skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on whether you consider Daesh and YPG the owners of Syria.
While Europe went crazy not to take in more than a few hundred thousand refugees who were desperately trying to escape death, Erdoğan accepted more than 3 million although many Turks didn't want them.
I think the primary thing that counts here is that the lives of the millions of people are now saved.
Interestingly, the upcoming CPUs with built-in resistance to Meltdown (new MSR bit RDCL_NO set to 1) will also be immune to L1TF already.
But that's the thing, they need basic mandarin! Which is no easy task for sure.
When I first saw TikZ code, I can't imagine how it could possibly work. Mystically beautiful.
Well, we have no government. If we did the word unlimited would not be used, because it's not true. Like the hosts "Unlimited traffic and space" for $1.99 a month. Yeah, let's put Yahoo's video files on it and let's see how unlimited it is.
From an software engineering perspective it’s a travesty to include Apple and not Amazon.
VPN or V2RAY etc. Fix that issue. It's still excruciatingly slow tho.
I did work for MS China for almost 10 years, and Microsoft does sell shrink wrap software in China, but they don't really do services there, they've tried and even though they are on the government's good side, it just never worked out for them. Microsoft is a good example of my claim.

Not trying to move the goalpost, but DJI is more of a hardware company, it isn't really an internet one. Any company that can operate outside of a services model will do just fine in China, since they are just shipping product for export.
It's more complex than that. Sometimes people create throwaway accounts so they can share more information than they'd otherwise be able to, and really are experts or insiders on a topic. It's not always easy to tell such cases apart from fabricators or trolls, but it's important to try, and to give people the benefit of the doubt. I generally go by how substantive the comments are or seem (admittedly not an infallible test).
Specifically AWS Lambda is. In terms of performance and flexibility AWS and GCP are far far behind.
Without a doubt the worst bullshit I've ever seen from dang.

So tell us, Dan, how would one criticize the Chinese government for imprisoning dissidents and genocide, while staying within your guidelines? How must one couch it to pass the Great Firewall of Hacker News? Serious question.
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Yes, word class valuations for sure. There are many meanings of world class, but one of the popular ones is of global scope.
Markets have already given the Chinese regime enormous economic power, its easy to ignore the gross human rights violations if you have a cheap iphone and your own dignity isn't impaired. Beware the new colonial power.
From the article:

> Another criticism is that countries get credit for passing laws, even if they haven't been widely implemented yet.

This would be my biggest concern with these rankings. India might sound better on paper (from a very high level abstract look comparing countries) for ease of business but that doesn't mean it has translated to day-to-day business life there.
11-year-old hacks replica of Florida's state election site in under ten minutes
Signed up right away, love the idea!

One note, generally I think academic papers are heavier than articles on HN. Maybe the person sharing a link should be encouraged to add a note/summary/reason-for-sharing/personal-take-away
I wouldn't call him a genius, he's quite the opposite.

>why didn't previous presidents think of it

They probably did, but were likely smart enough to figure out that a trade war with the world will trigger a backlash that the US won't be able to handle.
The world will seek an alternative to the US dollar, and I think it will happen very soon if Trump continues doing what he does.
What exactly did I do? I was noting that an improvement in the freedom of Cubans is hardly subjective, given the effects of the ongoing Castro period. Almost any country is freer than one which decides who can and can not communicate with the outside world, or own the product of their labour.

Where in the guidelines does it say that I have to use the driest, dullest language to describe anything or make any point?
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We'll change it.
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what about the millions of people that have been lifted out of poverty in China? they don't count?
Another claim of how blockchain will make things change.

Yet there is not a single worthwhile use case.
Anyone can learn how to say 你好are you? But seriously, getting basic taxi cab mandarin down in 6 months is pretty easy. Heck, when I did it it was much harder since real beijingers back then had thick 儿 accents.

You definitely don't need 大山-level mandarin to do business in china these days.
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I believe, here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aada/courses/15251f15/www/schedule.h...
are notes to this.
Chengdu would be quite an interesting pick. There's a lot of startup activity there for sure, and it's really far from Beijing.
Well, I would prefer Kunming because of the weather, but less activity than Chengdu or Chongqing.
Parasites always expand as far as possible
without actually killing the host.

I'm an administrator and I'm here to help.

There is actually a symbiosis between the government administrators creating more and more regulations, and the healthcare administrators who implement them. There are also self-reinforcing effects in licensing professions, which demand more qualifications, feeding the vocational training industry. Same in finance, with Dodd-Frank, AML and KYC (all justified by fake 'wars on terror' and 'war on drugs').

