skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in finance. We learned a ton from 2008. The amount of new regulation and oversight that came as a result is insane.

We will learn from 2020 too.
As the author points out in the sibling comment, that's not a containership. It's an FPSO on top of a heavy-lift ship. An FPSO is basically a floating oil refinery, which is what the maze of piping and equipment is for. AFAIA, the vessel itself has no propulsion (which is why it's on top of the heavy-lift ship) and is just a large floating tub—You can't get much simpler than that.
If the people who run the society never have to deal with its problems, the problems will never be fixed.
Agreed. The worst thing about software engineers is how smug and arrogant we can be. I think it's just an astounding ignorance of other fields and how they're no less complicated or filled with smart people than ours is.
Tax dollars definitely shouldn't be spent bailing out huge, influential tech conferences.

If they choose to run at such thin margins they can't survive one tail risk event and have failed to buy appropriate insurance even after a decade of growth, they shouldn't be able to socialize their loses.
It's ridiculous nonsense, utterly unsupported by any evidence or mechanism.
Windows 3.0
I think it's more likely they don't understand the concept of exponential growth.

China had to literally shut down their entire economy just to slow the virus.

Our only hope is warm weather and some way to speed vaccine development.
Is that number per passenger?
Do you have any tricks for dealing with missing unicode character mapping tables for embedded fonts?
This isn't free money.
Down again, Robinhood will offer “case-by-case” compensation for its outage
I don't want to sound overly negative but at least hedging with puts (and not gambling but sane expiry dates) against index funds isn't a bad idea. Cutting rates by a half point is panic football and won't fix the supply chain hiccups which will affect production and therefore consumption.
It's the opposite. The point of using DMA-BUFs is that those are the handles which are passed around, and the data never leaves GPU memory. The handles can be directly accessed from EGL/Vulkan and used as render source/targets.
You missed my point. Pay the licensed engineer enough money and he'll become an approver. He can do whatever quality checks he wants as long as he signs off on it. Then I can recoup savings by having tons of unlicensed engineers doing the actual work.
That was probably the biggest impact single decision for WhatsApp technically.

As a rule of thumb based on my own experiences and the opinions of more experienced engineers I've had the good fortune to work with, language choice is far less important than the quality of the team using it.

While I have no doubt that trying to build WhatsApp in a language that would be the wrong tool for the job (say... PHP) would have been fatal, I have many more doubts that choosing Erlang was the key enabling decision.
I really don't get the seeming dismissal of masks as a tool to contain spread. I understand that there's a shortage and healthcare workers are the priority (as they should be), but it seems to me that in theory the absolute fastest way to contain this would be to get everyone on the planet wearing masks for a month or two.

I keep seeing statements to the effect of "a mask only helps if you're already sick", but we don't know who's sick and who isn't! The only way to ensure all the sick people are wearing masks is to get everyone wearing masks. But perhaps it isn't possible to ramp up production fast enough to make this realistic?
The reason the corporation makes bad decisions is because it is a dictatorship by the people that run it. The only way to reform such a system isn't with peans to morality that run in the face of self interest, it is to totally restructure the stakeholder structure to be dominated by the workers and the people they serve.
I also wonder why KubeCon EU haven’t cancelled their conference in Amsterdam happening next month as well..
This is the start of the next Global Financial Crisis folks. It's not hard to see the pieces in motion now:

1 - The Q1 supply shock is going to be a temporary thing. They'll recover alright after causing some companies to miss their Q1 earnings. If this was the only effect, we would recover just fine here later this year, but...

2 - Coronavirus is just getting started in the US and Europe. If it spreads widely, and unabated, then the those countries will be forced to enact school closures, business closures, etc, which will cause a massive demand shock.

3 - Demand shock will tank airlines, cruises, restaurants, malls, etc. Basically anything that requires groups of people to make money.

4 - Eventually, demand shock will hit corporate balance sheets in a big way. Many corporations (especially in the energy industry) are overloaded with debt [1]. If this goes on long enough, then those companies will go bankrupt.

5 - If enough companies default on their debt simultaneously, then derivatives on corporate debt (defaults) will cause a systemic crisis again [2].

There's no guarantee that this will happen, but if it does it's going to make 2008 look like a joke by comparison.

If it does, we need to do the right thing this time: wind down the banks and let them fail.

For the downvoters:

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/the-next-financia...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-blast-from-a-financial-cri...
Ampere’s Altra 80-Core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers Against Rome and Xeon
Yes, was about to post that, much better than the PR. Anandtech also has its take on it as well.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15575/amperes-altra-80-core-n...
The Federal Reserve Is Running a Marketing Campaign for Bitcoin
True, but at this scale, I expect to not to have to depend on the benevolence of conference organizers -- there needs to be a framework so that they don't have to make that choice.

