skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus and GregKH are Linux devs, and they committed the new CoC, maybe they know what they want after all. Or do you think they are simply ignoring the vast majority of their fellow devs?
They're one of the world's largest banks with presence globally. Not only do they have presence in US financial centres they have US subsidiaries.

Plenty of places to send the bailiffs to, or whatever the US equivalent is.
Ah, Logo! I'd almost forgotten about that gem.
Cool project! I really hope I manage to dig up some of my old school projects to try in this. Those were fun times...
Yup! I've met so many people who moved back to Norway/Sweden from the US just before their first kid was born.
Sure. Is it still in /system/priv-apps? If yes, you're wrong, it still has god mode.
Love the SummoningSalt vids and second the recommendation. I just wish there was more as they are so interesting!
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I don't see why the number of cubic meters matters?

If you give me a machine that outputs 50kilowatts, I'll happily give up a cubic meter of my house for it...
Finally, full stack engineers live up to their title.
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I spent about three years contracting, and the way I started was to ask the company I was a permanent employee at (who routinely hired contractors) if they would like to hire me as a contractor instead of as a perm. They said "OK" and so I quit as a perm and restarted as a contractor (I actually also managed to negotiate a four day week and one of the four days at home, back when remote working was much less of a thing, for effectively about twice the money - man, I really knocked that negotiation out of the park, in retrospect); I spent about three months there before moving onto another contracting gig, which I think I got through a recruiter. I know a few other people who have done exactly the same thing as their initial contract.

Derek has mentioned basically all of the positives of contracting - the downsides are that shorter contracts (three months, or anything less) tend to be either quite dull (very routine work that nobody else has the time for) or unpleasantly intensive (desperately trying to ship a disaster); in some organisations you will be treated as "just another bloody contractor" by the perms, who will know you make more money than they do and hate you for it; you may get less responsibility than you would have as a perm, or generally "less say"; and if you end up contracting for the sort of company that you'd hate working for as a perm, it will be just as bad as a contractor, except you'll probably care even less for them because you will know that you can quit very easily, which is, itself, a bit demotivating.

I transitioned from contracting to running my own consultancy, which is much harder work, much more stressful, and with a lot more risk, but quite a bit more rewarding (for me personally - definitely not something I'd recommend to everyone).
I don't think this characterizes an instruction set as CISC at all. In any case, having those "special cases" means that if an operation can be subsumed by another operation, the former is just an alias of the latter on the instruction encoding level, thereby reducing the actual number of instructions. Think of it as syntactic sugar.

I still find this classic to be the best explanation of the technical characteristics of CISC/RISC: https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html

Here's a short summary:

Most RISCs:

- Have 1 size of instruction in an instruction stream

- And that size is 4 bytes

- Have a handful (1-4) addressing modes

- Have NO indirect addressing in any form (i.e., where you need one memory access to get the address of another operand in memory)

- Have NO operations that combine load/store with arithmetic, i.e., like add from memory, or add to memory.

- Have no more than 1 memory-addressed operand per instruction

- Do NOT support arbitrary alignment of data for loads/stores

- Use an MMU for a data address no more than once per instruction

- Have >= 5 bits per integer register specifier

- Have >= 4 bits per FP register specifier
It’s not just the past 18 months. Let’s not forget the “force Google+ down everyone’s throats and make every Google product worse by needlessly rerouting important functionality through G+”
>Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset?

It's such a simple concept, and yet I see people on Hacker News constantly making this mistake. It's as if people are too addicted to outrage culture to even consider the arguments anymore.
Here is the link for the ones interested: Darknet Diaries — https://darknetdiaries.com

I discovered it here on HN. I recommend it.
It looks like a regular mailing list policy. And Linux development is mainly that.

Do you know of a better policy for mailing lists?
I always thought this was quite elegant; in the original ARM ISA most ALU operations and register moves (and even some load/store indexing) could pass through the barrel shifter at no extra cost, so a 'ROR' was just a move from a register to itself with a pass through the shifter. This made up (somewhat) for the low code density implied by fixed-length instructions and uniform load/store architecture. AArch64 removes this capability from most of the arithmetic operations I believe.

The design of the orginal ARM ISA is very interesting historically, mainly informed by many man years of hand-optimising 6502. As such it was quite idiosyncratic, nice to write by hand, and rather awkward for compilers...
There is, or at least was, a notable feature that synced data can be encrypted with a separate password, client-side. I can't vouch for its strength, but it's there.
https://thewestwingweekly.com/

https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google

The only two without fail.
Certainly sanctioned or fined European banks would have the ability to challenge the measures in a US court.

