skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
145k death is not a first day number is accumulation after about 4 months. We can also from other country such as sweeden, they don't have lockdown, their death rate is declining and the total death is more or less the same with other country.
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Regional Air Mobility: Why we don’t plan to operate flights under 20km
I worked desktop support for a few years in a large US based corp. My worst day deploying a new machine was a laptop to a dev who came in and didn't understand what I meant when I asked him to unlock the machine so we could log him in. He wasn't even familiar with Ctrl-Alt-Del and the rest of the deployment went just as painfully.

I get task siloing and hiring green people and giving them a chance to ramp up but that just threw me for a loop.
Transhumanism is just a poor copy of christianity where deliverance is an npm module hosted on GitHub, accepting pull requests from the enlightened priesthood and deployed to the cloud. If you don't have at least a wireless transceiver implanted, downloading timely updates, then you're a heretic. After all, you also have to upload yourself so you can live on in purity after you cast off your biological remnants, for as long as the subscription fees are payed. Christianity has invented all this much earlier, and it was dubious then already.
There are some products that are so unreliable that I have zero sympathy for the company that's reaping what they sow with the warranty. I have a personal electric heater that has a two year warranty but refuses to last a winter. Like it just sits in my bedroom living a cushy life as far as heaters go. But I'm on my 3rd replacement and they keep re-upping the warranty and so I'll probably get a new one every year at this point.
As an engineer (ok software engineer but still) terrible engineering is always interesting: why would anyone build a ship like this without a keel, and why would anyone put 2000+ people into a ship designed for 500? Also why would anyone put massive top heavy weight on a ship with no keel and not do any calculations? And why did someone buy a ship like this because it was cheap and not ask why?

Engineering disasters always have lessons you hope someone learned before it's you in or on it.

I once won a cruise ship shipbuilding contest (use any materials you can find, it has to hold a two sixpacks of beer for 30 seconds) with a little raft that had both a tall keel and full water bottles for stability. I learned all this from engineering disaster shows.
Oh my, this required some digging.

The article relies on an experiment that basically presented a gender stacked (70% male, 30% female) panel of MBA students with hypotetical company with a set of hypothetical "core values" and then looked at how these influenced managerial bonus allocation decisions.

They test three sets of "core values", A,B and C (see below). They labeled A as "meritocratic values" and B and C as "non meritocratic. They find there is a male bias under A, a female bias under B and no bias under C.

They then conclude their pre-assumed hypothesis, that meritocratic values (A) favors males, is valid. When they stumble upon as strong a female bias in their "non-meritocratic" value set (B), they they decide it might be down to wording and look for a wording to make that disappear (C) They never try to do a similar rewording of (A).

They never seem to see how they are fishing for the desired outcome, never consider alternative explanations (people that are prompted they "earned" their position tend to look for similar traits in subordinates) etc.

The conclusion we can draw is MBA students seem to be potentially influenced by the wording of value statements in hypothetical reward games.

As promised, here are the 3 hypotetical "core value" sets as worded:

Set A: labeled "meritocratic"

(1) "All employees are to be rewarded fairly";

(2) "whether employees deserve a raise is determined by their performance";

(3) "raises and bonuses are based entirely on the performance of the employee";

(4) "promotions are given to employees when their performance shows that they deserve it";

(5) "ServiceOne's goal is to reward all employees equitably every year.

Set B: labeled "non-meritocratic"

(1) "All employees are to be evaluated regularly";

(2) "whether an employee deserves a raise is determined by their manager";

(3) "raises and bonuses are to be given based on the discretion of the manager";

(4) "promotions are to be given to employees when their manager decides that they deserve it";

(5) "ServiceOne's goal is to evaluate all employees every year

Set C: labeled "non meritocratic"

(1) "All employees are to be evaluated regularly";

(2) "performance evaluation forms include a quantitative as well as qualitative component about the employee's performance";

(3) "performance evaluations are part of the employee's official personnel file";

(4) "performance evaluations are discussed with each employee every year"

(5) "ServiceOne's goal is to evaluate all employees every year
The fact that its performant is tangential to the fact that its running on ARM android. IIRC Drastic still does a traditional JIT to recompile the guest ARM code into ARMv7a for phones (I might be misremembering, but I recall they had a whole lotta headache trying to update to support 64 bit ARM in time for the Android deadline for that. Also I remember them talking about tons of headaches dealing with the new storage APIs for Android)

Its really fast because of the tons of optimization that went into the application. It does many cool things to cut out overhead on the CPU side, but also it does a lot on the graphics emulation side, including hand rolled ARM NEON code for SIMD processing polygons. I'm not very familiar with DS emulation, but one of the devs for Drastic contributed to another project I worked on, so I had some chats here and there about these sort of things.
> If you’re interested in a deeper dive on what memory unsafety is and why it is Fish in a Barrel’s mission to rid the world of its scourge please read through last year’s post for the details.

