skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fairly sure they just do it and don't try to be sneaky for the most part.
That’s the problem with anthropomorphising companies.

As far as I can tell Cloudflare single-handedly destroyed the usability of Tor Browser. It was just getting pretty fast when Cloudflare put literally half the Internet behind a spywall.

So should I be angry at them? Should I dismiss this valuable service to then remain consistent with my anger? Is Microsoft now “good” or “bad”?

Every action needs to be evaluated on its own. Our evolutionary social adaptation just doesn’t work in this case.

In the end all Cloudflare did is expose how centralized the Internet has become. The immediate emotion is anger because that is how you react when you’re suddenly awakened out of blissful ignorance and forced to face reality.
Its not bad, but I would always get it confused with Chubby's which is far better in my opinion.
Try to name a different one which has more than 3% market share then... It's totally a monopoly.
Hardware Transactional Persistent Memory
I’ve lived in Latvia for some time and spent a fair while in Lithuania. They’re incredibly beautiful countries and at least for me felt more like home than anywhere else. There’s a tranquility you don’t tend to see further West.

I highly recommend paying the Baltic countries a visit and I’d be happy to share more as an ex-pat who moved there.
So in the Tor browser, DNS resolution for non-onion addresses creates a new circuit each time? (not sarcasm, I really don't know) Because I consider this new onion service (aka a front for 1.1.1.1) to be a single first-party domain. How is this any worse than contacting any other onion service repeatedly? Or are you arguing they should provide a rotating list of onion addresses for this service?
> It's true to say that we are all relatively less well off than we were in 2000. This is bad because wealth begets more wealth, so the inequality grows.

Remember one of the last times you went for listening to your favourite band or purchasing their latest album. At that moment, something bad had happened - they got relatively wealthier while you became poorer. Given you were not the only one who paid them for their performance that day, those bastards could actually become rich, while a lot more people became poorer. So the inequality gap grew bigger and, according to your reasoning, you had become relatively less well off that day. But did you? And should we do something with that band regarding them becoming closer to the top 1% (maybe we should redistribute their income among visitors of the venue?) Or, how about measuring the value of your emotional/spiritual state of mind before and after that event? Does it account for a relative/absolute well-being?

The point is, while economic stats are good at showing you the monetary part of your wealth, they are insufficient for drawing a wast conclusion on people's wealth and well-being. So is the "relative to TopN" argument.
Greed is not a cause to you?
I've changed the blog post as you suggest.
Correct. "one of the fastest..." is more accurate. The new m4's beat the i3 0-30 but only by a few fractions.

In any event, it's very very fast for an urban commuter and I annoy plenty of people driving AMGs and Porsches in my clown car.
I didn't suggest they were identical. Only that a limited comparison can be made about their use as a store of value.
Pointing out flaws without going into a lot of detail isn't very good practice if you're trying to offer helpful criticism in a feature request, a bug report, or generally trying to work with the team to improve it.

It's completely fine and quite useful for someone to say that their experience was bad with a tool in general on an internet thread about the tool in general.
>The US has higher cancer survival rates than Europe

First of all that source is from a pseudo-intellectual religious journal and carries little to no weight in my opinion, even if it did they admit that those numbers are differentiated by early screening in the US and this has little to do with treatment quality, such a statement on quality would need to control for this difference in screening.

>Also the US develops most of the drugs used by those other countries. IF Drug companies charged UK prices in America, they would not be profitable. Someone has to pay the bill for drug development. In this case, it's the US.

Only 5 of the top 10 largest Pharmaceutical companies are American and 3 of the top 5 are European so this statement is just not true.

Your quaint views on Economics are obviously libertarian, in the failed American political party sense, and frankly the data is not on your side.
But is it the fault of Google their competitors are weak? Should we now reward creating a better product? You can use whatever search engine you want and Bing is actually two less charcters it just sucks so no one uses. That is not the fault of Google is it?

Look at browsers and Google has most of the market even though you have to download to get when the PC comes with MS browser. Why?

Google came late to search as well as browsers and simply won because of a much better product that continue to improve far faster than competitors. Why on Earth would we penalize this?
Actually, I think game endings define the art of concurrency. GPUs have hundreds of threads, and the SIMD paradigm is more powerful than the more flexible MIMD one used by most multithreaded server frameworks.
It is just common sense. Regulations give one advantage and restrict competition which is a breeding ground for monopolies.
GANAX: A Unified MIMD-SIMD Acceleration for Generative Adversarial Networks
That's more to do with a better food distribution network. The fact that you ate mostly locally grown food and not imported from far away places didn't make you poor. You had to really try to be poor and hungry in USSR.
The collapse of communism and diminished threat of proletariat revolution in western countries is what driving the inequality in the past 30 years ("the rich are getting bolder").
I've see that figure many times. One must take into account premature births and how stillbirths are reported. And also due to the racial makeup of America. Blacks have higher rates of infant mortality than whites.
What system? What standard fonts? My system has no standard fonts and I wouldn't want to use fixed-width fonts on a website anyways; I'd also be very unhappy if the website changed based on what device/system I'm using (I often don't have control over that device).
You may be interested in this interesting archive of hdd-failing-sounds. Note: as it's about 10 years old, it requires flash. http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Great, the 2011 i7 has more than one core.
It's not as adversarial as it seems. I should clarify, we achieve better deliverability through a combination of 3 techniques:

