skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>By your logic everybody should just try to become a tech mega corp and use VC until they set the latest trend or die.

Except that's not what I said. I said, competing in a market making widgets is not as desirable for a modern country/economy/company/employee vs one that exports software and innovation, like the US, as manufacturing, more often than not turns into a race to the bottom of reducing costs and I don't want to work in such an industry anymore since I saw how the sausage is made and I have goals in life that are not compatible with working in manufacturing.

>There is a lot of arrogance here on HN.
>Somebody has to make air filters, lighting, brake pads, ropes, etc., you know?

Would you like to be this 'somebody' working in a factory making oil-filters or would you rather be in a a high demand, high paying job?

This is what's funny to me about the HN crowd. Saying they won't take jobs in Embedded Software/Hardware or the Video-Games industry because WLB is poor and it "pays peanuts" but at the same time preaching that 'someone' should work making stuff in factories, where salaries and WLB is actually poor. Not them of course, but 'someone' should do it.
Partially beacuuse the us housing market is a ponzie scream. it cost more money on infrastructure maintenance that the total tax revenue of the building. so we use growth sprawl to cover the cost.. so ya up it goes.
Censorship must not be tolerated: free speech is a cornerstone of the US.
Show HN: 10 things I wish I knew when I started bootstrapping – (A dev's view)
No job is worth this level of discomfort and intrusion. I really hope employees quit in mass if this is implemented.
Preview: IBM z/OS v2.5 [pdf]
I haven't seen those posts. Can you link them? Again: not doubting you or criticizing you, I just want to read them myself.
I've used socat in the past to debug all kinds of odd network behavior. It helped me discover a networking issue with some code by comparing performance of piping a Unix socket over TCP using socat vs. the native TCP implementation, which turned out to be caused by an overly conservative default send buffer limit.
Every child is different and has unique challenges. All parents here can attest to that. Regardless of disabilities, there are emotional issues, sub-culture issues, etc.

The biggest challenge is the lack of community support. I live in the US, and disability services are the first thing cut when ever there is a budget cut. Most workers who choose to work in the support industry make little over minimum wage, for their entire careers. That means high turnover. That leaves a lot of care to the parents and extended family. So financially there are extra costs (e.g. paying a sitter, for an adult child), equipment, and planning for support after you are gone.

There is emotional stress, but you can probably imagine that. One of my peeves is how casually people throw around the R-word. Then act innocent that they didn't mean to be insulting.

So yes there are challenges. I wouldn't want my son to be anyone else though.

I'm in my 50s, my kids are in their 20s. I'm not looking to have anymore kids. :)
Saudi style Wahabism takes root, many terrorist attacks take place, and a journalist shows up seeming shocked there is a security presence that is curious about her activities...

Is she clueless about the terrorism? It's barely mentioned. It would be like going to Iraq during the war and not/barely mentioning the insurgents or that a war is taking place for that matter... then acting uncomfortable about the excessive number of armed soldiers.

The most disturbing thing about that video is the ominous music. The kindergarten assumption that "no kids would be in school on a Sunday" justifies calling it a concentration camp or concentration orphanage?

I must say I really don't see the damning evidence, which is why they saved the school footage for the end, they had nothing to use as a climax. Kids chanting "unity among ethnicities" is the least of our worries. TBF, the kids separated from their parents on our southern border look like they are in much worse conditions.

Vice seems to have captured very little interesting footage other than security forces tailing a journalist that was acting suspicious...
"In Los Algodones they cost around $450"
Looks like even in Belarus this kind of stuff is more expensive. I wonder how they do it...
> nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.

Nobody seems to want to do something about it. It's easy, vote with your wallet. But since the choice is either A) help humanity by stop buying cheap consumer electronics or B) don't get any cheap consumer electronics to make your day 0.5% better, it seems we're stuck in exploiting humanity.
The Day the Statue of Liberty Was Damaged in a Terrorist Attack
> wrongthink

What is this, the new "fake news" battle cry of the degenerates?

I realize software devs make for an interesting, and even intellectual sort of degenerate, but still degenerate.
Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"
Linux kernel license enforcement is very lax. Most binary blob drivers probably violate GPL in one way or the other, as do the "GPL-condom" half-open-source "drivers" that do most of their stuff in a userspace blob.

When asked about it most kernel developers point to closed-door negotiations that are being kept confidential. Usually also saying "trust us, we know what we are doing, we'll get more source opened our way".

Those who actually try to enforce GPL publically are ignored or shunned, e.g. Harald Welte/LaForge of gpl-violations.org
> Andrew Carnegie, the pioneer of entrepreneurial philanthropy, who argued in the late 19th century that ‘the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship’

Has this ever happened? I don’t see these circles mixing much unless it is a wealthy donor donating to a charity, or a wealthy person marrying someone of a lower class.