It is an infestation of the western world. Social democracy is a self-reinforcing doom loop of bureaucrats and welfare recipients voting for more bureaucracy and handouts. Overheads and taxes expand to crush productivity, but not quite enough to kill it. Whatever happened to small government and small bureaucracies?

Time to invent some antiadminotics,
but then they will eventually develop resistance.
blue steel took 10 days to render
> wouldn't byte compilation become redundant?

Bitcode is still useful, even with a JIT (just like in Java) - the JIT needs to do the heavy parsing, semantic analysis etc everytime it starts.

However, the JIT means it can execute the bitcode faster than an interpreter can, because it can keep more intermediate steps in registers directly (like spill to an xmm register, instead of heap) & can do a tiny bit of cpu guided optimization (like is AES-NI available etc).
Previous post from 2016 with 89 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556609
Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere
Why buses in America always look like they were designed 20 years ago?
It's annoying of course, but when is this a big problem in practice? I can imagine how it would be in theory, but in all cases where I needed to add an additional value to an enum so far, I could just do it independently of other schema changes and well in advance of deploying code that made use of the new value.
How to learn an existing code base
Wow. Gave me a whole new appreciation for the guy.

Here's another interview from 5 years back. https://web.archive.org/web/20131102205959/http://americanhu...
Yeah but it's still not honest to say you don't need to learn Chinese at all. I would say that you will need atleast 6 months to be able to live normally, 12 months to get respect in business meetings, 3-4 years to be understood and make it a comp. advantage.And I'm not talking about 上海。
Will someone please update this with experiences with Ryzen?
You posted a flamey political rant. That drags down discussion quality in its own right and leads to worse from others. If that's the game you want to play, please play it somewhere else.

There are probably contexts where it's possible to have a high-quality discussion with that sort of rhetoric in it, but the open internet is certainly not one of them. It just sets things on fire, and scorched earth is boring.
Is the code that powers this open source? It would be useful to collect snippets for other fields
I'm also interested in this :-) I had a look here:
http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/, and found this:

> "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed. However, please review the Applications Privacy Policy located at https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/privacy, for more information on how we treat information included in applications submitted to us."

> "You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Site (“Submissions”) provided by you to Y Combinator are non-confidential and Y Combinator will be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you."

That's the text related to people's comments that I found. It grants permissions to Y Combinator, and they don't grant the rights they get, to anyone else. So, as far as I can tell, you're not allowed to do that. (I'm not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. (Does one need to say that also if not in the US? :- P ))

What do you think?

Instead, I'm thinking about dynamically check for URLs at HN, and then auto-post a comment in an embedded commenting system I'm developing (See my profile :- )), that links to the discussion at HN. And maybe manually reply to the comment, with a brief summary of the HN discussion. And the same, for discussions at Reddit, maybe Mastodon, etc.
The recent additions are not just laws, they're tangible initiatives, and infrastructure the government has built.

Creating infrastructure, and reducing friction is the only thing a government can. The government is merely a mediator, a facilitator, that lays out the field and its rules, but it's up to the citizens to independently exploit that opportunity.
I don't disagree with your points here, other than the MOT changed in May to include inspection of the DPF system if fitted (on 2006 onwards vehicles) , including checking for one which has been cut open. Obviously not foolproof, but at least its a start - if the DPF is missing, it's a fail now.
How is MS a perfect example of your claim? It's proves even US company without much friction operating in China might not succeed. It had nothing to do with China closing off the market. Except the one really banned (google & fb etc), others just don't have a competitive product suitable for chinese market.

Also aren't we talking about tech company? Not internet company alone?

Or do you consider a market closed off if no foreign internet service company is doing well? In that standard US is also closed off because I can't think of a single successful non US internet company here.
If you look at the latest data (2016) from the UNHCR you will see this picture:
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/G3qnc/2/

Neighboring countries in conflict regions tend to be most heavily affected by migration as conflict is a primary cause.

Some numbers (also available in the link above) to give perspective:

Country or territory of asylum	Refugees per 1 million USD (GDP)	Refugees to 1,000 inhabitants
Lebanon	19.48	169.16
Turkey	3.35	36.04
Germany	0.19	8.3
Denmark	0.11	5.89
Canada	0.06	2.68
United States	0.01	0.84
Very strange, the official vue.js guide linked in another comment gives me the same "corrupted content" error too. Unfortunately this makes me immediately suspicious of vue.js itself...

