skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice comprehensive writeup. The next step, beyond the basic allocator provided, would be to use wasi-sdk (https://github.com/cranestation/wasi-sdk) which provides a full musl-based libc, targeting the WASI interfaces. With this, you can invoke a C program with arguments, environment variables, and filesystem access.
Anecdotally, I’m not sure how true this is. But I’m also not sure what’s slow enough. I cut down in dosage half a pill every two weeks, as my doctor recommended. He said it was slow enough to avoid problems but the withdrawal was awful.

Those several weeks were hell. I was having anxiety attacks all the time.

I initially thought something else was wrong and didn’t even consider withdrawal (since the doctor had said I should have no issues) but later googling revealed withdrawal was pretty common with the drug I was on.

I’m just glad it’s over.
Wow, this gave me a nostalgic flash-back to my BBS days when I would download a JPG and watch it appear line by line on my screen.
The new www.guideline.com doing a good job there as well
Also, here's a list of reasons why investment in Google's cloud might be hard for third parties - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century (2017)
We need more abstracts like this in the social sciences.
Really seems like Wall Street is in love with the term "shadow banking", because it implies "can't regulate it".

Yet we know exactly who the participants are, the types of firms, and their practices.

Step 1 to better regulation of creative rent seeking is to stop treating it like it's nebulous.
Corporate jingle-mail? It's not like there's any real-world penalty for walking away, and everybody there still gets paid until their last check.

Same as any other startup failure, just with REO bargains on the back end.
I think the trade war is interesting. If this were a street fight where someone hit you (for decades) and you hit back and the perception trumpeted is suddenly you’re escalating things. Compare it to the previous administration which had excellent relations and plenty of IP theft and those companies could demand whatever with little recourse. Definitely politics but not as usual.
Dropout is regularization technique in deep learning that works little like like that. Randomly selected neurons are ignored during training, typically the probability is 0.5. This means that half of the neurons don't work.

In other words, the network is trained with 50% 'brain damage' to make it learn better and become more robust.
Asian alternatives maybe, but European ones, alas.
It seems no European on HN has pointed out that the biggest or perhaps sole victim of aggression of Chinese tech company so far has been european companies, not U.S. ones, which has profited enormously from investing in china. It's funny to see eureopean countries/companies/people backing whuawei purely out of lefty liberal anti-american brainwash in decades.
Fairly enough. Although I want to live in the illusion that Google at least likes money more than anything else, and they weight their options. The alternative is scary.
Today was the first day the quality of Google search results pushed me to another search company (duck duck go). I was trying to find info on the Virginia Beach shooting. And every query I tried brought the exact same results. 'Virginia Beach shooting reddit' brought no reddit, only the same ~6 news sources. I wasn't even in a personalized algorithm bubble (using an anonymous browser). The propaganda potential of Google seems to be actualizing rapidly (or maybe just my cognizance of it).
I feel like there's a bunch of other things in play, like for example if you're running a public API, one api key should not be able to take you down - you should be rate limiting them against repeated hits, for instance.

I'm not saying iptables is bad per se, but this article in particular is just some overpriced hosting provider's blog that tells you to set things like kernel.panic in sysctl. The article also claims all of this to be a defense against DDoS, which really will probably just eat through your pipe completely most of the time, not single-person DoS.
Go memory management, TCP keep alive in Go, adopting gRPC and more (Go Gazette)
The right of privacy is violated if someone that wanted to stay anonomous is defamed. Doing searched automatically is also very different from doing it manually. But even if it's done manually, defaming someone still goes against their right to privacy.
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This just seems hard to believe given how strapped for manpower everyone seems to be, and how limited the quality of the resumes walking in the door are.
Writeup of a Cybersecurity Engineer Interview
> C without the standard library (called “libc”) is pretty rough

If you don't want to pull in musl or a traditional libc, there's a more Wasm-y solution known as the Web Assembly System Interface (WASI) [0] that delegates the libc functionality to the runtime.

A WASI Wasm module can be compiled using clang, as in the article. The only difference is to use the WASI sysroot [1].

> optimization

LTO and -O3 are great! I've also found the Twiggy [2] tool useful for more "manual" optimization.

[0] https://wasi.dev
[1] https://github.com/CraneStation/wasi-sdk/releases
[2] https://rustwasm.github.io/twiggy/
> effectively everyone lives in a city in the modern world, and while their housing might not be air conditioned most of the major buildings are. In an emergency like this everyone would just crowd into office buildings and shopping malls.

