showing | as two separate segments with a space in the middle.
Being able to use a standard U2F-compliant token means a much simpler setup to get things working. There is no need to setup anything on the key itself, beyond the standard new key registration procedure. Existing U2F keys used to authenticate with web services (WebAuthn) can be reused.

U2F security keys are cheaper too.
Most importantly I want to put on weight. At least 30-40lbs. Unfortunately I'm still trying to work out how to optimize my diet because I can only eat so mo much until I become bloated and moderately nauseous
Modern logic and set theory meets some of the requirements of this. At the time, he did not have for-all, exists, and so on. Leibnitz himself created some proofs with the limited logic of his day. Nowadays much more can be done. It's not as all-encompassing, but it is a step forward.
>The possibility that a Libra node run by Mastercard or Andressen Horrowitz would suddenly start running malicious code is such a bizarre scenario to plan for and is better solved by simply enforcing protocol integrity and through non-technical (i.e. legal) means.

Refusing to rely on legal means of enforcement suggests the project views itself supreme over all national policies, laws and regulations. On the one hand, such a concept is usually the domain of autocrats, despots, and organized crime-- odd for a tech startup. On the other hand, it would suggest a system more secure from outside legal interference than, say, MasterCard. This detail tends to add a datapoint explaining the lack of support from global ministers of finance....
> Isn't that just calling for a different kind of regulation, one that forces interoperability?

Yes, but dominant platforms that ordinarily benefit from network effects should absolutely be forced to be interoperable, as any restriction to interoperability is tantamount to abuse of monopoly power. This is remarkably light regulation by any standard, and it comes with a very clear rationale.
Numerous studies appear to show this.
It is business. He has traction now, he is known now, there is a chance people will be willing to help him. Because they know his story and like him.

Crowdfunding is about making people know you and being personal, he got that now. It is not like he would be getting filthy rich never have to work again from that. It is his sudden chance to get a bit better business, so he is trying.
Fired? They made the right decision.

They would have to add some sort of management structure, make sure he was up to hygiene codes, incorporate the new model in their finance and admin, produce risk assessments, have meetings, do a ton of work I can't even think of.

It would cost them $100,000s, for a few $1,000 revenue.

That they've been forced to adopt him because of an online backlash is an indictment of the irrationality of the internet, not a bad mark against the totally reasonable, and rational, decision an employee made.

And now you're calling for him to be fired. Sad.
I’ve only used 42 4K. And 34 ultra wide. But I feel like 32 4K would be too small
This is very U.S. centrist, I'd grant you the relative peace and stability if you're in the West. But 70 years isn't that long and you could find empires with long stretches of time where relatively nothing was fundamentally changing for the dominant population of some of the long-lived empires. The U.S. in its modern form and position isn't around even as long as the golden age of democratic Athens was around.

Sure, there were historically always some tensions at the border regions of these empires, but there are pressures of such nature felt in Europe now too, (the U.S. has the advantage of being physically very, very far from the regions in unleashes its worst policies on, so of course it's less felt there).

Also, all empires saw themselves as in some way policing, keeping peace and bringing their enlightened values to what they saw as the lesser. If we see that kind of thinking now as wrong, then I really don't see how the U.S. is so much different from the empire model of old.

As for China, I agree its regional foreign policy is not great, the problem is the U.S. doesn't just keep it regional. It treats the whole world as its backyard.

If you're a non-U.S. citizen, the unipolar world is not so great. I don't want China to say replace the U.S. as the dominant superpower, I want it to offer a counter-balance. I want the EU to be its own great power, offering counter balance to both, bringing both democratic values & a more humane treatment of its own citizens than the U.S. has, especially the less fortunate.
That seems like symmetric key encryption with extra steps.
> Why don’t we have our governments fund the development and maintenance of infrastructure and platforms that enable competitive products and services?

I agree with you, however for social networks this is dangerous as hell. You can bet it will take only five minutes for the first law-and-order idiots to demand real time access to all data and especially private messages to mine for "terrorists" (=everything that challenges capitalism) or "child porn", and that in reality it will only be another piece of the surveillance state.

Apple, Facebook etc. can at least put up a fight for privacy in the legal system.
The chicken and egg problem is that OSM will be as good as the data it gets, and the data it gets will increase as people use it as a serious solution and contribute where they find it inadequate.
Are are more explanations for the manual patch than losing the source code though: why spend days/weeks setting up a 20-year old dev and build environment when a two-byte patch does the trick?
I'm sure having one of the most powerful men in the world run a newspaper is going to produce unbiased journalism.
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Or an edge case they didn't consider, and will likely fix.
You shouldn't be impressed that existing apps continue to work, since that's the norm for Microsoft. It's all the other things they changed around and the subtly added "telemetry" spyware that should get your attention more. ;-)

Office 95 can run on Win10, with only a little difficulty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfn4M5DXTE
Works just fine. It's legitimately the setup everyone at my house uses (except for me). We have a legit license for it, and it works just fine, so why not
Meanwhile, your 20 year old Mac software is useless. Heck, even a lot of 10 year old Mac software and some 5-year old is useless if it was 32-bit.

