skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media comes in a lot of forms these days. I've definitely read a book in the past year, but - especially if you restrict it to written word (e.g. no visual novels) - there's a good chance that the 3 otherwise reasonably intelligent people I live with haven't done the same.

They've listened to audio books, watched movies and tv, played video games, gone to plays, played board games, read both long and short form articles, flipped through facebook, kept up with the news, listened to music, watched youtube videos and other short films, but reading a book is a really big investment, and there's a good case to be made that it just isn't as important as, for instance, keeping up with culturally relevant tv or movies, if you want to keep up with the best and most widely experienced parts of modern culture.
The Great EU Debt Write Off (2012)
I realized my (own) sibling comment sounded like a bunch of rhetorical questions, since they were asked from the standpoint of my skepticism/suspicion based on what I read.

However, they actually are questions, and I'd appreciate knowing the answers (or best approximations) from an insider.

The wikipedia doesn't provide much insight into the technical underpinnings to draw any conclusions.

Perhaps there's something of an answer to the OC's general question, just in this inscrutability: the details are so foreign/unique but so important that software/computer people would have no intuition on how or where their skills would fit.
It certainly depends on the software, too. Some things are more fragile than others, for one thing. Perhaps more importantly, some software is harder to migrate away from, e.g. if it has a database, especially some custom file format.
Seroquel off label... for sleep?! Seroquel is a pretty hefty neuroleptic, with all of many adverse effects implied. Does your doctor discuss the possible long term impact of its use?
We just made America Great Again by freeing up that cluttered frequency for more important snaps. /s
Moving 3D XPoint memory from the peripheral IO bus to the memory bus is way more than an incremental improvement.
> I felt this, but was surprised that while there were a few genuine genius-level people in my program, the vast majority spent most of the effort trying to look like a genius but were far from it.

An astounding amount of time is wasted in academia on puffery. I'm not sure how it compares to industry because there's never been a systematic comparison (and I don't really believe such a comparison would be feasible). My personal experience was that the "mediocrities" who kept a low profile and stayed out of departmental politics as much as possible seemed to actually be accomplishing the most work with any actual substance. Some of these folks were working in state-sponsored institutions rather than universities. All of them seemed to be in their 50s and 60s, tenured (or tenure-equivalented) before higher ed became a hypercompetitive shitshow.

This pretension really comes through when scholars don't respect the limits of their expertise / properly delegate to specialists. In software and IT especially, you find academics using technologies that are a poor fit for their work, not understanding budgeting and concepts such as total cost of ownership for compute resources, and reinventing the wheel.
> Do the Québécois form an independent nation? The answer is no

Quebec will remain in Canada until the day before their $10+ billion in transfer payments and National Capital Region special treatment is stopped.
> They offer the defendant a standard plea to 2.

Which deprives the public of a trial. If someone is going to prison, everybody has a right to know the circumstances leading up to it -- and both sides of it, not just the prosecutor's version which the defendant is coerced to sign onto. Convictions without trials aren't an efficiency, they're the suppression of the truth.

> The issue typically isn’t innocence (they’re guilty), it’s an issue of how the defendant handles his guiltiness.

That isn't how overcharging works.

There are a lot of very broad crimes that everybody commits all the time and hardly anyone gets charged with.

So when a prosecutor decides they don't like you, and there is a 50% chance they can prove the thing they claim you did, they offer you the plea. If you want your day in court (because you didn't do that thing), they also tack on seven more charges which everybody is guilty of, so that you're found guilty of something even if they can't actually prove the thing that caused them to notice you to begin with.

They may also charge you with something else they only have a 5% chance of proving but which carries extremely severe penalties. Which, even if they can't prove it, subtracts 5% times a massive penalty from the expected value of demanding your day in court.

> If there is a lack of evidence or a strong alibi, then typically the DA won’t threaten a trial — they will drop it or offer a lesser crime (depends on the context).

That happens after plea bargaining. And that's the problem. If they say "agree to six months or go to trial" then you have to take the six months or prepare for trial, which may cost a quarter of a million dollars or more and untold hours of your own labor. Then, after you've paid the time and money to prepare your defense, they drop the charges, leaving you with the bill.

Or drop all of the serious charges they could never prove but which you had to prepare to defend against in case they tried to.

It can be cheaper for an innocent person to spend the six months in prison.
This was intended more towards people you don't normally see face to face. My parents live across the country. I can maybe see them twice a year. My college friends have moved elsewhere, but we can definitely play a game of DnD over Hangouts and Roll20. My relatives live abroad, but I still get (virtual) face-to-face time with them.

