skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping this would show us some benchmarks, that is, an Apple A10X ARM based server could be pretty darn fast based on the perf metrics I've seen. And off the damn charts in terms of power per watt. Not that Apple is selling any, but cough theyshouldbe
I'm active on Mastodon.

The federated structure of Mastodon means that, so long as I'm accessing toots via my host instances, the source of the toots doesn't matter. That plumbing is managed by the instances, not my local network gateway.

(If I were locally hosting, the situation would be different.)

Punching holes as needed would be another alternative.

I'm aware of the various arguments in favour, and opposed to, various forms of security blocking or not. I've participated in those discussions for most of the past 30 years. There are times when the onslaught simply becomes sufficiently excessive that measures need to be taken.

DNS namespace is large. I'm not going to independently add every last damned host, or domain, by hand. And even with blocklist subscriptions, the overhead is substantial.

I suspect this is a situation which may come to a head in the not-too-distant future, though timing such matters is difficult. The consolidation of much Web activity to a relatively small number of sites already reflects this in part.
Only if you want to define the undefined behavior to be safe. If you define out-of-bounds writes to lead to memory corruption, your compiled code doesn't get any slower.

My point is that you can write your compiler spec to make explicit how exactly various kinds of UB are actually implemented, which then allows you to program to that spec and know that e.g. your overflowing bounds check is not completely eliminated from the program, but instead compiled into the machine instructions you had in mind.

If a compiler is verified to conform to such a specification, unintended changes in handling UB will be very obvious, since the spec will have to be changed to make the verification go through.
Yes, but only the addressing as far as I know.
They still sell Android tablets? Who buys them?

Also it's more than a little weird to expect a V1 product in its genre, from 2010, to still be useful 7 years later. I think your expectations are all messed up here.
Well, as far as musicianship, this is the best case of '3 guys really deep in the pocket with a tight groove' that I have ever seen... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vlBGk9qCio

As far as a nice, tasteful guitar solo at 03:25... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG6GKh3NWkQ
Kotlin Development and Tooling from IntellijIDEA to Atom and Sublime Text
Maybe that's how the pianissimo sections are supposed to work. They're quiet so that you have to pay close attention and strain slightly to hear them so that when the forte part returns you are giving it your full attention :)
What's weird is that the distance from SF to Paris is 9000 Km, which is 30 light-ms. So the theoretical minimal latency would be 30ms.

How comes we're 5 times above that ?

Is the latency introduced by routers ? If yes, then that quite doesn't make sense : I doubt there is any in the middle of the Atlantic.

Is the routing that inefficient that the data travels 50000 km ?
Combined with a hyperloop type delivery system, this could be upgrade on the flush toilet
It's not easy summarising it in one sentence, but 'auto batching' and 'caching' is what I meant by optimising the data retrieval.

EDIT: the Haxl docs describe it as "a library and EDSL for efficient scheduling of concurrent data accesses with a concise applicative API"
I haven't seen it before either, but this clearly took a lot of work and it seems like a reasonable price. I don't mind paying $10-15 for something I'll be staring at every day for possibly years.

I really like it, nice work. The Filter Machine theme is my favorite.
That is BS - there is so much evidence that I don't know where to start.
Another guitarist/singer that is a favourite of mine is Joe Bonamassa. He is almost invisible outside of the guitar player or blues/rock enthusiast field, but is VERY successful, and busy touring the world... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-69Djk5HdQ
Hint: An iPad is an unaffordable luxury to most people.
It's not the role of a democratic and free government to use mass surveillance against its own citizens. It's something you do in a tyranny to weed out dissidents and quill rebellions before they happen.

I'm sure you can put up a lot of good points as to why he NSAs of the world help, but the simple truth is, that we are not free when we live under a surveillance state.
The Android app for this is called Extreme Call Blocker, and it's easily the best money I've ever spent on an app. It is event-based behavior that you define. For example, I whitelist my contacts, and anytime I receive a call from any other number, it picks up the phone and immediately hangs up, and I receive no notifications whatsoever. This has the nice effect of denying any access to voicemail. For my contacts, I have ECB let it ring a few times, and then also deny voicemail to people in my whitelist. Obviously I hate voicemail. Then, if ECB ends up picking-up-hanging-up-to-prevent-voicemail on a few of my special contacts after I don't answer (e.g. coworkers or family), I have it set up to helpfully send a "form SMS" to the contact telling them I'm not available and to call again or SMS if it's an emergency. Absolutely the best app I've ever purchased.
Yeah and that sounds absolutely horrible.
Where did you get that link? Was it one of the sample links? I don't think those are real links. But if you type in https://facebook.com and click "Make it look dodgy" it will give you a real link.

