skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>RISC-V is dominated by American companies.

Really? Have a look at the Premier members:

https://riscv.org/
Free VPNs are a privacy nightmare. You shouldn’t download them
> A pencil (a pen should also work fine)

That's a detailed explanation :-)
It is irrelevant whether it is the government that controls the enterprises or the enterprises that control the government when the symbiotic entanglement runs that deep as is the case in both the US and China.
Many are, the oil is being produced for the US market where it is refined. In any case, blaming the supplier will never solve the problem, everyone's consumption of fossil fuels is the problem as it drives a high price of oil that funds these projects. Notice US tariffs against Canada for softwood lumber, aluminum, steel, dairy, but NEVER OIL. Makes sense though, the US fund and develop the projects.

So the price of oil is the explanation (trillions of dollars), but everything about the tarsands is insane. The CO2 emissions are probably #3.

The man who invented the technology was horrified, then he died of cancer. Many dangerous chemicals in the mix are being processed and stored beside major rivers in tailing 'ponds'.

The tailing ponds that are actually very large lakes of toxic sludge kill countless birds each year. They installed scarecrows probably 10 years ago.

The natural gas (methane) being burned to extract the tar from the sand with heat is the actual emission of CO2. They were thinking about building nuclear power plants to generate heat instead. This would solve the emissions issue that everyone complains about, but then there would be nuclear waste being generated to create bitumen. This seemed a little too crazy and didn't go anywhere.

Finally, this bitumen needs to be processed, but it doesn't move in a pipeline. So yet another petroleum product is shipped in from the middle east to dissolve it, so it will flow through pipelines to the US for refining and let's face facts here, consumption.

Construction of pipelines, and the ongoing risk of a spill are all added to the list.

But people need to commute to their office job and they can't afford to do that if the price of oil is too high, and it is a hedge against a major disruption in production in the middle east which is only a few Iranian nukes away from reality.

It's all insane, but the CO2 is just lower on the list.
>pretty unstable

What do you mean? wxMaxima has worked fine for me.
Oracle is a big player in ad tech. Some of its notable acquisitions are Datalogix, Moat. TikTok has a pretty good algorithm for figuring what content you like. Unlike fb and ig you don't even need to have a account to use tiktok.
>we have a massive trauma and PTSD problem

Do we, or are the diagnostic criteria of PTSD so broad that the disorder is being massively over-diagnosed?

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/da.20586

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.09.006

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1745691613504115
Or multicellular life with buoyancy organs.
> Python2 and Python3 are practically speaking different languages - different syntax, different semantics, different libraries, and a different userbase.

Yes, and tools and infractstructure should account for that: Python 2 and Python 3 should use different file extensions, and libraries written for python 2 should not just adapt to Python 3 and break backward compatibility, but come _at least_ as a new major version - better with a different library name, as Go lang requires.

And still it would have been possible to support Unicode in python 3 without breaking backwards compatibility. It was possible to support in Common Lisp which was defined as a ANSI standard in 1994, and Common Lisp implementations like SBCL or Schemes compile to far faster code than C Python (while providing many of its flow control affordances, like list comprehensions, or a numeric tower). Why should it not be possible for Python? Apart from the developers not wanting to do it?
> From an operating systems point of view I would go for an intermediate language (similar to .NET or Java bytecode) that I also could do some on-the-fly verification of and only have very little compiled for the actual cpu (at least beyond dedicated embedded systems).

There are technical reasons we don't already have a 'universal bytecode' like this. One of them is that it doesn't fit the build model of C and C++. C deliberately doesn't shield the programmer from all details of the underlying architecture, and neither does C++. For instance, the values of sizeof(long) and LONG_MAX depend on the platform, and must be known at compile-time. This is the reason LLVM bitcode cannot be used as an intermediate representation for C programs the way Java bytecode is an IR for Java programs.

IRs are already widely used where they make good technical sense. Java, .Net, Python, Lua, and Erlang, each define their own. None of them would work well as a universal intermediate representation.

Programs for the Inferno operating-system used a bytecode representation, but modern OSs don't tend to offer 'grand abstractions' like this. See this wise comment from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807777
It might not be as official as in China, but the US government has US based companies in control.

The Cloud Act basically says that the Federal government can force any US company to hand over data, even if the data is not located in US.

Even before the Cloud Act was passed, with the PRISM program Big Tech were offering a backdoor to the NSA to access their data.

