skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World brain is a nice concept, and we actually started with building a History Search client side app, spent the first 1,5 years on it. The Startup actually published the story here if you’re interested: https://medium.com/swlh/moments-before-success-or-failure-d0...

I like what worldbrain is doing, but their extension is a prototype. As you’ll see on their site they’re planning to offer a cloud service; why? Not to spy on people but because of performance and size. They currently have plain-text search, something like ctrl-f. Which is completely understandable because a our full-text search engine is over 3,5 GB, it also requires maintenance. This is without the rest of the app or inxeded data. This is also why we failed with the client side approach, the filesize was huuuuge.

We aren’t opensource but we do make all data available to our users for export, and plan to take the way we organize information across a decentralized data source; the web, to new heights.

I would suggest to try out the differences and then make a descision that is best for you.

Kind regards,
Martijn
I've found that many models require 8GB or more; the T1080 cards are "just about" good enough
Isn't `dmesg` just `journalctl -k` on operating systems with systemd enabled?
From later on in the Twitter thread:

> Without the founders around, Instagram is likely to become more tightly integrated with Facebook, making it more of a product division than a company within Facebook, sources say

Given the "brand tax" of Facebook in the current climate, I really hope they avoid this for their own sake.
The timestamps output by dmesg -T are inaccurate - e.g. on virtual machines that are frequently snapshotted for backup. This is clearly stated in the manpage:

-T, --ctime
Print human-readable timestamps.

Be aware that the timestamp could be inaccurate! The time source used for the logs is not updated after system SUSPEND/RESUME.
> What does 10x better than Google even look like?

Well that's easy - just relevant results, no ads being stuffed down my throat, no sponsored links, fake pages mimicking official ones, just relevant info. Easily 10x better for me.

You know, how google used to look like in the beginning.
This hissing, bubbling Alaska lake is frightening scientists
I'll never understand this hesitation to Firefox, some people will bring out why Firefox is evil yet Chrome is clearly not the lesser evil product. I started using Chrome when it first came out, and then I stopped using it when it didn't have adblocking. Then when it did have adblocking it was extremely limited (I kept seeing popups and other nuisances), this was when I got dispelled then about Google being an ad focused company and never went back. I only use Chrome / Chromium (on Linux) to test web dev projects across major browsers, and sometimes Stack Overflow if I'm testing on Chrome might as well, but it's nothing all that special.

My main browsing has always been done on Firefox which has sync much like Chrome does, but oh look it's encrypted, forgot my password? Too bad, they're going to nuke my data since they don't even know my password. As it should be. My browsing data being synched is cool but it's not that precious to me, and if it was I would just not forget my password.

Also if I need to use Google services I have a Google container, if I need to use Firefox, I have a Firefox container. Good luck containing Google or Firefox on Chrome that way, and the multiple account containers are amazing for testing multiple user roles on web development projects all on one browser with multiple taps opened.
Actually, the problem with many of these markets is the winner takes all nature of them. Google is significantly better at obscure searches as compared to Bing or others. A large part of the reason is that Google gets a lot more rare search terms being the default, and it improves by learning on which links do users click on and what following searches do users do to fine-tune their search. A less frequently used search engine misses out on this data and consequently doesn't improve.
> Ya you can imagine any scenario you want. I can imagine a scenario where a homeless person's life is better than if he had a home. It's not hard to imagine. But if you had a choice, which would you choose?

Homelessness is a financial hardship that actually will ruin your quality of life, which stands in stark contrast to being a homeowner. Whereas making 150k/yr in NYC instead of 2m/yr in SF just means you have plenty of space on hardwood, instead of too much space on marble. The relationship between wealth and quality of life is logarithmic.

That's not the question being asked. Obviously being an early employee at Instagram is better than having an above-average engineering job in NYC, and more money is better than less money.

The question is, do all of the events that unfold throughout the rest of his life after he moves to NYC sum to a better life than the events that would have unfolded if he had taken that job and stayed in SF?

It can't be known, we can only speculate on the probabilities.

If we know for certain that Instagram will be the success that it is, that means NYC and SF present two radically different sets of human relationships and life experiences spanning decades, but in NYC he will make a lot of money and in SF he will make an excessive amount of money.

When I consider the infinite variation and possibility contained within those unforeseeable human relationships and life experiences, and think about the impact those factors have on a person's quality of life, I don't think there's even a comparison to be made between that and the difference between making lots of money and making tons of money. The relationships and life experiences will be the dominating factors in these outcomes. Since they're both unknowable, the relative probabilities of either NYC or SF resulting in a better life lie somewhere close to 50:50, even if we know he would have been successful at Instagram in SF.

