skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of artefacts that belong to countries who are not in the middle of war. Many stolen artefacts were in fact destroyed or damaged during their shipping to France or Britain. We don't need to go to extremes here, just do the right thing.
> why mess up a good thing?

It's unsustainable. Trump's broader trade policy is protectionist. But the reason his China policy finds firmer footing than e.g. his Mexico tariffs come from China's abuse of several good-faith measures over the past 30 years (e.g. early accession to the WTO). It was plausible to assume the next leader would be another Deng. But when Xi ensconced himself as a "leader for life" [1], the timing calculus changed.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276
China has to automate not just because of labor costs, but the products themselves often suck when made manually. Take for example Toyota: considered a decent car in Japan and the USA where Toyota factories are extremely automated, but falls apart in China because they are made largely by hand.

> Also, on-shoring and automation would make our workers more productive and thus be compensated better and reverse the decline in real earnings since the 80s.

Productivity would go up for sure, it isn't clear that the workers would realize those gains, however, as the productivity increase is largely coming from capital (in a purely capitalistic society, capital reaps the benefits of capital). Additionally, far fewer of those workers are needed to make the same amount of product.
I am not against free public education, and if I were starting a system from scratch I think making public universities free would be a great idea, for the reasons you point to.

The current proposals as I understand them will subsidize tuition at the current, severely inflated rate, letting the colleges get away with their price gouging, and I want to see accountability there. I wonder if as an incremental step attaching cost effectiveness conditions to school's ability to accept loan funds would be better. I believe this was Obama's general approach, though I will admit I have not looked into the issue deeply.
Sorry, I don’t know much about large-scale production of that type of compound, it’s not my field. But, I would question the premise, in that Ebola is not a likely candidate for a fast-moving pandemic.
I knew Emery at UT Austin; he's a good researcher, but I'd imagine "awkward" is an understatement.
you compare dyson - a leader doing innovation and revolutionizing multiple fields - to beats a marketing company rebranding schenzen components
Worth reading: http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html
Okay yeah, you're definitely right. I didn't realize that the stdatomic load/stores were by default seq_cst. The libraries I'm familiar with have macros for standalone atomic reads and writes, but you have to place any barriers manually. If you were using a library like that, you'd place them in between the memcpy and the pointer update, but here you get that for free.
Funny enough, it's available in the US, but not in many EU countries (I tried Italy, Spain and Belgium).
> It makes me wonder if this can be solved technically by published curated language subsets.

I'm biased, but I generally find the Google C++ Style Guide to be a good curation of C++: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

I generally stick to it in all projects I write. The only exception is that in a few cases I'll use features that are disallowed in Google C++ primarily for historical reasons, most notably exceptions: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
I wrote a comment one level above where I recommended "Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum" by Lee Smolin, and I thought I'd toss that in the ring here.
I understand that. Most people bought a PC with a bundled Windows license as a prerequisite to run the many applications they cared about. Those are still people who bought Windows, and some of the applications that justified their purchase were likely created by third-party developers like Valve.

I was trying to highlight one of the great benefits of owning a platform: your platform is made more valuable by the work of third-parties who build on it.
Why is everyone here focused on the desktop workstations?

I switched to laptops over a decade ago. Used 3-5 year old Zbooks are 1/10th of their original price, and still perform flawlessly (mind-blowing fact: Haswells can keep up with Skylakes, and even beat them with some overclocking+undervolting).
As I mentioned, macaques are in this case a pretty good predictor for efficacy in humans. I don’t have data on the human trials though.
If there is anything these secret proprietary built in hardware backdoors are its that they are very poorly thought out.
Ha, hopefully that's not the part of Google they are talking about emulating.
That Slate Star Codex article is soooo good, and I suspect severely underrated.
What is the type of person likely to be attracted to languages like Haskell or Clojure?
What makes you think improvements in productivity will result in higher earnings for blue-collar workers?

In reality relative productivity and pay have diverged wildly since 1973: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

It seems like increases in productivity would only increase employment and pay if there are laws in place to make those things happen.
no, it's absolutely hyperbolic and it spawned a dozen articles convincing people that somehow the Chinese government controls Deepin or whatever. There's a lot of people working on the thing and throwing terms like this around does them a disservice. The Stallman lingo isn't helpful.
An interesting article that I think fits in well with the current discussion on hiring, interviewing, etc for SWE and other similar positions.

