skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I've read about this before but just went over it again in more detail yesterday with a fresh look.

So this is basically the simulator situation, but with easier management of which libraries the guest userspace can dlopen and files to read()/write().

It's much like current Android-on-ChromeOS capabilities where containers are used to isolate where the "guest" userspace libraries are stored, so that it's not necessary to interop well with things like the host version of libc for example.

However, the problems come when considering the interface to the host kernel and hardware. Here are just two of the showstoppers:

1. Android expects to run on a particular range of kernel versions and configs each release. Fidelity is sacrificed to run with a wide range of Linux host kernel configurations. It's also easy for components on the host system such as SELinux to interfere with guest operation (and Android itself expects to use its own version of SELinux...so which one wins in the end?).

2. Further customization in the guest userspace needs to be made to account for needing to interop with a regular Linux system; e.g., input/network/display will be much more code that touches various parts of guest userspace and potentially hurts fidelity versus the VM abstraction where they are fake hardware and no customization of guest userspace is needed.

There are also isolation issues that involve more delicate dances, such as how to prevent runaway resource usage in the container from hogging the whole system (VMs merely waste the #vcpus + RAM dedicated to them; while that can be a lot compared to the host, it's explicitly controllable).

These problems sound less serious on the surface versus porting the Android framework directly to the host OS, but in the end it's basically the same level of essential complexity; containers just let you remove the incidental complexity of guest userspace libraries leaking into your /usr/lib and interop w/ your filesyste.

And once we try to run on non-Linux systems we're back at square one needing to port all userspace code to the host OS (Unless you're running Docker on macOS/Windows in which case you'd be creating a VM again, sacrificing all the benefits of containers versus VMs while keeping the complex customizations).

This is probably why Microsoft is pushing WSL2, ChromeOS skipped Android 10 support and is looking into ARCVM, and anbox is still running Android 7.1.1 (w/ plans to update but skipping releases in the meantime).
What are you even talking about. Hong Kong has one of the strongest legal systems in Asia, although it's being slowly eroded by the government. Have you even visited or do you just watch shitty Kung Fu movies and assume the whole place is Kowloon Walled City or Chungking Mansion?
Do you know what would the baseline vitamine D intake been for our ancient (read : outdoor lifestyle) ancestors?
That's a very sloppy post. He does a single example, not even running locally or changing sampling parameters, and then concludes that GPT-2 is doing nothing but pattern-matching? A lot of people underestimate NNs because the sampling from them (top-k! how much dumber and cruder can you get? nucleus works better, but is still obviously suboptimal) destroys a lot of dark knowledge. I noticed this with Gary Marcus's claims about GPT-2 too: he would try once, without changing any sampling settings, and conclude that it wasn't doing anything, but if you tried, you would get different results. I'm not the only one to notice that: https://www.quantamagazine.org/common-sense-comes-to-compute... Such tests can prove the presence of knowledge, but not the absence... And of course, GPT-3 does extensive arithmetic tricks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf#page=22
I'm fairly sure that spammers are sending legitimate-lookingailing list type spam to do exactly this. Appear like misdirected mail to catch email addresses.
RCTs are not the only way to obtain evidence of causality.

In causal inference, limited causal claims can be made through observational studies (where no control is done), such as retrospective natural experiments [1]. These methods are of course limited by assumptions and by how closely they match reality.

Note: while a controlled experiment is the gold standard, it is not always feasible or necessary. We don't need to do RCTs on parachutes to prove their efficacy for instance. [2]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/volunteers-jumped...
Unless there’s a good reason for not using RSA, this is a non-issue
Can't discuss many details but supposedly where most of the major backbone interchanges are. So you to your neighbor across the street. Probably not going to be picked up at the packet level. You to some random WordPress blog. More than likely they got that.
Since Twitter and Trump seem intent on getting into a pissing match (Trump a bit more so), what's the worst each side could do?
It’s very clear that they don’t.
For your first question- I have no idea. There was a heavy police presence in the area- I think they could have very well been sent to intimidate.

Your second statement is not clear to me at all, and you appear to have absolutely nothing to back up your statement. In the video they clearly asked where they should move to and got no response aside from "You are under arrest."

You are making baseless claims and don't even appear to have even watched any of the incident's video.
Comparing the current president with their predecessor in charge does not seem unreasonable.
Then you boot up any of the hyper-realistic WWII ARMA mods and you’re set.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you find a new job.

I am in a similar situation. I have been repeatedly passed over and screwed over by my company for the past 5 years. They also don't follow their own policies and show poor leadership as you mentioned.

