skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which bit are you referring to? I think the blog posts make this a little too abstract. It's virtio-net and as mentioned elsewhere, we like and contribute to the latest kernels to do things like better multiqueue support.

For example, here's the script we install in our guest images and encourage people to run to make sure interrupts are paired to queues: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud but don't know much about networking.
> an industry that always talks

talk is cheap. Action speaks louder than any words. Any company that doesn't action on issues they claim they care about doesn't really care about it.
From what I have seen creating up to date documents is considered superfluous. There are tons of excuses for why people are not updating the documents. Raising a PR for small changes is one of those excuses.

Any tool you find will have it's own version control restrictions. People will use that as a crutch to say - Well, the tool x has steps a, b, c which is too much of hassle for a minor change.

This cannot be solved by using better tools or solutions.

To give examples from my experience:

One of the places where I saw the best documentation was at a bank. Every project came with specific amount of time dedicated to updating documentation. This ensured people don't complain about not having time or the process being tedious etc.

Though as there was no time allocated for peer review of document control - It did not stop people from being lazy or creating dependencies by knowingly adding generic information in the document.

In worst of places, a software product company - documentation was looked down upon. Everyone was more than happy to "set up time to discuss" than put actual effort in good documentation. As I joined after the aforementioned bank, I had a habit of abhorring meetings and creating up to date document which was shared with the team.

The end result was that people still wanted to have meetings. On being told, I shared document with relevant info with them, they used act surprised and ask to share the document again.
How much does a kilogram weigh?
They got most of the value back selling off the pieces. They kept the patents and a few other things. All things considered it went pretty well. At worst it was a minor side step and didn't do much to Google in negative ways.
What about the rest? Does it matter how tall the elements are?

My point is just that, as described, your problem is woefully underspecified.
BTW, since the blog post doesn't make it explicit: we're down to ~40 microseconds round trip between VMs in the same zone. No placement groups or infiniband required :).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
> If there are two apples on the ground, and two more fall of a tree, then there are four apples on the ground. This is true whether or not a human is there to observe it and count them.

I don't know about that. How close do the apples have to be to number them? If two apples are within inches and another a mile away, is there two apples or three apples? Define ground. Is it dirt? And dirt of what? If two apples are on Earth and one apple on Mars, is there two or three apples on the ground? What does it even mean to number things? What is a number?

My point is that it takes a human brain for establishing definitions, axioms, and conditions. Only after these have been established can we do math.
I really love Processing (and its derivative P5.js) but I never really have any ideas to what to build with these tools in order to get truly dexterous and acquainted with them. I’ve recently set myself the goal of implementing the ”Wave Function Collapse Algorithm” (https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse/blob/master/RE...) in P5.js as a kind of catalyst to get me going.
Ensuring human rights for everything in the tech value chain is going to be almost impossible.

Also consider that if you do this, then the investors will just set up trusts. They'll invest in the companies that invest in the investment companies.
Think about this: your body is made of protein, each protein molecule is being created by copying a sequence of DNA. So your DNA has to do a LOT of copying, and for each copy it has to be cut open and put back together. In fact DNA is working hard every single day to keep us alive - it's not just sitting there until cell division. Even duplicating itself is no small feat - the total length of DNA in a human is 10B miles, from here to Pluto and back.
Meh. Probably the term sheet wasn’t good enough.
This bit, "Some of the most valuable enhancements enable VMs built on supporting Linux kernels to exploit offload/multi-queue capabilities"

I was wondering what is offloaded. I guess virtio-net is a good keyword, thanks.
Maybe because the crown prince is a 32 year old who grew up seeing bill gates as an idol? Maybe this is because they want to move away from oil by exiting Aramco and moving their money to VCs?
Why it's Saudi? Or why it's oil?
> If you are trying to 'prove' subjectivity, in the sense of providing an argument for it, then you are missing the point: you already experience it directly by definition, so there is nothing to prove.

I can also perceive that glasses of water magically break and reconstitute pencils, in what we now know to be an optical illusion. "Self-evident" observations stand only so long as they are consistent with all other observations. The premise that subjectivity exists is not consistent with everything else we know without introducing additional structure to the universe that has no purpose but to stroke our egos. Therefore, it should be discarded.
I take your point, but I never found SV to be particularly more moral or just than any other money hub. We aren't particularly surprised when Wall Street makes decisions purely based on money.
That'd be cool. As long as the network isolation was solid. And easier than getting people to install VBox and Whonix.
Cash for Phones Machine in WalMart
Yes they did. So what do you find wrong with their first point or any others? And that might make your suggestion better?
Much ado about iOS app architecture
Somehow I don't think Eich and supporters of Prop 8 would characterize it that way. You believe that Eich is evil but it is possible that he is on the correct side of the issue and you are on the incorrect side. In any case he was participating in politics just like everybody does and should. He was fired for disagreeing.

