skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By the time this is over savers will be completely destroyed.

As a saver who owns his home outright, this statement cracks me up.

My outlook on this situation is that I can weather the storm for years with zero income and stay in food and shelter throughout without government aid.

The folks with little savings and high rent or expensive mortgages are who I'm concerned about. They seem far more likely to be "destroyed" in the coming months/years.

Us savers can either sit pretty and watch the chaos, buy the dip and profit handsomely from the recovery, or go shopping for cheap homes.
Nice things I'm learning while creating my framework
Chomsky and the original poster imparted a connotation which is simply not present in the original text.
@moderators please show some love to my hunts. :D They never go to homepage.
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Can you replicate this? This isn't happening for me on the latest Firefox. What browser and operating system are you using?
I’m open to a slow but secure processor. Certainly for my personal computing.
I have no clue, but it's highly problematic to ask women to publicly disclose that they got knocked up by their rapist. They shouldn't have to tell anyone that if they do not wish to disclose it.

If they keep the child, how they talk to that child about their paternity should be a private matter. It will be difficult no matter what they do.
One of the best articles on CSS gridbox, I have read recently.
Awww Facebook is concerned about privacy. Kinda cute, really.
> Now if you can get a miniaturized mechanical heat pump that has higher efficiency (day a coefficient of performance of 2-4) and you need to last for much longer than an hour, I think you can significantly beat the weight of an ice pack...

Adam Savage did a video where he and someone who appears ridiculously well-qualified built one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Ti4GP0ntE
Microsoft commits to H2 as an energy-transition fuel
There’s just that pesky issue of having to pay a mortgage...
> So you would enjoy living in a society were the children of the poor

If you do not have enough money to pay for your children then you should not have any.

> enter adulthood illiterate

You do not need schools to educate someone (an extremely limited amount of the stuff that I learned came from school, it was certainly not worth what I had to endure there). Nowadays we have the internet, in the past we had libraries, in addition they always had their own families to educate them.

> All I can say is that you present yourself as a very unsympathetic person

I could say the same for you. After all you do not seem to care about the employer that has to pay multiple employees who do not work at all due to maternity leave nor do you care about the taxpayer.
Roughly half of Hong Kong received subsidized housing in 2019. I strongly doubt they all choose not to work.

The idea that because one receives a benefit like housing or socialized medicine they'll just decide not to work is absurd. The people collecting these benefits aren't living like kings, there's plenty of incentive to seek a higher quality of life through work if one is able.
On the other hand, I don't want to send money with my email client, any more than I want to be able to play video games with it. And I'm sure there's people who want to send money on Google's platform, but don't want the rest of the Google apps.

Whatever happened to the Unix Philosophy? Applications should do one thing, and do it well.
It is impossible, in a literal and practical sense, for everyone to be healthy. That is a baseline that cannot be achieved, even in theory.

This isn't a minor nitpick. You've articulating an impossible thing as a target. There is no sane path forward from that starting point.

Fed, housed and clothed is a great baseline, but it has nearly nothing to do with inequality. If everyone in the world was fed, housed and clothed I expect all the inequality measures would be about the same as they are now.
Not really ironic. It only really started after Jobs died, and I think his whole point was that he needed to be the dictator to keep everything in balance. Though I'd argue in Apple's case it was less "salespeople that don't understand product" mucking everything up and more "a designer that doesn't understand function over form" (Jony Ive) mucking things up.
Ah right - that is more a problem of peace corps and similar projects. You can't just "air drop" technology into a place to produce economic results, it has to fit in with the local economy. Unfortunately in Afghanistan the local economy is opium.

(see also: attempted modernisation of collective farming in communist countries; "rocket stoves"; pumps driven by "children playing", and so on.)

I have a 4kW set up here at 56 degrees north in Scotland. The big downside is not the diurnal cycle but the seasonal one; off-grid is not viable here without wind. If I've read this map correctly New York state goes up to 45N, so you should get great power in summer but need to think carefully about winter. I believe you also get colder winters than us?
I suppose if you didn't bury it deep enough in your back yard, the tornado could pick it up and toss it. So then the question is what severity of events do you want to prepare for? Once-in-a-decade events? Once-in-a-century events? Or once-in-a-millenium events?
I've been using Nextcloud, I'm pretty happy with it. I got a managed instance at Hetzner, it's decently priced.
Alon did a really great job with the article, hats off.

I think WasmBoxC might be useful to try to benchmark how fast we can get Wasm to run server-side. We also hope to eventually beat native execution in server-side specific Wasm runtimes (such as Wasmer using the LLVM compiler and Profile Guided Optimizations) once the runtime ecosystem matures a bit.

