skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the beginning of your answers: note that nowhere in my comment did I make an assumption about the distribution of the TOR users by use-case. I spoke of the original intent. I don't really care what the vast majority of users use it for and in what context. I care about its original goals.

Regarding needing more than TOR, not necessarily so. There are many oppressive states (on different points of a large spectrum, from basic censorship to actual physical oppression), and though we read many stories about their crackdowns on privacy rights and monitoring facilities, very often we over-estimate their capabilities (e.g. the GFW of China is rather sad joke, technically speaking). So if you're not your state's Public Enemy Number 1, you're within a risk range that's most likely acceptable using TOR, so long as you use it correctly and carefully (and that you accept that risk...). Basically, it boils down to what you said: "if they do care enough to come for you, and they have the resources".

Indeed, I was also probably a bit over-simplistic in my previous answer: there are different leagues with different ball-games.

For the rest, we're in agreement.
Why should we accept that the planet is our playground, that we are supposed to "engineer" our way out of a problem our "engineering" created?
I guess we'll find out in due time what the IRS is going to do.

As for your example, it seems to hinge on whether you're required to report holdings or just capital gains to the IRS.
From context, no, it seems to be "Heroic Compiler".
what if the 130 petaflop AI computer turns out to be a peta phile!
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The UK Has Passed a New Law Permitting Outrageous Surveillance, US Could Be Next
I am not an engineer but surely this is essentially a battery and its utility should be independent of any rises or dips in the price of energy?
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And what pays for infrastructure?
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AddThis makes money by selling 3rd party audience segments to advertisers like me. I assume they get this data by tracking what users view what pages through their sharing buttons. Example segments I can buy to advertise too: http://i.imgur.com/JF6ZZPC.jpg

The author doesn't even mention the big players: every FB share or like button, on all that nasty porn you watch (even in incognito mode), straight to FB. They recently changed their policies and signaled that they are going to start using this data for ad targeting, probably in a push to expand FAN and be more competitive with Google.

Something as simple as a share button that some blogger copy and pasted into their blog turned into an ad tech/data company!

I personally love that story and think that's cool and innovative thinking from AddThis.

But I also think more data = better ads, at the expense of privacy (probably not a popular opinion around here).
Solar tax credits are also corporate welfare.
Someone should coin the term "Brexit effect". Everything is quickly becoming more expensive in he UK.
When I interview developers, I like to ask them about their favorite bug. I want to hear a story. Most people have a good one. It's usually intermittent, hard to track down, and takes a long time to solve. It becomes a developer's nemesis, taking on an identity. The relief, when it gets solved, is huge. Good developers tend to talk about such bugs with passion.

This story is a beautiful example of such a story. Great read, great bug, great analysis!
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I've just recently got out of the military and am kind of just looking for some direction in my life. I'm just wondering where the rest of you have gotten your direction from. I went into the military out of high school, became a linguist and worked for the NSA. I've been messing around with programming since 7th grade and took classes throughout high school. I haven't done too much programming since I graduated though. During my time with the NSA I participated in some CTF challenges and definitely have an interest in cyber. I've spent the months since doing odd jobs and handling some health issues and am just kind of lost. Thanks for the feedback!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078124
No, but they do use less power:

To the best of our knowledge, state-of-the-art performance
for forward propagation of CNNs on FPGAs was achieved
by a team at Microsoft. Ovtcharov et al. have reported
a throughput of 134 images/second on the ImageNet 1K
dataset [28], which amounts to roughly 3x the throughput
of the next closest competitor, while operating at 25 W on a
Stratix V D5 [30]. This performance is projected to increase
by using top-of-the-line FPGAs, with an estimated through-
put of roughly 233 images/second while consuming roughly
the same power on an Arria 10 GX1150. This is com-
pared to high-performing GPU implementations (Caffe +
cuDNN), which achieve 500-824 images/second, while con-
suming 235 W. Interestingly, this was achieved using Micros
oft-
designed FPGA boards and servers, an experimental project
which integrates FPGAs into datacenter applications.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04283v1.pdf
Excessive advertising. In the NHL, they used to have nice white boards around the rinks, now they're all plastered with ads. More and more commercial breaks during games. Heck, now there are even 'mini-ads' that aren't full commercial breaks but just show up for 30 seconds then it returns to the action. Let's not get started with picture-in-picture ads like F1 has.

They've even started digitally projecting ads behind the goalie nets on the glass. It's just becoming ridiculous. Are they not making enough money already?