I handle this situation by trying to ignore the facts and tell myself I have a good job (the company's propaganda helps). I was once told by a manager that a high rating is awarded, not earned. This mindset helps. I was also told by a manager that not everyone can be more than an intermediate developer, so this helps me accept that I won't be promoted again.

It's a little disappointing to live like this, but it will be ok. I notice a degradation in performance and joy, but I still have a job.

I think your position is similar to many others', like mine. Just live life and pretend your job doesn't matter.
You seem to explicitly ignore the “extra-disposable” modifier used with “second-class”. Curious.
> You can go to a no-man island and declare

Declaring isn't the thing that is important.

As I said before, the important part is controlling your own borders, taxing your own people, and having your own military.

That is what makes a country a country. Not things like "declaring" or "recognition".
Malcom Gladwell addresses why proactive policing doesn't work at length in his book "Talking to Strangers". He refers to it as Kansas City style policing. Highly recommended.
My naive suggestion. "Hard" unsubscribe button that tosses all future emails from this list in the trash and mails the sender a note that the address has unsubscribed from this list and all future emails will be ignored.

Gmail has over a billion active users. Mailing lists will probably adapt to whatever crumbs Google leaves on the doorstep.
I'm not seeing any dead links there? That page has always been a listing of the mp3 files on the physical CD that comes with his book, only some of which were ever put online.

BTW, Sethares' research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sethares goes way beyond tuning music to simple ratios. His whole book is about working with a model of sounds being "in tune" with one another that doesn't just boil down to that.
Can you please point out where it forces Twitter to do anything?
Even if they were an informational service having the DOJ "break them up" would be way more illegal than anything they could directly publish.
Sorry, I meant American Samoa. (Although, a court recently struck down the distinction as unconstitutional, and the case is currently on appeal.)
This is absurd. Twitter is a corporation and can choose to present their product as they see fit. And nothing about them is essential. Twitter could go bankrupt and the world would not hurt at all. There are absolutely plenty of ways to disseminate information.

Twitter only has about 150 million daily active users. That's 1/3 of the population of the USA. There is no way in hell Twitter could ever be considered a monopoly when less than 2% of the world's population even uses their platform actively.
Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement
I have looked at all of these arguments in depth and recommend you read at least "The Untold Story of Milk" before making conclusions.

The history of raw milk has been tainted with misinformed public policy. The dangers of unpasteurized milk are highly over-exaggerated. To put it bluntly, I don't trust the government's assessments about raw dairy.

On a practical level, consider this: people drank milk for thousands of years, but we only started pasteurizing it in the early 1900s. Do you really think people before 1900 were just living with these supposed diseases of raw milk, completely unawares? No, they drank raw milk and they were fine.
Interesting, sounds like a live loop in some audio thread somewhere. What's your audio setup and AVD config.ini? I might be able to reproduce on my Mac.
I don't think 404 is the right code for "resource not available". If you want to send a request to a device, and it's not online, that is "503 Service Unavailable". The device exists, after all, it just isn't available to handle the request.

Ultimately, HTTP has a very weak set of status codes for application layer concerns. The vast majority of the ones that sound good mean something about the HTTP layer rather than the application layer -- for example, it makes sense to return "precondition failed" if you request deletion of a directory that isn't empty (the precondition for deleting directories is that they are empty), but "412 Precondition Failed" means that the client supplied an HTTP precondition like "If-Match: abc123" and it failed. Trap for the unwary.

For this reason, I think REST largely fails to provide what API authors and users desire. If your API server can successfully convey an error to the client, you might as well say '200 OK {"error": "The Raspberry Pi you were looking for exists, but it's turned off or someone used its Ethernet cable to test their scissors and the test went very well."}' Now the client actually knows what's going on.
Hydroxychloroquine has been used as a malaria preventative for 60 years. Now it is suddenly unsafe?
and contracts can frequently lead to FTE offers if your agency structures their contract in your favor.

Maybe Google is different (I doubt it) but in most cases it is harder to become a direct employee from a temp position. Obviously the staffing agency wants to go on being paid it’s fee, it doesn’t want you cutting out the middleman.
The population should be in charge of twitter? Doesn't that seem a little funny?
https://www.wtae.com/article/police-department-shuts-down-af...

Can and does. I'm not saying this is indicative of what frequently happens. But there can be real consequences for the police officers based on lawsuits. I also recognize this was not being pushed down from the city. My statement was an example of how police departments shutting down affect police and how that can happen.

I won't argue that police are appropriately punished due to misconduct. I will argue that they are punished.
That was a problem for me at first, but another small change in behavior made it slightly better. I've gotten so in the habit of using my search engine as the first step on the web that I've caught myself doing silly things like searching for "mdn <some JavaScript function>" instead of just going directly to MDN and searching there. I don't know when that behavior started but it's pretty goofy. Most of the time when I'm looking up something technical, I want the official docs.

