skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They do not loose anything

Yes they do. Although the Senkaku Islands' "status quo" is controlled by Japan, China loses potential wealth if they cede control of the islands. Not gaining potential resources is practically indistinguishable from losing resources.

Obviously you can't count everything as "potential wealth", but China evidently thinks it has a realistic shot at claiming the wealth of these islands and is rationally reluctant to lose such a practical opportunity.
On most hosts you can but I believe AMDs EPYC processor support hypervisors where the host cannot access the memory via a feature called Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV).
It's really fucking good at building ponzi/pyramid style scams, and padding your resume.
URL if you have segment blocked: https://archive.is/HOV30
I worked in a Solaris shop from 1999-2000.

I'm not insecure, and I'm not mad at ZFS. I'm just pointing out that it showed up when Sun was already circling the drain.

Seamicro managed to pack 2000 cores into 10U. Cool. I've never seen of those, either.
The VIP can only be Bryan himself, caught with his pants down. Amusing
Are responsibilities really this neatly separated? I’ve worked in both huge, small and medium sized Scandinavian companies and apart from EM and PM, the following people would also have a say in answering these questions:

* designers
* QA
* tech lead
* senior developers
* delivery lead

Is this because of my biased experience with consensus culture, or is the article a simplification?

Also, an Engineering Manager would typically decide which technical experts are suitable for a given task, but would not be the one deciding which tech to use, apart from budget constraints.
I’m not a Scientologist.
> At the time, Sun were pushing it heavily as one of the two salvations for Solaris, so I'm not surprised.

Yeah, I remember that. I kept thinking "this tool might be nice for C wizards but it does nothing for my day-to-day experience as smalltime Linux user / admin". The other big thing was ZFS, which was interesting, but they were extremely uncooperative with the license, basically ensuring it would never make it big.
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

To the Editor — Since the first reports of novel pneumonia (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, there has been considerable discussion on the origin of the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2 (also referred to as HCoV-19). Infections with SARS-CoV-2 are now widespread, and as of 11 March 2020, 121,564 cases have been confirmed in more than 110 countries, with 4,373 deaths.

SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with mild symptoms. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210604060922/https://www.usinf...
An emulator with dynamic optim. can run native binaries faster than host (2000) [pdf]
That doesn't sound like an unbiased removal of politics from the workplace to me. I think I would be out of the door, too.

Why, do you "assume bad intent" and "make unsubstantiated accusations"? Do you want to, or do you want to work with people that do? I don't think anyone who quits because those "behaviours are not tolerated" will be missed by their former colleagues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
The amount of wildly delusional oppression complex in this thread is staggering, HN has really gone downhill.

On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was being pushed heavily by misinfo merchants. No grand conspiracy. Skepticism is a good default approach to take for info heavily pushed by such sources with no solid evidence.

There were tons of articles and threads on it everywhere including HN, no one was being silenced, give me a break. The oppression complex is really out of control, as if people were being visited by the secret police and forced to immediately cease all discussion about the lab leak theory. It just had no credibility due to lack of evidence. As more info comes to light it's being given more credence, simple as that.

Really seems many want to feel like they've been oppressed and silenced when that couldn't be further from reality, reaching absurd levels of delusion here.
I worked at Amazon when what we called the "Crying at desk" article[1] was published in the New York Times. The memorable moment from that article was an Amazon employee who said he had, at one point or another, witnessed every one of his teammates crying at their desk. For what it's worth, in my ~10 years at Amazon I saw only one person crying at their desk.

After the article came out, it actually had a big effect on our group. Our leaders talked to us about the article and about morale. We instituted a "happy hour" which basically ended the workday early (earlier than usual) on Fridays. We opened a little snack pit in our area with free food and drinks. We started doing irregular team building exercises.

This moment, with the NYT article, was actually the only time I recall seeing noticeable changes to our day to day work. Leaders came and went. Teams changed. But everything was more or less the same. Then, one day, this article comes out of nowhere. I didn't identify with it at all, our group was much more mild than anything the article talked about, and suddenly we were making all of these changes - almost instantly.

I liked and appreciated the changes but it always perplexed me why it took a story in the NYT to get them to come about. Either the NYT knows our internal morale better than our leaders did, and our leaders didn't react until they saw it in the NYT - or, the NYT didn't know our morale and our leaders overreacted based on third hand reporting about it.

