skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early DOS was designed to be as lightweight as possible so as much memory as possible was available to applications. Including expanded memory bank switching code and 32bit protected mode support on early primitive hardware that didn’t have those features anyway would have left little or nothing for actual applications to run in.

Even when expanded memory was an option, loading a bank switching memory extender to work around the cpu’s Address range limitations left less base memory left for non-EMM aware apps to run in. Many times I remember discussing with users the pros and cons of different memory managers and aporoaches, but most of the time in that era, not using them at all and using bare bones MS-DOS was actually the best choice. Some users would have two boot disks. One without EMM386 to run software that wasn’t expanded/extended memory aware to maximise the memory available to them, and another with EMM386 to run one or two apps that were.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJxdvquvK4

A nice piece on the minimum wage by Economist Walter E. Williams
Cognitive behavioral therapy - (CBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. Its goal is to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind people's difficulties, and so change the way they feel. >https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/cbt-cognitive-behaviou...
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That's not quite right. Your tactic might handle the Moorean absurdity ("it's raining but I don't believe that it's raining"), but there's a variant: "it's raining, and I'm certain that it's not raining" that it doesn't handle.
> Consider that Telltale Games last week managed to both hire a new developer, move them across the country and then call them into a meeting to let them know that they'd be let go along with most of the rest of the company in a massive layoff. That's a lack of transparency as to what is happening _within_ the company.

Does that mean there are no companies that do better than that, though?
Does Flow still run as a separate process? That is a non-starter for me.
I have a KVM hypervisor machine with a bunch of python scripts to make cloud-init images for deployment of my VMs. Best 5 hours of time spent, ever.
How Weibo (Chinese Twitter) users earn millions through content monetization
Interesting story. I'm glad to see places like Alethio providing reliable data so that other places (like Decrypt) can make sense of what's going on. Well done.
Multiaddr: self-describing network addresses
They're not really stealing from Ethereum but it does seem to be an issue
Yes at least in the United State copyright law has exemptions for archival purposes. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/dmca/section108
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AI also means we may finally get to ask the last question[1]. Reading that first sentence, it looks like we may actually be ahead of schedule.

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http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Why are warehouse workers entitled to anywhere near the share the creator and owner makes?
Sure, Bill. Of course you didn't say something like that as it would make you sound totally clueless to future generations. You wouldn't want a howler of a mistake like that to be your calling card, would you? So, yeah, of course you didn't say it.
The business doesn't have to have the crane, but a person dies without eating. If we only have to tax one, tax the crane.
I don't doubt it's known as "Dia de Muertos" over there, but technically "Dia de los Muertos" is also correct in Spanish. It's the day of the group of people that are dead.

Just like you would say "Dia de las Madres", "Dia de los Niños", no?
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
That was my first thought when I read the post: He's discounting the fact that by doing this, many programmers are gaining in expertise. It's not a given that those programmers would grow their skill set as much otherwise. Advancing the state of the art in a well established language requires a lot more skills than implementing simple libraries for a new language.
We got one for free from the Nikhef, the Dutch particle research center. Took forever to get it reassembled because it got banged around too much in transport but once it worked it was pretty neat. It came with a very good PCB routing and placement package, as well as a tablet and a graphics terminal.
The biggest obstacle to responding to climate change is The Republican Party. No, I’m not being hyperbolic. They currently control climate policy for one of the largest polluters on earth, the largest economy, and most of international law.

Any help changing or defeating the Republican party’s dangerous anti-science anti-facts agenda would get us closer to being able to collectively deal with this issue.
There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2].

[1]
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589411543...)

[2] https://g.co/research/rtbf_report
The Mössbauer Effect is named for the graduate student who discovered it. He, and not his advisor, won the associated Nobel Prize.
As I understand it, this wasn't just a simple/typical security breach. The hackers had access to people's accounts and for who knows how long. 50 million people's private conversations and pictures being made public, for example, would be the end of Facebook.
Your only complaint that flirts with relevance is the “recent” one from 3 years ago regarding SMART issues on a single machine, an issue which you admit was completely resolved within 24 hours. You also aren’t being clear on whether you were using their ultra cheap recycled auction servers. If you were, then it should be no surprise if you immediately run into an issue their staff didn’t catch while preparing the recycled server. They are happy to quickly fix any issue once discovered.
Why? 1GBit Ethernet is conventionally full-duplex.
This happened 4 years ago so I found the emails to refresh my memory. Here's what happened according to the emails I have;

1 - I woke up to an unresponsive server in the morning. Couldn't reach to the server in any way.

