skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In reality, China wants to trade peacefully with the US and the aggression is nearly 100% on the US side

You don't need to make this claim to support the rest of your point. I agree with the gist of your comment but think this point makes it easier to attack the overall message.

Personally, I think China is trading with the goal of jump starting their economy, and then seeing where they end up. China's incentives aren't to act within our paradigm of free trade, but to attempt to operate on it. If free trade is truly a Schelling point, then we'll remain there. Otherwise at the end of the day, holding currency or title to imaginary property won't matter, but where the factories are located will.

But that isn't really relevant to the larger point that all this finger pointing at China (or Russia, depending on the month) is just basic scapegoating to cover the asses of negligent contractors and corrupt government.
Compare and contrast with bankruptcy.
If there's any technology more deserving of a modern-day Manhattan Project...
Isn't thorium more abundant than uranium and easier to mine?
Apple lies
Don’t all three of those employers you listed have large campuses? Also, aren’t there park and ride stations all over the suburbs? Maybe I just don’t understand because I live in Minneapolis and work downtown, but I also work with a ton of people who don’t and use public transit. I won’t pretend that I understand all of the implications of this change, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a doom-and-gloom as you’re arguing.
"Like all major U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint do not use Huawei equipment, but their majority owners, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG and Japan’s SoftBank Group Ltd, respectively, use some Huawei gear in overseas markets."

"U.S. government officials had been pressuring Deutsche Telekom to stop using Huawei equipment."
No, Chinese do not have a culture to have conflicting ideas and not feeling stressed, not as anything I know from my 24 years of living and studying as a native Chinese.

If you are talking about "求同存异" that's for agreeing to have disagreement, which is a common cooperation culture around the globe.

If you are talking about "无为而治" from the Taoism philosophy of doing without actually forcing, that's not something relevant here though.

PS: I am often amused by people coming up with obviously-weird/nonsensical claims on Chinese, China or its culture, and the readers seemingly unable to apply common sense to disapprove them. This, to me, is an unconscious (or actually intentional) way of reinforce stereotype on China, which can be useful, for example, in mwny cases when someone in power wants to mobilize the common people, such stereotype really makes things easier to get approved.
From Chris Lattner (http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-December/04644...):

> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym. The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1. :) As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless.

> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore. It is a nice short domain name though
OTOH, the military has the ability to manufacture whatever labor it needs.

Out of potato peelers? You, you, and you grab some spuds.

Out of computer engineers? You, you, and you head to training.
While technically still the same size, I think he's proposing that it's, in a sense, isomorphic to a dimension change if the fix to zero is propogates throughout the remainder of the layers (until the next 'change' that is).

Or something like that.
Except there were maybe 20 of those magazines where as now the barrier to entry is so easy that there's 20 million kids making these sorts of photos.
I've been riding close to 20 yrs. For the last 10 to 15 I've taught, on average 3 to 5 newbies per year.

The first couple hrs are critical, as is the overall aggregate experience of the first weekend. That is, some falling aside, enjoyment and a sense of progression is more important than actually skill. Skill increases with time.

With that said, after 6 weekends you should be past the crash & burn phase. Have you had a proper lesson? Something feels a miss.
ah, remarkably less so than you might think.
To anyone wondering what debt "means", or if some debts will ever be repaid, or wondering about "jubilees" where debts are forgiven, I recommend David Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5000 Years".

I am not sure if some of the ideas about debt that Graeber argues are correct, but he does discuss a lot of interesting examples of debt from societies throughout history.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/debt/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Yep, also keep in mind that the "new money" trickles down. Ie, prices rise faster than wages.
Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel (2017)
I’d find it useful yes. Although not sure I’d pay for a solution. But I imagine businesses paying for it. A lot of industries have to use PDFs and have people on the move. Eg property inspectors.
Is LibrePlanet Safe?
https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm#climbing
Doesnt work if they are coming from different warehouses or are too big for one box.
Having the system be private with separate groups seems to work pretty well at stopping shaming, or at least minimising its visibility. Don't hear much of this stuff going on in Discord groups or Slack chats or what not, and for many people now, those are their form of social media.

In fact, that may be why such private setups are on the rise. Being private means only your friends/allies/community can hear your thoughts, and it limits your posts' exposure to people who might otherwise try and stir up a mob/cause a media frenzy. I suspect a lot of ex Reddit users joined for that (after seeing how the media likes to dig into subreddits and find controversial posts to mock/mention in articles).
Yeah, of the browser or plugin. SQLite is neither although does have a local exploit.
Both Sprint and T-Mobile had a significant Huawei footprints, Sprint via Clearwire, and T-Mobile via MetroPCS - AT&T also bought some when they bought Cricket too. It's all gone now. Sprint is a mix of Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent (Now Nokia), and Ericsson, depending on the market - T-Mobile is all Ericsson I think.
A dinner guest once brought a sprig of catnip covered with flower buds freshly picked from her garden, knowing we had cats.