If it weren't for old people set in their ways and sports, I think cable would basically die. It looks like that may be happening soon anyway, as younger generations would rather just watch shows commercial free and find alternative sports to watch (such as esports).

I'm not old enough to have seen it, but I've heard some people say half the point of paying for cable way back in the day was so you _didn't_ get ads. That seems to be the case for newer, streaming services.
then you can't do custom/complex queries on cassandra (which bi does/needs). so you either use spark(or something similar, like prestosql) or move the data somewhere else
>...censored personal insults directed at him, which, while still inexcuseable, is quite different from censoring merely alternative viewpoints.

He censored a whole sub-reddit dedicated to the discussion of President Trump. That's taking it too far.
I think the best thing of oil no longer being in demand is the US and the UK could end their relationships with Saudi Arabia, and hold them accountable for the vile regime they run there.
Thank you for the feedback. I guess i should have documented the files better. But that's definitely on the list.

I've fixed the link btw.
"The worst part is that if I'd be allowed to lazy load some of the images and make a few small other optimizations, I would've shaved off enough Kb's to load multiple version of jQuery..."

We really need to stop comparing the size of JS and images. Images do not block the app while JS often block it in many ways: download, parsing, slow executing at first (JIT), GC pauses.

It's truly apples and oranges.
Super interesting. I am currently building a distributed machine/deep learning framework that runs in node.js and the browser. Will definitely take a closer look at your project.
> Unfortunately though most individuals are good, _organized_ people produce undesirable outcomes.

I would say the opposite. Humans, individually, are fundamentally the same as we were 1000 years ago. Our base survival instincts and drives produce behavior that is typically not "good", as you put it, and they haven't changed. But yet our behavior in many areas has advanced (human rights, tolerance, civil society). This is the result of culture, of "organized" people as you put it. Remember, the Prisoners Dilemma is a dilemma precisely because the prisoners aren't allowed to organize.

Almost all of society's ills that are self-inflicted are the aggregate result of individuals making self-serving and cynical decisions. For example, sexism in the workplace would have long disappeared if every man who knew it was wrong took a stand against it every time it occurred. But most such men stay silent, or even play along, because it is better for their career (and their family's financial well-being). Doing the right thing will likely only get them ostracized. It will also have little impact on sexism, they rightly believe, because every other guy will have the same calculus. So instead of everyone speaking out, we have everyone staying silent. A self-fulfilling prophesy. This is a flaw of individuals, not groups. All advances we've made regarding women's rights are entirely the result of organized humanity.

There are studies that show that people are more ethical in groups than as individuals. (Unfortunately I can't find the links to those that I had thought I saved.)
I'd just like to give a little shout out to the guys streaming this on twitch last night. I don't play chess beyond the "find legal move and make it" level - but watching the last game was really really enjoyable and the commentary was pretty good too, helped me see what was actually going on and why.

I'd never have looked for it, but once I started watching I couldn't stop. Wish I'd started earlier
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Thanks, looks handy!
Wow!!! Super impressive.
haa! i think i didn't know about those until now. But will check them out. Thanks!
Could you say more about your use cases?

For me, the point of a smartwatch is that it serves as a secondary interface to my phone. I like that my phone stays in my pocket more, because then I'm less likely to be rude because of my phone, or to have to drag it out just to see what that notification was.

I've owned and used an earlier Garmin watch for running and I loved it, but eventually stopped using it because I just didn't need to maintain another separate device. But clearly you're up to something else than me.
The biggest advantage: It's free.
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Highly unlikely. Most of the oil revenues and profits end up at wealthy top and a tiny portion would be spent for food imports. If revenues dry up, there will be political revolutions and probably communist style rule.
Definitely a lot of room for disruption in banking and fintech. Difficult with international and local regulations, but definitely opportunities both for financial education and also new models (and the growth of simple old models like local credit unions). I wonder how this differs by country.
Monte Carlo sims for options pricing? I've done this before on FPGA, might have a go at doing it for this instance as a fun exercise to test the concept!
That thing is a brick compared to a Pebble Time Round and over twice the price. I don't need a GPS or compass in my watch, so it's not for me.
There's an app called Wherearetheeyes that lets users report camera locations. I don't think it's going to do much good except maybe raising awareness.