The bicyclist was fired because she worked for a government contractor that felt it necessary to do its own kind of virtue signalling, to ward off the potential for lost business.
I've noticed far fewer requests for Word formats than I did in years past. I think that's largely because headhunter agencies have better tools for editing your resume and stripping out your contact info.
Given that gaming was specifically mentioned, I'm assuming it probably isn't Apple. It's probably for products more similar to the Razer Blade Stealth. The concept of something like that is cool, but the integrated graphics are definitely the bottleneck.
So which videos (or people posting) would get the short stick with their content not going up on YouTube in this scenario? No way something like this can ever end well.
This link is utterly irrelevant in the context of FaceID.
We've come from far, far worse. To suggest that global trade is a dead end is an absurdity -- founding the UN and fostering trade has brought enormous and unprecedented levels of progressive prosperity across the globe.

Dead end? Only if you're ignoring the last century of history.
Why do you say "easier for me to maintain"? Are you talking about keeping them updated? That does get to be a pain.
A very good explanation of why capitalism is an imoral system. Anyone who can't understand this simple fact is just losing their times. The shadier your scheme for making money, the further away you get (as long as you don't go to jail) because that's the whole nature of the beast.
I'm wary of even considering these things 'currencies' as most of them are not used as such.

Because they don't relate to underlying assets of the company, they're basically impossible to value.
Coinbase Hard Fork Plan Credits 2x Coins
I fail to see how this is relevant to FaceID which profiles the shape of your face. Similar to our senses and similar physiology that would give the same measurement results are not the same thing.
If you want depression I can give you a better one: Kim Kardashian's game made more than 200 million on revenue.
But sometimes people create a second account or an account for some odd reason that isn't directly obviously them. But they'll properly use those accounts. Do you just ban these accounts too? Accounts not doing any harm and potentially being beneficial to certain things like FB group participation or posts.

Finally, if they act like real users since they are, it helps Facebook's bottom line. Booting them would hurt FB and piss off those people.

This is just one example of "fake accounts"
Check out tails: https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html

Pretty much that. Forward some X11?
There are good reasons to preserve the freedom to own and drive cars, but "Americans died for X" usually strikes me as pernicious sophistry.
No you are forgetting US defense spending which is investment.. DoD, DARPA, and all of the big defense companies.
Although most of its sales are outside the US, I believe that in reality Apple generates the vast bulk of its profit in the US - specifically in California.

Let's say an iPhone is sold in the UK, generating a $200 profit. How much of that profit was really generated in the UK and how much in the US? The answer is to consider what would happen if Apple's US and UK operations were two distinct, independent companies: Apple in California would determine almost everything about the way iPhones are sold in the UK - where the Apple stores are located, what the stores look like, what their TV and billboard advertising should look like, what happens when a customer returns a product, etc. Apple US would then take this list of requirements and negotiate with a UK business partner. In that negotiation the UK partner has very little leverage - if the UK partner doesn't like terms Apple US is offering, Apple US can just find another partner. The UK partner then sells phones according to Apple's specification. The result is that the UK partner will have thin margins and almost all profit will flow back to the US.

Now perhaps I'm being hard on Apple's UK employees - maybe they are doing more than simply working to a specification given to them by their California colleagues. In this case it would be fair to say that a somewhat larger portion of that $200 is actually generated in the UK - so the total tax Apples pays on that $200 profit would be a combination of US and UK tax rates. But there is absolutely no reason why Irish tax rules should apply to the allocation of profit on the sale of an iPhone in the UK.
At the time Andromeda was originally introduced it took a fairly recent Linux kernel to get support for multi-queue networking and offloads with virtio-net. Today anything even moderately recent has support baked in -- specifically Linux 3.8 and above include multi-queue support (as well as the offloads we support).

In terms of specific offloads, the big ones are TCP segmentation offload (TSO) and TCP large receive offload (LRO). These substantially reduce the compute burden on the guest. Less impactful (although still important) are checksum calculation and verification offload.

(I was the tech lead for the hypervisor side of this launch — Jake, the post's author, leads the fast-path team for the Andromeda software switch)
You can choose the AirPods from the volume icon on the menu bar, or are you saying the AirPods don’t show up there? I switch between iPhone and Mac audio a few times a day.
Thanks — I was disappointed not to see any absolute values in the post
Yes. Some degree of SEC regulation would definitely be 'better' in almost every way.

When companies are forthcoming in their public statements - then equity buyers on the hook for for their greed.

