skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom executive accused of disrupting calls at China’s behest
It's a different skill set, though. Just because someone was a mediocre academic doesn't mean that they weren't a great candidate from Google's point of view. There are also lots of very successful academics who Google wouldn't hire.

For my part, I had a couple of decent shots at getting a tenure-track job, but I doubt I'd make it through more than a couple of rounds of Google's interview process. Perhaps it's easier than I think though (I've not tried it), but for sure there are vastly more people who want to work at Google than there are positions available.

The chance of getting a tenure track job can vary a lot from field to field, so it's not surprising that people are reporting very different views on this.
Because as the article states, JavaScript is widely used by their plugin developers, while AssemblyScript is still nascent (little-used, missing features, has bugs).
If you need to "drown out" noise while in the office, I think there might be something wrong at your workplace. For me home, where you and neighbours are typically off, has always been more loud than workplaces where you need to concentrate.
The wasm vm has to parse, validate, and compile untrusted input. It also exposes host calls. Those are all potential attack vectors. That’s at least roughly 50K LOC.
Since you mentioned Quake 3, I like listening to track 5 of the original Quake soundtrack. As a song.

Welcome to your claustrophobic terror: https://youtu.be/UMcFgMbhU1w

And something for the feels, this is the soundtrack to ones ascent to heaven:
https://youtu.be/LO7x_T7JP9k
I've profiled the compilation of a small but not trivially written crate (~5k lines, with macros, many UTs etc.), and the vast majority of the time (78%+) was actually spent on the LLVM side (see numbers in a post above).

In other words the Rust language design (as opposed to the compiler implementation) was not the bottleneck in the compilation time; the factors were well-known issues of the Rust compiler implementation: 1. it relies on LLVM, which is slow 2. it generates slow to compile IR code.
This is more about a change in perspective. Its about giving a voice to the generations that existed before us, and what they have to tell us about how societies function and how to optimize for human happiness. The alternative is making up the rules of how civilisation works from first principles using a rationalist blank slate, which went horribly wrong when the communists did it, and goes completely off the rails right now [0].

The idea that we are rational decision-making machines, where all you have to do is to allow maximum freedom of decision making on an individual level, and you will automatically arrive at a happiness maximum, turns out not to be true. Communities are important, (shared) values are important, the right norms are important. There is much of value to be learned. It is not about accepting all the old ideas, because norms are evolving for good reasons, but instead take a hard look and evaluate which ones actually made a lot of sense.

[0] https://twitter.com/swipewright/status/1340199529891549184?s...
For clarity, do you work at Shopify? These all sound like valid reasons, I'm just curious if they're the ones that motivated the Scripts team at Shopify.
Side remark, but I really wish interviewers gave me the option of a terminal with vim since that’s pretty much standard on any Unix machine I might ssh into these days.

All too often someone puts me in some weird IDE and I feel like a cat with boots on.
I liked the book, and the (geographic network) advantage for Eurasia was a fair point, but the arguments that domestication couldn't work on most wildlife of the Americas struck me as pure survivorship bias.

Really there are simpler answers for why a high density northern population would have to put up with animal husbandry, while any low density population with hunting opportunities would tend to find it a pointless burden.
> There's good reason why on printed books you don't ever see more than about 70 characters per line of text.

That reason is called format not readability, though.

Newspapers (if you still remember these) go way beyond this limit and are still readable.
The new way of interacting with videos and other media online does warrant a different term. Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV, reading versus paging through the newspaper, etc.
I might be biased (I am an engineer) but I call this behaviour " MBA mentality VS Engineer mentality". Is this malady that slowly has infected top engineering firms (Read HP, Boeing, IBM) and converted them into "sales organizations" that rely on marketing and old reputation to survive. MBA's concentrate on the (albeit short term) profits, Engineers concentrate on the the product.
You can never be sure. What you don't like could be someone's calling.

Try to find people in your network who work for the company before you join to get a better idea of the real state of things
That’s because distribution is currently “open” for some definition of “open”, due to the advent of internet protocols and risk of legislation.

If the US cable TV companies wanted to shut down access from Apple/Netflix/Disney and force them to go via the cable TV company like they used to, they technically could (cable TV internet is the only high download bandwidth option for most Americans). They wouldn’t brazenly do this by shutting down access completely, but they are doing this via throttling and I could see rate limiting certain services in the future unless you pay more, etc. Or Comcast can exempt itself from data caps.

At the end of the day, the owner of the pipe that comes into your house or the wireless signals has the technical power to control what comes in and out and at what cost. Which is why it should be a publicly owned utility.
China is more vulnerable to economic disruptions because it is less free of the two countries, in fact just like Swiss in your example.