To help people avoid surveillance, you'd need a map of cameras including field of view and expected effective recognition distance. Even then, I'm guessing most public spaces would simply turn out to be no-go zones for anyone not wishing to have their picture taken.
Which Pebble did you have? I had an original Kickstarter Pebble for years, and eventually replaced it with a Pebble Steel. It's been quite reliable for me. (I have had the "mystery disconnection" issue, but not as often as you, and have had it with other Bluetooth devices as well, so I didn't think it was Pebble-specific.)
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Added population will be mostly in poor areas where power consumption is very low. Energy demand will likely be driven by US, China and India in the next decade(s), the process there is important and very positive.

Have a look at Gansu Wind Farm in China. [1] They build so many wind turbines there that they had to restrict production until they've finished the corresponding amount of high-voltage cables connecting it to major cities on the coast . Many of these connections have a higher capacity than any other existing in Europe/America. [2]

The potential for wind farms in this regions are huge. It's basically a large, windy desert. With enough cables, you can easily power major cities with it. You can even use it for baseload by combining them with batteries or pump storage.

The reason that China still adds coal is largely one of politics, similar to Trump's promises in the US. Coal adds jobs close to the cities. They've already built too many plants for demand, many will probably only run for a few years (hard to find sources on that, there are no numbers so everyone is just speculating how many there are).

But there are enough resources and potential to power the world's largest energy consumer mostly by renewables. And the picture is not that different for the US, where wind power in some regions is competitive without subsidies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects#Asia
I take it you live in a country where people are ok to see other people living off the street because they presumably "failed"? That's the only reason I can think of which would make it possible for charities to fit government action scale. Also, I wonder how local non profit organize against a nation wide invasion (not saying it's impossible, but you have to prepare for it, which costs money).

I live in a country where we're not ok seeing people in the street and we're not ok seeing sick people who can't pay for medecine. I'm ok with paying taxes for those. What I'm not ok with is having people who use what we all pay for, then try to not pay for their part by evading taxes. If taxes is a problem for you, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of countries where you can move and that you will find adequate.
This is going straight into my favourite bug-hunting stories, along with the 500-Mile Email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
> Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.

I couldn't seem to find a source for this claim. Source?
Gui is not that hard, there are couples of examples out there. After all it is just dealing with some binaries.

For GPGPU, video/audio codecs and all ... You want single threaded things. And there Erlang says "i'm ok with that" and let you use Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) that enable you to use Rust, C and co. Or to use what is called a Port and let you interface with a program outside of erlang in a safe way. Works quite well.

Then Erlang is used as a "concurrent and distributed glue" between your programs. There are a couple of scientific simulations that use erlang like that in the wild.
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That's not clear to me at all. It seems clear to me that the person operating the vehicle has ultimate responsibility for how it is driven, whether they're personally driving it or not.

Seems reasonable at first glance, but responsibility makes only sense if you also have the knowledge and power needed for making the right descisions.

Unless the driver is expert in the self-driving car field and core contributor to the car software, he'd end up being liable for events he cannot anticipate and has no control over. In such a situation, the only actually responsible descision would be not to use the car at all.
Even if I don't agree on many things he says it's worth listening to Jordan Peterson - on the other hand bearing with Joe Rogan usually is very hard for me but he often has very interesting guests on his show I have to give him that..
The Pebble Time Round. I should note the random disconnects never happen for regular headphones or the Moto 360
I just watch everything on dvr. I've managed to make it most of the NFL season only knowing about 4 total scores. Like I think the bucs beat the hawks last week. And I live in seattle and have a fantasy team.

I watch all of the baseball cardinals games at work. I'm often up to 3 weeks behind. This is easier as I'm out of market. But it's not that hard. I used to unfollow people on twitter who thought tweeting scores was somthing I'd care about. And I stopped using google news because it thinks who died on Game of Thrones or who won a game as news. It's even worse because it sees you looking at articles about them and zeroes in the news for you.

Other than that the only issue is catching back up on baseball. There are so. many. games.
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Problem here : RPC and promises are radically against message passing. They enable you to add some concurrency and parallelism to your "single threaded" program, but there are whole class of problems and optimisations they can not solve.

In general, synchronous message passing or RPC can not work. At all. There are too much edge cases where it breaks the laws of physics.
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What is your definition of "most systems"? Because we had very few (if somewhat high-profile) leap second bugs since its introduction in 1972.
I actually have the 2nd generation Moto 360, and have not experienced any of those issues at all. The only thing I could complain about is how the watch face resets when the watch runs out of power. Not a big deal, the time is still shown correctly, and to set the correct watch face I'd just have to open the Wear app again and tap it. But still annoying.

The heart rate sensor also seems consistent at least, though I have nothing to compare it with.

