skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way your previous comment was worded implied a level of attempt to justify the presentation style as opposed to being worded like: "their argument is [It's B2B...]." And while it's admittedly such a minor nitpick on an internet comment made by somebody I probably don't know, I bring it up because I also work in hardware, and your argument (or quote thereof) echoes of of managers throughout the industry that justify half baked EDA tools, arcane software, disjointed workflows, and visual design akin to drawing with crayons. These things make me want to pull my hair out. We're trying to make chips on bleeding edge lithography processes, yet we're banging rocks together like cavemen when it comes to software, and for no good reason either!

And to be clear, I am not trying to justify the response you got, I am simply trying to point out the level of frustration that some engineers in the industry (like myself, and a lot of people on HN) have with our workflows. Especially when we see all of these exciting new tools on HN!
I remember at the very beginning people jumping from the fact that there is a lab in Wuhan to the conclusion that it must have come from there which is different than what's happening nowadays where it's a theory based on data or am I looking at this wrong?

In the beginning it had a very xenophobic after taste, at least what laypeople were sharing on social media.

To be clear, I don't care much if it came from a lab. I'd probably even prefer it at least then we can do something about it and avoid it going forward rather than this being a random nature thing that could happen again at any time.
There's some political piece missing to the whole story of Covid. From the lab theory suppression, the draconian lockdowns, vaccine mandates, etc. There are a ton of details that just dont add up.
Perhaps atypical, but about 50% of my ssh use is port forwarding to construct impoverished man's VPNs. Like I send mail by forwarding localhost:25 to localhost:25 on the mail server.

If I were running PoE (Postgres on Edge) I'd probably want to connect a local client for poking around, but without the bother of meshing my laptop into the cloud.
AIMP misses the boat on the sort of Winamp plug-ins I still want to have supported whilst not using an actual Winamp itself (as is now the aim for WACUP). Sure it's an option but a limited sub-set of Winamp 2.x era plug-ins isn't great :)

-dro
Seems like an easy thing to test, just adjust for income in single parents and compare outcomes. Easy enough that it's likely been done before and didn't materially change the outcomes of this kind of analysis
> But damask? Jacquard? Chenille? Do you not have curtains or a couch?

I'm pretty utility driven when it comes to curtains or couches. I'm just looking for something which does what it is supposed to and is not hideous. How does knowing damask, jacquard, and chenille help with determining if curtains block light and a couch is comfortable when I sit in it?
> For the breadwinner the outcome isn't very gendered

This is a distinction without a difference. Even today, with women's educational attainment and workforce compensation skyrocketing, they still strongly marry "up". In the aggregate, this leaves the situation arguably even worse than before:

1. More men are pushed out of the marriage market.

2. Men who are in the marriage market still face financial devastation when the wife decides it's time to "find herself" in a no-fault divorce state (e.g. nearly all of them).
And having very few adults to talk to, no status, no career advancement (in fact, the opposite), and little recognition.
RATG13 was sequenced in 2018. The only place this virus was emerging, was in a lab.

Even if this were true and they were studying covid post-outbreak, where did all of their samples of these precursor viruses go? And why are they covering them up?
I left Minecraft when they first announced they were breaking my contractual agreement as an early purchaser of Minecraft from Mojang. It was a fun several years, then Microsoft came along.
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality [1]. Most major sites produce a lot of bad articles and a few good ones. Because we're trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity [2], it's important to let the good ones through while weeding out the bad ones (or at least try to). It's also increasingly the case that certain classes of article are limited to certain classes of publication—because each publication excludes what doesn't match its ideological coloring. This isn't a great development—it would be better to have more neutral sources—but that's increasingly where we find ourselves. Since intellectual curiosity is (almost by definition) not primarily an ideological emotion, it follows that we should try to stay open regardless of the coloring of the source. That doesn't mean trusting it, of course—only considering it.

One of the criteria we apply in cases like this, especially when it's a major ongoing topic like this one, is whether the article contains significant new information [3]. That's generally a better lens to look at these things through.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Reading /proc/<PID>/mem requires access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS which is fundamentally same as access by using ptrace. Thus, kernel is indeed isolating process memory by default.

It is true, that often you get
PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS with same UID/GId, but the most production systems have disabled ptrace or there are extra AppArmor rules to prevent its use. In most of the cases it is recommended to be disabled.

For example latest Ubuntu allows only ptracing child processes on the same userspace (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#ptrace)

You can also set your apps in such a way that they can’t be ptraced, for example ssh-agent is doing this with PR_SET_DUMPABLE attribute.
Any curtains I've ever bought are "the ones they have at Home Depot." Fabrics with fancy French names seem like rich people things, regardless of gender, no?
My guess is that not supporting WebExtensions like Safari and Firefox is also a big factor.
I really hope that encrypted email is not a lost cause because that would strongly imply that end to end encrypted messaging is a lost cause in general. If we can overcome the problem in any single case we can overcome the problem generally, even for encrypted email.

