skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5% disapproval is basically the lizard man constant, aka how many people believe our politicians are actually lizards wearing human skin. So claiming 95% approval is essentially claiming 100% approval. Patently absurd. Even in the days after 9/11 when America was memorably united as one, approval of Bush hit 90% (briefly), not 95%.

It’s effectively impossible to have lasting super-high approval as a government anyway, because you’re in the business of picking winners and losers.
Wow that's insane. This was an interesting read, the most info I could find: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/witness-j-revealed-se...
"nobody knew who they were"
- https://twitter.com/ivanhzhao
Corporations are knife-fights over funding.

What SHOULD happen in DEC was your two platforms competing to deliver a better product, and if they crossed into each other's sales turf, whatever.

But of course such things never happen, Middle Management Machiavellis fight for their personal empires and it falls apart.

I personally think large corps that acquire a bunch of separate Datacenter groups shouldn't consolidate them, instead they should set them up for internal competition to serve groups. Well, and AWS, although that is probably a losing battle.

But again at the upper management levels, they can't tell who is doing well, so it goes the way of politics.

The free market... eventually, delivers the death blows.
According to Wikipedia:

“Its legs were longer than those of other rhinos and were adapted for galloping, giving it a horse-like gait.”

Close enough for me!
This is me every time I compose an email on Mailchimp. I am always petrified that I'll send to the entire mailing list rather than send out a test email.

I wish these mass-emailer companies ask you to solve a captcha, puzzle, or a simple math question before you send out a mass mailer.

The heart attacks ... ugh
Gave me a good chuckle too. Have a great day!
Similar computers were given away to almost every venezuelan kid in school during the venezuelan oil bonanza around 2009-2012 [1], a big number were also given during 2013-2014 period.

Since 2013, Venezuela entered into a huge economical crysis. Resulting in people not being able to afford to buy a pc or laptop so the "Canaima" / "Canaimita" laptops where their only alternative to own a computer.

Nowdays, all those kids (now grown) are still using their laptops, most of them already at University level, Imagine people at universities using 2012 notebooks with 10inches screens. They are perfectly working and you can easily fix them as there is so many parts on mercadolibre [2]

As a side note, all the laptops were given away with a linux version mantained by the govt [3] so kids were somehow forced to learn basic linux, wich is kinda cool, eventually most got to install windows on the laptops by themselves, take note that it was of course pirated windows/office, so the kids at least learnt how to properly set up their laptops.

The laptops pretty much became part of venezuelan young generation culture, getting to a point that facebook groups started appearing of people sharing games supported by the laptop [4] some other groups of people modding the laptops and so on.

In fact, one of the biggest youtubers (LowSpecGamer) [5] started his crusade of -low specs gaming- using one of these laptops.

If you wanna take a look of what the "canaimita" market right now is, take a look at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canaimita you can also sorty by new to see kids reparing the laptops or doing memes with them https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canaimita&sp=CA...

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima_Educativo

[2] https://listado.mercadolibre.com.ve/canaima#D[A:canaima]

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima_(operating_system)

[4] https://www.facebook.com/Juegos-para-canaima-y-pc-de-bajos-r...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQkd05iAYed2-LOmhjzDG6g
For my team, we take average reading speeds for the main document then add extra time for the appendices. This means that slower readers will at least get to read the main document. Also, providing documents in advance will give those who need time and technical assistance, the ability to take the steps they need prior.
The character 企 also looks like a penguin by itself.
I guess even the lowest bar of news integrity is an optional choice when it comes to Hong Kong?
Ask HN: What do you miss most about your previous job?
When you left a company to move another one, what is the largest loss from the last job?

We've often heard about ex-Google folks miss its internal infrastructure. Fine, but I can look for somewhere else on that [1]. How about other companies? Ex-of other FAANG companies? Startups? Good old enterprises? Whre do yo come from and what do you miss?

For example: I missed the internal blogging culture when I moved from small Tokyo-based tech firm to a US-based big co (although I never missed the long working hours).

There must be a virtue each company has. I'd love to hear your stories. (But let's not talk about money for now. It's probably not very interesting.)

Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
Well, then there's Hangouts which already had all the necessary features and Google killed it anyway.

Which shows that Google is an internecine regressive management hierarchy like any other.
Neanderthals first met Homo sapiens in the Negev Desert
It seems they have too many developers without better things to do ..
Beware, Gravity screwed over numerous businesses I work with. They purposefully misclassified businesses SICs (a code that defines what very specific category your business is, eg: a bar or a restaurant) to reduce credit card processing fees (interchange fees) for their customers, but were caught doing this for a massive number of businesses.