I don't have the words to describe what happened. We'd given the cats dried catnip before, but this was an entirely different situation.

If you want to give your cats catnip, fresh stuff is definitely worth getting.
+1 for cloudron
Chrome Extension to remove Facebook fbclid tracking parameter
Thus, after I shame you in an unjustified way, I also get to shame you some more for profiting off of your newfound victim status, thus proving that I was morally right about you all along, even when I wasn't.

This is exactly what's already happening - coming from both sides, in fact.
SaaS companies are very asset-light. Take a look at Salesforce, for example: $17.5 billion dollars of assets on the balance sheet... of which ~$6 billion is cash, $7 billion is goodwill, and only about $141 million is capitalized software.

(Most of their expenditures to produce software are expensed rather than capitalized.)

On the lower end of the scale, liabilities of SaaS companies exceed assets (as measured formally for a balance sheet) quite frequently. The shareholder equity for both of my businesses was negative when I sold them.
That is assuming we keep similar power usages as today, but many of our largest industries are consuming unaccounted for fossil fuel energy. Fertilizer for example, fossil fuels are used as a reagent in creating artificial fertilizer, on top of already huge energy costs. The energy required to make fertilizer out of the air and water, rather than fossil fuels, is 100x more at best case. 60% of our total crop yield is the result of artificial fertilizer. Then look at plastics, how much more energy is required to create nonfossil fuel hydrocarbon precursors? You can make hydrocarbons from trees, but it might take an entire tree just to make a few cheap plastic containers.

Many other industries are also powered by mined and drilled organic fuels and minerals, but are still fairly limited in availability, at least for such cheap prices/energy requirements anyways which will rise into the future.

Building solar panels to power our planet today isn't insurmountable, but what about 20 years from now? 50? 100? Power costs are the limiting factor in many industrial processes, including farming, steel and aluminum production, aviation and rocketry, indoor farms, plastics, and nearly every other form of material synthesis.

Don't get me wrong, im not advocating against solar power in anyway, however I don't think it is an effective source for powering our largest industrial processes into the future. Even a small 10 man ceramics shop can draw enough power that they need to call up the local power companies before they turn their large furnaces on, I see no reasonable way of storing and supplying those kind of immense power requirements with solar panels and current storage technologies in any economical way.
I’ll be interested in seeing what the number of affected users actually ends up being. As John Gruber at Daring Fireball has pointed out, Facebook has a rich history of giving initial numbers which tend to grow by orders of magnitudes over the coming weeks.
Yes - good point. Programs accepting SQLite databases as input (as opposed to just queries) are also vulnerable. The exploit is probably somewhat harder if you don’t have interactivity, since it would depend on exactly how the corrupt database gets used.
You can get used gear pretty cheap. I've seen boards at my local Good Will, and occasionally people offering gear on FreeCycle.

Tickets can hurt. But most hills have specials, etc. Perhaps the times are a bit less convenient but none the less you can avoid full price with some tricks and effort.
I wrote and published this extension today. I hope people find it helpful in protecting their privacy.
Or they wouldn't get those jobs.
The technician license exam is extremely easy, you just have to memorize a few hundred questions. Passing the exam and getting the license doesn't actually prepare you for real world operation at all... I think I spent a total of less than four hours going over the questions, and got full marks on the exam (which amazed everyone there... But I'm a physicist to begin with — just not very much into electronics).

By the way, back when I took the exam, I made a tiny web app to help me with the question pool: https://hamradio.zhimingwang.org/. It basically lets you quickly go over the questions, hide the ones you're confident with, then go over the rest again, rinse and repeat. The question pool might have been updated though.
I would do it as well. These days only one opinion is safely allowed to be stated. If you work in the Bay and you disagree with Google’s protest against working for DoD, you’ll be socially outcast. People who are apathetic just go with the flow and burgeon the numbers of in my opinion a minority.

It’s difficukt to have an actual discussion, it gets dumbed down to the most basic dumbest arguments. You support war you are bad. This anti intellectualism is spread everywhere and in my opinion caused a very promising metoo movement to falter. They refused to differentiate between 2 evils. Al Franken is not Harvey Weinstein. Louis CK is not Roy Moore. USA is not China. Arguing with the majority in the Bay about this simple fact is like arguing with toddlers.
It's funny -- That J&J case is taught almost universally in ethics and business courses because it was so clearly the right thing to do, the company did so at great expense, and engendered so much good will.