Secondly, next time you want to make laughable accusations you may want to check other sources so that, you know, you don't come across as a biased leftist.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006581/to-meet-energy-target...
If anyone has additional reading along these lines, please post.
What part of that quote did you feel is an inaccurate paraphrasing of what you said? Were you not insinuating that <center> was a victim of change that happens "every few years"? If not, why did you bring it up?
Intel also i guess ?
You don't need to go to war and study soldiers to observe this very human phenomenon. You just have to be around young children for a short while.

Kids will run and tumble and bonk their heads and get up laughing. Then they'll catch their finger and look at it: if it looks fine, they carry on but of they see a drop of blood, suddenly they're in mortal pain and the end times are nigh as they scream in agony.

I don't think people grow out of that. The stakes just change as they get older.
> or maybe i'm just getting old and cranky.

I think there's an additional dimension to it, which is the songwriting and composition itself. The lo-fi hip hop flavor that you note is part of the production style. However, you could just as easily produce a song with a different style and it will still be the same song.

Perhaps what you are irritated by is that there's no substance to the song underneath the style. That seems to be pretty common with pop music today, sadly. But while that is true, it was equally true one, or, two, or three decades ago.
> the 1/n scheme indicates the length of the sequence upfront, whereas the backslash scheme doesn't.

I've seen a variation of the 1/n scheme that literally uses "1/n", "2/n", etc. to avoid specifying the length up front. Usually the end of the sequence isn't indicated in that case.
I mean ... parent was talking about Bad Science, Ben's first book in 2008.

You seem to be comparing his second book, Bad Pharma (2012) with Marcia Angell's 'Truth About the Drug Companies' (2005), and assuming some claimed disparity in popularity is down to author gender.

It may be that new readers will pick a more recent publication, assuming it to be more contemporary. Or that they're (more) familiar with someone that had generated a large online following. (I think that's why I picked up his book, but had not heard of Marcia Angell.)

OTOH I'm not sure what '"skeptics" hated' refers to. Looking now on Amazon (I am not happy about visiting this site) both are showing 4.6 / 5.0 ratings.

On Goodreads Bad Pharma is showing 4.1 compared to Truth with 3.95 (but that's a pretty tight race).
Don't newspapers use columns, and thus go way below this limit?
Even Redstone appropriated the phrase from elsewhere.

Though it’s often misattributed to Bill Gates, Sumner Redstone popularised the phrase “content is king” which was used in a 1974 book, and pre-dates even that. See: https://lgkmarketingcc.com/content-king-said-better/

The book seems to be J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production. W. C. Brown Company, 1974, 274 pages. (https://www.worldcat.org/title/magazine-editing-and-producti... (Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=lMpHwLnvsvAC&q=%22content+...)

Earlier appearances in the 1960s refer to educational films (https://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-improved-learning-a-co...). (Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=LiQgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22content+...)
A curious article. I'm not sure Ford even understands what friendship is. His only attempts to frame it are through quotes of contrarian literati, which leads nowhere, especially without insights into the state of their lives when they spoke. Without that, the references are largely purposeless and merely provocative.

Methinks Ford would have done better to define his personal notion of friendship by contrasting it to a model that most of us would recognize. Thereafter it would make more sense to observe that, like many other authors, his need for companionship may be twisted or absent. To explain this he could point to the origins of his state of mind — perhaps his profession, certainly his upbringing — the latter of which is the subject of his book, apparently.

But as it stands, this article doesn't stand alone very well, and certainly doesn't propose friendship to be victim to the general perversity of life during Covid, which is the thesis I inferred from its title.
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/lighting-ceremony (2009)
> Grassman

I'm starting to see a pattern in those names
Wow, that's a scary story.
I know it's mostly fiction, but it reminds me of the "Can we get serious now?" in Sully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1fVL4AQEW8
Richard Ford's novels, The Sportswriter and Independence Day, are both excellent. Surprised something he wrote is on HN, but, here we are.
I should have explained that I am thinking of a pure software engineering job. I.e., the kind that you can apply for if you're smart and can code, but don't have a research background that jives with the kind of research that Google is doing. If you want that kind of job you're competing against a lot of very smart people who've studied very hard for the interview process.

If you have an ML PhD or something like that, it may be a different story.
Members of the US Space Force will now be called ‘Guardians’
First Covid-19 vaccine approved for Swiss use
The thing that all biologists fundamentally understand is that none of this stuff has been designed. Every process in the body happens due to chemical reactions that do happen spontaneously. The replies above don't seem to get this and instead consider a human body to be the product of design like a car or something. You can't just throw metal at a car and hope to invent a new type of gearbox. But throwing stuff at living things is exactly how change is driven. If we were immutable we wouldn't be here.
I think that simple should be understood here as easy to use. As a crude analogy, the mechanical principles underlying a car with an automatic shift aren't simple, but the abstraction it provides makes driving much easier to learn.

