skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tumblr was one of my favorite places on the web for a time. A real anti-fbook, but then they were taken over by yahoo.

It didn't change a lot at first, but the wall street ad and censor machine started to creep in and it became obvious what once was a haven for sharing things you would never do on fbook, well it got a new moderation staff and more changes.

I stayed with it even after the change to hide the porn by default and such. Then one day one of my tumblrs got banned.

I understood, it very much looked like many of the rampant spammer's tumblr sites, I had thought thay by using a custom modded theme and other things a tumblr employee would see it was not a cut of mill spam blog but highly custom and completely unique.

I was wrong, the moderator that made the site disappear did not see it. When I emailed the next level staff asking why and suggesting that it was unique and not spam, they replied it was flagged as spam and is gone.

I wrote back one time begging for access to download a copy of my tumblr, it was all original content, all the text, all the photos. They did not care to even reply.

I tried to write the CEO, I reached out for an explanation on twitter even. Nothing.

I know, not a customer, the product, and your rights to speech are not rights when publishing on a sharecropper lords platform, but I expected more of tumblr. I was mistaken.

I later read about how some of these companies were employing a lot of people from places outside the USA and did some research on the majority of religions and morals of those areas and scratched my head wondering how the main people of tumblr could even consider such a move given the wide range of widely shared content likely being disturbing to so many in some of those places.

Then I realized, it was not just about the cheap labor, it was about have an excuse for why so much was mopped up without a second thought. IT wasn't the tumblr crew doing it right - this was the plan from yahoo and the future advertiser's and wall street and all that.

I'm so mad I did not backup my tumblrs when I had the chance, so mad that I gave them so much. Promoted it as a place to have fun without the stress of fbook, linked in and such.

Never again.

At least with other portals you know there is a chance at loss ( I routinely save my comments before submitting to any wordpress based site, assuming that akismet will likely flag my comment and make it disappear into the ether box not seen by blog admins.. and of course blog admins make them hidden as well.

Can't believe I'm about to say this, but I have more faith in G plus providing customer service and fair rules than tumblr. Boy that did not taste right coming out of my virtual mouth.

That's how pitiful tumblr is now, unless it goes back to being self owned / private or whatever, it is dead to me, And there is not backup for them to get of my past trust and love.
Yeah, it's something akin to the Peter Principle. Except I'm not being promoted. I'm still in the same position, except I always get assigned to do stuff I have no clue about, while there are a thousand other areas in the project where I could be doing my best work. I don't understand it.
This is censorship, plain and simple. They cannot command everyone to abridge their speech, even if their license terms say so. It is unenforceable and illegal.
I don't want to steal your label, but it sounds like a lack of confidence, maybe lack of perception of self worth.
I'm hardly an expert so I'll welcome someone who is to correct my mistakes. However, the main problem with the gold standard was that it's too easy to corner the market in gold. As new economies gain traction, they have to purchase gold to back up their currencies. However, at the time the liquidity in gold was very, very low because everybody was hording it. This caused the price to spike. Occasionally large amounts of gold would be sold, causing huge dips in the price. Because the currencies were bound to the price of gold, this caused instability in the currencies.

Something like the gold standard works well if you have a zero sum game. As one economy does well, another suffers. Wealth is transferred from one economy to another. However, it doesn't work like that. Especially as Japan was starting to kick into high gear, overall wealth increased.

Lots more interesting reading if you care to dig into what both the US and the USSR were doing with gold reserves at that time. My own impression is that the gold standard was unsustainable and would have resulted in catastrophe if they had persisted. Others clearly disagree. ;-)

Bretton Woods comes with its own problems, though. Making capital available in order to bootstrap growth is kind of an obvious solution from an economic perspective, but I think that making capital too available allows bad actors to play a lot of funny games. (Bad actors being those who optimise for their own gain while intentionally or unintentionally screwing everybody else over). In the west there was a lot of deregulation in the late 90s and early 2000s as well, which has made the problem worse.

Even now, I think that the economic policies of most countries are positively loopy. You've got most of the western world hovering on a knife's edge of personal bankruptcy and most of the growth tied up in extracting even more money from the common people. In Japan (where I live), we've got Abenomics, which is just Reganomics in disguise -- we'll give rich people a lot of money and they will disperse it to the poor people (really, they will... I promise). There is a massive national debt, which isn't actually that bad because taxes are low, but now they've loosened the rules on personal debt and... will normal people actually be able to pay the bills?

So I wouldn't say that Bretton Woods is really at fault, but I'll agree that the subsequent economic policies that Bretton Woods enabled are making it pretty easy to ignore the underlying problems that appear to be getting worse. Whether it all blows up on us in the near future?... No idea.
I was using 3.75PB (assuming 45GB compressed 6:1 so 7.5GB per person). I'm not certain, but my intuition is that, even paying AWS for the CPU time for compression, that would be cheaper than paying for the uncompressed transfer charges.

