skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister has gone down the same rabbit hole. She really thinks she's "fighting the good fight" by posting a fresh outrage every day. She's glued to a changing handful of posts, replying rapid-fire to anyone who disagrees. I used to post (4-5 times per year) photos of my vacations, but I don't want to feed the whole lifestyle porn/envy cycle.
I think this is the biggest factor. Nobody wants their family to be snooping on their every action, especially if it is a long distance family member that you normally only see a few times a year at best or someone you live with every day. With close friends you have a field of similar interests you can discuss, with total internet strangers you can say or do anything and if people don't like it then nothing happens, but with family members and parents it is a field of potential landmines for tons of kids where everything they say and post needs to be catered to not upset those who have power over their lives.
As they say: it depends :) . Practically speaking, think of it this way...

Total computer power - Cost of maintaining sockets = Available computer power to use sockets.

If total computer power - cost of maintaining sockets is close to 0, there's nothing one can really do with those sockets. If the system has 65K sockets open is it's barely breaking a sweat, you can still do plenty of work!
Found the shill!
Hum... I work in a large MS customer. We are a happy customer for some measure. We are also an Oracle customer, and happier than I would expected to be possible if I didn't know about there.

I just can't imagine anything we could hire from IBM.
At my company the employment contract limits the company's liability if you're fired for harassment (this was standard at past places too). Executives probably have different contracts than mere rank-and-file employees though, in which case I hope we get a law that forbids companies from paying out "golden parachutes" if they conduct an investigation and find proof of sexual misconduct.
> The maximum amount of connections achieved was 65523, just 13 short of 2^16. This is the theoretical maximum number of connections for a single IP address on a single port,

That's not right. Connections are identified by the 4-tuple of (source ip, source port, destination ip, destination port). The server ip and port are fixed in this example, but there's still 2^48 combinations of client ip/port.

> It is amazing that a problem which took huge engineering efforts to solve back in the early 2000s can now be solved easily by anyone in just a handful lines of code.

But you didn't solve the problem! The whole point of C10K was the need for scalable ways to figure out which connections could be operated on (i.e. had something to receive, or could be written to after having previously been blocked for writes). Keeping an array of sockets and just repeatedly iterating over it with the assumption that all those sockets are active is the opposite of scalable.
A lot of the popular unrest facing both corporations & governments today is people learning that conflict gets results. The logic goes that "Well, Andy Rubin managed to exercise his threat to sue to get a $90M severance package, and he doesn't even work for the company anymore. We do work for the company, so we are going to exercise our power as employees to put pressure on the company to not do this again, so that our interests as current employees who don't want to work in an environment rife in sexual harassment aren't discounted." The whole point is to make the company uncomfortable so that they realize they're caught between a rock and a hard place, and the next time an executive's caught with his dick in somebody's face the company's like "Well, we really wish we could work out an amiable settlement with you for your past service, but you remember the protests when this happened with Andy Rubin? Our hands are tied here - the whole company almost fell apart, and if we avoid your lawsuit we'll just end up with a bigger one from them."

They aren't really wrong in this - the squeaky wheel gets the grease and always has, and now a much larger portion of the population is willing to squeak.

The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally, but that's where game theory is taking us. I wonder if much of the appeal of the crypto world (where whole organizations are disintermediated in favor of smart contracts) is because people are realizing that an organization is nothing but a target for angry people, and so by getting rid of the organization and making any people behind it anonymous & fungible, you can continue to organize economic activity without painting a target on your face.
IPI: modern hardware virtualization isn't so fast actually
Thank you for your answer, but I don't think that would have been feasible - our employer called me exactly because the team was very slow, and adding so many additional steps would make me very slow too.

I'm now changing contract, hopefully with the new team it will be possible to find a better compromise. For example, I offered to walk the reviewer through my code, which I think would have helped a lot, but this was refused...
And yet comparing using one on Youtube with not using one will quickly drive the point home that Google is committed to letting you do that, and doesn't mind losing a few bucks in the process.
Hey, author here! This thing came out one of the internal hackathons in our company and I decided to make a blog post about because it gives some interesting insights into Ruby internals. It's not meant for production and if you need something like this "for real", I would always advise Go, Elang/Elixir or Haskell as a solid base to build on.

