skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some time ago I listened to my old casette tapes. I was amazed by the 'CD' quality some still had.

Tape is more durable than I thought.

Also: most floppy disks have dust cleaners. So they are not affected by dusk that much.

Also remember drilling holes in the disk for more storage? ;)
I'm really excited by this (and PSD-2), as a banking API is the last piece of the puzzle to create fully automated businesses.
No, they couldn't. It's a large trading platform. Any serious bug can lead to the theft of tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies.
Pure go simple concurrent lock-free in-memory queue
Qualcomm Falkor (ARMv8 AArch64) vs Intel Broadwell and Skylake

https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/

Multicore AVX512 lowers the frequency

The Qualcomm CPU only has the 128-bit wide NEON SIMD, while Broadwell has 256-bit wide AVX2, and Skylake has 512-bit wide AVX-512. This explains the huge lead Skylake has over both in single core performance. In the all-cores benchmark the Skylake lead lessens, because it has to lower the clock speed when executing AVX-512 workloads. When executing AVX-512 on all cores, the base frequency goes down to just 1.4GHz---keep that in mind if you are mixing AVX-512 and other code.
I interpret it as a warning that the driver may be distracted by their passenger and for instance brake or slow down unexpectedly.
Won't be able to answer, as I am just 16 :D
I am a father myself and don’t think you are a “bad person” or anything like that. But seriously, we have no shortage of humans - you are not doing mankind a favor by having lots of kids.
No, it can't. You are just playing around with a problem you don't understand (null checks have 0 to do with the halting problem, it's always possible to know that a value will never be null in Java at compile time as long as you have all the source code - no dynamic libraries loaded at runtime)... unless you can actually show the proof of that, that would be really interesting to see.
You’re a hundred percent right. Living well is the best revenge.

Short people, ugly people, fat people, disabled people... The list of discriminated against populations is practically endless and you can’t let it tear you up or drive you crazy if you’re one of them.
I have a suspicion that APFS is partly to blame. When I saw benchmarks of APFS vs. HFS+ [0, 1], it appeared that Apple had managed to transition to a filesystem that is markedly slower at reads and writes than the 20 year old one it was replacing.

[0] https://malcont.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/apfs_hfsplus_...

[1] https://malcont.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/apfs_hfsplus_...
Vista was amazing.

I see two reasons for why it has such a bad reputation.

1. It exposed how terrible device manufacturers are at writing drivers. nVidia alone (which only has niche hardware) themselves stood for the majority of Vista BSODs. And no printer or scanner company had probably written a device driver in a decade now so it took another 5 years for them to catch up (and they just continued creating bloat ever since).

Yes there were major architectural changes but this was the perfect opportunity since it was the first MS (consumer) mainstream 64 bit OS (I don't count the 64 bit version XP). Unfortunately the driver situation made things rather different between the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of windows, this did not help.

2. Pre-fetch/super-fetch or whatever they called it was WAY to aggressive. If you had a decent amount of RAM on launch day, or just a new regular computer 6 months after launch, the pre-fetching algorithms were so aggressive that they completely overloaded the harddrives that perform terrible with that random access load. It meant that the first 10 minutes after boot was spent trying to speed up that you might want to do at the extreme cost of slowing down things you actually wanted to do. Yes they were supposed to be run with low priority but it really exposed how bad spinning harddrives are at multitasking. If doing one task takes 1s, doing two tasks each taking 1s will now take 9 seconds if run in parallel etc.

After enough time this wasn't a problem as all your freely available RAM had been used up by prefetch or actual programs. If you seldom rebooted you never had to worry about it. But the regular user wants to use the computer right away after boot and will only remember the agonizing slowness of trying to start the browser and office applications after boot.

Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.
Yet also transitioning to a filesystem with actual checks for integrity and many features which improve performance for, f.x. Time Machine.
Ask HN: Is it possible to implement protection rings entirely in software?
Looks like Sandy Bridge is going to remain unpatched. That doesn't mean that your OS, compiler and so on won't get updates though.
I don’t think weed is that high on the list of “agricultural uses of water”. Try almonds or meat
I liked the advice by Garros Li – Edusight (IK12)

> 1. If you plan on having cofounders, you need to determine how decisions will be made before starting a company together. Titles and vague “roles/responsibilities” won’t be enough. Play out scenarios to hash out decisions and set the right expectations, ask tough questions, and don’t let ego get in the way.

It got me thinking of something like the 'Co-founder compatibility test'

I wonder if anyone already has a good set of example scenarios and questions to reveal this compatibility/incompatibility between people in decision making / expectations / virtues. Many questions could come from challenging moments with co-founders and teammates in one's own experience. I can think of a few already.

