skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really a problem?

Operating systems usually cap the amount of locked pages to prevent the system from being DoS'd; on Linux it can be quite low (16kb).

In all the code I've written using locked memory, these limitations have forced me to use separate arenas for the locked/sensitive memory because of its scarcity. In general, it would be incompatible with Go's garbage collected heap unless the GC heap has the concept of "sensitive" objects and pools them in locked memory (which, AFAICT, it doesn't); or the heap limited itself to the locked memory limit (impractical)

If you allocate and maintain unmanaged locked memory yourself in Go it shouldn't matter if the 1.11 runtime uses more virtual memory since you've separated yourself from the problem by going your own route.
Hopefully this doesn't wind up as another "BadBIOS", where nobody produces any real technical evidence that it's true.
I've found it's highly variable depending on the person you get. I've had some people that are really great and just help me replace it or figure out options. I've had other people force me to reinstall the OS even though the issue is clearly hardware and then come back in a week showing the same problem.
To the extent that regulatory capture is itself an inevitable outcome of capitalism, maybe.
I used to pirate music, tv and movies a lot. Every hit show, every interesting album. For me the downsides were tied to the hassle of finding good quality streams, there wasn't much friction but there was enough that when streaming came along and I had the disposable income to afford it I went all in. Streaming will probably never be 90%+ of consumption but as long as it's a frictionless experience that is portable it will serve many.
I think it only highlighted Linux specifically because of the prior tug-of-war there, it mentions right afterward " and other important OSS technologies".
What app are you using? I've read that meditation is essential for treating ADHD, and would love to try it too.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I think this is a very reasonable projection. The technology isn't just going to stagnate, it's going to continue to evolve until it finds a useful place in the world. Having insured financial intermediaries executing smart contracts isn't a far fetched idea to me.
Google is an advertising company and uses legitimate interests as a legal basis for collection when using personal data for activities such as serving contextual ads, ads reporting and to combat fraud and abuse. As for the third party website using third cookies etc to transact with Google, you have a choice whether to consent to that with the publisher.
Hi guys, we are building an app - TimeFit - that I think addresses this issue.
The short description of what we do is: During a break from work the app will give you advice on what physical exercises you should do, what exercises for eyes and what snacks to eat.

We have called a break during which you try to do the recommended activities a Power Break as it enhances your productivity and wellbeing. You don't need to do a Power Break every time you take a break but three or four times a day will give you a great boost.

Please check our page for designs: https://www.timefit.mobi

Let me know what you guys think about this idea. We will very much appreciate any feedback :)
Right, but does that happen? I honestly don't know. Clearly a company like Amazon or Apple buys in large enough volume that they could be asking for customized MB's, but does anybody know if that actually happens? If it does, then that would definitely moot the question I was posing above...
WhatsApp fixes bug that let hackers take over app when answering a video call
Google Search?
The process is described, regardless of the veracity of the sources.
> their democratic system is very weak.

And with good reason, e.g. mob rule. (As an American I hope this remains so.)

> bought out by lobbyists

On all sides. Goldman Sachs has their man in Washington, as does Planned Parenthood.

> only have two parties

America has multiple parties, but two are the most ascendant. And the reason for this is more complicated than the US Constitution, e.g. writing state laws that a party must have so many members to qualify for automatic enrollment on a ballot.

> the spectrum of politics is very narrow

Americans aware of European politics view Europe much the same way, that is, even the 'far right' of Europe more or less equals the 'center left to center right' of the United States.

> less open discussion

In a sense this is true. American media companies, for example, are dominated by non-Conservatives (the 'center right to far right' of the US) and so they choose their subjects, guests, talking points, etc., from amongst those they favor, i.e. non-Conservative sources. There is much more open discussion on the Internet but, as this post shows, even Big Tech is in favor of shutting down certain (non-Progressive) viewpoints they disagree with.
Back in 2009 when Bing was new, it was laughed at by the average user, and initiatives to build a user base with Bing cashback deals were seen as an admission of failure from the people that brought you IE.

Since then, Bing has grown significantly in search volume and ad revenue. While DDG likely can't reach Microsoft's market share as quickly, I see no reason why we it can't keep growing and help develop a competitive market for search options.