This would have been incomprehensible 100 years ago, and is a huge innovation in terms of bringing humans closer together. Sure, if you decide to start communicating with your roommate over FaceTime rather than actually talking to them in person, you're going to experience a decline in "closeness", but if you use these technologies normally, I think they absolutely have the potential to maintain strong connections where none could have existed before.
It might be for some things like performance but they're very successful for small, reliable OS's in embedded scene. Tanenbaum cited a bunch in round 2 of the debate with Torvalds:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os/
I feel if this problem was tackled in the 1950s our ancestors would have solved it and not thought twice about the animals.

But here we are almost in the year 2020, and our sense of moral obligation holds us back from using our advanced technology to its maximum potential, even to save our own lives or pursue new horizons.
Just FYI - India is not a homogenous society. It has 22 official languages, 29 states + 7 union territories, 9 officially recognized religions.

So, no, there is no "Indian head wobble". What the fine article describes is a distinct cultural thing amongst a very specific subset of India's population that western society has encountered so far.
I'm not a hacker. I got my first PC in '88 (a 286 with a 20mb HD) because for sure it was going to be the thing in a few short years. I was 28 and wanted to use it for my business... the NIGHTMARE of trying to; load software, hookup a printer, get the modem to work and so and so was just unbelievable. I persisted though, in fact when Windows was seriously starting to dominate-I even refused to use for a damn long time. Anyway, my point is I bet more than a few of those 11 percenters are peeps my age who just never got comfortable at the command screen.
Instead of having a bunch of proprietary, centralized markets for each service, why not create an open source, p2p protocol for trade and let anyone offer anything they want?

Rhetorical question. It's called OpenBazaar and it's already in use around the world. I work on it and I hope the original article is correct that there's tremendous value in market networks.
In the last GNU related post about Emacs, a security person suggested changing defaults related to TLS to address many of the known dangers with the current PKI situation. There, the lead developer apparently didn't want to change the defaults because that would somehow be top-down aggression against user choice in the style of the TSA at the airport.

Here, you are saying that GNUK won't add FIDO U2F because the lead dev is critical of the whole PKI system. Thus, the GNUK user doesn't get defaults which allow them to easily bootstrap into the web services that are used by a large portion of the population.

I mean, that's fine and justifiable as individual projects go. But one could just as easily imagine the approach of these two projects switched so that Emacs reflexively reacted by choosing the most secure TLS settings for defaults, and GNUK being liberal with which protocols they add.

So what's the point of the Gnu umbrella if users and potential devs essentially roll a roulette wheel to guess how each developerbase prioritizes something as critical as security?
Đăng ký xét tuyển nguyện vọng 2 Cao đẳng Dược Hà Nội 2018 thời gian nào?
How recently have you heard as I read somewhere recently (cannot find yet currently but looking) that Diane Greene massively increased their sales and support staff once she joined as head of cloud?
See https://cryptomator.org/
Any review of geoengineering projects to combat climate change should also include an analysis or description of iron seeding of oceans to promote plankton growth. In addition to sequestering carbon such work results in abundance in the marine food system. A pilot project completed off the Alaskan coast may have resulted in record salmon runs in 2017 as juvenile fish found plenty to eat.
Respectfully—and I truly mean this!—this is nowhere near enough to attain parity with GCC and LLVM. I don't see any SSA form, to name just one of many issues.

GCC 4.0, which introduced the SSA-based GIMPLE, was released in 2004, which is roughly around the same time you mentioned that the optimization quality started to diverge. This is not an accident. At the time, lots of compilers thought that they could continue to compete with GCC without doing SSA-based optimizations. GCC crushed them all one by one.
If Taligent had used Objective-C instead of C++ they might have actually shipped something.
Doctors expect to be catered to. They're at the top of an entire apparatus designed for their convenience, that starts by making people come for appointments on their schedule, and ends with it being acceptable for them still to use paper charts in 2018.

I'm not blaming these guys, they're part of a system that treats them like gods.
I shouldn't have brought credentials into this, its bad form on my part.

But anyway, I was just relating what I've heard from colleagues and my dis-taste for the articles definitive title.
Cryptomator: Client-side encryption for your cloud files
Having a TOTP secret would protect against theft of credentials in transit. The TOTP is only valid once, so that credential exchange is only valid once. They wouldn't be able to create any additional login sessions with the information they've attacked. However, there's a good chance if they could see that they might also be able to see a lot of other information you're exchanging with that service.
Yes, but https://twitter.com/thelarkinn/status/1006746626617008128?s=...
There are places with a lot of these cars already.
Are you an engineer who has built scalable distributed systems. We’re hiring
EFF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Warrant for Border Searches of Devices
No the doctor didn't give the long term consequences. I am not encouraging this. This is way more common then people think[1].

