skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sad, but significant, that nuclear disasters seem small to us in retrospect. A dozen Chernobyls would cause far less disruption and far less death and suffering than we'll get from climate change even if we act fast now.
The struggles of an open source maintainer
One big problem with KVM based VMs that gVisor fixes is that KVM is a (complex) piece of host kernel software. There have been many security incidents in the past related to KVM and there will be more for sure. With gVisor the "virtualization logic" runs purely in user space (and may itself be further isolated, like any other regular user space process, within the host environment). This means that any bugs in gVisor will, at most, impact the isolation unit where it runs in the host space, as opposed to KVM where bugs in KVM would impact the entire machine (including other customer workloads on that machine).

The non-security related issues you listed, specialized interfaces to allow I/O to bypass the generic hardware virtualization layer, are IMO hacks (even the name of "para-virtualization" given to such mechanisms should be a tell). Because it would be to inefficient to do almost any I/O we care about to perform fast (network and storage) through the overall machine virtualization interface, we poke holes in that interface, specialized ones, that will allow us to carry requests and replies from the guest to the host more directly/efficiently. As a software engineer that seems like a hack. When something like gVisor comes along which provides much better security for the host environment and allows to quickly handle syscall level I/O by design I much prefer that approach over a VM. The drawback of gVisor is one similar to Wine: having to write bug for bug compatibility with the ABI supported (Linux x64 in this case). However, different from Wine, the Linux ABI surface is extremely small vs to what Wine has to reimplement to run even the simplest Windows applications and, most of all, with gVisor there's direct access to the source code of the ABI that it needs to implement making development much easier than something like Wine.
Yosys+nextpnr: OSS Framework from Verilog to Bitstream for Commercial FPGAs
The Digital Cold War-A Battle to Rule the World and Establish Data Dictatorships
Wow, thanks for submitting this! I'm the creator of this gem and kind of stunned to see it on HN. If anyone has any questions or comments let me know, I'd love to hear them :)
Please don't.

And please don't violate the site guidelines by making insinuations about astroturfing. It's a long-established rule that those are not allowed on HN, because the overwhelming majority of the time they are just an internet trope, and a poisonous one at that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
A nice hack for a time system for Earth might be to add the leap seconds on the last day of leap years.

That would keep the time and date adjustment code together in one place.
One could keep rolling the puts forward, though it would be a drag on returns if the market stays above the strike and the options stay out of the money.
It's a hard balance. Free-traders tend to be find with other governments effectively giving some of their money to the country where the subsidized product is exported to, but as a peer comment noted, this can result in consolodation of the manufacturing of that equipment in the country that is subsidizing. So then in the long run they can raise prizes because they have the monopoly on producing that product.

We see similar behavior with Uber and Lyft today (trying to subsidize the riders to get people on their platform). But this is a government doing it, which tends to have much deeper pockets.
So, the tools of machine learning are the tools of statistics. The uses to which those tools are put are quite different.
The joke I've always heard is "a data scientist is a statistician who works in San Francisco"
Uber?

Wasn't "asshole" their company policy?
>While details have yet to be hammered out, the partnership will center on artificial intelligence and the cloud. The latter category includes plans for joint development of cloud gaming technology.

So this agreement mostly focuses on Sony using Azure infrastructure for Cloud Gaming. I wonder how will Xbox will compete in this scenario, it's kind of weird hosting your competitor.
Thank you for explaining it. I now finally understand why it was deployed with removed functionality.

That said, that is a completely idiotic reason to remove something like i18n. Unbelievable.

I wish I could say I don't understand how this got approved by multiple people, but the sad reality is that nobody makes internationalization a priority. It's completely normal to not have the other languages I use to not be supported, but I guess it stings to actively have it be removed.
Obviously it's slightly fictionalized but the Chernobyl mini-series on HBO illustrates how people just doing their job to the best of their ability manage to come close to killing millions of people - SPOILER for something that happened a long time ago - the first approach to put out the fire was ignorant of the danger of a nuclear lava flow into full water tanks - and the writer claims to be pro nuclear power in his interviews and postings on reddit.
I'm not a scientist, and my experience is anecdotal. But there is something very very wrong with most of the food in our grocery stores. I had nearly debilitating GI issues and body composition problems until I completely cut out processed foods and started cooking from scratch. My symptoms cleared up within weeks, I lost 35 lbs almost effortlessly, and I've never felt better.

I think what we're feeding the general public is a health hazard and should be much more strongly regulated.
PDFTron Receives USD$71M Growth Investment Led by Silversmith Capital
The vast majority of applicants cannot code at all. And I mean that literally.