I do think DDG needs to approximate some of Google's knowledge graph features, like displaying weather and sports scores in an easy-to-read mini dashboard. I think that'd be one way for people (like me) to add it as a bookmark and create the habit of entering search queries into DDG as opposed to Google.
No one wants to be sold to. Not a single person in the world. There's a reason used car salespeople are the universal object of derision: no one wants to interact with someone that wants something from them and is willing to obfuscate, misdirect, and even lie to get it. That is a fundamental to sales: the sales person is trying to maximize their returns, and in most cases there is zero structural incentive for them to take the interests of the other party into account. This isn't something that you can imagine away any more than you can imagine away incentives in other areas of human interaction. People recognize that immediately, even if they can't put their finger on why.
See: the infamous Pinto memo
Expected this to happen when you have EPA administrators who are former lobbyists and whom previously opposed the EPA
Whether you agree or disagree with the current administration's policy, PLEASE VOTE. Voting is how you change the country towards the direction you want. If you want to know who is up for elections, you can visit https://www.ballotready.org/ .
The problem is there's a harsh disincentive for admitting that in any criminal 'science' because doing anything other than pretending the science is perfect and infallible would undermine the criminal case.
It will be interesting to see if Flatpak, Snap or AppImage ends up being the predominant force in the new wave of Linux packaging. Knowing Linux, users will probably expect projects to support all three. :-)
Not to mention they're much easier to get than USB-C ones. Google's official dongle is rarely in stock while Apple's is available in stores all over. I went in for one this week to see if I could live with no headphone jack and the guy just gave me one and told me I didn't have to pay. Yeah you could go to Best Buy if you need a dongle ASAP, but then you get to play the "is this analog or digital" game.
Not OP, but I think it is important to see a company as a whole.

Untill Microsoft has truly changed its entire company and the culture ruling it, to be supportive of Open Source, it is safe to say "There are just some parts supporting OSS". Just like one can safely say "but there are just some parts of the company opposing FLOSS".

In order to truly help OSS, joining some initiative, group or foundation is the easy thing to do. Opening the patent portfolio, is the difficult thing to do. The latter helps FLOSS a lot more.
Same as this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
The AI did not have access to gender. It was just word weighting and it turned out that words that could be linked to females ended up with applicants that had a negative outcome. Like the article says the AI ended up giving a negative weight to any resume containing the word women's as in women's [---] club, or those that mentioned certain all women's colleges.
It’s like one of those Garcia-Marquez stories. The facade is maintained long after the thing died —the facade was no longer necessary but it continued due to momentum.
> By non-Bollywood, do you mean music in other Indian languages or popular English music?

Western music mostly. I took a gaana.com subscription to find that its rock/metal music catalogue had big holes in it. And as you said even for bollywood music the experience is not that good.
I have to take issue with your use of the foldable solar panel. Studies have estimated that commercial solar panels take 1-4 years to produce enough electricity to offset that used in their production [0]. This is for fixed panels, pointing south, at optimal tilt, during all available daylight hours. How many hours per day does that portable panel get used? It seems extremely unlikely to me that the average portable solar panel gets used a significant fraction of what a fixed dedicated panel does, thus will not offset its production emissions.

More generally, green gadgets are likely not very green. The true lifecycle advantages over a conventional product if there are any are likely to be very small and you are unlikely to be able to even find out for individual products. People would likely make more of an impact by wasting and consuming less. There are products that can make an impact, they tend to be high energy users like a water heater, HVAC system or insulating a building properly.

In the US, many states have deregulated utility markets. That means users can choose who provides their electricity and many green products are available like 100% renewable. See https://www.electricchoice.com/ for more background and if that's available in your area.

0 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
Designing a Blockchain Voting System for 1B
Good point! I didn’t mean to propose it as a solution, but rather as an enumeration or one possibility I’ve considered, and ruled out because it doesn’t work for everyone.
> Using 100mb+ of memory?

It's not using them.

On modern OSX, processes get something like 2.4GB vmem by default, even if they do nothing.

#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
for(;;) {
sleep(10);
}
}

is reported as 2377M VMEM by top/htop, on 10.11.
Mozilla’s ambitious plan to teach coders not to be evil
If this is something you actually want to change, a few ideas beyond showers:
1) bike slowly (mentioned below; some folks don't like it, but the "slow" speeds up over time. I keep my HR under 140 and don't really sweat unless it's very hot, and this does still improve cardiovascular base fitness)
2) wipes (baby wipes, deodorant wipes, whatever)
3) clean shirt in bag
4) use a pannier, not a backpack
5) if you biked really hard, 5 minutes before arrival slow down and let your heart rate calm and let the breeze dry you off
And we don't have guys out executing jews and other minorities while trashing their temples and churches.

How far off the mark would I be in guessing you're not a minority in America?

Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer was just convicted of 2nd degree murder and sixteen counts of aggravated battery with a fire arm of a black man in a time when more and more black Americans feel scared for their lives simply being in the presence of a police officer (I happen to be one of them) and Dylan Roof was given the death penalty for killing nine black parishioners at a church in my hometown of Charleston South Carolina three years ago.

