skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a strange shift in affairs that China appears to have the greatest incentives (urban pollution, petroleum imports) today to advance clean transportation and energy while the US has stalled or moved backward, at least the Federal level.

Western European countries, for whom fossil fuels don't seem to be an identity politics issue like in the US, are also making more progress in electrifying their transportation and developing renewable generation - like those massive offshore turbines in the North Sea, or the more comprehensive EV charging networks.

Again, they seem to have stronger incentives: high gas/petrol prices, higher population density, tense relations with Russia - their big petroleum and natural gas supplier, and the desire to gain an advantage in clean energy technology while the US is seemingly regressing.

Perhaps states that have taken the problem seriously - wind in Texas, Iowa, EVs in CA, WA, NY, will carry the torch for the US without the Federal government's support.
Fair point but consolidating pollution emitters to a single point instead of scattering them across public roads is a good thing.
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Just going to leave this here. I've watched it at least five times at this point and it never ceases to astonish me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aHD5ruSZ0
I think the main point for China is to move the pollution outside the city streets where it directly affects more people. That's nothing to do with CO2 or global warming but to do with people's health, which is obviously super important.
...and it boils down to a glorified horoscope. Dinans are impulsive Teklans are reliable etc etc. sigh.
With regard to the US, I would argue the dependence on fossil fuels is bad regardless if the oil is imported or not. Being a fossil fuel "producer" is a misnomer because you aren't creating new fossil fuels. You are simply burning through your own home reserves faster.
I had a very similar experience many years ago. It was an start-up. The interviewer was the ex-CTO of a widely used open source project/product, and led the engineering team in the start-up. Although I regarded myself a good engineer, I was pretty nervous.

After several questions that he was sure I knew the regular stuffs and was qualified for the job, he said he was going to ask some really hard questions to see how much I really knew and what was my thought process. The questions had no simple answers. Each of them required knowledge and experiences from a few technical fields. I didn't know much then. He guided me how to solve the problems, discussed the pros and cons of each approach. Then he told me how they did it, how other products in the same category did it, etc.

The half-hour interview was prolonged to one and a half. At the end, he said, "You have a very intuition on what are the right directions to go when facing unknown complex issues", and gave me an offer. It is my best interview experience. (I didn't join the start-up due to other reasons.)

The technologies have been advanced in a blazing fast speed i the last 10 plus years. Technical interviews, on the contrary, regress in a similar speed.
Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast
Well, remember, what is actually happening here is that your web service is deploying code, including malware, onto my computer. The malware payload steals all of my personal data unbeknownst to me, and sends it to random 3rd parties.

So, that's pretty nasty, and yes, I want it to be regulated.
Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have 'unseen' siblings
Matrix: Open Network for Secure, Decentralized Communication
It happens, just not usually like npm.

The worst performance bug I ever reported on a piece of software had an O(n^5) runtime. But our n was about 5x what anyone else was doing so it went from a couple minutes to all day. Luckily they found a workaround, because that was brutal.
That's probably generous. OLPC may have helped create an aspiration for cheaper portable computers. But netbooks themselves, as originally conceived, never amounted to much either. iPads are mostly consumption devices. And Chromebooks, while I'm a personal fan, are a marginal success.

Tech advances have made it possible to buy pretty inexpensive laptops but I'm not sure how much credit OLPC deserves for that.
I guess I should say that everyone takes the test. I'm not a statistician, I'm a mathematician. The way I understand the phrase, "the test is 99% accurate" is that this means: assuming everyone were to be tested then 99% of the time you get an accurate result. Thus .99(1%) = 0.99% of the people will correctly test positive and 0.01(99%) = 0.99% of the population will incorrectly test positive.
Microsoft leadership, from Nadella on down, has blood on their hands, callously lying to Federal authorities and weaponizing the courts to put an innocent man in jail, destroying a year of a man's life, disrupting the livelihoods of 100 honest working people, and creating tons of dangerous polluting electronic waste, just so they could steal $700K from their customers.

Remember this next time you buy a Microsoft computer.
Also fecha.js for formatting: https://github.com/taylorhakes/fecha
OpenSeq2Seq: Distributed and Mixed-Precision Training for NMT and ASR
attempting to proxy traffic like that is an even more massive mess, you have a solution in search of a problem here.
You reading these words right now can reduce your consumption of plastic and fossil fuels, probably by 90% without any decrease in your quality of life. More likely you'll improve it.

On a personal level, my commitment to avoid packaged food 3 years ago means I last had to empty my landfill garbage June 4. I've emptied my recycling I think twice since then. Now that feels like way too much.

The main result is that my diet is more delicious than ever, more varied, more convenient, and saves me money.

