skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s definitely been a shift in tone in articles from the SCMP over the past five years. It used regularly provide highly critical coverage of both the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments. It was broadly supportive of the Umbrella Movement, and regularly provided unbiased coverage of the localist movement.

The whole media environment has shifted now, and the SCMP, while still providing some critical coverage, is a shadow of what it was.

Frustratingly, critical articles also seem to be edited to within an inch of their life. You can easily spot where content has been removed and/or replaced as the tone shifts dramatically and the subject inexplicably changes within articles.

It’s still a useful resource, because Mainland media is almost entirely devoted to replicating propaganda now (unlike during the Hu era).

It’s just a shame that the critical articles that used to be its bread and butter are now outliers within the newspaper.
Zardoz: Zardoz speaks to you, his chosen ones. You have been raised up from brutality, to kill the brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your god gave you the gift of the gun. The gun is good.

Exterminators: The gun is good.

Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
I have a bidet. When I eventually move back to NZ I’m gonna make sure my house has one!
Yes but I provided an logically consistent explanation instead. Perhaps you would prefer I cite the Bitcoin Whitepaper which explains the peer-to-peer censorship resistent electronic cash as explained by the inventor Satoshi Nakamoto [1].

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper
the Sino-British joint declaration has very specific wording on issues of national security that means thy China almost definitely gets away with this.

Indeed, the Declaration gives the mainland full authority over national security matters, and as much as one wouldn't like it to be true, the Apple Daily does have/had direct links to the US government which just categorized the PRC as a security threat.

From that point of view its hard to argue this isn't a national security matter. Certainly that doesn't mean it shouldn't be protected, in the best of words as long as they are clear with their biases media should be allowed to have such affiliations, but that doesn't make it less of a national security matter.

Methinks China gets away with it even as a matter of legality wrt the Joint Declaration.
Out of fairness then, how about a credit to those who struggled and made it a priority to still make rent every month?
IC - Intelligence Community?
> I think it is important to acknowledge that different people have different lives and want different things.

Absolutely. I've found mostly-remote with some office days works very well for me, personally, and this seems to be new normal in the bank that I work for. There are also times where we want large gatherings, too.

One thing that I feel gets missed around the idea that being in the same building builds collaboration: I personally find the opposite a lot of time. It might make for easy catchups for people in proximity in the building or campus, but it often leads to implicit decision-making by proximity, where people aren't included, even when they should be, if they happen to be on another floor or another building in the same campus.
Many similarly depressing results: https://ledger.humanetech.com/
> We could fix social media tomorrow if we disabled resharing/retweeting/whatever and removed likes, make timelines/feeds strictly linear time based.

There is too much revenue to be made in not fixing the problem. Witness the pushback with Apple “only” warning users about tracking data and the force with which Facebook tried to push back.

I don’t believe there is a solution. Social media companies have weaponized fundamental rights (freedom of speech) and human emotion for profit. You can’t minimize the harm without infringing on those rights, and social media will fight to the end to enable what engagement looks like on their terms.

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-vs-apple-heres-what-you-n...
The particleboard on the back of Billy is not that high quality, but maybe it's fine against a wall.

On the other hand, I have all Ikea furniture and it's survived 3-4 moves and only gotten stronger - my last mover's hobby was repairing furniture and he fixed everything with his pile of spare parts.
"big pharma" saves hundreds of thousands of people's lives every year and then gets shit on by people who think they understand how the drug business works because some politician sent a mean tweet about a pharma company.
Been thinking wfh will be axed once things really go back to normal and the pandemic is history.

There will be a larger set of remote first or hybrid companies for sure though.

Commute time is really the main issue here and people including myself will hopefully consider shortening that for the betterment of our overall health and wellness.
there's a whole history/check the timeline of how it rose

here's a thread where some of it is being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579701

/s
per train. Long track: more trains, right?

Great points though!
I've started this process (from Centos 8). As a zfs user Ubuntu makes life much easier.
it wouldnt really work. China negotiated a clause in the Joint Declaration giving them total control over national security matters, and sadly the argument that Apple Daily collided with foreign elements making it a national security matter is simply too strong.

Even if it wasn't, the international courts have no power to compel any judgement. But I don't think it would even get there.
Doesn't the ESP32 have horrible sleep mode? I've read that usually it consumes about 100 mA at all times.
So...gross question. Let's just say I expected a drinking water fountain type thing, and got what felt like an enraged eel trying to find warmth inside me. Is that uh...typical? I've never tried one since.
What happened to your shift key?
> But anyone who pretends that CLI is adequate for inspecting history and changes or operations such as cherrypicks is a macho pretender.

