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Hi pbhjpbhj, thanks for the feedback. I think at the moment company name disambiguation, especially with patents is an unsolved problem. There are easier tasks such as cleaning typos and company name changes, but then as you mentioned - mergers, splits etc. Which companies with exactly the same name but in different countries are the same? And in most cases ownership changes of the patents are not even tracked. Thats why we decided to do some preprocessing, but did not try to solve this problem by now.
Externalities are not baked into the current price of eg coal power. The fully loaded price should be compared.
Maybe the brilliant 5D chess move here would have been to download what was needed, then put it on a disc with a printed label.

6D Chess: set up an LLC to do this, and convince the place to buy the discs at significant markup.
Hat, sunglasses, mask now recommended for the facial-recognition future.
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Whoops nicely spot! my mistake on apple, will be added the soonest!
Can you explain to someone who has not written a kernel but still coded Java and C(++) for 20 years how this quote is possible (how it works that Java which is written in C can outperform C):

"While I'm on the topic of concurrency I should mention my far too brief chat with Doug Lea. He commented that multi-threaded Java these days far outperforms C, due to the memory management and a garbage collector. If I recall correctly he said "only 12 times faster than C means you haven't started optimizing"." - Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OOPSLA2005.html

I get the feeling this quote is possible due to the memory management rewrite of the entire JVM in version 1.5 to allow Doug to make the concurrency package?

But I cannot explain it, even if I have experienced it!
none of those things require you to literally be isolated. it's funny you use those examples because they've all exploded in the past few years.
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Lunduke is part of the anti-systemd cult. It's important to understand this article is not about the trade-offs of different hiring strategies at all - it's a hit piece on Red Hat.
Can you spell "ageism"?
What is the actual speed you get? Also mobile coverage is so bad. My phone frequently drops to edge connection in the middle of a city in Germany. I haven’t had this bad mobile coverage in any country including several third world countries.
With the exception of the military sector where France and the UK are pretty strong I don't think that's a controversial claim. German industry both in small and middle-sized as well as large firms is still doing well.

Kind of relates to the article as well. Internet infrastructure isn't that important when it comes to Germany's economy. The big four are basically automotive, mechanical engineering, chemical and electrical industries.
My mom just went through surgery and chemo and cancer from last February to about September and luckily made it through, only to have a heart attack this spring, and then luckily made it through that. So I'm grateful and yet it's been a long 1.5 years. One thing I learned is that while there may be a lot of things in common with having someone go through chemo, there also may be a lot that differs, so what I say here may or may not apply to your situation.

In our case, she seemed to do very well with the chemo, all things considered. I had deep fears of how much it would wreck her, and it did take all of her energy for about a week and then she would start to get it back and then get chemo the third week and it'd start again. The hair falling out was a huge identity shock and I think brought some embarrassment/shame—getting a wig seemed to help. We also felt grateful, in a way, that it was happening during covid, because then there wasn't a lot of social pressure to go outside to see other people.

One thing that somewhat came as a surprise: someone having to do all the things in the family that she would normally do. My mom has done a lot of the cooking and cleaning of the house and paid bills and such. When she was bedridden or exhausted for the week, there were a lot of things that needed to get done but not many of us knew how to do them. So, as others have suggested, taking help to get things done or sharing amongst your family to step up and do them can really help keep things going, so that other things don't start falling apart.

The other main thing I noticed was how people in the family may react differently to it, some feeling more afraid, some more angry, some more helpless, some more strong, some more sad, some more empowered, etc. For some reason, I didn't feel too much fear, as I think I believed she would get through it and that most was taken out with the surgery, and I also tend to feel stronger and more focused in crisis situations. Others in my family reacted differently and so I found myself trying to be there for them as well, including people in my extended family for whom I wasn't traditionally the contact person. So, while it may be impacting you and your mother a lot, it may be impacting those in your extended family and even family friends, and not necessarily for you to help them, but just to remember that it's a team effort to try to fill in all the roles, and it's ok to give help and it's ok to receive help in these times.

Lastly, I'm just really grateful you reached out to HN to ask for help on this. I don't know what if anything that I said will help you. I know one of the things that helped me the most when I found out she was diagnosed was crying into my friends arms and him telling me that his dad had also struggled with cancer for many years. I think before that moment, I, for some reason, assumed not that many people had gone through this. After opening up and sharing with him and others, I heard more and more how unfortunately common cancer is. In a way, I realized that I'm not alone in experiencing this and that more people cared about me and my mom than I had ever imagined.
Or the NPC bouncer telling me they value me some much as a European visitor, and that they are working on complying with the GDPR. So get lost, scum. Meanwhile the American next in line gets to enter and promptly receives that handful of virtual cookies.
Great, a good way to get fresh new ideas and perspectives from newbies who inject ideas that sound outlandish. These ideas can bake in peoples' minds who can produce it. Other than that, spreading knowledge from seniors to newbies creates broader layer of transferrable experience and knowledge.
There's also the option of simply trimming bureaucracy. For instance, you could cut DEI and still get the same research output [0].

