skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happened to my parents and me, back in the mid-90s. Luckily, nobody was in the kitchen the moment it happened. All I remember is that it left a decent dent in the vent hood above the stove, and Gulasz... Gulasz everywhere.

Then again, I was also right next to an exploding Mokka / Espresso stovetop cooker, so maybe I am simply unlucky :)

I still own a pressure cooker and use it regularly - a cheap one from IKEA at that.
actually a whole session is the phone turning on and off. So I like this session behavior better. Otherwise unlike apps I have to login again and again to some websites.
The newer models have a yogurt setting!
If that is your point, I don't see why you bothered making it.

No comment about how well they do at "supporting needs and desires", but the Democratic party is also mostly white people. Turns out that's pretty common in a country of mostly white people.
I write a DSL now and then. I also wrote Toadskin[1]. This is a good reminder for me to rescue it from the Internet Archive and stick it in GitHub along with the fix for the bug in '[' that it looks like I never published.

The reason I gave at the time was: "If you have to ask, then you have never been stuck in a hotel room in Fort Worth with no internet access." (This was 2003)

1. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Toadskin

Edit: Actually there's more than one bug there. I'll get it fixed before I revive it.
You can't just mention how it makes great oatmeal without providing us the recipe!

Please?
I still think Uber's future challenge will be to return all capital it has raised so far and will raise in the next 5 years.
This is like forcing bank tellers to pay back their salary to the government because the bank management didn't follow the rules.
> Uber's biggest problem is the confrontational way they've expanded their business, often thumbing their nose at regulators the entire time and pissing off a lot of the local communities.

I think regulators' attitude is just as controversial: 'you must do this because we say so,' not 'you must do this because it's a good idea.'
>The status.slack.com was also overloaded during this time and it may have been inaccessible.

This is starting to become a common theme...
I don't swim in these circles so forgive my ignorance -- What is significant about Immunity? Are you saying these exploits are trivial and/or old news?
This is, in fact, a textbook for a discrete mathematics course for year 1 computer science students :)
AI log analysis for all applications
Using kernel implants to hide signals from these kinds of network security tools is literally 1990s-grade hacker opsec. It's the actual, precise use case for which "amodload" was written, in 1996, by a 20-year-old, for a closed-source OS. I stand by my assessment.
During import it was intentionally undervalued to avoid customs. This provided the journalistic license to provide the massive price discrepancy.

"On the packing slip he wrote “rocha: rochedo—rock” and listed the value at $100."
this is cool, I like the way the time limit is just built in with the life of the process. Perfect niche use case.
>I feel that people have gotten more and more binary and we need more shades of gray

What about people who think we need more binary thinking and fewer shades of gray? How do you even form a nuanced (gray) argument against that kind of dogmatism? Where do you draw the line against line-drawing without being hypocritical?

This isn't just rhetorical: this is a problem we're struggling with as a society. People are intellectually exhausted and are drawn to ideologies that answer their questions for them in a clear, unambiguous way. We're in an ideological arms race, becoming more polarized and less rational merely as a survival mechanism.
Agreed, which is why I think this information is additional evidence and not a smoking gun. I do think given what is public knowledge, the prospect of the CIA using an experimental new technique on a target like Hastings is suspect.

Ultimately though, we don't know what he uncovered and intended to publish, and how long the CIA had to react to it. An extraordinary revelation may have necessitated an extraordinary reaction. The point is that the new information takes the concept of malicious car hacking from speculation to reality.
It is some tech out of GE Digital that, from what I understand, uses sensor data + machine learning against a digital representation of the system to predict failures and tune performance. A friend of mine just recently took a job at a start-up using this technology (https://veerum.com/about/), however I haven't had a chance to catch up with him and really understand how this stuff works.

There is some more information here:
https://www.ge.com/digital/power-digital-twin

https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/rise-digital-twins
A more flattering image: http://bhcourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bahia-emeral...
So... uh... where can one find these tools? Asking for a friend.
I think the overarching characteristic of "excellent" engineers I have worked with was being almost compulsive obsessive about their code, architecture, tests and process.

Each of them held their own code at higher standards than anyone around them and they did it because it was important to them and not to impress others.
EXACTLY. READ MY ORIGINAL COMMENT.
A huge chunk of this stress is most people simply don't code on whiteboards most of the time. It's a skill which you can pick up fairly quickly which destroys the validity of this kind of hazing.
It's a fair criticism, and something easily changed!
never heard of it until now
People need to take the time to learn JS instead of forcing their understanding of programming upon it.
To me this seems like a reasonable response.