This isn't something we can overcome with a purely technical solution. The basic ideas behind end to end encrypted messaging will eventually have to be made part of our culture.
https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-certifies-flying-car-as-airwo...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791267/alphabet-google...
Thanks for the update!

Do you have any links that talk more about how the wasm stuff works? I'd love to read more about that.
It predates OpenTTD by more than 5 years (i.e. early versions were more contemporaries to and in the spirit of the original TT(D)). I remember finding it on magazine a free-/shareware disc in elementary school and played it quite a bit back in the day and then off-and-on in later years.
Joe Biden and the democrats strongly supported Xi's ascent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaBdlu4rL4

So, I'd say that this actually wasn't an example of TDS the left really supports Xi and China.
Are there any major resources tracking all the open-source textbook type projects? I've seen some really cool stuff posted on HN like that Homopothy-Consistent Mathematics textbook.[0] AIoM's OTI seems cool, but is limited in scope and OpenStax mostly makes their own textbooks so it also ends up limited in capacity

[0] https://kerodon.net/
Religion is such a touchy topic, it really shouldn't be involved in public schools in any way. These kinds of events are so easily avoidable. Just don't have them on school grounds during school hours, simple as that.

My public high school had a "learning about religions" section of the curriculum for a social studies class. Basically we were split into groups, assigned a random world religion, and then we had to teach the beliefs, culture, etc to other students. This is fine if we're just learning about religions and their history and what not.

But when it came time for the Scientology group to present, the information was completely off. I had already researched Scientology a ton because of my curiosity (oh a science religion?! let me look this up). I went up to my teacher after class and asked if they knew much about Scientology, teacher asked why. I did some minimal explaining of some of the controversies, and told them to look it up further.

Next year, religion was cut from the curriculum.
No one asks anyone to implement a red-black tree. There are too many special cases. Just know it exists and what problem it’s trying to solve.

Fizz buzz is a hello world problem. That’s why it exists.
Other gotos include:

- if-statements

- switch-statements

- break

- continue

- exception handling

The whole "gotos are bad" really needs to die.
> Its scary to see how quickly our formerly respected institutions were to suppress a legitimate inquiry, simply because... why? It was associated with Trump? It offended China?

Because it immediately led to an increase in anti-asian hate crimes. That included effecting Chinese-Americans who have literally never been to China and south east asians that were mistaken as Chinese.

It is difficult to have a nuanced discussion about lab safety in the public view when there's a big chunk of the political sphere that will use it to rile up their base. It sucks that censorship is the better option but we've learned from 9/11 that people are anything but reasonable - I had wealthy middle eastern neighbors who fled the country within a week of the attacks and, after everything that came from 9/11, it seems like they made the right decision.
Depends on how many children you have.
Sure. I'll forward along my conversations with Shamiya and Lauren. They were fine during my interactions with them but it didnt seem like they had much ability to do anything other than just match me with another mentor.

After 3 unsuccessful/unfruitful coach matches I asked for the refund.
>Literally everything is political at some level and always has been.

The Big Bang was political before humans even evolved?
A tickbox in settings, "don't keep mic enabled"?

I can't see how it can be that hard to just close the mic device when you go off a call.
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of waste
In this case it's a convenience feature, rather than a avoid user controlled channels thing.

As I noted earlier it works without bluetooth available, but more importantly I suspect, if it were bluetooth everyone would have to peer their devices with every conference room. If it were wifi you'd need to know the network name of the conference room's AV system.

While both options would work, having a single "switch to AV system" button is clearly the best user experience, so you try to make that possible. Given both the app and the AV system have the ability to create and record sound, that's the obvious choice.

But again, I'm not making any statement on the security of the actual implementation from Zoom :D
I think that there is sleight of hand in a lot of these politicized arguments. People are conflating a lab leak with being developed in the lab.

There’s plenty of precedent for lab leaks. What the conspiracy theorists are lumping it into is that it was created AND leaked. See Rand Paul and his whole Fauci interrogation
Oh so you want to live in Venezuela! -Fox News
While a lot of the west is “post Christian” in that very little actual worship happens, the mythology which is the lens people view reality though is very much pervasive.

The biggest examples are Christian sexual morality and the separation of things into good vs evil. Look at all of our popular culture or politics and find examples of struggles which aren’t some form of a struggle between good and evil, good guys vs bad guys. It might strike people as odd that in many other religions and cultures this idea is much much less dominant.
Just about any with cache will let you pin last level cache to assist boot up.