But, yes, even for my lower storage numbers, for "EU (London)", even for just 3 years (a conservative enough lifespan for an HDD), S3-Standard would be almost $2.97M, S3-Standard-IA would be $1.77M, S3-OneZone-IA $1.4M, and Glacier would be merely $608k. Of course, that excludes transfer charges.
I moved out of Melbourne into a tiny country town (under a hundred people) and work primarily remotely, coming into Melbourne to spend time in the office roughly every couple of weeks (it’s a three hour journey, about 75 minutes of relaxing country driving, ten minutes total walking, and the other half a productive train ride). I love it. Paying off a mortgage in two years is feasible.

I also have the best non-commercial internet supply I’ve ever had, via Optus 4G (clear line of sight to the tower 200m away). Roughly 45/15–20Mbps, and more reliable than my experiences with ADSL2+ or HFC to boot.

A larger country town of a few thousand people is probably more most people’s cup of tea, and generally more convenient.
I'll acknowledge that the probability of death increases more slowly after you pass 65 mph [1], but it still increases. Human life is not negligible just because you want to get somewhere negligibly faster (e.g. by a few minutes at best, if you're going 70 in a 65 zone).

More generally the graph from that first source is telling: look at how sharply it increases, even after 50 mph. Other than interstates, most roads aren't 65 mph zones! And simply allowing any speed limit above 55 mph has a meaningful increase in vehicular collision mortality [2].

I can empathize that you consider the fines to be arbitrary and extortionist, and I understand that you think you're leaving adequate distance between yourself and other cars. But 96% of American drivers believe their driving ability is above average [3]; people substantially overestimate their driving skill and safety in general. Therefore though I understand why people feel the need to speed (and I used to!), I really cannot sympathize with arguments for leniency towards speeding penalties.

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1. http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/r...

2. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.79.10...

3. http://heatherlench.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/svenson.p...
Unofficially they were already excluded as early as about four years ago by shady government visits to telcos implying covert monitoring of infrastructure related tender processes.

This sort of thing no doubt came from US pressure or practice and could be argued to represent direct, covert, cross-border intelligence agency influence on 'free market' capitalism.

Source: Guy managing network upgrade planning at the time for the major wireless internet provider in the country.

Frankly, I think best practice is that no country or vendor should be trusted, networks and devices should be designed in such a way as to guarantee vulnerabilities are detectable and impact-limited, and politicians should stay out of network design. Only when carriers start acting this way will the situation improve.

Notably, Australia had no problems selling Optus to Singapore, Inc., which is a strong US ally and no doubt strongly active in regional intelligence gathering owing to its central position on regional undersea cable networks.
It would seem that paired with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820248 that Intel is reeling back like a wounded animal. I'm intrigued as to what comes next - real innovation or dirty tactics to stay on top?
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Well, broadly I'd associate "death from despair" with rising income inequality in advanced nations.

The 1960s were somewhat unique time, where you had both the US competing with the USSR and the postwar boom. Together, this helped create a situation where a significant chunk of workers could buy small but functional houses and consider themselves "middle class".

Today, we have a return to the gilded age, which might be more like a return to median.
Let me suggest you look into "twice exceptional" resources. I'm 2xE. When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm truly terrible.

The very nature of being talented but also handicapped makes it nigh impossible to predict if today you are delivering awesome sauce or laying another goose egg. Given that reality, it isn't crazy to err on the side of charging low rates so people don't smear your reputation if it falls short.

Working on solving underlying problems and putting good systems in place for double checking your work can help. I also prefer to charge by the piece rather than by the hour. Then it's my problem if I stare at the screen and drool on myself all afternoon, not my client's, and as I get better, my de facto hourly rate improves.

I absolutely do not suffer from Impostor Syndrome, but I do struggle to appropriately price my work for a variety of reasons, including the fact that I'm 2xE. It's slowly getting better.

Best.

(Will add: I recently learned that the new abbreviation is 2e. You might have more luck searching that term than 2xE.)
What a gross thing to say about Dan.
N64? I have kept my cartridges for just such an occasion. I know its a folorn hope but presumably somebody will make a card to read the roms, so I don't have to pirate roms?
It's hard to untangle the confused premises in the parent. What people want isn't dependent on their skin color. A person in the United States who has black skin has nothing at all to do with people in Australia who are aboriginals.

> Maybe ...

If I understand correctly, the parent is saying that they have no idea. Maybe people with red hair like orange marmalade, but I don't know what I'm contributing by saying that.

> they ...

