skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a few days ago I was trying to cut down the configuration for the current Linux kernel so I could boot it on a circa 2001 PC/104 SBC with 32 MiB of SDRAM. The processor is an AMD Elan SC520, which is a 133 MHz AM5x86 core and about on par with a 75 MHz Pentium. Sadly the memory is not expandable.

Getting a buildroot based system to work was fairly easy starting with "make tinyconfig" for the kernel. IDE was a real hangup because there really isn't an IDE controller, it's a legacy IDE interface with no DMA. Disk IO is abysmally slow. Found that libata has experimental support for legacy IDE, rather than use the old IDE drivers. So I've managed to not select any deprecated kernel options.

Booting a current Gentoo stage3 with networking was a major challenge though. Still haven't managed to get IPv6 and all of the standard netfilter modules before the kernel hangs mysteriously between finishing self extract and producing any logs.

I also haven't managed to get ZONE_DMA support working for legacy DMA on ISA (for the PC/104 bus) without it using too much of the remaining DMA'able memory to load the Intel 82559 ethernet driver (e100.ko).

It's rather hilarious seeing a 5.10 Linux kernel complaining that it can't find a 256 KiB contiguous region of physical ram.

Buildroot boots in a matter of seconds on it, Gentoo takes a few minutes.
Yeah, must admit I didn't try the PoE, I've just used it with power to the MicroUSB. It is indeed a shame.
So, fun fact about percent-encoding: the space character can be percent encoded as %20 or +, and a literal plus must always be percent encoded as %2b. When you put plusses in Google Search those are actually pre-percent encoded spaces, which is why it treats them as spaces. Of course, if you chuck it into a percent encoding script again it treats them as literal spaces since presumably the input isn't already percent encoded (just as it'd encode the % in other encoded characters).

At least that's if I recall correctly and it wouldn't surprise me if other servers do handle things in zany ways.
It has to be said, that the combination of Delivery app incompetence and exploitative business models working in tandem with Government corruption and lack of aid for the Food Industry in the US its a fucking miracle it has lasted this long at all.

I'm afraid to say that the Industry to me will never be the same, and what it is today even as it defies Shutdown orders will not be enough for it to be close to what it was as the finance channels are breaking down before our eyes--take out models are less than ~10% of revenue from what a normal 100% service brought in. I always thought the Industry needed to be disrupted as it was wasteful, abusive and over all toxic in many ways. But the fact that so many are resrtin to Gofund me crowdsourcing then actual food sales screams that we've seen the same thing happen to the Restaurant Industry that happened to the Health Care Industry. I've been in both and the parallels are quite obvious to see.

But what we've seen with COIVD is the systemic take-down and consolidation of the Food Industry from both Private (and I use that word loosely) and Public sides which only really benefited the massive Corporate players who benefited from PPP and have the resources and financial and legal wherewithal that small private restaurant owners can't afford. Wallstreet and VC firms like Softbank also made out like bandits with such poor models like Doordash IPO.

I'm sad to say this but I think the US will be a culinary wasteland in all but the food truck and high end dining end points, everything in between will be sucked up by large corporations and Ghost kitchen models. We had made so much progress that one can't help but feel entirely dejected about it, especially now as Food Education is even more dire than ever as 70% of all Americans are classified as fat and obese [0].

I just hope people support their local farmers and begin cooking more at home then continue to pour money into what has clearly been a hi-jacking of small entrepreneurial people trying to advance the very low standard of culinary edification in the US in relation to Europe and Asia.

It's a sad situation, but I'm retired as a chef for good now I'm glad to say I exited at a high that I think will never be seen again.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
We all know Steve Jobs dropped acid. What's the big deal if an app is named after a prescription drug?
> Well I can certainly say one thing, thanks to EU regulation I don't have to eat chlorinated chicken, the air is clean

well, if you completely ignore that the EU pushed diesel over petrol, to protect its domestic industries

exactly the same as the chicken thing

neither are to protect your health, that's just a secondary effect that the EU uses for PR
How can you tell he doesn't? I've read the same post and the semantics seem fine to me.
The difference being: Nintendo has entire buildings full of lawyers just waiting for the go-ahead to crush out your life with lawsuits, while Pam's House Of Burgers has trouble making payroll every week and has never hired a lawyer since its founding.
If you're the type of person that can only "work hard" due to being driven by needing the project to be completed and as best as it could possibly be, then maybe working for MegaCorp is not the best idea. Seems to be you'd be much better suited for a start-up (hopefully with prospects of major funding).

If you're the type that doesn't want to work very hard and just there for a paycheck, then you are probably more suited for working at MegaCorp.