No, you mean that hyperbolically.

Not only does it simply not happen that "the vast majority of applications cannot code at all" -- this literally has never happened at all, in my experience.

What does happen is that you get a range of people on a spectrum. And yeah, a fair number of them can't code very well. They're slow, they don't see smart solutions, whatever - or are just plain sloppy. But that's quite different from "not being able to code at all."

As to those people who (supposedly) can't "write a function that adds two numbers or counts the number of elements in a list" -- most likely they're simply freezing up from the anxiety of being whiteboarded by a perfect stranger for the first time in a great while - or perhaps ever. (In fact that's exactly what happened to me, on my very first on-site interview after college).

Or that is to say: they haven't internalized -- and produced defenses for -- the (intentionally) awkward and humiliating ritual of the modern tech interview process.

And again, you should only be actually seeing these people once in a blue moon. Unless the people running your incoming "pipeline" are utterly incompetent, and are constantly feeding you a stream of unqualified candidates. In which case your companies much bigger problem a lack of engineers who are able to "ace" HackerRank problems in 59 minutes or less.[1]

[1] Which, lest be honest now -- basically can only happen after extensive time spent on practicing these problems in advance. Or that is, by blatantly gaming your hiring "filter".

And one more thing:

How, you ask? By ... dodging responsibility.

No - their jobs just have different metrics for "responsibility" than yours. That's just the way many businesses are run, whether you like it or not.
what do gas prices have to do with it?
I assume this is in response to Stadia?
For the last time, it's not racist to question a Nation's decisions just because they have a homogeneous population. Holy hell.
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How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (2007) [pdf]
Conversations about public perception ignore the bigger problem of cost. Why build big expensive nuclear plants that frequently have to be subsidized and bailed out, when solar/wind/storage are already cheaper and continue to drop in cost? Even if we never have another meltdown again, and even if we never have a containment breach of the waste for the next 10k years, the economics just don't make sense.
Seems like Netflix and Amazon get along fine.
I really hate articles like this. The company provides home health visits, requiring a nurse. Nurses don't work for $7.50 hour. Reading closely, it was for entry-level positions, probably in a certain department. Skilled positions would require market rates.

Translation: in an economic down turn they killed the bonus, raised the pay for customer service reps, and are now claiming a moral victory as if the growth was caused by paying people more.
GraalVM?

Have a hard time seeing how they can compete long term with a free (community edition) AOT compiler from Oracle.
> It hurts domestic industry in the other country. The negative effects are concentrated while the benefit is diffuse.

> Example: China subsidizes solar panels to the point where all US solar panel companies go bankrupt. The US solar panel industry is badly hurt, even if the rest of us get 40% cheaper solar panels.

What is the end game in this example for China? Do they expect to subsidize now and raise prices to exorbitant levels once there is no competition? That can't possibly last for a long time. If prices go high enough, surely the industries in the US will spring back up. The pain is temporary at worst.

I think what it shows is a fatal flaw in democracy. I think I read somewhere that if there is an issue that at least about five percent of the population care deeply enough (I don't know the numbers but for example the fanatical religious people in the middle east or pro-birth or pro-gun people in the US) to be single-issue voters, they will have an outsize effect on policy even though their position is bad for a majority of people.
15 Years on the Marketing Front Lines (2010)
You don't need waste disposal sites if you have full reprocessing chain. Which was made nearly-illegal and an invitation for us-sanctioned airstrike for several decades even if you abide by NPT, so...
The Three-Way Banana Split Was Bad
1939 and 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

Ended when Germany moved the radio gear in preparation for invading Russia.
I was thinking about the solar panel example, I think that in this case the US (and Germany, another country that has made similar complaints) can instead focus their economic resources on trying to solve energy storage and distribution, which is still an unsolved problem (I mean “unsolved” in the context of the intermittent power inputs provided by solar and wind) and they can use part of the money that would have otherwise been spent on building solar panels (remember, these are now subsidized by the Chinese) on trying to achieve this.
since... 10 years soon?
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I cannot relate to this at all.
I don't think it is.

Scenario 1: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face.

Scenario 2: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face, and are rude about it.

I don't see how scenario 2 is worse than scenario 1: it seems obviously less bad. Now, maybe in fact it's

Scenario 1: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face.

Scenario 3: You get fined if you're rude to the police.

