skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say that the set of scenarios in this opinion piece sound very optimistic- China taking over the north, followed by general peace and cessation of hostilities, sounds close to the best case scenario. The reality is likely to be far uglier- wars have a tendency to expand, spread, and escalate, and we would be extremely lucky if China and the US didn't come to blows, followed quickly by all their respective allies. Every war ever fought was supposed to be short, limited, and without a lot of casualties. That just never turns out to be the case.
North Korea will not "attack". They will do an extra-atmostpheric nuclear test, like many such tests done in the past by the US and USSR. At a high altitude, like about 400km. There will be no fall-out, no loss of life, no damages. But they will score huge point, despite the fact that their nuclear capability is far from being end-to-end. What they are missing right now is mainly the reentry vehicle, but aside from that solid-fuel rockets and submarines capable of launching SLBM's. At the pace they are advancing, the re-entry vehicle is probably within their reach in two years or so. But if they are suffocated by the sanctions, they won't be able to carry out their rocketry R&D. So it's vital for her to do the extra-atmospheric nuclear test, that is their only existential hope.

On the other hand, it's also very important for China for this not to happen. Once this happen, the US can justifiably start investing in earnest in the ABM defense, and there are several options that can be pursued: beefing up the current options, like the ground-based midcourse defense, the Aegis and the THAAD systems, but also more experimental ones, like laser based defense, or rail-gun based. China has a nuclear doctrine that is strictly deterrence based (i.e. no firs strike, including no pre-emptive strike). In the face of a much more effective US ABM defense, their deterrence can disappear and that means they either change their doctrine, or engage in an arms race which they see no good reason to do.

So it's almost as important for China not to let NK to do their extra-atmospheric test. However, my money is that NK will do that test in the next 6 months.
So where do you suggest we draw the line between what state-sponsored news is allowed vs forbidden to do? Should we only forbid them from buying advertising? Why not forbid their reporting of news altogether?

Also, I don't think people have similar complaints about Al Jazeera's reporting on Russian election campaigns?

Every major country does this, every election, to every other major country. It's something we live with and I don't get the overreaction.
I am super pissed in a not actually pissed at all sorts of way that my local liquor stores seem to be stocking entirely 100% tempranillo. I don't know if Spain just gave into the American obsession with varietals or what but personally I love a 70-90 trempranillo but it's very much a grape that benefits from a blend.
Rust's standard library assumes that allocation will not fail. That's just a library; the language doesn't inherently know things about heap allocation. You can always call an alllocator directly and look at what it returns.

Furthermore, we're working on an allocator interface that you could use with stdlib stuff that would let you handle it.

The TL;DR is basically "if you want to, you can. It's going to be even easier in the future."
Bitter divisions over Uber board spill into public
The problem is that, even if the players were fully rational, the game itself is
foggy and obscured. Miscommunication, incorrect information, false positives,
echo chambers, bellicose advisors ... These increase the
chances of a catastrophic cascade of events. We know of (at least)
three cases[1][2][3] during the cold war where a single person prevented such a
(possible) cascade from happening (and there's undoubtedly more that were kept
under the rug).

Yes, rationally speaking North Korea and the USA are not going to attack
each other since the potential losses by far outweigh any potential gains. They
know it, they also know that the other side knows it, and they know that the
other side knows that they know that ... etc.

But at the same time, at least from the POV of North Korea, they think they're
pretty close to a win-by-stalemate situation (multiple mobile ICBMs that can retaliate
against the continental USA, ensuring they will never be attacked.) so it stands to
'reason' that the USA would attack right now, because it's their last chance to stop
North Korea from winning.

Humans are not rational, we can only build control systems and hope they catch and
filter out any irrationality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/jfk-vs-...
Getting this code right is hard in many languages in Rust's space; Rust just forces you to get it right, whereas they let you get it wrong.
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At Google every significant feature in our codebase was behind a feature flag. Pro is that you can roll out features slowly and do a statistical analysis of their impact on user behavior in a well-controlled way. Also, you can turn off a broken feature really fast without having to wait for a new deploy (especially important with native mobile apps).

The big downside was that it significantly impacted developer velocity. You have to test that everything still works with/without your feature enabled. Also, sometimes supporting the old and new way of doing things simultaneously requires a nasty hack, and when you go back in to pull out the old code after a successful deploy you don't actually bother to rearchitect things the way you ought to.

For Google they were probably inevitable, but for a small to mid-sized company I would avoid them.
I think Diffie Hellman Merkle key exchange was a brilliant idea and an awesome patent. I understand that the Brits had discovered it in secret but didn't have the compute power at the time. That actually didn't invalidate it; the interplay between trade secret and patents is not one sided either way.

