skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you trust them more? Is it just because of their relatively small size compared to the big players?

Personally I wouldn't touch that company even with a barge pole. Their business model is no different than the big players, except their ads seem to be even more noxious than those peddled by the big players. Google & Facebook have a wide range of ads, both good products as well as trash, while Snapchat seems to be very focused on trashy clickbait with little valuable content.

Their privacy situation is also a major problem and is not GDPR compliant (not saying the others are, but that still doesn't excuse them with breaking EU regulations).

They are extremely hostile to third-party developers with significant obfuscation efforts around their private API. They are very likely to "pull a Twitter" when it comes to restricting access to their currently open APIs and leave developers stranded. Twitter also used to be very friendly towards developers, before abruptly shutting down most of their APIs and rendering products built on them completely useless (or neutered beyond any significant value), sometimes destroying entire business built around their platform.

Their lunch is also being eaten by Instagram, which puts them in a risky position with regards to profitability and increases the likelihood of them doing something nasty to try turn the ship around at the expense of developers who committed to the platform.
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This is allowed because dang works hard to ensure that HN remains a safe space for racists and bigots. This includes banning people who are rude, but welcoming people who politely spread disinformation.
so being racist against Indians is right because they are a rich demography ? I applaud your logic here.
I remember back in the day, before Google went evil, getting a reply from an actual human with a name. How times have changed.
I would not call people panicking “fun”.
But... we did flatten the curve enough to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system. To suggest it wasn't enough now is moving the goalposts.
I’d say the dismissiveness is well warranted since you are impugning Scott’s motives without justifying yourself, or any of your claims. If you make poor faith assumptions about others, you can hardly complain when others are dismissive of what your write.
To me, the first indications that Apple was no longer interested in software professionals were: 1) Removal of USB-A ports, 2) Removal of the ESC key. I bailed out of the Mac world right then. The subsequent software issues (dropping of 32-bit, instability in Catalina, this new MacOS 11) just confirmed my suspicions. The Linux Desktop is still frustrating in so many ways compared to the MacOS, but I can be reasonably productive.
Perhaps the font designer took inspiration from the state of the economy?
I don't know the truthfulness of the claim but I've spoken with several colleagues on H1B and they were all very reluctant to take any risks due to their visa status. But I also know others who have gone on to change companies for the better.
OS X was bought from a co-founder in exile to revive the hardware platform championed by said co-founder, so the situation is a fair bit more complicated than most acquisitions.
First OS X was big cats, then it was mountains.

Very surprised they didn't switch to a new naming theme!

I guess an architecture change was as good a reason as any to revert back to a normal, sane versioning system where the first number increments like most programs. But it's just weird how "unannounced" or unacknowledged it is.
Thank you for explaining this. As an American, I was unaware.
Different people have different goals, but it's pointless to measure California's status against goals it's not trying to meet.
> And as for some saying that MacOS is becoming more iOS like: Yes, it's been happening since Mac OS X Lion with the fullscreen Launchpad. Nothing has changed.

I'd say a lot has changed, because everything is a matter of degrees. As soon as I realized Launchpad was a piece of crap, I put an Applications folder stack in my dock a la the Leopard default, and forgot that Launchpad exists.

Can't really ignore it anymore...
Yes, I would definitely agree that good managers are much rarer than good engineers. Maybe it's because there's an order of magnitude less managers than engineers at a company, so you have less people to emulate and learn from? Maybe it's because engineers are able to use their off-time to improve their own skills, while for management you really only have books and no easy way for applied practice?

And then if we're talking about technical managers and not just CEOs, the literature there is even more limited, since most middle-management in the past has been of known repetitive tasks, rather than more variable more creative work. And it's not like there are schools that can spend four years teaching you how to be a good manager. MBA programs tend to care more about the details of running a business and let the people aspect figure itself out.

So maybe an analogy might be, if all the engineers you hired were self-taught, and if you only had one engineer assigned to each team. Then maybe your average quality of engineer would match your quality of manager.
Being afraid of being killed, sure. Being afraid of having your life messed with, on the other hand is very reasonable in a lot of European countries too.

Even Theresa May acknowledged in her very first speech as PM that there were problems with institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police for example.

And top Met officers have also talked about problems with racism [1] and warned about misuse of stop and search. Each little abuse of power adds to an environment of fear.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/former-top-m...
> If the same discussion happens on macOS, at worst some manager who is the boss of both of the squabbling teams will get mad, tells them that the UX here is more important than your technical squabbles and orders them to sit down and fix it.