Why not start companies that make money and do good. Entrepreneurs can eat their cake and it’s not a non profit so it’ll stand on its own two feet. If you build a successful business money will come - it’s not your fault if there is a lot of it. But how you build that business and how it impacts society - that you can control. Not saying it’s a model for everyone, but an example is Bcorp
Android is only 12 years old. Are there really devices from the 1.x/2.x Android days that are still getting updated?
Yes, so there was a page of a report that showed a ‘top-view’ illustration of an item, and this svg would indicate where along the exterior of this item had damage, and where it has no damage.

So, it would become fairly inaccurate using wkhtmltopdf.

It would look like either the entire item had no issues, or it had sustained damage everywhere.
>in practice, people rarely take advantage of them

Overproduction is still not that common. These days wind and solar mostly just provide power that would have otherwise been produced by natural gas even when operating at peak capacity.

It is getting off the ground though. The UK has an energy tarriff popular with electric car owners for this reason. They can occasionally get paid to charge their cars. This type of thing will only become more common.

>And some things really can't be shaped.

Obviously not. Nonetheless pretending that all renewable intermittency has to be made up for with expensive lithium ion batteries is backwards thinking.
I'm just not sure this is true. It takes a year or two to understand how to wfh effectively and get the balance. Then it's just the same as an office with no commute... managers fearing for their asses me thinks!
I spend large part of my life on reading about things that are interesting, even if not directly useful.

I would learn about it from brilliant https://acoup.blog/ - I think that it was mentioned there somewhere.

I think this specific case I have seen first mentioned in work by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Kopali%C5%...

"Kot w worku, czyli Z dziejów pojęć i rzeczy" - with short text on wide range of topics, ranging from art forgery (and interesting case of art forgery so old so it was precious historic treasure anyway) to topics such as disease eradication.

(for example as result of Ever Given I learned plenty of things about container shipping, even if it is not something directly useful - for example this video showing unloading process of container ship is rally interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INsf6XHdfAA - shows crane picking up truck-sized containers, dropping them into truck, then immediately following process)
https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology

>The criteria evaluated in the questionnaire are pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and the quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information.

Bribery clearly falls into "media independence", perhaps also "self-censorship" (censor yourself to get free money).

Their description of media independence:

>Measures the degree to which the media are able to function independently of sources of political, governmental, business and religious power and influence.

Again I think bribery and other soft/financial coercion should clearly be included here.
None of those idiots had firearms. On American standards is this heavily armed? None brought cable ties with them but yeah that's harder for people to believe because they saw photos of a rioter idiot carrying them that he picked up from where the police left them unattended inside the Capitol building.

Who is more dangerous to freedom. Those rioting idiots who broke existing law and will all go to jail or those making far more of their threat then is remotely reasonable to change law and remove rights?

Heavily armed. I believed that in the aftermath too. Also believed weapons of mass destruction at the time. Pretty angry about both when the evidence came in and it turned out to be deliberate lies to sway public opinion to do unpopular and terrible things.
That may keep the phone working but that doesn't provide security updates. Only Qualcomm can provide security updates for the binary blobs, so if Qualcomm won't sell security updates past 3 years than no OEM can guarantee a secure phone for more than 3 years. Sure, they can update other components but I would be very upset if 3.5 years into my 5 year supported phone a CPU vulnerability was discovered that let apps get root.

So while in practice this is rare it means that longer updates can't be offered as a product feature, and if it can't be offered as a product feature than how does it help sell phones.

I'll tell you right now that if any somewhat reputable manufacturer promised 5 year support on an otherwise reasonable phone I would buy it (and 5 isn't even that much). I would even pay a bit more for it. The amount of environmental waste that is basically working phones that just need a couple of software patches is disgusting.
This is an incredibly good piece of journalism. It gives tangible examples of the issues found, puts it in context of prior work done by the developer, features first-hand verification of the claims made against the code; the author reached out for comment to all the parties involved.

I'm also consistently impressed by the quality of comments at Ars Technica whenever I visit the site.

This convinced me to subscribe. We need more journalism of comparable quality.
I think we know that America isn't healthy in any respect right now. Part of that is we don't think it's necessary to take care of each other.
Is this a US only thing? In most European countries prices are published on dentist's website. For more complex cases, where a whole range of procedures are needed, they'd assess you first and then provide itemised plan on how It'd look. Of course,in some high end clinics,where nobody cares about the prices and only millionaires are the patients, that may not be the case.