As I've said before[1], in terms of Apple products, maybe we should let some bugs through (for jailbreaking).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783453
Adding comments to configuration files means you can’t manipulate these files automatically. The advantage of manual configuration and comments has to be pretty great if it has to balance against losing GUI configuration and the other features that depend on automatic manipulation of configuration.
> That’s not the point of defamation laws.

So Japanese defamation laws were designed to facilitate criminals, is that what you're suggesting? There surely are many problems with the political and legal system in Japan, but I think it's beyond ridiculous to assert that the law was created with the intent to facilitate criminals. The most likely explanation is that it's designed to prevent people from exposing every enbarassing details about others. Do note that "embarrassing" doesn't mean "criminal" here.

> In Japan, it’s perfectly legal to record someone

Slightly off-topic, but I don't believe it's that simple. People do have to respect each other's privacy.

> but making the fact that the person is dangerous and not in police custody will get you in trouble, and the person who assaulted you will use the video against you.

Not all video evidence is actual proof that a crime has been committed. If it didn't lead to convictions, then it's not surprising that you'd get in trouble for disemminating it as actual proof. And let me remind you that the Japanese legal system is notorious for its startling high conviction rate.

Another issue I have with your assertion is that video evidence of crime is often disemminated by the Japanese media way before it reaches the courts [1][2]. Some of these are picked directly from social media. Yet no one ever got in trouble for it, contradicting your statement. So far, you've provided zero evidence that what you said is commonplace in Japan.

[1]: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/08/5209ea0c6818-road...

[2]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/04/national/kobe-e...
Samsung et al to Bring National ID to Your Smartphone
I was about to say then you would think a PS4 emulator would be out by now then, but lo and behold, it exists! https://pcsx4.com/
Whales would be visible, along with all the life chemicals, so the analogy isnt that great.
Hmm this is a surely a common mistake to make but what does it have to do with games? If you sampled poker plays with similar differences you'd get similar errors.
There is also JSON: https://jsonfeed.org/

When I wrote my own static site generator [0] I added JSON first because it's dead simple to do so. Later I added RSS and it was quite some work to get it right ([1][2]), as in I wanted both the Perl and the Python version to output an identical feed. Last time(s) I checked, they do validate for my tumblelog [3]

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[1] http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/10/09/hand-coding-an-rss-2-0-...

[2] http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/10/09/hand-coding-an-rss-2-0-...

[3] https://plurrrr.com/
> Would you apply this standard to Farrakhan and his teaching that the white man was created from a evil witch-doctor and thus are inherently evil and have no souls?

Yes, as the law would clearly state: any expression of belief of racial behavioral/cognitive differences between ethnic groups is a crime.

> What if I said, I hate the fact that the Nazis committed genocide, but we have to admit that they where very good at executing a national vision that pulled their nation out of a depression and turned them into an industrial powerhouse in just a few short years?

No that would not be illegal because that is not an endorsement of Nazism or Holocaust denial. I will grant that it's an unnecessarily trollish and downright misleading way of describing the economy in Nazi Germany but it would not be a crime.

> What about other facts based on numerical data like the rate of absentee fathers in the black community or the statistically high prevalence of high SAT scores by Asians. Would facts be limited in your view.

No because these data can be understood in terms of ethnic groups without resorting to the pseudoscience of racialism.
The cube was a rehash of the NeXT Cube. Why do that again?
And that point you might as well just use your switch then.
Yes, in the meantime that you and I and the rest of our politically and technologically savvy demographic are exercising our darwinian news filtering improvement capacity, millions of less globally aware, less up-to-date and less capable, given other more present temporal, logistical and emotional burdens, are still going to vote with whatever news filtering skills they have at the moment
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, nor are trollish usernames, so I've banned this account. I realize it's a borderline case, but a username like that is going to forever exert a trollish skew on every thread it posts to (especially on this site, given the particular celebrity you're referencing) and we've learned that it's better to deal with this earlier than later.

Happy to rename and unban it if you want to pick a more neutral username.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I'll strongly second the recommendation to read about the Roman republic for anyone interested in history. The number of parallels to modern America are striking.
Never heard this before. Good rule of life.
How many of those people actually, intentionally opt-in as opposed to forgetting to uncheck a checkbox?

