skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?
I use Microsoft OneNote and it has been working great for dumping all kinds of stuff (screenshots, logs, ideas, thoughts, love letters, resignation letters, resumes, code snippets and etc). That said I use an iPhone, use Linux for work, and Windows at home. So accessing the OneNote when I am not home has been difficult. What is your favorite dumpster(?) app? Do you recommend it? I am open for both free and paid solutions.
It might not be that simple. If the story was done properly, Bloomberg received information from a source that they were able to verify using other sources. Maybe they saw parts of the report they talk about, but likely they just talked to sources. Bloomberg likely cannot reveal anymore information without revealing sources. Their options are to stand by their story, or retract it.

I'm waiting for another news outlet to bring more information. Additional sources will come forward and more reporting on this story will only get us closer to the truth.
What humility you show in suggesting this article be blocked for others. Egotistical projection perhaps?
Indy Neidell, host of the excellent YouTube WW1 channel "The Great War", has begun a new history channel called "TimeGhost". It has inter-war history, they're going to do WWII, and more. Started just last month.
And selective, exemplary enforcement is not a phenomenon unknown outside of China.
Nitpick:

I think you mean cast iron. Steel is kind of tricky to cast and we've only been casting it for ~100yr and even then not for large things in high volume. The largest high volume production (i.e. consumer item sold by the thousands) cast steel thing I know of is steering knuckles on the newest Ford trucks. In contrast we've been casting things of all sizes and shapes our of iron since the 1800s. Considering the mechanical requirements of a wood stove it doesn't make sense to cast it out of steel.
In my spare time / hobby projects, I'm ready to don my FOSS advocate hat, but as a businessman and employee, I'm practically ignoring all issues with the lack of F in OSS. Many thanks to those who can afford to live by their ideals even when it comes to earning a living, though, and much respect for being willing to deal with this kind of stuff all the time.
Buying isn't always the best option but don't forget about potential appreciation and tax write-offs in your financial decisions.
contemporaneous corroboration. Again, nobody has addressed all the holes as addressed by Rachel Mitchell.
Coding is fun, signing a document is not. It would take many hours of coding to offset the time it takes to sign a CLA.
Oh ok I get it, this is propaganda not an actual discussion. Have a good day
Lying to the shareholders is criminal (maybe civil offense, IANAL) if you're a public company.
There is plenty of precedent for the US government issuing national security letters (“NSLs”) containing gag orders for ongoing investigations, often with massive monetary penalties imposed for violations.
I guess I stand corrected.

I never heard of the “Open Watcom” license before. But if it really does not allow modified copies to run locally then it is violating criteria 1, and 3 of the Open Source Definition. I am surprised the OSI approved it.
Software goes stale all the time for many reasons. If you're not prepared to fix it or replace it yourself, you really shouldn't be using it.

In my experience, a lot of the projects with large numbers of CVEs also have a rather sprawling project with lots of things that can (and should) be disabled if they don't apply to your environment; most of the CVEs will happen in parts you don't use. (That's clearly not the case for all projects, openssl is a joy to have as a critical dependency, but there are some options now)
From the Internet Archive FAQ: [0]

> The Internet Archive (Archive.org) is a nonprofit library that preserves digital cultural artifacts, and provides online access to over a million users a day with the goal of universal access to all knowledge.

Since it's a library, it has special copyright exceptions that make their emulation efforts legal, as Section 108 was updated to allow libraries to circulate digital copies of material online and off-premises. [1]

So it would have been a huge legal headache if they hadn't been given the explicit exception to do this.

Edit: oh, caveat that IANAL, but this was what was explained to me on another forum thread a couple of years ago when they first started their emulation efforts.

[0]: https://archive.org/about/faqs.php

[1]: https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/8932/96...
That sometimes, there's nothing to learn, only the obligation to make either bad choice 1 or bad choice 2. Both will bring regrets and negative consequences of their own for a long time, if you're lucky, longer if you're not.
>(As an aside, a sufficiently large hydro storage is its own regulatory problem.) ...

Yeah, but as I said in the comment, those regulatory issues are far less onerous than the regulatory issues with building a nuclear power plant. So the investment is less, the maintenance costs less, the kwh is less, and the time to market is less. Which technology do you think the big finance guys are gonna put their money into?

If you want money to go into nuclear plants, government has to agree to shoulder a lot of the risk. But there's drawbacks there too so...

yeah, just a hard problem.
Thanks. No Lenovo laptops on their list yet.
The page by the link says it's about the immutable mode and INSERT and UPDATE errors raise errors. As about me it's a very usual use case: I pre-populate a database with a huge data set (some GiBs) in a single batch and work with the data (data science stuff) in read-only mode then, some time after, add another batch of data (usually much smaller than the initial one) to it but database writing and reading never happens simultaneously in this scenario. In fact Datasette seems a thing I've always wanted as it is probably going to let me access my SQLite databases over a network this way.
Our instant answers are open source. You can see the Perl used for the passphrase Goodie here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/mas...