On the other hand, sanctions on a state are usually met with an equivalent response, and the only question is how powerful the other side is. In the case of the EU, the answer is, not powerless.

Look, the US has a lot of cards to play. But randomly bullying banks who didnt do anything wrong, as per your suggestion, is not a particularly effective one, so they won't do that.
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As far as I can see, the EU has a neutral relationship with China but a hostile relationship with the US.
I simply do not believe it was not possible to make a panel including women with relevant things to say.

You should research “manel” .... you’ll find “no women applied to speak” is almost always the excuse and it’s really inadequate and just a way to try to literally excuse the outcome. You have a much greater obligation than to just wait for applicants and then shrug and say “wel no women applied”.

It’s very silly to say you value diversity with a panel of all men, whilst pointing to the people who organized the conference to say that’s your diversity. “All the brainy men are doing the talking and being smart while all the assistants and helpers and organizers and running around helping them”. Ugh. I’d advise you to put that line of argument in the nearest garbage bin... it is not going to lead to people thinks “oh yes they employ women, that is an excellent and inclusive diversity strategy and shows deep commitment to diversity”. That’s like saying “hey I have a mother, that’s my diversity strategy”.

If you want to save your conference from possible cancellation then it’s in your interest to replace 2 of those men with at least 2 women before the internet gets wind of this.

And when asked, don’t make the lame excuse you gave me.... you should say “yes that’s a terrible mistake we handled it badly and were fixing it fast.” It sounds stupid to say “we couldn’t get any women”.

And it sounds doubly stupid and deeply patronizing to say “we deeply value diversity, look at all our helper women”.

Frankly sir you seem to lack wisdom.

And you’re in for a big shock if you think you’ll get to the end of this conference with only me raising the issue.

If I were you I’d take all information regarding the panel offline and say you’re revising it, until you fix it properly. That might save you.
While we're considering hilarious and entirely unrealistic moves by those in power: Ask Germany (who's also part of the project) to round up Ramstein Air Base?
I just wanna second this and say that I too love the Summoning Salt speedrun videos. They're like mini-documentaries.

If you actually play through any of these games you really start to appreciate just how insane some of these times are.
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Awesome. I just checked, and it appears one FF process is, and one is not: https://bpaste.net/show/d8b3d6ada513

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Seccomp

I would like much more general control, like disable write, or prevent forks, or net access, right from the executing shell. I have selinux experience, and it's too low level.
I'd argue that bang searches are enough of a feature that it's worth switching anyway, even if you end up falling back on Google.
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Isn't Chrome sync data encrypted end-to-end?

Matthew Green's blogpost made it sound like Google had access to everybody's authentication cookies and cleartext passwords. Comments on both HN and cryptographyengineering.com show that this is what users actually believe now.
- Open Apple (about retrocomputing with the apple ][)

- ATP (accidental tech podcast)

- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Biased News Media or Biased Readers? An Experiment on Trust
Surely a French bank could just say "no thanks".

Sure, and lose their banking license in the US and quite probably have their US assets seized.
I disagree. When they say "you can only use this feature by opting in our programs that allow you to track us". A lot of people would think that most Google tracking doesn't happen when you don't opt in.

This example shows that that most likely isn't true, since when you disable that setting, they keep all data anyway.

I think it's more of a UX dark pattern where they act like "we only track you if you specifically allow us", but if you don't allow them they will track you anyway, they just do it all behind the scenes.
A fault confessed is half redressed. After all, what you call "really unkind" isn't my opinion, it's yours.
In Hong Kong (not Taiwan) most apartment buildings (certainly tall ones) handle waste disposal. There's a trash can in the back stairway on each floor, into which each floor's residents dispose of waste. Granted, there's no mandatory recycling here (one day, we can only hope!) but I imagine it would work the same way, just with more bins.

Sometime during the day people hired by building management bring the trash down and dispose of it in containers or recycling centers.
For anyone else wondering:

TAS = Tool-assisted game movies
http://tasvideos.org/Game/nes-super-mario-bros.html
You're twisting the narrative here. US are the one who decided to quit the deal they signed in 2015. The one defying everyone else is the US, not the EU.

So either the EU decides to submit to the US or decides to grow a spine. It appears it's the latter. Too bad for the US.
Look at Centos - it’s quite possible to follow Google’s releases stripping out the ‘evil’
Google did suddenly start supporting U2F in Firefox a few months ago!
Only in the Google sense i.e. "for building big systems… like servers". Not as in "close to your operating system" or "you should write an operating system in it".
and then ignore all that and shove Drake down your throat anyway
Given the unpopularity and utter ineptitude of the UK's brexit "negotiations" I'm tempted to say might be in the process of leaving.

