skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is correct. i'm a romanian and both schools and government use the octet. on the other hand private enterprise has long used the bit/byte and "octet" is nowadays mostly confusing people.
but it goes a bit deeper than that and it's mostly due to french influences: language is considered at the heart of national identity [0]. this has been detrimental to developing a modern language. one of the effects is actually the slow death of languages that can't adapt to their surroundings. instead we get english words translated in a crude manner to romanian or french. words that no one uses as the english/american versions are not only more popular, but also much more flexible.
the french (romanians and others) are highly protective of their language, which is why they're losing the language battles.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/23/langua...
Javascript is surprisingly fast at processing that many numbers, using TypedArrays. You just had to avoid DataView up until now but the V8 team recently fixed the performance of DataView so it should have similar performance as TypedArray access and therefore be around 10x faster in future versions of chrome.
I don't think it was a sworn statement by Apple officials. Just a letter.
Also http://websdr.org/
That won't fly under GDPR. The building owner should give you consent form:

You consent to:

- [ ] Your data will be processed by police department
to fulfill your request.
- [ ] Your data will be used to help with ongoing investigations*/**/***.
- [ ] Your data will be used to better evaluate information
coming from you****.

<font size=smallest>
* - by consenting you agree to be included in department's suspect list.
** - by consenting you agree to have data shared with all other government
agencies, as well as private investigators listed in Appendix A.
*** - by consenting you agree to have your data shared with select journalists
(listed in Appendix B), as well as any and all social media profiles
of the department.
**** - by consenting you agree to be randomly searched and detained if the department
determines a need for it.
</font>

Appendix A:
[redacted due to national security concerns]
Amsterdam is very interesting for what you want. The city is practically a big village. Everything is reachable by bike so no need to use the public transport. Everyone speaks English perfectly though it is a big plus if you speak Dutch.
The tech scene is really good with a great market for software engineers and well paid job.
I've noticed that many people comment my attitude like this, but I've noticed that the less I care, the more happy life I live (and my friends as well).

Caring about politics is a total waste of time and energy - in my opinion it's just better to turn these resources into e.g. earning more money than e.g. thinking how much politicians are "stealing" it from us - I think that's the main reason why people are so angry these days and live unhappy lifes
So what about this time?
Honestly I imagine that the "free" part is really secondary to actually having a selection of good quality food readily available in the office.
Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a Few Words about Tor
There's one word that immediately negates all the good things you mentioned.

Smog.
I think there is something missing in your story. My Portuguese friends who fled Portugal to London paint different picture of their lovely country. Maybe there are different rules to foreigners there?
Oh, another US police brutality story. How tragic.
BTW. I'm interested in politics (only to get to know what's happening), but nothing more than that - I prefer reading stuff about entrepreneurship or technology than this.
This technology would spot a secret chip in seconds
A couple of years ago I started using TODO:HIGH, TODO:MED and TODO:LOW.

TODO:HIGH is for things that need to be completed for the current feature or bug fix.

TODO:MED is for things that should be completed before the next public build.

TODO:LOW is for stuff that would be good to get done eventually. (A function is complete but doesn't read well so I'll add a note to refactor it at later date.)

When writing new code I try to get something up and running ASAP by filling in functionality with broad strokes. I'll go back and fill in the details once the larger picture is in place. With less code written, it's easier to refactor (or restart), if the design is not quite right.

Writing lots of TODOs helps ensure nothing gets forgotten about.

Picking an easy TODO from the backlog can be good way to warm up when starting the day too.

I'm used to working solo however. Not sure how this approach would go down on a team.
OpenAnalytica – Free and Open Source Ad Targeting for Campaigns
8 years old HP Pavilion g6 with 1.9gHz dual core with 2.4gHz boost, overclocked to 3.0gHz. Upgraded to SSD, 8GB RAM and run Chrome off a Ram drive. Windows 10.