Diffie Hellman Merkle was assigned to and prosecuted by Stanford as was Larry Page's PageRank patent. I do not think Stanford or other universities (non-practicing entitites really) would develop so much IP if they didn't get something substantial back.

Yes, it is the nature of the limited monopoly of patents to both impede and incent. It is the rare patent, Diffie Hellman Merkle key exchange was rare, that is truly amazingly novel. Most patents are incremental and society benefits from the increment.
The fraction of income that goes into research is not that large for the companies that you mention.

Lets remember that these are not traditional monopolies, in the sense of Standard Oil. They are much worse, as they are so embedded in the lives of people today. Their status as monopolies will be tolerated by society only as far as they don't exhibit anti-competitive practices.
Because with ICBMs, if the US attacks, the US faces a scenario of trading cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, DC, etc. for Pyongyang.

The real problem North Korea has presented the US, is it's forced into a stalemate with a drastically inferior nation in all regards (much smaller population, few major cities, hyper small economy, weak overall military capabilities). Picture tiny, hyper impoverished Cuba holding the US hostage with hundreds of nukes so close to US territory, it's a similar concept once ICBMs get into the mix.

Standing off with Russia and China, two great powers in most regards historically, the US could respect that context begrudging. If any entity goes nuclear, the exchanged loss is immense in all regards on both sides; China has a billion people, Russia has 144 million (the USSR had near 300 million); both have lots of major cities; both have vast military capabilities; and so on.

It's a horribly bad exchange problem when you start adding up the trade. The US could lose a dozen or more major cities, millions of people, while North Korea loses hundreds of thousands of people living in a couple cities that are barely developed to begin with. Simply put, the US has dramatically more to lose in every regard, the scale is so far tipped to one side it's almost unthinkable to make such a trade with North Korea.
For sure.

The problem....the ancient problem...is that the kinds of mental makeup that would be very good at running large organizations tend to also not WANT to do such things.
Why not invert? Run linux as the main system and office + outlook in the VM. There are some pretty good seamless solutions for window display as well. (vbox, vmware)

Then you can have everything on ZFS and you can keep the whole windows disk as a separate volume. Snapshoting both should be trivial in that case.
>And many white South Africans remain somewhat ambiguous, at best, about the evil it wrought

A lot of people involved with South Africa are ambiguous about that. The white government and people made the country much richer than it's surrounding black governed countries and the problem at the borders were always stopping too many africans moving from the surrounding countries to SA rather than visa versa. I had a coloured girlfriend from Jo'berg for a while and she was ambiguous too - no love for apartheid but no desire to live in one of the black governed counties either.
Why aren't the cloud offerings from Google, AWS, etc good enough? My understanding is that their infrastructure is PCI compliant, and there are a few banks already on this infrastructure. Is this simply a case of NIH syndrome, or are there regulations that prevent this?
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The Scam Reference Manual (2016) [pdf]
As the first step on the path to understanding, first consider: "in what fields do people get doctorates?" As a second step, consider for each of those "what industry will employ them?"

If you step over to the non-STEM (and to a lesser extent non-TE) fields, the answer to the second question tends to diminish to "academia".
You might want to read about NTFS's Volume Shadow Copy functionality, or I believe there's glue code so that you can expose ZFS snapshots on datasets when they're shared over CIFS, but I haven't tried that in a long time.
Does this only recommend awesome style repos? I got about 20 of those despite having over 400 stars, majority computer graphics. Also a lot of Ruby, a language I don't use or less than 1% of my stars. Odd.
People ought to know we're still deep under the rubble of the collapse, and most of us need two, even three jobs, to earn just enough to live by.
They ought to know that Spain government has been siphoning funds out from the pension funds, and under the pretense of solidarity between communities are making the richer autonomies pay for everything that should be paid with the money they're using to further their own agendas, pay lobbies for a position after they retire, and putting people of their families as assistant in a way that reeks of nepotism, just to enrich themselves.
People should know the Government of Spain has declared the millions funneled to rescue the banks as lost without hope of ever getting anything back, all the while kicking people out of their mortgaged houses which they can't pay for thanks to the late laws on working rights passed with absolute majority by this same government without ever consulting the citizens.
They should know, but very few headlines ever talk about that, because the local media is in debt to the banks who profit from dealing with the government in this fantastic, incorruptible country.
Python Data Structures (Python Basics for Beginners Ep #2)
> "The small town that I grew up in would be radically altered and I would experience much change in my personal life as a result of these globalist policies. The company for which my mother worked would move south of the border to Mexico."