We’re not storing these generated phrases anywhere.
>If not, lets assume that he didn't. Your statement is now wrong since he is worrying about that.

"generally that's not something you need to worry about" is not a statement claiming that it's never something anyone, ever needs to worry about. It is still true that in general if you don't rape someone, you don't need to worry about being accused of having raped someone, because false rape accusations are statistically unlikely.
> and the fact that you can no longer trust the reviews you get a company that has completely lost the trust of it's users.

Aren't many (maybe most) of these fake reviews done through Amazon Mechanical Turk? It's like instead of taking the cost to moderate the reviews, they decided to monetize them. Why pay money, when you can earn it?
Well, I could make a CLA which asks you to remember to drink your Ovaltine, which would be pretty harmless. But the average CLA is far from harmless, so it deserves special mention to call out these CLAs as harmful.

Some CLAs are worse than others, though, and as people send me examples of supposedly benine CLAs I've been writing up addendums to add to the bottom of the article. There is indeed some nuance here, which I hope to address in that manner.
Given the “old world” nature of it, I have to think that it’s one of those things that was really amazing at the time, but just can’t compare to modern sweets, so you can’t really get a good perspective on it. Like if you had watched a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy before ever seeing Star Wars, you’d wonder what the big deal was about Star Wars.
I'm 4 episodes in and I still don't know what the show is about. It seems like its trying hard to channel some kind of weird, blade runner light vibes, but its doing a pretty bad job. Honestly if it didn't have some name brands in it (Jonah Hill and Emma Stone), I don't think it would getting the attention that it is.
How To: Draw the Voronoi Diagram
Give it one.
Also, that junk is not as likely to trickle down to the news and the broader population.
Mixed precision training can give you tensor core speedups.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03740
Toolkit which implements it on top of Tensorflow: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq
I've used GitHub, Azure Repos (nee VSTS nee VSOnline), and Bitbucket (Cloud and Server), and I've seen some version of support for it in all of them.
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is another good one. Doesn't take much reading/investigation to figure out how bad of a deal most investment "management" services are, at least for the average person. It's not too unlike a casino: in the long run the house always wins. You're not the house.
> The very short agreement basically just made it explicit that they are not responsible of a contributor submitting code they don't own copyright to

This is often times called a "DCO" — Developer Certificate of Origin. I think that is a better name for these, as the term "CLA" is very much associated with the controversial copyright reassignment/relicensing clauses.
Bojack is pretty good although they probably should have stopped after the second season.
Was discussed in previous thread. They make very narrow statements:
"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server." This holds true if it was found by a 3rd party.

"Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident." This holds true if private 3rd party was handling the incident.

"We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement." This is meaningless it might not be FBI them not being aware doesn't mean there is no investigation and so on.
But are amazon brands not often fakes?
If i'm reading you right, the implication is that if you sign a CLA for an MIT license codebase, they could retroactively close-source your code contributions?

My understanding of MIT and other permissive licenses like it is that if I license that code under the MIT license, I can never "undo" that (for the code as it existed in that moment), even if I own all the copyright to a work myself. So a CLA cannot override the MIT license in that way either.

The "without limitation" part of the MIT license guards against this doesn't it?
As far as I understand, not as such, but you can transfer all rights to another. That's how copyright from employee to employer works in Germany AFAIK. So practically it ends up being the same in nearly all cases.
People will ignore your work if something else has their attention.
The reason they don't have them in laptops is not because of performance, it's because they don't have an OS. A laptop that only runs iOS is called an iPad and it doesn't have the software I want to run.
What about true HA hardware, for example like Tandem, or the systems on the Space Shuttle, etc.? A discussion of those systems from the 70s, 80s and 90s seems appropriate (but I am not knowledgeable enough to start it).
I don't think this is feasible. They are 100% going to get caught with this tactic. If they were guilty in the way you guess, I think the likely response would be to muddy the waters with FUD and create lots of confusion.
Yes, it comes up a surprising amount.
How a Rundown Square Near Boston Birthed a Biotech Boom and Real Estate Empire
Exactly. I can replace the battery, hard drive, or RAM of an older MBP in 15 minutes, but replacing the keyboard is at least a 3-hour operation.
That would cause quite a lot of changes. A lot of stuff in super markets, at least here in Europe, is private label, too. The manufacturers use it to test different prices, taste, etc. and I guess also to deter competition from entering the market.
How can you ignore the store that represents almost half of online sales?
Absolutely love this article! This one especially popped out at me