That's me! The following alias in ~/.gitconfig makes things much easier:

lg = log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset - %s %Cgreen(%cr)%C(bold blue)<%an>%C(yellow)%d%Creset' --abbrev-commit
Those aren't employees, so it's ok as long as they keep the capital assets. (I think.)
If you can work from home, why not. Having lived in a city before and now in a suburb, I miss the energy of the city but the suburban quality of life outweighs the urban energy.
If they were intentionally providing that media they would be criminals, not “shady”.
Calculator said 400W for 1000L/s and my mental sanity check missed the duration units and thought 400W can move a ton of water.
A funny thing about modern military theory is that drills and tests like these have helped ensure that another major world war will happen again, and why major world conflict abruptly dropped to 0 in the 1940s. So yes, these tests probably aren't great for the environment, but these things directly prevent thousands of bombs being dropped in World War 3.
>Skepticism is good.

It can be, but its certainly not an unmitigated good. Especially when it leads to aspersions of fraud and conspiratorial thinking (e.g. rasz's comment thread below).
Didn't realise Ayn Rand was posting on HN.
It has been known for a while that there is a link between leadership and severe mental health issues [1]. Unfortunately this is how a lot of organisations are being built and how they are fluorishing.

And the higher the position, the worse it is [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dis...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/seni...
Hyundai Buys Robot Maker Boston Dynamics, Valuing Company at $1.1B
I mostly agree with other siblings' comments, but your turn of phrase has actually made me think of an angle which I haven't seen discussed in this context (emphasis mine):

> what you have to understand is that you're taking away something work used to provide, and asking the employee to provide it for themselves. There is a group of people for whom "work friends" are really important. Whether work friends are their only friends or just a subset of friends, the low-pressure friendship of only socializing with somebody because you have to is a different relationship to clearly indicated socializing with somebody because you want to.

The thing is that "work relationships" aren't like material objects. Work doesn't actually provide them, not in the sense that work provides you a desk, a chair and probably a computer.

Those relationships are actually provided by other people. And while some of those people may actually enjoy being there, maybe others would much rather not be there and not endure this forced socialization. On the face of it, it doesn't seem fair to me to force me to come to the office, so you can have a social life, if I don't enjoy it. Why would your preference override mine?

I actually like my colleagues and have enjoyed the occasional after work drink and chat with them until the bar closed, but I don't consider them my friends and, most importantly, I absolutely hate having to waste more than an hour of my life every day commuting. I can see how working 100% from home would have prevented me from building some relationships I have built, but like everything, it's a trade-off. Who knows what relationships I could have built had I been free to live further away from my office.

As someone higher in the thread said, not all people have the same preferences, and I realize that it may be hard for the company to organize work such that everyone is happy. But maybe in the end, people should choose where they work based on those preferences. Like working alone? Join a remote-only company. Love open-spaces and chatting with random colleagues walking by? Join an on-site-only company. We shouldn't expect there to be a single way to work.
Git has the most simple design (protocol, repo format) out there. You can implement it yourself in a couple of evenings.
Whatever we decide we want to prepare kids for. Do we want auto-didacts? Do we want them to just be able to do all citizen things like maintain their house/car and do their taxes? Do we want to have the best researchers? Do we want the best athletes? Do we want citizens expert in our own culture/history?

The school system has always seemed aimless to me until you hit university where the goal more clearly is to either make you a great professional or a great researcher.
UW Madison has a 1MW research reactor: https://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/
Forcefully installing tracking apps onto users' phones is not the way to improve the trust of the public.

Check out the reviews here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...
Individual contributor. A software engineer who does not manage.
> LiDAR doesn’t tell you that it’s a bag on the road vs a raccoon

I think that's largely an issue with the early LIDAR devices today, but not necessarily what may be to come.

There's something to be said about measuring actual data with solid physics vs. inferring distances with billions of operations on RGB data. If you were landing a commercial aircraft in fog, you most certainly don't rely on your eyes to do most of it, but it is in fact possible to do safely precisely because we do have good sensors on them.

I fully agree with leveraging the scale and maturity of RGB sensors for cars today, the talk is spot on about that, but that's (a) circling back to the fact that Tesla needs to sell cars now not next year and (b) not a good case against use of LIDAR in the future.
meh100
1. Git was WAY better than SVN and CVS and was also a lot better than most of the commercial options of the time. The open source license and fact it worked on just about any text file made it pretty easy to adopt.

2. Author was Linus Torvalds and git was immediately used and proven (in 2005) to manage the Linux kernel. For a lot of open source developers, experience working with kernel stuff had you thinking, hey this git thing is pretty nice...