All too often in the past I've been rejected, and wrote an email or other letter to the company and hiring manager thanking them for their time and consideration, and asking them for feedback on what led them to my rejection, and how I could do better.

Not one has ever answered those questions, so I am left feeling frustrated on how I can improve myself for future interviews and job opportunities. The best I can do is reflect on the interview, think about what my own strengths and weaknesses were during it, and try to recall anything else that I might have said or done that reflected poorly on my candidacy. Then work to fix those for my next interview.

Eventually with perseverance, I've always managed to land a new position, but it would have been much easier with feedback. I couldn't even imagine getting offers for introduction to other openings, or even mentoring. If only such opportunities were made to candidates, what a difference could be made!
What is the density of defects in Linux? Any published comparisons?
Some documentaries also showed how monkeys would cooperate to solve a random problem. One I remember involved grabbing two different ropes to actuate a door. It took them half a second to organize try a few things and settle on each side to open the door. I don't think we would have done better out of the blue.
Hydropower uses massive amounts of cement, and the cement industry is responsible for about 5% of all carbon emissions. Similarly, if you're counting the environmental impact of manufacturing the more energy-efficient computer, you must also count the environmental impact of the solar panels or wind turbines that do not have to be manufactured because of the increased energy efficiency.
Yes, it's in the SMTP RFC.
Thanks again. The wikipedia article actually seems considerably more measured—behavioral changes are observed, but for a small percentage of subjects in most studies, and at those levels I really wonder how much is a placebo (on the part of the observer, not the cat, ofc)
Sorry, it was a copy/past from One drive or something similar.

Currently it's only uploaded on a S3 (with encryption activated).

End to end encryption is on the roadmap.
i am saying that they will continue to do both low end and high end copies. but at the high end, they will eventually (and have in some markets), catch up to external innovation. at that point, they no longer need to copy and can go off innovating on their own. at the low end, innovation isn't needed, so cheap copies remain useful to them. but at the high end, why copy when you can do your own innovation and exceed western products in both features and price? copying is useful to catch up, but catching up is just a transition state. once they've "caught up", the copying conversation and policies won't be relevant anymore.
Playing pianos filled with flames sounds like a rather significant fire hazard though. Doesn't sound like a very pleasant existence.
The good feeling of cooperating with the agencies.
Every time the topic of universities comes up, I’m reminded of how the staffing makeup of my university has changed, even just in the past 5 years. It’s gone from the majority of staff being academic to a majority being non-academic. Whether this is a symptom or a cause is as yet unclear, but at least here in the UK, a trend towards the wastefulness I hear about in US institutions seems clear. Just this month we’ve started an academic restructure which adds an additional layer of administration staff across the university, replacing the few specifically departmental administrators with a much larger body of admin staff who have a much larger remit.
When you buy Monsanto seed you are licensed to use it under certain terms. One of those terms is not saving/harvesting the seeds and replanting them. Parr went to farmers, convinced them this was ok, and then charged them money to help them do it.
GPRC Performance is neck and neck with WCF
They found a statistically significant correlation: not a causal relationship and the correlation was small. Using "significant" without those qualifications presents a misleading picture of the results.
In the current context, the government is spending $X for education. We can say $X = $X_students + $X_schools + $X_lenders, where the subscripted variables represent the portion of the benefit each of the groups captures.

I don't necessarily want to change the level of $X. I just want to raise $X_students at the expense of the other two.
Racing the Beam: Truly Magnificent HW/SW Hacking
Yea thanks for the reply. Glad everything worked out for you, sounds like you had a solid plan from the get go and executed well
I remember trying oh-my-zsh in the past and over time having its performance crawl to a halt. Been rocking zprezto for years
Why aren't more companies remote-first? Because a lot of the people starting companies or in management positions tend to be older and are more accustomed to "The old ways".

Humans are creatures of habit. We like the status quo to stay the same if at all possible. If you've spent 30 years in an office with no remote work, you probably want to keep doing that (you're used to it afterall). You also probably want your subordinates to do the same. After all you've been used to having your boss "right there", your coworkers "right there", your subordinates "right there"... for years

Beyond that, which I honestly think is a large portion of "why". There is also logistical complexity on numerous levels, for numerous types of companies. Such as:

* Laws & Regulations - Especially in heavily regulated spaces like finance & health

* Enterprise Customers - They often are old school and want to see your offices and hordes of people working to justify their multi-million dollar purchases.