This comparison is more debatable, but I still prefer 3 to 1, because not exposing your face is a thing that has (so to speak) possible functional uses, so if you can't do it then you've lost something that could actually be useful to you, whereas being rude to the police -- which, for the avoidance of doubt, I do think people should be free to do -- isn't really something anyone has a particular need to do.

Again, I can understand why someone might prefer 1 to 3. But if my civil liberties are going to be gratuitously eroded, I'd prefer to lose ones whose value is only symbolic.
And Nvidia GeForce Now. I'm wildly impressed by Nvidia's streaming solution.
Not to trivialize her tragic death but this is one hell of an object lesson in letting a study run to completion before interpreting your data (if IG is to be believed, I guess): "Police say, at the time of her death, 69% voted for her to die. However, Instagram insists that the poll, which lasted 24-hours, ended with 88% of her followers choosing ‘L’."
The article really explains it well.

It is USA, a foreign power, dictating detailed law in China; that digs deep.
This is ridiculous.

There's nothing wrong with on-site coding challenges, white boarding, and a good chunk of brain teasers.

Having people code a small problem might be by far the best way to understand how they can do the job.

"If having years of experience and a GitHub don't demonstrate to you that I can write code, "

Your Github code does not demonstrate what people are looking for.
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>My interpretation is that something went wrong with bank regulation in the late 70s or early 80s. That is when the too-big-to-fail snowball started rolling; since then the stresses in the system seem to have been building. 2008 was a nasty blow.

Yes, it's called "Ronald Wilson Reagan" and was worsened when Glass Steagall was repealed by Clinton in a remarkably short-sighted move. Another poster already mentioned the Savings and Loan crisis that happened in the 90s that took taxpayers for a ride to the tune of 130 billion dollars (around 250 billion dollars today). We should have learned from it but for some reason (probably greed) we made the same mistakes again with Glass-Steagall and then not even 10 years after repealing that we reaped our rewards: subprime mortgages falling apart and taxpayers footing the bill while thousands were foreclosed on. The same is happening with auto loans right now.

For some reason, if you are a white collar criminal, the rules don't apply to you. No matter how much you fuck up and how much illegal shit you do, none of it sticks. Look at Boeing. 346 people died, but I honestly bet the worst thing that happens to any of the managers that OK'd that plane is they lose their jobs; realistically they probably won't even lose that. Maybe not get a bonus.

The common thread here is not just with deregulation being seen as the magical cure all that fixes all our problems (because as it turns out, sometimes we have regulations for very good reasons!) but that there are simply no consequences for doing bad things if you are stealing from or hurting the average American taxpayer. The only difference between Bernie Madoff and the bankers in 2008 that grifted us all is that Madoff made the mistake of trying to steal from the rich.
VS Code has a pretty good one

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=evzen-wy...
White-boarding is not silly and it's why the best companies in the world do it.
While it is correlated, I think it’s more fair than straight racial quotas. Why should my child who grew up in the burbs with great school systems get extra consideration because he’s Black and the poor White kid gets lumped in with my son’s (predominantly White) classmates who have had every opportunity in the world?

Too many people in the bubble don’t understand why “Rural America” was so easily led into populism. This is why.

Of course I don’t agree with the race baiting that has become part of the Right. It’s Willy Horton 2.0. But I do understand it.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=evzen-wy...

For VSCode
Cumulative stress is cumulative. One doesn't recover from burnout with more burning.
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Usually any claim of "poverty doesn't exist here" is not going to be very close to being accurate.

https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-poverty-in-sing...
The other factor is that the human brain has not substantially changed in 50 years, and design with the goal of conveying information efficiently is going to rest on principles based on the way our brains work, and that isn't changing.
This is the biggest reason why I didn't return to China after university even though I really wanted to. 996 is clearly violating the labor law, but big companies' spokesmen can publically admit they will enforce 996 without any major backslash.

The fact that 996 has become a norm among business lines is REALLY terrifying.
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, provides ext. on existing connections
I actually grew up in Chernobyl and my parents still work on CNPP, so I did my share of research on this topic.

Given its track record Nuclear is the safest source of energy (measured in deaths/twh), safer than even solar or wind.

Disposal is not nearly as big of a problem as people paint it is, especially for newer reactor.
Who cares about i18n? Both the language itself and all* libraries are in English anyway. You won't get far relying only on translated material.

(English is not my native language. I started out learning from Swedish resources, and generally consider that to have been a big mistake.)
The US is right to try to seek some reasonable guarantees that the terms of the deal will be adhered to
Maybe if you are stealing government secrets, but for most companies with a little social engineering you can probably walk out of the front door with an entire corporate issued laptop and they wouldn't figure out for months, if at all.
It may also be that solar, wind, and geothermal will also have similar cost integrations over time, but it seems less likely.