[0] https://quillette.com/2021/11/02/tales-from-the-gulag/
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please submit the original source if an article primarily quotes what another outlet reported.
Using npm is like russian roulette.
Someday it makes your head hurt really bad!
It advantages common use by people that makes it easier to communicate, not the cultural engineering you’re imagining
I take advantage of that by using the card to pay bills (that don't charge a "convenience fee" to use a CC) and try to time things to get as close to the 60 days as I can.

It's just a long standing habit of mine.
I don't get it. Some items on that list can be legitimate, non-technical objections, like 3, 5, 7, 30, 31, 33, 56, 58. Others can be legitimate, technical objections, like 1, 6, 19, 46.
The same was said about "classic" social networks (like Facebook and Instagram) when they first appeared. What happened is that they didn't replace IRL interactions -- instead, they invented new ways of interacting, new social dynamics. Why can't this be the case for VR? To be neither real-life nor classic social media, but something else entirely.
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European landline internet almost never has data caps.
I'd really like to see a movie or a documentary on this topic.

Comments in here and the post itself are such a niche that only people browsing hacker news get to see.
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I also use neo2 and am using the neo arrow keys and Esc on layer 4. Works like a charm.

Fun thing with neo: You have additional keys free for keybindings: hjkläöüß

I'm using ä, ö and ü to save, close buffer and quit vim. I'm very happy with that.
Microsoft to work with community colleges to fill 250k cyber jobs
If I got multiple life sentences with no chance of parole, I think that would be a pretty good indicator that I wasn't going anywhere in 5 years.
Also, there was a weird period when cybernetics was considered bourgeoise pseudo-science.

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

Late Stalinism is worth studying, if only to learn how twisted can an entire country become out of fear.
Why dont ants stop working?
Is it true top tier customer reward cards (black/platinum/amex business/etc) have interchange fees that push into 3% territory? If so, how do companies like Square make money when they only charge the merchant 2.6% for a POS transaction?
I agree. I'm a big fan of the lightweight design doc— what's the background, what are the motivations, what's the proposal, what are the alternatives and why aren't we doing them, what are the implications and potential downsides, does the proposal change anything about our exposures as far as security, privacy, etc.

I like the discipline of writing these out for myself, I like reviewing them, and I like being able to look back on them for my own past projects as a way to quickly warm my mental cache.
I've worked at places that are loaded with senior engineers/developers. It can be awkward from a business sense because: a) Most of your developers are too expensive, so you put very few of them on any project, b) Senior engineers usually have a lot of ongoing efforts that require their attention, while a mid-level or junior might be able to to focus more on your current spring, c) Senior engineers can (but not always) be more set in their ways on technology or methods and be resistant to embrace newer/riskier approaches, and d) There's no room in the org to promote your mid-level engineers, so they leave and become senior devs elsewhere.

At my first full-time development job, we had only entry-level and senior devs with no mid-level folks. As one of the entry-level folks, let me tell you-- what a mass of confusion that was. Hopefully Red Hat's targeting more of a well-rounded or balanced organization, rather than purely cost-cutting measures.
I've seen videos of people in the UK and Australia get visits from the police over non-violent social media posts. Most seemed unaware of what they had done wrong.

Anyone familiar with mainland China can help me with an answer to these questions.

1. Are Chinese citizens mostly aware of the speech laws and not surprised when censorship occurs?

2. Are the speech restrictions and list of taboo subjects understood by the majority of the population?
I'm the author and I welcome constructive interactions.

This consulting contract is a template that you can use and remix as you like. It's the result of 10+ years in technology work, thanks to many clients and advice from great lawyers.

The purpose of this consulting contract is to explain more than the typical legal contract, to improve working together. This contract also has a specific areas for independent technology (such as code demos), contributions to open source (such as bug fixes), and deliverables that combine new work-for-hire and preexisting software.
Because it isn't work the way you see work. Is it really work if at any moment I can say to myself, "This isn't working for me. I'm outa here." and not just be able to leave but leave with zero consequences. Not the type of, "You're going to have to put me down as a reference" or "don't burn bridges" type consequences. You don't care about bridges. If you needed a bridge you'd buy one. You know all the bullshit you have to deal with because you need healthcare, to pay your mortgage or car payment? Not a problem. You get to speak your mind and if someone doesn't like it, including your boss, too bad.

