skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see articles such as this one about the state of work in the tech industry in China, and not immediately see its direct parallels to Silicon Valley.

https://news.yahoo.com/why-chinese-youngsters-embracing-phil...

Sounds like the Chinese Dream which has just appeared in the past 25 years or so has already become increasingly difficult:

> The intense anxiety felt by younger people, and exacerbated by the pandemic, prompted a wider discussion on a once niche academic concept: neijuan. Translated as “involution,” the anthropological term was first applied to agriculture, and has come to describe conditions in which a society ceases to progress, and instead starts to stagnate internally. Increased output and competition intensify but yield no clear results or innovative, technological breakthroughs.

> Neijuan has become a hot topic on the Chinese internet and in media reports this year as a word that “captures urban China’s unhappiness.” Complaints of their work becoming too “involuted”—more competitive with little corresponding rewards—are as likely to be discussed on Weibo by white-collar workers as food delivery drivers.

> One example cited to illustrate the phenomenon is a notice in a Wuhan marketplace that forbade employment of female workers (link in Chinese) over the age of 45, and male workers over 50, citing the need to “upgrade” its services. In an “involuted” society, demand for work is so high that age and experience become liabilities. In another example, a student at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University was pictured typing on his laptop while riding on a bike. The pressure to stand out at this elite school has become so intense that even commuting has become an opportunity to maximize output.

> Shanghai-based Clarisse Zhang is one of the youngsters who feels they have missed out on a golden period, when simply working hard could mean a ticket to a better life.
It's not hard to spot the similarities to the decline of the American Dream.

And yes, it's not specific to more capitalistic societies like America or China either. You make good points about the rather stagnant nature of Europe's tech industry. Also, the high youth unemployment in some countries of Europe is quite alarming, despite the presence of much stronger social safety nets than in the U.S. Japan despite all its wealth and technological innovation, has experienced economic and social stagnation for decades, and I believe there's similar hopelessness among the youth in Taiwan [0]. Even parts of South Korea is seeing this as deindustrialization begins to set in. [1]

Wonder why so much of the developed world is experiencing involution, even nations that have just 'made it' recently like (coastal) China, or the Asian Tigers. Rich countries are still getting richer, but their citizens are getting unhappier.

[0] https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/lost-ambition-taiwans-m...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17747086
I think one of the reasons that one is not used because usages like "Simultaneous Location And Mapping" (instead of the "Simultaneous Localization And Mapping" that SLAM stands for) would read a bit strange... "location" is more commonly used to mean "the place" and not "the act of finding the place".
Yeah exactly this. If you know all the exits are safe, then evenly splitting up is best. But I reckon in situations like this, most of the time you don't know and then following the rest seems like the best strategy to me.
Asserting your debt as more important than someone's housing does seem like a pretty shitbag thing to me.
> I'm confident the brain is physical

So am I. I have already said so multiple times. Continuing to talk as though you are somehow refuting my viewpoint by saying this is ridiculous.

> Nazi Germany believed in capitalism and the doctrine of free will.

No, it didn't. It forcibly sent millions of people to concentration camps. It had the government take over management of all production. It subjected an entire country to the whims of a small group of people in power.

> Or are you trying to tell me every war the US has been involved with was necessary to protect lives and promote less horrendous death and suffering?

Certainly not. I have made no such claim. And I am tired of you continuing to respond to claims I have never made.

At this point I think our discussion has run its course.
PBS broadcasts a lot of infomercials promoting quackery.
That's an egregiously baity title. That's not cool here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: The submitted title was "Your source code is worthless". I've changed it now.
Their proxy seems to just be nginx, I'm surprised they didn't just share nginx or apache configurations. Most people with a box suitable for running this are probably already running a web server, so there's no reason they should be proxying from their existing web server to this dockerized server which just proxies to Signal.

Looking into their repo, they also appear to be building an nginx image from docker.io/ubuntu:20.04 instead of using docker.io/nginx. They are also running two separate nginx processes. I wonder how they ended up with this weird intricate setup.

I would be glad to help if they offered straightforward instructions.
Sadly this is not what happened with Mozilla.
Looks interesting! Just a piece of advice: you are making a web security related product, it cannot be a bad idea to have that page greenner https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feroot.com%... ;)
There are several AirPlay's. Some do, some have optional DRM, some just rely on device keys (some of which were reverse engineered years ago).

AirPlay is not a very useful term at this point tbh, but the Apple documentation on the differences is also garbage.
> We have a deep and stable financial position that will help us grow and protect us from any storm, and the trust in our projects has never been higher.