[1] https://nationalpost.com/health/seroquel-for-insomnia
Not OP, but for me while working out helps being unable to sleep is tightly coupled with anxiety and my mind spinning on something. For some people the anxiety is directly related to being worried about being unable to fall asleep.

One thing that helped was to recognize that it's okay if you don't fall asleep - taking the pressure off made it less stressful. Another thing was recognizing I've never failed to eventually fall asleep.

Sleep is a weird thing though - and the lack of conscious continuity, I think people would be more afraid of it if it wasn't something we were already used to.
Not just older people. For a lot of people the GUI is the computer, and anything inside may as well be magic. I’ve known more than one who has referred to the whole computer enclosure as the hard drive.
I was writing COBOL for a banking software firm. I wouldn't change it, it's been a good ride.

BTW, I waited 'till early 30s to get married. I think that was a good decision, too.
Is your thesis available for public consumption?
Finally, crypto micropayment works, we can spend 1 Wei with 0 fee
Whoa... thanks for the article. I’m shocked, but I guess shouldn’t be surprised.
...and then President for Life nationalizes it and extends his life until all of us are dead, yeah, I couldn't help "joking" either. We might be sooo doomed.
I'll probably make the switch in early 2020 when Windows 7 support expires. I like Windows 10 but the spying and the lack of user control of the updates is a deal killer for me.
How much are you willing to pay for that information?
The costs are astronomical because we've been taking on massive amounts of environmental debt for over a century. Mostly over the last 25 years. It's payback time.

According to the IPCC, even their conservative estimates indicate a requirement for some kind of atmospheric carbon removal to avoid severe climate related problems. Even if we could somehow reduce carbon emissions by 100% tomorrow we'd still need mega-projects.

The time for reduction was perhaps 30 years ago when James Hansen testified before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
If your TV created the soap opera effect and this new method does not (does it?), then the new method is clearly better and maybe it did require this complex AI after all to make that happen.
This sounds like a big deal, but doesn't seem to be getting attention. Am I missing something?

Giants like Facebook, Twitter, etc. have a huge competitive advantage because of their user moats. There are a countless number of people who hate Facebook, but stay on it "because everyone is there" and use the one or two convenient features they appreciate, like Events or Groups.

If this initiative is for real, goodbye inferior products like all the stuff Facebook has stuck into its ecosystem (Groups, Events, Messenger, etc etc) and hello super-speciailized companies that can piggy-back on existing user moats (moats no longer).

This is obviously fantastic for the consumer, but seems to destroy something that I thought to be key to each of their bottom lines. Why are they doing this?
Is API compatibility computable in general? My instinct is that it is, but I’ve never seen a theorem.
Recommendation: Read the book 'so good they can't ignore you' - it's directed at answering your question exactly.

(summaries of this book aren't particularly useful but the book is great. i was initially skeptical.)

It would likely note:

- You have high career capital

- You should use your career capital towards getting more autonomy and more purpose.

This is a decent summary of the book as a teaser, I highly recommend reading the whole thing if it seems like it'll help you http://contentfiesta.com/book-notes/so-good-they-cant-ignore...
The author grew up in a major city (Chongqing) before emigrating to the US but her dad grew up in a small village and she had some experience staying with relatives there. I felt that the writing is somewhat stilted as well even though I appreciate the efforts she made to tell the stories. She became a staff writer in 2016 so maybe she is still developing her own style. I highly enjoyed Peter Hessler's pieces covering China for the New Yorker.
I don't ultimately think you have to take my assertions as valid counterpoints

Many of your supposed counterpoints are straw-man. No one is expecting someone to have memorized or to reinvent KMP or this algorithm or that. What we're looking at is basic understanding and conceptual tools.

I'm just not asking anyone to believe that things are truly different than they used to be.

But things are clearly different than they were years ago. The number of CS grads has fluctuated a lot, in response to increased investment and industry bubbles bursting. Things are clearly very different today than they were in the early 90's.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp

We also covered "gluing things together" in the early 90's. The concept was already very well worn even when I was a newly minted CS grad, with Jon Bentley discussing it in Programming Pearls using awk. The thing is this: We would also glue libraries together, but we did that while applying our generalist knowledge. It seems to me that there are a whole lot of CS grads who get through their entire undergrad education pretty much only doing that. Maybe that's all well and good, and they can accomplish many great things this way. However, it seems to me that much of the basic generalist knowledge is now mistakenly labeled as "specialist" and is needlessly missing from the general population.
Seriously, yes. If there was ever a time to rethink OS design, surely this is it.