The funny thing is you're probably not going to be characterized as someone with a bad attitude. Quite the opposite, you're going to be called a "straight shooter", someone who "tells it like it is", "unflappable" and "supremely confident in their abilities".

So ya, you get some social interaction, few if any consequences and people tell you what a great person you are all day. Why not?
> We recognize that this will mean we need to plan for training and mentoring, promotions, and internal mobility as well, and we are here to support you in that.

This makes me believe they are trying to do it right and not just cutting costs for its own sake.
> You are no longer obsessing over "early payday" features or ACH speeds.

Timing ACH payments _sucks_.

Tangential, but I'm in a renting situation where my landlord demands rent land in their account on the first of the month. Receiving rent on the 26th (i.e. 5 days early, not 26 days late) was deemed "too confusing" for them. I now have to play this awful game of timing ACH transfers to land on their account as close to the first as I possibly can.
>My original point was along the lines of people not realizing there's a "bicyclist walking across the interstate at 3am" analog here.

The thing is, this was almost certainly not that case. If you have bad sounding data (which is a thing that the planners know), then you are not on an interstate.
For software it briefly was. It was then thrown away by incompetent politicians by not forcing fiber connections in the 90s and a low motivation by companies to treat software as a first class product.
Orca is amazing, and it's creator Devine Lu Linvega is inspiring too.

Listen to this future of coding podcast where he is interviewed about Orca: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045 and about making your own tools: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

The Future of Coding podcast is a treasure.

Edit: excerpt from the Devine Lu Linvega's intro:

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Devine Lu Linvega and his partner Rekka live on a sailboat. He makes art, music, software, and other cultural artifacts. When Photoshop’s DRM required that he maintain a connection to the internet, he wrote his own creative suite. When his MacBook died in the middle of the ocean, he switched to Linux with hardware he could service. His electricity comes from solar panels, and every joule counts — so that’s out with Chrome and Electron and in with Scheme, C, assembly, and maybe someday Forth.

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It’ll become the PenisSwastikaVerse about five minutes after it opens.
Call it “consulting” and say you have room for a part time client. It will take some work (use your network, job boards, manually reach out to companies), but you will find something. It helps to have a strong portfolio or proof that you know what you’re talking about (write an ebook, or blog, or open source, etc)
the difference is that VR requires you to literally isolate yourself.

instagram, facebook, text messages, phone calls. you can do all of those things and share them with real people in real life. you cannot do so with VR. it's literally and inherently isolating.

just the other day I was at a restaurant and a group of people were typically all on their phones while waiting for their food. eventually one of them found something amusing and put their phone on the table propped up by a salt dispenser and they watched some video together.

that's the difference.
AFAIK amazon is pretty well-known for that? Some say it was key to their success story.
you're seeing an increase of mentally ill and/or unhappy people with internet access.
> Most people will get vaccinated and those that don't wont and nothing will make them.

I am almost certain they will mandate the vaccination of children 5 and older.
These speeds look pretty good to me to be honest. What's the line between bad internet and good internet, seriously?

For personal use and regular work use wouldn't it be maybe 100 down?

I'm more concerned about data caps once my speed can reach 100down, at least currently.

edit:

Also stability is huge. My partner's old house had 100down, but it would bottleneck or drop out about every 10minutes which made the service garbage for everything other than casual static web browsing.
If you're interested in preventing this sort of thing, I'd appreciate comments on this [RFC](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/488) I just submitted to npm to make install scripts opt-in instead of default behavior. While of course not perfect, this simple change would certainly go a long way in increasing the difficulty in creating these sorts of attacks, as right now as long as a computer even installs the packages in question, not even running any code in the package, the malicious program has a chance at running.

RFC: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/488

Related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29122473
> But our most fruitful effort was when we removed limits and started giving "bad" data. By bad I mean alter the price up or down by a small percentage. ... If the customer made a transaction on the altered figure we we informed them and took it at the correct price.

Is that legal? It would be a big blow to trust if I was the customer, but that's without knowing what you were selling and in what market.
Using npm is like russian roulette. Someday it makes your head hurt really bad!
Could you share the basic outline / structure? Which points need to be addressed?
All of what we're discussing is within the realm of decency, not law. Yes it's impolite to gossip about people, always has been. It's however tyrannical and totally inappropriate to legislate decency.
Related thread:

https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1455646142184763396
Sorry for not being clearer - I will try to spell things out better.