If we compiled a list of these types of questions and scenarios, could they be used as a good test of compatibility, useful to at least some initial degree to assess potential partnerships in real life and over the internet.
> An application can still malloc and forget to free -- so aren't you right where you started?

The upside of invoking unsafe means that you were able to find out that 1.5% of the code is unsafe and you are able to focus in on it.

Put another way, it makes the haystack significantly smaller.
I'm using Win10 for years now and never noticed any ads. I don't think the Android comparison really stands.
That could be a nightmare to maintain, and also garanties the opposite. Everytime there is a CPU exploit, you will be hit.
Scroll down, and look how your choice for hypocritical smile is drawn on Messenger or LG. Not a hypocritical smile at all.
There's no such thing as an NHS medical record, every hospital/care centre keeps its own records. What app are you referring to?
> In React 16 we rewrote almost the entire codebase

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So, I also self-identify as an intervertish nerd, and also have trouble meeting interesting people.

What worked best so far is to have some hobbies (programming, table tennis), and meet people through that.

I also meet people through other channels (parents of my kid's friends, for example), but the ratio of interesting-to-me people is much lower there.
>A cofounder who compliments you was a saving grace for me.

I am sure he meant "complements you"
Doesn't it also mean Intel kind of cheated their way to the performance crown by ignoring security while AMD does not seem to have these issues ? It certainly brings Ryzen closer again, however future improvements to the patch might make it negligible in the end.
As I wrote in the article, I already accounted for this. The raw combined performance degradation was 4x. APFS itself seems to be around 20%. Now that is somewhat rough, as APFS degradation may itself by non-linear. However, others have measured the pure APFS costs and they seem to be roughly what I saw:

https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apfs-performance-lags-h...
I pick up litter from my local beach.
It's also nice when the compliment you :)
This: https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/online-services/Pages/gp-servi...

And yes there isn't a single database, but if you transfer to a different GP they will transfer your records from your old GP, and this app then let's you view them too.
#birthhits – Create a Spotify playlist of top songs on your birthday
this is about the simulation framework (https://github.com/simonmulser/simcoin) and not the coin simcoin.
I can't agree more. I always maintained that you should hire devs qualified and motivated enough to be self-managed. In other words, ideally, I would hire people which doesn't require management at all.
> 40% CPU usage increase

When I read this I thought how weird. It is usually claimed that max performance drop is around 30%. Then I remembered that we are talking in ratios, so a 30% drop in performance(0.7) means a 42% increase in CPU usage(1/0.7=1.42).
Meditating, reading, writing, walking, cooking, cuddling, thinking, accounting, hacking, bathing, cats, getting up early, keeping a tidy home, traveling now and then...

Happiness is quite a strange thing. Maslow-type basic needs is a big part of it. And not being stressed. Like, how often do you feel satisfied to just sit around for a while? Have a bath? Listen to some great music?

I still struggle with social life, especially living in a foreign country. As an introvert I don't get intrinsic pleasure from social interactions, but still, relationships are very rich and interesting.

Board games are a curious example of a way to interact with some (artificial) structure and purpose, where the real motivation is actually interaction itself, and playing. You get to exercise various social habits. Other social contexts are also a bit like this... You can approach them as interesting ways of playing together. Maybe there is such a thing as different preferences regarding competition vs cooperation...
Teller.io is not using the 'Open Banking' API - it asks for all the user login information including passwords and security numbers required for a normal login.

Edit: And unfortunately, it doesn't seem even to have any intention of using it: https://twitter.com/stevegraham/status/951163378424217600
No it isn't, at least, not yet - it asks for all the user login information including passwords and security numbers required for a normal login.

Edit: And unfortunately, it doesn't seem even to have any intention of using it: https://twitter.com/stevegraham/status/951163378424217600
To answer original question, the things that make ME happy. Which might be pretty different from you even if we are both nerdy introverts:

- My dogs

- Laughing at my favorite youtubers' new videos

- Reading (at home, at coffee shops, at work)

- My loved ones

- Helping others

- Becoming a better person

- Writing

Response to body text:

- Things that you enjoy such as hobbies change over time, but with some effort you can always go back and do them again. Find out what you like and do it.

- College could be a great choice for you, but unfortunately there is little guarantee it could make you genuinely happy. Speak with other people who are in programs that you might want to try - really get to know them. See if they are happy or have a lifestyle you want to have.