Anyway, funny to see how these things go and how our experiences are basically opposites.
As this article points out the 130PF number is single precision, the Top500 lists super computers in rank of their double precision FLOPS. An article in HPCwire[0] speculates the double precision target of this machine to be ~33PF.

[0]https://www.hpcwire.com/2016/11/28/japan-targets-2017-130-pe...
You can replace that with any newspaper reports. The oil price follows in part a pork cycle, so a period of falling prices will likely lead to a sharp reverse at some point (and vice versa). Once you have enough data supporting the lower price regime, oil will likely spike again.

The interesting question is if it's gonna be different this time. Many argue that with shale production supply will be much more elastic, but it could also just be a false lead.

Pork cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle
> Interface stability aside, what fork does is simpler: a copied process can rely on its environment matching its parent's enough for a large subset of the contents of the duplicated address space to retain their meaning. Serializing a process's address space's contents and then loading it into an "unrelated" process later makes it more complicated to know what memory contents can still be relied on (e.g. ASLR, file handles, etc.).

Everything you mentioned except for ASLR is a problem for forked processes, and it boils down to kernel state (file descriptors and signals being two that I can think of right now).
Sure, but until then, public-facing NTP servers should stick to the current standard.
Is there a recent benchmark comparing these different offerings? Would be great to see some real data on how each is performing.
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Have to agree. I'm wearing a Pebble Time Steele and a lot of people like it but don't notice it to be a smartwatch at first sight (depending on the watch face of course).

However, it did not receive good reviews. I guess in part because it is widely accepted that smartwatches do not last more than a day or two and are not well readable outside. Customers and reviewers are blinded by super-high-resolution displays - although you won't watch YouTube on your wrist.

Pebble is functional, the world wants bling-bling.
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I guess I'd say - not interesting way to do it, and anyway I already earn over $500 a day.

Aside from that I guess I have to flag it.
> less hassle to work 24/7

what does that mean?
I prefer #BrexitBritain myself. Nice play on the whole #BrokenBritain hashtag.
contact them anyway. Before I discovered this fix, I had one replaced.

Its worth a shot. They'll give you a case number and ask you to take a photo of the screen tearing along with your case number. Pretty standard.
Break them, fix them, and move on. Must we coddle to every programmer's incompetence?
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"Zero cost abstraction" to me means a completely "static" abstraction, i.e. there are no runtime mechanisms necessary to implement the abstraction.

Your sliding window is just a series of windows, so there is no reason why it couldn't be compiled in the "most" efficient way. In fact it probably does, just try it out by implementing the sliding_window as an iterable.

However there's always this problem with cleverness: It gets harder and harder to read and maintain. Also
http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
For example, members of that sub demonised a pizzeria owner with no evidence whatsoever

I'm guessing that you say that based mostly on media coverage like the recent New York Times article? I think Scott Adams (author of Dilbert) has a more accurate view, which is that there is in fact a mountain of "obvious" evidence, but despite this almost all the connections and conclusions are likely false. I think it's worth the time to contrast his view with the "no evidence whatsoever" explanation that most of the media has taken: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153821538056/about-pizzagate.
Two studies, released a few hours ago (today) “are special in that they are the most rigorous double-blind placebo-controlled trials of a psychedelic drug in the past 50 years” [1]

This editorial from the journal article is just over a page long: http://jop.sagepub.com/content/30/12/1163.full.pdf [1]

....

Excerpts from the news article:

Two studies published Thursday in the Journal of Psychopharmacology could open a path to transforming this taboo drug into a routine psychiatric treatment. The studies — one conducted at Johns Hopkins University and the other at New York University — found that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient found in hallucinogenic mushrooms, can produce immediate, lasting, and positive effects for cancer patients with anxiety and depression.

Six months after a high-dose psilocybin session overseen by researchers and mental health professionals, about 80 percent of the participants in the Johns Hopkins group reported significant decreases in depression and anxiety. And in the NYU group, between 60 percent and 80 percent of participants reported similar results.

The two trials, combined, included roughly 80 participants.

“These were dramatic clinical changes,” said Dr. Stephen Ross, who led the NYU study and directs the substance abuse services program at NYU Langone Medical Center.

....

Ross unveiled the results with a heavy measure of caution. “If someone goes out and does this themselves, they could have enormous anxiety and paranoia, and can feel much worse,” Ross said. “Though I’m sympathetic, I’d strongly recommend people not do that.”

Even research participants who raved about the experience talked about how their psilocybin treatment could have turned tragic, if not for the fact that they were treated in a tightly controlled environment.
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