To quote Deus Ex: Human Revolution:

"I managed to hang on to my humanity -- but the temptation to ignore it was always there. It's that temptation that so worries Taggart. He's not afraid of freedom. He's afraid of the chaos that erupts when individuals have nothing but morality to constrain them."
Yes but this kind of thing generally falls under "act of god" which you simply cannot buy insurance against.

Now I'd be curious to see SXSW's actual insurance policy, but honestly I don't believe there's anything available they could possibly have done to protect against this.
people have already been getting covid twice
Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans
Sure it can - emergent property of some type of quantum behavior. Mathematics is discovered, not created by humans.
Author of this doesn't know how to use Excel and published incorrect results which were used as austerity justification by the politically motivated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho...
Or proof that asset inflation doesn’t trickle down. I bet if they spent the same amount of money giving cash directly to everybody there would be inflation
AI can help recession-proof your company
> Applications are harder to use, yes, but because they do so much more

I use Microsoft office 2000, because since then, no new features have been added to word or Excel that I care about. In fact, I couldn't even name a single feature added since then. What they did add, is the ribbon instead of the toolbar, which makes it impossible to find things you need, and a whole lot of bloat.

On modern machines, office 2000 opens faster than I can release my mouse button from clicking its icon.

That is to say, I entirely disagree with your statement.
Probably because there's absolutely no reason to do so? It's not like the US has a shortage of labs that can produce these kits. Supposedly, the problem was that the CDC lab tasked with mass producing the testing kits wasn't competent to do so and didn't realise it - if the government had known what the problem was, they could've contracted production out to another US lab sooner. With the benefit of hindsight we of course know that getting kits from somewhere else would've been better, but imagine how much harder this problem would be to diagnose if the kits were sourced from some foreign lab the FDA didn't have access to.
There is considerable value in SLOWING the virus.

1. You smooth out the cases that end up in hospitals and ICUs

2. You give more time for a vaccine to be developed and deployed.

3. You reduce the economic impact.
After researching over 100+ companies globally on how they weathered the 2008 global financial crisis, I noticed they deployed four common strategies.

I wrote an article that looks at each of the above time-tested strategies through through the lens of AI and automation technology available in 2020.
Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo
Amazing work! Mitsuba has long been a staple of the rendering research world, and the new architecture that Mitsuba 2 brings is nothing short of revolutionary in many aspects.

Mitubsa 2 allows for essentially writing complex path tracing code once and automatically being able to generate a traditional CPU-based scalar path tracer, an NVIDIA RTX accelerated path tracer, a vectorized path tracer, and fully differentiable path tracer, etc. A lot of the underlying heavy lifting for this capability can be found in a separate library by the same authors [1].

You may be familiar with pybind11 [1]; this is from the same author and uses pybind11 extensively. A lot of people don't know that the author of pybind11 is actually one of the top rendering researchers in the world.

There's been an enormous amount of buzz about Mitsuba 2 in the rendering world since the paper [3] came out last year. I for one am pretty excited about diving into the code.

[1] https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/enoki
[2] https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355089.3356498
TSMC Announces 2x Reticle CoWoS for Next-Gen 5nm HPC Applications
It's bad PR to obsess about PR.
It's bad karma to obsess about karma.
As a proxy for the sentiments of the hundreds of thousands of stakeholders (aka regular people) who don't have corporate PR departments to make their views known?
Are there any great examples of worker-co-ops in the tech space?
As an aside, it’s sort of insane that there are some ideologies that consider democracies suspect because of office holders are focused on winning short-term elections, when modern corporations make decisions on even shorter timeframes!
My thoughts too. How do we know it's not just a website? An annual, independent auditor report would be nice, at least confirming their number of subscribers and estimating the capacity of their chemical process.
Yeah, no. That's way too easy of an out.

He did bad things. His reputation continues to influence commerce to this day. He doesn't get a free pass on the harm he caused simply because he's checked out.
Tough Questions
How very daring, comparing dear homer to freestyle rap.

I don't disagree, but have to say freestyle is ideally song-writing in real time. Personally, I think this means the opposite of recitation. In practice, it is just-in-time and thus very repetetive (I'm happy I managed to make this comment HN on-topic! Thoughts?).

Therefore, it's as variable as any writing, though the constraints may require certain techniques and methods. I don't know, there's a reason freestyle battles aren't hugely popular. Many battle shows are pre-written. One can easily tell the difference. I won't say that's cheating, but will judge it according to expectations.

It's practically no different from regular discourse, ranging from repetitive, casual or formulaic small talk over thought out hacker news comments--I made a draft of this one in my head and am anxious I forgot something, or add too much--or a team meeting with the boss at work, up to legal procedures where the "oral" statements are frequently read out from paper, drafted by a team of experts, or even just submitted as briefs in congress to be bundled with the plenar protocol.