I can see the impetus for anti-globalism there, but it baffles me when, for example, people use "all the jobs went to Mexico" as a justification to hate Mexicans. Wouldn't it make more sense to hate the white American managers and bureaucrats who decided to move the factories?

I see the same thing in housing protests. Gentrification sucks, but why blame yuppies just looking for a decent home rather than the landlords who are actually raising the rent?
"But unless the intention is to make decisions with this data, one might wonder what the purpose of such a system could possibly be."

Speaking as an analyst, you'd be amazed (or not) at how much analytics is done either for resume padding, because one guy thinks it's "cool", or to enable marketing or executives to chase their own tails.

Indeed, with the general phenomenon of bullshit jobs, infinite instantaneous and always changing information is a welcome smokescreen, because it always allows people to "justify doing something". With such numbers, there is always something for them to do :p
If the President and his own Secretary of State are disagreeing on this in public, how can this be a partisan issue?
they are - an explosive collision provides a lot of financing though.
Her father was an asshole for implying that there is something wrong with people who don't like wine.
That is called p-hacking I guess?
> Every major country does this, every election, to every other major country. It's something we live with and I don't get the overreaction.

Please don't normalize this kind of behavior. Every country does not do "this". There is no major news agency supported directly by US Federal Funds, except perhaps NPR, but that has been openly critical of the US all the time.

And that is perhaps the test of truly independent news outlet: if its willing to criticize its own Government, if its able to do so, even when the information paints the Govt. in a really bad light.
Whoops, I re-wrote my comment almost immediately (recognizing the misdeeds you mentioned) but didn't click submit for a few hours.

I hope the new version of the comment is in line with expectations.

Thanks for your thoughtful moderation!
I am also checking much less frequently now. But it is still zero :) https://www.konstantinschubert.com/2017/09/27/you-have-0-ins...
Y Combinator applicant/candidate hilariously seeking CTO on Craigslist
May I ask, as a minority member to a minority member:

Why do you feel like other people hate you or your "kind"?

I'd argue its because they hold some pre-existing assumptions about you.

Do you not feel like giving up on these "haters" is because you've got a pre-existing assumption about them? Specifically that more-or-less they are the type of people who will always hate?

Their assumptions cause them to not want you around them. Your assumptions cause you to not want to be around them. Aren't those both identical? Aren't they both negative beliefs?

You might not be able to change anyone else mind, but you are the only person who can change yours. It is definitely more taxing, and I may be wrong, but isn't it energy well spent, to hold onto a positive belief over a negative one?
The Security of Classic Game Consoles (Strange Loop 2017) [video]
> If you want to know about how chips are made then I'd highly recommend the book "CMOS Circuit Design and Simulation" by Baker.

This is a ~$120 book. Do you (or anyone else) have a recommendation for something a little easier to tell hobbyists they should get?
I was recently wondering why there are no restaurants serving American Indian foods as a cuisine[0]. I'd have to think that it could be quite rich in variety, given the number of tribes and their dispersion across the continent. Any ideas why that food is not represented?

[0] Yelped 'American Indian restaurant' and got zero results.
Land border attracts tensions. It's also a psychological factor. Then it is much harder to launch an invasion from the sea, than from land.

Its same as saying that there is no difference if Cuba will be "east" aligned and have USSR army/nukes or Mexico - after all, it is easy enough to launch nukes from both places.

You think from a "nuke" perspective. There are much more perspectives, like controlling water borders, locking important Chinese ports etc.
In my personal experience, it's not always a good idea to do it like this. I've been quick to offer sincere apologies for what were big problems from my own perspective. That unfortunately turned out to affect only a small amount of my customers, confusing and annoying many others.

I still appreciate the intention to strive for transparency, but you need to do it right. If I ever do it again, I'll need to make sure that I know for sure how many people it's affecting, and how much.

What kind of a company are you building?
Seriously? Of all names, "scam"? LOL
You can start by buying a Papillon board and going through the free range VHDL book. That's the high level.

When you want to understand CMOS and integrated circuits, you need some electronics experimenter kit, and a lot of practice in ohms law. Then read up on multiple gate transistors and (here my experience stops) lithography and small scale challenges (tunneling loss is a thing, I suppose?)

