skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be some systems where storing entropy in a file across reboots isn't an option, e.g. diskless situations or non-writable filesystems. Though those should be a rare case. Of course, this would actually require cooperation from userspace, and given Linux is just a kernel and userland kind of free to do what they want, it's not as easy as it sounds.

Incidentally, I really wish we could get the arc4random(3) family on GNU/Linux already. It's the only notable *NIX platform that still doesn't provide it; illumos has it, every BSD has it, macOS has it. Given the difficulties with entropy as noted above, however, the whole "non-failing cryptographically secure PRNG" model just won't work with Linux.
Welcome to HN where any China-related topic is treated with the same hostility.
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That is a great approach. I'll take a stab at pruning who I'm connected with and see if the experience improves!
I don't need money or a job. and people reach out to me all the time. This is fun, because maybe just maybe someone has a better opportunity.

If you don't have something nice don't say it at all.
I am not following your borderline racist comment about a name. Why do you assume stolen credentials? Low hanging fruit could be the entry point, but advanced attacks are common with state actors so this is highly assumptive and brings nothing to the discussion.
Lots of people benefit from ramps. For example, people pushing a baby stroller. People who walk with a cane. People who walk with a permanent limp but don't yet need a cane (like me).

Public phones are going the way of the dinosaur. Most folks have a smartphone these days. I feel like that's largely irrelevant.

Hearing impaired accessibility features in, for example, computer-based games came in very handy when we were homeless and spending our entire day at a library where you needed to either keep the sound off or wear headphones. None of us can wear headphones due to health issues that promote ear infections, so we just kept the sound off all day and relied on the visual cues intended for deaf or hearing-impaired people.
They're way behind schedule, but they are working on it. A recent Wendover video looked at the current state of affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjbYloKJX7c
Done and thanks!
Isn't 737 just a fast food restaurant?
It's easy to see parallels to other cultural revolutions and irrational mob activities, none of which are looked fondly upon by history.
It's not a fair fight. Social media companies employ psychologists to assist their UX designers in designing their products to be as addicting as possible.

See this interview with Adam Alter here:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-420-what-mak...
I find it strange to not just use your personal network to find somebody. I feel like this whole “detached cofounder” thing is for people making an implicit agreement that you both intend to screw each other over if you ever get the opportunity.

But if you’re a “product person” I suppose you need someone to actually build the MVP for you so you can’t really do that part alone.

Personally I’d rather do it alone than make a huge decision like this with some random. Passing an interview is easy if you know what to say, would be too hard to trust someone to not just try to get a free ride. And it takes a really long time to truly know someone, but it also seems crazy to me to spend up to half a year “cofounder dating” before you get to work; that seems like pseudo-productive procrastination more than anything
So back to shaming then?

Highlighting the supposed wrongdoings of others forces people to respond.

I think there was some dude 2000+ years ago saying something about a speck in someone else's eye.
It may be wise to pick ones battles, but it certainly is braver to pick one knowing you will lose. Stupid, but brave.
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China is a country, with a different education system, which produces different outcomes and culture.

Nobody is making any claim whatsoever about the behavior of Chinese-Americans or Chinese-Europeans. That would be racist.
Do you also believe female MMA fighters should be allowed to fight with men?

You seem like a toxic, mean-spirited person, so I'll refrain from engaging further. Good day to you.
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I was thinking of that though I still have to find out which method is accurate. I was hoping someone in HN already did something similar. :-)
Today is not the best day as a HongKonger. But that is a good source and I put aside when I have the heart and soul as a 386 hacker. God bless. Good work.
Who is the occupying army in this scenario? Is it the US Army, made up of citizen volunteers, being asked to oppress their fellow citizens? Or is it an invading army or an army of mercenaries, in which case what side is the US Army on?
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"883: Design computers and the software that runs them."

Seems to check out
Topic is about "ethics".
It's a tricky balance between that and protecting the people involved from harm, as well as protecting methods that may still be of use. I think the US government is too conservative about when to release information, but in many cases even less conservative standards will result in information being withheld until most or all of the principals are dead.
I dont think the proposed policies put forward by the climate movement are benign. Remember the yellow shirt protests in France arose because working class people resented the increased fuel tax which was raised as a way to fight climate change.

The article I quote earlier addresses this point quite well:

"In 1997, the late Maurice Strong, former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, said: “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”

In 1992, he proposed a single global government on environmental grounds: “It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental co-operation.”

In 2009, he declared his opposition to democracy: “Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.”

