skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading fiction to help soothe a troubled soul
I think what they're getting at is that if you want to operate a 7-Eleven, you ought to be absolutely reliably open at the expected hours. The intended alternative is to shut down the store. This man made a terrible business decision and is now stuck between a sunk cost and probably not a lot of alternatives for work.
"You know, 'cause like, people say money's not everything,
But money, you need money to do what you wanna do,
like money is power, honesty is power, truth is power,
but at the same time they tell you like
Ain't nothin' more important than the mula
You ain't really eatin' boy, you gotta get your food up" - Donald Glover

Maybe the "Rat Race" is inevitable and is main cause for strive of power, but maybe we too narrowly define power in this discussion.
> Is that what you’re referring to?

yes, they had to introduce that extra hop to workaround the fact that it has 4 less channel compared to the regular 8 channel EPYC.
The allegations against Huawei aren't that it "imported goods into Iran." The allegations are that it imported American goods into Iran, which is clearly a violation of US export laws. If such laws didn't apply to third-party distributors of American goods, then the only effect of US sanctions would be have foreign distributors exporting American goods rather than American ones.

Huawei appears to have known this as well seeing as Meng Wanzhou had fraudently misrepresented the relevant transactions to the banks it was working with.

There was nothing extralegal about Meng Wanzhou's arrest.
It's a matter of perspective. A patent troll is just a big corporation's term for an inventor who seeks to make money by licensing his patented invention to others. The big corporation doesn't see any value in paying license fees when its internal R&D team come up with the same invention on its own. The inventor can't realistically compete with the big corporation, so he is branded a "non-practicing entity". The inventor can't get an injunction to stop the big corporation from shipping its product because of eBay v. MercExchange. When the inventor asks for too much, the big corporation will challenge the patent in court and/or the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instead of paying a license fee. The PTAB finds 40% of the patents it reviews invalid. [0]. Recent court decisions have also rendered entire categories of inventions unpatentable, regardless of how new and non-obvious they are. [1]. The inventor faces tremendous odds against him making any money whatsoever. Most patents are, in fact, worthless. [2].

So, from the patent troll attorney's perspective, he is fighting against injustice. He is an advocate for the little guy, the downtrodden independent inventor, who is being taken advantage of by the big evil corporation.

[0] https://www.patentprogress.org/2018/05/01/a-little-more-than...
[1] See, e.g., Alice v. CLS Bank and various post-Alice Federal Circuit decisions.
[2] http://ipassetmaximizerblog.com/the-dirty-little-secret-of-p...
Executive Functioning seems to be the key "worker bee" trait that is valued in school and the workplace.

To be honest, in a different society (one that isn't focused on on-line communication, extreme productivity, and always on connections), executive functioning becomes a much less valued trait.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
We already tried JVM in browsers, remember java applets? I sure remember the security and compatibility problems :)

Actually, we didn't really try JVM in the browser. We tried it as a plug-in like Flash. The JVM didn't have access to the DOM like Javascript and WASM will have.
Scratch the surface of the farmer complaints, and they're probably just upset that they can't gobble up their neighbors' acreage as smaller farms fail. Wind gives a steady source of income that can keep farmers afloat if a crop doesn't go well. Meanwhile the large successful farmers are looking for land so that they can expand, or perhaps for some so that their multiple children can continue the tradition.

I've read a couple articles on wind/solar use of farm land where the farmers' quotes reveals their true interests and concerns. At first they may complain about "change" or views, but their view, but economic expansions comes out as the far more likely culprit. Farmers are far far more politically sophisticated than the crazy billboards on I-5 would have a person believe.

Wind also has almost negligible impact inland use, and even if the land is foreign owned it will likely be rented out to be farmed. Farmland that is leased for solar use is almost always the marginal parts of the land that don't produce much anyway.