It just won't die. I tear it down once a year and clean it. I've started transitioning everything off of it to an Ubuntu VM on a home Proxmox server with a pass-through GPU, provisioned with 4-core 4gHz processing power.

I guess the keyboard on it is what I'm most comfortable with. It's gone through a couple batteries and power bricks, and I keep expecting it to not boot up one day.

If I had to get another laptop, I would probably not make much of the monitor, and plug in my HD TV like I have now. I would probably look for one comparable in size... For the keyboard. Laptops have wonky keyboards sometimes.
Except it seems to be completely random words, with a "few" random quotation marks and brackets [thrown] in the mix. Taken together it has the opposite effect of what it’s supposed to achieve.
I had to fight the temptation to break them open for the battery/solar panel, it just looked so easy, security torx screws are not secure lol.
A nice experiment! I am always a bit surprised to see that CNNs & company produce much less coherent and natural sounding text than the comparably simple Markov Chain generators.

That said, I markov-generated some text with Nietzsche's "Also sprach Zarathustra" as a source some time ago and it made more sense and was more coherent than the original.
Its quite common for almost all new cars to come with driver and main passenger side windows with the “smash and grab” tint.

I would recommend this to anyone driving in South Africa. I’ve never been smash and grabbed because I generally pay attention to anyone approaching my car and try to make eye contact. Usually people are zoning out on their phone or whatever and make easy targets.
I don't think Norway got rich by seizure, rather by oil?
A bit OT: "Using an exclamation point only serves to call attention to the writer."—Miss Steiger, 10th grade English, Washington H.S., Milwaukee, 1964
The one thing to do that make success to be pursuing you anywhere you are
Taiwan. come and see
It only needs to be operational until the James Webb Telescope is available.

As soon as this happens, most astronomers will jump ship anyway
Current versions are pretty good - and while MS Office is a veritable power tool (I know no real equivalent to MS Access), most users use ~10% of the functionality; sufficient for many, esp. at the price.

As for the formatting - yeah, MS doesn't seem to follow its own document formatting standards, even for the newer documents. That puts other suites in a hard spot: a) follow standards and present imperfect documents, or b) invest immense resources into bug-for-bug compatibility?
Adding to 1): more often than not, the "scaling" issues are 95% social and 5% technical.
You can unfollow someone if you "show more".
Someone with assets of $10k would be a decathousandaire.
Lol, I don't care much for "thought-stoppers" like the accusation of "whataboutism".

In fact, I'm ALL for whataboutism -- or, as they used to call it back in the day, putting things in perspective...

You have to really be conditioned to never see the larger picture and to think your shit doesn't stink to even consider "whatabboutism" (that is, that a side accused of something might has a right to point back to the other's side's misdeeds) as bad...
What it feels like to take abortion pill
> The US has very robust democratic institutions, checks and balances and rule of law.

Does it. A first-past-the-post system which reduces everything to two parties. Low voter turnouts. High gerrymandering. Terrible voter accessibility laws. Three branches of government end-to-end owned by only one party. And a ton of money in politics thanks to Citizens United.

I'm sorry, but "robust democratic institutions" and "checks and balances" at this point are things americans tell themselves to sleep better at night. If you step back, you start seeing just how far gone the country is.
Talk about taking for granted what you need to prove...
I have no experience with Microtik, but you dont seem to be comparing like generations. A newer router will beat an older one just due to the march of technology.
'Safari bypass': UK High Court blocks $1.3B class action claim by iPhone users
To judge by anything on the record, you would think nobody at Intel
has much love for anything asynchronous, but it's worth keeping in
mind that Intel funded and later acquired a startup called
Asynchronous Design Technology, later renamed Fulcrum Microsystems, to
the tune of something like $100 million all together, and then let it
slip under the radar. Last I checked its domain had been taken over by
a tech blog. People from Intel have also usually put in an appearance at
the IEEE Asynchronous conferences over the years. I'd venture to guess
they know a thing or two about async at Intel but it's fine with them
if the rest of us don't.
The shop thing is true though, especially in Munich (all of Bavaria really) where stores close at 20:00. Especially when Saturday or Monday are holidays, the rush in shops is like it is the last days of civilization.