It's very odd to me. I've seen people directly telling leadership that we are overworked, that schedules are impossible, that we need to work on group morale, etc - and it very obviously meant nothing to the leaders. You could almost see the words washing over them and leaving nothing behind and indeed, nothing ever came from complaints or feedback like that (so far as I could tell). And yet, if a NYT reporter writes a single article, instant and dramatic reaction.

All this is to say that whenever I see articles like this one, I have to wonder first, if the average Medium employee is going "That's weird, I didn't know there was a culture war going on here." And second, what the reaction to something like this article would be. Are the leaders at Medium going to start suddenly doing different stuff because of the "Techcrunch article"? Would it need to be from a media company with more cachet to make a difference?

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
On the origins of SARS-CoV-2
Stakeholders in public health must lobby policy makers to make decisions based on evidence, not political expediency, particularly when the studies that hang in the balance are critical to understanding the origins of epidemics.
Yep. Similar to the OP article in the sense of different and more complicated than the E-6 process.
certificate pinning gives me more trust than letsencrypt as a root ca for most of my use cases . except for the agent forwarding protocol and that you cannot secure opensshs socks proxy i am actually quite happy with SSH given its applications . i do not like the plutocratic aspect behind the current www consensus on protocols. Having said that: thanks for using telnet. This is great fun.
Digi Embroidery
Very good explanation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

To the Editor — Since the first reports of novel pneumonia (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, there has been considerable discussion on the origin of the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2 (also referred to as HCoV-19). Infections with SARS-CoV-2 are now widespread, and as of 11 March 2020, 121,564 cases have been confirmed in more than 110 countries, with 4,373 deaths.

SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with mild symptoms. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
Valve Working with Nvidia to Bring DLSS Support to Linux Through Proton
If they really have to execute people, I don't understand why they don't use firing squads.

I mean, it would be more humane than poisoning or electrocution.
The coronavirus wasn’t made in a lab. A Genetic analysis shows it’s from nature
The coronavirus pandemic circling the globe is caused by a natural virus, not one made in a lab, a new study says.

The virus’s genetic makeup reveals that SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a mishmash of known viruses, as might be expected if it were human-made. And it has unusual features that have only recently been identified in scaly anteaters called pangolins, evidence that the virus came from nature, Kristian Andersen and his colleagues report March 17 in Nature Medicine.
Have you ever been to the UK? That sort of mindset is widespread. In fact, there is basically an obligation that the country must, at all times, fight wildly above its level.
Interesting data point. At my (non-software-focused) engineering firms, all product managers are capital-M managers and most come with signifiant hands-on experience within the business—-they often significantly influence very large product strategy decisions than can have 15+ year impacts—-so are expected to be leaders on both the technical and business aspects.

The setup is clearly a lot easier to swing in a bigcorp with relatively low turnover and relatively high-value products, rather than a smaller company without a deep talent pool and sufficient span of control for a manager-level product manager... but I think it’s a better model all the same.

*PdM, incidentally, to differentiate them from project managers who are the PMs
...except Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth, took it upon himself to thank Fauci for pushing the "natural causes" narrative - https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/new-emails-reveal...

More explanation of that here... https://youtu.be/jMr-fGmRGco?t=246
Also, the engineers are often well aware when something is wrong or dubious.

But there's a difference between knowing that and having the power to do something about it.
you can find competent competitors, right on amazon, for like 1/5 the price.

Unfortunately they are buried among 50 other completely incompetent competitors which are complete insecure garbage.
Thanks. There was a time when many observability products were adding latency heat maps, and at one conference expo floor there were three companies with latency heat maps on their screen at the same time, pitching them as a flagship feature. If I walked near them they'd start trying to explain them to me, and I never figured out an appropriate response. If I said "hey, great to see you added them, I invented these back at Sun" I'd get funny looks.

I think it's a small world, and everything is software, so the chance you'll bump into someone who wrote software you are using I think is pretty high. I was once trying to get my head around Andi Kleen's pmu-tools, and I had the github repo open in my browser on my laptop I was carrying, when the guy sitting next to me on a bus says he's Andi Kleen. (Ok, it was a bus taking Linux conference attendees to an event, not a random bus, but I still found it remarkable timing -- I was studying pmu-tools at that exact time!)
> As more info comes to light it's being given more credence, simple as that.

The thing is, no new info supporting the lab-leak theory has come to light. It remains pure speculation, just as it always has been. All the evidence still points to the Wuhan Institute of Virology not having had SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic, and all the new evidence is consistent with the default prior - that SARS-CoV-2 spilled over from animals, just like every other novel virus in history.
> By these standards, everyone (in such a position) is always in some "conflict of interest".