With MRI Ruby you'll still effectively be limited to one core due to the GIL, so if you need to do any compute intensive work for each socket instead of just sending a string you'll rapidly run into that barrier. As I state in the post, memory usage is not all that great either.
Well, it might not be "normie compatible", but there still is 4chan, which is a lot "old internet". I can understand that people do not like it and why it is that way though. But the point is: There are still sites out there which are like the old internet. They are obviously just not mainstream. They never were really (except reddit maybe). You just gotta find your little niche place and maybe look around every now and then, but they still exist.

Edit: No, i don't talk about /pol/. No one likes the right-wing /pol/-scum. That's not 4chan.
In addition to the problems already mentioned (Google collecting more data, Google making ad blocking harder), let me share another issue I have with this: Google is becoming a de-facto gate keeper to your website, turning bots away.

Do you get it? A company whose business model is based on their bots ability to crawl the web will now have more power over other bots.

Brilliant.
Interesting question. The same technology (IR laser projector) is used inside Microsoft's kinect (except they use a stronger projector), and people play that for extended periods of time, so definitely not the first consumer electronic to use this type of technology.

There are so many different things that can give you headaches (diet, hydration, sleep, stress, neurological issues, etc), it can be challenging to pin this down. I'd say it's more likely something else. Additionally, I find I get headaches from staring at tiny screens too long in general. I hope you feel better soon!
No, he coerced them into it - if you have a position of power, and you say "have sex with me", effectively in exchange for your treatment/employment in the company - I can't recall if Rubin was the burning man "sex or no job" guy, or that was another - that is sex discrimination and/or harassment.

I doubt Rubin would have had the same behaviour with male subordinates, so that's a difference in treatment based on gender (woman who have to sleep with him to get equal treatment, or super devil advocate here, against men unable to "sleep to the top").

The reason companies have clear rules against this - which should be super easy to enforce - is because if you are in a position of power over someone, even if it was a hypothetical case of not abusing power, the subordinate can't tell so may feel coerced. If your underling feels coerced, they are. That it was unintentional is not relevant. Note, this is distinct from consent, which may or may not apply. Certainly if it's consent related the company should be forwarding to police.

In addition to that it seems like there is a large body of evidence of what is at minimum inappropriate behaviour of any employee, let alone the management and executive tiers. Any of which should have been firable.
"As a homemaker in my twenties.." Construction? Architect? Interior Designer?
There is a funny poll on the page by the link: Which do you trust the most? Google (49%), Facebook (4%), Twitter (12%), President Trump (35%). I understand trusting the president is a political opinion and many people may trust him but why the heck do so many people trust Google? Don't they realize Google intentionally owns them even more than Facebook does?
No, of course not; my upbringing, the people surrounding me, the cards life dealt me have no impact on me in way whatsoever.

Poster should call him out. Say you find it unpleasant. If the online echo chamber extends into real life as well he's got no hope.
Heck, president-elect Bolsonaro got stabbed campaigning in Brazil.

I'm not sure if current presidents use bulletproof clothing.
One example I can imagine you can help with: if your city doesn't have it, you could put its train timetables in an app. There's one for Sydney, it's called TripView. A train timetable available in a convenient manner will help people rely on trains more and reduce CO2 emissions.
Off topic but this cover is just so poorly designed.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i7R8Z2i.mox...
Neat idea! If you're interested in production quality high concurrency Ruby check out https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/ which can support hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections.
they could've just asked op's mom.
The interesting thing about this type of heuristic is you probably don’t need Google to do it for you. Does anyone know of any open source software that is capable of doing something like this?
Relationship,marriage and Health Issues
That would be a government doing that (I wish we could say just one, but when it comes to restrictions based on "citizen status", it's really not just China), not Google, a private company.

But the big point is Google is not the Chinese state. In fact, one might say, quite accurately, that they're not very friendly.
Personally I wonder if Reddit can do something about the low quality of their comments in the big subs. All comment sections are full of idiots making bad puns. It's terrible, much much worse than youtube ever was or that twitter currently is.
I lean very libertarian, especially when it comes to criminal justice and sentencing reform.