Out of those people that did intentionally opt-in, would they still opt-in if they knew the frequency of the e-mails?

I remember being on the receiving end of exactly the same scenario you describe - non-profit entity sending spam. I actually intentionally subscribed when signing a petition and assumed they'd e-mail once a month or so which I would've be fine with.

I was so wrong - they were sending some crap every few days, and even worse they attempted to make them look personal (sent from a real-looking name) even though it's the same garbage they email to hundreds of thousands of other suckers that assumed good faith on their part. In a handful of weeks my inbox was dominated by their spam.

Another case was for a tech-related non-profit that I donated to and explicitly unchecked any opportunity for them to spam me. Well guess what, one year later they still did. They apologized afterwards and said it was a mistake (fair enough), and yet some time later I got yet another spam campaign from them I had to unsubscribe from.
The TAM was way more style over substance than the Cube. The Cube did have some utility in that it was virtually silent. I know a lot of audio people that liked them for this reason. The TAM was a $10,000 pure luxury item.

That being said I would love to add a TAM to my vintage Mac collection.
The second one is pretty intentional - it'd be annoying it were downright impossible.

The first and third one fails on go vet. The first one also fails to compile if you never read from err in the entire function.
“Who decided that this was important to you, and why did you let them decide that?”

I love this, thanks.

However, it is possible to have a view contrarian to whatever is being published. For the life of me, I cannot seem to find any news source that I feel comfortable with or even trust.

Also - it's actually important that some people pay attention. The 'real news' is in the details, and it takes attention. Right now, there's a minor scandal in the Canadian government, but really it cuts very deep, to the point where the PM and the Minister of Finance are compromised, the later possibly in point blank illegal graft. These are the kinds of things that rot democratic institutions, and the manner in which they are conceived is usually quite subtle. The government sponsored news in Canada, is somewhat compromised by the fact that their source of funding comes from the source - and very unfortunately, some of the most detailed reporting is coming from the otherwise, low-grade daily tabloids. The only way to parse through the scandal is to read it all - and the only way for the electorate to solve the problem is to put enough political pressure, or, to vote them out. This is an unfortunate paradox, it does take quite a lot of attention on the part of the plebes to make sure things work well.

It's really surprising how vague sometimes corruption can be: if the oversight board doesn't raise a huge fuss, and neither do the mainstream press - then it's simply 'not corruption'. It's weirdly a matter of interpretation and spin, sadly. 'Friends doing business with friends' is normal, the line that gets crossed is sometimes very grey.

That said, it's 95% rubbish.
I've seen a lot of comments on this one being a probable experimental plane, most-likely nuclear-powered, which would explain its incredible performances.
> Intel said it had identified a "defect" in its manufacturing process that led to the new delay.

An excuse or a genuine mistake?
Top UI Interactions of the Week #6
Oops. Yeah, you are right. That's what I had in mind.
I agree, over the last week I've left my phone in my bedroom most of the day, removed my apps like brave, telegram and WhatsApp from the home screen. Just the phone, calculator and signal.

So much better, now the added step of opening an app drawer and looking for an app or searching allows me to disengage with all the constant reading.

I've subscribed to a few newsletters and leave to until the end of the day before bed or schedule some time and leave them unread.

Internet is a great tool, as long as it doesn't takeover.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

This article suggests some believe a crashed vehicle has been recovered. I'm not holding my breath, but as they say..

..I want to believe.
My biggest issue with 'not reading the news/social media', as so many have suggested, is that:

1) It feels irresponsible as a US Citizen. Especially with Trump as president. The corruption committed by the FCC chairman alone, that he nominated, feels like I should keep ahead of as a citizen. I got into politics after Microsoft tried to lobby the California government to ban copyleft software licenses like the GNU GPL.

2) There is good information valuable to me as a person or to my profession. It is easy to ignore CNN-a lot of it is click bait. Phoronix and Slashdot is another story. This post on 'Hacker News' is another good example. Yet it triggers the same dopamine release that gambling does-a random chance of getting something that may benefit you. But you are spending your time, instead of money, and instead of getting a lot of money, you get information you need to spend more time to act on in the future.
Yes I’ll second this. I’ve been through interviews recently and, given the current climate, it’s pretty gruelling compared to this time last year.

Most of them had 3 stages and a technical task that was expected to be your best work ever.

You’re not alone in feeling this way so just stick at it until the right role comes along. Read, study and improve in the meantime while you prepare for each interview. You’ll come out the other end a stronger engineer.
Here is the documentation: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8309.pdf

All 15 the following are moving to the 3rd round.

