skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So imagine a monkey is driving a truck, and it's headed straight for you. You're like, "What fools would let a monkey drive a truck??". The crowd scatters, cursing the stupid monkey, and those who would let it drive the truck. Someone eventually jumps on the truck and tosses the monkey out of the driver's seat. Or maybe the monkey bails out.

You put a sensible obedient human driving the truck, and say "Thank goodness we're safe again.", and go back to your business. The weird thing is, it seems like a common problem that has been happening for years, this monkeys getting into trucks and careening into the human population in various places around the world.

Of course it's not the monkey. Monkey's can't even drive trucks. The truck was being operated by remote control. The monkey is just a ruse to hide the truth. And when you carefully observe this pattern of monkeys and trucks, you can discern that it is some complex pattern of herding humans or human effects around the earth.

One could say the monkey was put there by "nationalists" but that's just a label of psychological manipulation, since everyone wants to have pride in their nation and wants their nation to prosper. You could say those secretly herding people with trucks are "globalists", but that doesn't adequately describe the situation, since who wouldn't want the world acting together solving problems with harmonious purposes?

If you think there may be some truth to this, I suggest we start by making darn sure trucks don't have remote controls in them. Of course this is figuratively and literally exactly the opposite of what many, perhaps unsuspecting, people are working towards. Also better for the long term, find those operating the trucks (which isn't exactly people, given the trans-generational nature) and figure out what's going on, and have them realize that such artificial systems of control are not beneficial and are doomed to failure.
They are most likely young adults who while probably know they are doing something wrong don’t know the significant impact on the people they end up causing.

Yes, very likely poor, desperate and also under duress by their “managers” to meet their quotas. It doesn’t absolve them of their sins though. The system might even be gamified for these callers and they lose sense of their own morality at some point if they have any.

This scam has been going for so long yet the authorities don’t seem to be doing enough either in US or here in India. I wish someone powerful enough takes this scam head-on and uproot the whole system. It really preys upon one of the most vulnerable members of our society and we should collectively do something about it.

/rant
Too slow is also a thing. They always seem to scroll the second you try to click on them. There's a neuroscience phenomenon whereby the mind fills in for the motion of the eyes, I forget what it's called but it was on HN a little while ago about how crazy the human brain really is.
'Industrial lego' as some call it. Get all right bits and pieces, put them together and you have a production line. Every piece comes with detailed specifications, performance curves, maintenance instructions etc - which means an industrial part is more expensive than consumer grade stuff doing the same task. But when you're building a big machine you don't want unplanned downtime.
I would hope that there is always a way to get code execution in kernelspace, though it may require flipping more and more switches.
Well done Google. But there is still problem with EDA tool license... Is there any replacement for Cadence Virtuoso tool for chip design?
> What's a comparable loss due to US snooping?

The list of interventions in foreign countries by the US is very very long ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U... ), although not all of them are unwelcome or unwarranted. So is the list of people killed by the US. According to their own words "We Kill People Based on Metadata". (e.g., https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-... )
Its only wishful thinking if you assume that humans are expected to survive. Will that happen? No idea? But even if humans survive then evolutionary pressure will eventually push them towards being a different species.
My platform team supports devs with a proxy that handles authN & authZ.
Service to service is secured using mTLS automatically.

I’ve stated it previously in the thread - you need to enforce conventions through tooling - which is where “devops” (ugh, I know, but really...) comes in to play.

We try to view the tooling platform as just another DDD domain.
They may not be US based.
It is compatible with .NET Standard 2.0 and the latest version makes use of .NET Core 2.3.

So plenty of stuff is available.

Besides it is not like one can blindly run .NET on other platforms, because plenty of applications make use of COM or DLLs written in C++.
> One mistake I've seen a lot is assuming that an extensive code base, developed by competent engineers, but which is very complex needs simplifying or rewriting in a simpler way.

Omg, this yes. I've made this mistake countless times. I'e done my share of rewrites or refactorings that ended poorly. Work long enough on a big project, and junior engineers will do it to your code too. Being on that end of it is a very frustrating experience.

But let's now balance that against the assumption at the other end of the spectrum: that an extensive code base, developed by competent engineers doesn't need simplifying or rewriting in a simpler way. As it turns out, this too, is a flawed assumption.

The more code I've seen, the more I've seen that most codebases that have survived any length of time are a mix of both, and it's hard to figure out what is what until you get some deep experience with it yourself. If there's been turnover in the team and the code has been under heavy churn, it's probably a mix of everything!
For one, timing isn't scaled to reading length of the texts.
I talked to them. They wanted to undercut Google on cost. If you don't do personalization, running a search engine isn't that expensive. I asked what the business model was. They didn't have a revenue plan. That was a problem.
Teachers face threats, books are banned as China pushes party line in HK schools
>Yes you can't because Americans aren't subject to Chinese law.