So, not as visible, but just as effective.
I can't speak for OP, but my issue with react-router is that for just a single project I had to significantly change things as they kept doing things in completely new ways. Once I gave up and used page.js (or some other non-react-specific solution), not only was the resulting code shorter and cleaner, it needed much less upkeep.

I'm sure there are situations where using react-router makes sense, but for me it was one of the few packages 'blessed' by the react ecosystem that gave me more trouble than it was worth.
Because that would result in a more devastating response from the side that holds patents. If china stops respecting international trade laws and agreements, other nations will hurt china's interests in return. Given the scale of the things, the weak spots will be found inevitably.
Interesting read. Just recently stumbled across "Victorian Farms" on Amazon Prime video and it touched on some aspects of how industrialization changed farming during that period.
Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
Absolutely. I was just noting it for anyone reading.
So this is just theft by the government in open daylight, right?
There's literally thousands of testimonies from people who have been in those camps - is that not good enough for you?
The implication seems to be that they're genuine OnePlus earbuds, and CBP thinks they're airpods. The two models do look a lot alike.

It'd be like CBP seizing a bunch of Samsung Galaxy phones, claiming they saved the USA from counterfeit iphones.

I really hope I'm missing something.
Things Come Apart
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/as_in
Powerful user segmentations for in-app purchase pricing
What does WSL have to do with:

> Ubuntu on Desktops, RedHat on some corporate servers, Debian on others, Pine in VM's, raspberian on rpi's, openwrt on routers, Android on mobile phones, yada, yada, yada

?
Those are easier to bring down with DoS attacks.
A nintendo switch has ~2 hours of battery...

There is a big difference between having interest in a market, and being able to compete in it. There are also many trade-offs.

Nobody has designed yet a GPU architecture that works at all from 500W HPC clusters to sub 1W embedded/IoT systems, much less that works well to be a market leader in all segments. So AFAICT whether this is even possible is an open research problem. If this were possible, there would already be nvidia GPUs at least in some smartphones and IoT devices.
Things just got interesting. Will be interesting to see India's response, considering India's position as a leading software giant.
> Britain still benefits from the consumption of industrial products, historically some industrial products consumed domestically may have been manufactured in Britain where CO2 emissions from manufacturing would be counted as British emissions.

It is not that products from China are shippped to UK without any countervalue in opposite direction. If UK lowers its per-dollar emissions and other countries not, then UK necessarily imports more 'dirtier' products, but exports 'cleaner'.

If you account it by production, then you see UK is cleaner and other countries not, if you account it by consumption, then you see all countries are a bit cleaner (based on how they consume UK goods). Accounting by production makes more sense as governments have much more control about production in their countries.
That author has a history of extreme bias and almost-vindictive personal attacks on the author of PCG. See the reddit comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8jbkgy/the_wra...

And the PCG author's response:
https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html

For example, for one of his arguments, he specifically chose a generator called pcg32_once_insecure, which the PCG author does not recommend due to its invertible output function!

Personally, I have read both arguments in detail and I would always use PCG or even a truncated LCG over xoshiro, which has a large size in comparison, potentially worse statistical properties, and no gain- faster in some benchmarks and slower in others.
Surprised? Breaking the norms was the goal. His voters are sick of the norms.
You could argue that the treatment of Native Indians is just as bad if not worse - hundreds of thousands have been killed directly, and their descendants suffer because US has nearly entirely eradicated their culture and identity. And sure, there are no concentration camps, but putting an entire ethnic group inside a reservation without means to support themselves is not exactly great either.

And US didn't build islands, sure - it just gets CIA to overthrow governments and replace them with ones much friendlier to their business.

Of course, no one is saying that the countries are equivalent. Just that superpowers are going to do evil superpower shit.
The European Union is also investing in RISC-V to become independent when it comes to chips [0, 1]. In the presentation they gave at the RISC-V Forum they explicitly mention tech embargo as one of the reasons why they started this project, together with the need for secure cryptographic functions.

[0] https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/

[1] https://riscv.org/2019/08/how-the-european-processor-initiat...
Genetic algorithm discovers 5 reflected TCP amplification attacks
I for one, cannot get over this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tsa+lot+of&_trksid=p233...