The card networks and issuing banks that had this money stolen from them went after the businesses that dodged these fees illicitly, with bills of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars for fees that should have been paid.
Is AON instead of PON feasible to do for a small ISP or too costly?
Factbox: What you need to know about Hong Kong's national security law
I mean, at least they could have put some superglue on the plug!
This made me VERY happy
HBO Announces Integration Test Email Season 2
It's a common troll copy-and-past comment you see on any forums relating to China.

TLDR: America Evil. Communists good. Anything communists do is good. Everything outside of China is an evil conspiracy to rid the Chinese of their beloved amazing government that is supported by 120% approval rating.
"looks like a horse" or "has the right kind of horn" ... these are obviously not what makes or breaks "is this a unicorn?".

To answer the question correctly, we're gonna have to create some live ones and feed them virgins.
Got 1st one, 3 hours ago

And I just got a 2nd one (different email) just 5 minutes ago.

3 hours of email sending, still haven't notice
Yes. But there is a different. Between Natural Selection of language where it is gone and a planned deliberate attack to get rid of the language. Correct me if I am wrong I believe Sicillian and Napolitano are the former. Cantonese are the latter.
Unhappy humans have been speaking to other humans for thousands of years without anybody setting up arbitrary "trainings" about it and meaningless certifications that allow us to pretend that we can stave off the psychological chaos involved in being alive.

I think it will be okay. And even if it's not okay, it already wasn't okay in the first place.
You can play Steam games with an Oculus headset.
Wow...that's both hilarious and amazing at the same time.
> China agreed not to touch Hong Kong's system politically or economically until at least 2047.

China just kept the good ol' colonial system rolling.
This 95% has as much credibility as Kim Jong Il's 36 round golf score.
I remember being confounded by the absence of a return statement in rust functions for a few days. I only understood that a statement without a semi colon is returned.

When writing a tech book, follow the Zen of Python. Explicit is better than implicit.
A related good idea is "Ticket or it didn't happen."

Every time a question gets answered, or something gets discussed, put in the appropriate ticket for the problem related to the meeting.

If there isn't a ticket, why not?
So just a second Civil War then? That's how you think we should resolve it?
> Maybe saying "I just read this book ... Did you hear about it?" to indirectly helping someone start thinking about reading books -- instead of giving a lecture about problems with FB

Yeah, maybe. Though reading books is yet another one of those things.

> Makes me wonder, how did you and the car get back home in the end :-)

Hah. It was in Germany. The car broke down on the exit of the highway. I ended up walking to the next town and asking people along the way. In the end a lady working in their front garden let me use their phone. It always stuck with me because she was the only person that I asked that wasn't German and at the same time the only person that had no issues with me using their phone. I called up roadside assistance and it all worked out from there.

I did consider dropping by with some flowers at a later point to say thanks. I never went through with it though, and pretty much forgot about it until writing this comment. Oh well, it would have been a nice gesture.
Marijuana went through this as well. States 'legalized' despite selling / consumption being illegal federally.

It seems the states won that one, for whatever reason.
This is so well done. I've made it a mandate for all my engineers to read it.
A SJ type is what TB would need to orient this pivot… to turn the problem around. Sourcing ideas on HN will only lead to “faster horses” suggestions. BTW did the TB interview after been lured by dark patterns on social media a while back when I was still using. Got the bloom filter from a hipster that was playing on his phone while I coded tictactoe in a langage I hadn’t used In years. Complete waste of time. Then they wanted to make profiles I hadn’t signed up for public, good thing they listened to the backlash. Just saying; it seems the management needs to use an hypothetical service like theirs but that works to find someone to help them on the angle for that pivot… a headhunter ?:-)

Tongue in cheek, good luck on the pivot guys, it is a tough problem.
I miss many aspects that are the byproduct of this particular Amazon process. Namely:

- it’s also a very email heavy culture, yet I had zero anxiety about what might still be sitting in my inbox unread as I went to a meeting. If it was important pre-work that was required for the meeting we all did it together at the start of the meeting. There was no expectations to have caught up on context prior.
- the format was very empowering both as an author and a consumer. As an author the constraints meant you didn’t have to worry so much about the audience or the structure and instead it was a more pure focus on content. Likewise as a reader you quickly build a muscle for how to consume it rather than second guessing if there’s going to be some grand reveal or how a story is building.
- it was also nothing short of inspirational being able to observe very senior leadership coming in to a read on something. Near zero previous context about local challenges, the particular business space or problems we’re discussing, and every single time they’d gone straight in on a fundamental issue others had missed or something that seemed inconsistent across the data presented that warranted a closer look.
Hysolate: A local workspace to isolate risky or sensitive activities
India offers no counterweight in the next few decades. They offer considerable further weight, that much is true.