China certainly disagrees with you. Just look at the new Hong Kong NSL - it claims jurisdiction over every person on earth for offenses defined to vaguely as to be meaningless. This obviously has horrific effects for the people in Hong Kong - protesters are already being threatened as being national security threats for having a protest where they did nothing but stand still and hold up white paper - but also chilling effects for anyone who might ever visit Hong Kong, the PRC, or any country friendly with or afraid of the PRC, especially if they have an extradition treaty.

The law had been used to ban pro-democracy books and arrest democracy activists in Hong Kong within a week of its passing. Piss off the PRC enough and go on a trip to Thailand, and you might end up in a Chinese prison for the rest of your life, because article 38 covers any action by any person, no matter where they are and wether or not it was legal where they were. It was illegal in Hong Kong, so you're fair game if you're ever within their legal net.

While the FBI has more power over me day to day, I am not afraid of them arresting me for being a proponent of free speech or democracy. If I was someone who traveled more frequently in those previously mentioned countries, I certainly would be.
I will remember this. Not the exact article, but the general spirit of knowing how to incorporate those endless statistics books/ articles/ resources into a tool I can use to detect errors. Maybe I'll even graduate to judging them.
Yes, they built the technology on shaky foundations.

But that doesn't say anything about the user interface research and polishing they did.
Haha I've done that also.. Except my 486 was a GEODE like a low-power-sbc of it's day and I compiled Gentoo on that !! Tooks days !!! :) Good Times.
To add to that, Netflix has open sourced a tool called Chaos Monkey which randomly terminates production instances so that you can be sure that your overall system is resilient to instance failures.
"Apps like Instagram have a standard carousel for photo albums"

Yeah, but that only applies to users who are used to Instagram. It's definitely not an INTUITIVE feature.

I've had friends and family link me to Instagram posts, and though I've learned now, for a long time they'd have to explicitly mention there were additional pictures in the post, or I'd miss them.

(I don't know if it's different in the app, but certainly in the webpage those little dots at the bottom are non-obvious to a first-time user.)
If you have some references to confirm your theory about Google and NSA, please share a link.

Otherwise it is just ZOG theory.

Also, the statement about “being in bed” is very vague and non informative.
That's not what this tweet is about...
As in "allowed to".
1) It doesn't matter whether or not this virus is a lab escape. Much more important is to note that it could have been a lab escape and our modern transport networks and logistic networks leave us very vulnerable to viruses in multiple concerning ways.

If borders stay open to tourists and business as they were pre-COVID, this will happen again in our lifetimes whatever the source was.

2)

> Researchers in China have been unable to find any news reports of this new Sars-like coronavirus and the three deaths. There appears to have been a media blackout.

Why on earth would China do this? Surely it is easier to get people to help control a new virus if they know about it.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932

> The original version of Sim City was written for windows 3.x and included a bug that read memory that had been freed to the system. It worked in windows 3.x, even though it shouldn't, because that particular range of memory wasn't being used for anything else until the program was terminated.

> In beta versions of windows 95 Sim City didn't work because the operating system allocated memory differently, and Sim City would crash as expected because of the bug in the program. Amazingly, in the final version of Win95 the original Sim City worked. Microsoft engineers had actually tested backwards compatibility with Sim city, located the bug, and worked around it in their sourcecode.
+1 on this. Trying to get back that hacker velocity that doing professional software engineering seems to put a drag on.
I’ll never understand why Twitter killed Vine. It was everything TikTok became but years earlier. Everyone loved it and everyone would immediately start using it again if it came back. My only conclusion is that Twitter was heavily influenced by China so that the Chinese could push their product.
which makes it even worse, as they want to propagate it further.
I thought you guys were all in Milton Keynes, never been to your wind tunnel over there. Looks nice.
Former AVL F1 engineer supporting all teams.
I made a discord server for people interested in business and financial freedom
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Follow up: I got to that point, I think the words were “we’re not direct booting an alternate operating system” in reference to not running Windows in Bootcamp on x86 and to reaffirm that Bootcamp was not a thing, not that there would be no support for booting other things.
Maybe because of their sarcastic manner.

We have to be careful of what opinion to share, and how to share.
South China Morning Post was taken over by Jack Ma, billionaire card carrying member of the Chinese Communist Party, five years ago. Since then it toes the line of the Beijing regime.
My first microservices were written using Sun RPC, the company whose motto was "The network is the computer".