Style over function. And not even a lot of style anymore. Yet they're still beloved by many people here. The obvious conclusion: few of those people you see sitting around typing on their MacBooks are doing anything that will be of value 5, 10, or 20 years from now.
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I buy legal things online and use Bitcoin occasionally. Especially on sites that give a discount for using it.
Their twitter account is so cringey: https://twitter.com/bbirdtech

I'm also sad to see MIT so overrepresented in their ranks, presumably because the founder went to MIT: https://web.archive.org/web/20170511234303/http://www.blackb...

Perhaps there's an ethics course missing from the curriculum?
I still remember using Windos ME as a kid and loved it because it felt more modern than Win98. I still don't get what was so bad about it but then again even if I would know I would have no idea.
Why doesn't the EU pressure Apple to make sure the Apple Write and Apple Pages, etc, still work?!
Expect the 'free' press is more akin to 'corporate press' & the elections results in the person getting the most votes not being elected President.
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I would very much doubt that. Though I'm sure the extremists wouldn't care how they won an election the main incumbents would be afraid that if it leaked they would be clobbered at the ballot box. If you don't give a damn about your reputation you tend to have more options than if you do.
I haven't been using Windows a lot in the last years (as you said, updates annoy me a few times a year, but I still take the time to do them), however, a lot of Windows users have told me and others in our hackerspace that the first thing they do is to disable Windows Update when they install Microsoft Windows, so I suppose that they are really annoyed by updates.

I think most of them cling to the idea of a computer that doesn't need any kind of maintenance (except on the hardware side), which is something I can totally understand, but is not currently doable, at least if you want to keep connected to the rest of the world.

(Of course, we do tell them that if they want their computer to be connected to the outside world in any way, updates should not be disabled, and that maintenance is necessary).
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> How do you ensure competition when Big Tech can (and do) literally buy any and all potential competition?

Heck, let them keep buying. They're literally paying for new competitors to spring up! And it also makes investors more willing to fund potential competition, as the prospect of an acquihire puts a floor on valuations.
Guy from Germany here.
I were with my twin (both guys) in the same class. Im also a Christian who really belives in the Bible (Really rare in my area). In short: I were an outsider (but together with my brother). Nonetheless bullying wasnt really a thing. In the beginning some kids gave it a try, but the achieved nothing.
Generally the time was really great, we had a lot of fun. Our class was awesome and stood together. We had the typical Groupes and often little figths, but it never got physical.
If a new kid came in class he had some starting problems, but generally new friends were made quickly.
Bullying happend, but on a minor scale and never physical, just the stupid stuff kids say if they want to be cool.
That's very different from "algorithm-heavy interview" process.

You could just ask "do you know when quicksort becomes quadratic?"

> Just use a "Library".

Not just a library, a battle tested one.

A bad implementation of quicksort can be much worse than "accidentally quadratic" bad.

a good library could shuffle the array before sorting it and never be quadratic.

Or has hints about quadratic behaviour in the documentation.

A good library could automatically choose the best sort algorithm for the input.

For example Java used quicksort for primitive types and mergesort for arrays of objects.

now it uses trimsort for both.

But the developer just calls `sort` on the collection.

> How about you know your stuff .

I bet you never encountered quadratic quicksort in your life.

The probability that quicksort will use a quadratic number of compares when sorting a large array on your computer is much less than the probability that your computer will be struck by lightning!

How about you know your stuff.
Yes it took place somewhere else. Even in tech a good portion of Chineses don’t know HN and other people just use it as “tech news hub” like medium/TechCrunch (tbh that’s my common usage). There would be a language barrier because most of the discussion would be in written Chinese which is quite ambiguous for discussion. The best way might be to interview a few Chinese people but keep in mind the redlines: 1) integrity/definition of China (e.g no sane Chinese would think HongKong is not part of China and some would terminate the conversation directly if you raise some other point. Tibet/Taiwan is more controversial maybe you can discuss). 2)Those “well known” crimes/human rights offense the government committed. Native Chinese doesn’t really trust western media that much and it might be such a meme to them already so it’s likely turning into whataboutsim (which is perfectly ok in Chinese culture, if you are not better by another magnitude don’t comment on me)