http://hey.look.a.verylegit.link/malware-425iphone)ip-steale...(.docx.html.rar

Edit: Although it appears Hacker News decided to mangle this link that I posted. Apparently it's not happy about mismatched parenthesis in links. Why HN wants to try to match parenthesis in links... that's a good question.
another reason is different grammar even if it's same in English, while old will be same in English no matter if you write old woman, old man or old child in languages with gender distinction it will be different, same goes for singular vs plural

so while in English you need only one string for singular and plural for different genders, in other languages it need to be written 5 different ways and we still didn't get into grammar cases which also don't exist in English, so while in English you would use 20 times old in other language you need 20 different variations

many companies where it's the default language of products English or Chinese have later big issues to localize content properly, especially considering Chinese being even more primitive language than English. good luck trying to explain all these distinctions to Chinese developers
"In cyber, offense and defense become the same"

More details pls. Because it sounds like bs.
It is a difference to secure a network and maybe find out who a attacker is - and then attack back - than to just hack everyone you can and build as much hidden botnets as possible. Which would be "offense"

"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail".

It is indeed a noble statemt. And I'd like to see claims, how that led to US disadvantage in WW2.
Because when you have Nazis e.g. they are clearly not gentlemans anymore and can (and were afaik) be spied on. The statement means, that you only spy on enemys.

"We (USA) can impose restrictions on our NSA but not on anyone else's"

You are the still the superpower number one. And for once you lead by example. And you do indeed(or try to) impose restrictions on everyone else all the time.

If you would really stop to spy on everybody in the world and really only on your enemys ... this alone would make a huge impact. But you as a empire does not really want to. The more you know about the worlds secrets, the more you can controll it. And no, I am not saying that the smaller empires like china or russia are any better (not at all). But you are the power number on. You have the choice of leading by fear, violence and intimidating - or by sticking to your old values of respecting your peoples and others freedom(as long as it is mutual) and providing a base for a voluntary coorporation of any kind. If you do this, you stay in leadership. If you just become one more lame empire, using any means necessary to stay in power, you will just fall like any of those empires, as history and current trend shows.
I mean, its obvious that sugar is toxic, as anything is. The toxicity is in the dose. So context matters.

Sugar IS toxic if it hangs out in the blood too long, with adequately high levels. It produces all sorts of bad effects - from AGEs to diminished vitamin C uptake (and thus immunity). Sugar is uniquely toxic to teeth, there is nobody that will argue that.

This ... angry chef ... doesn't actually provide anything but confusion. I highly recommend you to avoid it and do your own reasearch.
Contrast with this though: https://youtu.be/mto7vBtabEU?t=24s

Seeing Jack White play live with the White Stripes was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life. Part of the beauty of their style is that it is built on very simple fundamentals - literally an enumerated set of rules - which form a platform on top of which Jack White can experiment with incredible virtuoso stuff (the best of which is obviously observed in the live performances).

You are 100% spot on though that Jack White isn't famous for this. In their popular singles really only the basic song frameworks, and not so much of the experimental stuff, are exposed. I think it might be some mixture of intentional artistic obscurity, and fitting to the 'radio market' for economic reasons, but either way if you're not familiar with them I really suggest giving all the albums (and some of the live shows e.g. Live Under Blackpool Lights) a deep listen through - really quite incredible stuff :-)
I also saw AC/DC during the Black Ice tour. I've been to many concerts, but never seen anyone else live who could play the guitar like Angus Young. He truly is an amazing guitarist.
I don't think anyone contends that you can completely understand anothers experience. Nor that any two instances of suffering (nor any experience) are identical.

What you need to demonstrate is that women are a special class who have entirely different experiences, to any member of other classes, when being sexually harassed.

This stands in stark contrast to some feminist rhetoric as it relies on men and women being fundamentally and innately unequal.

I don't think women are shrinking little flowers, as a class, that experience harassment in a way that no members of the out-class do. This, appears to be the supposition of your post.

How do you suppose you know enough of the experience of members of your own class (eg male) to say they are all markedly different to those of another class (female).