Getting these out of wack makes for unhappy working conditions.
This is replacing a 1-hour phone screen with a 6-hour project. You're still going to rule out a bunch of good people who will refuse to spend that much time on a first-round interview.
Threads like this one remind me just how different the US is from Europe. It's astounding to think that it was even possible until now for delivery apps to operate in this way, or that this is somehow a controversial issue.
This law is dated September 24, 2020. If it has indeed been the law for around 3 months now, any ideas if/how much this impacts Doordash, Uber Eats and others? From my own research, it looks like these delivery companies do have a number of restaurants listed on their platform that they don't have any explicit agreements with, yet have not heard/read anything to the effect of litigations based on this law.
That was my thought. Why would a top-tier candidate, who supposedly is already making enough money, bother to go through this process?

Is it really worth it to lose a day in your weekend for a couple hundred bucks and the hope of getting yet another assignment or a job?
It looks like a fancy way to create a reverse shell
You say “most nations”, but I find it hard to believe that any democratic country would teach its citizens, say, simplified Chinese, and order them to infiltrate Chinese forums and advocate against CCP. Only a regime that doesn’t have to worry about taxpayer’s opinion could afford something like that.

Speaking of COVID censorship, any English-speaking report on COVID on YouTube (especially from BBC, where comments tend to somewhat lack energy compared to reports by American media) tends to heavily feature commenters that ignore basic logic and argue that there should be an international investigation of the US for starting the pandemic.

I would consider it hilarious but it’s actually scary, a sporadic uncoordinated voluntary expression of approval characteristic to a democratic country can hardly compete with methodical systematic social media and forum warfare.
Apple is a big company with a great reputation, but there are bad apples in every bunch.

My biggest takeaway from this article is that the author should take this advice: Before you accept a position, find out what project you will be working on, and get to know the people who you will be working with. If you are being hired to replace someone who left, try to find out why they left (or were fired).

I have not done much moving around in my (long) career, but I have many friends who have. There are plenty of jobs out there, but many of them are tainted by toxic people or cultures. During your interview process, find out what you can. If you come away with any concerns, trust your feelings. If uncertain, raise your concerns and seek more information before you accept an offer. You will either come away with more concerns, or you will find out that your concerns were unfounded.

Any big company hiring a new PhD grad should do their best to make the new employee feel welcome as part of the team. It seems that there were plenty of warning signs in this case, but as this was the author's first work experience, she either missed them or did not recognize their significance.

It's a shame that the visa process and ITAR rules compounded the problems described.

I'm a bit confused about the end of this article where she writes; "If Apple refuse to take actions, I will interview with major media outlets describing the experience in more details and I will release a list of all individuals involved from senior management to the HR director and all the evidence as public record."

She no longer works for Apple, and probably doesn't want to ever work there again, so why the threat, and why the ultimatum? Why not just go public with all of the names and documentation? They already did their best to damage her reputation and career. Why should she hold back?
If you actually read the article you'll see that by "outperform" they're comparing the efficiency of a wood stove in converting biomass to useful heat, against the efficiency of a power plant and electric stove in converting fuel to useful heat.

It's no surprise that a wood stove did better in that comparison. It's one conversion vs two. It's a perfectly reasonable comparison to make in many circumstances, eg in poorer countries with less well developed electricity infrastructure who still need to transition away from fossil fuels.

From the article:

> This means that if your electric stove is operated by electricity from a biomass power plant -- a fast growing "green" trend nowadays -- the power conversion efficiency is three to four times lower (11-14%) than the authors of the study assume, and thermal efficiency drops to about 5%. This is similar to the thermal efficiency of a neglected open fire, and one-tenth the thermal efficiency of a rocket stove. Likewise, a cookstove which uses coal or gas directly to heat food is much more energy efficient than a cookstove that runs on electricity produced by a coal or gas power plant.

Re: air pollution, they're completely right to point out that cooking itself - regardless of the heat source used - generates tons of indoor air pollution anyway, making the air pollution concern of wood fired stoves not as clear as you'd expect. You should be ventilating all cooking to the outdoors.

> Any biomass stove design with a chimney basically achieves the same. If a chimney is added to an indoor biomass stove, indoor air pollution drops to almost zero.

They're also quite clear that these trade-offs differ for poor vs rich countries:

> Although it's remarkable how the proposed solutions for this energy inefficiency differ for poor and rich countries. In the developing world, the focus is mainly on designing more efficient biomass stoves that produce fewer pollutants. While achieved savings as a result of switching to biogas would be larger, its investment would be 30 times higher compared to the distribution of improved wood cooking stoves.
This restaurant is in a neighborhood. The reason they offer take-out at all was because neighbors just wanted to pick something up and eat at home. That's probably not 30 seconds, but it's way different than the amount of time a delivery company ads. It's also psychologically different if the consumer is the one in direct control of the delay.
I'm not equating Apple's policies with China's, I'm just trying to understand if "Complaining clearly does not work" is a good enough justification for preventing people from learning about bad policies.