An underlying problem is that word; it should be 'we'. We're not talking about Martians, but people in the same country and culture as the majority (plurality?) of readers. It says a lot about HN that the word is 'they'.
It's also crazy to my mind. The reality is these various issues are all having potentially significant impacts on performance -- and it's not just the microcode related changes, but also the kernel changes, etc. It is kind of ridiculous to require everyone to do their own testing and not allow basic numbers to be published.

I also find it fascinating in that in theory your BIOS update can include these changes.. does this anti benchmark license apply if you reflash a new BIOS or just buy a new motherboard with the new bios and then use the same type of CPU to compare?

Makes me want to look at some BIOS and motherboard EULAs now...
Considering that a paper is run through a subjective and highly critical peer-review I can see why authors would be reluctant to share their code.
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Or you buy a CPU that was previously patched, even by Intel themselves.
Note: I only have experience with android, I don't know what state the ios store is in.

My gut feeling based on how search and navigation is structured in the play store (a few broad categories, no option for sorting, seemingly arbitrary "algorithmic" surfacing of apps) is that crippling navigation in this way is probably better for their bottom line (in the short term at least) and for gathering ad revenue. It mirrors the way a lot of social media apps are displaying seemingly randomly ordered content mixed with ads (facebook, snapchat for a while but they seem to have given you back the ability to know you've seen all your friends stories for now).

From an end user perspective it's awful, but I assume whatever metrics they're using tell them it's a great idea.
I was in the same situation. It's bad working with poor code, but it's ten times worse having them pile on shitty code every day. And oh my, was it bad. There was no code reuse, if they needed the same sql query in another place, it would just be copied over. Or if there were two slightly different queries based on some parameter, there would be an if/else statement and two separate queries - often with embedded variables (hello sql injection). Routing was one big switch/case statement. Commit messages would often be non-descriptive, like “chk”. Frontend was a special hell, jQuery spaghetti code, mostly single page, with multiple levels of nested ajax callbacks. I tried to be patient and teach them, but the bad practices continued. I even managed to rewrite parts of the backend with a framework and an ORM, but the original devs kept writing code their way. At some point I just needed to protect my sanity and left.
I'll concede that's a crappy situation, yeah. That's definitely something worth talking about as a distinction from speeding in general.
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Wine's DirectX 6-9 compatibility has been good since ~5 years or so. SC2 has been running well on Wine for about that long. I do wish Wine vs Wine-staging vs Proton forks didn't exist, but as long as they're merging from each other regularly I guess that's the reality.

If you're a dev and want your game to run 20 years from now, as well as it does now, you'd have to think hard about picking DirectX or Metal vs Vulkan considering every game is or soon will be running on Vulkan through Wine/Proton.
Are there any startups that have tried to copy IKEAs business model?
I hold grave fears for the outcome. Continental European trains are my go-to for high service outcomes. UK ex-national rail, now segmented, privatized and bastardized into a mess, is where I suspect this will head.

the UK experience is that de-nationalization and reduction in capital investment in track, signals and rolling stock go hand in hand: The outcomes? massive price rises for worse service delivery.

unbundled LCC models are based on very bad economics (in my opinion) which reduce the human experience chasing profit by allowing lunatics like Tony Ryan to joke about coin-in-the-slot lavatories, and stand-up flights.

Don't do it. Please. I'll stop whining now, but seriously, just don't. I don't want to go back to straight-drop toilet holes and closed carriage models.
I'm not in your target market but, if I were, answering these questions on the home page might reduce the chance of me bouncing from the home page before registering:

1) What devices can I use this on? (maybe with links to Potatso Lite for iOS, and Shadowsocks for Android)?

2) What plugins do you support (e.g. kcptun)?

3) Where are the servers located? (might reassure people about throughput and latency)
Is Gaming Driving the Cryptocurrency Mass Adoption?
Well the license specifically says you will not permit a third party to either.

I don't really speak legalese, but does permit include having to then make all of your own users agree not to to avoid a penalty?

As mentioned in the other comment thread though, I imagine the reality of this clause is to prevent media outlets (such as Phoronix who would traditionally do exactly this kind of benchmarking) from downloading the microcode and publishing numbers directly.
Internment camps are a very real and valid reason to be afraid of China...
At one job I had, everyone was a PhD or a postdoc, and I hadn't completed my BSc. They offered me 20% more than I would have asked for, and I worked inefficiently because of problems concentrating.

I labeled myself as an impostor in this situation and eventually quit.

The article doesn't argue that impostor syndrome doesn't exist, but that the reader shouldn't use the term. That if you frame your situation differently, you can have a more positive outlook.

My real problem was that I had problems concentrating - a problem that I still have to a lesser extent - but the scenario back then made it harder for me to acknowledge this. "It's because the others are better than you." Well, duh, maybe they were. But you're good, too, if you can concentrate.
Write the tests you need first.
> If you save the world but do it quietly, nobody will know, and they'll decide you aren't productive enough.

