skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried to bootstrap a few travel-related ideas since I do have plenty of traveling experience but it seemed the local market wasn't ripe (macro-economically), then I decided to leave IT after 15 years to professionalize the dogs and dog training knowledge my family and I already had since ever and the niche is here and all that, I have a great doggy daycare to run and local buzz etc, but man it's tough. The real world is definitely another beast than IT. I now believe and understand that IT has always been a fantasy land where we all pretend we are awesome but we are just spoiled. The non-IT reality is fucking hard, but it is amazingly rewarding in its own way. I only hope I don't ever need to go back to IT, we'll see...
Url changed from https://hackaday.com/2018/01/03/why-sonys-trinitron-tubes-we..., which points to this.

Generally we prefer to link to text rather than video, but there really isn't much in that article, so it doesn't seem justified to link there. The HN guidelines ask for original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Sorry in LA. Open offer if you're in the area!
I spent nearly all my life drinking raw water, and my parents before me, also the entire population of the village I'm born, and no one ever got any disaese like collera or epatite, we use to drink tap water from the village fountain, or go to the mountain to take the tap water from there (because it taste better). I'm. Not saying raw water is safe, but some sources of raw water are proved safe.
And pay for raw water is definitely stupid, we drink it because is free
The hypothesis I've seen, and why people seem to be rushing to patch it without explaining, is that you might be able to not only leak addresses, but actual data, from any ring, into unprivileged code, at which point, your security model is burned to the ground.

AIUI, the present circumstances are:

- there exists a public PoC from some researchers of side-channel leaking kernel address information into userland via JavaScript which may be unrelated

- there exists a Xen security embargo that expires Thursday that might be unrelated

- AWS and Azure have scheduled reboots of many things for maintenance in the next week, which seems unlikely to be unrelated to the Xen embargo

- a feature that appears to be geared toward preventing a side-channel technique of unknown power has been rushed into Linux for Intel-only (both x86_64 and ARM from Intel)

- a similar class of prevention technique has been landed in Windows since November for both Intel and AMD x86_64 chips (no idea about ARM)

- the rush surrounding this, and people being amazingly willing to land fixes that imply a 5-30% performance impact, strongly suggest that unlike almost every major CPU bug in the last decade, you can't fix or even work around this with a microcode update for the affected CPUs, which is _huge_. The AMD TLB bug, the AMD tight loop bug that DFBSD found, even the Intel SGX flaws that made them repeatedly disable SGX on some platforms - all of them could be worked around with BIOS or microcode updates. This, apparently, cannot. (Either that or they're rushing out fixes because there's live exploit code somewhere and they haven't had time to write a microcode fix yet, but O(months) seems like they probably concluded they outright can't, rather than haven't yet.)
Funny this shows up today, because I have a half-written blog post about it I meant to publish this week :).

I'm actively trying to do exactly that - pivot from IT into something more meaningful.

Currently, I'm exploring two areas which were of big interest for me as a hobby: space technology and biotech. My goal is to spend this year exploring options, getting the "lay of the land" and forming a plan of learning new skills, in order to ultimately get a job in one of those industries before 2020.

Rationale: both are some of the most potentially impactful fields on the future of humanity.

Space Tech: Because I've been dreaming about space exploration since my earliest days on this planet. Because - with the recent accomplishments of the private industry - the time is ripe now to work on bootstrapping an industry in space. I mean manufacturing, asteroid mining, etc. There's lots of work to be done, the momentum is there, and frankly, we're long overdue for all of that.

Biotech: because I feel that mastery over molecular nanotechnology would solve half of the issues humanity faces, and biotech seems like the best way to incrementally get there. As I'm fond of saying, nature is advanced molecular nanotech which we didn't design and can't control yet.

All of that comes from the desire to work on something actually beneficial to humans (with a good effort/effect ratio), as opposed to cranking out code driving money towards marginally useful businesses.

--

For a long time I've been reluctant to talk about it, as it is with desires for grand endeavours. But I am committed now, so if anyone can help me find my bearings around those two spaces, or have some experiences of pivoting there from pure software, I would very appreciate it.
https://manytricks.com/witch/

Years ago I had Witch installed for awhile to do what you're talking about. If I remember correctly, by default cmd-` would flip through just windows, but I'm pretty sure you can mix them in and have cmd-tab flip through both.

As for a package manager, what are your needs? Since you can't repackage the OS, "package managers" are quite a bit different in macOS and Windows. I've generally liked Homebrew, but when trying Windows and looking at Chocolatey I was really confused (I believe I was hoping to compile/install libraries instead of applications). I think Nix has a lot of potential. I wish I could use it more in Linux and macOS (and I wish it had more polish).
Anonymous #Italia hacked #speed #camera database
>as evidenced by the fact that "giant parties" are a relatively recent phenomenon, historically speaking.