That strikes me as rather optimistic. I mean, yes, in theory a company does have enough overarching management that it can force coherent action, but... the "Microsoft" in https://laughingsquid.com/organizational-charts-for-tech-com... is a thing. Maybe Apple is still sufficiently centrally-driven that it works there? Historical accounts certainly make it seem like they've managed their share of infighting, but I suppose by the time they went to market it tended to be dealt with.
But that's something else entirely then - the very idea of upsampling is based around taking a lowres picture and turning it into a hires version.
Yes well done.

How do you think police determine if they're in limit or not. They test them. She could have been on her way in 5 minutes but chose to act like an idiot.
Mac OS 11 feels like it might end up being the Windows 8 of Mac OS. A company is taking/took a well-loved and highly productive desktop/laptop optimized operating system (OS X for Apple, Windows 7 for Microsoft) and is making/made it more like a tablet/phone operating system. Unfortunately, that made it less optimized for the desktop/laptop use case.
Applying for Technical Roles
Thats all nice and good, but completely removing the posibility of running any non-vendor JIT application is totally stupid and unacceptable. And iOS being a total walled garden only adds insult to injury, as users simply can't install such applications even if they want to.
You haven't read many tech blogs, have you?
> The boys were driven to our local precinct, the 76th. I eventually made my way there, too. The families of all the boys were there. The police are required to notify families when a minor is arrested. But the families told me that hadn’t happened. They’d learned about the boys’ arrests from friends. (The police later said the families showed up so quickly they didn’t have time to make notifications.)

Wow this is really scary to read. There's a miniseries on Netflix I would urge everyone to watch "When they see us" about "The Central Park 5" kids that were coerced into confessing they raped a white woman in the park. They were interrogated for hours and promised to go home if they confessed.
On my pretty standard-resolution 1920x1080 screen, the "next" arrow requires scrolling to see. ...So they made it so you can't scroll through, but have to scroll a bit on each panel to get to the next one. It's inherently horrifying that this site exists.

I get why companies want in-house fonts that define their brand and avoid licensing fees, but I always find designers' blog posts about how they designed a font to be insanely and incredibly self-congratulatory while focusing on things that almost no human on earth will ever notice.
Maybe a shortcut of Dave Cutler plus what Wikipedia said
"While creating Windows NT, Microsoft developers rewrote VMS in C. Although they added the Win32 API, NTFS file system, GUI, and backwards compatibility with DOS, OS/2, and Win16, DEC engineers almost immediately noticed the two operating systems' internal similarities; parts of VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures, published by Digital Press, accurately describe Windows NT internals using VMS terms. Instead of a lawsuit, Microsoft agreed to pay DEC $65–100 million, help market VMS, train Digital personnel on Windows NT, and continue Windows NT support for DEC Alpha"

Also https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...
> You are saying Coronavirus with <500k deaths worldwide (0.007%) is a "greatests threat threats to human life".

Disease and climate were the issues being referenced. Taking it to mean, specifically, covid-19 is obviously not such an issue.
You’re joking right? Poor neighborhoods have the highest rates of crime.
Please don't post dross to HN. As you know, we're hoping for a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can also just right-click the Launchpad icon on the Dock.
You were able to find the statistics that justified your stance that black people are just paranoid.

Stop arguing in bad faith, you fucking bigot.
Oh I was confused as I associated a JIT with internal vm optimizations such as seen in the JVM. Then we’re just talking about the same thing but calling it a different name.
I've played around it a bit since someone recommended it a few days ago. Great for coarse dungeon layouts, but would probably need some more detail-oriented "finishing" if I'd want to use it for VTT play. Once we're going back to real dice, this might come in handy, if I'm ever doing a dungeon-heavy campaign.

Until then, I have to cope with the oddities of running DungeonDraft with Wine.
Why are certain political hit-pieces getting flagged, and others, like this one, are somehow immune?
For me this has happened with business advice. I was a teenager when people told me variants of:

* Validate quickly

* Know your customer

and eventually that became

* Fail fast

* Test your idea

And I didn't even realize what it _meant_. I didn't grok it. The first time I encountered the concept of a Painted Door in product design in practice I suddenly understood pieces of these. And the first time I failed to really understand the customer, and failed to fail fast, and so on, I understood those things. But I had to experience it to know it.