In 2015, Christina Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and now the head of a climate action lobby group, said: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”

In 2016, Ottmar Edenhofer, former co-chair of the UN IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change, said: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”

Just a week ago, Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the US politician famous for the Green New Deal that failed to pass Congress, was quoted in a glowing profile by the Washington Post saying: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” "
So, if you're not a "Tetris piece" that stacks well (i.e. bends the whims of your superiors at the expense of your private life and mental health), then you're a "shit hire" ? Yes, that situation sucks, but not for the reasons you imply.
"Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponsored Attack" would imply China is 100% known to be the hacking operation, and that China was convicted of doing such a thing in a court. This is not true, and would be grounds for libel.

"Airbus Suppliers Possibly Hit in Chinese State-Sponsored Attack" is less attractive as a headline.
The issue if you are developing using such requirements is that the product will end-up quite expensive. A simple messaging or authentication feature becomes a fully fledged multi-tier service maybe with super admins, owners/admins and clients. Dev budget is not an issue for Amazon though...
would this work for biologic drugs like remicade, humira and the like that require refrigeration?
It's actually quite relevant. I've worked in mega corporation, 50k employees and above. The inability of third party software to cope with the amount of users is a major recurring blocker for using off-the-shelf software and a big driver for developing things internally.

Most open-source and commercial software advertise that they can scale, but throw the first 500 or 5000 users and it's breaking apart.
What does race have to do with any of this? I'm discussing their government's economic and academic model. That's like saying criticism of America's healthcare system is racist against whites, because that's their majority ethnic group.

If anything, it says a lot about you that you associated everything I said with their ethnicity rather than the government itself.
Can they, though? We've got the test case in front of our face right now. Want to place some bets on anybody elected being removed before 2020?

How much you want to bet that in 2020, for the umpteenth time in a row, we get a choice between two billion-dollar-funded candidates who are absolutely not going to buck their sponsors, ever? Taste the freedom.
"Equally, if you're doing exactly what the hell you want without worrying about it being a commercial success or not, isn't that about as raw and real as it gets?"

Punk had specific ideas about what qualified as raw/real, and it was a lot closer to "shock the bourgeousie" than to "raising capital to create web apps". We can't claim everything we like under the banner of punk, strictly speaking. If you're not within spitting distance of someone disrespecting an authority figure, how is it punk?

But sure, the core ideas underlying punk are far more universal than punk rock itself. I've known people who claim Jesus as a punk. There's an argument to be made!

Just to draw some semantic boundaries as I see it:

Meat Puppets I - straight punk
Meat Puppets II - getting tired of the limitations of hardcore. Half punk, half not.
Up On the Sun - not punk. Closer in spirit to R.W. Emerson than "Jesus Entering from the Rear".

Same guys, same attitude, kept it real, grew out of punk.

Modern Lovers - punk before punk was even a thing (like, say, the Undertones).
Jonathan Richman - not punk. Same guy, pretty much the same attitude, grew out of punk.

In fact Jonathan's got a very charming bit about growing out of punk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SYDA-jVPg

Fun to reminisce. Anyway, back to the 21st century and the bourgeouis concerns that occupy my sellout life (having failed to live fast and die young).
I'm not sure how race comes into it. We are talking about a single country, not a race. The original commenter even mentioned Japan and Korea as examples of countries that are different from China in this regard.
Well HN is less a validation peddler and like other aggregators offers rapid doses of news, little info-hits that can leave us feeling scatterbrained when overindulged. It can be too distracting but from a healthiness standpoint seems vastly superior.
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When fan pages gave way to official profiles was a watershed moment. It showed facebook wasnt just a teenage myspace replacement, but a commercial engine.
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I guess it is equivalent in some ways. In modern society we don't really see religion as fundamental to personhood, or perhaps not to the extent of gender. And many would argue that a person do not choose their gender, although since I'm also not religious, I can't tell if religious people see themselves as "choosing" their religion or not.

As for respectful disagreement, far as I can tell, concerning pronouns, if people see discussion as tantamount to disrespect, it is often because they believe that the overwhelming majority of people who insist on pronouns should be taken in good faith. There will always be people who use discussion as an excuse to in fact disrespect. It is a difficult issue and I really don't know what to think.
"Implement dynamic relational" is not listed. Fooey! In fact, it doesn't even contain the word "relational" or "RDBMS".