These are by no means the only examples I can give you.
I think it's more appropriate to call it Corporatism now.
My main dislike is a technical feature: that every response to a comment does not link back to the parent comment. This often makes discussions difficult to follow. (Indentation helps very little when reponse threads grow over multiple pages.)
Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects
I'd pay nearly any amount for a Nexus 5 SE. Perfect form factor/size and a beautiful design, just needs a better battery and camera.
How is this excusable again? My only consolation is that this will eventually backfire due to them not hiring based on skill.
I have a new baby. There is a metric ton of guesswork involved in figuring out what's going on with her health and well-being at any moment. The pediatricians have better more targeted hypotheses and ideas for things to try than us or our books or the internet, but I would not call what they're doing empirical in the sense you're using it. I honestly don't find it very dissimilar to the type of iterative hypothesis testing informed by past experience we do when building software. I think a similar thing is true for most (but perhaps not all) of the "serious professions" you're thinking of.
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. Magic Leap, as of now, has received $2.3B in the comments[1]. This is mentioned in the article's subtitle.

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
I'm not sure overcommitment is the same thing: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...

Reading that, I think overcommitment is to determine the kernel's behavior when you try to allocate more virtual memory than physical memory that is present on the system. That is a different (but related) concern from the fact that mmap() will allocate virtual memory but not physical memory. (That is, mmap() reserves locations in the address space, but you don't have any physical memory backing it until you use that memory.)
It seems strange to praise them for their Happiness quotient when they may well have arrived at that by shall we say, unsavory methods.
The sqlfmt one pulls in the cockroachdb parser, and that team has a fairly big incentive to be compatible with PG syntax. Nobody is perfect, but it seems set up to stay current/correct.
This will be unpopular but I don't care. What is the evidence that the source data for this 'AI' is biased because the men it came from did not want to hire women? Is there a reserve of unemployed non-male engineers out there? If so what evidence is there of that?

Technical talent is both expensive and a rare commodity for tech companies. The non-male engineers I've worked with have always been exceedingly competent, smart, and their differing perspectives invaluable. If there was an untapped market of engineers you'd better believe every tech company would be taking advantage of it.
Hey, Björn from Cliqz here. Great to see the post has generated some interesting discussions on matters of privacy, compliance, and as you point out - business models.

Cliqz never has collected any personal data on its users, and never will. Over the course of the last 4 years, we started building a private search engine, to only realize that if we are to truly offer a usable alternative to navigate the web privately - we had to do much more. So we quickly found ourselves building an anti-tracking technology, anti-phishing, and anonymous rate limiting using Direct Anonymous Attestation. This research has been published / presented in the WWW Conference, Crypto and Privacy Village at DEF CON and CCC's Privacy Week.

We have packed all these technologies in desktop and mobile browsers. This is what we do and it's what got Mozilla interested in Cliqz, and why they are an investor, just like Burda Media. All the technologies we have built share 2 attributes:

1. None collect personal data

2. Rely on client-side logic (computers are powerful enough these days to be used for more than display interfaces)

Offers is part of how we monetize (we're exploring paid products too). Like any other technology at Cliqz, they share the same 2 attributes (No personal data, all triggering logic resides in the client). The code is open sourced here [1]. You can read a high-level description here [2].

We believe our approach is a healthy alternative to monetizing products on the web. At all times we allow the user to control what features from Cliqz they want to use; including offers. We understand there are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with the state of the web (we are too) - but blatantly rejecting any business model that brings privacy-preserving products to the market is not healthy.

[1]: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/tree/master/module...

[2]: https://cliqz.com/en/cliqz-angebote
“Instead, the technology favored candidates who described themselves using verbs more commonly found on male engineers’ resumes, such as “executed” and “captured”

This is the most interesting part to me. It’s suggesting that men and women think about things differently. Which, if true, suggests a lot of other possibilities that have relevance when hiring for certain positions.
I'm opposed to markdown for that reason. It's a bit of a shame that the existing formatting isn't aligned to markdown syntax, and I think lots of people don't know the

code trick.

But otherwise, I'm grateful to not have posts using headers, multipart essays with horizontal rules, or that "every word a hyperlink" style that people use when they want to intensify a statement by implying it's densely sourced or describing a common issue. The informal standards HN has worked out seem sufficient for the conversations I value most here:

- this is sufficient for bullets

- since people don't bullet whole paragraphs

1. this works for numbers

2. for the same reason

> And this is just fine for pseudo-blockquotes, which can be much longer.