That is nowhere near true.
> Because Safeway has enough manpower to do that.

I can assure you, the cashiers at Safeway make significantly less money than the USPS staff. And accounting for guaranteed pensions, even more so. Most are minimum wage employees with no job security.

And to answer your speculation: there are employees at the Post Office. You can see them through the doors.

And finally: why isn't the office staffed properly, given that these holidays like Christmas aren't exactly new and unforeseen?
With my girlfriend's Macbook, we can never be sure that if its lid is closed to sleep, it will wake up. With linuxes on my laptops, it always does.

Of course it doesn't prove anything, but simply reminds that YMMV.

Updates are always breaking something, to the point I had to convince her to update to (High) Sierra, so I could install new Xcode, because she didn't want to.

Font rendering is ugly, too bold, I can't look at it. Touchpad is somewhat acceptable - I've used both better and worse. Spaces aren't really useful. But those of course are up to personal taste.

I had some contact with OS X somewhere around Tiger and Yosemite. I had some contact with iOS somewhere around 7.0. I do remember them as quite stable and problem-free, although not really the most usable nor exciting for me personally. Recently I started to have contact with newest macOS and newest iOS, and damn, it feels like every mention of "not having to deal with headaches" regarding those OSes is as poor joke. There are so many of small glitches and annoyances, bugs and poor UX decisions, that I really feel like my Arch is more polished, and that's something. Not even speaking about phones.
Could it indicate discrimination against men at Google?
Could the rating organizations be biased to weigh disseminated coverage and care more than individual quality of care? Just a question, since I seem to get that impression these types of quality of life surveys.

As a USer with good insurance, it's a hard pill to swallow to trade next day doctor appointments, same day urgent care (not ER) with very short waits, and quick schedules for surgical procedures for the broader coverage other countries offer with more rationed care.
Razzle enables Universal JavaScript apps decoupled from frameworks and libraries
This is not about "valuable" staff. It is very clear that there is overhead based on historical and international benchmarks and such overhead can be identified without much trouble. Over the past decade or two decades the administrative costs have exploded. The salaries paid to some university administrators in the US is just too much and their numbers are mind-boggling. Also a fair number of prestige type buildings have been build which may contribute to student life and college attractiveness but little to student eduction. Some of this excess has been justified by having to compete with other schools but these other schools were also working hard on competing on beauty and not on substance. On the substance side teaching and research staffing is running more and more on short term contracts which either demotivates or forces a focus on publishing meaningless papers.

Besides the high fixed cost the universities are faced with unprecedented open access to information via the internet. Not all what a university does can be replaced but some stuff can. A low cost competitor is taking over part of their business - and probably the most profitable one.

It is not just that Trump made entry to the US more difficult. The cost for education went up. The competition is getting stronger. And the value delivered is decreasing due to lower social mobility. Unless one is going to the very top universities the chances to move up have decreased compared with the past. This is not so say it is not worth it but relatively it is less clear and for some subjects it became very risky.
> Fight me. ;P

This comment could be a lot more substantial. You might want to check out the commenting guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It has very little to do with what kind of syscalls (I/O or other kinds) and all to do with how many syscalls a given application makes per given time period. Compute bound applications are already avoiding syscalls in their hotter parts. This will mostly be a blow to databases, caching servers and other such I/O limited applications.
American doctors make 6 figures $/year, sometimes serious figures (like $400k/year).

UK doctors don’t make near that much money.
Rescue or med evac helicopter pilot
As an American who lived in London from age 34-37, I loved the pub culture because it allows one to get outside and have a couple drinks with colleagues at a reasonable hour and still be home for dinner with the family. Also, cask ale much easier on my stomach than super cold and carbonated lagers.
At age 55 after raising three kids and being out of the job market for two decades, my mom randomly decided to get into acting. At the time, tons of movies were filming in Boston where she lives. She was quickly able to land lots of extra work, especially because the city lacks the constant supply of aspiring actors living in NY or LA.

It was a perfect cure for empty nest syndrome. She eventually landed a speaking role in a major film, though tragically her speaking scenes got cut and only the scenes where she played a corpse made the final cut. But, she got the opportunity to act opposite Robert Duvall! And she played Robert Downey Jr's mother, which by the transitive property of fraternal handsomeness makes me as good looking as he is (hint: I'm not).

Sadly, she gave up on it after receiving some harsh feedback from a talent agent. It can be a fun, carefree way to earn some extra cash if you have the stability not to have to worry about a volatile income stream. But once you get into the more serious levels of the business, the competition can be brutal and the industry insiders vile. C'est la vie, I suppose.
NSA lets co-ops rotate through various departments to give them a sense of what career path works for them. And nothing wrong with converting old Perl scripts when you're starting. It's a good way to get ramped up in the basics.
That is an interesting question. It should result in pretty significant improvement, however lit would lose practicality. Optimizing for normal DEFLATE/gzip makes lit more practical, since brotli doesn't have widespread use.