1. Making it easier to properly segment different kinds of emails (this is the #1 tip you'll find on all authoritative sources about email performance, including GMail's official guidelines for bulk senders)

2. Allowing you to dynamically adjust FROM's and sender IP's to isolate domain/reputation issues.

3. Catching provider failures, and retrying (Smart Failover).

Only #3 reflects badly on the provider, "putting them at war" as you say. But the majority of our deliverability benefits actually come from the first 2 techniques, which is not really fighting with the provider, just using better tools on top of them.

And thanks for the feedback about pricing. To be honest, my current pricing is a shot in the dark. We're going to have to figure out a better model as we go. Do you have any specific suggestions? Perhaps tying pricing to number of contacts/users instead of sheer volume?
That's true; given the observed fact that:

(1) relative deprivation is a substantial source of disutility, and

(2) additional wealth/income has declining marginal utility.

It's quite easy for a situation where the rich/poor gap grows and everyone gets richer in absolute terms to actually have negative net utility.
I found it interesting to contemplate how much harder it would be for someone to do this level of analysis and draw conclusions from it if they weren't physically proximate.

I love remote work, and I hope to sustain it for the rest of my career, but there is something to be said for direct exposure to the systems you study.

(It also makes me appreciate all the more how hard it must be for archaeologists et al to glean details of the past from fragmentary evidence of a world long gone.)
On a totally non-serious note:

Just reading "Microsoft has sunk a data centre" sounds pretty hilarious given recent events (GDPR, acquiring GitHub)
I think we should spend more "energy" on reducing the heat in the datacenter and solve the problem for everyone. Cooling the datacenter in the sea seems like a hacky (though creative) solution.
My great grandfather was skipper of the Evangeline who died along with all the crew off of Stronsay in 1909:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=0UVWUbJp3Ys

http://www.axfordsabode.org.uk/disaster/evangeli.pdf

Edit: (Can't work out if was great great grandfather or not! - but certainly some ancestor!)

Edit2: I'd definitely recommend visiting Orkney - it regularly gets evaluated as one of the nicest bits of the UK to live, the scenery is fantastic and it has some of the most amazing historical artifacts in Europe.
"Sure" and "looks like" are in the same sentence. What does that mean?
I for one would like to see more snarky CTOs on HN
> So in the Tor browser, DNS resolution for non-onion addresses creates a new circuit each time?

You can try it for yourself, open a tab in the Tor Browser with foo1.com, look at the circuit in the Torbutton. Then open another tab with foo2.com, look at the circuit and compare it with the earlier one.
Well now we have a plan for boiling the oceans:

Bitcoin mining + underwater data centers
As feature sizes shrink cobalt start to look like a better choice for implementing wires than copper for reasons of electromigration and mean free path. Intel wanted to get a jump on this for their 10nm process and so decided to switch over to cobalt before TSMC, Global, etc. But they've been having huge problems getting it to work and 10nm has slipped from 2017 to at least 2019 and their process lead is now essentially gone.

They've actually released one chip on 10nm but it's performing much worse than the equivalent 14nm chip so it needs a lot more work.
Among many other things with them, explaining stuff to my kids is one of the best way I have found to connect with them.

As I work in tech, explaining tech works better to me than explaining non-tech stuff such as gardening or politics :-)
I'm pretty sure that, even in the west, it is incorrect to say that the "majority are a lot poorer." The article itself points out that real wages have grown, albeit slowly.
They're all arbitrary stores of value whos intrinsic value is not justified by the market price?
> [...] and you have complete control over who sees it and [...]

If you have complete control over who sees it, that should mean that no one else has any control over it...
Can you expand on that? Do you mean if you're running your own Buildkite agents, there's a manual gc process devops should be aware of?
While I didn't understand most of this, any reason why they're still using CVS? Genuinely curious, I'm sure they have good reasons.
contextualization is a component of reading comprehension
"grow your own food" If you believe in commonly accepted economic thinking like efficiency of large scale production and comparative advantage and specialization, then you must conclude growing your own food does not make economic sense.
The problem is the sort of "elitism" they oppose. It isn't "the works of one who grew up poor's ideas should be considered on their own merit just like one who was born wealthy". It is "What do biologists know about vaccines? Numbers are soulless lets go with what feels right." Plus even if the populism is 100% natural it may still be exploited by any willing to use it as a ladder. Being "for the people" has made no difference vs "for religion" or "for our geopolitical grouping".

