skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, if my application encrypts something, such as if my browser encrypts traffic, then the layers beneath it cannot access the data (without intentionally hacking the application).

If your browser is running on an operating system when it applies the encryption, then yes, you are indeed trusting that OS.
This paper was really interesting and it's awesome, but I'm tired of everyone saying that this means parameter counting is a useless heuristic for the complexity of a model. The more parameters you add to some ML models (for instance NN and SVM) the higher the VC dimension, and that's that. Many models are simply not constructed in a way that a single parameter can encode all of the necessary information. (And still be a continuous function of that parameter)
I will keep my dual X5690 machine for few more years I guess. The increase IPC of modern CPU is only 33% compared to theses old Xeons.
Although, power consumption is another factor to consider...
Thank you, I'd love to hear more if you are willing to share, or maybe you have a link of a comparison that matches your insights? I work in .net too, we chose akka.net for a minor project and it's been a good experience. I'm trying to evaluate if it is a good fit for larger projects.
I've found that unnecessary use of cat can sometimes have a noticeable performance impact, and I suspect that on the right system with the right filesizes this could be one of those circumstances. (Obviously it doesn't matter one whit with small files.)
First :

>>> People are not stagnant; instead, they are constantly learning and evolving.

There's adifference between evolving naturally and evolving because you're pushed to do so by the company. I work with people who don't want to evolve. They seek a peaceful, comfortable environment. They do their job quite well, nothing more. I understand that.

Second, values... Should people be hired because of their skill or because of their values ? What if their political views conflic with your values ? Isn't it the moment when discrimination comes in ? Say you work for Google because you love the AI stuff, then Google starts selling weapons. Should they fire people who don't share those values anymore ?
What's a "can't fail fighting force"? Military can certainly fail.
Making efficient use of the libdispatch (GCD)
I almost killed myself over a dozen times and yet I'm still standing. If you don't take advice about handling high electricity from someone who experienced it a couple times, from whom do you take it then?

I will gladly touch stuff to change my lightbulb, I'm not gonna consult an expert for that. Or swapping fuses and other, similarly, simple procedures that are reasonably safe if you are "just careful".

Useless curiosity is where the majority of human progress comes from.
ChromeOS is no where to be seen in Europe, that doesn't sound like a victory to me.
As a game dev, I agree with you. Also: all the casual observers that say "just multithread/core it! would make it so much faster!" and don't understand one bit about parallelisation problems, as if it's just a bit you flip.
Finally? So typical to embed the propaganda at the lowest level.

only took 3 years "finally!": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950403#8950625

Whew, glad that "finally" happened!

CA is like the England of the US. Collapsing under it's regulatory weight, but not fast enough.
Exactly. For my taste they already added too many language features, which each time raises the mental bar to use it when you didnt use it for a couple of month.
I would not count on this being great for gaming. Already the current threadripper is slower in games than a regular Ryzen processor or Intel i5/i7, slower base and turbo clock and added memory latency won't help with that.
This. Many security systems protect you laterally and from layers above you. Layers below can still be vulnerable (e.g. non-standard openSSL library in the exception case, keyloggers in kernel space, etc)
I'd seen this book before but was unaware that E. G. Lutz had written a book on animation, which, according to the Wikipedia entry on Lutz, was a sort of bible for early animators, including Walt Disney.
> After training myself for years to not send emails

Why would you do that? That's a recipe for miscommunication and mis-coordination in any country.
No way. It will make ALPR unnecessary while shutting out the smaller players, who will move to tagging cars with other characteristics.

Electronic plates are like electronic ballots; just waypoints on the road to mandatory chips.

TPMS is hilarious BTW.
Why does Facebook seem to be everyone's focus? Look at the control Google has over the web. Why would you start with Facebook?
”Massive software companies deliver high-quality software, on-time all the time for one reason: resources. They got the money and the time and the developers and all the enterprise accounts up the wazoo.”

I think that is a myth right up there with “If I was rich, I’d be happy.” Massively funded software projects fail all the time.
If mind control is a thing then why is torture necessary?
> Despite the rhetoric about "freedom" the GPL is a huge disincentive for developers to participate. A larger code base that contains a GPL component must also be GPL. This is a nonstarter for most business users.

I think developers should really start to question this. Why is a GPL component a problem and who is really inconvenienced by it and for what reason are they being inconvenienced by it? What do they want to do that GPL becomes a problem for them doing it?
Whatsapp is kind of a competitive failure.