Perhaps the argument is that people have a duty to learn about genocides going on in the world, whereas there is no moral imperative to learn about bad policies of tech companies, but by that logic nearly every discussion on this site should be removed.
I think you are underestimating University of Texas at Austin as a research powerhouse, particularly in engineering. It's not quite Berkeley or Stanford, but I absolutely would put it on a part with anything just outside that very top tier (certainly equivalent to UCSD or USC, which are very influential research universities).

That said, I do agree with the general thrust of your argument - California has a silly number of top research universities overall and in engineering (Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF, UCSD, USC, UCLA, Cal Tech... and many of the universities in CA I haven't mentioned would be considered a tremendous asset to any region trying to build a tech center).

California does have a tremendous lead here.
Yes, it's not as widely implemented as I expected. Adoption seems to drop quickly. Roughly 20% for the top 10 websites, 15% for the top 100 and about 10% for the top 1,000. It's downhill from there.
It's not a problem with grammar when the "incorrect" grammar changes the whole meaning of something. No one would be jumping on the comment if it had said, "meth is a amphetamine," which has the same meaning despite the incorrect grammar. Removing the "an" completely changes the meaning.

This should be clear?
I think you didn't read my comment. I'm not talking about social isolation, but to use the mask properly - covering mouth and nose (at the same time) - and keep the recommended 1.5 m distance while in the supermarket
> First, HR is not your friend. They're there to protect the company.

This is absolutely correct.

However the next sentence reveals a curious mis-alignment in our culture at large:

> Perhaps sometimes your interests align with the company but that's just an accident.

It is absolutely in the interest of the company to not treat people like shit, from multiple vantage points ranging from selfishly not wanting to be embarrassed by their own misconduct, to more altruistic moral obligation. If the company does not believe that, they are mistaken and foolish, prioritizing perceived short term gain over the right thing to do. Unfortunately, this particular brand of short-sightedness is the norm and our cultural expectation.
I see there's been (at least some) downvoting of this comment, but it's not irrelevant. Pointing out that other companies have the same problem doesn't give Apple a "get out of criticism free" card, but it's worth keeping in mind that Apple gets singled out for this kind of criticism in part because they promote their efforts to be better than the norm in this regard, which invites a more critical eye.
The Open Blockchains Book of the Year 2020 Award Goes To...

Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money by David Gerard, November 2020, 182 Pages - Congrats!

What's your book of the year?
This is a very poor characterization.

It's not the job of junior engineers from foreign countries to write perfect Medium posts.

Also the article was chock full of facts, there were facts in every sentence.
I’m very glad you brought up weed actually. See I have no problem with weed and like to smoke a joint every now and then. However what I don’t want is to have to buy weed called dumb things like “bro down”, “the obliterator”, and “brain destroyer”. I’d much rather you just named something not so click baity.

Sure it’s just a chemical. Everything is just chemicals but I don’t need “meth” for my computer. Same reason our kids don’t need toys advertised as “crack for your baby”.

Agin not offended its just not a good name. Even if let’s say you build an app that’s hooks into some other program and you sell said app for two dollars, you may think it’s hilarious to call it “two dollar hooker”, hell I myself might even chuckle. But only once, then I’ll just get annoyed every time I see “two dollar hooker” in startup, “two dollar hooker has crashed” etc.

I also would not buy your product if it were called alcohol poisoning. I love alcohol. I’m drinking a beer right now (happy New Years everyone). But naming a computer program after it sounds like an odd thing to do. And more to your point would also be a violation of the same rule Apple is using in this case.
Go fuck yourself if you think you should be denying anyone from using a substance you yourself benefit from. Others benefit from it in different ways too.
The fact that HR and senior management where in on it makes it systemic.
Many people do small fires and try to let the fire alive as long as possible. The consequences are that the stove is not hot enough to ignite the fumes. This yields to a poor fire: low efficiency, high particle emissions, and poor heat.

The "real" way is to light it from the top, and don't be afraid to make a big one.
It is truly amazing how some of the people in the comment section keep defending apple dishonest practices, almost like they are bots or something...
> Some people are incredibly stupid and willing to hurt those around them if that allows them to exercise their whims.

You're talking about Cuomo, right?
Why wouldn't a top-tier candidate agree to this?

I feel like this is the solution that values candidate time the most. They don't have to do an interview, and I'm paying them for their time immediately.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/americas/venezuela-death-of-s...