Not helping matters is anti-elitism as a crab bucket mentality where they complain about the geographically near comfortable instead of the actual powers. Blaming the miller for their problems instead of their lord.

Even when not hijacked populism often fails to actually fix anything, it may be its refusal to acknowledge reality in its groupthink and search for easy solutions, dislike of nuance and not wanting to hear that the things they had just aren't sustainable or what they would need to do to make it so.
let's try to replace one word: "Facebook confirms data sharing with Jewish companies". You see what kind of ideology this is spreading? Being Chinese is bad?
Not salary, employee costs. But yeah, 250k$ salaries for engineers are uncommon even at Google.
> Our history books don't say anything about a radical overhaul of the economic system in 1973

They don't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
Honestly, Apple's privacy move over the years is genius. Its going to be a long time, maybe never, before I buy something besides an iPhone. I don't even like Phones(in general) that much and Apples aggressive cable policies drive me insane but this is getting really scary.
As true as it is, I don't believe their definition is necessarily what is best for software or for developers. I don't believe that it is just that ownership of a product or its copyright, even in an open source capacity, should be transferred from developer to business owner if they're separate people.

Overly permissive licenses encourage private business to take advantage of software commons without necessarily contributing any of their changes back to it, which alienates their own developers from the changes at the moment and while at the moment it is trendy for companies to create software under these licenses, there's no mechanism to guarantee future updates will also be released in such a permissive way.
> Google is everywhere, covering thousands of local places. It'd be hard to know all the different regulation.

And that's why you hire an army of compliance officers, which is what Google already has. There is no excuse.
Anyone else nostalgic about the Middle Earth and early D&D artwork?
Facebook introduces new bidding support for in-app ads
Regarding France. The issue of anti-immigration may very well
be caused by a poor economy and lack of opportunity.

Did Hitler come to power because the innate hatred of jews the Germans had or because of a garbage economy?
The developer makes the code, not the tools. Some people prefer tools different to others.
“Lawmakers press Facebook over Chinese data sharing” (Reuters)
Having attended BYU and lived in the Utah Valley area for a while, I can say they were pretty extravagant. They have tons of billboards, many of which don't even really state anything about the business or the product. Just stupid, meme-like quips. They also would come to Career Fairs with 3x as many reps as any other company, most of whom didn't seem to really know what roles they were there looking for, and had tables of all sorts of Domo-branded swag.

In general, the company itself kind of felt like a caricature of the ridiculousness sometimes found in tech these days. Kind of reminded me of the character Richard Hanneman from Silicon Valley.
"It definitely appears to be the case that..."
Ask HN: Personal electrical engineering curriculum?
Along the lines of the personal MBA, I'm interested to learn which books or course materials you would recommend if someone wants to acquire the knowledge typically found in an electrical engineering degree by themselves?
I have tinkered with things such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, but would like to understand things in a more fundamental way.

My specific interest goes out to Electronics and Telecommunications.
I personally prefer books and applied exercises/experimentation, video courses don't tend to work for me.

Thanks !
Only Bitcoin requires the continuous consumption of energy to continue being a useful asset though.
> Problem is, the time to figure out the series of tools needed and their precise applications burns enormous time.

In the use of the adjectives 'precise' and 'enormous', you are just repeating the same false dichotomy in a slightly different form, by ignoring (or not understanding) my point about the use of abstraction in analytical thinking.

The people who are most successful in what you distinguish as development understand a good deal more about what they are working on than spec programmers need to, and they are not, as you imply, groping around in the dark for a solution - that's what spec programmers do when faced with a development problem.
iOS has Adblock that comes with a DNS proxy using local VPN. Earlier it used to use the VPN to divert traffic to their app, but Apple banned that practice.
...and I remember one of the maintainers saying something along the lines of "Some of us don't even compile our code locally anymore. Sometimes you just throw code at Phab and get an email back telling you what you need to fix."

I can't remember in what context that was, but ever since I heard that, I have been wanting to try Phabricator out. I guess this is as good an opportunity as any!
Surely, those humans wasting precious energy, would not waste energy and ressources if they were not sitting at home and staring hypnotized at some netflix movie?
These all look like they're made in the 70s, including the supposedly modern R160.
The OP is actually reporting a new Tolkien exhibition in Oxford [0] rather than comprehensively describing Tolkien's creative processes. The exhibition and accompanying coffee-table book are about the novels rather than the recent films.