Yes. But not everyone becomes the leading figure in a global pandemic which has killed 3.7 million people and thrown the world into complete disarray. At the point where you realise you're in that position, the correct, ethical thing to do is put all your cards on the table.
He is being sarcastic.
This "Marketplace of ideas" is run by English speakers, in our case, and completely ignores the idea that we or our allies may have been involved in a biological attack on China. Very convenient, in my opinion, since history says NATO countries are the most likely to deploy biological weapons.
Be extremely careful recording conversations without consent in the US.
Signaling is where this is done right.

The software that schedules trains can do what it likes, because there are several, independent safety layers below it: the signaling system itself, and the software and hardware locks within the signaling system, and formal methods usedto prove their integrity.

Any signaling failure will fail safe (all trains stop).

Any trusted actor (controller, train driver, sometimes passengers etc) can also stop part or all of the system. (On many European railways, if the driver sees a problem, like a car crashed into the railway, they press a red button and all trains in that region are halted.)
Zip files have all the metadata in a footer rather than a header. As a result, compressed files can be added and overwritten by appending to the file without disturbing already compressed data. Additionally, the "deflate" compression likely does not span across files, so files that did not change from version to version would have a similar compressed byte sequence, regardless of the order they were added to the archive.

I'd argue that zip is a relatively simple compressed archive format. Its simplicity is its charm and the reason it's so popular. More space-efficient algorithms would be less likely to be "patchable" as there would be less redundancy / structure in the compressed representation to exploit (the best compression seems like it would have similar properties of random data.)
First amendment has a strong influence, through when it comes to obstructing justice I would lean towards the action being illegal.

I wonder if obstruction of justice can impact someone who has not made any agreement beforehand. A random pedestrian who tries to stop the police, in a public space where they otherwise would have a right to be, could still end up in jail if I understand the laws right. If they can do that with their physical body I suspect the same punishment can occur if they do that with their own first amendment voice given special circumstances and results of that speech.

It is however difficult for a random pedestrian to commit obstruction of justice out of accident, but a lot of actions done by a police officer would obstruct justice by the nature of their own work. Similar if a person were employed at a court, if they misbehaved erroneously, I would guess that it would carry a bit more legal risk just given the environment.

Nothing of this has anything to do with internal policy. Obstruction of justice is mostly about the intention and results.
In China, people do. In Pakistan, they would get an injection, even if it wasn’t effective.

Medical practices and norms vary widely depending on the culture you live in.
Yep, that's literally the only thing one can't do.

Sadly a lot of people don't even respect that.
> Extension: wine. There is a live problem in China, with rubbish wine being fraudulently marked as premium Australian varieties. Each bottle could be chipped in the cap with an on-chain identifier. In the wine shop, you could use your phone to scan the identifier, and witness custody of that wine back to the producer.

I'm not so sure it'll work well for items for consumption. There are several issues

- At any point you can swap out the content of the wine (if you can re-cap it), and sell the genuine wine to someone who trusts the person doing the fraud.
- You're somewhat dependent on many people actually scanning the bottle. You can duplicate a bottle, and if someone doesn't scan it, it's not detected. If you've managed to insert yourself in the supply chain and only care about milking it for profit until you're detected and then running away with the money, you might get away with it for a while.
- I know of at least one liquor from China that marks each bottle with an ID that you can check. It achieves much of the same benefit without blockchain if the supply chain isn't very long and complex

I also don't think PoW or PoS makes any sense with these use-cases where you track items or handle logistics. You probably want some organization setting standards for auditors, and to handle necessary changes to the blockchain algorithm and such. So might as well be proof-of-authority.
The expert is right. We have had cryptocurrencies for years. What have they delivered society?

- Ransomware

- Pump and dump scams

- Enriching a tiny group of early speculators at the expense of average retail gamblers

- Burning a huge amount of energy

- Wasting a huge amount of processing power and hardware

- Leading to shortages of computer chips

- Enabling Iran etc. to evade sanctions

- Contributing to power blackouts

- Money laundering

- Tax evasion

- Wasting a huge amount of human talent for essentially no purpose

Its necessary to ban the purchase of these coins in the West, for the good of our civilization.
"Probably" ? Sounds like you don't actually have any experience on the matter and are guessing.

There are numerous fully-remote companies that make it work. That doesn't mean it works for everyone, but it definitely proves that it isn't inherently "excessively limiting".
Packaging Applications with Kaboxer
How about making the companies accountable for the atrocious security?
gRPC vs. REST: comparing APIs architectural styles
Kaboxer – Kali Applications Boxer
It would be fun to make the American guy sweating profusely by saying something like "I'm going to sue the shit out of you" ;)
Sensible drug policies.