Then it turns out during the same period they were actively misleading about the problematic nature of their talc. Since then, they've had several other scandals including bribing doctors all over Europe[1], were successfully sued over defective transplants that they knew about[2], shipped a poorly tested and dangerous vaginal mesh that also got them sued[3], among other just awful actions. It's looking more and more like they stumbled onto the correct course with the Tylenol episode and shouldn't be given the benefit of the doubt for anything else.

[1] - https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-87.htm

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-verdict/j...

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/29/revealed-joh...
Risk is transitive.
This is great news. I hope other universities follow suit.
The surface of a lake is much more well-defined, though, and has high density. You can't "float" on whatever you define as the "surface" of the atmosphere.
Cardinal George Pell, 77, was convicted Tuesday on five counts of child sexual abuse in Melbourne. [1]

1: http://outline.com/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/...
>"I owe hundreds of thousands on my house [...] my net debt is zero."

>"my house is worth significantly more than my debt"

You realize the value of your house dropping by 50% in a year would not be very surprising? And that would be mild, it is all up to which group of people the federal reserve chooses to benefit.
This is what scihub & libgen are for.
fwiw, work being done on Cassandra to speed this (cas/lwt) up SIGNIFICANTLY
Why is the car (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/space-age-technology_swiss-team...) streamlined?
>I'm told by people that you can drink out of a swamp or mud puddle with a good filter.

"Good filter" is a relative term. Maybe you could do it if you "filtered" the water with a $10M reverse osmosis membrane? The filters I buy all say "do not use with unsafe water" or some similar phrase.
> Most of the global debt in the world is from governments

I don't know about globally but in the US private debt is much bigger that government debt including local, state and federal.
I found the 2nd & 3rd books of The Three Body Problem series to be much, much better than the 1st. IMO the 1st is just a bit of pretext for the real story of the series.
I assume you’re being sarcastic. that never happened.
Although I happen to disagree, that is a different, more reasonable critique than your original comment.
Yeah, I don't care how people or organizations actually write their code, I just want to download the code they distribute (through git or tarballs) and run the commands listed in a readme without the build failing because GCC thinks there's an unnecessary number of parentheses around an expression.

The three alternatives were meant as somthing easy one could do instead of blindly using using -Werror to achieve the same advantages, but there are of course more ways to do it.

I have also had the fortune of using Goole code. I have been meaning to write a blog post about the issues one encounters when using a Goole library without being a part of Google.
Is this true? wtf....
“And don't want to defend that government?“

Well, here’s the problem. How much of what the DoD does is actually defending our government, versus going off and killing far-away people who pose no threat to us for various murky reasons?

Do I want to contribute to keeping foreign armies off our soil? Sure! Do I want to contribute to drones blowing up weddings? Not really.

Maybe if our government would stop abusing our military so horribly, it would find more American experts willing to support that military.
So, you're saying that to avoid jail, all the offender has to do is sit in a room for a few hours every week?
It sucks, but bus routes are being reduced because people just aren't using them:

http://www.startribune.com/declining-metro-transit-ridership...
On Windows, a complete sqlite3 DLL (~1MB) is included with the Python distribution.

On Linux/macos, the Python extension (usually) links dynamically to a shared sqlite3 system library.
For those who haven't explored LLVM, it's an incredibly powerful technology and rather approachable for getting started with.

A few of my favorite LLVM discoveries:

- If you want to build Clang (LLVM C/C++ Compiler), it's really simple to pull down and build with little external development tooling (only a compiler and CMake). Shown here [0].

- You can pull LLVM/Clang master and use that for a "bleeding-edge" toolchain with a high degree of stability. [0].

- Clang is used to compile Chromium and Firefox on all platforms. Both have seen great performance gains from Clang's link time optimization. [1] [2]

- Klee is built on LLVM infrastructure and is used for automatic generation of test cases. [3] See some of their papers for how powerful their results are.

- Clang can now produce ABI compatible binaries with MSVC and has support for the Visual Studio debugger. [4]

- Lots of interesting research projects leveraging LLVM [5]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZI_Qla4pNA

[1] http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chro...

[2] https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3888

[3] https://klee.github.io

[4] http://blog.llvm.org/2017/08/llvm-on-windows-now-supports-pd...

[5] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2017&q=LLVM&hl=en&...
Right. The actual standard is called "modified condition/decison coverage" or MC/DC. In languages like C, MC/DC and branch coverage, though not exactly the same, are very close.