And some German experiments are combing solar with crops in a way that produces overall economic wins. Many farmers will adapt quickly to new tech, and those that don't will go bankrupt quickly.
This was the last Roman Emperor who reached it -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus

Born in Libya, turned Rome into a military dictatorship then went north and ruled Rome from York and rebuilt Hadrian's Wall.

edit - This was after fortifying the Sahara. He was a busy guy.
I am aware of that. I wasn't implying anything about the relative qualities of different kinds of cheese - just that "all cheese is orange" is a very USA-centric thing. (I suspect it's also a regional thing. Cheddar isn't orange in every state right?)
You should always be able to return with free shipping any item that's defective. That's amazon's stated policy. In what cases are you saying they don't follow their policy?
Surely they could only hold their own citizens in contempt of parliament for those who work for Facebook Canada? It seems overreaching to expect a foreign CEO of a parent company not incorporated in that parliament's jurisdiction to make such a demand of Zuck.
It could be a $6.5M answer. A rich family saw a lot of value in spending that much to send their child to Stanford. Not sure if it was for a MBA though.
Inline assembly is basically the definition of non-portable.
> They make more than enough money by providing the Internet service

So you are going to decide whether they are making enough money? Don't like tracking? Switch over to a privacy respecting ISP.
Leaks indicate 2018 gas attacks in Syria may not have happened
A wave of Japanese single-slice toasters costing over $250 US
> I do not think

But, the Canadian government thinks it.

They don't just call up folks on whim. Cost of doing business for FB. CEO gotta do CEO things, which includes the occasional inconvenience of answering a few questions from the Government.
This isn’t to say it happened on every response..it was a relatively small fraction. But, it was enough to tell _something_ was going on. Who knows, it could be something quirky on the network and not even a gRPC issue. But, because the runtime is so opaque, it made debugging quite difficult.
That's a pretty popular viewpoint to be honest. Glue traps aren't even particularly effective, and neither are they particularly reusable. So in addition to being cruel they just aren't a good deal for the money you'll spend.

Drown traps (using any number of mechanisms to dunk rodents into a bucket of water from which they cannot escape) might be a bit rough ethically though I think much better than glue traps. Additionally they're many times more effective, fully re-usable, and you can make them basically for free with a few scraps laying around in your garage. One method that works well on mice and other small rodents (though not so much on norway rats which are incredibly clever) is as simple as floating a layer of seeds on top of the water. The rodents jump in to get the seeds, not realizing that the seeds were floating on water. A bag of bird seed, a bucket and some water are all you need for that sort of trap and although death isn't instant, it's a lot faster than with a glue trap.
My memory of that time is pretty different.

I worked as a programmer in the 1990s, when I got paid to write things in C, C++, Perl, Khoros (I guess that's a "visual 4GL"?), IDL (the array language), VB, SQL, INFORMIX's horrible forms thing (which was not especially "visual"), sh, csh (not my fault), and occasionally Tcl. It's true that PHP, Ruby, Tcl, OCaml, and Lua came out in the 1990s (Python is from 1990, so arguably the 1980s), but they became widely used in the 2000s. In fact, even Perl was considered kind of déclassé until these "lightweight languages" took over the world, and then Perl became déclassé again after being eclipsed by Python, Ruby, and most surprisingly, JS.

(OCaml is not a "lightweight language" and is not like the others, and consequently never became popular.)

I don't recognize your description as corresponding to any events I remember. Sun was pushing Java. Microsoft was pushing C++, then Java, and then when Sun sued them, C#. Apple wasn't pushing much of anything until they bought NeXT, and then they started pushing Objective-C. As far as I know Oracle was pushing PL/SQL and cisco was pushing bletcherous IOS commands. Microsoft was pushing VB, which sort of resembles what you're saying, but VB wasn't a 4GL (the language was just 1960s Basic minus line numbers and plus subroutine arguments) and was actually spectacularly successful at what it did; it just wasn't good at making web sites. Borland was pushing Delphi. I guess in a way Microsoft was pushing Access? Are you thinking of Microsoft Access?