It did help to have the vocabulary so I could spot where I failed, though.
It's a charitable gloss. One can argue that it was bought since DEC accepted compensation in the form of a ‘strategic alliance’ rather than go to court.
Thanks, as an avid reader who saves a lot of articles from the web, this is quite interesting. (I’m a Pocket subscriber btw)

How do these compare with popular services like Pocket, Instapaper, Firefox & Safari extractors, etc — or do those services use these libraries/algorithms in the backend?
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."

-- Robert Heinlein, 1939
Seems reasonable. If you can't deplatform someone than dox them. This looks like a service in favor NYT's increasingly rabid readership.
A lot of Java software is stuck in JDK 1.8. I wonder if anyone will port old versions like this to AArch64 and macOS 11.
The paperwork for Breonna Taylor said she had no injuries.

She had been shot eight times while sleeping.

You're a white supremacist and you are arguing in bad faith. Get the fuck into the sea, you vile fucking bigot.
And what would that "middle ground" look like?

With the current rate of change that the kernel community develops at, including the patches backported to the stable/longterm kernels, it's impossible to try to evaluate each and every patch for "is this something that could be exploited or not?"

Companies have tried, it was fun watching them, but they quickly gave up and declared it impossible and much safer to just take all stable patch updates instead.

I've also talked to MITRE about just applying for a CVE for ever stable kernel patch (20+ a day), and while they appreciated me not doing that, they agreed that the current model of CVEs just does not work at all for the Linux kernel and that what we are doing is fine.

See my Kernel Recipes talk last year for details about all of that if you are curious.
50K seems incredibly high for a relocation. Do you have a source on that? What are the expenses that add up to that amount?

All that aside, that's a one-time cost. H1B workers can be kept in limbo for years, since employers can apply for their green cards (or not) at their discretion.

> The salary has to be in the same range as the other workers in the same position

What constitutes "the same position"? Call the H1B a "systems analyst" instead of a "software engineer", and voila, you've got a much lower paid position, even if the job duties are the same in practice.

> why would big tech so this if average Joe is qualified and could do the Job?

I'm not a fan of arguments of the form "why did X do Y if Z?" because answering them requires knowing unknowable motives and other factors that your opponent couldn't possibly be privy to. But since we're using those arguments, I've got one for you: If H1Bs are more expensive, why did Disney famously lay off huge numbers of IT workers and make them train their H1B replacements in the process? Kind of hard to argue that they couldn't find suitable American workers when they were already working there.
The various reasons this is wild to do aside, it looks like 2020 is kneecapping the bay area rental market even more.

According to [1], the Bay Area has around 12,435 people living and working here on H1B visas, no doubt mostly in Tech.

[1] https://insights.dice.com/2020/01/14/h-1b-salaries-filings-h...
Suspension of H1-Bs, other visas
It doesn't look good, but it's not that bad either. But I don't think GitHub needed a layout change on desktop screens. They should increase the margins a bit.
> With exposure notification, carriers with mild to no symptoms such as Person 1 would get misleading notifications that they were in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19, when in fact, it was actually the case that Person 1 gave COVID-19 to Person 4. In this case, Person 1 – who feels fine but is actually infectious – will continue about their daily life, except for the curiosity that everyone around them seems to be testing positive for COVID-19.

I didn’t completely understand the part I’ve quoted in italics. Why would Person 1 just go about their daily life after being notified of an exposure? Isn’t the purpose of notification meant to be used by responsible people who will isolate themselves? If people won’t be responsible (which is common), then how would a full graph tracing scenario with a hardware token with no GPS be accurate enough or more effective in comparison? People in those scenarios could also behave irresponsibly, including not carrying the tokens or not checking for exposure.

I’m sure I’m missing something very basic in this article.
Why specifically adults?
Websites that aim to help people become wealthier, and yet are sprinkled with ads, inevitably give an impression that their owners consider ad revenue a viable source of income.

If that is so, I’d be reluctant to follow any advice given on such a site, as I do not want to be in a position where I rely on ads for own financial independence.
In my case I just want to follow the rabbit hole to wherever it takes me without worrying about showing results to anybody.
I am amazed at how many people repeat the point about the area under the curve being the same. It's just completely irrelevant unless we believe that we will make no medical advancements.