"Incognito" mode (or whatever one's browser may call it) is irrelevant in this scenario."

No it is not. When looking at what a website does, if you browse in your regular session you may be bringing over a very large cookie store, visit history, prior acceptance of cookie popups. The reason I suggest using a new incognito session is because you start these sessions fresh from a cookie perspective, and the site you are visiting should see you as a new user and re-prompt for cookie acceptance etc. Then you can easily see what they are doing.

It's really actually interesting being lectured and yelled at by "experts" here. I think the GDPR is sort of a bandwagon thing at this point. A fair number of relatively uninformed folks on the issues / technical side jumping on and making a set of fairly strong and often uninformed claims?

You literally have folks saying GDPR is not complicated, and literally on the same threads making plenty of contradicotry claims (ie, totally illegal to not have a deny all button, totally banned to track before acceptance, ok to track before acceptance (default opt-in vs opt-out) etc.

The folks claiming GDPR is easy don't realize how big a consulting industry has sprung up to try and help folks trying to get it right. I mean, tracking rules for the cookie acceptance cookies - is like perfectly up these consultants thing because they make so much money off all this.
On a more serious note, when the VP of engineering or CTO or somebody similar takes such a dreadfully ignorant approach, it's a very good indicator that something is more fundamentally wrong and to jump ship.

Such a person should be at least capable of understanding the modern concept of how something like a .deb file is authenticated based on its hash from the public gpg keys for the debian package server in question, or the equivalent thereof for redhat/centos.
At Uber, a large portion of compensation for engineers is in stock. At Netflix, it’s almost entirely cash. Why should non-GAAP earnings privilege Uber’s approach over Netflix’s approach? Wouldn’t it be better to make your non-GAAP earnings capitalize R&D expenses? Even at a company like Uber, plenty of stock goes to non-R&D employees, and plenty of cash does go to R&D, so it’s not even measuring what you want it to measure. Also, capitalizing R&D would mean that companies could also write down failed R&D investment, which is obviously necessary for accurate reporting if you never charged that investment as an expense.
> Isn't that information yours, to do with as you please?

I could equally ask "Isn't that information John's, to do with as he pleases?".

Property is a legal fiction, and "intellectual property" doubly so; but it seems perfectly reasonable that society should decide that information about a human person should be controlled by them, rather than by the artificial person of a corporation.

If John asks you to make his drink preference available to every competitor of yours, and you for some reason agree to provide that service to him, then of course John can get the benefit of that information sharing, but this should only happen if he specifically opts in to it.

(In reality you wouldn't provide this service helping your competitors, and the information sharing could be managed by another service, which John would probably have to pay for, and service providers would compete based on the security, speed, ease of use, and accuracy of their service).
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I agree, but it has always been tyrannical to legislate decency. What next, fines for not saying "please" and "thank you"?
> Has it though? I don't remember being asked.

Depends if you're in the EU but I guess you could've lobbied against the GDPR when it was being drafted. You could also lobby against restaurant food safety regulations, or discrimination laws. The reason these laws are there and stick around is because a majority decided that these behaviors were noxious and should be outlawed and the current majority appears to be happy enough with the current situation to not demand laws to be changed.

> every single supermarket offer their own membership card "to get discounts" and everybody is happy with it

It is opt-in (you can decide to not swipe it when buying the aforementioned fungus cream if you don't want it associated with you), the data collection is relatively common knowledge and is disclosed when you sign up for the card (and if it isn't then that's a breach of the GDPR and should be rectified).

In comparison, online data collection is at best opt-out and at worst mandatory and often invisible (and even if you could see what data is collected from your browser, you have no visibility on what further processing is done on it or to whom it gets transferred or sold).

> but all the other tracking in our society is just a-okay

Source?

> I've not seen a single campaign or push against predatory membership cards

Those are opt-in.

> or credit card info being sold.

Every time the selling of credit card info comes up on HN people speak out against it just like they do against ad tracking, and the only reason nobody else talks about it is because they most likely don't know (would a reasonable person expect their bank to be sharing their purchase info with third-parties?).

Both of these issues are addressed by the GDPR by the way; it covers much more than just ad tracking on the web.
>The most important question now is not about the incompetent crews and commanders on these boats and ships, it is why such people keep being allowed to command and serve on vessels in the first place.

Which 'such people' are you referring to?
You’re both right! There will be incompetence, fraud, AND evil.