The only difference is the meter, which is not even rigidly up-held in modern poetry slams, nevertheless prosody is an important part of natural language (for lack of a better word).

Prosody in writing should be an interesting topic. Perhaps that's why my writing tends to be hard to read, as I'm a second language learner without much oral experience these days.
Please don't spread FUD. Please do provide references for your claims.
On Deniability and Duress (2017)
If things are so complex now why does Google Maps constantly shift buttons and menus around without offering new functionality? To me it seems designers are just spinning their wheels. The whole data driven UX stuff reminds me a little of Agile with its story points and velocity charts. Looks “scientific” but if you take a closer look it’s just BS.
Which part do you not understand?
I do everything you said with one additional combination from a Project Manager focus point:

When someone voices a question/objection/important comment during a meeting, I will usually paraphrase what they said along with their initials.

e.g. CAB: Questioned rollout process, too aggressive?

That helps me immediately know that "CAB" is someone I should probably talk to offline to either gather their additional thoughts about why they think rollout process is too aggressive or perhaps they are a key stakeholder who needs to be convinced before they're going to be fully on-board.
Except that the reference in question would have caused a lifetime error in rust which would have required the developrs to explictly acknowledge the choice they were making, likely by changing a bunch of types.

Yes you could still do it in rust, but any reviwer of the code would say "why in the world are you doing it this way" because it would be forced into a complex cross call monstrosity.
I've made a bunch of design decisions to address long-term storage concerns (after being personally burned by more than a handful of abandoned photo apps):

File storage (if you opt for PhotoStructure doing automatic organization) is configurable (with a default of $library/yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd/$original-filename).

All metadata extracted or changed is saved in standard-format sidecars next to the original, or in the image itself. The sidecar format and whether to use sidecars for edits are both configurable.

The database is a SQLite DB with a straightforward schema (although as I add features, each version has had db migrations).

If you try PhotoStructure out, and you find or think of anything else I can do to set things up to be more friendly to long-term storage, I'd love to hear your ideas.

(Sharing is coming in a future release, both via any hierarchical tag, or by manually-selected images).
> True, but at this scale, I expect to not

Why is that a "but" rather than an "and"?

I'm disappointed in the organizers and would like to see better incentives.
I worked for an epub firm that used a similar approach a while ago - we took PDFs and produced Flash (yes, that old) versions for online, and created iOS and Android apps for the publisher.

I've come across most of the problems in this post but the most memorable thing was when we were asked to support Arabic, when suddenly all your previous assumptions are backwards!
This has been sooooooooo true for me in unversity.
I think the argument is that he cut out the interior walls and burned em for extra heat.
HFTs aren't related to business short-termism. Welch's short term lives on the month to month scale, HFTs live on the nanosecond scale and are mainly concerned with pricing every option in the universe down to the picopenny.
Generating Kubernetes YAML with TypeScript
Demonstration of the QCCD Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Architecture
Housing prices are not too high. They are too high in some places.

So what you're really seeing is that physical infrastructure cannot keep up with the massive change in the US from a manufacturing and agricultural economy to a service and information economy.
> that's the beauty of command line options -- unlike with a GUI, adding these options doesn't clutter up the interface

GUIs provide discoverability so often times you don't need a manual. If you don't know how to use a command line tool you must open the manual. So in that way I would consider the man pages as part of the UI and those definitely get cluttered.
Your links don't say what you think they say. Did you even read them? It's mostly ambiguous language and uncertainty. We think this, it's not certain that. It changes day to day.

Case in point the incubation period from your own link. "Most estimates of the incubation period range from 1-14 days, most commonly around five days. These estimates are updated as more information becomes available."

How long does it remain on the surface. "It is not certain how long the virus survices on surfaces."

Can asymptomatic people spread coronavirus? "How often asymptomatic transmission is occurring is unclear."

How deadly is the coronavirus? "We don’t yet know."

Can I catch the virus by eating food prepared by others? "It's not clear if this is possible."

TLDR: We have decent guesses in some categories and in others we don't know at all. People acting like they know for sure the details of this virus are lying at worst and merely uninformed at best.
DARPA Launch Challenge ends without winner
> that I care about

Well there's the rub.

There are tons of users who do require critical new features like cloud integration. And the ribbon was designed because specifically more people find it easier to use, as Microsoft's user research showed.

Office 2000 may very well be better for you. But it certainly isn't for everybody.
> If a company is interested in "protecting their IP" by closing the source then it's questionable why they would have even wanted to use GPLv2 software at all. That also is not related to the security of the customer at all. Maybe it matters to the security of the OEM, but that's different.