And the lack of embedded links encourages human-readable URLs that are either sources[1], or inline links to a page people might want to visit after reading the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

It's a bit arbitrary what's supported, but HN has always felt to me like a display of how working within constraints can improve quality.
Interesting article. I wonder if anything major happened in the world around the early 90's that could help explain why the big winners around the world were suddenly able to use their economies of scale to grow even larger over the next three decades...
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S
I think DDG invented showing results in mini dashboard! they have it for a long time.
The Perl Renaissance
I think you may be missing some historical perspective. Microsoft have quite the history of being extremely unpleasant toward free and open source software.

There's also this list of more recent issues with their software:

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html
But is Techcrunch real anymore? 5 comments on their article and 4 of them are spam?
Oh sure, newer versions of iOS used to slow things down, but there are two separate issues.

1. Do increasingly heavy OS releases slow older machines (yes. Though ios12 has reversed this trend.)

2. Does iOS deliberately throttle older machines.

The latter is the particular issue. It relates to 2 or 3 iPhone models with only when they have dodgy batteries, so I don’t think the accusation of generally nerfing old phones really holds.

I do agree, however that Apple absolutely should have made it clear what was happening. Very poor communication, but not, I think malicious
What about that a small minority of people (moderators, like you) can kill posts and threads that they dislike for ideological reasons?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Top coal producing states (Note: only one went Democrat in 2016 presidential election)
Wyoming: 297.2 (41%)
West Virginia: 79.8 (11%)
Pennsylvania: 45.7 (6%)
Illinois: 43.4 (6%)
Kentucky: 42.9 (6%)

Coal industry job count info:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/20/t...

Coal industry political donations:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210

Pretty clear why the current administration is hellbent on supporting coal in contrast to facts.
I think that's kind of the entire idea. Microsoft is expecting people to use the IP in the patents to write code for Linux now without fear of being sued.

When they donated the IP to OIN, for all intensive purposes the patents were liberated given OIN's wide coverage.
The problem is that the whole YouTube UI is machine learned to maximize engagement, so that they can show a lot of ads. The algorithm will do whatever it can to get people to watch more YouTube. We notice the weird results when it comes to videos for toddlers, but the same thing is happening to adults, we just don't see it in quite the same way -- it's always easier to see self-destructive behavior and make attributions from the outside.

Ultimately, interacting with software that has been machine learned for a metric that doesn't serve you or your kids' interests amounts to deliberately swallowing a parasite.
Yes. Just like socialism is still socialism when there's corruption. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

We need to accept that capitalism seems to be prone to problems relating to regulatory capture and find a solution that resolves these issues. The idea of a perfect and pure "capitalism" is a myth.
The New Economics of Recycling
This is the same as suggesting that organized crime is an inevitable outcome of human ambition. So sad.
> your real taste (and what they can get you to binge) vs. the taste you want people to perceive you as having via ranking

You make this sound like a question of honesty vs pretense, but "what they can get you to binge" reveals a different set of motives. It's sometimes a question of self-control.

I want to be healthy. I also want to eat junk food. What do I "really" want?

Imagine an online grocery store which noticed they could profit more by hiding healthy options from me and selling me more junk.

Would their AI be acting according to my "real taste"? In a sense, yes. Would it be serving my best interests? No.

If Netflix can entice someone to binge watch TV all weekend, does that mean that's what they "really" wanted?

Every AI serves someone's interests. It's important to ask whose.

And if you want to make an AI that truly serves your users (rather than exploiting them), give them explicit control. Stop with this "we know you better than you know yourself" nonsense. Let them say things like, "yes, I watched that movie / bought that candy, but I wish I hadn't. Please don't use that for future recommendations."
Your post makes me think you read that statement backwards. (The lawnmower comment is from an oracle talk, etc) It's proposing to move to .net from Java.

With recent licensing changes to Java and microsoft's recent good behavior I have considered it myself.
> Enables fast spatial queries on a very large number of objects

Can someone explain that? I assume the problem is something like, "user clicks on 2D map, find which objects are near the click". A naive solution might store the objects in an array sorted by X coordinate. The problem there is that the search for objects near (x,y) would have discard many objects that were far away on the Y axis. Somehow this thing solves that problem?
I agree that all-or-nothing isn't a good policy.

But I'd like Microsoft's reputation to be proportional to how objectionable it's behavior is.

For example, I don't want Microsoft's reputation to go from a C- to an A- because of this patent issue, when they continue to require telemetry in Windows.
How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]
You do realize this is run by YC? Of course there is going to be news about startups.
Yes but what they're buying is a share of the company and its profits. No one is paying $2.3B to develop the tech.
I have zero sympathy for people applying to a company known for doing shady things for Governments.