They're making such a mess, I would not be the least surprised to see the DUP withdraw support and a surprise election result. The Labour conference seems to be moving them towards a second referendum.

18 months ago I thought claims "it might not happen" foolish, now I'm starting to think it might not happen. :)
Sorry for your loss. I have a 5 year old cat and a brand new pup and am not looking forward to this particular passage of time.
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

- Waking Up with Sam Harris
I know at least one of my interviewers checked out my personal blog as they asked about it during my interview. I used my blog as a dev/learning diary of sorts and it has code snippets, thoughts on approaches I'm taking to certain personal projects, lists of games I'd made and worked on, etc. I've also made interesting connections and had people reach out with various opportunities via my personal site/blog.
what does that even mean? "Act together" would just take the form of sanctions, no?
"...While we think sign-in consistency will help many of our users..."

There's the nub of the thing, and it's not just Google. Like the old song goes, everybody wants to rule the world. That is, if you have a popular service, you buy up other stuff, add on stuff you can do. Pretty soon your users have multiple accounts all over the place. You gotta go to some kind of single sign-on, right?

It's not that it's a bad idea, it's that it's the kind of idea that shouldn't apply to the universe. It's fine when it's your corporate site. Who wants to log into three dozen corporate systems? But when you get FB tracking you everywhere, Google integrating what you thought was a browsing app with it's universe of offerings....it doesn't work.

Yes, users probably wanted it, just like some of them want you to turn the damned thing off. But the key problem here is that single companies shouldn't be in the business of controlling all the information flow. Any architectural decision they make has social/political implications. For this chrome thing, they're trying to position google as the internet, not a place you go on the internet. Everybody wants to do that. And they all claim it's to help the users. But I don't want a company being the same thing as the internet, no matter what Aunt Sarah wants. It's not good for the rest of us. Add to that the way this was done, and then the engineering team being clueless?

It's not that they set out to do anything wrong. At some point, anything you do is wrong. You just have too much freaking power.

Google is at that point.
Well neither is solidity. If they had maybe talked to someone who understands contracts prior to creating the language, they would not be in this mess.
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If it's done with airstrikes, then this is tragically routine.
I don't know if it was intended to be tongue in the cheek from you, but this is stereotypical dropbox-like HN comment.

"- We found a way to enable simple telepathy.

"- Not impressed. I can already communicate by speaking."

If it was indeed intended, thanks a lot, it made my day :)
So how is it different then?
So it will be opt-out?
I'm sticking with vivaldi for now. I only used chrome because of the dev tools, and vivaldi being a chromium based browser has that as well, along with what seems like much less memory usage and snappier response.
40years? try 10years when everyone will be using ride-sharing companies that have all sort of cameras and the passenger doesn't have any expectation of privacy to begin with.
That's not quite neutral

> BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is taking steps to counter a surge in Chinese bids for stakes in German technology companies, including the creation of a billion-euro fund that could rescue such firms in financial trouble, a government source told Reuters.
Slightly irrelevant but twitch.tv loses some state too if you scroll down too much in their directory page then navigate to a stream. Since their sorting algorithm compare viewer counts maybe it's undoable to fully realize proper back button UX.
I don't think this a true at all. The EU, certainly as an institution, has still has a very strong, open and positive relationship with the US. Sure Trump is adding a lot of uncertainty and putting a strain on that, but most people a) interact with more stable parts of the government bureaucracy rather than directly with the White House and b) consider Trump an anomalous outlier and within 5-10 years we'll be back to business as usual.
super impressive stuff. I'm generally unfamiliar with speedrunning, but I am familiar with the billy mitchell controversies, so I'm surprised that people accept the legitimacy of streamed runs. wouldn't it be trivial-enough to fake?

tangental: my personal favorite mario-related feat is sethbling injecting flappy bird into super mario world manually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
How did you started with contracting?
It's useless.

For example, I can say to you now that apple, google and samsung devices are very high on spyware. Would you even start considering replacing your phone?
That's what I've heard. They're letting it slide to not make a big deal of it in media.
Maybe in places without pedestrians.
Tool Assisted Speedrun. It means you perform input to the game programmatically meaning you can set the input perfectly on a per-frame basis.
For Uncle Joe? I doubt it.
I think it remains unsolvable: you cannot plug the analog hole.
Hardware device can be as secure as you like, but you can record your fake output to sign it and it suddenly becomes very genuine, I don't think it bumps the cost sufficiently.
> The add playlist button now defaults to your last playlist, which for me 75% of the time is not the playlist I want.