* All the pay/insurance/tax/reimbursement stuff mentioned a dozen times in this thread.

* Employees - As noted here in this comment thread, some people LIKE working in an office

* VC/Funding - It's more common now, but supposedly it's still harder to get VC money or funding from banks if the workforce is remote/distributed/virtual (take your pick of terms)
I happened to go through your past HN posts, and really enjoy your story and the challenges you faced and how you overcame them. Your story really inspires me to build great products that others will enjoy and use.

Your code editor is also very nice!!
The only attic ventilation now is passive through the soffits and ridge vents. Active ventilation was on my list but now I've struck it off based on your post. 3/4 of my attic space is vaulted -- I can't get flats up there, maybe it can be blown, but if it's blown how do they go about inspecting it for proper application? Or is it more like BGA assembly without X-ray inspection (spray and pray?)
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I’m a CE too and almost done with my PE. I want to stay engaged with learning after I’m done. And CS is definitely something I want to do afterwards but don’t really want to pursue a Master’s or any schooling. Can you recommend any CS books you loved? Anything iOS related would be great but I’ll take any recommendations from a fellow CE.
Give me a definition of "woman" that is acceptable to all parties involved.

Don't forget things like androgen insensitivity syndrome, infertile women, etc.
Yeah, no shit, a laptop uses less power.

Look at ZBook, Precision workstations for the best performance for your dollar.
Do you not consider an average 50-60k "high"?

That is more than basically anyone I know personally outside of software, and I'm not in a low COL area.
It feels you're taking the least charitable interoperation of what I'm trying to say.

I believe trans women are "real women" in just about every way that matters. I only make an exception when I absolutely have to. For example, in sports, or in a medical context.

It might help to remember the word "women" is just a label we assign to people who share a certain common set of social and biological traits. And the majority of these traits trans women share, however in the case of trans women there are some exceptions. But it's not just trans people who don't fit cleanly into these groups, there are similar difficulties to be had with intersex people for example.

There are no easy answers here. Life isn't black and white. It's silly to think we can cleanly divide the whole of society into to clear categories.
Theories are often mistaken, and this particular theory had not been previously confirmed.

Were you really unaware that theories are often mistaken? Or perhaps you were making a joke.
Is anyone saying otherwise? I haven't heard of anyone being banned for that.

N.B: what somebody says they are banned for and what they were actually banned for often differ.
At least They will remain open source.

But sorry I haven't thought more about the question.
Exactly. The main point is that the groups that control the US have steered the country towards doing things that are great for the elites but terrible for the population. Banking is excellent for the wealthy portion of the country, but works as a drag on the population elsewhere because banks live off interest and fees, i.e., they subtract from the real economy. Healthcare is now a big portion of the US economy, but it is in fact another big drag on the living standards of its population. Real estate is the sister industry of banking, and as real estate costs escalate this means a reduction of wealth from poorer people to the wealthy and the banks.
That was split over three sessions totaling 2:17, and is for me being 5' 10" and around 210 lbs. If you're skinnier than me you'll probably burn less.

It was a good chunk of my evening and my arms are pretty sore today, so I don't plan on doing that all the time. But I'll absolutely do it more often than I run/bike 1900 calories.
Thanks for the breakdown. I didn't think about using Sub Domains!
> One thing he's missing out on is the fact that the Chinese government has devalued their own currency for about as long as they've been buying America specifically to keep the dollar strong.

No, no, no, the opposite is true: China has spent a lot of effort, ever since the Asian Financial Crisis, in keeping their currency strong and appreciating, the exact opposite of devaluation. They are currently in a huge struggle to prevent the yuan from crossing the 7RMB/dollar threshold, which many think will cause a panic when crossed.

> There is no way to convert Chinese currency into many other international currencies.

There surely is a way! I converted most of my earning from RMB to dollars before I left China (just show them my tax receipts as a foreigner), my wife had a $50k/year limit as well as a Chinese citizen.

There are many reasons why this is screwed up, but mostly the opposite from what you are claiming. The yuan is stronger, not weaker, than it ought to be, which leads to a lot of opposing distortions in their economy (not ours).

> If China were to correct the value of their currency...