I actually do think it was an important choice, just not because of Instagram. He was tired of SF and the contemporary startup scene, and Instagram's success was still very unlikely at that point. Staying would have been a bad decision.
why do you need to think big? honest question.
everything i can see is just another iteration at something.
even docker is basically just an iteration on existing container technology.
stop thinking big, start thinking iterative.
iterate on something so it offers a net benefit, thats "big enough"
how would Amazon sell access to the GPUs without the customers being able to identify the models? Also, procuring data center amounts of GPUs is bound to leave quite the paper trail.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah: The Riemann Hypothesis (September 24, 2018) [video]
Obduction is fantastic. Very Myst-like but feels modern. I thought it started little slow but once you unlock some other areas it opens up and becomes really amazing. A lot of the puzzles revolve around a central theme that's both simple to understand but spatially challenging. And everything fits together real nice in a way that I wouldn't have guessed up front.
The site requires you to whitelist marketo.com which is blocked on uMatrix as it's a marketing company.
I think this is required for my-activity to work
- https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
In the book The Day of the Jackal, this is covered well. The assassin goes to a cemetery, looks for gravestones of infants who would have been the same age as him and finagles that child’s birth certificate using info from a local vicar. With that, he’s able to get all the other documents, including a passport. And then he’s off to assassinate people.
I think you're referring to grsecurity kernel patch.

https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...
Yet I read a similar comment every day here on Hacker News. Maybe there's something cultural going on with a website run by an investment fund/startup incubator.
Correction: I appear to have misread some of sales copy to potential subscribers, there is no promise of individual support involved, just continued maintenance.

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Tidelift is promising them the stars about services while not being involved at all in their fulfilment (no: see chevron above), except for maybe threatening to kick out their "lifted" projects if they don't deliver. (or maybe even sue whoever pressed "lift your package"?)

The more benign interpretation, as in a peer comment, is "allow me to donate without figuring out the distribution myself". That sounds perfectly reasonable, but it would be much more convincing if they had less promises in their pitch to subscribers and a "pay as you like" option (here's n $, please figure out the appropriate distribution for me while taking your cut").

Also, with the well established "failure or unbounded financial success" model of VC funding, how could one ever expect tidelift to not eventually abuse their position by taking seen ever higher cut? Maybe if it was a bootstrapped business, one could reasonably hope for a promise of only taking what is needed to be held up, but anything with actual investors needs a more formal arrangement. Maybe a charity/coop/nonprofit/foundation with clearly defined and enforceable bylaws that transparently buys implementation, operation and services from an associated for-profit might do, but "trust us, we have cute toddlers and pets" just isn't enough.
> I didn't realise exactly how high compensation was in the Bay Area.

Important to note that $300k isn't really a typical number for a midlevel developer in the Bay Area even if it is a typical number for Google and similarly competitive companies. It's like looking at investment banking comp and deciding that it's a typical number for a midlevel employee in finance.

That said, it's a perfectly achievable number a few years out of college.
a captcha where you had to rotate a dog so it stood upright

Ticketmaster uses one like this, with various animals.
China is already doing this in Xinjiang for locals and apparantly also (some?) tourists:

* https://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/?euro...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/8ofiiw/chinese_bo...
Thanks. As I said, both of these actions are both easily traceable and reversible. Some inconvenience to me certainly but I am covered, and the the thief is most probably in jail.

This does affect N26's own risk-profile and they'd do well to address it as such it would affect their bottom line but as a customer I have little more to fear than I have with any other bank.

I'd expect they have a lot of latitude to play with on the risk side though vs B&M banks because they don't have any actual physical exposure.
This has been the one thing I've wanted since it was announced. It would make it a really powerful concept and maybe more plugins supporting container specifics. Like disabling / enabling features depending on the container you're under. I know some do, but if more did it would be amazing.
Every step on the staircase to hell seems logical and justified. There are ways to prevent this e.g. jail time for perpetrators, that dont involve blanket removal of citizens rights.
I think via the driver licensing
I don't understand the phenomenon of "liberal guilt" described in this article. To me, it sounds anti-humanistic, life-hating, cruel and borderline sociopathic.