Private prisons can be seen as a byproduct of over-criminalization and over-enforcement. These red light cameras are in the same world where government sees the tightening of enforcement as a valid revenue model.
I think these are two very different things. The cost of changing companies (especially if you are at Google) is fairly low (and often comes with a salary increase). The cost of changing citizenship could be exorbitant. People claim that if you want change in a country, you vote. If you don't believe in a company's values, you join another. Tech employees in this economy do have a lot of power. I think that is a more apt comparison.
Australian Encryption-Busting Bill Fatally Flawed: UN Special Rapporteur
I'd love to know what happened, because I'm honestly not sure what it was. I just remember posting fearlessly about all sorts of random stuff I'd ashamed to think I put on the internet nowadays.
Lake Michigan is vast on a scale that is hard to get your head around. 7 million gallons a day is not outside the scope of what other commercial entities draw from the lake; for instance, the NIPSCO plant near the IN/MI border draws 12 million gallons a day. If you're going to claim that drawing an amount of water from the lake is a problem, you're going to have to support the argument with evidence; people seem pretty innumerate about the water supply here (see also: the Nestle debate in Michigan).
> Every time I’m asked to identify the motorbikes or traffic lights I feel like google should be paying me a few cents each time for helping train their machine learning algorithms.

Over and over again, too. It's completely overdone. I have had screen after screen of images to click on before the Recaptcha is finally happy that I'm human / I've provided enough training data for whatever object they're currently trying to get their cars not to run into.

I wouldn't really object to "of these three pictures, which is a motorbike", but when I'm on my 4th or 5th screen of 9 images each I'm getting pretty annoyed... And they're so slow to fade in, too!
You should write a bot in Scikit / Python to scrape Arxiv for interesting articles!
> That's not how arguments work

Saying you believe something in spite of the data, isn't how arguments work. You have the burden. I await your next deflection.
Scala compiler phases with pictures
Please note that I haven't dismissed any point you have made despite your initial dismissal of me.

To your point, is a currency is inflating then you are incentivised to not hold it. But who has the right to benefit from the inflation of the supply? How do you fairly determine that? Often inflation is conflated with the rise in prices rather than strictly the inflation of supply, so strictly referring to the latter - inflation occurs, while at the same time economic growth is also occurring, so it isn't 100% clear that the incentive scheme for devaluing a currency will work as it must balance against this growth. Even if it is not balanced, and successfully devalues for your incentive, what is the appropriate rate? Is VEF too much, USD just enough? Wouldn't it make more sense to just have a fixed/known rate of currency supply - eg Bitcoin - decreases to 0, Monero decreases to small.

The problem isn't so much the inflation, it is the unpredictable nature of the debasement and the fairness of who benefits from it. A currency doesn't need to incentivise people to spend it so long as it can always be available as a medium. Infinite divisibility ensures this. Having the medium be a universal standard measure as a unit of account by virtue of being a stable and accessible medium is also essential. Bitcoin achieves this. As for debt burdens growing, this is not always true. If I take a low interest BTC loan for mining equipment and have measured my risk and profit correctly I should be able to pay it off since I am working in this currency. If I borrow USD to start a Venezuelan corner store, I might be in for a bad time.
The Moral Machine experimemnt
If you develop an API for it and everyone can use the data all over the place freely and easily, that could help.
Any time I see their stupid image captcha to find all buses or shop fronts I immediately close the tab. It's never worth the effort of solving 5x image captcha to read see some stupid website.
Cool, that solution works for one of the hegemonic governments of the world.

Now what about about literally every other entity in the world that has a website? The vast majority of which not being a business? Nor serving life-critical documentation to all of the country's disabled?
I also found it interesting that post-election, the tone of the content started to shift dramatically. t_d has turned into a mirror of r/politics, and in the process lost their entire original style.
If/when you have kids, assuming the economy looks roughly the same when they graduate college, would you consider providing them a similar $28k/year stipend if they decided to pursue their goal in the arts/a non-lucrative career? Maybe non-monetary support such as having a place to live with you at home? Or would you want them to learn lessons the hard way?
It's certainly possible, and I see from your profile that you've put your money where your mouth is. It's interesting that this holds true out of the 100 most valuable YC companies, though. YC has funded close to 3000 companies, which is pretty close to a representative sample, and those companies originate from all over the world. If the Bay Area didn't have a real advantage in growing & scaling companies and it was all hype, I would expect the market to wash it out of this sample.
Nginx can support HTTP 1.0, 1.1, and 2 all at once. I'd suspect one day it will be able to support 3 as well. And I'd imagine that any other server software of consequence is going to as well.
But you can't seriously expect site owners to just deal with the amount of spam bots can generate because it'd be 1% more equitable to users (that would be driven out by those very bots reCaptcha protects you from btw)

And who pays for those costs ? Who eliminates the tons of spam posted ?
that's a simplistic analysis that doesn't really capture the whole effect a universal basic income might have. For one, with a livable basic income, the value of housing shifts somewhat--since there's not essentially a requirement to have a job, the demand for housing-near-jobs changes. It is hard to predict exactly what direction that might shift in.