As soon as people could reliably but online, States suddenly grew balls and started legalising...

Also, plenty of us have zero objections to Iran dodging our bullshit sanctions...
CDs, known as Certificates of Deposit or Time Deposits. This would be the best use of a blockchain, "trustless interest" rather than paying miners by inflation you pay people who lock there coins/stake.
Netapp and Oracle settled out of court a few weeks after Oracle acquired Sun.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dis...

https://www.eweek.com/storage/netapp-oracle-settle-old-paten...
I think the assumption here is that at least the tech lead and senior developers, and possibly delivery lead, report to the EM, so the EM can speak for them (hopefully after consulting them, of course). QA sometimes also reports to engineering, or may not even exist at all. Designers are, unfortunately, often overlooked when making schedules...

But I think the simplification comes from the idea that the EM owns those decisions, even if the EM doesn't make them in isolation.
But to me they are good analogies! And I laughed!
This is nothing new. The independent media wrote about this a year ago and mainstream media organized an anti-fake news campaign against it. Now the mainstream presents itself as the saint - BS! 1 year ago mainstream did not check the facts or at least compare natural versus lab origin. No - they steam rolled independent media for publishing "fake" news, got them kicked off of social media and destroyed their income stream. Now it's factual news and they present themselves as saints, without apologizing for their wrong doing. I do not trust these mainstream media outlets anymore. I spend my money on independent news.
You have just perfectly demonstrated how these new rules can be used to crush even a hint of dissent. I'm out.
> What is your source on this?

See "Trust the programmer" https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/spirit_of_c.html

Also, a general belief among C++ programmers that better training is the answer to programming bugs. This belief is slowly fading, but it's got a long way to go. Scott Meyers' books on Effective C++ represent a lot of effort to educate programmers out of making mistakes. For example, from the table of contents: "Prefer consts, enums, and inlines to #defines". If C++ was an airplane, #define would simply be removed.

> I don’t even know what you might mean by punishment?

There are several calls for punishment in the comments on the article.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, people are arguing that COVID-19 can be studied in BSL-2 facilities: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/14/allow-bsl-2-labs-handle-...

There's a lot of post-hoc engineering arguing for BSL-4 research into coronavirus when even if the lab leak theory proves true wasn't in evidence at the time.
Google Business Posts
I’m unsure what’s the difference between this and hierarchical layouts. And say flexbox
And when I say "find the truth", I'm not taking a stance on what that is. I personally don't rate the lab leak theory very highly, but then I don't know enough to say one way or the other.
Seeing this back in middle school when I was first learning to play would have radically changed how I thought of the instrument - not just “press these buttons, get this note.”
Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift (2017)
Someone (Hillel Wayne?) observed that fuzz testing and property testing are basically the same thing, but the communities are almost entirely disjoint so the tools are completely separate.
Same thing using a language unifying HTML, CSS and JS

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=scroll_snap

To be improved for non squared pictures
I would say that it is a good gateway drug. I used Nix + home-manager on macOS for a while. It was really nice for replacing the broken macOS userland plus having reproducible dev environments.

I liked it so much that I tried NixOS on a Dell Workstation that I still had. Configuring a full machine declaratively was so powerful that I slowly moved from macOS to NixOS pretty much full-time.
Why would ransomware that can encrypt all your files not be able to delete your snapshots?
Indeed. I guess it's one of the problems of becoming a public company - numbers gotta go up and up... It's supposed to be on sale in 2022 but I expect Covid will delay it a bit, the entire factory was shut for months last year.
Would be interesting to see if someone could make a one-year bootcamp from this classes (not all of them, but cherry picked) and what the result graduates would look like.
Anyone confused by my post should use a dictionary to refresh their memory of what this very basic and simple word means, not some random academic papers.
good time as any to highlight how "fact checking" suppressed the "lab leak" talk for over a year [1] and how "fact checking" is just groupthink by another name and people promoting "fact checking" driven censorship are the 2020 version of the useful idiots of the olds.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/... (point 7)
> I'm a Jew (by heritage, though not by belief)

I never understood that concept. The idea that Judaism is transmitted from lineage is itself only a belief of Judaism. If you don't believe in Judaism there is no reason to believe in this particular fiction. This specific feature is obviously a hack on the reproductivity of the meme. There is no Judaism gene, it's not transmittable, it's not an ethnicity.