I love life, I love human civilization, and all things that technical and civil progress gave to us. I will work to get a better future for myself, my daughter, and everybody else. It saddens me deeply that there are people who want the civilization to end with some epidemic, who basically want people to die. What made them this cruel?
Hasn't stopped Hetzner from offering 1080s in their servers.
If you mean "will be" rather than "is", I'd agree. Otherwise, it's just a kind of reductio ad absurdum to stretch the definition of "robot" to include any machine.

The key differentiating factors (any one will do) seem to be resemablance to humans/animals (not all that relevant here, I'd expect), being self-propelled, and being able to perform complex tasks.

It's debatable how to define "complex", but I'd say that, for example, telling time, as a sibling comment suggests, does not qualify, no matter how complex the mechanism required to do it well happens to be.

Similarly, a machine that washes items that have been carefully loaded (and maybe even pre-treated by scraping food debris) by a human, such as a current dishwasher, is also not performing a complex task. Doing so to a haphazardly-filled bus tray or sink, however, would be.
"Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, and this is 'Prime Day Cascade Failures in Sable'!"
Failmalloc: A library to test what applications do when malloc fails
Language-Based Expression of Reliability and Parallelism for Low-Power Computing
>My sister minored in psychology in college and took some graduate courses in it later. She once told me "We must not have the genes for schizophrenia or someone in the family would surely have it given how the family operates" and then talked about how schizophrenics go do inpatient therapy, get better, go home to the nutso family and get worse again.

It is said that if C-PTSD was correctly diagnosed, the DSM manual would shrink to a small booklet. At lest 85% of the mentally ill suffered some kind of abuse according to a recent study, and since the parents know they can't do anything that leaves physical marks, many smarter people get more creative - teaching them things wrong, or not at all; ordering them to do something, then punishing them for doing it; (or a semi famous case of a man who was among other things deathly afraid of water, because his father's punishment of choice was spraying him with a hose) etc. All that while maintaining the image of a sweet person outside home, so that nobody trusts the victim, because it's "impossible" that such a nice man/woman would do something like that to their child...

It's doubtful there is a biological component at all, since the Nazis killed off most of the mentally ill in some parts of Europe, but the prevalence rates remained unchanged.

I'm all for freedom, but there should be ways to remove the child from their parents when it's being raised in some nonstandard, and clearly dysfunctional way. There should also be some equivalent of witness protection that would give the people a new identity. Once it gets known the person is "mentally ill" people will harras them, try to convince them of nonsense (or that some common knowledge is actually false) for the kicks, or otherwise "gaslight" them, (well knowing that nobody will trust the person) so there is no way they could get better with such a label at home.
The cloud is there to store data that you don't mind other people seeing, that is all ;)
Not sure whether it's my attention span or just this article's style of jumping around between subjects - I couldn't get past a third into it.

This may just be my taste but even in long form articles I want the central hypothesis stated right at the beginning. Don't waste my time with your personal annecdotes, except if the annecdote is so interesting that your whole article is about it, at least then I'll know what you're talking about right from the start. Otherwise it's like a film starting with a bunch of backstory instead of an inciting incident.
Good UI but feature-wise it felt underwhelming because it's pretty much what Castbox [1] has already been providing

[1] https://castbox.fm/
I wondered how it is possible that they can restrict the use of hardware after it is bought. After reading the article I learned that they key is the license to the drivers.

So I guess in theory it would be possible for AWS to develop their own (or enhance open source) drivers. On the other hand they would spoil the business relationship with Nvidia and have to do without any discounts.
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I saw a very large bumper sticker that said "Convict stock" in the stereotypical tattoo-script style font in a particularly bogan part of Perth about 10 years ago.
Insisting on having always-on listening devices everywhere would also chill "moderate dissent". Those who appear to be disabling the devices or having surreptitious conversations away from them could benefit from some "little nudges". Perhaps some re-education camps where participants would be reminded that they have nothing to fear. Attendance at the camps would be voluntary, just marketed to those who seem to avoid surveillance - but as an extra incentive, it could improve your social credit score which would be useful when opening a bank account, applying for a job or buying public transport tickets.
Not only after installs, but also with bigger updates.