As you note, they're running decades behind. There's some hope that the West & Co. can bolster India, accelerate their ability to help stand up to China in the region. The US will need all the help it can get, as it will be unable to continue to serve that role on its own. When the US was 10 to 1 or 5 to 1 vs China, as in the past (1970-2005), it was still not an easy task to wrestle with them; when the US is 1 to 1 vs China (and in their backyard), forget about it.

It's just an incredible gap for India though. By the time India gets to $5 trillion in GDP (from $3t now), China will be up at $22-$23 trillion or so, and far larger than the EU. The US adds an economy the size of Japan or Germany every seven or eight years and it's still not enough to counter China.

India realistically can't help any more than Japan does. It's a modest push-back potential, some limited regional containment. China does at least value having a veneer of global respect. All authoritarian systems want others to pretend they're moral, to pretend that they deserve respect. They always crave that. That's why the USSR and North Korea always wanted recognition from the US, they crave that fake uneared stature, which they can earn no other way with their type of system (systems that rule solely through extreme violence and force, rather than through any manner of democracy and human rights).

Besides all the economic matters, nobody is going to full-on war with China, and that includes India. I just don't see what significant difference India makes, unless we're talking about the year 2070. Certainly it's far better to have India as added weight on the scales, but it still doesn't matter in terms of altering China's thinking or behavior. The other problem, is that India really can't offer much assistance in restraining China in the Asia Pacific region, which is where most of China's more serious ambitions are in the next few decades.
I left a big company for a startup and missed people that new what they were doing (I mean this positively, like I went from a place where everything had been done before and there was someone with 35 years experience who knew exactly how to do it, to somewhere that everything was new, but you still miss the experience)

Mostly I just miss the friends I had at previous jobs.
> People who do web development use Docker

This kind of HN elitism bothers me. PHP built its reputation on quick 'n dirty hacks which were easy to deploy on cheap hosting not by aping the infrastructure of some tech giant with fleets of servers, which is what Docker was originally designed for. The average PHP dev relying on the version which comes with the OS is most certainly not using Docker. Most home broadband upload speeds make Docker a non-starter.
The Selfish Fallacy
CCP didn't allow Hong Kong people to choose. They didn't even allow Hong Kong people to participate in the hand over negotiation.

Remember CCP is a group of savage dictators and does not embrace the Western values, such as respect, equality, that are familiar to us.
I totally agree... a large part of Rome's decline was the intensity of 3rd century crises, and the civil wars that happen at that century between factions/self named emperors vying for power.
This happens in any large organization to a degree...
I was at a company that did something like this. However, the fallout was the sending IPs and domains got put on so many email blacklists, spent months on improving emails to no avail. Our sending success rate to Gmail never recovered even after talking to an engineer who said we were on like 4 blacklists. I hope HBO's servers or ESP fare better.
Over 30 years, though, your salary will go up with inflation, but your fixed rate mortgage payments will not.
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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
>> I talk about my mental health to anyone who will listen, and also try to those who won’t.

Sorry, that's just plain rude.
Yes, and when normal contracts don't (because they can't) anticipate every possible scenario, there is a meta layer on top of that to resolve edge cases.

In the case of a smart contract, it can even happen that both parties agree in how things should take place when there's a problem! But bad code doesn't work that way, and you can find yourself in a null state of indeterminacy without a built in layer to resolve that.

The entire evolution of legal jargon can be viewed as an attempt to provide a linguistic framework whereby ambiguity is minimized and edge cases are anticipated. But human interactions are chaotic and all outcomes or scenarios can never be predicted, hence the need for a layer of human judgement.

That layer is imperfect, sometimes wrong, sometimes biased, but still necessary. I don't see how smart contracts can work without that sort of layer, but with a human judgment layer then they're not really smart contracts in the way people want such contracts to function.

Trusting any smart contract of sufficient complexity is like trusting that a code base has absolutely zero bugs and zero unanticipated edge cases. I just don't see that as realistic.

If a programmer at a bank or exchanged should have coded ">=" then I want 1) for them to easily be able to act on their intentions instead of their mistake or 2) the ability to bring in a 3rd party to interpret and resolve the situation if #1 doesn't work out.
Sorry, what? Your solution to the problem of the wealthy undermining democracy is just to say, "Screw it, let's go all-in and have a plutocracy"?

Most countries in history tried that system, and it was universally bad.
Where Are All the Cheap Single Board x86 PCs?
Is it just me or is it weird to see an ORM that wraps over 4 relational databases and… Mongo…
My work is doing planned DR testing right now. One key system had some problems failing over - so they delayed failing back, then they decided to change when they were going to fail back.