With ICO's - it's just open to any kind of scamminess by anyone and everyone - and so we can basically be guaranteed that this is going to happen.
Oh! I think the acronyms you're looking for are GRO, LRO and whatnot.
Coinbase to Support Both Bitcoin Blockchains Following SegWit2x Fork
Yes, it's almost certainly less secure than running Tor on a router. But I sometimes use multiple Whonix instances, for different personas, and they hit Tor through different nested VPN chains. And using hardware for that would be too tedious.
"What powers does SEC have here if the people behind the ICO are anonymous and you invest anonymously?"

An asset is an asset.

If you buy and sell something with cash - well - you have to tell the taxman, and possibly the SEC if you're doing something they should know about.
LaTeX has lovely output (thanks Knuth!) but isn’t really achieving the dream of content fully separate from presentation.

http://resume.dammfine.com

Source is an XML document that describes my various experience, a system of XSLT that targets three forms; an HTML landing page, an HTML form of the resume as a document, and a LaTeX output for PDF.

Haven’t updated my resume in 10 years but when I do it’ll be pretty straightforward to keep going with the system I wrote 13 years ago. I should really post it to github, as others have done with theirs.
Your response is also a typical post around here. You're perfectly fine without social media or FB specifically. So why aren't other people who don't particularly like FB. It isn't always that simple.

I also don't mean to pick on you specifically. Just expanding the discussion.
Whoa.. this is amazing.. Anyone know what's up with the jaggedness in the x-ray band? Also, I thought that the cosmic background radiation was isotropic, i.e. that the universe looks homogenous far enough away/back in time - is that what it means for the radial horizon/line to look, more or less, all blown out?

edit: holy shit you can zoom in by scrolling
That's an argument against using points for measurement, not for the current definition of a point.
> But the contradiction is in the mathematical model not reality.

He's assuming a mathematical model that faithfully represents reality, hence "reality can't contain contradictions". We're not going to one day find a contradiction and vanish in a puff of logic, the ultimate model of reality will be contradiction-free.
This has been posted several times. It’s annoying, but just add a shortcut from lowercase “i“ to uppercase “I” and wait for the inevitable update.
It's not clear what you mean by "tech industry", but total VC returns have been negative for at least a decade
Reconciling Semantics and Reflection [pdf]
When we look, our visual system comprehends in terms of boundaries and empty space.

Thus we know the location and motion of the different things we see.

But "surfaces" and corresponding "empty spaces" don't occur at the molecular scale in living things. (What makes something a discrete "thing"? What makes something "empty"?)

In cellular environments, nothing is empty, everything is touching, nothing is static, everything is in chaotic motion.

Thus molecular reality presents something of a visual paradox and a philosophical puzzle: how can we visualize something that is concpetually incompatible with how our visual system sees?

It would excellent if there was more focus on this problem in the HCI communities (looking at you ACM SIGGRAPH).
>unless you...can essentially create your own "template"

This is pretty much what I did. I've learned exactly enough LaTeX to write my resume (and I'm happy with it).

I tried using res.cls (which was recommended elsewhere in these comments) and I didn't like it. It was very opinionated, offering only a few different pre-defined layouts. Using a different layout would've involved modifying the class file, which was more than I could handle as a beginner. Writing my own class file from scratch (with help from some tutorials) was a lot easier.
Do you feel the same way about other major institutions like Google and Amazon (they're still getting there)?
I've played some with that. Whonix uses a full Debian install for the gateway, and that uses lots of disk. I used OpenWRT VMs for a while, but Tor releases in their repo got way out of data, and I never managed a build.

If someone can point to a distro that works for this, many of us would be very happy.
URL Encoder
I don't want to scale up all of the UI controls just so that I can have type that's readable. I can fit a lot on the screen by keeping the scaling level down and just zooming into web sites when necessary, but it's a lot harder to do that with a terminal app.
If all you had was unix kernel machine code, could you really use it to engineer the hardware required for it to go inside of?
Exactly. 10 years we were told how dangerous are tables.

In the same 10 years (http://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/) we were trying to come up with something that can be used instead. And have got that ugly flexbox.

And still... were are my col/rowspans?

Something is terribly wrong with the process.
I know it's not much to go on and I can't give specific examples, but I created a website to help people cope with their daily lives at work, to hear stories from others, to rant and complain about their jobs, their bosses, and do whatever they need... the website has evolved into full blown articles beyond the ranting... like success at work or dealing with stress at work and etc., but all types of articles are accepted.