Pretty much theft and resale.
All the government projects I worked on, they had lost of contractors with proprietary software interconnecting between each other.
I'm a fanboi! I found this film incredibly powerful (esp. the comments during the closing credits). I've become a real bore when chatting with friends and other parents about this subject. Now I can simply say "watch The Social Dilemma" and return to discussing the weather!

I found the tips on https://www.humanetech.com/take-control very helpful to interrupt my addition to my phone (particularly the monotone one).
If you don't care about performance due to constant factors, then yes.
Otherwise, no.
Ubuntu is the WSL posterchild that might eventually get acquired by Microsoft.

Red Hat is IBM nowadays.

Android might just be running on Fuchsia in a near future, and Linux kernel is not exposed to userspace, so it is pretty much irrelevant what Android runs on.

BSD, NuttX, RTOS, Azure RTOS, Green Hills, QNX, Zephyr, Harmmony OS, yada, yada, yada
Oregon, Washington, on Fire
You have 3 people working an 8h day. You automate away half that work. So 3 people are now applying for 1.5 jobs. You give one of them the job and he has to work 12h a day. The other two are unemployed. Everyone is stressed, 2 people for lack of money, 1 for exhaustion and fear he'll lose his job to the other two if he doesn't give it 110%.

Kaynes thought we'd keep all three workers for 4h a day and pay them more for the privilege of working part time. But that isn't how markets work. And that's the problem we now face.
Serverless took over that niche. First with AWS Lambda & Google Cloud functions and nowadays solutions, like Google Cloud Run, do the same thing as Dokku & co without having to care about the ops part. They still make sense for the ones who use cloud providers with less offerings like Digital Ocean and don't want to deal with Kubernetes
some 'researchers have concluded' doesn't invalidate the fact that PH3 is an extremely simple molecule for which there are many known and unknown pathways. It occures naturally in the atmosphere of Saturn and Jupiter.
When that C code cannot run because of proprietary extensions, I guess it is a feature for the compiler vendor using an in-house fork of clang.
Introduction – Python Programming Language – Python Podcast – Ddsry – Episode 1
Here are my results for 10 tries:

Unreachable/dead site: 6

Domain squatter: 2

Partially broken, but actual website: 1

Working website: 1
Of course government surveillance did not exist before government, however surveillance certainly did, and rules put in place to limit government surveillance highlight this state, so that is a poor example
Humans have sent space probes to Venus, and the Soviet ones weren't sterilized. It was thought there was no need, given the extreme environment there.
Are you serious with these arguments? I am honestly baffled how people are STILL willing to defend China in 2020.

How about this, go to New York, stand at Times Square and yell out: "Fuck Trump".
Then, go to Peking, stand at Tiananmen Square and yell out: "Fuck Winnie The Pooh".

Let me know how you fare out :)
Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future
Those are all good points. Unfortunately there's a huge amount of noise in the green technology space, which has the tendency to drown out the scientific thinking.

However, I don't think dismissing biomass (or biofuels) completely is necessarily the right approach either. It's essentially a method of using natural processes to capture energy from the sun, and has the huge benefit of producing energy which can be stored indefinitely. Storing enough energy to get through renewable lulls without resorting to fossil fuels is an unsolved problem, and biofuels may be one of our best bets right now.

It would be interesting to see a full cycle efficiency analysis of biofuels - what percentage of the energy gained is used to grow and harvest plants, how much agricultural waste is currently burned/rotting without energy extraction.

Our strategy for stopping climate change right now seems to be "do almost nothing", which also seems rather risky to me. The quickest way to deal with it would be to use the market to drive innovation by applying a high tax on all extracted carbon. If renewable or carbon neutral energy was significantly cheaper than fossil fuels, the rewards for innovation would be much higher and so we'd see all sorts of interesting solutions. Right now green technology funding mostly exists in a subsidy driven top down command economy.

Unfortunately that requires political will, something that's almost entirely absent right now. People are all for green initiatives right until it actually effects how much they pay for fuel.
> from accessing whatever useful technology it still has not bought in the West.

Or stolen.

Examples among many other include Nortel/Huawei, Chinese state hackers trying to get into ASML.

And whenever a company wants to do business in China, they need to create a subsidiary in China. The Chinese communist party has a fellow embedded in said subsidiary, and they can veto anything.
Given the quality of the reporting so far it’s possible that they are getting 10% of the UK.
nazis took inspiration from americans for the holocaust

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-r...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-am...