> IV Brag Gags: Avoiding Bragging At All Costs

I've met too many people that say they "go to school near Boston" or "work in Mountain View". I don't think it's the intention, but more than the "status anxiety" part sometimes it feels like the other party seems like the listener isn't "worthy" of knowing, or at least should know from the implication if they were.
I love the show and I'm happy I found it. That being said, I think you're right, I watched it initially only because Jonah Hill was in it. Come to think of it, I binge watched it for 2 nights and still haven't finished it, and if you asked me what the story line was, I can only vaguely describe it.
However, the US enforces the Patriot Act that obligates US companies to turn over user data and are further legally obligated to keep the fact secret? Is it that far fetched to think they couldn't be obligated to avoid admitting (explicitly, or implicitly) something that would jeopardise ongoing espionage-related activities?
If the hacker news crowd was the target market, then sure.

But honestly, we're probably just a blip.
It's not just about missing invoices. Freelancing didn't really satisfy me to be a one man business army. Having dozens of active clients sounds like a horror movie to me. I also worried much more as a freelancer than as an employee.

It's great that you could do it.
Might be wiser to use public transit.
> One of the available garbage collector implementations in D (version 1) (and there's a work in progress to port it to D2) is a concurrent garbage collector which performs a mark phase in forked process going over the address space.

I'm pretty skeptical of that approach. If there's heavy churn, the copy-on-write behavior means that the mark phase _increases_ memory use, when presumably you're doing GC because you need to _decrease_ memory use. And I assume there's some cost to these VM manipulations in general. Is this implementation competitive with other D garbage collectors in terms of memory usage, CPU time, latency, etc? are D's garbage collectors in general competitive with those of Go and Java?
One trick I have learned when I started writing articles on a computer, and I am still using it, is that always change to an unfamiliar font face when proofreading.

I will try to use this font for proofreading and see how it compares to my current favorite, Luminari.
They can agree with the license and disagree with the CLA.

In fact, by requiring a CLA, as a user of the product, you know that they organization behind the code is discouraging contributors. This is not a good thing.
It's not in their interest to issue a strong denial if they know the story is going to be confirmed later. It just makes them look worse than if they'd issued some generic language about how much they care about security. So either they genuinely believe the story is false, or they believe it's impossible to prove, and given the scope of the story I'm not sure there's a difference.
That sounds like a job for the police, not an Amazon employee.
On a somewhat related note, I recently bought a chocolate from a local discount store (in the EU).

Apparently the list of ingredients is a machine-translation of the original (unknown) language.

It listed "palm-oil" as an ingredient. Sounds reasonable, but my language has different words for Palm, the tree and Palm, the palm of your hand.

Apparently my chocolate was made from oil extracted from human hands. Pretty disgusting.

If I had the required time or energy I'd try to file some sort of complain, but unfortunately I don't. Mostly because that's outright dangerous (imagine a potentially lethal allergen lost in machine translation).
I disagree. Bloomberg knew what kind of financial effect the story would have on at least Supermicro, and if they can't back up the story with actual, provable facts, then they are culpab!e. They know this.

So let's have some facts. Like an x-ray.
yeah, it's not limited to social sciences, but it gets more media attention when it is because it feeds the narrative that the humanities are useless: https://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-12...
Apple with the largest pockets and very positive ratings would be the one that could make a stance against such draconian laws.
This is exactly what i was thinking as well. And I am aware i could be wrong too but it is also a possibility we should not discount
Plain text for notes/bookmarks/todo items/wishlists with my own markdown-like syntax for formatting. I use a small app (Editorial) on my iphone and Dropbox to sync.
I think they do self-correct, the cost being devastation of people and resources.

Over price housing and you get more homeless. A self-correction in a free market would be violent possession by the homeless; or the wages of murder squads increasing; or increase in thefts/frauds in order to afford rent.

Release harmful effluent from your factory and you might kill your customers. So, eventually you'll have noone to sell to.

Paying low wages, eventually all the people will either rebel or die and you'll have to increase wages or find a different way to steal value from others.

See, self-correcting.
AMDs usually and historically supports ECC memory. In fact, in some ways it supports it more than Intel: Intel disables ECC support (for no other real reason than marketing efforts and because they can charge more money that way) on non-Xeon processors, while AMD keeps it enabled on most models, even desktop-oriented ones.
Hey Bloomberg, why don’t you show the world one server motherboard with the Big Hack Chinese Chip on it?
Could it also be that a lot more of the applications are written and compiled to the native machine versus the overhead of a VM (even if that is JIT). I'd guess Minecraft pocket edition would perform similar on both systems.
Papier https://getpapier.com/
Yes, it's not really backing them any more than the equally non-committal statement from the Norwegian National Security Authority is. The Reuters headline is not borne out by its article.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146242
There's not many geologically good locations for pumped storage, they tend to be a bit environmentally sensitive, and they're not that quick to build - the one nearest me, Cruachan, took 6 years to build in the 1950s at the reduced safety standards of the time.
And what about Amazon and Apple's denial will be found technically incorrect in a few years.