The competitive environment around an artistic endeavor changes too--you have the ability to experiment and fail and not be forced out entirely, since you can fall back and change things up without having to worry about finding a job. And it might not be the case that everyone looking for a creative outlet is looking to make it into a living.
It should be on a student to choose whether or not do they want a challenge, what particular aspect and what degree they'd like to be challenged in. The job of an educational institution is to educate, whoever interested can easily invent a challenge for themselves or use an old challenge without looking at ready solutions if they so desire. Forced artificial challenge policy is questionable.
If a CAPTCHA is the only thing keeping your site secure from abuse then I think you have larger problems.
That looks really interesting! I built this during a hackathon and ran out of time before managing to get beyond the 2^16 barrier. I'll definitely take a look at Goliath to see if I can borrow some tricks to push it even further. :)
How does it work with penguins?
If and when that’s the case, it’s appropriate for eg the FBI to intervene, and most of the well-organized groups have been broken up. The issue in the US now is lone wolves, who are orders of magnitude less well-organized than a group that used to control vast amounts of Iraq and Syria by force of arms.

The proposed solution of cracking down on, say, conspiracy theory forums is categorically different from cracking down on actual terrorist organizations, and more akin to silencing radicalized imams and the like. While it’s true that many European countries do suppress particular political ideologies, even most of these bans are superficial, which is why Europe still has crypto-fascist parties.
https://illumos.org/man/5/epoll

While a best effort has been made to mimic the Linux semantics, there are some semantics that are too peculiar or ill-conceived to merit accommodation. In particular, the Linux epoll facility will -- by design -- continue to generate events for closed file descriptors where/when the underlying file description remains open. For example, if one were to fork(2) and subsequently close an actively epoll'd file descriptor in the parent, any events generated in the child on the implicitly duplicated file descriptor will continue to be delivered to the parent -- despite the fact that the parent itself no longer has any notion of the file description! This epoll facility refuses to honor these semantics; closing the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'd file descriptor will always result in no further events being generated for that event description.

Brian Cantrill on epoll https://youtu.be/l6XQUciI-Sc?t=3424
This article is missing a fairly important detail - the demands of the protesters. It is one thing to be unhappy with a situation, but given that the situation is now in the past - what exactly do they want to change going forward?

The article is almost scrupulous in painting the walkout as out-of-control employees rather than the precursors of organised labour.
Nothing will ever be enough for the COC supporters. Unless you reject COC completely and unequivocally your project will be forever concern trolled in this manner.
Had to do a double take here. Not sure that this, as a blanket statement can be correct. How can anyone not be entitled to connect to any public IP address? And how, and who, would be able to enforce that?

A server can put various measures in place to limit general access, but then by those measures the IP is no longer public. T&Cs that a site may wish to enforce can only be made available after the connection has already been established.

Also, robots.txt is a standard that we agree to respect but it is not something that legally binding.

So have to disagree.
This sounds pretty nice, sadly the city were I live has no trains, cars only.

Thank you for the suggestion.
The worst thing about likes on Twitter is that they often get treated as retweets and there's no opt-out. It's hard to find people to follow who don't hit the like button on things I don't like.

Retweets are easier to deal with. You can unsubscribe to retweets from your "following" list. I highly recommend it.
It certainly does use IP because switching from broadband to 4G (hotspot) fixed the issue even when I didn't clear the cache/cookies.

The captcha is broken because at least in my case even after solving dozens of images (which keep refreshing now btw) it still can't be convinced I'm human.
What I'm saying is I can easily afford an iPhone but prefer Android, unlike the poster I was replying to.

So although I do feel sympathy for those poorer people who can't afford an iPhone, I don't feel sympathy for them because they can't afford an iPhone.
FB also has pages that post memes/pics/news/Russian propaganda, and thousands and thousands of people commenting underneath them (tragically mostly to make their friends aware of the content by mentioning their names), so that's their reddit/forums competition.

But unlike forums, most of the conversation on Facebook is 20 comments at a time and you can't just link to page X of some conversation...
"table next to the bathroom"

This is a phrase I'm not familiar with. What do you mean?