Achieving 100% MC/DC does not prove that you always get the right answer. All it means is that your tests are so extensive that you managed to get every machine-code branch to go in both directions at least once. It is a high standard and is difficult to achieve. It does not mean that the software is perfect.

But it does help. A lot. When I was young, I used to think I could right flawless code. Then I wrote SQLite, and it got picked up and used by lots of applications. It will amaze you how many problems will crop up when your code runs on in millions of application on billions of devices.

I was getting a steady stream of bug reports against SQLite. Then I took 10 months (2008-09-25 through 2009-07-25) to write the 100% MC/DC tests for SQLite. And after that, the number of bug reports slowed to a trickle. There still are bugs. But the number of bugs is greatly reduced. (Note that 100% MC/DC was first obtained on 2009-07-25, but the work did not end there. I spend most of my development time adding and enhancing test cases to keep up with changes in the deliverable SQLite code.)

100% MC/DC is just an arbitrary threshold - a high threshold and one that is easy to measure and difficult to cheat - but it is just a threshold at which we say "enough". You could just as easily choose a different threshold, such as 100% line coverage. The higher the threshold, the fewer bugs will slip through. But there will always be bugs.

My experience is that the weird tests you end up having to write just to cause some obscure branch to go one way or another end up finding problems in totally unrelated parts of the system. One of the chief benefits of 100% MC/DC is not so much that every branch is tested, but rather that you have to write so many tests, and such strange, weird, convoluted, and stressful tests, that you randomly stumble across (and fix) lots of problems you would have never thought about otherwise.

Another big advantage of 100% MC/DC is that once they are in place, you can change anything, anywhere in the code, and if the tests all still pass, you have high confidence that you didn't break anything. This enables us to evolve the SQLite code much faster than we could otherwise, using relatively few eyeballs.

Yet another advantage of 100% MC/DC is that you are really testing compiled machine code, not source code. So you worry less about compiler bugs. "Undefined behavior" is a big bugbear with C. We worry less than others about UB because we have tested the output of the compiler and we know that the compiler did what we wanted, even if the official C-language spec didn't require it to. We still avoid UB, and SQLite does not currently contain any UB as far as we know. But is is nice to know that even if we missed some UB in the code someplace, it probably doesn't matter.
What are drawbacks to their careers from agreeing not to review? I understand that reviewing is really a community service and done without tangible or much intengible compensation. And reviewing is anonymous. For tenured professors, there should be few problems and Elsevier probably wont retaliate, or will they?

What are reasons for the controversay besides academic freedom?
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Let's not overfocus on the word robot in my statement, as it was not the point I was making.
I like the bimi boo games on mobile. They are focused around shapes, sets, and counting. My 2 year old seems to like them a lot.
These "influencers" and their instagram accounts are so cringeworthy. How can anyone live their life like this, constantly posing and putting on an image? This can't be healthy. I get the money making aspect and getting paid to do something like travel.. but at what point does posing for glamour shots take away the fun of enjoying the places you go? Why do people follow these people? I don't get it...
It's doing alright as in not failing, but remains to be seen if any of their paradigms measurably improve anything.
This judge is probably hoping that the Supreme Court would agree with him because conservatives have gained an extra seat compared to last time.
Decommissioning costs, often neglected, are a ticking bomb.

UK discounted provision for decommission costs: £100+ billion in 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/23/britain-...

£161 billion in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170516093449/https://www.gov.u...

£234 billion in 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-provision...

... and counting.

UK: 15 reactors, ~10300 gross MWe. They analyzed and now think that decommissioning will cost £234 billion (309 billion USD).

USA: 98 reactors, 100350 gross MWe. 46 billion USD (Nuclear Waste Fund) are in provision.

One order of magnitude more power produced by the stuff to decommission in the US, and nearly 7 times less money to do so.

Decommissioning small and old reactors costs more, and entombing may, at least apparently (short-term), reduce the cost. In theory. Let's check a real and ongoing case: Oyster Creek. According to the EIA its construction costs were $488 million (2007 USD) ( https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/archive/2010/newjersey/ ). As soon as the decommission project started the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it will cost "about $1.4 billion to shut down the plant". Not for an immediate and complete decommission, because the plant will stay in a “safe store” condition until 2075, with dismantling ((...)) set for a period between 2075 and 2078 ( https://www.powermag.com/oldest-u-s-nuclear-plant-shuts-down... ). Then new problems (costs!) may arise. Let's bet that, as usual, the taxpayer will pay.

Long-term waste management is another ticking bomb.

Moreover if there is a serious glitch (Chernobyl, Fukushima...), are bets are off. You can obtain an insurance policy for anything, AFAIK even for a space trip, but no insurance company covers such nuke risk.