They earned 9 millions more than last year, from 120 millions to 129 millions, and spent 21 millions more, from 91 millions to 112 millions [1], with an increase of 10 millions in "awards and grants". The donations grew by 10 millions. If I read the financial statement correctly (feel free to correct me, I'm not an expert), they currently have 180 millions in assets, which means if donations stop they can't even last two years. I don't see how this is a "deep and stable financial position that will help us grow and protect us from any storm".

Edit: as tux3 pointed out in their comment [2] there is a Wikipedia Endowment. I think I can now agree on the "deep and stable financial position".

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028968
> For now, I want to share with you why I’m moving on, and what comes next.

I read this twice just to make sure I didn't miss something, and I don't actually see a reason why.
How flippant.

“Almost everyone in these comments is asking questions of various degrees of pedantry or outright dissing hospitals/insurance/medical bankruptcy/whatever...

Just donate to a charity if you can spare the expense and help some people out.

Action > inaction.”

Healthcare and communication aren’t comparable. But my point is that you can criticise institutions for their (contested) faults.

If you place yourself on the mantle of non-federation, then availability and censorship resistance are your cross to bear, frankly.

The notion that I should help them workaround their architectural failure when it’s been widely criticised (and criticism openly dismissed) multiple times is a little wild.
I'm not sure it's all that different from you or I when we are uncaring towards a homeless person asking for money, or when we decide we value a latte more than a week's worth of meals for a starving child in Africa.

Everyone seems to imagine their actions are "normal" and "socially appropriate" but if only they were to break out of their lot in life and reach that next rung up, suddenly they'd be more generous, more compassionate, not driven by the same things, etc.
And it was probably an E3 (Uk/Europe is E1/E3, US/JP is T1/T3)
Mostly because C structs have a very exactly bound memory representation, and padding bytes are just about the only thing you can - mostly - get away with not caring about.

Coincidentally, even padding bytes break things technically. Since they're undefined, you - in theory - can't ever calculate a bytewise hash value over a struct that has any padding bytes. It's still done frequently, it's just nulled out beforehand and copying is bytewise anyway. Doesn't change the fact that to the spec letter it's undefined behaviour. GCC also added __builtin_clear_padding() recently.

Hidden tags ... no. Just no.
Maybe, but it will also get revoked by the provider and not be very useful any more

There are lots of compromised Widevine Level 1 keys out there, but Widevine license servers no longer accept them.
To all the naysayers, is there any other way to hold fox accountable for all the propaganda and division that they have down for that 5 years at least? And to hold rupert murdoch accountable?
> Your definition is wrong.

I have responded to this elsewhere. We disagree, and continuing to argue about it is pointless.

> you claim any your reasoning doesn't fail, and yet you also admit your viewpoint is vulnerable?

I say that any viewpoint is vulnerable, so saying a viewpoint "fails" because it is vulnerable is pointless. Your viewpoint is vulnerable too.

> you have yet to articulate a an argument that does make my position vulnerable to scrutiny.

This is laughable. I have done so multiple times. You have not accepted my arguments, but that doesn't mean I haven't made any.

I think our discussion has run its course.
It would be a very different world, for sure. Public funding and patronage would play a significantly larger role than they do now, works produced non-commercially would have bigger prominence. It's harder to say what would happen in absence of patent laws. Higher reliance on trade secrets? Non-competes in every employment contracts?

Overall I don't think that we would be significantly worse off, especially now, when it's technically possible for general public to engage in croudfunding.
Asking the question is answering it.
This is going to sound heavy-handed but what they did was terroristic. It undermined individuals, families, and the social fabric. It's not a passing event but an endless altering of fulfilling lives.

The dollar amount might feel impressive. But keep in mind the actual employees who contributed to the "turbochargeing" aren't paying that, and they are still walking the streets.

I can't imagine how this is Justice, or even justice.
I don't mind writing SQL queries, quite the opposite in fact. In all my jobs so far I've been the go-to guy for rewriting queries to be more efficient. Don't know what you are ranting at tbh.

It's just that the UNION ALL trick to fetch all related rows and then join them seems like it would need to rebuild (the relevant part of) the graph for each query and that simply "looks inefficient" compared to keeping all data in graph form all the time. If you are at a scale that you don't have to worry yet about CPU efficiency in your database layer, by all means just stick it in Postgres.
That's a promotional video for showcasing how far safety has come. It's about as grounded in reality as that Top Gear episode with the Hilux that the online fanboys all beat it to but people who actually work in industry roll their eyes at.