That being said, operating systems like Linux tend to capture most of the value from these kind of advances - often by dint of being able to simply 'get out of the way' if a sufficiently important user space process wants access to the device.

But one would suspect that things have changed sufficiently from the 1970s to warrant a ground-up rethink. Core counts, distributed systems (the Plan 9 folks already too a swing at this in the 90s), nearly ubiquitous graphics/GPGPU accelerators, persistent memory, nearly ubiquitous access to 64-bit address spaces (at least for desktop and most phones) - you'd think something would change about design. I don't work in the area so I don't know what that is...
Leading to rapid population growth in marine ecosystems and then a ton of decaying biomass afterwards which releases the CO2 back into the ocean, asphyxiating the marine life and undoing the benefits.
As the linked article states, all personally identifiable information is removed, but you still want to be able to say "Alice worked with Bob in folder 1, and that same Alice worked with Charlie in folder 2", so you assign unique identifiers to each user, such that you can't tie Alice to "Prof. Smith at University of Chicago", but you can tie folder 1 and folder 2 to the same Alice.
My biggest concern with these single attribute solutions is that they might lead to a sense of complacency about CO2 emissions. This could lead to an even bigger problem with ocean acidification than there would have been otherwise.
From what I have read about Ambien I feel like the descent is much more sudden and unpredictable with the sleeping pills.
I suggest building more Tsar Bombas and dropping them into the Marianas trench. If we make the ocean deeper by making huge craters, then the sea levels will fall!
Not necessarily. There are plenty of projects in their infancy that follow semver correctly. I'd argue that a project with a high major number is more likely to be indicative of improper usage.
To the extent that computations are feasible, yes. There was a pretty big paper like a decade ago proposing a fully homomorphic system. It was pretty much impractical, running like a million times slower than native instructions. I assume without reading that this post's paper reduces that multiplier to hundreds of thousands.

edit: reading the abstract, it looks like they don't have a faster fully homomorphic system, just some better results in the partial homomorphic domains.
Not really a solution, but a problem that I have (which this thread has actually given me several new ideas to try fixing) isn't so much organizing or tracking my goals, it's that even when I get them organized, and plan out my days (not excessively, but a handful of easily achievable things I want to do in a day or week) I find that I don't have the drive or motivation to accomplish them half the time.

Getting home from work exhausted, not from stress exactly, but from just being focused and working for the whole day + commuting + going to the gym, makes it hard to find the energy to do the things I WANT to do. So I end up going for the easy thing, which is browsing HN or Reddit, watching TV, playing video games. I do enjoy those things, but feel like I waste time when I do them.

I have realized in the past several months the very common idea that getting started is the hardest part. Most of the time when I force myself to just start on something, I end up investing hours into it.

The other problem is that I want to do too many things, and often don't want to start on a side project, or practicing an instrument, because I don't want to do just one thing for the night and neglect other things, which leads to just doing nothing of value that I wanted to do.

I just try to constantly remind myself that if I spend an entire night practicing keyboard, it's a thousand times better than thinking about the things I want to do, and then browsing the internet all night.

To the original topic though: I use a combination of Keep, OneNote, and a Habit tracker to help. It's just the breaking through and starting on things that is the main issue for me. Thinking of trying out a kanban board to track personal goals though.
Why do I would like to submit to these directories if my startup were not for developers? AFAIK, this would only attracts more copycats than real users.
I've wondered how proprietary software vendors distribute their software on the myriad of Linux distros and their package managers. That is if you want to keep the workflow of using the package manager to automate the installation and uninstallation. Unlike app stores, there's no linux package manager that allows payments before delivery of software.
Previous threads.

The Data Transfer Project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574707

137 points l2dy 4 days ago 50 comments

https://datatransferproject.dev/

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The Data Transfer Project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580502

97 points cududa 3 days ago 47 comments

https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project
It looks like we are already about at 400ppm if we cut emissions down to 20% of current amount we'd still see a 50% chance of 2 degrees Celsius rise in avg temp.

Geoengineering seems like a foregone conclusion to me.
If you can reset the nonce without resetting the key you can probably retrieve the key easily if you can read the traffic. The service should not need to check the nonce, and adding that much state is going to be complicated.
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