Heat waves spur increases in violent crime, limited in some degree by the fact that people stay in their own homes in really hot (but not uninhabitably so) heat waves.

Heat waves that go further to where the only survivable solution is pulling people out of their homes into large communal shelters (whether they otherwise serve as offices or shopping malls or whatever) is...going to be very ugly.

And that's even before considering whether the facilities or supporting infrastructure (plumbing, electrical systems, etc.) are adequate to support these places being used as shelters. Almost certainly they won't be until it's happened and failed a few times, and even after that the places that most need it will be the least able to finance the necessary upgrades.
Who do you think gets promoted within Google what are their incentives? If engineers slowly move up the ranks based on the same culture and incentives - creating products that are soon abandoned. The entire culture of Google is not conducive to the diversification they need as ad sales become less profitable.
The internet has enabled some people to deploy complex systems into New York datacenters from a beach in Thailand in a matter of seconds.

Unfortunately, it's also enabled a selection of less socially aware and/or socially responsible people to bypass the natural limits and filters that society had in place, to effectively cause suffering on a fairly broad scale.

Harrassing somebody on the other side of the world from the safe anonymity of your bedroom was once logistically very difficult, as was reaching significant numbers of people with a wildly malicious idea if you couldn't first find people in your immediate (physical) social circle and community to vouch for you/it.

Now, we have entire online communities which have embraced this new normal and provided these folk with the tools and an audience.
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I saw a guest lecture last semester from Rob Haitani, the UI designer on the original Palm Pilot [1]. He talks about their Graffiti text entry from about 00:07:00 to 00:12:00:

One thing we learned from our testing was, the absolute speed and accuracy weren’t actually the critical point. It was really the overall experience...

So with the [Apple] Newton [handwriting recognition] and other technologies, you would write something, and you would go one Mississippi two Mississippi, and boom it would show up. And if it’s wrong, oh crap. You erase it, and then you try again like one Mississippi two Mississippi. But with Graffiti you’re just going a-b-c-d-e, and if you make a mistake, like your keyboard on your computer, you just have this backspace stroke, and so it’s very fast to recover from errors, so you just keep going.

I think there's a parallel here with swiping gestures for words on smartphone keyboards, where I find that when the gesture is misinterpreted, it's frustrating because I'll have to delete the entire word and redraw it, or tap out individual letters. Which just feels bad.

As a side note related to that, in the same class there was also a guest lecture from Shumin Zhai, who worked on SHARK and subsequent systems which would eventually become ShapeWriter/Swype [2]. Very cool overview to how the system works conceptually.

[1] https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...

[2] https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...
It's possible they're looking elsewhere for a reason. In other words, selection bias.
If you mean fusion energy research, the difficulty is more at the engineering level rather than the nuclear physics, and I doubt the structure calculations are relevant to fusion dynamics.
There's doubtless interest in the model calculations, but even in the absence of direct applicability of the physics, there's considerable value just in the practice of high quality experimental science. Many things that pass as measurement or some sort of "science" in computing make an experienced experimental physicist wince, unfortunately.
If you're smart and do nothing, what difference does it make?
Agreed. Any tips for getting into this? Have you done this yourself?
There's a difference in being difficult to enforce and impossible to enforce. Laws like we are discussing here are enforceable enough.
There are a couple of things, actually:

- A proper mesh data structure providing meaningful abstractions

- Support for general polygon meshes

- Support for dynamic connectivity updates

- Cross-compilation to JavaScript, allowing for web-based demos[1] and interactive HTML slides[2]

- Implementations of canonical algorithms as described in the standard textbook of the field (Polygon Mesh Processing[3])

[1] http://www.pmp-library.org/mpview.html

[2] https://pmp-library.github.io/pmp-slides/slides.html

[3] http://www.pmp-book.org
My guess is there are many that did porn when they were younger (and foolish?) but have since moved on with life and might want to forget that episode or their life. So having it resurface 10 years later would be very uncomfortable.
"a few different software packages all were erroneously flagged as malicious by Chrome"
is that something you could sue them for?
Sorry I both agree with you but reckon 10x is about the correct ratio. It’s not rent-seeking, it’s “sharing wealth” and “diminishing inequalities”. A good engineer needs to pay for:
- Administrative employees,
- Office rental,
- Junior members of the teams who are growing up towards seniority,
- Women who are non productive but required to pass the diversity requirements and make the company look good.