A more mathematically grounded example could be the complex plane compared to the real line: when encountered for the first time, it is not simple in any way, but it offers a clean solution to many (originally real valued) problems (perhaps by the fact that it is algebraically closed?).

NB: the author of this library also made a very interesting presentation of geometric algebra (using this library as vehicle) for SIGGRAPH 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo

It has been posted a few times on HN before.
I don't see what is confusing or messy about display:table. Of course if you use it for a purpose it is not suited for, it gets messy. But so it is with everything.
> For someone unfamiliar with Twitter, this is completely undiscoverable and it has caused me to no longer send Twitter threads to people I know that aren't on Twitter because of the confusion it causes.

For sharing purposes, you might try using one of the "thread unroll" services to get around this issue.
Unpopular opinions and facts that will be automatically discarded, downvoted, flagged, and chastised into oblivion because they are contrary to prevailing dogma:

1. Women's access to the job market competes with men, and takes away men's ability to earn an income that can support a family because it offers the market a surplus of labor.

2. Widespread promiscuity prevents marriage from happening.

3. Things are very good for rich and successful men, but terrible for the rest.

4. Lifestyle changes, beliefs, and attitudes are leading to a soft reduction in fertility rates. Kidfree, MGTOW, celibacy, etc.

5. More women becoming highly-educated and then expecting men to have even more education.

6. Tinder and such apps where women get used by an Ivy Leaguer for a sport fuck, and she automatically assumes she's a 10 princess and everyone else is unworthy.

7. The atomization of society into anonymous, self-obsessed groups of 1 without a community focal-point like a church.

8. The extended infantilization of men and women such they don't or can't interact with each other successfully during their prime reproductive years. This is partially due to two-working parent households not teaching their kids how to act.

9. The attitudes of shunning single men as worthless.
I was lucky enough to have a library with a massive cd collection. Moving fast it would still take me 4-5 hours to flip through and grab ones that might end up being interesting.

That and radio were my discovery processes and it worked great.
The linked article mentioned 'allergic reactions', it further links to a cnn article [1] that mentions 'significant history of allergic reaction', both articles don't clarify the condition.

Sorry for asking questions.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/09/health/covid-vaccine-alle...

I think they should give some detailed clarifications on the issue to the public, as the producers of the vaccines can't be sued for damages, in the event that something goes wrong.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/28/coronavirus-vaccine-prep... (for the US, don't have any information for GB on that issue) In the EU producers were also seeking exemptions https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/covid-19-vaccine-makers-w...
Just seeing this comment, but awesome! I’m glad someone aside from me wants to use it haha.
Full device root from JavaScript https://github.com/synacktiv/PS4-webkit-exploit-6.XX
Meta-analysis is still very valuable though because you would have a hard time finding significant disagreements between studies otherwise. Of course it comes with the benefit of not having to produce novel data but IMO that does not absolve such studies from merit and impact.
JavaScript in Djitsu – importing, exporting, and everything in between
Show HN: Argos Translate – Open-source offline translation app written in Python
If Google is flaky you use yahoo.

If Facebook/Twitter/instagram is flaky you wait until it isn't and then post that update.
See also 'The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages', specifically the "Fetishistic Languages" part:

https://youtu.be/mZyvIHYn2zk?t=2179
I'm in my late twenties. I've never had many friends, but I can count the number of times I've done something social in the past year on one hand. I spent my birthday and all the holidays by myself, and will be spending the upcoming ones along as well.

Most of my human "contact" comes in the form of things like GitHub/slack/etc, or discussion forums related to programming.

I've had extremely few close friends in my life, and always been single. I've tried to date, but making connections with other humans is oh so incredibly difficult.
I think I'm rather likeable, I get along fairly well with most people I meet. I'm friendly, agreeable, and try my best to positive. But that's analogous to me being a good sport: that's great and all, but when it comes time to choose who bats on your team, you want someone good at sports.
You want friends who are fun, make you laugh, who are good matches.
You get good at sports with a lot of practice.
You get good at being a companion, someone other's enjoy being around by...

I had a very close friend once, about 6 years ago. It's embarrassing just how motivating desires to return to those feelings of acceptance and support are. I'm very intrinsically motivated, but 5 year plans of spartan existence to try and make something of my interests, to become someone respectable, someone another would want to forgive for their flaws and awful dorkishness, is something that keeps me going.
I know in reality that this would only make me less interesting, more distant. But if I am to make something of my life before I die and am forgotten, I need dedication.
I'm not sure how you're making the connection between competition within labour markets leading to less bullying?