Edit:
For instance,the first Google result in London:
https://thedentalsurgery.co.uk/price-list/
> apparently

Can confirm... we use a mix of Mercury and Rust :)
You only really need the "early" microcode loading procedure (the one where you pass it in the bootloader) if you have a microcode problem that is so broken the system won't boot with it unfixed (...or you're toggling feature bits off and the kernel will break if you originally booted with those bits and then they go missing - e.g. the broken TSX implementations on Haswell/Broadwell).

Otherwise, just loading the microcode update once you get into the running OS is fine. I've never actually had a system that needed to use the former, but I've certainly used the latter.
I use the Cloud Run free tier.

I just build a tiny busybox image and serve the static pages via httpd. It‘s git push to Github to deploy. Obviously not a low tech solution, but was still fun to build.
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This seems like a win-win. The kernel developers are free to refactor as they need to keep the quality and velocity high and companies are incentivized to upstream patches including making drivers in-kernel.
This is my analysis too. The app should be open sourced and then subsequent new market entrants enjoy the benefit, lowering costs. I don't think running servers to handle a few transactions per minute per zip code is too expensive
I don't care who was "baited"

A US Senator threatening to retaliate and break-up a business because she didn't like tweets about her is straight-up authoritarian thuggery.

It's the same shit Trump used to do but when Liz does it...well it's GREAT, she's "fighting for the working class"
I use socat along with npiperelay to allow the ssh client in my WSL sessions to access the Windows ssh-agent.
Yeah, it’s not about what words you use, it’s about how you act and work.
The date of creation seems wrong, right? Shouldn't it be ~1500?
> The point of forced labour in these situations is not the efficient picking of cotton but as a form of punishment.

Punishment isn't the right word. The goal is to obliterate Uyghur village life and shift them to a legible lifestyle that is integrated into the Chinese mass market. Having them e.g. pick cotton, aside from being a convenient way to pay off well-connected supporters, makes the Uyghurs dependent on a regime-friendly company and also gives them more income to buy the same goods and consume the same media as the rest of China.

ETA: I'm confused as to whether this comment pissed off a bunch of wumao or pissed off a bunch of Americans who somehow managed to misread it as praising China. An explanation of a bad behavior isn't a justification for it, but something that can help provide insight into why it's happening and possible pressure points to stop it.
Not sure how buying expensive consumer electronics helps either, given how the excess profits continue to be captured rather than fairly distributed. There's even case studies celebrating these COOs turned CEOs for how well they've "optimised" their supply chains.
I’m just pushing out rendered HTML to Azure Storage fronted by CloudFlare (the Static Web Sites feature takes index.html and 404.html and just works).

Rendering (which is custom and optimized for minimal delta updates) is done on a tiny VM that hosts other services, triggered by a GitHub hook.
Found it: https://weibo.com/2803301701/K7IpgaGqx?type=repost Slight correction to my original post: "essentially a hashtag" => "actually a hashtag". Most of the top retweets are just the hashtag or hashtag + emoji. Dilraba Dilmurat, a Uyghur actress, posted something more substantial.
There are no dumb questions! In non-VM languages everything is compiled down to assembly (or, more accurately, machine code) since that's ultimately what your CPU executes. Anything else on top of it is just sugar!

Raw machine code does have peripheral access via interrupts and/or the BIOS (which is kind of a "barebones" OS in firmware).

Usually there are several layers of abstraction on top of this (network card drivers, the TCP/IP stack, Unix sockets, etc.) so we don't have to deal with sending raw commands to the network card, but that's just convenience (and those are themselves machine code too).
> From what I understand, nationalism in China is real. Do you perhaps dispute this notion?

I very much do. I've seen a few nationalist, but nationalism as such in China is not real.

The prime majority of people in China are completely apolitical, because they are afraid to get involved. Mainland Chinese are probably the most apolitical nation out there.

And of the few nationalists I've seen, none would come up in the open, and shout "I LOVE CHINAAAA," not even the dumbest ones. And none of those were normal people. One was a tech millionaire, another probably was already an insider to the system, and there were few idle socialite-intellectuals supported by rich parents who moved to the West.

The highly visible nationalism you see in China which pops out of nowhere, and disappears without a trace a day after is of a theatrical kind.
Fully expecting this thread to be a shitshow of China-bashing. BBC's articles reference Adrian Zenz as the source, who is known to be an unreliable source with regards to China.

As someone who is from a small country, which can only be a kingmaker in the context of the big powers ala the US and China:

You western folks are being played hard by these narratives the western institutions are spouting. The chinese are reacting like this simply because they feel they're being wronged, and they've been wronged before.

The US's mission to spread democracy is not going to succeed if people feel they're being lied to. Hell, they'll even reject it.
“We give our workers stock options now. We do not expect to do so under a union contract.”