I can't speak for other engineers. But at companies I've worked in, a common product model is "embedded Linux with GPLv2 software, and some proprietary secret-sauce binaries". At those companies, they usually do send patches to upstream open-source projects and they try to contribute. Also they usually provide full source-code on request, for everything except the proprietary stuff.

The net effect of GPLv3 has been that GNU packages basically don't exist on embedded devices any more. Which means that engineers like me don't have the professional opportunity to contribute features and patches. It sort of isolates GPLv3 projects into a walled garden, which I feel like is the opposite of what GPL was intended to foster. Instead, I can only have the professional opportunity to contribute on GPLv2 or permissive-license projects.

> Complying with the GPLv3 doesn't mean the device becomes vulnerable to botnets. All it means is that the customer who purchased the device has to get access to the hardware keys. For their own device. That they purchased.

I sympathize with the intent behind this. There are also just some practical realities that are tough. At my current company, the team working on our next embedded Linux product is pretty small. We don't have infinite time or resources to make sure that our own code is 100% intrusion-resistant - all we can do is try our best.

It's a big ask for us to support _two_ methods of firmware-update (local and over-the-network) with different keys/security requirements for each. We just plain don't have the manpower to support that, not when we can be developing features to improve our product instead.

And if you have access to the filesystem, it's that much easier to comb through it and look for vulnerabilities in our network updater (for example). And it's easier to pick apart the proprietary bits with Ghidra or something. Could you do it anyways, even without our help? Maybe. But it's much harder.

Can we design a system that's robust enough to allow you to install whatever you want on your unit? Maybe. Probably. Hopefully we're already there. But I'm not going to risk my company's livelihood on it just to ship GPLv3 software, especially considering that there are almost-as-good alternatives for a lot of it. We just don't have the resources to make sure we cover every security angle on an open-box system.
Location: Germany
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Technologies: Android, Linux, Django, React, Docker, Squeak, AFL, Kali, Metasploit
Résumé/CV: https://dimeo.dev/cv.pdf
Email: contact@dimeo.dev

I am a German computer science student in the process of finishing my bachelor degree. I'm very interested in cybersecurity and want to to take an internship of ideally half a year, focused on cybersecurity, outside of Germany after finishing my degree this June. I'm eager to pick up new tech and tools, and willing to extensively prepare for a position.
Vigilant diagnosis? Isn't the biggest issue for the U.S. right now that we're not able to test nearly enough people?

As far as stocking up, my understanding was that the reason for picking up an extra couple items each time you go to the store was in case eventually certain areas are rec'd to work from home and such. Maybe that won't happen, but it's not like that stuff would go to waste.
Language choice I can perhaps agree with, but from what I've read, the biggest factor with Erlang is much more its runtime environment. BEAM + OTP is a very impressive piece of kit.
Very true! But the second wave, when winter returns in October, hit even harder [0]

See Deadly second wave section in the Spanish Flu
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Introduction to IPsec
I think there's an enormous difference between "I have some polite questions about your level of expertise" and "I will repeatedly jump on a possibly-innocent error".

I will note that airstrike is not "unable to differentiate the two". They have quite clearly gone on to demonstrate that ability.

It is important to make sure false information doesn't circulate. But I don't think that excuses being "harsh".
Also, the result, cheaper and more abundant energy, would stimulate the economy.
Nice as it would be to have such a blackout the media companies would complain to no end about lost profits. The incentives are totally misaligned. In my opinion, Fox and the AP are not really comparable in terms of quality. The former is for-profit, the latter is non-profit. "If it bleeds, it leads" is less viable when people rely on you writing the more undistilled version of a story to sell to others who put their own spin on it later. That's not to say there's no bias at all in such journalism, but I feel like the incentives greatly affect the content of the story.

If people panicking leads to people watching more news, the news companies will let it happen.

Besides, these people have to put food in the table somehow. Asking them to just stop working because their work is ethically compromised would raise various issues.
Sure, in this case the tradeoff is between something that is valuable for the user (replaceable commodity battery, ability to completely power-off the phone) and something that is valuable for the vendor (obsolescence driver, always powered because reasons).
Try roam research! It lets you tag things by association, reference previous notes, search, and make inline code blocks/format formulas
I always say MS Office reaches its peak right before they introduced the ribbon in 2003. Since then I haven’t seen many interesting new features. They just keep moving stuff around.
At some point between steps 4 and 5, shouldn't the government say, "maybe y'all shouldn't have leveraged yourselves so much; debt is inherently bad, and we won't bail you out this time; figure this out; and don't rack up so much debt next time"?

This addiction to debt has got to stop, and unfortunately it sometimes takes cold, hard pain for some to learn a lesson.