Nobody's ever done an 80s Town Car vs a 2010 Town Car at 30mph because a crash test where the result is "both drivers would have walked away" is boring and doesn't make for the kinds of DARE-esque media that the people who do crash testing have found it worthwhile to put out.
Yeah, not going to happen, and for good reason.

This is really no different than people who whine about what people receiving public assistance buy. It is an attempt to leverage money in to control, and it is gross.

If you don't like what Wikimedia does, don't give them money. If you do, great, but donations don't buy line-item veto privileges.
Hi, from Iran with love!

First of all, thank you moxie and signal team for this proxy.

Until 2018, many Iranians used telegram but Iran's regime after Russia blocked this messenger. telegram released mtproxy and this proxy was helpful. Russia lifted the ban on telegram but this app is still blocked on my country. but with VPNs, many iranians still use this app. after 2018, second most popular messaging app in iran was whatsapp, until facebook's new privacy policy, like all of you, many iranians switch from whatsapp to signal. mullah's regime removed signal app from the iranian app stores and started blocking all signal traffic in the country, but they don't block whatsapp. I'm not a paranoid but it is difficult to understand for me why they didn't block whatsapp after 2018? can they break whatsapp encryption?

I have a suggestion for signal team: please put tor in the signal, tor is better than any proxys or vpns.
oh. you are not joining all the dots here. an offensive govt already has KYC on cellphones. they can pull your details in a second.
My reasoning. they have a list of say 100 users. every govt has lists. they check that list against signal users as "social graph" and voila, they know you are online or not. second, kyc documents show who you are so you are good as toast
Love the quote and book, but only half-way agree with the sentiment, unless you stretch the analogy of what the garden is. Simple living/work won't in itself quench or stave off desire and passions. If that were true farmers would be a happier demographic. Desire never really disappears, it's at best channeled through engagement / flow, which dovetails with the fact that man's work is also the strongest predictor of his happiness. I imagine, but don't know, that those who want for nothing are not complacent, and those who are complacent can never consume enough.
> Usually, you throwaway all the cool things about Django and turn it into a stupid JSON API and then you build a bunch of cruddy shit with npm tooling and cry yourself to javascript dependency hell

Or you could just shift your backend expectations and adapt to the different needs. If you're doing an SPA because you want an app-like experience and very decisively not a website-like experience, your backend should be as simple and stupid as possible and not force you into a model like MVC; you shift much of the complexity to the frontend when you go from website to SPA. You know, like it would if you're writing a desktop app or a mobile app that uses an API. Because it's an application, not a website.

You could pull the 99.999% number out of wherever, but the truth is that many things we used to do as websites are better off as apps. My bank's website is better off as an app, the social networks I use work better as apps. Hacker news doesn't. Blogs don't. Online newspapers don't. It all depends on the amount of interactiveness needed and how much better the experience is with access to real-time information streaming and quick UI responses based on things other than data loads.

And as dreadful as Javascript dependency hell is, it's objectively better than Python dependency hell since it's had a passable package manager for much longer than Python (and even then, most Python devs still don't use or even know of Poetry) so the ecosystem is better aligned to modern software development expectations. You're just used to one variation of hell, and don't want to learn a new one.

Try to understand modern frontend needs before assuming newer frameworks are shit at everything and that everything related to it sucks. They might be shit at the specific thing you're doing, and some lessons seem to have been forgotten when things were redesigned.

What hasn't changed however, is how most software development sucks, and the fashionable things that were done under terrible standards (devs and/or management) have changed, but are still done by the same terrible standards so you still have shit results.

> VueJS is the only framework that allows you to progressively enhance something like a Flask based website in the most natural jQuery-like way.

No. You're just allergic to build tools because you have not enough knowledge of them. Probably because, from what I've been led to believe from your comment, most of your experience seems to be with Python. All your described problems ultimately stem from there.
Data Engineering Lecture (CS 329S)
Yup. I just tested ~~the fdroid~~ signal (the non-google-play apk from signal's web site) with orbot (a tor VPN for android) and verified it works correctly for text messaging. As you say, using a bridge should make it difficult for iran to block. I wouldn't be surprised though if voice/video was too high latency or doesn't work at all. https://mobile.twitter.com/sporksmith/status/135738175783478...
Tbf AirPlay has been badly documented for more than a decade, it's not just recently!
> "Uhm, ugly relatively to what exactly?"

before, you said

> "...human beauty in my view is totally different because it's natural..."

which is the yardstick from which i was extrapolating (that is, natural == visceral).