The research field may not be that relevant when it comes to bullying as it is prevalent across fields.
Famous example was NASA (according to Feynman)
The article starts with "what is webassembly", but doesn't breathe the keyword WASI [0], although they are using a service that's implementing it?

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
First, the phrase "content is king" doesn't originate with Bill Gates, or Sumner Redstone, who popularised it. It appears in a 1974 book, and pre-dates even that. See: https://lgkmarketingcc.com/content-king-said-better/

The book seems to be J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production (https://www.worldcat.org/title/magazine-editing-and-producti...). W. C. Brown Company, 1974, 274 pages. (Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=lMpHwLnvsvAC&q=%22content+...)

Earlier appearances in the 1960s refer to educational films (https://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-improved-learning-a-co...). (Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=LiQgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22content+...)

A discussion based on this premise should at least get the provenance straight.

Aguments over provenance notwithstanding, my view is that the aphorism is a convenient bit of stage distraction attractive to media monopolists themselves aware of the real truth: network control is emperor. Andrew Odlyzko argues this; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=235282 (as @fmajid notes elsewhere in this thread)

And this goes beyond just getting the proprietor's cut, the vigorish, skimming your 5, or 10, or 30%.

Central control of a network means deciding what that network is. Where it begins, where it ends, what goes in, what comes out, who can receive, who can send, what interactions are possible, speeds and latencies, what messages are heard, what are not, who pays, who gets paid, who plays for free.

These factors are wholly ignored by contemporary US (Borkian) antitrust doctrine.

It's not just the vig.

Sumner Redstone died this past August at 97;
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/obituaries/sumner-redston...) (NYTimes).
Ask HN: Differences Between Base Images in Google Cloud, Vagrant Cloud, Do?
I would like to have the same base image (e.g., Ubuntu 16.04) for dev and prod environments. If I use terraform or vagrant, I see that I can use base images from different cloud providers, but I don't know to which extent these base images are similar/different.

I could find the "source code" for the images provided by Google Cloud (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/base-images-docker/tree/master/ubuntu) so I know exactly what comes in the image. I couldn't find similar "sources" for Vagrant Cloud and DO images.

For example, https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64 doesn't tell me anything about what's inside the image (in the way Google Cloud does)... it does however point me to http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/ (but here I cannot see how the images were built).

In any case, is it fine to use, for example, the "ubuntu/xenial64" base image from Vagrant Cloud for my dev environment, and the equivalent Google Cloud Ubuntu 16.04 image for my prod environment? I will provision them equally, but my concern is that there could be small differences in the base images themselves. Same goes for the DO base image if I need to use DO as cloud provider.
So the plane is built with the assumption that the pilots are ready to jump in and override within 10 seconds, if out of the blue the auto-pilot decides to try to crash the plane. How about a no, and we re-build the system so a failure like that becomes extremely unlikely and not a regular occurrence?
I think this is a commendable idea. It may be that conflating it with README is not the right idea, but I can definitely see value in having a playground/ sandbox. Most people commenting here are probably comfortable in code and getting things up and running locally, but that isn’t everyone or even most people. Being able to see the library do what you want gives newer users far more incentive to stick with the possibly painful process of making it work for them in development.
A Vampire Octopus Content Generator
If it were a non-trivial example I would split it in two: One function to generate the data, and one function to count and do the statistics. Then you can pass the second one known datasets and verify it gives you correct statistics, and at least be confident that that part is correct.

Of course that still leaves the generation and randomness part. You could make a separate function for numberToTailOrHead(...) that you can test. Or maybe you should have the ability to send in which source of randomness it uses. And then you can provide a fake random implementation that tests the edge cases (0, 0.5, 0.999).
Slow rollouts are a security hole.
Hypersim: A Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Indoor Scene Understanding
The US (and European) support for human rights around the world is a bait and switch PR operation to win public support for wars of aggression. Occasionally something like this becomes public (in the west, everywhere else, it's common knowledge). "Why do they hate us?" is a dumbass thing to ask.
A headier pot certainly makes my mind sharper. Now, a pot with a heavy body load, that's more of the stereotypical "lazy stoner". But to say "nobody ever got smarter from smoking...weed" is kind of short-sighted.
Show HN: Sukhoi A highly flexible Web Crawler in Python
For those that have access to Menlo Security’s safe browsing saas service, it’s worthwhile analysing what client side JavaScript can tell you about the runtime environment. Device aspect ratio is just one of the strange things reported.