Sometime in the future, when brotli has replaced DEFLATE, lit could be further optimized. In general though, the differences would likely be minimal.
I don't see how this is a negative signaling issue. When you buy Apple Stock it's not from Apple.

Spotify is going public largely due to terms they agreed to in previous funding rounds, but they are probably not raising money because they either don't need it or believe they can get better funding terms.

If anything, this should be a signal that the company thinks the public stock is under-priced.
I’m reminded of the under-25-set reacting to the Stranger Things children just sort of running around unsupervised as “unrealistic.” Nope, that was how we rolled.
It's not legal in most states. It's also possibly not legal to be driving at the speeds they were probably driving at for this record at various points (previous canonball run records for non-EVs went far over the speed limit and used police radars to avoid run-ins. I'm not sure if this attempt stuck to a more legal approach or not)
no reason at all, those are all excellent choices
> Well, if I rent a VPS with x performance, I still expect x performance after this flaw is patched.

Are there any providers that state you will get x performance? Most that I've seen say you will m processors, n memory, and p storage but don't make any guarantees about how well those things will perform.
Oh, I thought I was already shadowbanned, didn't realize anybody would see this.
The first commercial Wankel engine was brought by NSU in the 60s. They licensed the technology to other manufacturers, including a consortium (Comotor) of many well known manufacturers, that shared research results between them. Already in the early 1970s, Mercedes Benz solved the apex seal problem, created engines with side ports, and three-rotor racing Wankel engines (see Mercedes Benz C111). They concluded that the Wankel engine had an inherent, fundamental fuel efficiency problem and thus abandoned the project. Mazda realized the same conclusion in the early 2000s, it being the only problem of Wankel engines nowadays.
A Plea for Lean Software [pdf]
Well, unfortunately both surgeons charge the same, which is the maximum what your insurance pays. Capitalism doesn't work here.
> Which may make your startup (or any business, really) uncompetitive, or even infeasible compared to low-tax countries/states.

Well, you could have a "unicorn or bust" strategy, chasing primarily high margin b2b and b2c products so big salaries aren't a dealbreaker.

Of course, I just described the current SV startup scene, including why things like Juicero get funded while affordable real estate development is a comparatively unattractive investment.
It is a lot less clear cut than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b5-1#A_possible_loo...
What do you use for network monitoring in your cloud infrastructure?
I've looked for solutions and asked around, didn't really find much in the way of complete systems that are built for the cloud. What do you use to monitor connectivity and network quality? Do you monitor it at all?

My thoughts on the matter are written down on http://maxvt.net/post/2018/cloud-network-monitoring-tools/ and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Pretty sure there are lots of left wing hardcore feminist types in Silicon Valley as well.
We filled that one last night, but please do send me your resume at bmiranda @ the name of the company . com
The problem with most of your examples is that either they're not dialogs ("unclick optional offers"), or they are expected dialogs (you expect during installation dialogs that ask you this-and-that, and you knowingly triggered the installation, so you mistakenly/casually click the wrong button). They are dark patterns, that first train you to click "next-next-next" then present you with an "offer" where you're also expected to click "next".

The system security dialogs like the "permissions" dialogs are not like that - I even read the Android permissions dialog (though I realize most people don't, I still think a sizeable chunk of people do, and thus I considered the original claim - that nobody does, not even developers/dev-ops - to be hyperbolic).
>"Enforcement is not a requirement to possibility."

That statement is gibberish. Today an artists are able to get paid because their creative output becomes an asset by virtue of a copyright. An artists can and many do start their own publishing and record companies are fully in control of their copyright regime.

>"I can't watch Netflix in 1080p using Linux because of DRM."
DRM and copyright are orthogonal.

>"I can't start a P2P music streaming service like Spotify did, because I don't have the capitol to pay for licenses."

No you can go to Media Net and get your streaming service up and running pretty quickly for as little as $1K a month only increase royalties as your service grows. See:

http://www.mndigital.com/
My TV has 2x SCART RGB, unfortunately I haven't found any good options for converting HDMI to SCART RGB. Everything is HDMI->component.
and crypto
I wonder what the value of this chip flaw would be to the NSA?
And at the same time we are arguing for basic income. It is not all bad, these people at least have an income and they allow you to make your income because of their incompetence. Chances are that if their employer could fire them you would not have your job either.
Mr. Yamamoto deceased on Dec 20th, 2017. The title should probably be noted "(2017)
Bitrise.io also have free 200 builds/month.
I can't imagine someone wanting stock in a company they are suing for damages, but anything is possible
Oh, what I would do to be able to get the opportunity to do something in the space industry--even in tech. I long to be a part of moving our species to other worlds.
Ip works at a much deeper level which is why it's harder to change. Everything uses ip, including hardware and software that's no longer getting updated but is still in use.
I largely agree, except it's easy to turn the topic back to the argument at hand. You just make statements about that, rather than about specific individuals, even though the other commenter did the latter. By commenting explicitly about the general and only implicitly about the personal, you convey respect and leave space for the other. It's different when the personal details are from your own life—relevant personal experience is fine.