You flatten the curve to buy time for medical advancements, which will reduce the total area under the curve. It can be any or all of:

1) flattening the curve enough to make contact tracing viable, which can eradicate breakouts before they take hold

2) finding a decent anti-viral treatment so that number of deaths or "permanent damage" cases decrease, even if # of cases does not

3) developing a vaccine

This thing about "area under the curve remaining the same" is only true for calculus, it has no bearing on real life because we are making medical advances.
Chaim's amazing, and Earth Primer is one of his finest pieces of work, inspired by other simulation games like SimCity, SimEarth, and Spore. Check out his Experimental Gameplay Workshop talk and demo -- he shows it in action and tells about how Earth Primer is an example of a genre of educational simulation software that combine telling, showing, and doing. He's currently finishing up a book about the history of SimCity and computer simulations.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaim-gingold-aa98bb3/

Chaim Gingold

Projects and clients include Spore, EA/Maxis, Earth: A Primer, Valve, UCSF Medical School, and Linden Lab. My expertise and interests include authoring tools, tangible computing, prototyping, simulation, and play. Design lead for Spore Creature Creator. Freelancing and open to the right longer term fit.

Currently focused on finishing a book for MIT Press on the history of SimCity and computer simulation. I'm doing a little bit of consulting, and will have more bandwidth beginning around mid-2020, when the manuscript should be complete.
Apple marketed directly to UNIX and Linux power users with their famous advertisement:

https://julxrp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/apple_unix_ad.jpg

In this era, they were all about marketing to UNIX people.
Lyft Aims for an All-Electric Fleet by 2030–Is That Possible?
There are several BSD ports of OpenJDK to AArch64, anything Linux specific has already been fixed.
It's impossible to test for without buying expensive hardware, so I'll pass.
Do you mean the Alliance for Open Media? WebP was created solely by Google years about AOM was founded.
I stay away from Python type annotations
Wow, how can we be more like Italy?
> The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS.

To be more specific, it's the truth without a God that "just kinda awkwardly is". It's the absolute truth (which is to say the truth with God actually in the picture) that's without any shadow of a doubt "good and just". The Greek word "LOGOS" provides us with a fantastic description of this idea:

> Logos is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse".

It's perfectly commensurate with the bible to say that God is truth, logic, reason, speech, order, logos, and that he is good (i.e. not evil).

> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

> John 1:1-4

We also happen to have free will though (in addition to our sinful, limited human natures), and so he sometimes allows evil to befall us for our own good... Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones has some extremely prescient insights on the "Narrative Collapse" that's currently occurring, and how God can use it all to work for good. :')

> The Coronavirus and the Culture War - E. Michael Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY

> Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c

> E. Michael Jones - The History of Logos and the Logos of History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8
The Republic of Ireland is situated on the island of Ireland, which is itself one of the archipelago known as the British Isles (a term which is offensive to certain people from the Republic). Other entities which sit on the British Isles include the Isle of Man and the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", comprising four nations (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland). Great Britain is one of the British Isles, and it contains most of Wales, Scotland, and England.
> Yes HN is weird like that. Every time salaries are discussed people jump out with comments like : " 100k yearly after tax? That would merely serve you to live in a rented room and eating just ramen every-day"

This one isnt really HN alone. Mostly just extremely privileged developers without much perspective.
That must have been super unlucky then. I don't think the likelihood of that happening is very high though. If there were so many candidates who get snagged in the "fake job search", we'd not have to do the "real search" for so long anyway.
> The newspaper as an organisation is equally hostile to all the politicians

The news (public service) I consume from time to time does this too. However while they try to not favor a particular political side they often instead fail towards trying to find dissent where there is none.

They invite some people with supposedly “opposing” views and then spend the time trying to provoke a fight. Usually it’s just people highlighting different perspectives with no interest in representing some kind of conflict over the matter.
I'll admit it, you made me look up "Coll simulation" to figure out what it was. Even though I assumed it was a typo. Which it is.
One of the things that surprised me about this analysis was just how many bugs we found that had to do with the actual Raft implementation. Usually when I test Raft-based systems the bugs are at the edges--like the coupling of the system to the Raft library, treating it like an externally-queryable log rather than the driver of a state machine, and so on. We found integration bugs here too, but also a fair number of issues in the Raft library itself--and this is despite Redis-Raft having existing integration tests!

This stuff is hard!
But awk is usually part of the default system install, unlike Lua. And while GNU awk isn't as common, it's still far more likely to be available than Lua, especially on Linux systems. (Though, per elsethread, it shouldn't be too difficult to port to POSIX awk, or the superset of "portable" awk.)
tell me more about your skipping-for-exercise routine
At least they didn't call it "MAC", haha
Only a bad faith bigot would pretend that the _only_ risk police pose to blacks is their death.

Fuck you, and fuck dang for making HN a place where bigots like you feel welcome. Y'all are both absolute fucking trash.
Recent threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23039515