Here in Denmark it is no problem to go shopping on Sunday at least until 22:00 at all and even past that it is possible.

It is so much nicer to not have to specifically plan on when to go shopping.
As others here, I strongly recommend reading the IA manuals on this subject, as well as the equivalent AMD doco. Most of the processor part (but not the firmware part) of this subject is in the manufacturer doco.

And yes, one has to be careful about outdated information.

* https://superuser.com/a/347115/38062

* https://superuser.com/a/695716/38062

* https://superuser.com/a/345333/38062

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/461774/5132
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
Economics of climate change win Nobel Prize for U.S. duo
At that point, "preventing revolt" and "saving face" seem to have been the objectives, with ideological concerns coming in a distant third.
Yes that claim is wrong, here's CNN admitting they ran a story that was totally false and aren't going to do anything about it, because it met their standard of two sources:

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-...

Raju went on CNN, in muted tones, to note the correction, explicitly claiming that “two sources” had each given him the false date on the email, while also making clear that CNN did not ever even see the email, but only had sources describe its purported contents.

As Greenwald points out, in this particular case it's implausible that those two sources could have been independent because the mistake was about mis-reading the date on an email in a way that happened to be politically convenient:

All of this prompts the glaring, obvious, and critical question — one that CNN refuses to address: How did “multiple sources” all misread the date on this document, in exactly the same way and toward the same end, and then feed this false information to CNN?

So either the OP is wrong about what credible news organisations do, or CNN is not credible (see my arguments below to that end), or both.

I wonder how much of the commentary about NYT/CNN/etc being "credible" and Breitbart being "not credible" is based on misunderstandings of how journalism works?
Microsoft Uses LOT Network to Spread Lies and Promote Its Protection Racket
Compact Sparse Merkle Trees – Efficient Non-Membership Proofs
Spain offers you a mixture of international cities, and technology hubs. There will never be another "Silicon Valley", but as an alternative where you can find stimulating and rewarding work, I'd argue it's better than Portugal.
Yes - and if it does it doesn't matter for this particular benchmark which isn't CPU bound.
Curious to hear your thoughts after winter
>Lol you've no idea what you're talking about. The EU is not the US, that's why apart from the UK leaving the rest of us won't be eating chlorinated chicken.

Lol, I'm a European, so...

The EU might not be the US, but it has seeded its global ambitions (and lots of its sovereignty) to the US after World War II.

>You're clearly confusing the EU with NATO, i guess from St Petersburg we all look "West" to you.

Yeah, because nobody outside St Petersburg can think EU governments are pushovers and lackeys of the US.

It's not like Europe (from the UK, to Germany, Italy, France, and so on) had a strong left that believed exactly that...
I would suggest looking for place that have hackerspaces/makerspaces. If you can get enough people interested in purchasing space just on the aspect of tinkering with things then it probably has a solid intellectual community. My hackerspace had everyone from college professors to startup founders to just the random joe that knew way to much about safe making.
Yeah, I've been writing open source software mostly, plus a bit of software consulting. Several folks in my co-working space work remotely for companies in Melbourne.
Messaging Scenarios in Azure
On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death
Hi, I saw one of your old comments and was hoping we could chat about it as I'm going through something similar. Email is in profile if you're willing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099420
The good news is that the HGNC is actively going around changing the really terrible gene names into ones that don't cause trouble.
> Portugal is very welcoming to US citizens

What about people from other part of the world? Asking since you live there. Any resource you would recommend to have a general idea?
Telling that, submitted at the same time, this story has one sarcastic comment, thile the story of a police officer selling information on the dark web has an actual discussion.
Freelancing, starting companies and the NHR scheme (which is sort of an exception but still) seems to have a lot of deductions, conditions and exceptions that require more guidance than some other countries. Maybe this is something one adapts to, but it still seems like an initial hurdle for foreigners.
there are 3 assertions here and they are all dumb.