-e- FF 62.0b15 here, and both sites work in Chrome...
Bermuda looks to be slightly under 4 cents per minute, Guam is 2 cents per minute, Trinidad is around 20 cents per minute. I've yet to see any provider include these area codes in their NANPA ratedecks, so presumably they won't route them as NANPA numbers (yet to test that though). I know for wireless carriers, callback fraud where a Trinidad number will call you briefly to make it look like you missed a call and thus call back is quite popular. I'd assume the fraudsters are getting a revenue cut on inbound calls...
It used to be that if you searched for some bad things in google.cn or wikipedia you would get put in a penalty box for 5 or so minutes where your internet wouldn't work. Two things stopped this: first, everyone moved over to https so ISPs couldn't tell what you were doing anymore; and google was eventually blocked anyways.

Now, China solely relies on blocking entire websites or relying on compliance of services. So Google is blocked, while Bing will actually harmonize their search results in China (the search will still turn things up, but some results might be hidden).
>> - It lets you extract the sealing key and remote attestation. That's about as bad as it gets.

It could have definitely been worse, with the leak of the fused secrets or a breach to integrity of the microcode (the two things that together constitute the TCB, which put simply is the only piece of the system you assume will never be broken).

All in all, assuming a microcode update can counter the attack as Intel claims, sealing and attestation secrets will be rekeyed via the KDF rooted in the fused keys, so that you can start afresh.

Of course, operationally speaking, that is a total pain but it is frankly remarkable to see this kind of deep recovery strategy finally built into consumer devices (and yes, I know DRM is unfortunately the main driver, but there are still some very legitimate use cases).

>> flush L1d (or prevent things from accessing the same L1d via e.g. core pinning) and you're fine

No, you are not fine.
As the paper explains, an adversary (which is by definition more privileged than you are) can operate between the moment you use secrets in L1 and the moment you flush them out.
Only the CPU (silicon or microcode) can assist you in the flushing of L1 when you exit enclave mode.
Right, because serverless is actually just a cover for "de-commoditizing" the cloud services that companies like AWS built to commoditize datacenters. You hit the nail on the head. It's not completely useless to help less technical people solve the problems that folks like you and I consider "the easy part" and so people will find a use for it.

But the primary utility of serverless is an attempt at solving Amazon's problem of being commoditized by containers.
Reminds me of this https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/09/searching-for-finally-got-m...
China's internet market is closed off, not its hardware product one, so Intel still sells a lot of CPUs in China, while DJI sells plenty of drones outside of China and Xiaomi and Huawei even sell phones abroad like Apple can sell phones in China. If you count those as success and proof China is open, then that is definitely your prerogative.

But take the typical YC startup business models, most of those aren't going to be in those safe categories.
"Mr. Lee made his initial call — that Turkey was in deep financial trouble — in 2011."

But in 2012 a well respected stock picking horse stomped its hoof twice signaling the lira was strong so I was torn.
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Why do that when you can define it as a foreign key into a proper relation and modify it with full transactional guarantees? I just don't see the advantage of bending over backwards.

Remember, relations are "types" with existence checking built in and a whole powerful algebra around them. By dropping down to a more primitive type you gain very little and lose strong guarantees.
That's the AI part of the article.

Basically, the LHC spits out data so your your Big Data looks small. The first pass was for data confirming/disconfirming some big theories where a specific peek at the data would give meaningful answers. So far the data shows that we had it right to start with.

Now, for the next pass, they're expanding how they look at the data to find anything 'unusual'. "Pattern recognition" in this case is a bit harder than just checking for a recurring value, or a "true" in the "Unified theory of everything?" field. We're a bit closer to what we would generally call AI, and at very least some interesting techniques with more interesting followup experiments to weed out false positives.
On gasoline (as opposed to diesel) engines, it actually used to mechanically open a butterfly valve that controlled the air intake (the throttle).
This is spot on. The only thing that allows me to succeed in programming is relentless drive to bulldoze the problems in front of me.
This is a false choice—are you saying that internment camps were required to lift millions out of poverty in China?
Sure but I'd have expected similar usage throughout western countries. here in Germany I wouldn't consider the average person any more techy than in Australia or anywhere else. People are pretty conservative and stick to what they know in general. I don't know anyone besides coworkers or friends working in the field who would do that, but then at least half of them are probably too skeptical of google to actually do it.
OTOH it seems like all the major cloud providers are still happy using Intel. They probably have a pretty good reason to do so.
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I'm always shocked when I visit shanghai and the taxi drivers can actually speak English. Nothing like that ever happens in Beijing.