I've done this with PowerPC cores that no one would call microcontrollers.
More people are functionally illiterate than you might expect if you're in a high IQ bubble like the tech industry. In 2017, 19% of American adults scored level 1 or below on the PIAAC literacy test: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69

Here's a sample reading test: https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Literacy%20Sample%20Items.... It's a drawing of an ear, and the options are "ear", "egg", "lip" and "jar". You have to pick the correct word.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/AjaArt/status/1478568569365487616
Thanks, that twitter thread actually makes sense, unlike the telegraph article. The conclusion seems to be that we need a timestamp on when these samples were sequenced. If in Jan 2020 it is fine, if its in 2019 it catches the Chinese Gov in a lie. The sequences themselves are not unusual for early COVID and have been seen before, but the context of human cell lines suggests they were being cultured.

So, no conclusive evidence of lab leak without a known timestamp we don‘t have. The telegraph is editorialising for clicks.
Settled science isn't science it's religion and politics. Many things get super seeded by new theories. Even the number of planets in our solar system has changed a number of times.
...Gauss is one of the most important mathematicians who ever lived. The gaussian distribution is the single most important random distribution there is. The standard 2d coordinate system is often also referred to as the gaussian plane. I'm guessing more men know him due to this reason: more men are in STEM.
You suggest a terrible alternative. Much better would be "believe nothing".
> Not only was it fringe, it was racist too!

It wasn't "racist" per se, but it was subsequently used as an ideological weapon.

There was a clear consequence of tying COVID-19 with some sort of WMD released by the Chinese, and it was the increase in violence against AAPI folks.
Then maybe the hackers using x86 boards in their 'embedded Linux systems' can chime in.
Covid was already in Europe by December 27th, 2019. The pathogen was first noticed in China on December 29th, 2019, with a few dozen patients hospitalized in Wuhan presenting with pneumonia, during peak flu season. China notified the WHO of a pneumonia of unknown cause on December 31st, 2019.

One week before, there were only a few hospitalized patients.

With a few dozen hospitalized patients, you would expect perhaps several hundred patients infected, many asymptomatic, and many with mild symptoms.

Please explain what you would have done to prevent the spread of Covid given these facts, how the virus could have been detected earlier, and what reasonable steps could have prevented global transmission.

We now know that Covid was likely transmitting in China by mid-November 2019, and the earliest case dates to Dec 8. But it's not very easy to identify a novel pathogen when there are single digit numbers of patients presenting with flu-like symptoms during peak flu season.
Download version 123.0.1; never seen a version that high.
What is so bad? IME, you can easily ignore all the fatalism (popular to feel on every topic) - pretend it isn't there - and do what you want.
It's what I think Amazon/AWS is going through now. When they were in "fun growth" mode their obnoxious Bezosisms didn't really matter, but they are settling into an enterprise/utility/long term company. Their raising the bar and stack ranking and forced attrition and blame culture and backstabbing and sacrificial hires won't work.

Instead, they produce a dead sea effect where you aren't getting good people, you're either getting sociopaths or people that don't have options to go elsewhere and not be organizationally abused.

Because if you're good, you can go elsewhere. Other FAANG, etc.

Did you see all the outages in AWS in December? Utilities have long-standing employees because they do long-term support and know the systems. Amazon's hiring does not reward or structure itself that way. It's for churning people.

If you get a creepy impression from the hiring (and Amazon hiring should DEFINITELY do that)... well...

I would say most people that go there are doing it for the resume and they are out within two years. The people I knew who went there were exactly that. Then they cashed out to better jobs.
Real World Example of Machine Learning on Rails
This sounds like we have a new 2007 housing bubble.
I'm 33, Ive got a fairly high IQ, make $340k in a STEM field and enough to retire tomorrow, I'm not unattractive, and put a huge amount of effort over many years into online dating. I've pretty much given up on dating. I have a total inability to find anyone I'm interested in that is interested in me.

When I was younger and I wanted to go to bars and get drunk and be an idiot I had plenty of attractive sexual partners.

So I don't buy this at all. The guys I know who have an easy time dating are 1 or 2 points more attractive, make minimum wage as yoga teachers or selling crystals or dumb stuff like that, and tell Women painfully stupid stuff they want to hear about their quantum vibrations matching and other new age nonsense.