Maybe you were thinking of PowerBuilder? It was spectacularly successful at what it did, too (again, not building websites), and it was a visual 4GL, but it was being pushed by Powersoft, not a big corporate, until (Wikipedia tells me) Sybase bought it for 0.9 Instagrams in 1995. I never saw anybody use PowerBuilder but I didn't use Microsoft Windows a lot.

When you say, "they soon built their own", do you mean VBA and PowerShell, or what?
I mean, I lived there for 5 years of my life and go back often... the alternatives open at 2AM only really exist in the tourist areas or the uber dense areas (Shinjuku, etc). Past 2, you're pretty much only eating conbini food or a "family restaurant" like Denny's, Johnathans or Royal Host if you're lucky enough to be near a 24 hour one.
I have been fucking around on the internet, without any supervision whatsoever, since I was 12 years old. As far as I can tell, I turned out fine.

Is the internet that much worse than when we were kids?
Yet another reason for a heavy land value tax: to ensure that the fruits of the land benefit the community even when it has been purchased by a foreign corporation.
Small wins can go a long way.
One thing I would mention is to check your state/city/province/country laws etc. I am not 100% certain but I remember reading in California such clauses aren’t allowed so you can do whatever you like in your own time or something. Double check though.
Basic Introduction of TensorFlow
Java Bytecode is similar to WASM, opcode wise. Bytecode purposely omits many instructions that can be done with equivalents to fit the whole ISA in single byte instructions. WASM is similar for the same reason, code density.

The main difference in Bytecode/WASM is memory model and branching support. But you could say that both are equivalent to 80's ISA's.

Precompiled Java is closer to WASM than many would like to admit, so I expect performance to be similar in the long run. This isn't so bad, Java reaches over half native speed on many benchmarks. It's amazing that we'll be able to run untrusted code so quickly
The problem seems so obvious. There is far more supply than demand. Why do people keep opening these stores when it is clear no one wants them?
I believe the discrimination that thatoneuser is objecting to is discrimination based on things that someone has no control over such as gender and skin color. This is typically whats used as the basis when people say they want to increase diversity. I would guess that thatoneuser does not have an issue with discrimination and diversity based on what someone can change such as their education and experience.
Ask HN: Why are European companies so stingy with employee equity?
What is the interthread latency between cores on a ryzen?

Something like:
https://gitlab.com/hal88/interthread_latency

I get in the ballpark of 250 cycles on an intel $whatever (it's been pretty stable for a while) for cores on the same package full round trip, (hyperthreading off).

mean = 255, 247 (ignoring blowouts)
max: 4898276
min: 93
(cyles)
I think it is experimentally possible to target Rust -> LLVM -> JVM using this project https://github.com/davidar/lljvm
My record for chicken is $.35/lb for chicken drumsticks. It was however from a wholesale store and came in a 40lb box. To me that's more frightening than anything. Like how is that chicken so cheap...
I immediately thought of xkcd's post on Rolle's Theorem.

https://xkcd.com/2042/
Fantastic idea
It's been a while, but if my memory serves me correctly, some items can only be returned at a staffed Amazon location.

That is: the return shipping is free but getting to the staffed Amazon location is not.

I'm pretty sure this has happened with some items I've picked up from an unstaffed Amazon drop-off location that can only be returned via a staffed Amazon location.

EDIT: add adjective "return" in second sentence.
All of those governments have the sovereignty to order him to appear.

And they probably mostly lack the jurisdiction to coerced him to appear, while having the jurisdiction to impose whatever penalties they see fit for his non-appearance.

Personally, I think it would be amusing if all the major countries had outstanding warrants for Mark Zuckerberg’s arrest, and imposed strict privacy regulations upon Facebook et al.
I don't understand the demand from the parent company to stay open late, given the lack of customers they clearly have and the oversupply of combini. I was at a 7-11 in Osaka by the dotonbori and it was basically vacant.