It's always a reminder that with Windows 10, the user is never in control of the system.
I’ve had three misses of similar magnitude. No regrets.
Hehe. As a non-native speaker I have a hard time remembering the difference between employer and employee.
I just tried switching to it, but one instant problem is that you can't tie signatures to aliases, you can only tie them to accounts. So for example, I have a number of different email aliases that I switch between, but while Mail _does_ choose the correct alias depending on who the incoming email has been addressed to, you can't attach a signature to that alias - you have to manually choose the signature every time
* 'Kill Dash Nine' by Monzy starts playing
It's still valid in a couple of other countries though. I'm sure I don't make more than my friends in England for example, and I know some in Brazil that make really good money (compared to those around them who are not programmers) and I'm sure there's other countries who pay their software engineers well enough. But yeah I'm aware that there are countries where being a software developer is not that profitable sadly. I always hear of outsourcing software development overseas for simple things like having a website done.
> Of course building is cheaper than AWS...

Why "of course"? Last time I checked baking my own cookies is more expensive than just buying a bag at Walmart.
If I build a service that needs a cookie to persist in the event of a user purging their cookies I don't think Google would accept that and just not delete it. The same is true for Google. If a user purges their cookies there shouldn't be any set afterwards.

However... what's probably happening here is that the cookie is being deleted but then created again immediately afterwards because something in the user's browser is connected to a Google server and that makes a new cookie if it detects the old one has gone away. The message in the tweet is informing the user that will happen. Arguably that's a reasonably useful notification - it stops the user mistakenly believing purging their cookies will log them out.

EDIT: Or, more likely, Google are actually storing the user's logged in state in localstorage or something, so clearing cookies won't log you out because there isn't a cookie.
It doesn't mention automatic sanctions either. Your argument is essentially: If we are OK with some sanctions on some behaviour what will stop someone from enforcing unreasonable and draconic sanctions!

To me this is roughly analogous to: If we let a maintainer decide what code to accept into the Kernel, they can just take malicious or suboptimal code and merge it!

I have seen attempted overreach in using statements made in different contexts against individuals, but overall it seems that these overreach situations were mostly corrected.

In fact a well written CoC should protect against this sort of stuff as well. It should make explicit this defence: This is my personal handle, not associated to my professional career, thus I am not representing my employer or an open source entity when I argue here.

The arguments I've encountered here in this thread are not for better CoCs, or for how we should behave towards each other, but just blanket rejections of CoCs.
Ha! That's a great analogy
gVisor is primarly focused on isolation, plash actually only wants to containerize processes and leaves optional isolation to other tools if required (potentially gVisor).

To quote gVisor:

Containers are not a sandbox. While containers have revolutionized how we develop, package, and deploy applications, running untrusted or potentially malicious code without additional isolation is not a good idea.

I think the approach gVisor uses is basically the same that is used to run python on Googles web hosting platform. As I understand it, with gVisor a process does not directly talk to the kernel but actually to another process.

> This is going to be a great world when we have arbitrary nesting of containers, finally we will have closure :)

Yep. With plash you can do that (In plash unprivileged containers inside unprivileged containers also works, but may need some looking into it).

> I think "docker compose" is a big lie.

I also have strong feelings about docker compose. It's really reinventing everything but now for containers.
With plash you can just use supervisord, the init of your operating system and other established means of managing background processes.
Does it look like I'm shying away from conflict here?
>“It would have been nice if they did this in 1985,” Elliott said. “If the government does what I think it’s going to do, this is going to give airlines a license to reduce space even more. I don’t see the consumer benefit.”

The obvious consumer benefit is cheaper flights. Smaller seats mean lower costs, and competition should force airlines to pass the savings on to consumers. If they're colluding to keep the savings to themselves, that's a failure of anti-trust law, not a failure of seat size law. I don't see why the government should force people to pay extra for luxury.
Welcome to Our Digital Nation, Your Holiness Pope Francis
Very cool. I'm trying to start with:

perf stat -e 'syscalls'

but haven't figured out how to specify all events... if that's even the right route. The examples that are close dont work for me: https://bpaste.net/raw/455ebe2dd400
Easy to say if you're a white man that you don't care about skin color and gender
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You must be making a lot if you consider 5220 a year rounding error...
> if you can afford therapy I say do that

I just want to spell this out explicitly because I think it's a very important point, you do not need to have a mental illness to get help from a therapist. Feelings of guilt or shame are perfectly valid reasons to see a therapist, even if they're not caused by a mental illness.
I'm not a night owl in the sense you are, but still find the idea of fixed 9-5-style hours pretty frustrating (in particular, because they make it hard to get much outdoors time in the winter months).

You don't say what field you work in but I'm guessing something technical. Have you looked into freelancing at all? Depending on your location, remote work for someone a few timezones to your west might also be something to look into.