Third-Round Finalists:

Public-Key Encryption/KEMs

- Classic McEliece (Code)

- CRYSTALS-KYBER (Lattice)

- NTRU (Lattice)

- SABER (Lattice)

Digital Signatures

- CRYSTALS-DILITHIUM (Lattice)

- FALCON (Lattice)

- Rainbow (Multivariate)

Alternate Candidates:

Public-Key Encryption/KEMs

- BIKE (Code)

- FrodoKEM (Lattice)

- HQC (Code)

- NTRU Prime (Lattice)

- SIKE (Supersingular Elliptic Curve Isogeny)

Digital Signatures:

- GeMSS (Multivariate)

- Picnic (Zero-knowledge)

- SPHINCS+ (Hash)

All of Bernstein's submissions (except the joke one) are in the finalist or in the alternative list.

A note regarding the alternatives:

> The alternate candidates are regarded as potential candidates for future standardization, most likely after another round of evaluation. Some of the alternate candidates have worse performance than the finalists but might be selected for standardization based on NIST’s high confidence in their security. Others have acceptable performance but require additional analysis or other work to inspire sufficient confidence in their security for NIST to standardize. In addition, some alternate candidates were selected based either on NIST’s desire for diversity in future post-quantum security standards or on their potential for further improvement.

I am quite a big fan of SPHINCS+, Picnic (these two reduce their security to the one of their underlying hash functions), and Classic McEliece myself. SIKE is interesting too but as far as I know it needs to be used interactively. Rainbow is also interesting.
If you're able to share, I'm curious what kinds of systems these are (and also, I guess, how development velocity compared to statically typed projects you've worked on).
Reads like recipe for flame wars. Pick any of those topics and you can be sure to find someone with an opposite opinion of your own ;-)
WAL mode is how you address this problem with SQLite.

See: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

"Write transactions are very fast since they only involve writing the content once (versus twice for rollback-journal transactions) and because the writes are all sequential. Further, syncing the content to the disk is not required, as long as the application is willing to sacrifice durability following a power loss or hard reboot."
1. Because organizations which don't make their news rewarding to read will not be able to make a profit.

2. Because we humans evolved as storytelling creatures. We live and die by our ability to maintain a connection to our kinship group by telling stories.
I hadn't heard of this concept before, but I find it appealing. It's kind of like an insurance policy against groupthink, or a diversified long bet. More projects should have a small percentage of time dedicated to a drastically different allocation process, with iron-clad protection (like "director's discretion") to prevent manipulation, to help prevent getting stuck.
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A Half-Century Later, Police Identify a Homicide Suspect and His Victim
May have been cut off if it was at the end. Perhaps change to "in India" from "near Chennai"
> majority of English speakers

That's fair... That should have been "majority of native English speakers". Corrected.

You'll now argue who's a native speaker, won't you... :)
Haha. Yes the software engineering community’s grasp of bubble sort and binary searches has never been so good!!
This is also why planes out of use for extended periods are typically stored in dry, desert climates - less moisture in the air to cause corrosion.

The massive increase in stored aircraft due to the pandemic meant that there wasn't enough room at these airports, and so aircraft had to be stored anywhere there was space available, often in less than ideal climates.
How do you get around the need for a controller with an accelerometer in it?
Honestly, Resident Evil 4 was far more computationally intensive than anything Photoshop does. It's applying thousands of texture filters and transformations in real time and then mapping them to polygon surfaces with lighting transforms.

It's all software, some of it just costs more.
Mind that the iMacs of the time were considerably underpowered G3s with not the best graphics. The Cube was in another league.
Fawkes: Protecting Privacy Against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models [pdf]
The Fed buying up assets is a purely political move to prop up the markets, i.e. to protect investors at the expense of everyone else. It's a dick move for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it effectively says: all rules are off. We, the Fed, will protect you, the shareholders, from all systemic risk by using our fiscal power to as a guarantor of valuations. That in turn causes more people to buy shares, because when all the risk is gone why the hell not? And that in turn disconnects prices from reality. It is welfare for the wealthy.

I am a major beneficiary of this policy and I still think it sucks big fat honking weenies, particularly since it has been implemented by people who rail against welfare for the people who actually need it. The brazen hypocrisy makes me want to retch.
I would like to have that problem, which pan is it?
Yeah, if you file a bug with Yuzu, or join their chat channels and request support, and there's any hint that you didn't use your own switch you'll be banned instantly. They really do have a 0 tolerance policy.
10.4 was OK but for my money 10.6 was better.