Like many things in Japanese society it seems to be because "this is the way it's done".
Ah come on it's not just asceticism. Anchovies, sardines, herring, mackerel and other small fish populations are currently being decimated, and 99% of the catch goes to producing... farmed meat, including salmon. Even if they've solved pollution & disease, if you're putting in 2lbs of unsustainably caught wild fish and getting out 1lb of farmed fish, you don't have a sustainable model.

It's kind of tragically ironic- those small fish are incredibly healthy food & quite inexpensive.
I'm from Spain and there are homeless people in Spain, just a lot less than in the US. But it's not because they die in winter, it is because you don't become automatically poor if you lose your job, or if you need an operation, or if you study at university. It's safety nets that avoid people losing everything and becoming homeless.
Most people like not being homeless and not starving, I guess?
> I count 59 Googlers on the committers list and 51
non-Googlers. So while Google is the majority, it's not an overwhelming one. Again, this can't be what it means to say that Go is Google's language.

Wait, why not? The majority of people in control of what Go is work at Google. Seems like a pretty clear definition to me.
> But, the Canadian government thinks it. ... CEO gotta do CEO things ...

Apparently he doesn't, though. What the Canadian government thinks matters only to the degree that they have the power to compel their desired behavior, and the will to use that power.

Also, I contend the Canadian government doesn't think there's a just purpose in him showing up. Whether any of the politicians will admit it, I'm sure they are aware that no productive purpose will be served by Zuckerberg's attendance, besides their own political self-aggrandizement. They do not need his input on any proposed policy. They don't need information from him that cannot equally well be acquired from a lieutenant or through a letter. To be clear, I'm not saying these politicians are corrupt or anything. They are doing what is rational from their perspectives. Scoring points against Zuckerberg is a win, since a few constituents would really like it and anyone else won't care either way. But rational, goal-seeking behavior and just behavior are often different things.

On the other hand, Zuckerberg is also doing what is rational from his perspective. To give in to this request would probably cost him dearly in time going forward as every politician in the world looking for a distraction would be knocking at his door. Like us all, he has a limited amount of time on this Earth. I doubt he has much desire to spend it as a whipping boy for foreign governments, and so he cannot accede to the request unless Canada ups the ante.
> That arrangement lands particularly hard on contemporary composers, who must compete with a group of semi-mythical figures who are worshipped as house gods.

Likewise, it's probably true that the popular history of modern science focuses on too small group of well-known 20th-century scientists. But if you're going to lay out that argument you probably should not choose John von Neumann as your example case.

Same with W.A. Mozart. He's the semi-mythical gods' semi-mythical god. Where another composer might write a menuet Mozart might have three dances with conflicting time signatures sounding at the same time (yet agreeing in their harmonies). And that's just in passing-- it's not even a climactic moment of the opera (which itself manages to exceeds that moment in historical importance).

Or he might throw a wildcard variation into a theme and variations and end up writing a folk-like melody so convincing that it's extracted for a 21st-century commercial to sell Irish whiskey.[1]

The impact of Mozart is that you can strip away all the pretension and hero-worship from the classical world and his music would probably still take up its current proportion of worldwide performance time. It turns out his music really is that striking and stands out when people listen closely.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2kxy--UiM
The article is not about stuff itself, but the issues caused by the amount of choice such variety offers and the inability of humans to cope with the choice. Choice and freedom certainly increases stress, but I'd take that any day over less choice or less freedom.