- Is there anything you can do to get more time? Are you consulting a lot - do you need to? If all your time is taken up by your primary employment - are you delegating enough at the CTO level? Hire smart people and let them take the ropes while you guide them and give yourself a more time away from work.
:)
I will take the risk of passing an unsolicited advice: Explore all but do engage deeply in at least a few of your interests. Leads to a much more fulfilling(in hindsight) college life in midst of all the distractions you shall encounter ahead.
What really happened in Windows 8? I mean, it was virtually a BolgenOS, an excercise in flying by pretending.
Do you think going back to college will truly resolve that?

I suspect it may merely delay it for a while, as you will run into the same issues after you're done with your studies.

My advice would be to consider working fewer hours, if possible, so you have more time to pursue those other interests of yours.
Can anyone from any corner of the world register for this class?
Thanks, you comment was really clear :)
> I thought all these new vulnerabilities are only really dangerous in shared environments.

You're not the first I see saying that, here and on other sites, and this is absolutely wrong.

Shared environments like clouds were singled out because not only were they impacted the worst security wise, they were also going to suffer the most from the fixes.

But even if you only have a regular normal happy server or computer for you alone, remote code execution vulnerabilities aren't unheard of; one your application (be it your own, or a specific one you use, or one of the bazillion stuff running on your system as part of the OS) gets broken and you're a free target. Or anything with a proper scripting surface.

If you're system isn't protected, and any of the application you run has a major security hole, everything will be at risk.
:)
I like washing utensils, it's very peaceful watching the stream of water clean them away... But it's temporary. I was looking for more of a longer-term over-arching stuff.
> The research team, led by Floor Kroese, surveyed 177 people on Amazon's Mechanical Turk ...

Since when is AMT a true sample of the population? I don’t get how so-called “research team” can rely on tbat feedback for studies and get away with it.
Find people easily = do group sports eg. Cycling with others. It happens in every City here in Belgium
No, it does not depend on the data, you automata
Bulb: A Reactive Programming Library for JavaScript
I am quite surprised that registers, LEDs, jumper cables and solders are required for this class. May I ask what are they required for ?
Is your problem that your are missing out socially or that you are missing interesting problems?

Missing out socially can be solved by regularly doing hobbies. Or connecting with people. Maybe you could also consider doing more customer-facing tasks. Some of the most interesting conversations I have are held with customers, because there I can easily connect to other founders.

If you are bored at work, you should maybe switch positions to a more technical field or set yourself a goal to cash at at the next opportunity and switch jobs.
The Poor Man’s Air Force? Rebel Drones Attack Russia’s Airbase in Syria
Ideal to practice, learn, and teach machine learning:

https://bigml.com/ml101
https://bigml.com/education/videos
Adding to what others say here: if you have/know the ip address, you probably also know the host name. There's nothing magical about:

# from memory, syntax might not quite work
telnet 1.2.3.4 80
Http/1.1
Host: example.com
Get /

Which is indeed why you can put the ip and host name(s) in /etc/hosts - and without other network level blocks - browsers etc will just work.

With http 1.0 blocking/filtering ips was enough, with 1.1 you need a proxy. With tls/ssl you have the choice between (having the capability to) decrypt everything or filter nothing. (obviously ip level filtering works, but it's a little crude in a Http 1/1 world. Ditto for http2 etc).
Abusing Internal API to Achieve IDOR in New Relic
> Hating a language is generally a sign of inexperience.

It can also be a sign of understanding tool-domain fitness, with the domain not even revealed to us yet by the post author.
I know "introvert" is an important part of many people's identity, so I don't want to bash that, but this article[0] and some long talks with someone who didn't believe that "introvert" was a thing definitely increased my overall happiness.

TL;DR most people think of introvert/extrovert on one dimension, but in fact some people are both (happy alone, happy in groups) and others are neither (unhappy alone, unhappy in groups). So it makes more sense to think of it as two dimensions (some nice charts in article to visualise this).

Since reading this article I've tried to become more "extrovertable".

Not for everyone - for many it might be best to focus on a single dimension, but it's helped me thinking about it in 2 dimensions and explicitly practicing becoming better at both "skills".

[0] https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/there-are-no-such-things-a...
And just about every mobile device (hotspot mode)
I agree and I am skeptical on college front as well, hence seeking advice on how it turned out for others who might have wandered on similar trajectories in life.

It's just that due to various financial constraints and a myopic view of world, I never really considered research as a career. But now as I have become more aware of how world works, i find that to be a bad move in me 20s.

I like learning, problem-solving and in general building new stuff, and this doesn't always intersect with best financial outcomes except in research-as-a-career option I believe.