Plenty of foreigners work in China having much less than 6 months of Chinese. Most of them weren't even at my level. They still got by. Business meetings held with foreigners are usually in English anyways, it is only the old guard (Xi's generation) that can't English very well. And those people aren't so common in tech.
While sometimes overruling he's completely reasonable here. There had been multiple approaches to jit-ing emacs bytecode, and all of them offerred a very limited speed-up.

Jitting engines bring extra dependencies and one more layer of complexity to the C core of the editor. And not too many editors support a full language of their own. Notice that Emacs is mostly a volunteer effort and the resources are very limited.

For example this particular engine seems to offer a good speed boost on numeric operations but one of the replies mentions that realistic complex code is sometimes slower than a pure byte-code VM. Probably a bug but still...

After all those failed attempts certain level of scepticism is understandable.
BYD busses don't look anything special, yes they are electric but you can get those from a lot of manufacturers. Also they are only partially low floor.

More interesting is the Aptis by Alstom, still more or less a prototype but its design is really something innovative because it increases the room in the bus and it is 100% low floor.
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TikZ (and all the abstractions you can build on it) is one of my favorite parts of the LaTeX ecosystem. At its core is a layout engine where you describe how nodes and lines are laid out relative to others, and it spaces everything for you. https://github.com/jluttine/tikz-bayesnet , for instance, is a lightweight wrapper that lets you represent graphical models with code like:

\node[latent, left=of y, yshift=0.5cm] (mu) {$\mu$} ;

Now that I'm no longer in academia, I've lost my muscle memory for the syntax, but every time I need to build a flowchart, I think back on this with fondness. If someone were to repackage this with a cloud-based IDE and autocomplete (maybe using something like https://latexbase.com/ ), maybe slightly kinder syntax, I could see it meeting a business need even for non-technical users who are fed up with the difficulty of "fitting something in" in a large PowerPoint flowchart.

There's also http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/ for 3D drawing, which is equally cool.
Ask HN: Getting your company username on social media
I see a lot of popular startups appear who have catchy names/domains of which they obviously bought from a third party with very generic dictionary words or play on words, and subsequently also appear to obtain their original username across these major social platforms of which are nearly impossible to get in actual human contact with -- and I'd like to ask, how?

My company is over 5 years old now and since day 1, our username on Twitter is an account with the real name "Testing 123 123" from 2011 with no followers/follows, and our username on Facebook appears to not be in use yet walls me off when attempting to use it saying "this username is already in use" and email after email, we appear to get botted responses with no light at the end of the tunnel.

Is there any appropriate channel for things like this? Twitter seems to at the very least somewhat be contactable albeit botted responses, but Facebook has no front-facing support for this whatsoever with rather outdated help pages.

At this point, I'd shed tears at the thought of being helped with this by someone in the position to do so.
Many have correctly commented on the possibly depressive state, so I won't. But I'd like to react to some keywords in your message. I don't know either how this life thing works, it would be more my frustration speaking, I definitely haven't followed this advice when your age.

Difficulty can be easily found in any company anywhere, no need to look hard. It is doing the same even better and faster.

If asking the boss for more work doesn't work, why not to ask your colleagues? You are high-performing -- get spare time from regular job, identify the people who contributes the most to the success of the business, go see them and be open, tell them you want to help but don't know how.

Your message sounds to me like getting closer to your colleagues might not be your thing -- then find by yourself what cries for improvement that would benefit the maximum of people, and start working on it alone. Hopefully people will notice and will let you know.

Last thing -- if you are ambitious as you say, then changing companies frequently is good, but only up to some point. Past that point (I would say, 30-something), to be able to evolve you need to grind down to the core of the activity of a company, be that from the business or from technical standpoint, and that takes lots of time and lots of trust from other people. The trust takes many years to come.

I think we evolve only in the eyes of people around us (we already are what we are), so working alone / keeping to oneself / frequently moving on undermines this evolution.

In short -- plan for long effort, have patience, don't be afraid if things don't look today like they should, and try to get more from people around you -- help, fun, recognition, empathy, whatever.
Is it about the new register allocator? How good is it?
> US is the biggest single market on the planet.

By which measure? China has nearly five times as many inhabitants, the biggest economic growth over the past three decades of any country, and out-produces the US by over nine thousand. If it's not yet the biggest market on the planet yet, it soon will be.