I agree, I think OP should find a way to present his work as a "project" that makes sense to management... A good example, someone else in this comments thread suggested that OP could create an API around the legacy core. Creating an API is something that can be "sold" well to management.
People are welcome to post on "very real problems" if they do so thoughtfully and substantively.

The moderation issue is garden-variety internet flamewar and requiring people to adhere to the site guidelines. That is mundane stuff, regardless of how much rhetoric people pour out on the internet.
How has anybody been "robbed"? Per capita income has gone up for everyone, yes the top has gone up faster but at the end of the day the lower tiers still have increased in wealth. Honestly I don't understand how you come to your conclusion.
I'd rather aspire to being Chance the Rapper than Ashton Kutcher.
They better be wary of the Streisand Effect here. Banning benchmarking just makes it seem like the performance hit is going to be serious, which makes everyone even more curious.
That's a step further than necessary. What's needed is for 50Mbps to mean by default that it's a 50Mbps best-effort connection without any artificial throttling below 50Mbps. Congestion is unavoidable and even a "dedicated" line will at some point put your packets onto an oversubscribed link if it's a real Internet connection and not just a point-to-point link. But it's inexcusable to sell something as 50Mbps when it's really "50Mbps for part of the month, then you're screwed".
> Does Steam take a cut for in game purchases?

Yes. That's why they cut out remote control purchasing feature from their iOS app, to avoid hypocrisy charges and to avoid the sticky situation where a steam app tried the same (letting you make microtransaction purchases by remoting in to your phone or something).

Same as why Epic dropped their marketplace cut down from 30% something like one week before their "30% is unfair" press campaign which in turn was used to take the spotlight off criticism of Fortnite's release on Android as a timed exclusive with Samsung's new flagship.
I recently rewrote a flashing tool that was used for programming engineering samples (which there is an extremely limited supply of) and production equipment.

Literally everything (and I mean everything) in the old implementation was a global variable that would just be recycled throughout the runtime of the program. Excluding loop counters, you could count the number of localized variables on two hands. The call-and-response serial communication implementation was a pseudo-state machine scattered across a shitload of global variables, and it ran entirely in the UI thread. When variables didn't have useless names, they would often have the same name as another variable, just with the capitalization changed.

Software development is hell.
A manager if mine once asked the developers what spaghetti code was, and one of the developers gave my favorite answer: "code written by someone else"
That is not quite right - Asians actually have more Neanderthal genes than Europeans. The current best hypothesis is that there have been multiple Neanderthal/SSA hybridization events and that some occurred post the split between Europeans and East Asians (the first occurred in the near East and later events occurred in East Asia).
First at Christies public auction? Sure. can Buy that.

First sold for more than the tokenistic price? I can't prove it, but I am very unsure this is strictly true. its the first in the 21st century modern experience, but I would suspect there are works by earlier 1970s onwards AI which have traded for real cash. This is the most visible? sure. Doesn't mean works haven't traded before now. I'm sure somebody like Paul Allan who bankrolled much of the babbage build for the SF computer history museum would have early works.

People were playing with this stuff from the sixties onwards. People have been exploring machine mediated art for years.
The EU capped it at 0.3% for credit and 0.2% for debit cards.
Yelp isn't particularly useful if you're dependent upon the average score. It's solid as far as locating local businesses (and drilling down into actual reviews to make a decision, assuming you're in a city where yelp has a presence).
Or you outright ignore the stipulation and do whatever the hell you want. Quite frankly I hope to see some benchmark articles that literally start with profanity telling Intel where to stick it.
Aside from my vic20 and c64 I’ve only ever owned intel CPUs, and those two may have been intel as well, I wouldn’t know. I’ve never made a decision to chose Intel based on benchmark, I’ve bought them because they’ve always been great for me.

So it’ll be ironic when I buy an AMD processor when I upgrade for cyberpunk 2077, because of benchmarks. Not because AMD is faster, they may be but I wouldn’t know, no, it’ll be because intel are douches.

I didn’t like how they handled their vulnerabilities, or how they still released chips with the errors long after it was discovered because they had production planned, and now they are pulling stuff like this?

Heh.
During the 40s and 50s the use of a car, even in rural areas, was normally reserved for a special trip once a week to run errands and get out of the house, if you were able to afford a car at all. The average family at the time wouldn't dream of wasting money on a second car, let alone the first one, to 'frivolously' get out of the house on a daily basis for pleasure. That money was needed to pay for the house.

It is entirely understandable that expectations have changed. I certainly don't think twice about hopping in my car any day of the week, and own two of them at that. But if expectations have changed, why would we want to even try to to apply 40s and 50s housing logic to modern times?
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