skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More on TMaxSoft.

This software firm builds many 'hard' softwares like OS, DBMS or even MapReduce data processing cluster(like hadoop and spark). One might naturally ask 'why build a wheel while there are plenty already built by open source developers?'
and economically aware person might also ask 'how are selling their products while competing against ubuntu, postgresql, spark?'

Cloning something from scratch and learning advanced technology in its process is a familiar thing in Korea. Enforcing home grown products to average customers, subsidizing one specific firm to take all domestic market share is how Samsung and Hyundai made its way to top global firms. So I guess the mental background for replacing OS by home made OS is similar to that which successfully grew Samsung. They are willing to pay off a lot of money so that a Korean firm outgrows Google, Facebook or Apple. An average developer knows it is a stupid plan to replicate linux or mysql from scratch. But government officials' heart still remain in the golden age when the very strategy they are executing with was valid for Samsung or Hyundai.

The way this firm hires its employees is tighly coupled with government. In our country all men are obliged to military service. However there are couple of options:

1. B.S holders: no exemption. 2 years in a random role.
2. M.S holders: you get to work for private firm for 3 years. Called 'special research agents'. Mostly work for engineering related firms.
3. Ph.D holders: you are exempted as soon as you become a Ph.D holder.

All these exemption rules according to the level of scholastic degree is to foster R&D capability of our nation. And here comes a perky question: 'What happens to Ph.D dropouts?' As some might have guessed: 'You go to TmaxSoft, get hefty salary, get a girl, get married.'

I wouldn't say much about it if there weren't a fact that really bugs me. They do hoard M.S holders from best colleges, however the graduate students they hire aren't limited to CS majors. I've seen multiple chemistry majors or industrial engineering majors who dropped out of Ph.D course doing software engineering there. I have no idea how they could 'train' a non CS major to write code for hard core stuffs like OS or DBMS. And they tell the government officials that they have the best pool of engineers from prestigious colleges, which would ease the government to making decision to subsidize this firm.
You can, but you need to think about it ahead. And no one expects the Spanish inquisition...
Zvi has a lengthy Less Wrong sequence that builds on this.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ham9i5wf4JCexXnkN/moloch-has...
If these rich 20th century industries can't adapt and end up bankrupt, so be it.

How should the many millions of people around the world who contribute to creative content enjoyed by many millions more every day then put food on their tables, in your version of the future?

Arguments about the ease of copying information in the Internet age are easy to make, but that's just the marginal cost of distribution. These arguments almost invariably ignore the issue of creating that content in the first place, and that the main economic role of copyright is to amortise that cost over many people who ultimately benefit from the work rather than just relying on some extremely wealthy patron or the equivalent to fund it philanthropically.

So far, other business models that have been tried have rarely come even close to supporting the same quantity and quality of creative work that our current copyright-based regime does. Until someone proposing to revoke copyright and allow everything to be copied freely comes up with a viable alternative model, most people are going to continue not to take them seriously.
roughly half of that time was spent wrestling with different kinds of code-signing and identity provisioning and I don’t even know what.

It's worth noting that in the early era of personal computing, companies did not view users as idiots to be herded and restricted by their technology, and computer magazines contained source code listings.
> and you think that won't happen with health care?

It could happen, but it's totally unrelated to the original thesis regarding information asymmetry.
Often it’s not the papers but the headline creators of these on-line magazines.
I would say, try to see world from others eye.
eg. If door nob is to low -> for children, Fonts too big--> For elderly, Website so dumb --> for accessibility reasons etc.

Change your perspective, Always ask why to your self like If you find something dumb and also in abundance, there must be reason why it is still being used. Walk in others shoes, make your product/daily decisions thinking the same way.
It will not just work first time, Every day do meditation for 15-20 minutes and think for what you saw last day and repeat, you will have your answers. May be you get new business idea doing so ;). That would be the best way to handle it in my opinion.
I don't understand the incentives or mechanism here. Let's assume you are correct, and parents irrationally fear screens (and many other things). Then what, the AAP issues guidelines based on what parents already fear? Then they conduct studies and what? Fudge the results? I'm having trouble connecting the dots.

If it's anything like this, it still seems like doctors are more guilty than parents. They're supposed to be the experts.
Tell us about an enslaved persons auction site
AMA: Developing a Geek's CMS since 2009
This is Henry from Germany... I am the founder and lead-developer of Redaxscript (https://github.com/redaxscript/redaxscript) and this is my story of keeping an open source project alive that never has been successful.

Ask my anything!
Imagine these statements in an engineering context:

"Linked lists are bad."

"Java is bad."

"Databases are bad."

As an engineer, those are useless to me for making day-to-day decisions, because they're obviously made with some implicit context, and I need to evaluate them in a probably-different context. There are cases where linked lists are bad, and cases where they are great.

The same thing applies to these parenting generalizations. When some parenting guru or doctor says "x is bad", before we can fit that advice into our lives we have to know: how bad? In what scenarios is it worse, in which scenarios does it not matter, and in which scenarios is it better? What's the context in which they reached that conclusion? Does that context apply to me?

And all of that is just way too much effort for me to evaluate, so those recommendations don't carry much weight to me (they still carry weight, just not much). I trust my observations and my ability to understand my situations better than blanket statements.
First of all, if your manager is any good, (s)he will already have replacements in the pipeline, given the musical chairs nature of the industry.

Second, why aren't you already at a different job that pays you more instead of hanging that over your manager's head?

Third, don't underestimate how many other good developers that are out there, looking for the next job. It might not require 6 months of training for the next person, who could be as competent, or even more than the person that's being replaced.

I'm not sure what kind of company you work for, but 6 months of training is ridiculously long, unless there is a lot of institutional knowledge that's siloed amongst a small subset of employees - which should never happen in the first place, if your manager was any good.
Feynman even has his own 1729 anecdote: https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html
Mango languages app offers Canadian French/Québécois - I find their approach to language learning much better than Duolingo. Plus it comes free with your library card if you’re in Ontario!
Trolls and crap content? Aren't you being overly broad here? I find the r/swift and r/iOSProgramming communities pretty informative. And the r/ProgrammerHumor is good for a smile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/
The amount of sarcasm in that log is both hilarious and validating (for my job today, of course).
Right, "bath salts" contained cathinone drugs that were initially obscure and unregulated in many countries, so they served as temporarily legal substitutes for amphetamine type stimulants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substituted_cathinone
Then it wouldn’t work on iOS.
Done, thanks :)
Incredibly well design and executed Reddit app.

If Reddit had any sense, they'd throw a pile of money at this guy to get him on-board.
If only people who agree to it make it through, then I'm not surprised the feedback is positive. What you're missing is all of the senior people who would never do this (which is a lot of them).

I'll also add that it's not hard to vet candidates. I've hired dozens and dozens of great people and never ask for references. Interviewing is a skill all managers should develop and excel at.
thanks for pointing this out :=)
TV's and radio's used to contain their schematics on paper.
PepperTab is a browser extension that will replace the page you see when you open a new tab.
-️ Take notes
-️ ️Create todos
-️ ️Google calendar
-️ ️Favorite websites
-️ ️Weather
-️ ️Beautiful wallpapers
-️ ️100% free. No tracking, No data sent to server.
Apollo actually ditches native components in certain places and tries to reimplement their behavior, getting it wrong in some places. It drives me insane enough to use an entirely different app :(
> Everyone in foreign countries speaks English anyway.

Maybe you'll find an interesting travel destination where that's not the case by sorting this list by percent English speakers, ascending:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
"Are you on track to meet the deadline?" is the worst 121 opener, I can't think why it's on the list. Unless you're an old-skool command-and-control type of course.
No problem, and I agree, it's very powerful and it's fun to use. It doesn't take very long to get a feel for what's going on, and it's very rewarding afterwards, as you know.
I work in a public sector and I surely have pissed off people like you. I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt, that had you been tasked with creating a working thing with all sorts of budget and reglementary and scheduling constraints, that you would have succeeded at all.
Thank you so much for this app. I transitioned from the official one because GIFs were just not working at all. The GIF navigation and post hiding on scroll made me upgrade. If there's just one thing I miss from the official app it's when I'm on my feed and I click "posts" again, it doesn't scroll to the top.

If you considered this small addition that would be fantastic!
> I would have assumed that the key requirement is Hangul input, which presumably other word processing and spreadsheet programs could do just fine.

Hangul support was a key feature in the 80s where everything was MS-DOS; and it wasn’t prevalent then where a lot of hangul-supporting word processors were on the market.

The killer feature of the Hangul Word Processor to most users is that it allows substantial control on the layout of the document... in a way that westerners don’t really care. (That’s a direct quote from a foreigner I know, maybe an over-generalization.) So the Korean Government and a lot of corporations were very committed on transitioning documents that were written by hand, to computers, and they also wanted to have this exact layout and form that was used before. Most forms are based out of tables — and I can’t really explain this in text, but it gives you the power to layout the text the exact way you want, while in Word, you feel like you’re wrestling with the layout engine. (Kinda like... if Word is old CSS where you had to use all kinds of float hacks to make your fragile layout, HWP gives you flexbox and grids... etc....) Some says that HWP is more like a DTD program like InDesign (I’ve never used it so I can’t really comment) rather than a usual word processor that other countries use... but everybody is just super used to having all that control, so nobody can really transition back to Word.
What if they are video chatting with a relative? Is that bad because it is a screen?

If you are going to make an exception for such things (as they usually do), you really need to step back and look at the whole idea of lumping all things screen based as a single entity, "screen time."

Is it possible that the real problem isn't that it is in a screen, but it is the type of content, the passiveness vs. interactivity, the intentionally addictive nature of games and video content, etc? And maybe the likely correllation between kids who spend a lot of time on screens, and parents who aren't very interested in interacting with their kids.
We have tri-colour e-ink – perhaps interleaving WYK WMK WCK would allow the necessary colour range?
This is a rule of thumb. You should always check your assumptions about code being correct or not. However, if somebody and their code have proven themselves unreliable, it is a useful optimization to first consider they are wrong, instead of first considering they are right (humility.)
A Loveletter to the Atari Lynx
ProgrammerHumor used to be so good but I think it reached the front page too many times so now it’s just jokes for people for a passing interest in computers and bad volume sliders. I can’t stand being there anymore…
Any change we can get the source of it?

I'm interested in how you did the animations
For tech related follows:

I tend to follow some prominent people in the programming languages / frameworks I'm interested in, which is mainly Rails and Elixir / Phoenix things. As I've gotten more interested in DevOps type things I've found people in that space also. And then some prominent VCs and other random people in tech I've come across.

The interesting thing is that the 'X Person liked this' feature that injects tweets of people you don't follow into your timeline actually works wonders for finding more people in tech to follow. I've stumbled into following people with very different backgrounds / viewpoints as myself to be more informed of the greater scope of the tech world.

A list of some of the people:
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy
https://twitter.com/IanColdwater
https://twitter.com/martinfowler
https://twitter.com/wycats
https://twitter.com/polotek
https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley
https://twitter.com/samsaffron
https://twitter.com/vsupalov
https://twitter.com/nateberkopec
https://twitter.com/redrapids
https://twitter.com/keystonelemur
https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower
https://twitter.com/pragdave
https://twitter.com/jessfraz
https://twitter.com/searls
https://twitter.com/wbruce
https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton
https://twitter.com/eileencodes
https://twitter.com/sasajuric
https://twitter.com/dhh
https://twitter.com/josevalim
https://twitter.com/chris_mccord
https://twitter.com/benedictevans
https://twitter.com/tenderlove
https://twitter.com/pmarca
https://twitter.com/davemcclure
https://twitter.com/bhorowitz
Apollo is cool, but I found myself going back to Narwhal after trying out both for a while. I love the comments on top of the media view for Narwhal, and Apollo hasn't matched that experience. The app looks awesome though, either way they are both amazing apps.
Yeah that's true it might be appreciated, though i'll add on and say i think its unreasonable to expect Americans to learn the local language when they travel. If i wanted to visit europe and go to 3 countries in 10 days, (i dont think thats an unreasonable trip) It would be crazy to do dedicated months of learning for that. Anything beyond, hello, good bye, excuse me and thank you is really too much and not a real good use of time.
The targets Haxe compiles to are all rather similar (object oriented mutable-state imperative VM's). While that's cool and interesting, its far from any language. I imagine adapting it to compiling to something like Haskell may be less than straightforward, at least in a way that produces decent quality/performant Haskell code.
And at a certain complexity level it’s not with printing out reams of minute schematics about the thousands of components inside a modern flat screen that nobody will ever read.

