skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I personally also think that the lockdown and movement restrictions have been excessive, it's not especially helpful to compare this new coronavirus to the flu, because people can significantly reduce their risk of catching the flu by getting a vaccination. Lockdown is a strategy put in place not because of the increased mortality rate, but because the "standard" risk mitigation of vaccination is not available for this virus.
> I am struggling to remember actual Silverlight applications

Also, Netflix. The fact that Netflix required silverlight caused much pain for Linux users.
Mozilla doesn't have a great business model, browser or not. But their codebase is full of treasures and Fluent is the best internationalization framework.
It appears to be the fate of such package manager creators. The homebrew guy was also rejected (by Google).
That's the monetization plan.
As the other guy wrote. Wasn’t my final call. I understood the presidents point. If it was just me, I probably would have given him a try.

And also like I said, it worked out in this case, the guy was a get-rich-quick type. He went to work for someone I know and didn’t last there. Sub par work, rushed and didn’t really care. That’s all besides the point.

The point that yes, your outside interests can possibly effect your hiring prospects.
But there is the promise of your OSS engine being used again, future potential. Microsoft essentially cut this person off from being involved in the future of Windows packaging and only told him 24 hours in advance. I'd need that amount of time just to process.
Trap succeeded. I don't expect you will hear back from him/her though.
Remote Onboarding at Picnic
> Although full universal suffrage was never granted by the British to its colony before the handover in 1997, some democratic reform began in 1984.

> ... but they stalled due to opposition from Beijing, local business interests as represented by Executive Council, and the British Foreign Office under the pretext that it would bring chaos to Hong Kong.

> In 1987, many surveys indicated that there was more than 60% popular support for direct elections. The government, under governor David Wilson, issued another green paper in 1987 proposing direct LegCo elections for 1988.

> However, the proposal was ruled out after a government consultation concluded that people were 'sharply divided' over its introduction that year.

It links to an article here: https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1618427...

The "vested interests" you refer to is "Patten's push for reform was strongly opposed at the time by vested interests within LegCo and by former ambassador to China Percy Cradock." However that was in response to "labour rights and collective bargaining" and not strictly democratic elections.

Local business interests, and a "sharply divided" public were the reasons democracy never came sooner. Of course I'm not sure how reliable those government consultations were. I do want to point out I fully support Democracy in Hong Kong. I'd just rather not be a pawn in an opportunistic power grab by business elites who decided Chinese rulers don't work out as well for them as their former British ones. Freedom of information and thought aside, the elites have more to lose from Chinese rule than the working class.
You know, I was thinking it, but I kept thinking “no, that can’t be right. I must be remembering wrong, surely it was some other video service.”

I guess it was right. Also Netflix.
I ended up throwing this together: https://pastebin.com/2fCKPsGr

It creates an Anki deck with one card per highlight. The "hint" side of each card shows the book title and the 5 most important words/phrases from the clipping (as determined by Rake [1]). It could also be pretty easily modified to do cloze deletion (fill in the blank) using the "most important" words as the "blanks" on the hint card.

My thinking was that this would help sort of jog your memory of the highlight without just showing the whole thing immediately.

I made a deck of several hundred cards and it seems to work great. Would love if someone tried it out too.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/rake-nltk/
Can someone explain to me how this works? Weeks ago they had a backlog of several thousand orders, getting a plane takes years of waiting.

Airbus says they still habe a queue of 7000(!) planes to deliver, with only a few cancellations.

https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/market/orders-deliveries.htm...

How is there a need to fire people if there is still so much demand?
After the collapse of the Empire, Roman building where stripped and left to rot, floors where covered with dirt for making crops or just for hiding pagan images.
Do you believe in equal access for no-JS?
If these echo chambers move elsewhere, Twitter might be a more sought-after media.

Meanwhile, I make the claim that the echo chambers will stagnate rapidly outside a big platform. The echo chambers need constant exposure to gain new ideological members. If left to a private-club-platform, they will not showcase themselves.

Note that there is a strong adherence to the YCombinator’s code of conduct on the current platform - but we come back to discuss ideas here, not to a not-vetted forum. By making the level of adherence to fact checks, discussions will improve.
I don't take notes while reading (mostly because I lack the habit, but I also read a lot while I walk/bike at the gym, as it helps me focus more), but I've found that physical books allow me to remember a lot more than ebooks. Even if I'm reading the same book in different formats (switching between physica/ebook based on what I'm doing, for instance), I've found that I'll remember more of the physical book's content.

Maybe I should find a way to stick with my notes again, especially for more academic books.
I find it highly entertaining a two-year old company who was founded on the basis of helping slash cloud spending found so much waste in their own AWS spend. This is not an example of dogfooding, but an example of sheer incompetency and massive technical debt.