3. When Github showed up, it quickly replaced the old SVN and CVS driven software "forges" that were used by a lot of the open source world.

So what about the undo thing? Git has always got a lot of flack for it's command line inconsistency. Honestly, it's no better/no worse than most developer tools (try your compiler's command line options). You have to learn to use it, and like other dev tools, learning it usually involves on the job pain, exactly when you don't want it (demo in 15 minutes).
Here is an example of what I see from Google these days. I get a notification banner telling me that Hangouts is being replaced by Gmail Chat. This comes a year after a rumor that Hangouts was being shut down. Apparently, that was just a rumor or something.

So I continue using Hangouts until now when I'm told it is officially being replaced. Whatever, I think, I'll just switch to Gmail Chat and uninstall Hangouts. Today, I get sent a video from someone still on Hangouts. They fucking play link takes me to the Hangouts page on the play store. I need to install Hangouts to watch the video.

You can't make this up.
This piece is all heart, no brain
The primary goal of this is to make landlords whole, not to help renters.
I believe the main power generation is hydroelectric, so there is some flow through the turbines at all times.
People take the internet too seriously. So its easy to troll them.
Reading your HN profile, sound like you might find office hours.global interesting…
They generate the energy probably all of the time. At night, however, fewer customers are using and so they can store the excess. That stored energy can then smooth out large changes in the daytime operating hours, or it can just supplement the supply as necessary.
Given the statement: "A || B" (where A is "take this course of action" and B is "I will quit"), if A is false (i.e., !A is true) then logically B has to be true.

The moment an employee says "Do this or I quit", and the company refuses to "do this", then the company is correct in assuming that the "I quit" part will apply.
If they are doing it proactively they probably should have filtered by time. If I'm not mistaken the artist in the article says their artwork had been up for years. Prior art should not be in danger at all for the company.
They're useful if you're self-employed because you can marry one to get the benefits.
My 17-year-old Honda minivan does the same. A few seconds on the brakes while going down a steep hill will trigger a downshift.
Demand is low at night, but many types of power plants are not easily/efficiently throttled down for lower supply (e.g.: nuclear, wind). So it makes sense to use the extra supply to pump water up.
Google has a history of product rot. Most notably where I rot the two most expensive pieces of product rot are the Jamboards. We opted not to renew them when COVID hit and now that things are kind of going back to normal, I’ve found Logitech and a few other companies have come out with better products that integrate with existing whiteboards for what we need in conference rooms.

Things like the jamboard turn me off of buying Google hardware.
It's certainly telling when there's a reorg and after a team moves, it no longer looks like someone let off a shit-bomb in the toilets every day.
I can see where tracking pixels need to be eliminated, but tracking links seem fairly legitimate because it requires an action on the part of the user to become effective. The solution is to not click links in marketing emails.
> festival is currently hardcoded as the text-to-speech engine.

How is that, quality wise? I tried to get festival working once, but failed.

Also tried espeak, but found it to be not very good.

Finally settled on pico2wave with the "-l=en-GB" flag to make it use the British Lady voice, which seemed really really excellent compared to everything else I was able to try. Edit: I excluded online TTS because for what I was doing it needed to be local TTS.
Yeah I was big into the idea of how the Internet was going to completely democratize information and education and knowledge. Not everyone predominantly choosing to plug into a few different major ecosystems run by giga corporations.
Airbnb, are you hiring leaders or nannies?
Not extra, excess. Demand is lower at night.
it's telling that you think courts are objective...
> "You can call it trolling, some people call it 'dunking'," Mr Rathje said.

I remember when first using internet forums, a "troll" was someone who posted stuff in discussions for no other purpose than to wind people up, as if it was a sport. "Feeding the trolls" was heavily frowned upon because replying to trolls made you part of the problem. Trolling only works when people engage and post about how outraged they are.

It's interesting how people were wise to trolling before social media. It's made even worse now with the media, even misusing the world "troll" in their articles while they help to feed them and create careers out of trolling.

When was the original definition of troll forgotten along with the "don't feed the trolls" mantra? How do we bring it back so people realise they're part of the problem when they reply to obvious trolling?
I hope so, since hiring "the best" is not a good strategy, it means you never hire any juniors. ("meritocracy" is also a bad idea and the word was invented for a book about how it doesn't work.)

As for hiring "the worst", I guess there's those companies founded to give ex-convicts honest work.
What happens to that reactor if it's damaged (or destroyed) in battle? I guess what I'm asking is: what are the failure modes we're talking about?
- Automatically generated unit and integration tests

- Useable VRML (Minority Report was 2002!)