You may claim it’s unfair that productive members are exploited to pay for nonproductive ones, but that’s the neo-conservatives’ argument, and has been rejected by most of the Silicon Valley. I honestly think that the currebt situation is already the middle ground betweeb “pay proportional to your added value” and “diversity, equality and social responsibility requires adjusting the salaries of highest-paid engineers.”
I've been in some rooms that are kept at 120 degrees and 80% humidity. You can work for about an 45 minutes to an hour at most (Adult male). Working being monkeying with stuff in an electrical cabinet.

I think you'd be in serious trouble after 2-3 hours.
Isn't the root of the problem this:

> To fund all this loan-making, the shadow banks have turned to insurance companies, pension funds, university endowments and wealthy investors, offering them a chance to buy into a diversified pool of loans that offer returns ranging from 6 percent to 13 percent, depending on the level of risk they are willing to assume.

If some hedge funds and "wealthy investors" want to take on risky investments that are "unregulated" I'm all for it. Would you agree the risks for systemic collapse come in when it's straddled onto say insurance companies or pension funds?
Thought this was a joke.
Yeah.

Until I read the parent article I hadn't realised why I have been so lazy about installing linux on my current laptop, which came with win 10. It's the desktop manager.

Winkey + left/right arrow key snaps the currently focused window at the corresponding half of the screen. Then the desktop icons appear on the other half and you can move around with the keys and press enter on one, and it snaps on the other half. Then press Winkey + up/down key and the focused window snaps to the upper/lower quarter of the screen and you can again choose another window to fill the remaining space. Winkey + Ctrl + left/right arrow changes desktops. With Winkey + tab you see a desktop overlay and can send windows to other desktops from their context menu.

And all without every having to touch the mouse. I had Xmonad on a previous laptop and it's just like that, except for all the arcane configuration files. It works out of the box.

I mean, it's still windows 10, right? I plug it back into my dock and it LBSODs (it's Light Blue now). Every other week I go into nerd warp spasm because of some inane stupidity, like, my machine keeps going to sleep if I leave it idle for a couple of minutes after I woke it up over bluetooth and that's not configurable. Or it randomly adds a new language to my language bar. Stuff like that. It's windows.

But the desktop manager is actually, very damn good.
So which one you'd rather have spying you, China or US? While it's easy to mock US for doing bad things, at least as European they share a common cultural heritage. And yes, while they spy on their allies they are still allies with many European nations and their military support serves as a core pillar for many European nations' foreign policies.

China on the other hand, isn't allied with any European nations and seems to actively undermine freedom of speech and to suppress its citizens. Social credit score sounds good to you? So in the context of all things, yes US does still have a moral high ground. But I admit they surely could do a better job.
The complete lack of an explanation as to why those config changes have been made is also frustration. I think that these types of articles- where you're told what to do but not why- do a huge disservice and result in people building out on maintainable or hard to upgrade systems. A few comments would go a long way.
Except sometimes you can't quit them slowly because if you have severe side effects from them you need to quit immediately and then have to go through withdrawal which can be worse than the initial problem. Also you can't always get hold of your drugs for various reasons and sometimes have to take another medication that interacts with one you're already on and so have to come off quickly.
Here's my personal story over the last three or four years: I was put on aripiprazole (Abilify) as an adjunct treatment for major depression after having to come off Quetiapine, also used as an adjunct in combination with an SSRI, due to its long term side effects. This kicked off a manic episode with some mild psychosis so I had to stop it immediately. The withdrawal effect in my case was about three months of suicidal depression. I am currently using Lamotrigine as a mood stabiliser in conjunction with Prozac because the manic episode triggered off by the Aripiprazole has left me with fairly severe manic depression which I hadn't suffered from before my exciting Abilify episode (this is a known side effect). Previously it was "just" major depression. I recently couldn't get hold of Lamotrigine because we've been having drugs shortages in the UK due to stockpiling and drug diversion to more profitable markets. This kicked off another, milder manic episode, followed by a few weeks of moderate depression ("moderate" in my case meaning no suicide attempts or psychosis) After seven weeks I think now I'm just about ready to go back to work.
In the past I've also had to do wash outs (stop taking everything suddenly) twice, once because one of my meds was giving me liver damage and we didn't know which one, and once when I was hospitalised with a major injury and was kept in an induced coma for two weeks. Dealing with withdrawal along with multiple broken bones was not fun.
The ideal is you are taking one medication and can slowly reduce it an swap it out for another, or slowly come off, all the while being medically supervised. This is not what actually happens the majority of times because of issues like the above, and because a lot of us are on multiple medications. There's also the "you need to come off one SSRI / Tri cyclic in order to try another" issue which means you either reduce slowly and have a period of being essentially unmedicated before starting the next one, or you do a wash out, start the new one immediately and try to ride out the withdrawal effects / hope that the new med will counteract them.
The pharmaceutical side of psychiatry is basically throwing darts while blindfolded and drunk.
> The vast majority of people _do not_ want to change their lifestyle.