first two aren't even about cryptocurrencies - every currency is more attractive than bolivar in Venezuela these days. i guess all those people are doing something illegal (surviving?) or will be better off with electricity (spoiler alert - they already have electricity).

the last one is even dumber and coming from supposedly somebody who should know their way around finances and yet quotes like the one you posted or this one:

> These are preposterous numbers. The imaginary value of these valueless bits of computer data represents enough money to change the course of the entire human race, for example eliminating all poverty or replacing the entire world’s 800 gigawatts of coal power plants with solar generation. Why? WHY???

just show how clueless he is.

there is a gigantic difference between not trusting and not having to trust.

and of course market cap numbers are preposterous. it's because they are meaningless and don't represent anything that exists in reality. not the amount of money that was spent acquiring those currencies, not the amount of money that can be made selling those currencies. it's meaningless numbers.
Why Count All the Squirrels in Central Park? Why the Heck Not
> "What is the state of mind for a law enforcement officer that they would literally intervene physically with someone with Down's syndrome to the point of their death?"

Maybe they are not used to not being able to enforce their will? People with the mental capability comply and sue later.
> I'm not experienced in this area, but more than one microservice per developer seems like a major "architecture smell."

It's not a smell; it's a hot, steaming turd.
You can also consider NCR , India. It's the national captial region which includes Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

Pros.
Internet - 1 Gbps internet at ~20$ a month

Lots of great colleges - IIT D, JNU, AIIMS, DCE
Housing - You can get a 2500ft 3BHK high rise condo in gurgaon for ~800$/month. With that you'll get a jacuzzi, modular kitchen, round the clock security, pool , gym etc.

Labour is cheap - Maids which do cleaning, laundry and cooking cost ~150$/month. Drivers cost around 300 . You really don't have to do chores

Great food - Everything is app based anyway, so you can get good quality pasta/salad home delivered to your place at 3AM for less than 10 dollars.

Good Roads - Unlike some cities in India, the NCR region is connected by highways since it's made up of multiple states. Though if you have got friends in another part of town, it can mean a commute of upto 70 kms. It has a population of 24 million.

Great quality weed - weed is virtually legal and will set you back by ~10$/quarter, for ~70$ you can get 10gms of 30-60%THC concentrate ( hashish). Lots of microbreweries in gurgaon too.

Cons

Pollution - It can get a bit bad in winter, but you can install airpurifiers in your car and home to offset most of the effects.
The best habit that any developer can have is reading code. It’s shocking how few devs spend time reading code; whether the code is from library dependencies or entirely unrelated third party projects, I always learn something new just by reading it.

Not every developer is blogging their best practices. If you want to see them and learn from them, the best place to look is in the code.

Honestly I think we should be reading at least 10x the amount of code we write. For every novel an author writes, how many novels do you think they read? Certainly more than ten. Why shouldn’t we do the same? In a world awash with open source code, there is really no excuse not to be reading as much of it as possible.
You could say all of this and more of a number of Spanish cities: Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, and Seville.

International cities, thriving technology hubs, connected airports, visa issues really are not a big issue. We have a completely international team based in our Spain office.
Yeah, I've been pleasantly surprised with fiber here in Hobart. The only thing that sucks is the latency of ssh to US cloud providers, but I haven't found it to be a big deal.
That's the entire point of a stacked diff workflow - you would submit smaller PRs which are the equivalent of one commit.
I heard that Vienna has a pretty racist population.
According to their s1, most users are tweens, so: s/college girls/preteen girls/g
The problem with Rails isn’t so much its dynamic nature as much as it is how everything is implicit, and it’s really hard to track down where certain functionality is happening. I doubt Clojure would be so bad, as it’s explicit. Immutability also helps.
I believe troubles are caused by induction effect from adjacent layer (similar to self-inductance[0]).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductance#Self-inductance_of_...
Thinkpad w520 because I replaced the cd drive with a second hdd and the original drive with an ssd. It still works like a champ. (i7 2760qm,quadro 1000m,12gb ram). It set up exactly how I like and it's predictable even in failure.
> I find it hard to believe China would risk their industry