Since then we have seen plenty of microservices solutions come and go, what stays is the complexity of dealing with distributed programming.

Anyone that isn't able to write modular code using the language features is going to write network spaghetti code, with the added benefit to debug network packets and connection issues on top of everything else.
This reminds me of how cubesats kind of got off the ground because some launch commpanies allowed extra spare capacity to be sold or donated to student projects.
Reading comments like this after reading the article fully and it's a reminder how easy I forget I have a paywall bypasser, let alone a working one
> As for "advertisers get higher intent traffic", that simply isn't true. I'm not refuting your intuition 'cause it absolutely sounds right, but in terms of tracking and targeted ads knowing stuff like, "You left product in your checkout cart." is a waaay higher signal of intent.

For simple ecommerce flows, sure. But it isn't just intuition, having bought plenty of programmatic inventory over the years, there are perhaps as many non-online-selling advertisers using programmatic as there are straight "something in your cart" retargeters.

We used to get orders of magnitude higher conversions from websites where we did a direct buy aligned completely with the site's audience. The reason we didn't do more was scale - you can't do direct buys with every site, especially not when you already don't trust your buying agency. If we could, we'd have dropped programmatic entirely.

You also get agencies boosting their retargeting conversion numbers with BS like "view throughs". If your agency is trying to get retargeted view throughs in their hard conversion data, you're being scammed.

(In fact, I "accidentally" left the retargeting pixels switched off in GTM for a month. Made no difference to volumes or conversion rates - the reason they were turned back on? FOMO, plain and simple).

> cause _historically_

I'd argue that there isn't much "history" here to work on. The novelty of ad tracking is still very much there, and brands are still buying (and buying in huge scales, making up for precipitous drops in conversion rates), but when non-ecommerce brands stop being hoodwinked by buying agencies there will be a snap back.
I don't think that would have ever provoked this error mode, though.
With the PDK being open, does anyone know if any kind of NDAs are still required to get a chip fabbed? While free-of-charge fabbing is quite nice, I think being NDA-free is even more important so all work including the tweaks necessary for fabbing can be published, e.g. on GitHub.

BTW, it will be nice to try this together with the OpenROAD tools [1]. They have support for Google's PDK on their to-do list (planned for q3, but I doubt it will be ready that fast).

[1] https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project
https://theopenroadproject.org/
Are you just saying the California company Zoom is a "nation state spying program" because the founder is Asian looking?
As if the blame game doesn't take place with microservices as well.

It is specially "funny" if the microservices are developed by several contractors.
Now someone please do a House of Leaves VR game on top of this!
Looking back at my regular American public high school, I'm really impressed how they handled students who didn't fit the standard pace. One thing, they were very flexible about credit replacements, so if you didn't want to take an English class, you could work on the literary magazine, or you could replace social studies with working on the newspaper. Furthermore, the librarian "taught" a few periods a day where small groups of students could just quietly independently study a subject of their own choosing. Now that I think about it, there was also an option for students to take half their classes at the local community college, which a couple dozen people did. This way, even though we had a wide range of academic abilities amongst the students, we all got to move through school as a cohort, and no one had to truncate their adolescence just to avoid going insane with boredom.
130nm chips first arrived in 2001, so it's about 20 year old technology. This page has a few examples: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/130_nm
> I've long wondered why education isn't just a bunch of different ladders that people can crawl at their own pace.

Just a guess: as far as I understood US parents are very good at lobbying schools administration, and a lot of them would hate to see that some kids are smarter or more advanced than theirs.

Now regarding your ladder idea, in some cantons in Switzerland and some Bundesländer in Germany the school system is split in 3 lanes:

- a "gymnasium" lane that prepares you for university, mostly focused on theory and go further into technical topics

- a "general" lane that prepares you for white collar apprenticeships, more general knowledge courses

- a "labour" lane that prepares you for blue collar apprenticeships, provide more practical courses and learning support

Lane names don't really matter as they are different from place to place, but that's the general idea. Also apprenticeships opportunities are not locked based on the lane you went to, that's just the general idea. And you have multiple ways to move from one lane to another at any point during your school life if you don't fit for some reasons, with some conditions (for example you need quite good grades to move from "general" to "gymnasium").

The difference I've seen between the Swiss and German approach is how early kids are split. In my swiss canton that was after our 6th grade, so roughly at around 13 year old. In Germany that's around 10 year old.