EDIT: to the downvoters, its easy to play this game, Apple makes a large amount of very specific denials.

Each time, we have conducted rigorous internal
investigations based on their inquiries and each
time we have found absolutely no evidence to support
any of them.

Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware
manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted
in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI
or any other agency about such an incident. We are not
aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our
contacts in law enforcement.

What about investigations and law enforcement contacts via a third party (perhaps a specialized hardware security firm? )

Our best guess is that they are confusing their story
with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we
discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro
server in one of our labs.

You mean the story they explicitly denied with similar strength (and wiggle room to boot when the truth came out)

Apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and
security of our customers and the data we store. We are
constantly monitoring for any attacks on our systems,
working closely with vendors and regularly checking
equipment for malware. We’re not aware of any data being
transmitted to an unauthorized party nor was any
infected firmware found on the servers purchased from
this vendor.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...
Not all CLAs are designed to let the project relicense itself. In particular, some CLAs are there to make the contributors promise that they are not submitting patent-encumbered code which they intend to later assert some rights on. Those CLAs seem like they are fixing up a fundamental unclearness in how patents are licensed in open source software.
> I don't think anybody in the tech industry has the balls to come out as a Republican. The backlash would be awful.

Indeed it's quite rare. Look at how the few Republican supporting tech leaders get crucified (ex: Thiel). Most people don't want do deal with that and even fewer have the financial resources to risk being blackballed.

> Thank God votes are secret, still.

Damn straight. Though it does make it awkward trying to explain the concept of a silent majority in the midst of raving leftists.
The question should be for how long? Can it outperform a Skylake for 10 seconds? 30 seconds? 1 minute? 15 minutes?

A burst for a few seconds is ok on a phone, but not on a server or workstation.
A lot of farms already use wind turbines to keep freezes away as long as they can. They’re all over California, mostly in orange fields. Some places used to even burn oil at night.

https://extension.psu.edu/orchard-frost-protection-with-wind...
> Also I've seen a project which persists large amounts of data to disk by forking and using a consistent snapshot of the data structures (which the new process will not mutate, so there's no need for locking).

It isn't an uncommon strategy. For example, the Factorio dedicated server can (optionally) do that if you're running it on non-Windows. The performance is great, but it's marked as experimental, probably because of issues like this article describes.
As someone who works at a fairly enlightened big company, it's not too hard to get approval to contribute to an open source project (lawyers confirm the license is ok, and that the project doesn't touch any things that are currently sensitive to touch publicly) and it usually only takes a couple business days, getting approval to agree to a CLA is a fairly big additional delay, especially when they want it signed by the company rather than the individual.
The performance comparisons are not remotely apples to apples to begin with. All that's been established is that an Ax chip is entering the realm of desktop performance. Under all the workloads you'd benchmark a regular desktop chip on (FPU, AVX, etc etc) the Ax chips are still going to be far behind at the TDP and frequency they run at.

If you could pump up the TDP and frequency of the Ax chips to actual desktop class and throw a heatsink on so you don't get thermally throttled, I am sure Apple's chips would be competitive.

It's an inevitability that we'll see a desktop-class Ax powered Macbook at some point soon-ish. When that happens we can start making legitimate comparisons.
By assigning copyright to them, you give them the right to distribute your work under a different license. Yes, you can't take back the original license from the older code. But they could start distributing the code without respect to the original license.

>The "without limitation" part of the MIT license guards against this doesn't it?

Ah, but it reads "without limitation [...] subject to the following conditions"
I am slightly cautious that this hoax is itself a hoax and no actual hoax papers were published by actual academic journals.
There should be a system call called spork(2) that handles both use cases.
I haven't. But when my rent is < just the interest on the loan for the house I'm in, it's hard to beat.
Like the Tesla Valve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve
The Microsoft Infer.NET machine learning framework goes open source
Exactly. Overvalued implicitly implies "on a historical basis", but norms from the past are no guarantee of a reversion to the historical mean. It might be fair to say a reversion to the mean is likely, but it's not guaranteed, especially with the number and magnitude of changes to the input variables we've seen with real estate. One of the main changes is, in the past you were competing with local (employed) buyers, in many cities you are now competing with the entire world.