Rules have been violated, and in a society with a rule of law there has to be consequences.
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That image isn't very useful on its own.

the design of the app is that it injects content scripts with global variable names everywhere.

any site can overwrite the encryption functions, or redefine some of the global vars that are used for images, etc.
It seems as if your paradigm shifts it from "only wealthy people can access" to "only people technically competent enough to set up a sandbox can access"
Hey gang, looks awesome - did you see any meaningful value out of your first Show HN?
https://meetcleo.com/ if you are in the UK. Can't vouch for it, but the product seems identical.
The problem is that you have to have some way to evaluate someone's skill level relatively quickly. Take home assignments will never work. Part time work, or contracting work until you're satisfied is going to be even worse from the perspective of a job searcher. Imagine you get a new job that pays half of what your last job did and then you get dismissed at the end of 3 months and have to restart your search.

I don't understand all the fuss. Whiteboard interviews are unpleasant, sure, but I've done a lot of them and they're not that bad.
Why Rubber Duck Debugging is the best way to debug your code
How do you transport 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground?
Domestic surveillance using these tools seems like a different issue than whether the US or its allies use these tools for geopolitical advantage?

Hypocrisy aside, in theory it would be possible to have an open society domestically even if these tools are used internationally.
We have fairly decent CRT emulation via pixel shaders already. Scanlines, phosphor glow, barrel distortion (curvature), shadow masks/aperture grills, etc. And yeah, all of that at 4K can strain a top-end video card. That and using a shader like this adds an additional frame of latency.

The truly limiting quality issue is that the contrast of LCD monitors doesn't even come close to that of a CRT.

It's really quite amazing how much we acclimate to the inferior contrast of LCD displays. But if you ever run the output to both a CRT and LCD side-by-side ... it'll truly shock you what a difference there is.

I've yet to see an OLED PC monitor in person. Hopefully they're a lot closer.
I suggest a more simple and straightforward explanation for the limitations of "reason": our brain is, in fact, write only.

That seems to be inconsistent with the research described in the article where subjects were asked for an opinion, then in some way required to explain that opinion, and then asked for another opinion on the same issue. People apparently did weaken in their convictions, but only when forced to confront them by examining the details.
Maybe I was lucky, but interviews were far from the most stressful or uncomfortable thing I encountered on the job. They haven't asked me about intricate details either (except one that gave me standard test with questions ranging from difficult to easy, but it still did not felt that horrible).
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> No. They are accepted as a scientific theory [1].

Thanks for clarifying that... indeed, I agree with that adjustment.

The problem you highlight is that most people aren't exposed to anything but "this is fact" spewed by the media and don't have the benefit of time or contradictory evidence at hand to decide what is true and what isn't... so even with the ability to think critically, they're bombarded with so many alternative-facts that eventually they begin to believe it too.
Privacy and security are really big priorities for us, so we do our best to address those concerns whenever we can. As far as personal info is concerned, we store the minimum possible info (first name and email, no address, DOB, etc). And we use a popular service called Plaid to do the transaction retrieval, so we never store sensitive credentials. Plaid actually powers many, many other financial services, so they're quickly building a great reputation themselves.

The other aspect is that banks are really good at physical security, but not so great at data security. Consider the recent Chase breaches, where a ton of sensitive data was leaked—you're obviously placing a lot of trust on Intuit or Plaid whenever you use Mint or Penny, but at least they're modern technology companies that probably hold themselves to higher data security standards than your bank.
I once created an emulator for HP Time-Shared BASIC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Time-Shared_BASIC) so I could run the original code for the original text-adventure form of Oregon Trail. I already had much of the AST parsing infrastructure in place for a syntax highlighting text editor I had written. The text editor component got extended to be the terminal emulator. This was all in JavaScript, rendering with Canvas2D, so that the resultant image could be textured into a 3D model of a Commodore PET (the only "old" computer model I could find that didn't cost an arm and a leg to download) in WebGL, then displayed in a VR headset through WebVR.

I regret nothing.
Yes, I wrote a few different ones for text-based BBS games I wrote in the 90s. I did it because I wanted to write a totally customizable game engine that didn't require any additional tools. Also, I don't think there were too many free options for me at the time. (Maybe there were, but I didn't really look.)

I did it again years later when I was writing another game engine, this time sprite-based. In this case, I could've used an external scripting language like lua, but I figured it would be fun to learn what it takes to write my own language.

I learned a ton in both cases even though they were really toy languages that were meant for a very tiny scenario.
OSDev: a wiki for OS developers
WombatDialer: a social media dialer for Asterisk
Why wouldn't a friendly bank buy into them?
Congressman suggests poor Americans should give up iPhones for health care
I did sequence-based bioinformatics back around 2006 or so.