Each time they changed their plans, there were war rooms discussing the "impact" of them changing plans. In each meeting, I'm scratching my head: this the closest thing to an actual disaster and we are all in a tizzy.
Yes with a nanopore device that's doable if you take a sample that has a high enough viral charge. You may evem be able to get reads without amplification.
I just want to point about the comments on this post. There are literally 3 commenters who posting nothing but whataboutisms and clear falsehoods. That is enough to rile up everyone else and make the thread quite toxic.

This is how Chinese trolls operate across the board. They know they can't win any arguments based on facts and logic so they muddle the waters such that the truth is lost in a sea of lies.

The Chinese wonder why more and more people have negative views of China yet they don't seem to realize their own "wolf warrior" nationalistic falsehood-driven jingoism is the root cause.

Why bother engage if you're just going to get fed the same lies over and over again?
It gets even more interesting when you think that by definition, our economy is supposed to be a long term win by having completely separated companies building the same thing competitively.

If its poor allocation for the company, why is it a good allocation method for our economy as a whole?

If its a good allocation of resources for our economy, then what makes it bad for a company to do it internally?
I have personally hired a number of woman for senior developer jobs and they have all done well. Better than some of the guys I have hired. If it truly is impossible for woman to do well in a male dominated industry, how do you explain that?
Or they ran a suite of integration tests against prod as a way to verify a release was working correctly.
I think, they are comparative. i.e 30" at the price 15 years ago make sense because all LCD screen were expensive. These days LCD screen are cheap, especially those with low PPI. And in the whole industry only Apple is fixed on the 218PPI ( Which is a good thing from quality PoV, but Bad thing from BOM PoV ). So the only conclusion is the market aren't willing to pay that much for a 24". Or at least not without other substantial upgrade like MiniLED backlight.

So yes, very unfortunate economics. Although one could argue Apple lower than margin, but generally speaking that I not how business works.
I really recommend to check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/eveningkid

One of the lower subscribed well produced tech channels I've seen in a while.
Similar experience going to a French school for the equivalent of 10th grade, after attending US schools until then. My first math test grade was very low, mostly because I didn't write things in the correct colors. That was quite a shock.
HBO Max response on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HBOMaxHelp/status/1405712235108917249
the book was really good. However, just because you liked it why do you have to mandate your employees to read it?

Why not just make a recommendation.
tell that to twitter or facebook
Number one would be the unsanctioned daily lunch barbecue with my friends in the parking lot using a folding propane grill. Number two would be the bicycle commute.
Every time any Chinese diplomat opens their mouth, something incendiary comes out these days. There will be books written in the future and these times will be used an example on how to lose friends fast. The absolute reverse of soft power.
I wonder why the default assumption in archaeology of pleistocene megafauna so often is "it is unlikely that they were hunted into extinction". It seems to me that ecological pressure from Humans is the parsimonious explanation.

Two recent examples: the last major landmasses to be settled by humans were Madagascar and New Zealand. These islands were home to very unique megafauna such as Haast's Eagle, the Elephant Bird, the Moa, Giant Tortoises, a species of Hippo, Crocodiles, Lemurs larger than a human, and others.

All went extinct within several hundred years of human arrival.
Looks like emulators for gaming.
I get what you are saying, but on the contrary, I don't want to go through interview process as a candidate just to be lowballed in the end. If the range is not there, and often it is not, I am fairly good and not everyone understand how much this costs, I just don't want to waste anyone time.

I don't think this part is off. Why I never went to Triplebyte and will not go, I think doing tests is dumb and don't wanna do it. Like original commenter said, you can't change model that quickly.
I set up the production servers for Pokemon GO using my personal email address as the owner. When we hit 120 million users and all the servers melted, guess which address every single one of those people was told to email about the problem?

It took a script running for five days to delete everything.
Thank you, I keep having to explain to programmers that get excited about doing biology discoveries in short periods that you can't achieve that the way you achieve a prototype of a web service in a weekend... They often have the impression they are the ones doing the most complex thing in the world... And they think they understand the necessary bricks after a few hours of reading... Ahhh hubris
No, I do not think Big Stick is right.

The U.S. has a whole history with Latin America that was a lot less than 200 years ago. I'd argue that many outside of the U.S believe this policy isn't a thing of the past.

>French and Spanish sold them out

I don't find the suggestion that those that were subjugated needed rights granted to them by outside groups, including those that colonized them to begin with.

Again, I'm in agreement that this is wrong, but I also believe that "Rules for thee but not for me" is not a very productive type of diplomacy either.
Holy shit, this is actually a killer app in Deno.

Great work developers!