Keep up the good work!
It's very easy to imagine: the plane lands on top of another plane at a busy airport.
Spectre vulnerabilities only matter wrt. information disclosure. Really we need OS's that are explicitly aware of information domains, and only flush address space mappings when switching from a more privileged to a less privileged domain.
I love twitter. I follow great number of artists and tech guys and people I used to be friends with in Livejournal (some of them I met in person).

I always wonder how people even come across problems such as hate speech and toxic people over there. Politic threads with people who have no understanding of the topic they are talking about? Stop joining trashy and pointless discussions - problem solved.
Are we fundamentally set on that spectrum though? Is it possible to make yourself someone who views their career as a means to an end and is thus more satisfied. My worry is that the more towards the 'job is the main source of fulfilment' side I am the less happy I'll be;
Mark Blyth is great and he's humorous. I really like his quick history of US neoliberalism.

https://youtu.be/8rxrjhWTdv8
Every major “movie provider” will have something like that. Netflix certainly has (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize).
> Automated trains are just like elevators

Ahem. No.

There is no collision hazard in elevators (essentially each elevator is on its own dedicated track). In railway, collision hazards are everywhere because you can change track and there are multiple trains on the same track, possibly (yikes) in head to head movements.

If you want to see the specs of a real Automatic Train Protection, the European one is public [1]. And that is only the protection part. There is no automatic pilot in there.

[1] https://www.era.europa.eu/content/set-specifications-3-etcs-...
It's the tyranny of the spreadsheet.
That's a disappointing anecdote. I'm not sure it's any different in the states, unfortunately. Still, I believe we should be emphasizing the cases where the IT workers stood in solidarity and present a unified front wherever we can.
But Rapid-Eye-Movement cycles happens at some point in between deeper sleep cycles.

In this case they claim to detect hypnagogia which from the article is the early transition from wakefulness to sleep.

In this stage you might have muscle relaxation or breathing pattern changes but probably not rapid eye movement.
That sounds ridiculous.

The most annoying part here in Poland is to get charged by your bank by not making enough transactions or not reaching the required specified amount of money or making ATM withdraw below the set threshold. If you managed to do so, you avoided paying monthly fees; that's the only things debit accounts owners should bother themselves about. We can send money between different banks w/o issues and operations are booked IIRC twice in a day; these are instant if it's between same bank accounts, or you can pay an extra if you want money being delivered instantly and recipient belongs to a different bank. We can also send money on registered phone number via apps and the recipient can pick it up via ATM (kind of check that is slowly being adapted around; it replaced previously shortly running system as it was prone to scams); each bank participates in local cash-less payments system called Blik. Of course Apple and Google systems works as well but Blik is more popular anyway.

Most of the time operations are being processed instantly online but there are rare situations where these are being queued offline up until terminal (speaking about stores) gets online.

Btw, are you still required to confirm operations via handwritten signature?
You can have multiple reports from beancount at current market rate, at original cost [1], at conversion cost of the commodity of your choice.

[1] https://beancount.github.io/docs/running_beancount_and_gener...
I chose to work in the public sector of Denmark because I’m ideologically inclined that way. That was decades ago, today I would chose to work here because of how much less hours I work compared to my old university friends in the private sector. They earn more money than me, but except for one of them who founded and now manages a successful company, it’s not that much more money. In fact when you calculate in all the extra hours they work, my extra weak of paid vacation, my better paternityleave, the two extra paid child’s sick leave days I get (per time your child is sick), the two yearly extra vacation days (per child under the age of 7) and my pension, I probably only earn around 10-20% less than them, and I get to spend so much more time not working. Hell I even bumped my hours to 30 a week for a while when my daughter was born. That was expensive, but it’s something you aren’t offered in a lot of private sector jobs.

I can’t begin to imagine how you guys in America get through life working so much. Let alone how on Earth you raise a family, maintain a relationship and have time for yourselves while you do it.
> People that reach for this kind of decisions occasionally seem to still have a colonialism point of view, like "they will do as told and we still stay in control", except that isn't how things work and eventually they stand on their own feet and are able to even outperform their "masters".

Oh man, the amount of Dutch "we're going to build a knowledge economy" news articles I've seen in the last decade that barely hide their colonial mindset is staggering, and the implied assumption that "we" are smarter than "them" is so blatantly racist that I'd almost feel offended if I didn't know that they'll reap what they sow with that attitude soon enough.
I would argue that exposing the rapist so that other women do not fall victim to them is desirable but at the same time I would not want to force women to disclose it if they do not wish to.

> They shouldn't have to tell anyone that if they do not wish to disclose it.

As long as they are fine with not getting the maternity leave, sure.

> how they talk to that child about their paternity should be a private matter. It will be difficult no matter what they do.