Successful social media platforms launched after Facebook:
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Successful video platforms after YouTube:
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Successful Mobile chat platforms after Whatsapp:
- Viber
- Line
- Wechat
- Telegram
- Snapchat
The only things that put me off about typescript are:

a) The lack of a proper 'is' keyword. The current behaviour around this is mental.

b) The unneeded complexity that the recent releases have brought to the typing system.
Interesting idea but the maintenance must be painful.
Let's say a hard disk fails, what do you do?
No, most games are single threaded, even AAA ones. You might get this impression from a vocal minority though, "vocal" in the sense that they're the ones landing on your radar, while the technical details of other games do not.

(you could argue for ps3 of course, But there it's not a choice)
Please don’t rate your waitress 4/5
That's exactly the kind of childish answer I'd like to avoid if I disclose the security vulnerability ;-)
I'm a geek, I have a massive preference for written communication. Salesfolk, marketroids and other species of colleague prefer verbal communication. I had to train myself to call some people and email others, in other words to use their preferred communication method rather than mine. It worked a lot better.
> That he is so is not necessarily the cause of his success, and might even be invisibly detrimental to it.

I do not know him personally, but people who do know him comment that he is a nice, considerate, thoughtful person.

Linus has actually chimed into this metadiscussion in the past, basically saying something along the lines of "the audience is too big and too varied to be subtle. If I am not very explicit, someone will misunderstand this, usually as an invitation to keep wasting my time" (IIRC) -- which, having managed much much smaller projects, I tend to agree with and can only imagine how much more true this is an the Linux Kernel scale.

The Finns I know are all very direct "straight shooters" - I guess that's part of it.

> That he is so is not necessarily the cause of his success, and might even be invisibly detrimental to it.

From three decades in the industry, I would say it's likely contributing to his success (though, it is independent of the cause/origin of his success, which is being smart, diligent, persistent and lucky). The ability to cut down and through bullshit is IMO fundamental, and it seems impossible to do without occasionally being rude.
Talk about rewriting history, Mantle wasn't never supposed to become Vulkan, it only happened because AMD was generous and Khronos would otherwise still be thinking how OpenGL Next would look like.

It started as an AMD/Frostbyte proprietary API.

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2015/05/12/o...
it's still true, the sweet spot just moved to 2 cores instead of 1
2016 article... but still cool!

*edit, no its not, I have too many tabs open and mixed it up with the blog post listed in the comments. ignore me
Yes. The popular sentiment here is "GDPR good, EU copyright reform bad". And that's understandable.

But both data-privacy and copyright they try to create ownership of information and must do so through intrusive legal measures because physical nature makes is against it.
I've written a tool that can import data from my various bank accounts and credit cards. It's semi-automatic. Uses machine learning to guess the correct account but I can quickly change it. I then put the finishing touches on by hand.
Putting in on/in a boat or near the coast might get you the seawater for cooling, but the project lists a few other big benefits like oxygen-free atmosphere, constant temperatures year-round, and ease of deployment.
This, exactly. It was a huge surprise to find that asian people do not think of themselves as equals. Incidentally this is also one of the reasons democracy is struggling here, in my opinion.
To be fair, checking objects with "is" is somewhat of an antipattern.
'#ZipSlip' arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability affects thousands of projects
Do you know if anyone has gotten that or a similar process to a commercialy viable level? Truly 3d customizable glassware is something I'd definitely be wanting to order at some point in the future.
That's true specifically, but orkney has generally become a hub for renewables research, so the snowball effect may be in play here.
I think you may be thinking of something else. This was posted today, an hour ago, on the BBC.
> Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres

First time I hear corrosion is a problem in datacentres. I never noticed any corrosion on any machine at home or work. Does it have to do with the cooling of datacentres?
So, for instance, your section on hiring people. It talks about hiring for the culture you want. But if you have an existing team culture, do you hire for the "new" culture that you want, knowing that the new person is going to struggle to fit in, or do you hire for the existing culture, and hope to change it over time?
It's a fail-in-place data center. If a hard disk fails, you don't do anything. They used to replace telephony equipment all the time too, now it's just a locked room in a building. This is pushing data centers to be more hands-off.
The social tie-ins of FB make it much “stickier” than Google. Google has a ton of power, but very little of it locks an individual in. The “chase you around the internet” bit is a problem, but addressing that is not that complicated.

The service FB provides is much closer to a natural monopoly. The value of FB’s service derived entirely from the sheer volume of people who use it. Saying “I am not going to use FB” is a cost to everyone around you.
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The closest thing I remember is Google taking over an old paper mill in Finland that used a condenser sunk into a canal connected to the Baltic sea.

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/google-finland/ there should be a video with the details here.
This phone doesn't have full-sized USB ports.
Ghgf
Article says no maintenance - if it breaks its broken.
Nice UI!
Some time ago I wrote something similar, because I was missing some features in ripgrep (which is otherwise pretty awesome): https://github.com/dominikschulz/gg
There's a large use case for simple personal bookkeeping that doesn't require double-entry accounting.