You can hold the button down ("long press") to get the playlist list instead of waiting for the popup to appear and pressing the button. It is of course still worse than it was before.

Problem is that it defaults to the last playlist I added to, making it unpredictable and inconsistent. It might make more sense if it always defaulted to "Watch Later" but still prompted to change it.

I only have around 5 playlists anyway (basically variants of "Watch Later" but sorted into vague categories).
If your mobile os sandboxing fails, you are toast in any scenario. I think every authenticator app is toast as long as mobile sandbox is comprised.
Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes

Podcast by RedHat on tech history, systems, open source, cloud...

Very well produced (like, really well produced) but few episodes.

Season 2 is airing right now on what looks like a biweekly schedule.
Using Realm instead of REST for improved user experience and scalability
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Sincere question about activity controls: What stops Google from collecting my web and app activity anyway even if I explicitly turn it off on my dashboard?
"...one of the Soviet satellites sent a signal to the bunker that a nuclear missile attack was underway. The warning system's computer...concluded that a missile had been launched from...the United States.

The responsibility fell to Petrov, then a 44-year-old lieutenant colonel, to make a decision: Was it for real?
Petrov was...overseeing a staff that monitored incoming signals from the satellites. He reported to superiors at warning-system headquarters; they, in turn, reported to the general staff, which would consult with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov... Petrov's role was to evaluate the incoming data. At first, the satellite reported that one missile had been launched then another, and another. Soon...five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched, it reported.

Despite the electronic evidence, Petrov decided and advised the others that the satellite alert was a false alarm, a call that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. But he was relentlessly interrogated afterward, was never rewarded for his decision and today is a long-forgotten pensioner living in a town outside Moscow."
If you are talking about Buzz Aldrin et. all, no, no Astronaut on record ever confirmed seeing extra terrestrial vehicles "monitoring" them. [1][2][3][4][5]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050308/http://astrobiolo...

[2] https://sservi.nasa.gov/?question=apollo-11-ufo-sighting

[3] https://www.skeptical-science.com/skeptic-news/did-buzz-aldr...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/10...

[5] https://www.csicop.org/si/show/ufos_and_aliens_in_space
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It's a very coherent piece IMHO, just assumes some context knowledge from its readership. About what this does, may I suggest you please look up "exorbitant privilege"?
About a new multipolar world I differ: the world is very much unipolar now, the petrodollar got defended tooth and nail.
There is no such thing as a separate military realm, it's all about power, soft or hard as required to extract tribute.
You say this, but I've had some great experiences with Microsoft support over the years, both on the hardware and software side. I hear good things about Apple's support too.
I think it's unfair to describe Vimium as less functional. They do less but they do it well with a modern looking UI.
The course is taught by Gregor Kiczales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Kiczales) prvsly at Xerox Parc and co-author of the CLOS specification.
Contracting in Ireland and in the UK is an easy transition as most contracts are run through agencies, so you don’t have to network or go looking for clients like you might have to do in the US. A simple start point was to approach agencies who had active contract roles in the same way you would for permanent roles.

Starting a new contract is just like starting a new permanent job — hand in your one month’s notice and move on. Though, I tend to just quit, take a couple of months off, and then find the next contract, but most contractors move directly into other contracts with no down time.
When will their commercial products release?
> effective

It depends. If that would make some voters happy enough to vote Republicans in November, wouldn't it be effective?
> they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs

I'm appalled every time I'm asked to train Google's object detection networks in the guise of solving a captcha.
Emotionally detaching. I was a workaholic from age 16 until 33 and this was my primary identity. I used to always be proud of the work I did, no matter how lame the company or how many times I was screwed over. Then one day my father died, and I was fired from a company who I truly believed in and for whom I had sacrificed.

This sounds cynical, but it's really peaceful. With the emotional energy and sheer time saved I am able to cultivate strong relationships, passionate devote myself to music, be a better father/husband/son, discover new interests that have nothing to do with the internet.

I frequently espouse the virtues of a "Fuck you, pay me" work attitude, and I recommend everybody examine their relationship with their careers and ask themselves if on their deathbed they will wish they had worked more.
I believe Shazam is very much an acquisition for its patent and algorithm sauce. The technology behind it is relatively simple based on audio fingerprinting

http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

It was either Google Music, Spotify or Apple Music that would have acquired it.

I’m a 100% sure this will end up as a deep integration with Siri and the existing Apple Music app.

Apple has always done well with its acquisitions. Buy small companies that do one small thing and do it extremely well, and fuse that with the Apple ecosystem, quality and rigor.

Congrats to the Shazam team for going with Apple. Google would have most definitely messed it up like they did with Songza. I will never forgive them for that.