PS: keep in mind that both Switzerland and Germany have high level of autonomy for cantons/Bundesländers, so things can be drastically different from place to place.
If you view digital contents as industrial goods, the internet today which allows apps, services to flow around the world without much burden (e.g. tariff, import control) is already a miracle. It's no surprise of countries to start building "customs" on the internet and that may become a trend considering the deglobalization happening these years.
What's your definition of Water scarce? 38 years, Barring the dessert region, which part are you talking about?
The efabless people that the talk mentions a bunch of times are using a fully open-source design flow but I think it's a bit hacky (as in, a bunch of command line tools from various open source projects, some of which may be unmaintained judging by the commit logs). They seem to have successfully fabricated a RISC-V based SoC with it though, which is crazy cool.

As somebody with a decent amount of FPGA experience, having a go at setting this software up and seeing if I can get anything to synthesise and through place and route is something I've been intending to have a play with, but I haven't had the spare time.

It uses yosis for synthesis and a few other tools for the rest of the process, and is called Qflow - http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/index.html
GP is talking about Zoom. You're talking about TikTok/Douyin
I may regret this, but the gold standard of intellectual coherent denialism is https://wattsupwiththat.com/ ; I see they're still obsessed with Michael Mann and the hockey stick.
It's long been a bit strange that they had two products. I needed to upgrade onto Unifi Protect as I literally couldn't get the Video app to load, it would just instantly crash.

Protect is nicer, however the app is also fairly buggy. It let's down the quality found elsewhere in their product suites.

Since upgrading to Protect, and rolling out new hardware at a new home, I still need to manually kill the app every time I've used it on iOS. Otherwise it says it can't connect to my system. It'll always work the first time, it'll never work a second.

It's frustrating, and hopefully moving from building two sub-par products, to focusing on one, will improve the experience for everyone.
Apple banned Facebook's Onavo VPN app while it wasn't banned on the Android Play Store.
Lol. It's owned by Alibaba. It definitely is. The content is cringeworthy nationalistic guff
Partially, Electron already has an issue open for the DTK because Chromium doesn’t like it: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/24319
It might have prevented this failure by killing stale HAProxy instances...
Why don't we just ban gift cards? They're a scam by themselves, anyway.
Yes. In a normal world, American scientists and healthcare researchers would be available to help in any sort of catastrophe.
In Austria at least the alcoholic beverage used does not matter that much, especially in eastern Austria drinking games are also played with wine and must, not to mention that lots of drinking games everywhere are based on the consumption of spirits
In the PC world a discrete GPU means you get a second chip with a thermal/power budget of 70 to 200W. On a SoC the thermal budget is more limited, so even if they integrate nVidia IP on silicon, they can't clock it as high.

Of course by "integrated" Apple could mean they just solder a GPU chip to the board. Or they built a surprisingly performant GPU core for their SoC, though I wouldn't expect it to be much faster than what AMD integrates in their CPUs (30% at most? Still much slower than discrete).
Why talk about future reactors that are not yet available? Why not talk about existing designs that could solve this problem? I always hear this hyper optimistic talk about how the next generation is going to solve all the problems and every time someone talks about a completely different design. If there is no consensus on which design to build then how is it possible to rely on a new generation of reactors to solve problems that need to be dealt with now? What if I don't want to wait that long? What if I want to start building 100-1000 reactors tomorrow? That is probably the only way to convince India and China to stop using coal in the short term.

Investment stopped because giant monolith plants are difficult build and operate profitably. You need to find a way for private companies to be able to afford construction and operation themselves. It should also be economical to shut down reactors that have critical design flaws, botched maintenance or simply don't follow modern regulations.

I personally can't believe that people still use "public dislike of nuclear power" as the main argument why nuclear power failed. If it were that simple then some "evil corporation" would find a way to keep operating nuclear plants the same way we are stuck with coal. What you really need to do is discover an existing nuclear technology that is safe, economical and so attractive that people want to get rid of their old nuclear reactors and replace them with the new model.
Tests do not exist to prove correctness.

Tests exist to help prevent you from changing behavior unknowingly.
Hong Kong is part of China. Obviously going to China when you're a well known dissident is playing with fire. But I don't see what that has to do with banning apps from the app store for regular US users? This isn't actually news. Their are currently European and American citizens under arrest in Turkey, or Saudi Arabia say, has the US taken any Turkish apps from the app store?

Or for that matter has the US currently banned any Russian apps, probably the most notorious country when it comes to cyber-attacks on the US and arresting if not even killing dissidents?

It's a total non-sequitur, it's got nothing to do with security. It's an appeal to the increasingly rabid American population to deflect from covid or the general state of the country. It's the new 9/11. Just start accusing China of random things and hope everything else goes away.
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Many countries have banned some or more services (especially uber and the like received many bans). But even if others didn't, it seems like a very weak argument to me.
This is super friggin cool. I love this.