If it falls above 7 and even back to 8, then we will be back to the early 2000s.
Better than open offices and hotdesking?
This article has more details (and notes that it's been tested legally at 83 feet): https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/201...
Interestingly, gcc-8 does some really weird stuff. Its version of Multiply is 1.4 times slower than its version of Shift, but according to the disassembly, the Shift implementation is actually using an imul, whereas the Multiply implementation is doing a lea/shl.
it doesn't handle large tables well. (very long compile times etc)

By large tables you mean a large number of columns, not a large number of rows, right?
> Fascism was not "reactionary"

Fascists gained power in Italy, Germany, and Spain as a direct result of anti-communist sentiment (and in the case of Germany, a failed communist revolution). Mussolini's early writings were directly proposing nationalism as the answer to communism's failures. Everywhere fascism had success it was because it was pitted against the threat of communism. I don't know how the rise of Fascism was anything but reactionary.
My understanding is that most trans women don't want to be identified as such, and that "passing" is a really big deal.

"Tall" is an acceptable descriptor for a person, obvious to all and not usually very sensitive. "Trans" isn't like this and remarking on "how trans" someone is carries a very different meaning than remarking on "how tall" someone is.

Maybe it's still acceptable or useful to accept "trans women" as their own group, but eventually that will probably go away and "trans woman" will become a dated and bigoted term.

You may find yourself shocked that you ever used the term "trans" in the same way that it's now shocking that black people were once referred to as "colored".

Or alternatively, being trans might become an identity badge of honor, in the same way "gay" has in many places.

My point is that these things evolve over time, so either people are going to be allowed to make mistakes and have debates and figure things out in public, or we have to only use useless tautologies to describe people.

When you tell the GP (who claims to be pro-LGBT) that they're not pro-LGBT because they're struggling to speak correctly on the topic and they used the "wrong" language, you might not be having the effect you intended.

In this case, the GP mistakenly believes the dated idea that "gender" is a biological term, but enlightened folks are aware that gender is now a social construct. I think they simply meant "biologically male people are not female" instead of "trans women aren't women". The language is confusing because it's evolving, but getting everyone on the same page is going to require a lot of public errors that would be better met with debate than shaming.
I'm in a technical director role, and have been in IT, DBA and development roles in the past.

Today, I work remote approximately 1 day per week. It's great for creative/heads down activities, which for me are writing, reading and tasks like spreadsheet work or ideation. I do it more when I'm on call-driven projects. It's not great for coordination with "close teams" and not great for operations team dynamics.
Does your employer hire people over 65?
Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting,
I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content.

I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productivity suit, and because they have an app for all the need of our life. At an extraordinary price, even if it cost noting.

Productivity is the current foundation, but you can think having a Bloom open source tractor in some years :)
I've never driven an A8, and it definitely looks like a very big car. I just thought that you were referring to something else.

But yeah, I can imagine that a car that big is hard to maneuver pretty much anywhere.
If you zoom out, the market - or even further, our civilization - is such a being. Only couple thousand years old, and essentially developed its nervous systems only in the last few decades, but already its thoughts are incomprehensible.
Everything post Sandy Bridge does.
> It's unsustainable.

How so? It wasn't fake money being passed around, there was real production and real demand for trade with China.

> But when Xi ensconced himself as a "leader for life" [1], the timing calculus changed.

Xi is messed up for a lot of reasons, but this isn't really one of them.
Much @Stake: The Band of Hackers That Defined an Era
It's also a predatory journal.

https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
You are totally right and I've to admit that I didn't thought about so much.

I'll fix it !
I don't think that's true, we have serious issues pricing externalities correctly, and making sure the correct party pays for them. Way too often the bill for risk and cleanup lands on the (local) goverment/public - sometimes long after the profit has been made.

Common and extreme cases are pollution of the type we see on Nigeria where global conglomerates are "allowed" to ignore safety standards by a corrupt government. Eg:
https://www.bbc.com/news/10313107

See also:

Michael Woodiwiss
Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime

https://www.amazon.com/Gangster-Capitalism-United-Globalizat...

Ed: and another example of problematic incetives is allowing power production for profit. We generally agree we need to use less energy, and yet have businesses that make more money when they can sell more energy... Sure, it might be a benefit to relatively sell more "green" energy - but really, the ideal energy company would make the most money when it got its customers to buy less energy....
There are plenty of movies where I've come out thinking that I'll never get those 2 hours of my life back. I do apply this logic to commute time though. $salary - $commute = $takeHome. Some jobs are not worth it.

I also agree 100% with the time cost on something you're wanting to learn is a sunk cost. After all, it's an investment in yourself. Even if it fails, you now have that experience of what not to do if presented the chance again.