I've already booked my tickets - the exhibition is the most significant for years (if not ever) and will move from the UK to New York later in the year. And then Paris.

[0] https://tolkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
There are plugins that run their processing in parallel, but still they depend on results from the previous one in the chain. So there is only x number of plugins you can run in a channel, regardless how they process samples internally.

Acceptable latency would be between 2 to 25ms, but typically it is 5ms to work comfortable.
My projects stutter on 25ms latency on Ryzen 1800x.
Thoughts on the future of online education
Should Google and Facebook police medical quackery?
I don't want AMD to overtake intel on single-core performance. There are only a handful of things that a chip manufacturer can be best at. If AMD is ahead on per-core and total number of cores, then they can and will demand the premium prices intel does today. I like AMD because they are the underdog who must keep prices low to keep my business.

AMD taking the lead could also make them complacent when it comes to the more annoying things like DRM and privacy. I want them to remain the lean company. I don't want them investing in all the chaotic side projects that intel chips participate in. AMD needs to stick to number crunching and not allow their CPUs to become gateways for other tasks. They need to stay as they are now.

Lastly, atm AMD and intel sell very different chips. They do different things well. Those who pick one or the other do so for clear reasons. If they get too close on per-core performance we risk endless brand debates. Two tribes will emerge. Wagons will circle and fanboys appear. Competition betters the breed, but with only two players on the field we all know what will happen.
Inequalities of wealth mean more than the number of toys someone can afford. Wealth equals power, in a very real sense. Just a few examples:

If you own a company, or a TV station, or a news source, or a large number of shares in a company, your ability to influence the world is very much greater than someone who doesn't. Your relative influence over society is a zero-sum game. And your relative influence over society reduces when a small number of people get hugely rich.

There are also resources that are drawn from a fixed-size pot. Land ownership for example. If a tiny number of people assume possession of vast amounts of land, the amount left for everyone else is reduced.

It's a very good thing that people are being lifted out of poverty in the sense that they can afford food and shelter, basic sanitation and so on. But this is really the minimum we should aim for.

Access to more toys can be a good thing in many cases, though I'm not convinced it's a good measure of how well society is doing. But being able to afford more electronic items or whatever does not really eliminate the problems caused by extreme wealth inequality.
>You can find Tesla's' advertising spend easily in their quarterly findings.

Musk played Trump's "fake news" card. If you now try to say anything negative about this company, the fans will brush it off as "fake news" and ignore it.

Remember when the HackerNews crowd told us they were too smart to fall for such things?
They are not better at a single and simple thing: cost of development for multiple platforms. And it means everything, unless you're swimming in money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0eQzMRrrc&feature=youtu.be...
I am not speaking without experience. If you support Windows, you probably need to support non-console environments like cygwin and msys. Moreover, Windows 10 has opt-in support for ANSI style coloring. At some point, coloring via the console APIs will probably stop being used.
This doesn't square with my experience. HFT reduces transaction costs for market participants. You can see this in the narrowing of bid/ask spreads from the early 2000s on. Corporations exist for many reasons, but I wouldn't say benefiting the wealthy is the primary reason. More important reasons seem to be: limiting liability for owners, formalizing ownership structures so that owners can benefit in proportion to their role in the business, and simplifying tax and accounting issues.

I agree that the growth in regulation has negative consequences and that the education system is largely ineffective, but I think these are unintended consequences rather than the result of conscious manipulation by powerful people and organizations.
See [1],

"Phabricator uses a lighthearted tone in documentation and some interfaces, and includes some features which primarily exist to add flavor or make things sillier.

We use this tone because we like building software like this, and the feedback we receive about it from users is overwhelmingly (and often effusively) positive."

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/tone...
Literally repeating past failures (and successes!) is rare throughout history so direct comparisons are not necessarily going to be useful for determining likelihoods of future events.

In modern America, we don’t have food shortages but we do have housing shortages resulting in high living costs, different health problems than the early 20th century folks, lack of jobs for the lesser / inappropriately educated, high consumer debt, student loans, etc. that contribute to the misery index. The misery, however, gets offset by the sheer glut of passive entertainment leisure options the world has never seen before in history. After all, who cares if we’re living longer if we’re feeling worse throughout it?

Not saying things are worse than the Depression at all, just saying we’re always going to be comparing apples to oranges as we go from different historical periods so looking at primarily economic factors may have limited utility even in looking at sociopolitical problems.
Obesity is growing because the cheap food is loaded with sugar while the healthier stuff is more expensive...
I wish there was a social network built around the signal app. Maybe whoever builds the next FB will give it some thought.