Go get them via PDF on the internet, if available.
DID is getting to be fun :) https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
So the whole Windows infrastructure from 2000 - 2005, including the use of Office to write documents in some is gone?

And everyone at HLT has ditched their Apple laptops?

I thought Scientific Linux was no longer a thing (I was a beta user back in the initial release).
You're right. That's important to keep in mind. But I don't think the medical and scientific communities are innocent to this either.
> So-called λ-calculus? Isn't that rather dismissive of λ-calculus.

There's an article somewhere about how EU bureaucrats mis-understood what 'co-called' means idiomatically and started to put it in lots of documents just meaning innocently 'that is called' and how they caused offence.

That's probably what's happening here - the author doesn't know idiomatic English.
There have been lots. Twenty? Thirty? A hundred? It was a good century plus for mathematical genius.
I never would have got it without the name, so thank you too!
This happens to YouTubers who made a video on a subject that someone else also has a video on that they want to promote. Or just randomly.
Visualizing the Progression of the Coronavirus Outbreak
> That's why I think that attributing the drug flow to a Chinese government plan for Opium War revenge is ridiculous.

But that conclusion doesn't even approximately follow from the preceding narrative, which just as easily could be seen as lending credence to the hypothesis you use it to reject, since it provides a very clear explanation as to how both the ground was laid off such an effort to be successful and how the Chinese government would become aware of that opportunity.

(The “Opium War” revenge is probably needlessly romanticized, even if the Chinese government did deliberately act on the opportunity, the motivation (even if the Opium War was part of the inspiration) was probably more prosaic geopolitical advantage by weakening rivals with costly internal problems, not revenge.
I'd happily sacrifice all of Hollywood so that computers and the internet can remain free.

It wouldn't just be all of Hollywood, but even if it were, who are you to make that decision for the millions of people who enjoy the creative work Hollywood produces?

The rest of your argument is a straw man. It is illegal for me to drive my car at 100mph past a school, but my car doesn't have any physical means of stopping me. As a society we have agreed that this is a reasonable rule and codified it in law so everyone knows the consensus, and almost everyone complied voluntarily, and those who break the rule are penalised for it.

The strange thing about copyright is that it remains mostly a civil matter, which leaves the burden of enforcement on the victim of copyright infringement and so makes enforcement of small infringements prohibitively expensive. Meanwhile, a police officer can and will arrest a 15-year-old who walks into a corner shop and gets caught stealing a chocolate bar. That anomaly in turn then leads to attempts to make enforcement of small infringements on a wide scale more viable, which gets you far from ideal solutions like the DMCA and its counterparts around the world.
Also on narwhal still, there are some issues with YouTube videos but it’s the best way I’ve found for long text posts.
Is there or could there be a way to disable the Home and All buttons? I find Reddit to be much less of a time suck if I’m going to specific subreddits and reading interesting content, but I often just mindlessly browse All without thinking. I had to remove Apollo from my phone (even though I paid for it!) because I often find myself spending too much time doing nothing. My current solution is bookmarking a bunch of i.reddit.com URLs in Safari, but the experience is really poor.

Thanks for making an app that I used for far too many hours.
Beating Factorio quickly is not the primary point. It's more of an engineering sandbox than an objective. (Of course optimizing for time is valid.)

Also, please tell me how to pack 80 hours of anything into a couple days. :-)
CRUD services in Angular with effortless aborting and caching
Look into RDFs and Ontology w.r.t. NNs. A very rich (though unproductive) history.
It was also true in most of the English speaking world except for the US until relatively recently - some people still talk about "american billions" and "english billions" (the last being 10^12)
Overview of the 2020 US consumer electric vehicle market [video]
Vox Mine is another super impressive PICO-8 game - https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=32894
It seems even the mods there aren't so sure everyone knows that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/f4a5kp/how_...
It’s not necessary about considering users idiots. As with anything, once a critical mass of users was reached people started creating malicious software, and code signing is a way to help prevent that.

Of course you can run your own self-signed APK on your own phone, nobody is preventing you. But use the Apple App Store as a delivery medium? Come on. Code signing is a bare, completely responsible minimum.
Have you found anything like a hybrid between OneNote for its drawing/handwriting-with-stylus support + Roam or TiddlyWiki for the graph-like organization?