Confessions of the Professions
http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/
Yeah, Whonix on Qubes is the strongest option, I believe.
Las Vegas is expanding its self-driving shuttle experiment
Why do you need precise pixel sizes? What if I gave you a 3000 PPI screen? Would you really care to make any feature of your UI be the size of one pixel? Wouldn’t “smallest visible solid dot” as covered by (b) suffice?
But the vast majority of people wouldn't be happy about that at all. Even if most people ended up paying, the loss FB would take in trust and reputation from users would be catastrophic.

Even Whatsapp usually seen as a great startup in their growth and sustainability never charged more than a fraction of their user base the $1 fee.
The relevant link for the "East India Company" would appear to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#Regulating_...

The first sentence there ends with "this clearly established Parliament's sovereignty and ultimate control over the company". So not a very convincing example of company independence over its host nation.

[Influence and control over another, relatively weak country is clearly a separate issue, but that's not always clearly separable from the host country's influence]
> If you really consider the issue closely, you'll see it depends on not overlooking certain dark corners of it which you can sort of ignore and assume to not contain contradictions—but they're there! And once you see them, it's hard to unsee them: what in the world would it mean for a desk to 'made' of mathematics—it's nonsensical.

What does it really mean to "exist" at all? It's equally undefined. This question is either problematic for every metaphysics, or none of them.

A desk is not "made" of mathematics any more than the words you're reading right now are "made" of electrons. What matters for existence is the relationships between mathematical structures. In this case, the relationship of your mind perceiving a desk is identical regardless of whether your mind and the desk are mathematical structures or some non-mathematical matter.

And once you accept that isomorphism, it's an easy step to a type of Platonism/mathematical monism because it's so unproblematic as a philosophy of mathematics. And once you're there, you have the mathematical universe.
This article is really, really light on reasons why you wouldn't take Saudi money. Is he really suggesting we reject money from a citizen of any country that's been "criticized for its human rights record"? Would there be any money left?
You can't blame a cow for doing what all the other cows are doing. It is in the nature of the cow.
I don't see anything in the write-up that requires a DSO--an storage tube (analog) oscilloscope should suffice.

Most storage tube oscilloscopes supported single sweep capture in bi-stable mode. That is, you could clear the screen, reset the timebase, and capture the trace of a single trigger event. In bi-stable mode, the image should last hours. Some models (like the Tek 7313) even allowed the top and bottom of the screen to be set to storage or live independently.

On top of that, most scope camera shutters could be set up to automatically open during the forward seep (called "single sweep" on Tek cameras). That allows you to set up the scope, and walk away while you wait for the rare event to occur. Tektronix even sold delay lines (big coils of hardline coax) with trigger pick-offs for the express purpose of displaying before-the-trigger waveforms.

No question that DSOs make this all easier, but saying it was impossible is a bit of a stretch.
This also has a customizable TTS that allows you to configure speech pitch, rate, vol, etc...
What's so special about the ROM process that it can't be ported or rewritten in a more portable way?
Exactly, if you're a business in a political climate of any kind you have to keep up appearances regardless of your private beliefs.
Sometimes moral reasons can be the profitable decision if those morales are something that includes peoples economic decisions.
If you're interested in this, you may also be interested in OSX-KVM[1], which handles all the steps necessary to create an installation image that works with qemu/kvm.

[1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/
Here's my computer's definition of absurd: "wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate".

No mention of unpopular or uncommon.
If you're going to call out something in particular, you'd think it'd be the weapons deals instead of investments in Twitter, Uber and so on. Feels like this might have been slanted this way just so they'd have something to put in the "Technology" category on the website.
> Ultimately, you land on a model where all consistent mathematical representations of a reality exist. [...] IIRC there are no arguments about computation or what underlying medium(s) are involved, it seems like a separate question.

These are actually related by Goedel's incompleteness theorems and the Curry-Howard isomorphism. Computation and mathematics are inextricably linked.

The Computable Universe is a necessary restriction on the mathematical universe hypothesis to avoid accepting inconsistent universes.
> "Iran may be moderate, but they are also aligned with Russia."

Why is that a problem? The Cold War is over. The Russian influence on the world stage is not what it once was (China has definitely superseded it), and it's a capitalist society so their interests are mostly aligned with capitalist societies elsewhere.
How would anybody ever get anything other than likely correlation?
>, but I don't know that "easy to spot" is a good yardstick.

Anecdotal, but my dog has had a Facebook account for a decade now. He makes appropriate comments and likes too. His profile picture and stats are accurate. Given that FB can detect faces and assign names to them, I assume they know this account is bullshit. There's got to be some aspects of avoidance of their part. Growth is more important than making sure accounts are real, unless people report it.
...also whataboutism.
And learn who the guy in the red head scarf is:

http://www.almrsal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/king-abdul...

http://s4.freebeacon.com/up/2015/05/AP95102601735-540x439.jp...

http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Gett...