I'd really like to start seeing a series of blog posts from companies who are running extremely lean and efficient tech environments by utilizing cloud in an intelligent manner and avoiding the expensive and unnecessary bullshit that's so prevalent today. The ones that can brag "How we run a $4M/yr SaaS on $40k/yr of AWS spend!" are far more interesting than "How we stopped incinerating millions of VC money by simply turning off shit we didn't need"
WLW Super-Power Transmitter Tour from 1985, only radio station to run 500K watts
When I think back over my childhood, there's nothing I miss more than the way being on the "old" internet felt. The Geocities sites, the webrings, ICQ, Trillian, mIRC scripting, stileproject, the birth and death of E/N sites, image macros, and a million other things that no longer exist and don't have any meaning to the vast majority of internet users today. It was a special club, almost nobody I knew in the real world had any idea that this stuff existed and wouldn't have cared if they did.

And then DALnet was attacked. Days of downtime extended into weeks and eventually months, and by the time it ended DALnet was a shadow of its former self. So many tens of thousands of people just moved on and it was never the same again. I tried moving to efnet as so many did but it didn't have the same vibe. I didn't realise at the time just how much I'd actually lost and how much things were going to change. Man I'd give anything to go back.

Edit: Speaking of netstalgia, here are a few random files from the archives that some might recognise:

https://n1ckn4m3.com/?page_id=976

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/romjul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljsPqIfPD0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3sexvJM5Go
> No one at the CDC (at least no career bureaucrat) ever denied masks were effective, though.

Not the CDC, but the U.S. surgeon general, Feb 29th: "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"

https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...

Once more data came in proving the effectiveness of masks, he acknowledged in a later tweet that this is incorrect, and encouraged mask usage. But that doesn't change the fact that there was a high-level denial of mask effectiveness.

P.S. I am in fact a mask evangelist, and I don't understand why anyone would avoid them given the data.
It doesn't seem like there'd be much incentive to. If they have an uncontrolled outbreak, people are gonna notice regardless of what the stats say.
Facebook reportedly had evidence that its algorithms were dividing people
Composites have some pluses, but also serious minuses.

Here's a good overview:
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/composite-materials-aircra...

Metals have inherent temperature-resistance and repairability that composites don't have, and support transsonic and supersonic flight heating.

Some early aircraft that used composites ended up heavier than aluminum, so achieved no benefit.

I consider metals to be higher tech than composites for aircraft construction.

Also, metal can be quickly stamped, whereas composites are generally made by vacuum forming, which is a slow process that's hard to parallelize.

Most of the WW2 planes you've heard of were made of metal in runs of 10,000 to 20,000 each, impossible for composites - you might get 10% or less.
Twitter got rid of RSS years ago, I use a service for that. I did the Tumblr thing for a while as well, and the hole reblogging thing was extremely annoying. It's a blogging platform, which is exactly how I used it.
I'm not suggesting silencing the poor. I'm suggesting that people should pay (very small amounts) for the information they want to read, and that publishers will need to maintain good reputations in order to have a continued revenue stream.

There's not really any "publisher" anyway. Everyone is an equal participant. A two-way conversation is one where each user attaches some money to each message to effectively bypass a spam filter and have their message promoted to the top of the recipient's feed. The back and forth sending of money means that neither participant is earning or losing - they're just swapping money.

It is only costly if you are sending messages out and getting no responses. (Ie, nobody wants to converse with you or subscribe to receive future messages from you). Meaning your information is garbage or uninteresting.

Wealthy people will be forced to provide good or engaging content in order to continue receiving revenue. If they're just putting out junk information then they'll eventually just be burning money as they won't be able to develop a reputation and nobody will subscribe to receiving future content from them.

SPAM would be profitable in this scenario. Each advertisement a user receives in their feed will have money attached to it. The advert can be ignored, in which case the recipient keeps the money, or the advert might be clicked or have a promotion code used to make a purchase - in which case the advertiser then knows whether the recipient is interested in their products and will likely pay a higher fee next time to promote their adverts up the user's feed. The advertiser then has a strong incentive to limit the messages they put out and instead focus on who they're delivering them to.

In the current situation, it is simply too cheap (zero cost) to publish. The costs, if any, are subsidized by good content or user's data being sold to advertisers. By putting a cost on publishing, the good content is paid for directly and the bad content is largely ignored - demoted to the bottom of each user's information feed.
> Yes, both France and the Netherlands are broadly aligned with the UK, and would fight alongside them in the case of any existential threat. But for colonial wars one might think they'd be happy to see Britain get some egg on her face.