Yes, but it's also very hard to do. I took me 30 years to actually have a nervous and hormonal system that was not fucked up.

Before that, I tried for decades to restrain myself and exercise, and it was just not sustainable. I had to read so much, go through so many experiments, meet and talk to so many people to find all the stuff I needed to actually fix myself. And the work is far from over, I have yet a lot to do.

I was kind of expecting medical professionals to pick up on what I needed, and actually helped me on the way. 2 did a little, out of probably 30. And I met them only because my close ones were atypical, and know original people.

Our health culture is failing big time here.
There is a more simple way to do basically the same thing:

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19137493
Wow, I had no idea.

This reminds me a bit of some of the American Revolution's more guerrilla tactics- shooting the enemy's generals directly, hiding behind more-or-less impenetrable trees, and the like.

It's unfortunate that now we're on the receiving end of these attacks- home soil advantage is huge- but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

That was a really interesting read.
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Readability isn't the same thing as learnability.
What do you expect people to do? Go out and buy new phones at a cost that exceed what most people can afford (400 usd, assuming you are in the US).
I predict that electric vehicles will be so expensive up-front and so efficient that nobody will personally own them. They’ll exclusively be structured as pools of rentals, with or without a driver.
Rupert Murdoch has had it out for Google for the last 5 years and the WSJ is the vanguard of his effort.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rupert+murdoch+google
Given that every reliable trading signal inevitably gets arb’ed away why does everyone and his brother think this one must be rock solid?
A jailed banker’s wife spent $20M at Harrods
It could even be nice with two or three story buildings.
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"Free free to ask minorities that have been living in cities with majorities for the last century how well that has been working out for them."

That would be the "don't write it on a phone touch keyboard and try to abbreviate the sentence as much as possible" version.
India also has a huge dairy industry [1] (seems like the largest), where methane produced by these animals adds to the greenhouse effect.

[1]: https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=milk&graph...
This is exactly right, and I wish I could have put it as succinctly as you. I fear it will take longer than expected for society to adapt to this dynamic.
I mean, it's pretty incredible and coincidental that we evolved brains this sophisticated in the first place, out of a totally random process with selective pressure. After 13 billion years, I mean I think it's reasonable progress, but I wouldn't expect SOTA efficiency. Once you have intelligence, the evolutionary benefits are huge. There's all of a sudden not as much pressure to be efficient (well there was, for like 100,000 years, but then we invented fire and could cook, and that made getting energy/nutrition more efficient. FYI, at this point I'm just quoting from the book Sapiens)
Well, it worked, I guess?

Have you just had those waiting around for the perfect moment or did you just go out and find them?
Pretty close on the populations. The moon colonies, not so much.

“In 2014, there is every likelihood that the world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000. Boston-to-Washington, the most crowded area of its size on the earth, will have become a single city with a population of over 40,000,000”.
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While at the same time doctors say they won't prescribe cannabis for pain, because (they say) there is no evidence it works, when literally a patient says he or she gets their life back, they have no problem dispensing anti-depressants like candies. I just don't buy this reasoning. This profession is corrupt to the core. My very good friend couple of months ago went to her GP because of bullying at work and she came back with a script for Citalopram. I managed to persuade her to not take it and found her a therapist instead. She is happy now and has a new job. I have a feeling that I saved her life.
If it's a better model for a company to follow, why shouldn't I as a consumer be able to buy from them?

the trademarks, patents, contracts, and license enforcements are broken, and China/Huawei shows how much better technology can be made without them. The free market chose Huawei, a company without patent and trade distortions
because people has hated U.S., ever since it rescued the world from the tyranny of nazis. It's human psychology.
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Co-author here. Good point. So far we did not yet really optimize for mobile. Thanks for the feedback.
I'm willingly pigeonholing myself as a "software developer mostly working on the JVM" just to be honest about my (current) main strengths/experince.
Throwing me into a Go/Python/whatever project would first need some time for me to get up to speed with the language.