- CPUs that could directly run Java bytecode (Sun never shipped it, but everything had a "powered by Java" sticker on it back then)
Am I the one who think this is scary? The future of Microsoft not giving a damn, and a future where Apple dominate and dictate everything.

I am not an old timer like some here that has a MacSE, but for 20+ years, this is the biggest come back of Apple, and many of us were once hoping for. For me it was a simple thesis, something that is so much better deserve to be in a better position. May be it was more of a hatred against Microsoft in a way, since they were shipping crap after crap.

And here we are, Apple dominating and will continue to do so. But since 2016 Apple smells exactly the same as Google in 2003. Don't be evil Hypocrisy.

Except this time around Apple has the better product, services and brand. From a strategic point of view there are no major flaws of weakness. Google's only major weakness was relying on browser for access. That is why they created Chrome. They also saw what could happen if everyone were using iPhone. They will have access dictated by Apple so they need to built Android.

But Apple has no access problem. They are the final End Point ( or starting point would be more appreciate ) of all technology and digitalisation.

> I'm blind because I think Apple products are so great.

Not really, objectively speaking it is hard to argue Apple's product are not some of the best on the market.
They are wrong, there are actions you can take in git that will cause you to lose your "immutable" history. Most accidental cases probably involve `git reset` or `git rebase`, but here's an example if you want to do it intentionally:

# Commit all changes and push to at least one remote so your changes are ""immutable""
rm -rf myrepo/
mkdir example && cd example
git init
# Repeat for each remote
git remote add remote1 https://origin.for/your/repo
git push remote1 --mirror --force

Congrats, you've lost everything! (Except for your backups, you do have backups right?)
You obviously have a very different experience with TIFF or RAW than I have had?

Every vendor and application has weird extensions or behaviors with the format that means only custom built support for the software that makes it actually works well.

Every piece of software on the planet seems to support jpeg out of the box.
pure DARVO :D
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/files/9nghp3dx8hdx?activet...
It's not just major cities. This current housing mania is happening in smaller cities too. Like cities with only ~60k population and over two and a half hours away from any major city, in the Midwest.

Like where my parents live. There are several people they know that are selling there just because their homes have shot up so much the past year and are renting until the market cools down.

Our house isn't on the market, but the Zillow estimate has gone up 26% in the three years since we bought it, most of that in the past year, and we're not in a major city (far suburbs of one, though).
"Arriving in droves" is much more telling about the external conditions of the job market. I think it's safe to say that it sounds like a good gig before you have a good understanding of what the work is. Then, after working for less than a year you see it for what it is and get out of there.
Presumably we're talking about this, from 8 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789536

in which the end of my final comment was:

"I know what the differences are - I've worked in this field for 20 years. I was just trying to give you a gentle smiley faced nudge to jump in on a "better" version of what you've already done in order to Make The World A Better Place."

It seems that this attitude rubs some people the wrong way, and I certainly apologize for that. I don't apologize for my belief that it's better when exploring new projects to find out as much as possible about what has been done before. I made the mistake of not doing that when I was younger, and my software has been the worse for it ever since. If you feel that you or others are immune from this, awesome, go for it, but give me room in the skeptics corner.
Thanks for citing actual stats. It’s amazing how the military always ends up being a scapegoat for government spending. The high dollar amounts sound impressive until you see the rest of the spending…
>Also, I feel like this is super indicative of the gate-keeping mentality a lot of IT and tech

That lumps people together. I'm in IT/tech but don't value intricate, difficult, extreme novelty over everything else. That would be absurd.

Remember Stanfords $1 paper microscope for looking at blood samples? Now that was badass.

The cleverness is in the saving of $7940 to solve a problem. Dumpster-diving for parts and materials, or even freeganning Whole Foods are all perfectly valid too.

I remember a guy used his seat aisle's window on StartupBus as a whiteboard with dry-erase markers, but I guess he should've brought an LED light strip to make it pop more. The trick is installing it. ;-)
> I headed on the flight back with zero interest in working with that team, though I did love the dog friendly culture.

I remember reading a blog about working at Amazon that was mostly about how they hated the dog friendly culture and couldn't get any accommodation for being allergic to dogs.

The reputation of Amazon as somewhere you go out of college and then quit after 2 years has been around a while, maybe about as long as the one about Google having impossible interviews.
Not really. It does put a lot of rules around when something might become a tainted environment, so I would imagine it could be too easy to end up with your home network accidentally becoming part of the PCI scope if you weren't careful.