Any “friend” who won’t help with small things is a lot less likely to help when it really matters. And the Dutch and French both also have possessions in the New World full of people perfectly happy with the status quo who deserve protection from would be conquerors.
There was a version created for the S60 (Nokia) platform!
But that's the thing, even the fancy stuff today doesn't have much of the fit and finish of modest stuff in the past. Go find a new construction apartment commanding top of market rent in your town, and I bet you can hear your neighbors through those paper thin walls and the appliances are new, but the cheapest ones possible. Mansions became McMansions. Compare the Broad in LA to the library build 100 years before; the materials in the $140mm Broad are bare concrete and latex paint, while the LA central library looks like a Byzantine palace.
Well, they didn't discriminate. They simply used their right to free speech on their platform to add additional information.

So are you arguing that the president has a greater right to free speech than Twitter?
Keivan obviously got screwed.

Having worked at Microsoft, and seeing the nature of the bureaucracy, the only advice I would give for next time is...

Just realize you can't set terms with a large company like MSFT unless you get lawyers involved early.

Stealing from you outright is simply too tempting, given their resources.

I noticed there were some conditions Keivan tried to set regarding the future evolution of the technology before joining MSFT.

In a large company like MSFT, there were bound to be large internal email threads relaying a play-by-play of negotiations with Keivan to: inside legal counsel, developers who already gave t-shirt sizes for building the tech in-house, product managers, and dozens of others.

No matter what they tell you, they're internally weighing

- Should we just rip him off?
- Should we hire him? Would that be better or worse for liability?
- How IP protected is this? How much can we "borrow"?
- Is it worth the hassle of dealing with an aqui-hire we can't control? Would that expose us to even more IP risk, or less?

Once companies reach this size, they simply can't be trusted to handle a negotiation transparently and in good faith, unless you have well paid lawyers fighting for you, or well established IP protection.

I guess what I'm saying is...

When dealing with any large tech company with near infinite resources -- like MSFT, GOOG, etc --, find a legally defensible upper hand, and assume they are weighing the cost-benefit of screwing you.

(Sadly, this is exactly why lawyers make so much money.)
Not disagreeing with you, but I think it's better to make it a little bit more clear what exactly was copied. Reading the article mentioned in the OP, the main selling point for appget seems to be that the packages are written in yaml:

> Do you want to know how Microsoft WinGet works? go read the article (https://keivan.io/appget-what-chocolatey-wasnt/)

But that alone doesn't particularly strike me as a completely novel approach on its own. Looking at package definitions for firefox across various package managers, you can notice that they all look somewhat similar to some degree. Though one could argue that appget and winget looks more similar than others, I'm not sure this is wholesale copying without digging into more details. But again, I'm not trying to argue that it's not, and I also agree the OP should've received more credit.

appget: https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/blob/master/manife...

winget: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...

scoop: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/buck...

homebrew cask: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

That being said, the fake interview process explained in the article is totally unacceptable and deserves some explanations from MS.
Because oftentimes you’re retrieving data that will be stored in one central store and displayed / used in different ways in various components. Eg I might fetch user data and sometimes display their name, maybe another time compute their age from their birthdate, etc...
Your implication that "untested in court" means "likely unenforceable" is quite wrong--unless you see lots of people openly violating a license in cases where it would be economic to pursue them, the more likely explanation for "untested" is simply that the accused infringers get competent legal advice, and comply without wasting their money on a losing court case. Though as other comments note, since the writing of that essay someone (D-Link) finally did refuse to comply without a court order, at which point Harald Welte took them to court and D-Link indeed lost.

And what do you think "not able to prosecute" means? District attorneys (or non-USA equivalents) decide when to prosecute crimes, not private copyright owners. It's very rare for the criminal justice system to intervene in complicated white-collar stuff, especially when a straightforward civil remedy is available. A legal realist might say that means the GPL--and indeed most copyrights beyond those infringed by warez/torrentz sites--is effectively unenforceable criminally, and would in a useful sense be right; but it's enforceable civilly, so no one cares much.
I use a service to create feeds from pages if they really don't exist. It's a paid service, but worth it!
Nope. A good rule of thumb: where people go to retire + good internet. There are other factors but this one gets you far.
Catalyzing Computing Podcast
This is the Embrace, extend, and extinguish policy of Microsoft. I just hate how these corporates deal with talent. To them it is nothing more than a profit to make.
That video was even better before they deleted the comments. Those were great. I saved a few choice ones:

Resetting a lightbulb. What a time to be alive.

Next time I feel like I hate my job, I'm going to think about the poor actor who had to narrate this horrorshow just to put food on the table.

That's the funniest thing I've seen in a while. 10/10 would reset again.

1960s: In 50 years we will have flying cars and holidays on the moon
2019: How to factory reset your light bulbs

This is the funniest video I've seen in weeks! You have created the ultimate 21st century light bulb joke

this isn't the cyberpunk future I wanted

This shit is hilarious!.. Could you imagine if this was real?