So I can say this narrative empirically doesn't feel true for me.
Only way i can think of, is some people might try to gauge your desire to work and arrive at the wrong conclusion. Specifically the type of people who compare you to your coworkers or other people in general and tell you how you’re worse off. Their idea of motivating someone is to put you down so you react to their terrible opinion of you. If you’re not competitive, this doesn’t work. If you dont react, you may appear as someone having little to no ambition to do anything.
A lot of (small–medium sized, tech) companies just don’t have a process to get things out on their blog like this. It might be that only a few senior people have the ability to write posts and they are not interested or busy with other things, or it might be that there is a slow review process for posts that makes writing them unpleasant, or it might be that they don’t want to reveal IP or have an opinion and so have little to talk about. Another company that does a good job of writing blog posts, often timely posts about current (and relevant) events, is cloudflare though their posts have a quite different energy to Fly.io’s.
It is completely inconsistent to think a political structure that would put a million people in forced work camps would never ever do something like this deliberately, or cover up an accident.

Calling people partisan hacks for mentioning that does nothing to surface truth.
Old-school land reclamation worked by putting woven fences in the water where waves would deposit sand over decades and centuries, slowly growing the land bit by bit. Those versions were already multi-generational projects.

(I'm citing the techniques used in the north frisian wadden sea, I'm unsure if the same techniques were used in west frisia as well)
> A moderately lethal virus that is highly transmissible can be created in a lab and those nations with this capability now know what the effect of releasing such a virus will have on a country.

It has also demonstrated the connectedness of the supply chain and the fundamental impossibility of safe biological warfare. Even the countries that tackled COVID effectively still saw an enormous social and economic hit. Barring pre-vaccinating your own population before releasing it, I guess, but that invites nukes lobbed your way when the rest of the world figures it out.

I'm more worried about bioterrorism than nation states being dumb enough to use it.
> Using smilies

Is the problem the form, or the message?

> And proper accounting/taxation?

Interesting, here's yet another person shoving words in my mouth!

Nowhere in the above or anywhere else did I even suggest people shouldn't pay the taxes they owe if they make capital gains.

And FWIW, taxes are a very small problem in the grand scheme of things: my core argument is about reducing friction, which may allow a missing market, even for companies that are not at the scale of Microsoft and can't mint a gamepass.
That just sounds like 2FA working as intended to me.
Agree, and take it further. This insight should be the centerpiece of the next generation of suggestion algorithms! The truly science-minded adult should be actively seeking data that disproves their currently held beliefs. This does not mean, however, that you must endure endless, pointless flat earth screeds; ideally you should be able to take individual claims and mark them "settled", a state that can only be invalidated by the output of a new, concrete experiment.

I bought the book The Skeptical Environmentalist, for just this reason. I love hearing dissenting opinions from people who aren't a PR firm flunky. Bjørn Lomborg was and is paying a high price for his honest heterodoxy, and the least we can do is listen and not lump him in with the self-serving, lying Koch brother funded PR machine. That effort is driven by the psychological requirement of emotionally manipulating people to your side, not by an intellectually honest questioning of "common sense", and it's a real shame the two get confused.
This is so incredible! I just tried this out with a few of my models and I can vouch for the order of magnitude.
Alex Jones’ counter-influential powers on one ’side’ appear to be substantially greater than his influential pull on the other.
Thanks.

Our customers are operating private cloud deployments, running Linux on network switches, and on their SoftGate nodes.

Linux made its place to the data center networking. We need to spread this knowledge further to make Linux Networking mainstream.

eBPF is awesome. Container networking inside the server is the best place for eBPF networking.

For data center border networking (border router, full routing table, Layer-4 load balancing, NAT, VPN) DPDK enables us to push the boundaries of Linux Networking, squeezing 100Gbps / 30Mpps out of one server. It's performance comparable with Cisco ASR and Juniper MX specialized hardware.

The Linux router + Linux switches, wrapped into Netris automatic NetOps software enables users to operate their on-prem network with cloud-like experience. Plugging in their favorite tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.
> I wonder what it would be like to work on something that takes 5 years to make

The active departments and the size scale a lot along those 5 years. The first few are usually a very small group of people. The weirdest part is that if you're targeting 5 year olds, they are just being born when you start the project.
What are some use cases for having so many futexes that would exceed the number of available file descriptors? Are you assuming a low FD limit, or do you really mean millions/billions of futexes?
Te Ka doesn't drive most of Moana's action though, and defeating Te Ka is more like solving a puzzle than actually fighting a villain.
One general rule I've come up with is when your interviewer mentions values of the company, ask for examples.

For example, it's common for a senior manager to say something like:

"We value input from all of our employees, ideas can come from anyplace"

For this just follow up with a sincere:

"That's something I really value too, can you give me an example of when someone who was not in a leadership role proposed a solution that influenced a major decision?"

I've found this surprisingly effective at finding out which values are real and which are bullshit. When it's real, you'll get answers like "certainly, why just last quarter Jen in customer support noticed..." and when it's BS you can immediately tell because the interviewer will freeze completely.