Do you think Apple will start producing iPhones in Apple Park's basement?
You could ask what their reason is for wanting you to demo it?
Absolute poverty is the important measure. If I'm hungry, I'm hungry, no matter what my neighbours have. But if I have a 50" flat screen TV, and my neighbours have a 100" flat screen TV, that inequality does not make me poor. I can still watch TV.
> She says both they and the law enforcement community have made the case that Ethan would still be alive if he had just followed instructions.

> But therein is precisely the problem - his ability to follow instructions. Ethan, like Adam, did not have this ability.

I find it disturbing that in the US, in practice, penalty for failing to comply with officer instructions during an arrest is a legally enforced death sentence. This seems a recurring theme in this kind of stories.
Lax homeless laws+unreasonable apartment costs+temperate weather=filthy streets filled with feces and homeless people.
As i understood it the gyros provide Hubble's axial rotation, not merely sensing for positioning (ie there are no fuel jets for orientation) so a single gyro will only allow them to rotate Hubble in 1 axis, regardless of image orientation data or latency issues.
Ask HN: Good pitching competitions in London
I'm doing a angle round at the moment and would like to take part in some pitching competitions to meet potential investors and practice my pitch.

I am in the impact venture space so anything that has a focus on impact investing would be nice bonus!
What does it tell? Frankly I can't think of anything to say about this. It only fills me with sadness for all involved.
Check out https://seattlebubble.com. Numbers started changing in May, was “obvious” in sept. Average time on market is up to about two weeks. Was single digit days back in Q2. I still see in demand property going same day. Inventory is up, sales flat to down, prices mostly flat. Way beyond seasonal demand changes. Will be curious to see what happens in Q1/Q2.
Again the only thing they said that they have not uncovered any sings of hacking based on whatever endpoint and other security systems they have in place. No vendor has ever claimed they can can detect 100% best solutions can detect 98-99% given the number of exploits this depending on operating system means from many thousands to millions of exploits that will not be detected.
All somebody needs to do is some cheap drones and explosives attacking pipelines- so hey, its not easy being green.
AI Governance: A Research Agenda [pdf]
In terms of keeping one person in check, even if that person is the president, the US constitution does a great job. And this is very much borne out by what has happened since Trump was elected (by a minority of voters).

(I'm not American)
Or just Secure Boot (on the BMCs).
The use of "BIOS" to name the PC, PC/AT, PC98, and suchlike firmwares long pre-dates the existence of EFI, and was not a reaction to it.

And the name is even more confusing than you paint it to be. The "BIOS" was also the bottom-half of MS/PC/DR-DOS, contained in IO.SYS in (pre version 6) MS-DOS and in IBMBIO.COM in PC-DOS and (post version 3) DR-DOS.
I guess the East German coffee crisis is fairly obscure and not well known in the world. Maybe East Germany's need to buy coffee for soft currency was one reason why the Vietnamese coffee production was rebuilt after the war. East Germany and socialist Vietnam had a very close relationship after the Vietnam war (for instance there were a lot of young Vietnamese students and industrial trainees in the 70's and 80's in Eastern Germany).
As a note, the DGSI is the result of the merger of the DST (counter espionage) and RG (domestic intelligence). The RG was a notoriously shaddy and scandals ridden operation, known for building files on French public figures (own file was typically the first document a newly promoted minister for interior requested to read) and was often compared to a political police. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the officier in question came from the RG.
Excuses don't change reality: very few people are buying what Linux Desktop is selling, even at a price of $0. You can rationalize that as a failure of reality if you want, I suppose.
How do you deal with the fact that many interesting people don't have/take the time to write anything out?