> "Beauty is no longer the goal of art."

i agree that modern art is no longer about (natural, visceral) beauty, but rather about conceptual/contextual interestingness. but those aren't relative, those are different yardsticks, hence my attempt to disentangle the two.
Cloudflare’s warp might help here
The City with 16,000 Electric Buses and 22,000 Electric Taxis [video]
> I for one would rather wait an extra day if it meant there weren’t countless workers having their schedules destroyed.

Same, but it's at the discretion of the companies if they over that.

In Switzerland and the UK, there is the concept of "second class mail". Generally letters, but also (some) packages.

They come at a slower delivery guarantee (2-3 days instead of 1), but a ~20% discount.

But shopping online doesn't seem to be headed that way. Hell, the last time I bought something online, the cheapest (free), slowest, and only delivery option was "express". How messed up is that!
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Done https://github.com/progrium/macdriver/issues/12
Movie theaters (remember those?) usually have a door or two up by the screen that no one uses. Most of the time I have seen them lead out some weird hallway that goes directly outside. They usually aren't emergency exits either. All around pretty great.
The problem with saying it's about developers building up theory is that we all tend to forget quite a bit. Code tends to contain a ton of fixes, versioning details, or algorithmic tricks no one remembers.

I've certainly rebuilt something from scratch only to immediately stub my toe.
Standalone Kayenta: How to Leverage Spinnaker's Tool as an API – Armory's YC W17
"...corporates need to be forced to follow labor laws and respect human rights."

You dirty commie, why you don't move to North Korea?
Checked your profile now, I belive it :-)
Most nonprofits can't last long "if donations stop". Why would they stop? I give every year and so do many others.
>If you read the book of the book Work Rules! of Laszlo Bock (HR in google) you will learn that parties and group binding is appreciated more than salary by workers.

it is written by an HR - it is their job to sell such a proposition and they get recognition for supposedly successfully substituting larger expenses like salaries by the lower expenses like the parties.

> get/keep (more) highly talented people for less money.

exactly - HR is trying to sell themselves as those magicians who can do it, who can beat the power of raw compensation by some tricks and gimmicks and thus supposedly save company money.
I'm not sure. I think most people know to at least pay lip service to "collaboration", even if they're awful at it. The best bet would be directed questions about how they have achieved collaboration in the past and how they might try to improve collaboration as a manager in your office. But you're pushing into mind reading territory, you'll need to be able to observe where they came from and what was actually done there. If it's an internal hire/promotion this is feasible, but it's not possible, in general, if you're hiring from outside your company.
At least over here all cats have an RFID implant injected after their first vet visit. I'd try to work with that instead of putting a BLE on the cat. Your localization target ("Cat is in kitchen" etc.) is coarse grained enough to make it work with RBP's.
why do so many companies throw holiday parties then? according to the top few google results, a typical company party costs somewhere in the vicinity of $75/head. they could instead just add $75 (minus additional tax liabilities) to everyone's bonus and call it a day. is it just to be nice, or do executives believe that throwing a few parties is a cheaper way to boost retention?
This works across FFI? How?
Two non-const variables will always have different addresses if they are of the same type. Different types can [AFAIR] per the standard theoretically be in different address spaces, though this is rare in practice.
That 78% breaks down to something like 90% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and 60% of Republicans.

Among the Republicans, the 40% who are anti-immigration tend to feel very strongly about it, and are likely to consider it a major issue. The 60% of Republicans who are OK with immigration are less likely to consider it a major issue.

This makes it hard nowadays to get Republican support in the House for pro-immigration policies, because a pro-immigration Republican member of the House will attract anti-immigration primary challengers who will get the vote of the 40% who are anti-immigration. With that big bloc in hand its hard for the challenger to lose.

You can see a similar thing with abortion. About 60% of Republicans favor keeping Roe v. Wade, about 30% want to overturn it, and the rest are unsure [1]. But how many Republican members of Congress will come out or vote in favor of keeping Roe v. Wade? Pretty close to zero because doing so is political suicide in their next election.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730183531/poll-majority-want-...
Raffaello, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Leonardo... they are not boring to anyone even today. The Nike of Samothrace is spectacular even when you don’t know when and where it comes from. Your impressionist cut off is very arbitrary.

I agree that official art abandoned the search for absolute beauty a long time ago (basically with modernism), I just wouldn’t chuck away 2500 years of masterpieces because “realism boring”. In fact, looking at attendance numbers for art events, one could easily make the case that “old and boring” art remains more popular than XX+ century art.