2 - Got in touch with the support and they asked me to give them like 50 mins to check the hardware and disks and get back to me with;

Dear Client,

We have found this disk S/N xxx defective. Please confirm the full data loss
on it in order to replace it.

right after that they wrote;

Dear Client,

We have found this disk S/N xxx defective. Please confirm the full data loss
on it in order to replace it.

I asked if they mean data lost on this single disk or the whole array, they said;

Dear Client,

We cannot tell you how is going to react the raid controller as can happens also
data loss if it is defective. For that, we recommend before to take Backups of the
data. When you are sure to replace the disk tell us, confirm data loss and we will
do it.

after many emails and sharing error messages I've got from the raid controller Hetzner said;

Dear Client,

We see our test reported that 2 drives are faulty, but we have replaced one of
this only. Now, we could offer to replace the second faulty one (SN: xxx).

Could we do this anytime?

I don't know what kind of test they did but I believe the report he mentioned is from the very first diagnose they did.

I wouldn't know the details since I didn't argue on how they could oversee this, I tried to find a solution.

Edit : I fixed the order of messages.
It works great, have used it in the past. Right now I’m using openwrt/lede in a VM as a NAT for VMs that don’t need a dedicated external IP. It took seconds to set up.
I agree with the first part, but who is doing this ‘just because they can’t be bothered not to’?

Last time I looked most people weren’t idling their time away in a stress free paradise.
Facebook's muddy response to last week's hack may become the new norm
Show HN: Universal Geometric Algebra with Multivariate Polynomials in JavaScript
That's because of linguistic shifts over time, not conceptual shifts.
You are right in that they aren't equal. The things I need to survive I'm taxed on the money I make to spend on them and then I'm taxed when I spend on it. The things a business needs to make more money, it isn't taxed on at all. If anything, the system is the opposite of what it should be. This is a way that the tax code insanely favors the wealthy, and it is so drilled into our subconscious that many see it idiotic to even question the way things currently work.
No need to be condescending on a legitimate point. Inflation is influenced by a lot of factors and is a legitimate concern
Next stop, making UWP crossplatform :))

Regarding the political issues, the Silverlight/WinRT clusterfuck also helped with WindowsPhone downfall. Release 1.0 and next major update offered a API incompatible with 1.0, what a clusterfuck....
It's certainly in violation - Recital 43 is quite clear on that.
As others have said, you should direct your anger towards every company showing you a GDPR popup. The more complex it is, the more they're trying to fuck with you, and the more they did fuck with you in the past.

I know it's too much to ask, and I'm happy the GDPR went through as it is, but I wish EU could nudge browsers to centralize cookie and GDPR consent forms. Both to fix the UX (a standard browser interface would be much better than most of the popups out there), and to enable me to select "decline everything" once and for all, and never be bugged by it again.
Just tried, there's definitely a 255 sigle file/folder name limit with zfs - but I had no problem making very deep folder trees. However 'touch' wouldn't accept a path that was too long - 4kb looks about right.

Bash cd wouldn't let mee leap all the way down in one go - but if I got down there (while ls a * ;do cd a * ;done) - I could create a file (ed: view from "top"):

find -iname ok|wc
1 1 12805

I guess I've got a hard time imagining 4kb path and 255 byte path segments being a serious issue - but maybe my imagination is the problem?
I don't see what's bad about that? You are bringing in reliable candidates into the workforce that previously did not participate. Some probably sucked off of unemployment. So, the net result is a higher-skilled workforce that gets paid a livable wage.