I've been trying to change my behavior to go directly to those sites instead of relying on the search engine to take me there. Same with thinking I might want an answer from Stack Overflow. Go directly to Stack Overflow and search there.

Sometimes I want to find blog posts etc., and if DDG doesn't do a good enough job I'll fall back to Google. My goal is to move Google further and further down the chain and try to use it as little as possible.
Also I'd be suprise if they don't have a copy or at least acess to all of the maj root certs and websites. Iean sure maybe Facebook or Apple or AWS takes a stand against the govt. Saying "No you can't have our data" but I doubt Verisign or other root level CAs are so scrupulous.
Depends on the union.
Ah, this post is so good. This is why I come to HN.
There was never any russian collusion, we know that for a fact now. HN can continue to censor this but it's true, and Twitter not recognizing that as disinformation is why they should be regulated.
Well, it is a private company's site, so I would assume the corporation. If I walked into a Starbucks and started being rude to patrons, I can easily be removed on a whim. Just because it is a place that encourages social interactions does not mean that they have to allow interactions they do not like. I do not see the difference here.

Twitter is used for formal announcements because Trump himself has decided that it is a good place to make them, not because Twitter has placed themselves in that position. Granted, they make like being in that position and it probably benefits them greatly due to the increased ad revenue and engagement, but they can also make the decision that his presence is not worth the vitriol it generates. He can easily choose another avenue (Facebook, Reddit, News media, etc) to make announcements if it is no longer the best choice for him.
Not a crypto expert, how easy/hard it is with this (or other techniques) at the moment to generate a random file which matches a given SHA1 hash? Can have totally random bits lets say.
> "when the looting starts the shooting starts"

That's simply a recognition that looting begets violence, meaning that the looting must be stopped before things become more violent, and a call to action to those who appear content to let the looting run rampant as if it's somehow OK or justified.

In such an escalation both protestors and counter protestors would be shooting, so bringing the situation under control quickly is in the best interest of the protestors and the community as a whole.

Trump's tweet was just a recognition of that.
I’ve been smashing that unsubscribe button in my email for years. I’ve never had a problem in that arena. I’m usually at inbox zero.
It's going to be interesting when you come to the end and are reviewing your life, realizing that you decided to spend what little time you have on this planet being the volunteer gestapo misguidedly trying to defend militarized police from the words of civilians who are upset that they are killing unarmed citizens.
> Poop and shattered window glass

These are symptoms of wealth inequality. Do you see wealthy people going around defecating on the ground or breaking glass? No. Do you see middle class people doing these actions? No. These are actions taken by homeless people (and teenagers), who have nothing worth while to do with their time, no money for idle entertainment, and awful living conditions.
I agree with this. You must embellish in interviews. The person hiring you is going to talk-up their company or team and leave out the bad - you need to do the same.
Nice jokes and great hacks aside however, unless you're interviewing for a compiler engineer position, That is absolutely overkill for this type of question to the point of unreadability. One can argue that the 'question' is too generic for this systems/compiler developer position. I would just ask you about basic LLVM internals instead.

To those 'serious' interviewers with 10x developer syndrome looking at this as an 'optimal solution', just don't tell candidates to do this on a whiteboard in >20 mins. You might as well ask for a candidate to do it in LLVM IR.

EDIT: Even though the whole post is a great hack and a joke as I already outlined earlier, it still looks like some HNers still can't take/see jokes! %:O)
I see, thank you. I'm wondering whether I should supplement D myself, but I live in a sunny country. I should get some blood tests to check first, I guess.
There is an implied threat and cohersion to it of "do it or else" or "I can break you too". That is the violence against the person. Smashing your own car in front of somebody's house wouldn't include that threat as it is their property to what they wish although it would make you look crazy.
If you liked that...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226...
A rather terrifying statistic I remember from investigating crime in Chicago:

50% of homicides are brought to justice in Chicago, but the remaining half are not normally distributed in terms of crimes per criminal. ~50 people are responsible for half of the unsolved homicides in Chicago.

I am not going to be able to provide a direct reference for this claim. My point is that the rate of severe crimes can be efficiently diminished by targeting professional criminals and the networks that enable them. Policing minor crimes is counterproductive because the harmful side effects of policing (racial and social injustice, legal costs, adversity between police and citizens) are greater than the benefit to the community of removing misdemeanors like vandalism and drug use. You might say that broken windows policing is not Pareto efficient.
Arresting pickpockets may be an overall gain if tourists feel safe to go out and therefore spend. And rampant wage fraud also ought to be tackled, again possibly a net overall gain if that increases tax revenue. If your country cannot fund a police force that could do both these things then you have much bigger problems.
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good luck everyone <3
Yeah I find it really annoying also. But surprisingly, they don’t do that just to add friction to unsubscribe. There is a real problem that it solves.