Certainly, I will not disagree.
The vast majority (>93%) is English (by document): https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...
Nice find. I'll try to get parts and assemble it for myself as well.
Maybe engage my kid into magic of computer science as a side effect ;)
It's also the fact that many modern, well-paid jobs are actually somewhat satisfying. Humans get off on solving problems, as long as they are allowed autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

The things I do at work are the things I would do also in my spare time, if I had more of it. I like solving puzzles. So if I'm going to do this stuff anyway, why not get paid for it?[1]

Of course, I don't want to do it for more than around 40 hours[2] a week (mainly because I have other things I also want to do, and there's only so many hours in total to do all the things in) but I do want to do it for a significant portion of my day. I need that intellectual stimulation to be happy.

But I can imagine some people want to go "beyond the average" and really show their employers their commitment. In a world where people happily volunteer 40 hours a week to satisfy their inner desires, there's little room to do anything other than offer 60 hours to prove yourself better.[3]

[1]: Well, I know why. If your employer is bad you won't find work as fulfilling. So maybe my hypothesis doesn't hold up anyway.

[2]: Now that I have a young child at home, I'm starting to think about asking for less than 40 hours. There have simply become more other interesting things for me to do.

[3]: Well, you could work more efficiently instead, which would be my preferred solution. But I think a lot of people are stuck in a rut of average skill but want to present themselves as beyond average. At that point you cannot do "better", you can only do "more". (Which might lead to better, come to think of it.)
I've been noticing a $3 charge and had no idea this was the source. "Subscribe" is very vague description on the credit card statement. The subscription services I enjoy using have descriptions that show up in Google and send me a statement emailed (or physically mailed) to me each time they make a charge.
do you have a link to the talk?
There are some interesting approaches for running Wasm code confidentially. I'd recommend to take a look into Enarx, as they are pioneering the space with SEV/SGX integration into Wasm workloads.

https://opensource.com/article/19/5/enarx-security
or they may come to you first. That's not a solution...daily torture.
It depends on whether or not you believe that HR will really hire the best people regardless, or whether they'll use terms like "culture fit" to hire people who are similar to people already in the company. If the company is hiring for "culture fit" then there are subjective decisions based on non-meritorious factors being made, and that's where people's biases lead to a homogenous team. To use your analogy, in some companies there are 20 white marbles and HR recruits another white marble because "they'll fit in with the team better" even if that marble's technical skills aren't as good as the red or blue candidates.
Tokenize, concatenate, sort, reduce.

MCMLXVII + LXV

M CM L X V I I + L X V

M CM L X V I I L X V

M CM L L X X V V I I

V+V=X, L+L=C, C+CM=M so MMXXXII. Convert everything to decimal if you wanna check my work.

Note that converting CM to DCCCC is actually pretty unnecessary since you can just combine CM and C to make M instead of having to count up lots of C’s. A computer algorithm would be simpler by reducing CM to DCCC but adjusting for human fallibility, allowing for CM + C = M makes things a little easier.

Also note that this method scales to any number of sums, not just adding two numbers together.
The parent seems to be implying that fed policy will continue to drive down the value of the dollar.

In this scenario savers get crushed as inflation whittles away the value of cash while asset prices climb. And the “folks with little savings and expensive mortgages” that you allude to actually come out on top.
This, this is why we can't have nice things. I understand the hacking concerns, but really, it seems that we've constructed arbitrary and next-to-impossible problem-space boundaries that appear to only stifle change and solutions to big problems.
How did you make the transition in the first place? My issue is that despite enjoying and having good leadership skills (based on external feedback so I'm reasonable sure that's not just my ego ) I'm not the strongest technically and getting into those roles seems to require becoming an extremely technically competent senior/principle engineer first.
To add to this - there are plenty of issues with peer review, but someone deliberately avoiding an authorship so they can peer review seems low down the list of real world problems.
Here you go: https://shieldgeo.com/maternity-and-paternity-leave-in-germa...

> In addition to maternity leave, there is the option for the mother or father to take extended parental leave for up to a total of 24 months, with a parental allowance of 300 to 1200 Euros (depending on salary), paid by the government for the initial 14 months.

My brother used this for his first child, so I’m quite certain it exists.
People don’t have anything to do, are out of work, are tired of being at home all the time, financial futures in jeopardy... many are taking to the streets to vent frustration in ways both healthy and unhealthy to society. Meanwhile, federal forces are massing in these cities in response to unrest, the operation and command of which is obtuse. De escalation unlikely without continued intervention, further escalation possible and perhaps likely in the long run, depending on the outcome of incoming political and societal events.
One more reason to use LED!
As an American that just immigrated and graduated Uni this is really disheartening. I was planning on going into SWE in London. Is finance the better option? The market seems to be hot for developers.
In python you have to focus more on the debugging where this run-time type-error came from. Also, Haskell has type inference unlike the other two.
As with all things, it depends on the situation.