In general the IT-oriented items seem like variations of "fix my goofed up spreadsheet". Did they scrape the tech support logs?
I also have questions about what makes this a robot, because to me this looks like regular factory machinery.
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Linus merged a jitter entropy fallback that calls the kernel's schedule() function in a loop:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
It's always amazing to watch people who have never created anything tell others how it's done.
I mostly agree with you but there's little chance that we're going to figure out for sure where climate tipping points might be before we hit them. The climate is very very complex.
Am I misreading this or is Ted T'so really suggesting that we should all just stop worrying and love the secret and compeltely unauditable RNG offered by the same company that has literally backdoored every CPU they've sold in the past 12 years?

Doesn't it all depend on how you are using it? As far as I recall, Linux does not use RDRAND is a direct source for random numbers, but rather mixes it with the entropy pool. Since xor'ing with (potentially) low-entropy data does not reduce the entropy, the argumentation is that it is safe. The potentially backdoored RDRAND is problematic as a source of random numbers or when the entropy has too little entropy (since RDRAND would determine the entropy).
> It's so clear that Ma has an absolutely minuscule understanding of the AI landscape.

I have no idea if Jack Ma knows about the ML landscape or not. But it's clear just by taking an anti-alarmist stance he's correct.
"It sure does sound amazing. It sounds like a solution to all of our problems - except that it's not," said Jorien de Lege from Friends of the Earth.

"If you think about it, this demonstration plant can produce a thousand litres a day based on renewable energy. That's about five minutes of flying in a Boeing 747.

This is the same people that have faith in that technology in renewables can improve to one day surpass nuclear.
I grasp the concept in the sense that I grasp that it is a fallacy put forward by someone who either hasn't fully thought through the concept, or is being intellectually dishonest.
The iPhone was released in 2007, but a smartphone that could technically have called a ride predates it by at least a few years. Uber was founded in 2009, but actually release the product and app until 2011, after a beta in 2010 [0]. It didn't hit a $1B valuation until somewhere between February 2012 and August 2013 [1]. So 4 years until the emergence of the X in "smartphones led to X", 6 years until it was clear that X was a $1B opportunity, so unless you're completely aware of every product spawned by Alexa or voice assistants generally, I don't think this is a fair comparison.

Even saying that, Alexa and competitors don't need to be computing platforms, they just need to be the interaction layer for day-to-day human-computer interaction. Even if Alexa were as technically simple as an IFFTT recipe with the "THIS" being "what the person says out loud", that's hugely valuable. It's very clear to me that if it's easier to do something with on device than without that device, and even easier to make a device do a thing without physically touching the device, that will ultimately be the way most people do the thing, provided they have access to the technology.

That is why Amazon is pumping out so many different Alexa form factors. I couldn't figure out who would want the Alexa ring. Then I met someone who hates ear buds and swears by his Swiss watch who was excited about a wearable he'd use. Amazon wants to be the dominant player, and is simply crossing form factors off of their (presumably) stack ranked by opportunity size list.

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[1] https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/uber-by-the-numbers-a-ti...
I suspect a frozen pizza factory machine is too large and sophisticated for this market. You can't fit it into a McDonalds-sized space.
It may be helpful to differentiate Chinese people and society from its government.

I view Chinese people individually, and on the whole, as very humanistic. The real question is what would China look like if its system represented the sentiment of its people?

I think they like private property, inheritance not being taxed, and in general focusing on their own lives without interruption.

Like anywhere else, many Chinese people enjoy civil engagement.

If China broke up into multiple countries and had a union to reduce redundancy/inefficiencies in common areas, that'd be a huge improvement.

This also preserves Chinese culture/customs on a more granular basis.
The plain language of the text of the 2nd amendment has always been clear. Everything else you've posted is trying to work around the text as it's written and interpreted by SCOTUS.
Frankly I'm used to it. <3
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If you could surgically cut out bad slices while retaining the good, I'd be first to support it (e.g. I've written about my stance on advertising elsewhere[0]). It's not something I believe is possible without going about it very carefully, and very piecemeal.

I meant my comment in the context of the comments about fragility of our civilization (e.g. GPS being tied to power grids and agriculture and trade). Severely disrupt the systems that feed and warm us daily could easily topple the entire civilization, and I wanted to highlight that "toppling" here is a synonym for billions of deaths from starvation in a very short time frame, followed by not having a technological civilization for thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

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Ah communists! Always trying to destroy other people's hardwork. How charming!
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> Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China, and coincidentally China hasn't been able to produce any viable competitor to those products.

Actually, they have a narrowbody competitor set to enter production: https://airlinegeeks.com/2018/03/17/20567/

Also:

> Boeing has built a B737 finishing factory and Airbus has a final A320 final assembly plant in China, with Airbus planning on building a wide-body jet plant in the country as well.
I used to like it a lot but I've found it consistently uses about 4% CPU no matter if I have any sessions open