I'm in my third year of not flying too. I began by saying I would avoid flying for one year. It improved my life so much I kept going.

These two changes sounded scary and impossible when I committed to them but experience showed me that living by my values improves my life. It took a while to let go of mainstream values that I couldn't stomach but had lived by for decades. Once I did, things got better and better.

I'm not special. You can almost certainly cut your plastic use, fossil fuel use, pollution, and so on by a lot. I bet you'll find it improves your life.
After death of major California housing bill, CA Senator advances other proposal
I remember those days. The worst layoff I remember, I was at an ACS meeting at the SGI booth when word of layoffs came. They nuked something like 1/3 of our team there.

I escaped all of the layoffs, and finally had my fill of the VP Eng who told me that Linux clusters had no future, and big SMPs were how SGI was going to rise again.

I turned in my resignation a week later (early 2001).
Yup, but it is still beneficial because power generation can be gradually made cleaner without affecting the rest of the infrastructure.
There's diminishing returns, but they are definitely correlated.
Supreme Court Upholds Patent Office Power to Invalidate Bad Patents
Hardly surprising when you consider that, historically, people considered other human beings worth nothing compared to their tribe, race, or religion.
‘Bitcoin is a scam’ says Bill Harris, former CEO of PayPal and Intuit
I was debating whether to remove that sentence, and ended up adding the (non-structural) part because I though someone might take the analogy that way. Note that fire codes in particular don't exist in many places, including much of the U.S.

Nobody is going to die from not exporting their data - except in medical software, where the current U.S. feature checklist regulations haven't helped. For many websites, GDPR is next to pointless while adding broad legal requirements.
It's just nonsense. In the IETF's nomenclature, the label "Internet Standard" is used to refer to, and I quote:

A specification for which significant implementation and successful
operational experience has been obtained may be elevated to the
Internet Standard level. An Internet Standard (which may simply be
referred to as a Standard) is characterized by a high degree of
technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified
protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet
community.

A specification that reaches the status of Standard is assigned a
number in the STD series while retaining its RFC number.

See also https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026#section-4.1.3

Most internet standards are not "Internet Standard"s, as can be seen by the fact that IPv6 got assigned the standard number 86, and up until last year, IPv6 wasn't either, but it still was a perfectly fine and well-documented standard, and has been for a long time.
The article states that he got 15 months, not years.
Support for Net Neutrality Grows, Trust in ISPs Dips
I had to do a sort of version of this on a machine on mine once. Its hard disk was failing, and it couldn't I/O half of the system-critical binaries, but it did still have some in disk cache. It doubled as my network's SSH gateway/proxy for when I'm coming from an IPv4-only network, as my home only gets a single IPv4 address.

> I had a handy program around (doesn't everybody?) for converting ASCII hex to binary, and the output of /usr/bin/sum tallied with our original binary.

I copied busybox's nc onto it (needed for the ssh jump); had to copy to /run as / was unwritable due to the disk failure. Now, scp no longer ran, so "copy" was a Python script to turn the binary into a printf command, which is a shell built-in and can write arbitrary binary.

(If you ever get into a jam like this, busybox's utilities are very useful.)

> But hang on---how do you set execute permission without /bin/chmod? A few seconds thought (which as usual, lasted a couple of minutes) suggested that we write the binary on top of an already existing binary, owned by me...problem solved.

I think umask'ing correctly prior to a printf should work nowadays, no? (IDK about in the author's time.) Thankfully in my case, chmod was in disk cache still.
Are you saying that [population explosion was a real problem] so it was right for the countries to [fix the problem in the short term, even if it leads to skewed gender ratios]?

If so, I think we clearly disagree what should have been done during those decades.

If the western countries (primarily the colonizers and the US) came up with good foreign policies that truly worked for the upliftment of China and India, instead of shortsighted approach of providing ultrasound tech, probably those countries may have been a better place, in terms of gender ratio, and probably, world would have more Indians and Chinese. But it'd have slowed down the growth on its own.
That sounds like such a perfect fit for Lua. We used it to the same effect in gamedev.

Coroutines are also amazing for sequenced AI routes.
So go clean the beaches in your spare time instead of telling the only person cleaning the ocean at scale that they're doing it wrong. At least they're doing something!
The only reason I can still post here is that I don't have a static IP address. So yes, they are the root of all evil.
You're not going to beat out Venmo, Apple Pay, and other established platforms.