Legitimate mailing lists have problems with people forwarding emails, when the recipients of the forwarded emails click the unsubscribe button, they will unsubscribe the original recipient who didn’t want to be unsubscribed.
TLDR: Denormalized polynomial addition followed by normalization is faster than normalized polynomial addition on Haswell. Nice trick!
I don't want to pay for your decades of poor health, because your poor decisions will lead to a lifetime of expensive care. However, dental care is a finite expense. Replace all the teeth in your mouth and it's still a finite expense. Since when has "health care" ever had a finite expense?
VMware Workstation Now Supports Host Hyper-V Mode
The minimal interpreter is pretty small when compressed - we shipped it to thousands of windows pcs as one exe file.
Malarone is also a malaria preventative, and I personally had a psychotic break while taking it, it took 8 men to hold me down and strap me a bed for two days until I came to.

Seems pretty harmless I guess?
Fun read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson#Rensselaer...
Vektor Grafix' Shuttle also had a fast forward feature that would skip to the important parts. I guess it's not that exciting to spend 5 hours atop the crawler as it slowly carries the vehicle to the launch pad...
I'm currently moving from a custom yaml DSL-based engine to Temporal and it's the best architectural decision I've taken in a long time. I researched a lot and couldn't find anything that even came close to the freedom it provides.
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Twitter puts warning on Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
I have a cane that I need to use to walk. Somebody breaks my cane. What is that?
I don't know about MN but police officers are not paid a low salary in a number of jurisdictions.

Seattle starts at $65k+ and the avg is $100k.
Reminds me of ndiswrapper. Linux doesn't support your network card? Use the Windows drivers! The time I used it, even with the adapter layer, it was more stable than the native Linux drivers.
> Please explain how "software works with some issues" is somehow more painful than "software doesn't work at all".

One is frustrating for a second, it just doesn't work, second is frustrating for a longer period of time. The total frustration is larger with the latter.

There usually is a better solution than buggy software, at least with consumer stuff. If someone writes a shitty GPU driver, it's probably a better idea to return the GPU than to fiddle it working. At least that's what I think, based on my experience.
But it's a definitive payment. Medical bills from hospitals and doctors offices are often padded, or somehow magically they grow in cost. Dental bills don't. It's generally a one-time thing.
The studies I've seen relaying the same sentiment of no appreciable benefit only looked at a single outcome, normally bone density or bone fracture occurrence. Vitamin D levels affect expression of almost 300 different genes in humans (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3604145/) so looking at a single outcome to gauge the entire efficacy of that vitamin is absurd and disappointing that so many other doctors push their narrow minded interpretations of those same limited studies.
I don't know which state you're in, but all the state statutes I've seen saying that you must follow a police order use the words "lawful order" in the text. Also many of them have limited domain such as "while on a public road" or "during a civil disturbance".

In the "refuse to move on after police asked you to" scenario here, the NYC case "People v. Galpern" is often used as precedent. In that case the defendant was found guilty simply because he was, in the officer's view, obstructing the sidewalk. He was not otherwise disturbing the peace. From this case, the courts tend to side on the judgement of the arresting officer unless there are extreme circumstances.
we live in times of extreme double-standards. no point in discussing it or will be downvoted and criticized to oblivion
Ford kills Covid-19 with ingenious car heater hack
The NSA wasn't the first agency to not follow the laws as written. In America no one acts like they care about the rule of law unless it impacts their personal lives.
Context is huge in cases like this, and I still haven't seen a video showing the beginning of the reporters' confrontation[1]. Does anyone have a link to a video that shows what happened prior to the videos that are being widely publicized?

[1] This one shows a bit more at the beginning, making it look like the crew had already been asked at least a few times to move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbXWAHad-4
I hope that anyone seeing this situation and thinking, “I’m not sure how race plays into this,” will go back and learn some more about the history of race in America. I think a good starting place is the podcast “1619” which does a really good job investigating where racial problems in America came from.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.htm...

Perhaps it’s naïve of me to think people will want to learn about what it really means to be Black in America. But I think if you really listen to what history is saying and really listen to what Black people are experiencing right now it will change how you think about events like this.
So they're going to not allow posts from gangsta rappers then, right? With avid public approval?
Thanks for clarifying. It sounded a lot like a political statement at first, but this makes more sense.