I don’t see that as “threatening workers”, but as a reasonable communication between employer and employees and a proper counterbalance against union claims that the workers will be better off if they unionize.

“We give our workers stock options now. No other automaker working under a union contract does so.” is something that I don't think anyone could reasonably find as threatening (even I don't think the first one is either, some may).

As an employee, I benefit from more information from both sides of the issue rather than having the union organizers be able to communicate unfettered and the company communications be restricted from pointing out any possible or foreseeable downsides.
Also: as a Swede, I must say, it works very well. It is also a closed source thing, but unlike this Stockholm Stad system, it’s basically a success story from the end user perspective. It’s great to have a unified, secure and easy to use way to access your bank and government services.
You had me until you got to Donald Trump. No president has been more critical of China and actually done more to confront China than Donald Trump.
Well, my point was more to stop buying consumer electronics we don't really need, that just marginally increase our quality of life. Not that we should buy expensive electronics instead.
No you are wrong. The coop and Uber have different structures. The coop is built from the bottom up and does not need to scale. So a per-msa analysis of costs is an appropriate starting point.
Two wrongs do not make a right. This FUD will not excuse China’s criminal behavior.
I think that was when you were stuck in a prison with a high window. The typical exchange was:

# say to Gandalf "carry me"
GANDALF says no.
GANDALF goes east.
# wait
You wait. Time passes...
# wait
You wait. Time passes...

...hoping that Gandalf would show up later and be in a more cooperative mood.

Maybe I was just stuck in a mindset of adventure games having exactly one solution. Reading about this game, The Hobbit seems to be even more sophisticated than I'd assumed.
This article and report was from awhile ago, but it was around only 1/3 of IT projects are completed ‘successfully’:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/study-68-percent-of-it-project...
While the phrasing implies this is new, here's an discussion about the issue from 2018.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381184

An article from 2018...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/filezillas-us...

A question about it on their forum from over 4 years ago

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=42791
Interesting! Do you mind elaborating a bit? I ssh into WSL for this reason.
They aren't doing them in order, the fourth amendment stopped being meaningful when dragnet spying on the entire citizenry became the norm.
Donald Trump’s specific policy on China is a separate matter from the effect his conduct generally had on American soft power.

I say this as a citizen of one of America’s closest allies.
LOL, it's finally time for Paul Graham's first startup to shine.
Remember that IBM owns Red Hat. So really this should read 'IBM Pulls Free Software Funding over Richard Stallman's Return." The corrected headline reveals a possible hidden agenda.
Which suggests non-coop payment networks are more successful in the market. It does not tell us anything about whether they are actually better for anyone.
Are you saying that individuals wielding massive amounts of power in shaping social policy isn't such a terrible thing as long as those people have the "right" political view?
There is no such thing as a Chinese company not owned by the government of China.
Lack of motivation / market pressure. Also a good excuse for planned obsolescence.
> This is a conscious and opinionated strategy on the part of Linux

If anyone wants to read the Linux developers’ explanation directly, here it is:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...
Dang, this is yet another example of you making a comment to someone who is responding angrily to a person saying abhorrent things. Your continued defence of polite but disgusting comments pushes out people with different backgrounds, and entrenches fascists who can maintain a polite veneer over their scientific racism or misogyny.

It is unreasonable of you to say that people must remain calm no matter what the provocation is.

Your claim, that there are deep issues to discuss here, is repugnant when we're talking about eugenics.
This (and write performance) is one of the reasons why mkfs now defers initializing block groups until the drive is mounted. After mount the kernel initializes them slowly in the background. I did a talk which covers this:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/video-take-your-loop-m... (right at the end of the talk)

Just the graphics:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/nbd-graphical-viewer/
Exactly, having the hardware work is one thing. But to support a phone you need to fix security issues. So every binary blob is a ticking time bomb that is just waiting for a security vulnerability to be found either in it, or that needs a firmware patch to solve or workaround.

So either you need the source so that you can support it yourself, or you need a contract with Qualcomm to release security patches.

Sure, a stable ABI may mean that it would be cheaper for Qualcomm to release version updates as well, but at this point I would be happy if I could get security updates for more than 3 years. We can start asking for feature updates next.
A dentist's job is maintenance and cosmetics, teeth cannot be made better as far as I know.
GM has been unionized in some form or fashion for nearly a century.

And they were wildly profitable, and successful, one of the largest and most successful businesses in the entire world!

Toyota also has a large unionized workforce in many places!

They've also been wildly successful for many decades!

I'm really not getting this "wither and stagnate" argument.

Unless you mean if Tesla is unionized maybe in 60 years they will be disrupted by a new upstart firm.

Well...ok but that has nothing at all to do with unions.
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