But, yes thanks for your advice. Already working on this a bit.
That's fair. I mean, I do it every weekend and lead a team of people who do the same, but point taken.
You can get a performance of this magnitude because the baseline secure system is a hurried patch and wasn't designed for it. We're far from the optimal performance-security trade-off.
> Damn difficult to meet genuine folks after college (Would love any suggestions on where to find them... Definitely not facebook :/ )

This may not be very popular advice around these parts, but it works. Go to the local pub, have a few beers and talk to people. Cultivate an interest in televised sports or whatever else people like to talk about (can't stay I've ever been a huge sports fan, but like a lot of things, the more you know about it, the more interesting it becomes).

Pretty rare that you will meet someone there who becomes a really close friend, but alcohol will make you more comfortable around people, you'll cultivate better social and conversation skills, and some of this will rub off on the rest of your life positively as well.

Exercise moderation of course. But my only regret is that I didn't become a bit of a barfly sooner, it provides instant social connections and even business contacts. For instance a few months ago I had a chat with an HR consultant at a bar. We hit it off, it turned out he enjoyed helping startups, and now he gives me free advice on hiring, performance management, and other things whenever I ask.
I don't think Windows or Android are adware. They are "carrier" products, free but MS/Google can decide what services to bundle, and this is where they get the money (=app store, having Office preinstalled). So it's a much less obstrusive than adware which lives from constantly showing you ads like websites
Windows always strikes me as a mishmash of ideas with very little overarching vision. A somewhat superfluous example of this is the branding of basic system tools; you have things like Task Manager, Device Manager, Disk Management etc. On Vista and 7 you can access them by mousing about in the start menu a lot or by trying to search (or using run, or right clicking on Computer and selecting manage). But typing ‘Dev’ into search doesn’t return anything related to Device Manager and only when you type the full name does search return some long winded response like ‘Manage Devices and Drivers on this system’ in the middle of a wall of result text. It shows no connected vision between the ability of the search feature to surface succinct information and the design of the OS to differientiate its core tools. Attempting to be helpful by returning a list of tasks in long winged descriptions betrays the lack of coherence of each tool and its purpose.

MacOS largely succeeds in this regard. I can access Disk Utility simply by typing ‘du’ (or even just ‘di' or just ‘d’ since it learns your preference) into spotlight and hit enter. I can launch any app this way without the need to clutter by desktop, dock or taskbar with shortcuts. Disk Utility and the various other utilities generally get large well branded icons and names that set them apart. Many of the Windows tools just use pretty bland and similar looking tiny icons making the visual aspect of search useless.

Worse still is that if you can have several Device Manager programs installed. I’ve a lab system that requires Win7. The frame grabber is accessed through its own Device Manager and my flow control system has something similarly named.

Reading the article it is easy to see why this behaviour is the case. There is clearly very little time for polish and for a singular vision on how everything should look and feel (taste?). It not surprising to see new Mac users delight in the attention to detail of MacOS. Windows often is obtuse and gets in the way.

Windows 10, for all its sins, makes some big improvements. Right clicking the start button or pressing Super-X instantly returns a list of all these system tools.
Well while trying to get our vape-shop startup off the ground we considered the idea of having a page where you can mine a vape, and this evolved into the more achievable "mine a pizza"
AMD has the same issues. The difference in Meltdown, according to the paper, comes down to idiosyncratic peculiarities of timing differences, not anything fundamentally more sound in other processors.
“Why Rust is the future of robotics” an article on Medium
I'm not sure I understand this, it seems you're responding to some perceived 'criticism' rather than things Lattner mentions. Yes, a few things have been tweaked in the JVM to make life easier for non-Java languages. Fundamentally, its semantics are closely tied to Java's (or vice versa or both or something!). You aren't going to write a (sanely performing) JVM language that has a different memory management model or value types or TCO - not until the JVM supports those things and even then, hopefully in a way that matches what you have in mind for your language. This isn't so much a criticism as a non-controversial fact.
Proteins Help Scientists Read Between the Lines of a 1630 Plague Death Registry
If you are not Uber and do not suffer from NIHS there are https://github.com/mac-cain13/R.swift and https://github.com/SwiftGen/SwiftGen
My Android device shows me no ads.
It's still being put together, we have an order form now if you want to give it a shot
I think that will come. It will take a bit of time for comfort to set in (both with the consumer and the banks) but I definitely see this as the first step.

(edit; in addition the psd2 legislatiob, and specifically the technical guidance, does touch on concepts like 4th party, relaying parties and technical partners - so the exoectation of the regulator is that this will emerge)
Ha, the truth about AV vendors back then:

> that we would no longer support their legacy apps with deep hooks in the Windows kernel — the same ones that hackers were using to attack consumer systems. Our “friends”, the antivirus vendors, turned around and sued us, claiming we were blocking their livelihood and abusing our monopoly power!