Of course, "ip core" can mean different things, might be some Verilog source, might be some netlists, might be a hard macro for a particular process. You really need to work with it to get the specifics.
(Subscribing to EETimes, going to trade shows, and otherwise keeping up might help)

But at the end of the day, you're asking "how can I become and experienced ASIC engineer," and the truth is that it takes time, education, and dedication.
Wait, let me get this straight.

1. there's no monitoring in place
2. fail over is manual
3. there are no standby servers
4. nothing auto scales
5. backups are not tested
6. they lack sufficient manpower
7. there are no clusters
8. the service is one error away from an outage

It sounds like they completely ignored the operations side of running a service, and finally defaulted on technical debt. Yikes!

I hope the best for them, but they have to start taking operations seriously.
They still have some useful data that you can interpret yourself.
Archive:
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"SPoF (single point of failure) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working."
And deep down everyone has that feeling, that his gut feelings should be the judge of that.

The problem starts, when people project there wish to control the lives of others upon some vague enough person as power.
How will self driving cars handle this, or other fast moving emergencies such as a tornado? Is it hooked in to earthquake and weather monitoring systems and just shuts down or what?
Other two to watch out for are Hammer2 (https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA...) and bcachefs (http://bcachefs.org/), but both will take a while before being available in a standard distro. Hammer is only in bsd for now, so would need a big port. bcachefs is making slow progress in linux - maybe in a year or two.
Makes you wonder: if failure handling is so low on the budget/priority list, where does security stand?
> This strategy only works on people not dragged into a fully closed world view composed of conspiracy theories

The article seems to refute that. Your typical KKK member does not embrace a wide variety of news, but Daryl Davis was able to get through to many of them. It doesn't work in all cases, certainly, but sometimes.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15370499
Maybe that sort of contrition works in relationship arguments or parole hearings, but I hardly find it appropriate here.

"At around 07:00 BST on Friday morning, our transaction database began to malfunction. Naturally, we followed procedure and switched to a backup server. Unfortunately, the backup server began to drastically slow down and was struggling to process live transactions."

That is very vague and sounds like a euphemism for "we don't know who changed the config file but it broke production and so we had somebody spin up a new instance on their laptop".

I any case I was in a foreign country when my card (and those of my travelling companions) stopped working without warning or explanation. I don't want him to be sorry, I want a rationale for why I shouldn't switch to an equivalent competitor like Monzo (on the assumption they have better reliability).
As a veteran from the chip industry, I can tell you my experience is completely the opposite.

Nobody in their right mind would produce an ASIC without going through simulation as a form of validation. For anything non-trivial, that means FPGA.
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Wow, that was awesome reading how the new URL was obtained!

Thanks very much.
What time capsules for the future say about how we see ourselves today
You guys are great. The largest Indian bank is offline almost every night and they are ok with it. Is there a place to publicly shame these kind of entities ?

https://onlinesbi.com
You want to come off as determined, not insane. You want to make it clear to people you will retaliate if attacked, but you want to make it just as clear that you will not launch a preemptive strike. Because if the enemy thinks you are crazy enough to start a nuclear exchange, they may decide to launch a preemptive strike themselves, so at least the initiative is on their side.

If you read about the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, you won't find anything about "acting crazy"

> We wouldn't want to upset Rocket Man with any kind of personal insult, that's just crazy. Strategic patience was really working out so well, but if that doesn't work somehow we could always try appeasement?

There are a whole world of options between appeasement and personal insults. And I really don't see what personal insults are supposed to do. Like, are you expecting Kim Jong Un to say "sorry, we'll stop our nuclear program, just please don't call me 'Little Rocket Man' anymore"?
I wonder what percentage of Michellin starred chefs are supertasters? I have to follow recipes to a T because I can't really taste if it needs more something, I just follow the recipe and if it doesn't taste good I look for another recipe. I guess this article explains why I enjoy spicy food a lot more than most people.
I consider the discussion of fruit, that can be shaped like human genitalia a insult to my religion. Thus i demand, the bannishment of cooking recipes from the internet, to protect the worlds morals.

Who are you to judge my religion and culture wrong and vane?
Ask HN: Is it worth being in TechCrunch “Startup Alley”?
edit: Judging from the lack of definitively positive about Startup Alley, maybe TechCrunch needs to make it more valuable somehow to participants?
To me the worst offender in revolut is that the ui is not blocked when is waiting for server responses (second is the inability to edit my preferred contacts list). It never caused me problems but I always felt uneasy (I use it more sparirily now so perhaps they fixed something). All the other problems that I care about have been slowly resolved. About the issue at hand this is not the first time the service is down but who knows, perhaps they're starting to learn their lesson. I used it for around 6 months intensively