> In more recent years, even the state's hold on the country's financial system has been badly shaken, with the US dollar growing commonplace in day-to-day transactions. In March 2019, Venezuela's entire electric grid collapsed, leaving some regions without power for up to a week. Without electricity, electronic transactions including credit and debit card payments were impossible, and paying cash was futile with even the highest-denomination bolivar notes worth only pennies. So Venezuelans started using the option left: illegal foreign banknotes.

How would they use Bitcoin when electricity is out? Generators only last so long when fuel is rationed.

> the government for the first time allowed a private company to issue bonds in dollars, and by doing so, raise capital outside of government control.

They key word there is "allowed" because that emphasizes the ability to disallow at some point in the future.

People have this sci-fi imagining of megacorps and the collapse of government power. Instead, we have Jack Ma probably afraid for his life, because he insulted the wrong person.
I think the existence of the downvote is good so the community has a tool to self-regulate and avoid the guideline-breaking-but-not-inappropriate comments, like the low signal-to-noise ones.

I am against the use many people give it to silence people they disagree with, but the problem is, what's a good alternative UX?

I think keeping the functionality while presenting it as something different than the opposite of the upvote might do (maybe use an alternative counter, too?), but on the other hand it seems to just overcomplicate things.

The functionality as-is might not be perfect, but it might be better than any alternative I can come up with.
In my friend's case, it's because people in the neighborhood sometimes like to pick things up. Why should they penalize those people just because delivery companies have without their permission decided to start advertising their food?
Nope. The title is just an accurate description of what Artichoke is. Artichoke is an implementation of Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly.
This is awful. I'm sorry that happened to you. However,

If Apple refuse to take actions, I will interview with major media outlets describing the experience in more details and I will release a list of all individuals involved from senior management to the HR director and all the evidence as public record.

You're wasting your time if you think they're going to do anything with this kind of approach. Get a lawyer first before thinking on doing any of that, though.

And let this be a reminder to everyone else that HR isn't there to help you - it's there to help the company.

In this kind of environment it almost feels like one needs to record everything that's happening in order to defend themselves. Cops use cameras, maybe it's time for employees to start wearing them too. Maybe.
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech” —Idi Amin.
I think you're overthinking this. it probably would be just a Russian hobbyist who's interested in archiving Orwell's works. (Also since these are in the public domain in Russian territory)
What surprises me is how abusive Amazon and Apple can get to their employees while ship fantastic products to their customers.

May be the whole you need great talent and treat them well isn’t true. You just need to treat them well enough so they don’t leave and pressure them enough so they don’t crumble.

At the end of the day, management is about getting the most out of your employees and that’s what they are doing right?
I agree; it just seems to me the discussion is framed in such a way to paint Apple as being uniquely evil in this regard.
Speaking as a scientist, this is absolutely true. It's hard for me to change opinion. I generally need multiple repeated exposures do different instances of evidence. Some people are more firm in their ideas and this is a concept I try to keep in mind.
> For God's sake, is this where we're headed? Just ban anything that sounds offensive?

Headed?
This post reminds me of the first episode of the HBO show "Industry", where (spoiler alert) the workaholic guy dies of having a panic attack after discovering a typo.
I can't even look at school as not being a prison. It's one of the only places I've had the displeasure to be denied basic rights such as going to use a toilet.
It doesn’t sound offensive, just stupid and provoking. Along the lines of Condom Antimalware Suit or Holocosta Firewall. Condoms are great for protecting you and holocaust just means “burn all” - had nothing to do with burning people. It only burns network packets, look at the context, it’s fire wall! No need to come the raw prawn here, simply rename it.
Ask HN: How do you reward yourself for completing a task?
This is something that I've grappled with in the past for encouraging myself to do something or finishing a task, but I've failed to find something effective or encouraging. I think the main reason is that if I can do something for myself then I can do it regardless of getting my task/work done; therefore, it loses its value. I understand that this takes quite a bit of discipline as well.

Has anyone come up with an effective solution to this problem?
Just a cool service
This!!!! It's easy to get the wrong idea about these companies and that it must be a dream to be working there but stories like these prove exactly the opposite and realistic view.
> Amphetamine is a chemical. What is wrong with that?

This disingenuous take on the term does not help your case nor reflects positively on your reputation as a honest person. Amphetamines have a long reputation as recreational and illicit drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine

Amphetamines, much like cocaine and heroin, are not a mere chemical, nor do they convey a mental image of chemists doing science in a lab to the public. And please don't try to pass everyone as a bunch of stupid idiots by claiming that an app designed to keep a device awake is named after a mere chemical, with a long track record of being used as an euphoriant, without any popular connotation with drug abuse.