Arguing that those in their current min wage jobs that are under-performing will become unemployed due to higher bar and more candidates coming in - all the better. The design of our economy should not be to minimize unemployment (which by the way is, as you touched on, flawed due to not accounting for disinterested/discouraged workers). It should be to draw out as many competent workers as possible and ensure that only the truly needy (mentally disabled, psychologically unstable, etc) apply for disability. The unemployed should have an incentive for trying to better their skills in order to get off of unemployment. If the incentive is a $7.25/hr shithole Amazon warehouse position, then that does not provide a viable motivator.
Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
you underestimate the nihilistic attitude towards anything facebook vs privacy related. I don't think there is anyone out there who even remotely thinks their doings on FB is private any more, including PMs.
It depends to what degree a person or company acted positively on its/their own. Amazon would have never done it, if it wasn't for the immense pressure. So, it is not worth much praise.
It is harder than you think and it is a HUGE advantage. I have a non-Tesla EV, trust me, the public charging network is pretty horrible.
>Amazon's starting pay varies by location — $10 an hour at a warehouse in Austin, Texas, for example, and $13.50 an hour in Robbinsville, New Jersey. For 2017, the median Amazon employee earned just under $28,500, according to company filings.

From the CNBC article:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-t...
That's a nice story, but it's just that. Alternatively, all the minimum wage workers will have more expendable income. Some of that may be spent at those brick-and-mortar shops, and will offset the additional costs.

Remember that the velocity of money makes it a non-zero-sum game.

EDIT: Ends up that Wikipedia covers this nicely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

"The interconnection of price levels, central bank policy, wage agreements, and total aggregate demand creates a situation in which conclusions drawn from macroeconomic analysis are highly influenced by the underlying assumptions of the interpreter."

Also has a nice side-bar quote from Henry Ford, who was partially known for higher wages, and which I think addresses the point I was trying to make (emphasis mine):

"The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers."
> does the top comment always have to be cynical?

It's easy to mistake cynicism for wisdom.
I feel like you're reading a different tone from that comment than I am. The GP provides, to me, a realistic prediction of what Amazon will do next. Making predictions and citing facts isn't anger. I didn't read any anger into the comment, but I get plenty from you. Corporations don't have feelings. Amazon improved their behavior because of pressure from labor, not in order to get invited to your Thanksgiving dinner this year. The raise will likely demotivate unionization efforts, and that likely factored into the decision-making process.
And there are people who go missing. Eh, maybe they got attacked by something they couldn't see/detect with their senses...

But seriously, this sounds like the kind of plot that'd work pretty well in a Doctor Who episode. And the logic I gave there was how they tried to justify the existence of stuff like the Weeping Angels and Vashta Nerada in story.
What are your main problems with Safari?
I can't understand what you're saying. As far as I can tell, climate science and medicine and to some extent psychology depend on genuine, evidence based reasoning. It's not pure guesswork.

Either way this is very tangential to my point.
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What's your point? A few bitwise operations are far quicker than reading from memory. Also are you sure that the high bits must be 1? I thought they had to be the same as the 48th bit.
Either that, or they want to defuse some of the political heat they've been getting by Bernie Sanders and co.
What a racket. There is a problem with people spoofing voip phone calls calling in hoaxes and the best they can come up with to fix it is "oh pay for this protection service and we will send a normal police response instead of a murderous one."

WHAT?? Why not "oh this phone call has weird information and is untrackable. That's weird and abnormal, almost like this is a hoax. Let's go check assuming it is a hoax."
Did you read, or was even aware of, a ToS of a hotel on use of personal data? This is entering the "local planning
department in Alpha Centauri" territory.

As a regular person, you should not need to be aware of such things. What GDPR tries to do is to restore some sane defaults into the process, just like customer protection laws do.
> Were you ever terminated or had your contract not renewed for providing upwards feedback that was rejected?

Not to my knowledge. More memorable was the positive response I received to both of the aforementioned pipe-ups. Granted, I'm pretty up front about wanting open communication in any corporate culture I join, so I'm heavily selecting–during interviews and random conversations–for teams who value that.
> You could also say that humans don't really deserve praise since our motives are ultimately guided by our self interest

You could say that and you would be right. Why should anyone praise you if your underlying motivations are self-centered? You seem to be asserting that this is fundamental human nature, however, which is a belief which has been refuted plenty of times throughout history.
Which is how the system should work. Raising wages puts you at a cost disadvantage against competitors, but if all employers take collective action they only have to pay more for wages (rather than lose market share). That's why the early American robber barons lobbied for government regulation of child labor at times - they wanted to be able to abandon it without giving opponents an advantage.
I think you underestimate the extent to which people think their PM's aren't a big deal, until they get released and a torrent of sexting, gossip, illicit relationships, bullying, and public scandal washes over society as fallout.