Can this blockchain currency nonsense end already? People need to stop trying to force a given tech to do something specific all the time. It's literally the definition of "trying too hard".
I believe the individual countries set their own gas prices (taxed highly). All countries buy their oil/gas on the market for roughly the same price
Why Clothes Don’t Fall Apart: Tension Transmission in Staple Yarns
10nm wafer, sort of looks like a mirror: https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc2/... Another: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/54490/samsung-10nm-finfet-soc... And an Intel ARM: https://techreport.com/r.x/2017_09_20_Intel_shows_off_proces...
As an experiment, I was able to do this in under 3 minutes with ruby. I'd say I'm an average programmer.
I think Vitalik (the author of this piece and co-founder of Ethereum) in particular thinks differently than Bitcoin creator Satoshi. Vitalik doesn't think there are any easy answers to things like how to incentivize mining and so forth. He believes there needs to be a study of 'cryptoeconomics': https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html
"So depending on your usage style, it's between "changes multiple times a day" and "no change"."

For me, for each ISP, it's been "no change". Can only relate personal experience.
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Haha. I'm not your dad (I'm older). But I did nearly the same thing to stop smoking. I tried several times after finishing a pack. It didn't work. I had success when I tossed half a pack on a high shelf. When I got the urge I'd have to climb a chair to get them. That required enough time and effort to cause me to reconsider.
Or you can actually provide a service/product people will pay for. It's like this is confusing for you.

Why would you ever hire employees when you can't pay them? I love the internet sometimes.
vcpkg has an FAQ[1] regarding this, if someone could find one from the other perspective I think that would be helpful.

Personally, I prefer their integration with CMake, letting me `find_package(spdlog 0.16 REQUIRED)` allowing others to point to their own version with `-Dspdlog_DIR=...`.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/about/fa...
This was one of the reasons I made the case to my wife that, at the time, we should be in control of our own destiny. No corporation would have my families best interests at heart. No one would be looking out for them when they swung their axe.

So, I argued that I should form a company, start working on selling, marketing, developing, etc.

I used my layoff severance, loaded up credit cards to buy what I needed. Built a business that survived for 14.5 years. Generated millions a year in revenue. Had a small team working for me.

Until a bank came along and shot us in the head over an out-of-formula LOC.

So I am back working for the man. But I have so much more experience now. Much richer in business, in management, in sales and marketing, in addition to engineering and support. I would have done a number of things differently.

This said, having the control over your own destiny, to some degree, as much as your customers allow, was fantastic. You winning or losing was predicated on how hard and smart you worked.

The article is fairly accurate. Coding tests have become a thing. I've noticed that some places ask esoteric irrelevant questions specifically to stump people. Others are genuinely interested in your experience.

If only there was a way to avoid wasting time on the former to spend time with the latter.
I don't see any way to read your comment that isn't condescending.
There a quite a bit of them already - just google it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=7nm+tapeout+press+release&cl...

AMD, GPU, FPGA, etc.
No, not my web service. Some may be, but my web service is still punished. Most of the rules apply even if you are sharing no data with third parties.

If this was just about third-party trackers, the EU could have written a law similar to the cookie warning. People who care about that (including myself) can use browser addons or block third-party cookies.
GMaps works on the chip :p
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I question whether computers can do it at all in useful practice.

Take a look at the results quoted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network#Inference_com... about how updating a Bayesian net is an NP hard problem, and even an approximation algorithm that gets the probability right to within 0.5 more than 0.5 of the time is NP-hard.
Ha ha, I'm named John. Almost no one has named their sons John in perhaps 50 years? So, it is less of a surprise that positions with typically old White men are going to skew "John".

Guessing Starbucks is not a job where men named "John" outnumber women.

;-)
super my bad – fixed the title, thanks for catching this.
Tim Cook Is Among Guests at Trump’s First State Dinner
A NAT doesn't drop anything. A NAT translates. A firewall drops.

If you only have a NAT, your ISP (or anyone who has compromised their router, or possibly simply your neighbour when ISPs occasionally fail to isolate their customers on layer 2) still can send you packets addressed directly to your "internal" addresses. The only thing that actually helps is a stateful firewall. And when you have that, the NAT does not add anything security-wise.

NAT and "internal addresses" is as much a security mechanism as not telling anyone that there is a room called "living room" in your house. If you want to prevent strangers from getting into your living room, you don't use internal names for your rooms, you install a lock on the door.
That doesn't change the incentives though - the taxes are there for a reason.

EDIT: what I mean is that removing the petrol taxes won't solve the set of environmental and political problems they face, but rather would likely make them worse.
Then they reverse the assignment, as the ultimate authority on the internet they do have the right.
While we are on the subject of speaking, does anyone know of any free or cheap online voice acting courses they would recommend?

I intend to start a stream but I am dissatisfied with my voice. Sound, expression, pronunciation. All bad. Terrible.
Problem is that there is nothing even in potential future technology that allow solar and wind to cover our need. Furthermore they pollute way more.