Very few of the operations used GPU. Things may have changed since I was working there, but the work at the time wasn't suited for a GPU architecture.

Initial step was sequence cleanup, which is a hidden markov model executed over a collection of sequences of varying length, so hard to parallelize. Sequence annotation is embarassingly parallel on a per-library basis (each sequence can be annotated independently of the other), but the computational work is fuzzy string matching, which is once again hard to GPU-ize. Another major computational job was contig assembly, which is somewhat parallelizable (pairwise sequence comparisons), but once again involves fuzzy string matching so not GPU-izable.

So that's just sequence genetics. Don't know if GPUs are used in other areas.

Lots of cores, lots of threads, and lots of main memory. That was the key.
It's a part of the Predix platform offering:

In large-scale systems, sensor information can be in different locations separated by great distances. For example, a pipeline system may have some assets in a central terminal as well as assets in the field miles away from the terminal - and all of these must be connected to a single asset model to monitor the health of the system as a whole.

Asset data can be ingested through a REST API using files in JSON format or created using a user interface. The data is stored in a graph database that is optimal for searching hierarchies of assets. Tags that indicate pressure or temperature can be associated with each asset. These tags can then be used to bring in and associate time series data and analytics to build digital twins of a complex asset.

For example, you could create an asset model that describes the logical component structure of all pumps in an organization, and then create instances of that model to represent each individual pump. Or you could create custom modeling elements that meet your unique domain needs if a particular pump has a few differences with the generic version.

https://www.predix.io/services/service.html?id=1171
As much as we'd like to blame this on Trump. This is just border officers being dicks, and they pretty much always have been.
There are two types of citations. There are, of course, the Wikipedia, CNN, or HuffPo links, which are at best facts mingled with opinion, or, at worst, contextually inaccurate sound bites. Then there are scholarly citations, which consist of scientific data, complete, primary-source media, etc. The latter are the only types of citations I typically take seriously.

Even then, as you point out, there are other things to consider. For example, if a scientist publishes something controversial in a peer-reviewed journal, you still have to wonder what his or her motivations are. Who is funding them? Have their personal biases, or those of their benefactors, tainted their results?

I tend to strive for scholarly citations in my arguments, but in the end, I realize we are all emotional beings, and personal biases and emotions tend to trump knowledge, wisdom, and logic more often than we'd like to admit.
Or like making street drug dealers pay any gains from the proceeds of their sales, as opposed to the kingpins.

Which is, in fact, exactly how we deal with organized crime. (The kingpins, if caught, will pay too.)

Just because Michael Corleone ordered a hit, generally doesn't mean that you get to keep whatever he paid you.

At least the drivers have legal recourse, in the form of suing Uber.
Mind mapping tool of second generation
It's not about being rich at all. Someone barely making ends meet running their own courier service could do the same thing. It's up to them to figure out if the increase in deliveries per day is worth the cost of the tickets.

There are fines that impact big companies and rich people less because of deep pocketbooks. But parking tickets on delivery trucks are not such a fine. They scale linearly with bad-parking activity. As mikeash said, this case is effectively a tax.
In your simile, are the bank tellers also breaking the law?
50+ vehicle perception presentations
Console into Mass Automatization of Routine Tasks
I prefer the way Solaris solved this problem:

1) first, by eliminating the need for a context switch for libc calls such as gettimeofday(), gethrtime(), etc. (there is no public/supported interface on Solaris for syscalls, so libc would be used)

2) by providing additional, specific interfaces with certain guarantees:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54766/get-sec-fro...

This was accomplished by creating a shared page in which the time is updated in the kernel in a page that is created during system startup. At process exec time that page is mapped into every process address space.

Solaris' libc was of course updated to simply read directly from this memory page. Of course, this is more practical on Solaris because libc and the kernel are tightly integrated, and because system calls are not public interfaces, but this seems greatly preferable to the VDSO mechanism.
Sure. Email me.
If your goal is to deter companies and individuals for taking advantage of gray markets, this is probably a very logical decision.
International Trends 2020: The Smart Grid
That FAQ is a little out of date—I'll update right now. Once you remove duplicates, we support closer to 8-10k banks through Plaid, and we have two monetization strategies (monetization was our focus at YC):

1. A premium subscription service that gets you some power features within Penny; we just launched that today.
2. Recommending affiliate products.

It's important to note that affiliates can be a mixed bag. Mint.com was the product that turned me onto Betterment when I was hunting around for ways to invest my money; I'm legitimately thankful that they did since I love Betterment. At Penny, we think we can tastefully and in good faith recommend some affiliate products. Those recommendations fit perfectly into our coaching model too.