What we need to ensure is that the choice we have is effective choice - e.g, the same company selling the same product with different names is just adding stress without any value. That is increasing choice in name but not effectively. Likewise, companies not properly listing what exactly makes their product different, apart from marketing buzzwords - this increases choice, but effectively the choices remain the same.
My colleague contributes to OpenSSL. We have probably already compromised the TLS session you're reading this on. Run. Run for the hills! /s
I do think big media have a lot of power to influence elections, but I'm not ready to give up on democracy yet. Also, it's only possible for me to abdicate the responsibility of one voter, not all of us.
In fact there’s almost certainly more ways, too. You could probably transpile WASM to JVM bytecode. These things are most useful when you already are in the JVM anyways, I can’t imagine most people writing software in pure Rust would jump for this, especially given that WASM has a lot to offer for this use case already and has good momentum. I see it as a better fit, with useful security guarantees and a simple design.
Ha, but if you are actually "sure", as usually people are :). No seriously, excellent point, I knew about it and still did it wrong way.
> Amazon.com does not accept returns for items fulfilled by third-party sellers. The seller determines the return policy.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8...

The concept of a "third party seller" does not exist in stores that use buyers to stock inventory, like supermarkets or Target.
> If you really enjoyed it, you'd blow off spending time with you GF to do your thing...

You know that you can like more than a thing in your life right? And that you may like one more than the others, all while still enjoying the others one enough to make it a career, right?

You seems to have a really unhealthy relationship with your passion, you may want to check that up before it become an issue.
I'd needed RPC framework for few of my projects but every time I'd considered gRPC, I ended up walked away from it. The big issue is that gRPC has a huge amount of dependencies and it tries to a lot of things, many of them might be irrelevant for you but would cause extra headache anyway. When all need is just serializing your stuff and send over the wire, there are much better lightweight frameworks. For C++, I think RpcLib is one of the best. It doesn't even require maintaining .proto file, do "compile" of schems every time you change something, etc. The moral of the story is that always look around instead of just going for the most popular solution first.
yeah, when ww2 happened, lands owned by Japanese Americans who are actually citizens mostly got auctioned off for pennies. Foreigners are gonna get even less protection when shit hits the fan.
Let's just say these decisions are made way above my pay grade.
I can say from experience, just reading this book is not enough. You actually have to practice. I went into a car dealership trying to negotiate. I was somewhat successful, but not as much as I thought I could be.
As the other person said, outside of major areas Konbinis are pretty much the only option to get anything at late. Other 247 stores are relatively rare.
Ask HN: What appalling security practices are you forced to use in China?
For example, inside an AliCloud VPC you are required to use unencrypted traffic. Another example: one of the Chinese Android app stores (360) requires you not to sign the APK file of your app, so that they can sign it for you (and potentially introduce arbitrary changes).
Big Data: From a to Z
I think, to a degree, the growth in popularity in the language — coupled with the perceived value of whichever changes the current Go team won't make — will determine the viability of a fork.

If the popularity of the language grows enough, there will inevitably be new companies and ecosystems reliant on it and those interests may eventually band together to create forks they think bring value to their businesses.

Outside of that formula, forks will almost always remain niche and without significant investment.
Just start asking questions back to change the topic. Whoever is asking the questions holds the power to control the topic, so if you start asking them about what they thought of the ending of Game of Thrones, it becomes their fault that they're making it weird by insisting on asking about your mortgage terms.
I just switch ':' and ';' along with '-' and '_' in insert mode, cut's out probably 90% of shift key presses. Swapping the numbers and their shift counterparts would probably save another 90%.
That’s the problem with a lot of franchise agreements. So many things are set and specified for you that you have no room to optimize your business as an operator.

In a way, you’re almost just like an employee of the franchisor, but without any of the benefits and a lot more liability. But it’s a great relationship for the person selling the franchise.
I use one of those. It's open source software and I have the password safe file on my Dropbox account so it is everywhere and backed up. That way I need to remember at most two passwords (Dropbox and my password manager).

Works great for me and I have used it for small teams as well.

https://www.pwsafe.org/
I put my mom on LastPass. She has 2FA enabled and working, we can share passwords to each other, she’s happy to access via PC browser extension or iPhone, and she can’t possibly screw it up.

I think the easy system already exists.