Some of the storage technologies associated with solar will almost certainly have huge death tolls associated with them. There's been a proposal that we stack large blocks of concrete into towers with cranes to store solar energy. But this is basically a construction site. We can pretend otherwise, but with cranes and heavy blocks of concrete, it's hard to call this something other than a construction site. Workers and site managers in modern construction sites in developed countries are almost fanatical about safety, and yet accidents happen and people die. And these storage sites would be larger than the cities they supply back-up power to - they would be the largest construction sites ever built.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_(character)
Just yesterday we had "City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19920393
Maybe population density is increasing and causing mental issues.
Glad to see they're dying out, they really did seem to me like an example of Security Theatre.
Have there been any commercial deployments of Gen IV reactors? You can't cite statistics of things that haven't been in operation for a reasonable fraction of their expected lifecycle.
After trying out a dumb phone for a while last year, I found I still wanted modern phone features like camera, decent text messaging, shared calendar, maps, etc..

One idea in Make Time [1] was the idea of deleting distracting apps from your phone, which makes your phone into an amazing tool that does not foster distraction. I found this to be better than using Apple/Facebook/Google time management tools since it keeps me in control and not still relying on them and their tools.

When I want to check Instagram I use the website and if I would like to post, I just download the app again and log in.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525...
did anyone expected them to count one by one 414,000,000 pieces of plastic? I think they established that there's an insane amount of plastic in the oceans and its coming from far away
Ok, thanks! Sounds more like the assurance level of running model checkers on protocol code with user-supplied specs. It can catch lots of problems but no guarantees on all inputs/paths.
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This is pretty interesting, the paper is here: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)...

I liked the experimental method, two weeks on one diet the two weeks on the other without restricting food intake.

I've been doing some dieting of late and made the facetious conclusion that if you limit your diet choices to only foods you don't particularly like to eat, you lose weight :-). But the converse of people working very hard to make their food really tasty (generally by adding sugar and salt according to the paper) people consume more than they need.

I'm not sure what we could do about it though, we can encourage better eating choices but there is a limit on how much that works.
It's a big company, but the average person is only exposed to their power tools.

So what percentage of their tools are made in China now? How much of their manufacturing generally?
That's cause they taste so darn good you want to eat more of them.
As always, there are advantages and disadvantages to both. I've only experienced whiteboard coding (and in a limited fashion), but I'd prefer interacting with an interviewer and getting instant feedback compared to submitting a lump of code and potentially never hearing back. Communication is something key they fail to measure with this type of interview.
Then apple wouldn't get their thousand dollars from you if you wanted more than 512gb.
Sounds like entrenched interests in SOEs forced Xi and Liu's hands. It's not necessarily about IP protection, but state subsidies then.
Since the above threads focus on 5G: Assuming the Finnish (Nokia) and Swedish (Ericsson) governments have the capacity, competence, and willingness to engage in that kind of stuff (I find it hard to believe but you never know,) indeed it would honestly be less threatening to be compromised by Finland or Sweden than China.
> Unless you're at the bottom, you're also at the top as far as people less fortunate than you are concerned.

Analyzing this situation in terms of a qualitatively homogeneous property differing between people only in magnitude (income or wealth) is a mistake, in my opinion. (And so is taking a psychological approach.)

The most important thing the people at the ‘top’ have here is not any particular amount of money or income, but a radically different relationship to labor and the workplace than the mass of people who work under them. They have special powers (e.g., the power to set wages) and their income comes not only from producing things or providing services using their brains and muscles, but through owning and managing capital. At the very peak of the top, there are owners of capital of whom virtually no management at all is required.

It's because there are people, and of necessity a minority of them, in such a position at all, that the interests of society (as well as its privileges) are divided in such a way as to produce the inequality we have.

When wage laborers _do_ have control or input over things like wages, we _don't_ see the same enormous gaps between the highest and lowest paid employees at those firms. And in the case of that more agreeable outcome, too, the cause is not psychological— it's not that wage laborers are kinder or more generous people than executives, but that their position entails certain interests which are different from those of executives, and given the chance they will guide the firms they work at accordingly.
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So Python docs refer to both depending on the context.
It's not that complicated. Some people are desperate for a job. They will do anything for it. You can abuse that need.

Like, imagine if the TSA strip-searched everyone. Pretty abusive right? You wouldn't say "I don't see how letting people fly is abusive".