Unfortunately, most personal finance companies start pushing credit cards on people that don't need them because it pays the most money. We're building Penny in a way that disincentives crappy behavior like that.
deep state

This phrase is currently being spread by right-wing conspiracy sites and was under the radar of most people until very recently. In other words, it seems very much that you, as an otherwise reasonable person, are being manipulated by people whose main interest is clickbait (for money) and/or some political agenda that has nothing to do with news.

I've seen this detachment from reality increase more and more due to the Internet and the way some people acquire their information from their select peer groups, and it's a sad thing to watch.

Don't take me wrong, I'm not saying that there is no corruption or no potential for domestic surveillance abuse in the US, but by using such phrases you seem to be parroting merely what others feed to you. It works the same way as viral marketing works so please don't fall for it!

Just a side note, I agree with some of the other things you write.
Introduction

In spite of what we do and how fast we enter the commands, the reality is, we still can’t beat the performance of computers. From the other hand, if we keep repeating the same action multiple times, we can easily give computers a hard time, can’t we? You could write a bash script (your favorite programming language) and instead of entering the same commands, wasting your time and energy, run the script and have some time for yourself, sit back in a seat, think of the eternity, universe, or anything else that comes up on your mind.
They aren't employees.
Investor group seeks to bar Snap from indexes over voting rights
> That said, you'd be surprised how often the fact (pun intended) that it's "impossible to know anything for certain" is lost on people.

I think David Hume was quite good on this subject. If chance of being right is all there is to knowledge, then maximizing your chance of being right is what knowledge is. So all the peer review, the numbers and statistics, for example, contribute to knowledge even if it might be wrong. And if you dismiss, as you do, statistics because they just might be misleading or biased, and are thus not "objective reality fact", that does damage to your ability to know things, because you are discarding data without considering it, and that damage should be avoided. Whereas the proper thing to do is consider it on merits, whatever the actual merits are.
That's not the source of the stress of coding on a whiteboard. The source of the stress is you have to guess what the interviewer wants or you don't get to pay your bills next month.
For people in the U.K. there is Cleo[0]. It is also a chatbot that provides insight into finances primarily via messenger.

(Full disclosure: I work for Cleo :) )

[0] https://www.meetcleo.com
How many lights are there?
maybe for single server or academia setups, but in datacenters TDP and power consumption absolutely do matter.
WikiLeaks Posts Thousands of Purported CIA Cyberhacking Documents
> In the second module an air compressor takes air in and puts it under high pressure, which shrinks the volume of the air and allows the engine to be smaller (because compressed air takes up less space).

Does this reporter know what they're talking about? I always thought compressors were an essential part of a jet engine (compression heats the air, then fuel is sprayed in which auto-ignites, expanding, and turning the turbine blades). Not just because compressed air takes up less space.
The title should be re-written to say "single and dual socket" not "1P and 2P".
Because a brain has been evolved for dealing with crude appearances which are supplied to its centers by imprecise and unreliable sense organs and for sloppy thinking, good-enough for successful survival and reproduction (and necessary competition to accomplish that).

Our minds are conditioned by appearances and the conditioning is based on the fact that things does not change too often in the physical environments - almost everything stays the same most of the time.

The visual system, for example, has a lot of hard-wired heuristics which reflects this assumption. The cues which a brain machinery of visual cortex is utilizing to decode scenes is a perfect illustration how an evolved brain structure reflects actual physical environment in which it has been evolved.

The mind, it seems, utilizes simple frequency-based machinery which strengthen (or weaken) the representation (whatever it might be, close to what we would call a weighted graph, perhaps) with each new impression. There is , obviously, no probability calculations going on in the brain, just simple weighted structures. Similar approach is in the very core of the classic machine learning.

To alter the representation dramatically there must be some impression with a big weight, and this is what emotions are for. A dog getting sick after eating drugged food would learn to avoid it after just one single exposure. An emotionally charged experience is the simplest (and still the most effective form of persuasion, readily exploited by memes) because a brain has been evolved in to reflect the physical environment (its laws) and be adaptive-enough to survive mostly-stochastic, partially-observable environment.

One single mention of a supposed fact is not enough to change one's internal representation of reality (which, perhaps, is a structure trained with thousands if not millions of impressions). Even direct experience sometimes is not enough, because one cannot completely trust ones senses.

Only a rigorously trained mind could consciously deliberately alter its own model of the world (which is not that simple and cannot be accomplished at a whim) when it meets a single contradiction with "proven" or implicitly encoded in brain's heuristics laws of nature, leave alone a logical contradiction which is hard to notice given the default way of thinking we have evolved with. The non-verbal mind is much more ancient and much more powerful, and it does not understand the language of a newer parts.