If you own a rental property outright, you'd be keen to keep good tenants -- people that took care of their homes, nominally paid their rents on time, all that. Covid or otherwise, you'd be smart to cut those folks some slack if they went through rough times.

On the other hand, if your rental property is mortgaged, you need that cashflow -- not only because it's your income, but also because you're shouldering the risk for the loan. If you go under, it's not like the bank is going to let those tenants just sort of live there after repossession.

There really isn't a universal rule that makes sense in all scenarios.
You're still going to have to pay the mortgage on a vacant unit.
> The OS-based implementation uses the “signal handler trick” that wasm VMs use. This technique reserves lots of memory around the valid range and relies on CPU hardware to give us a signal if an access is out of bounds (for more background see section 3.1.4 in Tan, 2017).

On Linux you can also make use of userfaultfd(2) rather than handling SIGSEGV.
> bitkeeper
This was refuted by the person who named it- https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

This argument comes off as very condescending in a soft bigotry of low expectations-type of way, given there's nothing else within git that even hints to master being related to master-slave terminology.
One antipattern I've seen at a few companies is analysis paralysis, where there are endless meetings and strategy sessions to discuss a solution to a problem, but there is never an actual decision made. One company I worked for had a series of meetings with 5 or 6 people to discuss the solution to a problem and still couldn't decide on a solution (copying themes/templates between multiple sites. In the end I purchased a $60 plug-in that solved the issue. This same company paid a contractor $20k to build a custom app to turn a shared inbox into a ticketing system. This feature and more is available as a SaaS product for $20 from multiple vendors.

Another is gold plating, where more requirements get added on even after the initial requirements have been met. A few years ago I worked at a startup that made a dashboard for small businesses to manage their online business listings (Yelp, Facebook, Google, etc). They could see all reviews across sites, reply, update info, etc. So product comes up with a new feature to create offers/coupons and post them on sites. We implement all the requirements for an MVP which was creating and posting immediately. Then on the eve of releasing it they add a new requirement to schedule posts (the engineers all objected but were overruled). That led to complexity with timezones that added an additional 2 months of development and bug fixes. In the end, analytics showed that only 2% of users scheduled posts, the other 98% sent immediately.
You can't put German and Dutch salaries in the same categories as Spain and Italy. There's easily a 50% difference.

German salaries are really attractive for Europe.
The title is misleading. From the article it sounds like the chief engineering manager is leaving. Still not a great sign, but quite different from a chief engineer leaving. Some might argue that that's what happened with the earlier departure if Jim Keller, but Keller probably didn't do that much engineering anymore either.
Well there is sufficient evidence that the pie is not getting bigger for everyone (see e.g. Thomas Piketty's research amongst others). Inequality is increasing and that is dangerous to society. To give you another example, in the 1920s 1930s economists (Keynes amongst others) made projects that by 2020 we would only work 15h a week or less and there was discussion if this would become a problem for society (because people typically want to work). However, this did not happen, why? Because the benefits of improved efficiency etc. flowed to fewer and fewer people.

Regarding the winners being undeserved:
1. It can be shown that just using chance (or slightly unequal starting conditions) simple economic systems develop into a state where there is one player who essentially owns all (I linked to the article earlier [1]). So yes it can be just chance.
2. Once the winners have sufficient power they will game the system in their favour. There's lots of evidence for this, just look at the Panama papers for example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465446
so, some things:

1. Information disclosure is pretty important, especially if your process has AWS credentials in the environment block or it's doing mTLS with a long-lived key.

2. Those operating systems already exist, see e.g. https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/948818841747955713

3. Spectre V1 is within the same process, so this isn't a question of address mappings across differently-privileged domains. It's the same domain (i.e. address space).

4. Flushing address spaces across privilege domains isn't a concern on modern processors thanks to tagged TLBs and process-context or address space identifiers (PCID, ASID)
I wonder how much practice pilots get nowadays, when there are so few passenger flights worldwide.
The most visible part of Web site being moderated is not a scandal.
The question was whether you can get FAANG like compensation in other countries. While Google has an office in Switzerland, it is minuscule in comparison to the US.
I thought you were making a point about death statistics, not about policy. Now I could be wrong, but I think that the timing and location of early hotspots is pretty much random. Later, once the epidemic is firmly established in the population, the law of large numbers kicks in and statistics become more meaningful and predictive.
I originally thought canonicalize was an important step, but it actually isn’t for humans. For humans, CCCCCCCCC requires a lot more tedious counting than CM or even DCCCC, leading to more errors than simply allowing the human to notice that CM+C=M.