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hi...
Hmm. I didn't think so previously, but outcomes at least seem to support your theory (0).

I would be very interested to see any research discussing the reasons for this difference and whether cultural expectations account for any of it (expecting a degree on the employer side driving up demand).

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/tertiary-education
This bit in particular resonated with me, as someone who's had problems with nervousness giving piano recitals:

I have a psychological approach to nerves as well. We have to consider the so-called importance of our little place in the world. This Beethoven performance is unlikely to be of any significance in three hundred years—and in three thousand years, not at all.

It’s like standing on a different planet and looking down; let go and lose yourself. At the same time, we have to realize that the smallest gesture has enormous implications.
I believe these are exactly those, and quite possibly ones being shipped to or by Amazon.
Wow, & what exactly is the objective of boasting such dumb claims on social media for a govt body?
That's still just a linear congruential PRNG with state sizeof(unsigned int). LCG is simple and has well-known flaws.
It is, however, odd that they didn't say something like "Counterfeit Airpods disguised in OnePlus Buds packaging" or similar. It's a bit too early to tell which is right, I think. Photos of OnePlus Buds from TFA show that they are a different shape on the back, distinguishable from Airpods. The CBP photos don't show this part so it's hard to tell whether they are counterfeits or just a different product.
What is the TSA supposed to do with these other than auctioning them off?
> The word cybernetics comes from the greek κυβερνήτης (kybernḗtēs) which means a pilot, governor, someone who steers.

TIL: Where Kubernetes got its name from.
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Web Scraping Services: Benefits and Limitations
Right, so Nvidia with their A2 rating and their solid balance sheet in a rock bottom interest rate environment still found it favourable to purchase Arm with newly issued shares.

That's telling us something about what they think about their share valuation right now.
You really don’t know how pervasive Chinese espionage is?
In my opinion not make money of seized items. Recycle comes to mind.
New Book: Learning from 100 Cloud Journeys. Case histories on moving to cloud
I think the OP should have said ACTIVE, i dont think any of those things are ACTIVE in the us

Sure be critical of the past, but we also have a recognize the difference from past mistakes and On Going, Current atrocities.
Nobody credible who knows what a concentration camp is would.
— It’s not on the list!

— What’s not on the list?

— Go ahead. It’s got to be in there somewhere.
(1) What you linked does not appear to be an ARM patent. (2) Even if it were, lack of big/little scheduling is hardly going to bring China's homegrown chip market to it's knees. And that's assuming the patent is ironclad and can't be worked around.
How to Create an SRT File: The Complete Guide
>Linus explained, "It's the fairness. Fairness is good, but fairness is usually bad for performance

dangerous words these days
The motion is consistent with an expanding universe. It gets exponentially greater the further away you go, and everything is moving away from everything else - not away from some "center" position. Also, some of this movement is faster than the speed of light, and the expanding of space explanation is consistent with our understanding of physics whereas proper motion is not consistent with our understanding of physics.
Life, as we know it, only exists in one single known location in the Universe: Earth.

If we assume life is abundant in the Universe, then we should be able to pick up signs of others, such as radio signals, or bio-indicators in other planets' atmospheres, and so, we ask where the aliens are.

Since we don't find any, we then assume that there is something preventing this abundance of life from developing into something we can detect, and something's called the Great Filter.

As of yet, we only have a single point of data, and since we're still here there's some speculation that we've allready passed through the filter. Another data point would mess up the math a bit and we could, statistically speaking, end up with a scenario meaning we still haven't passed the filter, and that we might still have an apocalyptic event wiping us out.

Life on Venus would give us a better idea of what to look for in other places, and that might help us narrow down the search a bit and find other places with life.

Intelligent life is a different matter. We don't know how common it is for

1) a planet to have formed around a star with the right composition of materials
2) have the exact right conditions for life to form early
3) for that life to survive for billions of years while
4) building up large reserves of substances that can
5) be used as fuel by a tool using bunch of talking apes
6) propel their civilization's technology far enough to match ours
7) send a signal that can reach our specific little dot
8) for that signal to be reach us during the miniscule time-frame that we've been able to pick it up.

I mean, what if the glory days of the Milky Way was 500 million years ago and we're developed just a little to late to be able to see the last remnants of galactic civilization crumble to dust? What if we just happen to be the first, and we develop past such technology before anyone else develops it?