>The feelings women experience when they are victimized in this way are products of history. //

In the general case that sounds like bullshit. Convince me otherwise?
The Stasi was able to read all mail of targets (and they had many) fifty years ago. Practically all mail crossing the border was read, which again was a lot. I'd assume addresses are scraped anyway, since they are digitized for routing already, and targeted mail being opened without leaving marks (an art existing for hundreds of years).
Scaleways offers x86 options that are the same price with same number of cores.
iOS still has this problem in French on its keyboard, where "return" (for line return) is translated as "retour"... which literally means "return" but in the context of a keyboard, means backspace (on physical keyboards the backspace key sometimes even has "retour" written on it).
There are some amazing players out there: Guthrie Govan, Nick Johnston, Plini... The old guard (Satriani, Vai, Gilbert) are cranking out great albums from time to time. Truth be told, people who really know how to play and write guitar music always were in short supply. They're just in slightly shorter supply now for (IMO) two reasons: 1. One no longer needs to know how to play an instrument to be considered a musician: people are perfectly willing to pay for "music" that's just computer drums and bass, and 2. Kids have the attention span of a house fly, and guitar requires daily practice. Even so, YouTube is full of amazingly talented kids.
I was trying to put a word on it too. It's irrational if minimization of harm is the goal. And it's totally blind to the externalities of pouring massive amounts of money into the surveillance industry and really the war industry more generally, as these two are highly interconnected.

The arguments are almost insidiously constructed.

> Vacuuming up packets is less alarming when you understand we've been vacuuming up radio and telephone signals for decades.

No.

> Seems like it's trendy to hate the NSA

Leading with an ad hominem.

> The US has tried going "NSA-less". It happened in 1929

Didn't something else happen in 1929 that impacted the overall stability and thereby war readiness of the US?
> * All the great powers have NSA equivalents. Meaning they play offence and defense in crypto, RF, and cyber. We (USA) can impose restrictions on our NSA but not on anyone else's. Our exploit-riddled networks are a playground for American, Russian and Chinese cyber warriors - and probably many others.

So?

> * In cyber, offense and defense become the same. Kaplan's book covers this. So a smart country seeks cyber-superiority. The more we hamper NSA, the more we empower foreign cyber-warriors.

Does this hold even when your "offense" involves hoarding vulnerabilities (instead of responsibly disclosing them) and then leaking them?

> * The focus has moved from RF to cyber. Giant antennas are far less important and giant datacenters are the new stars. Vacuuming up packets is less alarming when you understand we've been vacuuming up radio and telephone signals for decades. When comsats were important, NSA was vacuuming up their downlinks. When international telegrams were punched on paper tape, NSA's predecessors picked up the tape each day.

I don't see how "we have been doing this for a long time" makes it less bad.

> * The US has tried going "NSA-less". It happened in 1929 under the slogan "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". That noble slogan led to the US operating at a disadvantage in the lead up to WWII. It doesn't pay to fly blind.

The US did pretty ok in WWII.

> * Fear of an overreaching state is always justified; however we should focus that fear more on how NSA shares data than how it acquires it. For instance fusion centers: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/why-fusion-centers-mat....

Those things are both issues, and we can discuss them both.
Toxicity, when fat starts to burn down, is well known phenomena in medicine. You can be poisoned and toxins can be 'stored' in fat for years, depending on their type, then one day when you start melting that you start to experience symptoms.

> And how is sugar an important building block of life?

Not very much, since there is no such thing as sugar deficiency and liver can make its own via gluconeogenesis. Unless you have impaired liver or are starving, sugar probably has little value.
Is this the one with NSA backdoor in it, or did obdev successfully battle their request?
Given the finite amount of time and resources available to individuals, especially young people, it is inevitable that learning more modern pop production will be at the expense of investing in the extensive training needed to perform music in realtime.

And even if you have trained musicians, the are all kinds of social factors that can make things hard, especially in a pop/rock group: infighting, drug abuse, wanting a higher pay, band members that drop out mid-tour, etc.

I think Frank Zappa embodied this realisation: you can deal with all that shit or get a Synclavier [1] and get your ideas played by a full orchestra without the social hassles and pay.

Although I do like a lot of rock music, I think this is a fantastic development. It means that some musically brilliant kid can bootstrap their career in an attic without dealing with all the hurdles they would have to deal with before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synclavier
ah yes, not that they do exist. makes sense thanks
You reduced your caloric intake. That's wonderful.
Tea ceremony and Zen Buddhism are Chinese traditions. Zen's influence today is largely related to the turn away from militarized Shinto and western interest during the period. The tea ceremony has changed in Japan and it is one of their longest traditions.

Geisha were sex workers with a bit of mystique attached. Similarly, samurai were knights or dukes, and any influence they currently have comes from a romanticised version much like knights received.

Yes, and I understand the difference between history and the cultural perception of it. The ideas these things represent often come from the Meiji period propaganda.
The person every kid wanted to be in the 70s was Jimi Hendrix. The person every kid wants to be in 2017 is Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerburg. The zeitgeist has moved on.
Speaking as a Wikipedia "volunteer" (or rather "editor"), I think it is in fact a very good idea that the Foundation takes no editorial responsibilities (except reacting to legal challenges via so-called "office actions"). It means that editors don't have to worry about legal, sysadmin, PR, etc.; and conversely WMF is not directly responsible for Wikipedia content. Believe me, it would be silly for WMF to be involved in all editorial disputes about what should or shouldn't be on Wikipedia, how things should be formatted, etc., in all languages.

Basically, the foundation is managing the playground where the editors can build an encyclopedia (along with other projects, e.g., Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, etc.), and then mostly leaves the community alone (with some exceptions, not all of which were well-perceived). Given the scale of Wikimedia projects, I don't think 300 employees is excessive (it's very little when looking at other sites in the Alexa rankings except Reddit), and it's great that the expenses can be supported by donations so WMF doesn't have to depend on other people than readers.

I don't see why I would mind that WMF staff gets a salary and editors don't -- editing Wikipedia is not my full-time job, but running it is theirs. (In fact, to the extent that editing Wikipedia is part of my job as a public researcher, I already get a salary from my institution...) It's easier to manage Wikipedia content with volunteers (where most processes don't depend on one single person and where there are little firm deadlines) but to have paid staff to manage operations (if the website goes down you want someone to have a look immediately). OK, it would be conceivable that the foundation could offer grants to pay some full-time editors, or redistribute money as small gifts, or as a lottery, or something, but it raises a lot of complicated questions (I don't know whether the topic has been discussed before) and I'm not sure it would be worth the effort.

Another important point is that the WMF is not a company but a nonprofit, so it is reasonably transparent, and many people in the staff are chosen through elections. It's not like individuals are getting large dividends from donations to the WMF.

I my opinion, the most important point to keep in mind is that WMF asks for volunteer work, but the outcome of that work is shared on fair terms with the public. If I want, I can just grab their entire database https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and software https://www.mediawiki.org/ and start hosting a mirror with the data, and I have both the technical possibility and the legal right to do it. So WMF is not like companies who ask for volunteer work and then keep it behind closed doors (e.g., the volunteer Google Maps editors, or the historical CDDB example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#History).
In my opinion boutique competition, economic hardship, drop in quality, and an active used market are what's killing Gibson and other big companies. Not EDM.
how do you know it's passion when he provided more languages option only after his PAID game became successful? i think there is different word for it in English
I think there are strong parallels with the tech/startup world here: the often-touted quote "The next Bill Gates won't build an operating system, the next Mark Zuckerberg won't build a social network" comes to mind.

The next Miles Davies won't play the horn, and the next Jimmy Hendrix won't play guitar. There will always be jazz, there will always be rock n roll, but the level of interest in those styles, particularly amongst young musicians, will slide inevitably towards the niche as the next innovative style comes along.

The world keeps turning. This is a great thing for music.
What people typically mean when they say speed of light is the speed in vacuum. For optical fibers, you can reduce that number by about 30%. It's also unlikely that there is a straight line from A to B, and each network hop will introduce additional latency - there are > 10 hops from my home connection to Scaleway, and that's with both ends located in Europe.
I dont think he meant "better because you did it the hardway" but "better because you spent time on the finer details of the phrasing"

That said, it seems you had a lot on your chest and it feels good to get it off
I met my wife-to-be when she was my manager.
US SAAS companies inspire you with confidence? Question, not troll...
With FB you're the product, your data is milked and sold. Have fun with your "free" social network. What a poor example of what you consider the viable alternative.
> We all want peace.

I don't think that's true, there are clearly many people bent on fueling conflicts and wars, both in- and outside the US.