So not sure exactly what it is you think we are seeing differently. The facts are the facts no?

So not sure why you are so adement about those inferior technologies.
"Something something National Security"
Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
I imagine prostitution.
http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2015/08/pre-registratio...
Yes, the t-test does assume normality and you can never be sure of perfect normality if that's what you are getting at (although I believe that simulation tests of the robustness of the t-test against deviations from normality generally show that this isn't too much of a practical concern). I wasn't trying to address every potential weakness with the t-test (or p-values in general); I was addressing the one stated in the article.
To put this in a slightly different perspective. Let's say you had hired a babysitter so you could go out for the evening. At the last minute, the babysitter cancels, and it is too late to get another one. Now you are either scrambling (calling relatives, etc) or you cancel your evening plans. Now let's add to this that your kids really like this particular babysitter, who has quit the babysitting business permanently, and it takes a bit of trial and error to find a replacement that will work for your kids.

So an employee leaving does have some impact. On the employee side, of course there is the food-on-the-table issue, which can be important if there isn't a safety net. Which is why it is critical to live within 75% of your paycheck, so that every year you can survive 3 months unemployment.
I love it. It's just like all these MLM (Pyramid schemes) that have been reborn. I guess every generation has to relearn the lessons of the prior generations the hard way.

Comparing a nation's fiat to bitcoin is hilarious.

Here's what the USD is backed by. The nation's assets. And more importantly the nation's power to enforce their will upon you legally (via courts, police, military, etc.).
I've always assumed that "XX nm" doesn't represent the geometry of any particular feature of the end product, but something related to the wavelength of the radiation used for the imaging process.

Maybe it corresponds to the principle emission line of the light source (synchrotron?) In spectral terms, 7 nm is near the border between hard UV radiation and soft X-rays.
I was gonna say "fundamentalism does not always imply religion," but I read a few of his posts and he's definitely a nutbar.

E.g. "The females of all mammalian species, including humans, always have more power than the males, and, in every human society, women are slightly better off than men are." (Based solely on longevity and reproductive success, "the only two biologically meaningful measures of welfare.") It sounds like he's one of those "women are better off than men because they can get laid whenever they want and I can't" guys.
Aw man so many good moments here. Love the groove starting at 26:31. Eddie Hazel RIP. I view funk in the 1970s as a natural extension of big band jazz, and Parliament Funkadelic was the epitome of that. Jazz is the teacher, and funk is the preacher. Thanks for sharing this!
I think there’s an awful lot of emphasis on the word regular and not much on the “32 cores for $1000” which - given the context of this story - is much more relevant and interesting.
1. Not really 7nm, only the fin width is ~7nm, metals, etc are more like 54nm.

2. Immersion lithography (water as refractive index) + multiple patterning + computational lithography.
I was making the pointed armchair observation that all hypothesis being tested in the social sciences are false. Of course none of the down voters seemed to noticed that my hypothesis is a social science hypothesis. Subtly is lost on HN most of the time.

More seriously the social sciences do have a lot of problems, some driven by the methodologies used, some by ideology, and some by the inherent noisiness and unreliability of the data available. Not an easy area to do science in.
Addressing Recent Claims of Manipulated Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine
With demand dropping and cost of oil extraction becoming prohibitively expensive oil prices will rise and the US consumers will be left holding the bag paying $$$ to fill up their gas guzzlers.
What of the lowly Page Down key? It certainly can't scroll this website.
I think the general consensus is that, politics aside, China is leading the world in many things now. Certain people, even sometimes Americans, seem to experience some schadenfreude that the US is being displaced in so many categories.
The funny thing about 54mm is that this is pretty close to the original gate pitch, back when we had to use vacuum tubes or relays.
I'm using a 27" 4K monitor. I can't read anything on that site.
Let's see... Let's say you test 10,000 people, so about 100 actually have the disease. Since the test is only 99% accurate, only 99 of those will test positive. Of the remaining 9,900 actually negative people, 99 will test falsely positive. So if you test positive, you have a 50% chance of actually having the disease?
Isn't that the point? What a strange title for an article.
Time-zone support is one.

The thing i don’t get is why for libraries like moment don’t we host the tz data on a cdn and have the library just request the cached copy at runtime? Or better yet, have the browser supply it as part of the browser api.

We are boiling the oceans compiling this into our JS.
I have trained most of the members of my social circle to expect a similar level of response to most text messages. No one has given me crap about it and still get invited to plenty of functions. I'm 33 and the level of convincing/training necessary did seem to be very inversely related to age, but eventually everyone got it.
Which is good, to my mind.