We need this for discussion quality because challenging someone on their intimate personal details typically makes them feel wounded where it already hurt, prompting a defensive attack and a flamewar. Also, because we can't know from internet comments what was really going on in someone's life, it's more intellectually honest.

There are other things one can do to signal that someone is not being attacked. You can rephrase a statement as a neutral question. You can lead with "In my experience," making the statement about yourself. You can say "Of course I can't judge what was going on in your situation, but" and return to a general case.

I agree with you that when someone makes blaming personal statements as if they had general force in an argument, most of us immediately sense that something's off. But such statements come from pain and pain never responds to argument, only acknowledgement.

You're a fine HN commenter and I think you know all this already, but maybe the above will help clarify something for others.
Intel had the problem of growing their market after their monopoly on 386-compatible processors in the late 80s, which AMD only caught up with their Am386 like 4 years later. Besides their shenanigans to rebate PC manufacturers for not using AMD processors, they did create the IAL—Intel Architecture Labs, which created and gave royalty-free technologies like PCI, AGP, USB, and PCI Express to move the industry forward so that it can grow. That was pretty innovative, at a time where getting a soundcard seemed more practical than choosing a faster processor.
Note this is only "young, overweight/obese, vitamin-deficient, but otherwise still healthy African-Americans"
Government shutdowns are mostly political theater. They have extremely limited impact on the people.

But the US politcal climate is sick right now. Partisanship has become very extreme.
I think you're on to something. That was the only point of going out for me too. Occasionally, I'd just want to get hammered and goof off with my friends, but we could do that at home. Most of the time, it was to chase girls.
"Chip design flaws are exceedingly rare."

Writes someone who's never seen an errata.
Saleae Pricing Update for December 2017
How quickly HN forgets. There are tons of Google-less Android builds. You can even run AOSP (Android Open Source Project) without Googles' binaries. When I want to use something without Google, I use CopperheadOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16030391
I'd say Mazda realized the fuel effiency problem much earlier than the early 2000s, but they still wanted to produce a car that was a symbol for the technology and the company's history. It was also unique and sold well enough because of that.
> These rules around promotions and hiring in the public sector prevent certain other problems like favoritism, sexism, nepotism.

If allowing those things results in a net better experience than forbidding them, maybe they aren't really problems after all. Maybe favoritism & nepotism, in particular, are good ways (within limits) to build strongly-functioning teams.
Does anybody know if the 30% performance reduction would apply to Macbook pros from within the past 2 years?
I don't think it's for a rational reason tbh. Maybe I just like the stupid name. The two are very similar (with znodes now out for zcoin).
> At this point my brain doesn't even see sponsored ads

"I'm not affected by ads" is just a lie we tell ourselves. Why aren't you just blocking them? Around these parts it's basically digital hygiene.
How Has the Digital Era Changed Free Speech?
> For some reason I can’t reply to ‘chrisper’

HN doesn't let you do this to new comments to avoid back-and-forth commenting that is typical in flamewars.
I think the one of the biggest things for me about stable/LTS distros aside from dealing with "old, crusty stuff", is that said software is upgraded all at once every two or three years. Doing 5 or 10 minutes of work a month looking into changelogs for packages and adjusting settings and what not is much more managable than having everything change underneath you all at once, possibly by several major versions. Its almost a miracle that stable->stable upgrades even work.
Those ‘Alien Megastructures’ Are Probably Just Dust
Working on the travel business with my wife, actually. And then getting into homebrewing more and more lately. We'll see where it all goes. :)
What happens when cities like Seattle detach from the hinterland
I'd be curious to know how much of the strategy on the IPO side takes this kind of "out of the woodwork" stuff into account.
The Giant, Under Attack
I want to open a sexually explicit Ice Cream Parlor on the Las Vegas strip.

It would just be called "The Split Banana", and all of our ice cream would be frozen in the mold of a penis. A small mold would be 6 inch, Medium = 9 inch, and Large/Monster = a 12 inch mold.

And the ice cream flavors would also have really inappropriate but funny names. Suggestions would be appreciated as I haven't done much work there.
Surely this is a material design defect that anyone would expect to hurt Intel's business in a very significant way.