Most people have some fixed recurring bills (insurance, rent, subscriptions, etc.), some variable recurring bills (utilities, etc.), standing payments like savings, and monthly spends like groceries.

For them (myself included) something that lets you simply input recurring expenses and your income and show a running tally is pretty much all that's needed, add some simple transaction tracking and you're there. Basically all you really want is two things:

1) Given $2000 at payday, how much of that is available to spend if $X is going towards known expenses.

2) The day before payday I have $Y left in my account. Where did I spend the $2000-$X?
Overprovision with cold failover.
Fredy Wijaya all of my facebook account from i began starting opened up.
Yup, this is nothing new. I read a guide on this, and made a PoC tar trojan using this technique back in the '90s.
Im pretty sure I heard about this a couple of years ago too
2 defining roles of graphic design to online business success
That men in tech all have wives and that their wives are not interested in technical things that interest them.
> but come on, you have to be more rational when you're playing in the $10B league.

Or, being able to choose between $10B and your values shows your character.
I need to closed all of my facebook account since the first time opened up.
I'm also at something similar; 2nd gen i7 (2600K) from 2012. I upgraded to Nvidia 1060, and have the original 16GB of DDR3. It's both amazing and disappointing how well the system is still managing.
> E.g. you can't memcpy a uint64 to a double and expect well-defined behavior.

Yes, you can. The behavior is implementation-defined but not undefined. (Well, it can trigger undefined behavior if the value corresponds to a signaling NaN, or if the implementation uses a nonstandard, non-IEEE format for doubles that has other "trap representations". But it's not otherwise undefined.)

The basis for this is that the aliasing rule has an explicit exception for reading or writing to objects using char pointers, i.e. byte-by-byte, regardless of the object's type. This exception is in both the C standard:

https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5p7

and the C++ standard:

http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.prop#basic.lval-11.8

The memcpy function is defined as copying characters, so the exception applies to it too.

Both standards also explicitly define that objects (at least of POD types) have byte representations and those representations are implementation-defined (as opposed to triggering undefined behavior if you depend on them). For C:

> Except for bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or more bytes, the number, order, and encoding of which are either explicitly specified or implementation-defined.

https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.2.6.1

C++:

http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types
Thanks for explaining the downsides related to using this feature. Like all good config options, there are tradeoffs. Luckily I haven't been bitten by it yet, but I'll remember that if I run into issues
FB's special manufacturer's API included access to some of your friends' data, in some cases even when they had refused permission for it to be shared, so the concern is not merely with data that would have been on your device in some form.
Exempt means not paid hourly. I think you are confusing Exempt with Independent Contractor or something else. An exempt employee can certainly be required to show up for work when needed, be they an oncaller, or a hospital resident, or an attorney litigating in court.

http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

> The job duties of the traditional "learned professions" are exempt.

> Professionally exempt work means work which is predominantly intellectual, requires specialized education, and involves the exercise of discretion and judgment.
Using a company's service is not the same as being completely owned by them. Kind of a dumb little "gotcha!" to try and feel clever over. What? should we make sure a company we like isn't using Windows before using their services, too? or Office? Outlook?
Yes UX is important. We are trying to keep it as simple as possible, with just 3 tabs. Ads, triggers, actions.
Not unique, but certainly low value to Amazon in terms of expected revenue.
Zero to Account Takeover: How I ‘Impersonated’ Someone Else Using Auth0
The point of mass media is profit.

Consumers with poor sense of perspective and poor critical-thinking skills are more easily manipulated by advertisers. Therefore, dumbing down your viewers is in your direct financial interest.
What about databases?
Hah, I stand corrected
Why bother? I could post a pic of the people writing the articles you read imitating Heavens Gate and you would still want me to "support" my assertion that all is not well at the NTY. What do you need? Mock murder reenactments?
Snarky comments will be ignored.
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What would be its ecological impact?
Check out and contribute to https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK :)
So Gitlab is switching from being hosted by a business focused company to an ad focused company?

Which basically means, that all the people who hated the buyin from Microsoft are becoming part of the Google ad data warehouse?

That's, uhm, reassuring to know...
I'm currently doing the same. The 2 I have my eye on are Lenovo X1 Carbon and T480s. Reason for change: frustration with Apple's loss of quality in both software and hardware AND malicious practices. Just watch couple videos from Louis Rossmann and you'll get the idea.

What I'm doing to smoothen the transition is that I started doing my personal coding in VM (VMWare Fusion), full-screening ElementaryOS. That is to get everything set up and more into muscle-memory. Client work will still be done on MBP.

Then I'll switch my desktop over to Linux (hackintosh).
After that laptop.
There seems to be a lot of criticisms about this phone that I've seen on reddit, here, and elsewhere.