"I have nothing to hide" is the mantra of fools and people too domesticated to even imagine the ways that malicious crooks and societal pranksters can have it out for them.
Pretty neat - quantum computing has been an interest of mine for a while, but up to this point I had only watched lectures about the theory behind it, it's interesting to see how it might be done in practice. Wish there was more content though, this didn't really give me any insight about what kinds of computations might be done with this
Who care about quarter to quarter guidance, except the investors and short sellers? What actually matters is how Tesla executes compared to their long-term plans. Despite all the delays and "failed" promises, they keep exceeding their multi-year goals.

Just check this out: http://www.autonews.com/article/20140113/OEM/301139981/audac... (or watch any JB Straubel's keynote)

They're killing it. In fact, the naysayers just keep moving the goalpost.
> The rest of us would rather increase absolute wealth.

Some of us would be happy to just have enough money to do work we find productive for society, as opposed to what the market demands of us. Not everybody wants to ride the absolute wealth treadmill.
My point being that Capitalism has only been a thing for less 300 years, and what we have now isn't even capitalism. It's a warped perversion of it thanks to the inflated influence of ideologues like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, and the politicians that bought into their narrow-minded dogma hook, line and sinker.

The worst damage they and their ilk did was to convince the entire political spectrum from the centre-left to the far right that there is no alternative to free market fundamentalism.

I don't have a tried and tested alternative for you, but the idea that there are no alternatives is ludicrous to me.

We just need to be actually looking for these alternatives, which the corporate world has no interest in doing and the politicians in their pockets merely continue the theatrics of fixing a system that blatantly isn't working for anyone but the amassers of capital.

And before anyone loses their shit because I'm criticising the plutocracy we have allowed to be built in our names, nor I'm not a communist; no do I wish for a communist system.
> You don't have to do anything .... just email the website ...

Okay ... let me try this.

> TO: cnn.com

> SUBJECT: Remove my data

Okay, let's send it!

> gmail: The address "cnn.com" in the "To" field was not recognized. Please make sure that all addresses are properly formed.

Oh. I've been around the block; maybe I can try admin@ or support@ or look at whois data, or browse around their website for a "Contact us" link, and maybe I can figure out how to properly assert that I do in fact own the account in question whose data I wish to remove, assuming I even have an explicit account rather than just a tracking cookie and a "shadow" profile. But isn't the GDPR supposed to be consumer-focused? What earthly consumer is going to go through these steps?
Presumably there is evidence that goblins live there
It used to be popularly called Planet X. I've heard it to referred to as Planet Nine
Big car companies waking up.. easier said than done. It is ALL just talk right now. As Tesla succeeds, they will be forced to participate. But right now, there aren't many actual players (Tesla, Nissan, GM):
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Who claimed it was bad?
That's got to be one of the coolest RasPi cases in existence. And at $250 it may seem a bit steep but with the volume they made and the amount of time put in it is actually a steal.
So you're saying they shouldn't lobby for an increase in the minimum wage, and that large numbers of workers' wages should languish because they work for small businesses?
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I'd suggest a slight revision to your theorem:
> Internet history can be completely erased at a momement's notice (unless it would embarrassing for you later in life)...
I saw an Amiga once in person around 86 and spent that next decade disappointed, but advocating that the future of computing was going to be great. Emotionally I still feel like we haven't caught up to the Amiga but I imagine that isn't really true, heh.
> Ideally browsers would be extensible enough for you to build these things.

The generality of the environments available in browsers is exactly the problem: we can't tell what they're doing because opaque programs are manipulating opaque data. Making the problem tractable means restricting the ability to communicate via well-defined channels with well-defined data, possibly with specific purposes.

> opt-in is user hostile to the point that never-ask-me-again will become the norm.

You're assuming a lot. Opt-in is not blanket user hostile, it depends on the frequency and circumstances the user encounters it.

My first thought is that opt-in dialogs would be triggered only for forms with password inputs, just like it works now in browsers where users can save their passwords. The cookie is tied to that form submission only so we know its origin and uses, and all other cookies are forbidden. It doesn't strike me as user-hostile at all to then ask the user if they want to permit the site to store a persistent authentication token.
Taking it to the next level -

Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/09/10/injecting-shellcode-to...