As an engineer, you know it's time to pick a new career when the video documentation of your product winds up on CNN...

If it really were a smart bulb it would beg for death.
There is software that has already done this for you, no need to configure anything, just open the app, search the title, and start watching.
> I have yet to see an example in a democratic nation where population can take a flag of another country or a colonial ruler in protest against their own country

This was your assertion, word for word. You were given an obvious counterexample, and now you're deflecting to claim you only meant India?

Here's another example: in New Zealand, burning the flag was most recently punished by... An NZ$500 fine. Nothing like what you're claiming.

How about the UK? In 2011, 20-30 students publicly burned a large British flag. They got a verbal warning. Waving American flags is legal.

How about Northern Ireland? Burning the flag is literally legal. Waving American flags: also legal.

How about Japan? Once again, burning the Japanese flag is legal. Waving American flags: also legal.

And as you know, the USA legally allows flag-burning as well, and waving whatever flag you want.

> torture protestors

Do you have any links/data regarding modern events to back up your extraordinary claims?

> If USA or for that matter any country condemn China, they should do the same condemnation and restrictions on other country with same fervour

Classic whataboutism.
Then this solution is not for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

Just found this now myself. Amazing what you come across in an HN discussion. Fascinating!
Which I don't find all that weird. Quoting OP here; "after visiting the campus, I wasn’t too sure I wanted to work for such a big company, also moving from Canada to the U.S. wasn’t something I was too excited about".

In the past, I've been in talks with an employer about a job, and my enthousiasm was only so-so, and that tended to put a brake on the proceedings.
GitHub is often really slow for big binaries, so you may want to consider other options.
Feel embarrassed when looking at the consumer Internet bandwidth other developed countries are having.

Meanwhile in Australia (down-under), I've waited for so long to get NBN (can only get HFC at my place which was like over 20 years old? At least at my hometown Shanghai, had something better than that in 2001 (GFW wasn't in shape back then) - I remember it clearly because that's when I started Linux journey by install Mandrake 8.1 ;-).

I was quite excited when finally enjoying 100Mbps down / 40Mbps up (I was told here in Oz consumer Internet upload is always capped at 40% of download bandwidth), before the cable was 100Mbps/2Mbps, useless to the way I abuse network (mainly transferring data to North America).

Have been experiencing congestion and degraded upload bandwidth (only 4Mbps ~ 8Mbps) since the pandemic, it did not restore until public school students went back to school (last week...), finally the infrastructure issue got fixed by the lift of social restrictions LMAO.
The guy's answer is straight from the pages of the book! How do you get someone to pay $125 for your book? Have someone ask if it's worth $400. Answer and say it's well worth the price and then mention you found it on sale for only $125.
Obviously you can't see beyond Trump. I'm trying to make a point about freedom of speech on the Internet, and you can't see beyond "orange man has money". There are broader issues at stake here than partisan politics. The next decade could shape the rest of the century. I certainly don't want that century to be dictated to by private companies whose only guiding principle is profit.
Mmmm... There is a certain segment of the tech industry that is morally opposed to piracy, and actively pursue those people. I know because I've seen the negative connotations they've received. Had a candidate with a homelab, peer inferred it was for piracy, didn't want to hire him because of that.

I've also seen it in the weebs and also brainwashing Japanese Corp culture.

I have a feeling because its m$ their cture dictates that they at least appear they were disgusted with his sonarr authorship.
Indeed. There was a windows services for Unix subsystem based on Xenix mentioned elsewhere and that was based on the subsystem architecture.

When you use it, you get a nice Korn shell and it is built on PE binaries linked against PSDLL.DLL. there's a functioning but very old version of GCC that ships with it.

The PE binaries mark up the desired subsystem to be invoked so you don't have to be in the environment to execute one - the kernel takes over.

PSDLL acts as a translation layer for NT much as kernel32 does for win32. You can't run unmodified Linux binaries like you can with wsl. On the other hand, WSL requires that you invoke lxss with some special com magic to get access to Linux first so you can't just exec an elf file directly. The Pico processes you mentioned - these allow the kernel to install specific handlers/translators of their syscall functionality into the windows kernel.

So yeah architecturally they're pretty different and WSL isn't really the same subsystem concept they started with. On the other hand it that's probably a good thing because everything needed a rebuild for SUA.
Yes, though keep in mind that Twitter/Hacker News power users are often very privacy conscious. I think people are happy about offline mode regardless of how relatively fast or accurate it is.
If you are so ashamed of your work that you need to do it under a different name, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it?

I'm proud of the work I've done on Sonarr. If someone doesn't want to associate with me because of it, then the feeling is probably mutual.
An honest story about failure
I remember the days of 3270 terminals and, later, x3270 under SunOS & Solaris to the university VM.