Personally I would LOVE to have a phone with a USB c port on both sides of the chassis so that I could charge while using a USB-audio jack converter or doing something else with it. Multiple USB ports would offer functionality to people that has not previously been possible with these devices.

I see this as a super innovative product in a market segment that is seeing stagnation. The customers are screaming for bigger batteris and instead we get thinner fragile phones made of glass. People want more jacks sdcard slots and other features, but OEMs are taking features away. All the while, prices are being jacked up, and triple junk cameras are being added.

I think the smartphone market is ripe for a shakeup. If not from some real innovation, from the customer base just refusing to upgrade to more expensive fragile phones that don't offer the features they want at an outrageous price.
What would be its ecological impact? What if there are more of these data centers?
Some of us rather like that unintended consequence of the WTFPL.
Yes exactly, the idea is very similar to Zapier, ideally even creating a framework (or API) for users to connect their own integration.
Yeah, but that software won't run inside Windows containers, like the store, or work with the Visual Layer Engine in W10.
>. If device manufacturers are doing that, they could equally upload your passwords from the browser.

And then fb should tell you about unusual accesses to your account unless the phone vendor is also your Telco and extremely careful.

In OSes you can theoretically attack any app, but it is a pain to even debug them with different versions, changes to their custom storage formats, etc.. Unless they build an ABI, document which parts are stable and give it to you.
TIL- thanks!
You've received a lot of hostile comments in this conversation, and you've handled them all with aplomb and courtesy, bridging the gaps of mismatched assumptions. I salute you.
I'd have to Google that. The largest project I know of running on Orleans is Halo. However, I'm sure there is something that rivals this with Akka.Net. As I implied: likely no real difference beyond aesthetics.
"servant-leadership" for the win.
This can be a problem with Google, at least if you consider baby duck syndrome[1].

Google Docs is often the only comfortable and familiar way to collaborate on documents for many groups, and YouTube is often the only source of video content on the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Duck_Syndrome
What isn't? Hypothesis Testing or the 5σ standard?
According to my mother, I was an unusually bright kid, and I started to use computers as soon as I knew how to read. Having been part of a trial to start primary school at 6 instead of 7, I reckon I would've known how to read properly within a year of that. Computer games weren't all that interesting to play, but boy was I curious about what made them tick, and I got into programming very quickly because of that. It's quite funny to be 35 and have close to 30 years of experience. It's true, but I can't put that on my resume, because nobody would believe it.
As much as I love `ag`, I feel like ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) deserves mentioning when it comes to speed. If you haven't tried it, do it sooner rather than later.

Here's an excellent write-up on how it works, benchmarks, etc.: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
I wondered about this as well : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Schappert/publi...

Seems like its a combination of cooling data centres (flowing air) and the quality of the air being circulated. So if there are pollutants in the air they pose a danger to the circuitry.

Never occurred to me this was yet another thing to be wary of when running a data centre!
Flask(python) + SQLAlchemy(Any relational db) + Angular/React
> To be clear, this is not the state government of California, but a division of the University of California

The University of California is a part of the government of the State of California established in the State Constitution, whose governing body is comprised of 18 members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, plus seven ex-officio members, three of whom are State elected Constitutional officers (Governor, Lt. Governor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction) and one of whom is the Speaker of the Assembly.

(That said, it is unusual and potentially misleading to refer to UC as “California”, but not because UC is actually separate from the government of the State.)
Making WhatsApp and Instagram separate companies would be an easy start. Then you could also separate advertising from social networking, e.g. let advertisers compete on FB. Would it work as in 'would all components survive?'. That we would find out soon enough.
And significantly cheaper.
No need, they're going the way of AOL, friendster and myspace.
Because it is marketed towards people who buy a spec sheet, not a user experience. Personally I love the fact that one single USB-C port + a decent dongle can replace lots of ports.
>the first thing i always do when a family member gets a new laptop is ask to see it first thing so i can format and reinstall windows

With what? If you use a standard Windows image, it won't activate. If you use the manufacturer's recovery procedure, all the crapware comes back.
Here's the problem though - the use of antibiotics in livestock, especially in growth promotion, is part of the problem.

And the part of the problem that is the most optional.

You can make arguments about prophylactic doses - I don't agree with most of those arguments, and think the answer is more humane farming methods are the answer to that, but they exist. But growth promotion (and growth promotion disguised as prophylaxis to get around regulations) is creating a public harm for a private good.

And again, it's not about wiping out humanity. It is things like making that farmer's knee surgery that he needs to keep working way more dangerous.
While the 99th percentile is certainly more attractive, the mean and probably even the average are much lower.

It's funny how people are willing to bet against the lottery on their whole career.

Then again... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority