skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only counter to that is vague tabloid anecdotes that are quite transparently racist and xenophobic.

I know it's not a scientific experiment, but the latest French interior minister (Gérard Collomb) recently resigned while giving a very strong warning about the situation of the relations between the 'native' and 'foreign' french; here is a translated quote;

> "Mister the Prime minister, I went in all those neighbourhoods, -- (lists foreign origin majority neighbourhoods) -- The situation is dire and that is where a democratic re-conquest is needed, as in those neighbourhood the law of the strongest, the law of cartels, the law of radical islam, have taken the place of democracy. We need to bring back security in those neighbourhoods, (..) but we need a global vision car if now we live side by side, i am afraid tomorrow we live against each other. We are facing immense problems. (...) We need to stop immigration in those neighbourhoods or the situation will become completely out of control"

The former french president echoed similar concerns. They are both socialist and not known to be racists. Maybe the situation is specific to France, but it doesn't it show that there can be legitimate concerns and downside about immigration ?
Even if the did, we can still sideload apps by sending the apk to the phone and installing it. No root/jailbreak needed.
Once Again, Apple telling users how they are allowed to use the devices they supposedly bought not rented from apple...
> Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

Aka: "We're not gonna adhere to privacy shit."
Building my own custom adapter to use cheap eMMC-based SSD boards
As an Australian... Our government does not know how to build a technical system. They have a lot of failures on their hands.

Thus, not opting out does give all your medical data to the private sector anyway. Because they will have large breaches of data. And insurance companies will use it.
What reason did Apple provide when they pulled your app?
I'm glad the restriction is put in place. There were too many apps abusing constant location tracking. If one kid in the kindergarten cannot handle the responsibility, unfortunately all of the little kids have to suffer from it. Same goes with GDPR and net neutrality, regardless whether it's the government or a trillion dollar company.
For all its faults, Facebook is very useful for arranging events and makes it easy for people to RSVP and provide/ask for more information in the event posting itself. It also provides a low barrier of entry and low complexity way of creating groups for discussion and sharing between friends. This is extremely helpful for people who aren't super tech-savvy.

Yes, you can do this stuff elsewhere, manually keeping email and phone chains going, but FB does put all of this stuff in one place and makes it relatively easy to use.

That is not the problem with FB. The problem is all of the other junk they keep pushing, all the ads and games and gamification.
Social media and ad tech are currently intertwined. Facebook and Twitter are both two large players who are both ad tech and social media based. Google was until recently, and that was after years of failure, which they committed to because social media is such a force multiplier for adtech. Can you name another large social media company who doesn't make money off of ad tech? Snap Chat is the only other major social media company I can think of at the moment, and they also make their revenue off of ads.

As for

>Merely responding to the tone of the comment I was, well, responding to.

You were responding to the well known phrase "destroying the world" as if it was physically tearing the earth apart, when it's been a phrase for destroying the currently accepted social norms since at least the 90s when I first heard it in popular media.

If you want to have a discussion stop being disengenous about your arguments

Edit: I went and reviewed the thread. You asked "You think that all tech is doing is destroying society?". When I said "Yes", you asked for the physics of how it was destroying the world. Please stop moving the goal posts
The part of the comment I was responding to was talking about it being impractical to have that many containers running, which isn't true. Later I mentioned that there are probably other benefits (having everything in one process does remove the need for TLB flushes and so on), but that isn't the only thing they said. They didn't say it's drastically faster, they said it's "unrealistic" which simply isn't true.

Also things like page cache sharing would make a huge difference to the real memory cost of having many processes. When you run 10k programs you don't have 10k copies of glibc.
No need to assume (especially with such a low number).

http://gridwatch.co.uk/ has nuclear, solar and wind at 18%, 6% and 15%. Wind reached 37% this year, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wind-power-r...
In the weeks following IL&FS disclosure, government fired and replaced the managing body. But as IL&FS is a holding company with more than 60 different subsidiaries it is very difficult for the new managing body to fix things. Check out this podcast for more detailed information:
http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2018/10/22/episode-91-ilam...
Reddit can be, but HN is IMO the best social media site there is in the IT space, because of the clear guidelines, active moderation and well thought out mechanics which for example enables both flame-war suppression and anonymity, no small feat.
>>>If one kid in the kindergarten cannot handle the responsibility, unfortunately all of the little kids have to suffer from it.

So you are claiming that most Apple users have the same mental capacity and personal responsibility of a Kindergarten age child?
I agree.

We talk about the "identity theft" problem here quite a bit. One time someone wrote about how there is no such thing as identity theft. If someone persuaded a bank to give them money by pretending it was me, the thief didn't steal anything from me. The bank gave the thief money and should try to recover it themselves. I'm not a part of that equation.

I think it is stupid to establish any kind of causality based on the things I search online or the things I do on the computer. The problem isn't that Amazon is recording my activity. The problem is that somehow we allow this to be admissible in a court of law. My shower thoughts don't make me a criminal. I'm innocent until proven guilty. Searching for nitroglycerine or whatever is not the same as the proverbial trout in cow milk that prosecutors claim to be. What's next? Private diaries as evidence that I killed someone?

Edit: spelling
Namespaces and cgroups (using overlayfs to get page cache sharing for the main process mappings in each container). This is a bit of a coy response, but if you have a usecase where other container solutions have a high start-up cost -- write your own. You can write a basic container runtime in tens of lines of shell script.

For existing container glue -- you could probably do this with runc (though unfortunately we are also written in Go) and the architecture is such that runc has no long-running process (only your container continues running after we've set it up). I believe LXC can also produce similar tenancy (and they're written in C which avoids quite a few of the Go problems).
This is unreasonably uncharitable.

I have doubts about its commercial viability, but Magic Leap seems pretty ambitious. Microsoft has been exploring all kinds of exotic technologies, some of which make it into production (kinect, hololens) and some of which don't (the original 'surface'). Alphabet has a bunch of moonshots that sound like vanity projects to me but if even one of them works out it may change the world (Waymo seems closest). Even the much-maligned Google Glass is a preview of the future.

It sounds like your standard for creativity and vision requires rewinding time to a more naive state. Peter Norton made a fortune by selling software that would undelete files. At the time it was amazing!
pivot_root, not chroot. chroot is vulnerable to many trivial escapes.
Please don’t get me wrong. I am absolutely “for” all the quality assurance and privacy work done by Apple. But both the stores have become a very big part of digital life everywhere. Google and Apple as gatekeepers have a lot of power and decisions seem arbitrary and unfair a lot of times. I am pretty sure everybody dealing with the stores have themselves experienced it first hand and not always through their own faults. There needs to be at least some regulation or legal framework for impartial grievance redressal.
Not the users, but the developers. They are the one which were unable to be responsible about permissions.
Culture, schmulture. DevOps, agile need to be software-first again
Yes and I'm serious :-)
But not for App Store apps, unless you’d like your binary to be rejected.
The headline is wrong. "Dreams Before the Start of Time" by Anne Charnock is the 2018 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award: https://www.clarkeaward.com/2018-winner/

They must be referring to the Sir Arthur Clarke Award [1] (for space exploration), not the Arthur C. Clarke Award [2] (for Best Science fiction novel).

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award
Yo Dawg" is an image macro series based on portrait shots of American hip hop artist Alvin Nathaniel Joiner (better known by his stage name Xzibit) and humorous captions that are composed around the recursive phrasal template "Yo Dawg, I herd you like (noun X), so I put an (noun X) in your (noun Y) so you can (verb Z) while you (verb Z)." Since rising to popularity in early 2007, the series has been considered one of the most well-known and longest lasting examples of recursive humor on the Internet.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg?full=1
More: we disrespect your privacy and can’t get away with it there.
Every government has a lot of IT failures, but the perception that they are worse than other enterprise is mostly due to the failures being on record.

There was a study in the 00s that looked at major IT system implementations, and I can’t remember the exact number, but it was around a 77% failure rate for business and around 85% for public sector systems.

Which frankly make a lot of sense. Because the public sector buys its systems from the same software companies that the private sector does.

I don’t necessarily think giving up is the best sollutuon though, I think it would be better if we demanded a higher priority on IT from our political leadership than we do now. I mean, we’re seeing some with the GDPR, but did we really have to rely on the EU to do the right thing?
Not OP but if I wanted to donate without revealing identity to the recipient, what are my options?
> Can't we protect users AND allow them to make informed decisions?

Unfortunately, the answer to this question currently seems to be “no”. I have not found a system that both allows people to have “choice” and also prevents the average user from messing up their device.
Zero-day in popular WordPress GDPR plugin
Two problems I see with HN: 1. It's the most addictive social media I know. 2. Due to the "downvote if you disagree" policy you get downvoted for simple opinions and that makes you really depressed when you happen to have opinions about stuff that's not in line with the general HN crowd.
hi tf_security. It's been more than 4 months since I reported this. Regardless if it is a core functionality or not, this is too long.
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Hi,

For code reviews, find a forum focused on that area. HN is designed for broadly popular subjects. If it doesnt fall in that category, you posting will just fall off.

What languages are working with?

Good luck.
> With the exception of a few specific Apple apps (Mail is actually the only one I know of now, and I believe it is more that the Mail app is a renderer of the system mail process) and apps which use particular API (such as VOIP and navigation-related location), you cannot have your app run persistently in the background to preserve power and resources.

Apple has dozens of daemons that run continuously that handle everything from push notifications to fetching calendars to performing backups.
If a app seeks permissions to things you do not want it to have you then have the option to not install it. I do this all the time with many apps.

It is up to the USER not apple to choose what software to install and run on their computing devices.

Protecting people from themselves is what parents do, so clearly you look to Apple to be some kind of Parent protecting you from being unable to read the permission screen and think "do I want this app to have these permissions"

I would not have a huge issue with this if apple has methods to side load, or use 3rd party app stores in addition to the "offical" one, but if you are going to prevent anyway for a person to install apps outside of the official store then you better be pretty open about the apps you take.

Apples assault on personal freedom and choice is my biggest problem from their App store policies to their war on repair. Apple believes it should have full authority over the devices they sell, if they want that they should RENT them not sell them for $1,000
> it shouldn't be legal for the owner of a store to break into my house and either take stuff or leave trash I don't want (something Apple is perfectly willing to do).

Apple does not remove apps from your device, it stops you from downloading them. So this is still like a store refusing to sell something rather than a storeowner coming to your house and taking things.
I hate apps using FLAG_SECURE with full passion. I want to take a fucking screenshot and you don't allow me to.
Worthless malware that only spies on users, of course it should be banned.
Writable microcode?
I can tell you why I'm not. Their software is not open source. Plus an open source competitor with good UX (and sync), Bitwarden, exists.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20181110084624/https://www.econo...
Menthols are still available in the UK today, I believe they are slated for removal from the market in 2020. What has been removed from the UK market is "10 decks", we can only buy 20s now.
There can also be analog computers, those might be harder to recognise.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I am to mine. But I don't want something tracking me in the background. If that is your business model, then you should've thought of a different one. I don't care whether you think that Apple is a protective parent or not, one protective parent please!
Sartre was right
I like to use Safari on iOS because it supports ad blocking. Not sure if Chrome now supports it. But I see no reason to switch...
> smoke tax (it’s not just tobacco, it’s anything you could burn and inhale) in the uk more than covers the cost of smoking related illness.

...according to the people who sell cigarettes.
I've been happy with https://github.com/abingham/emacs-ycmd – you have to make a .ycm_extra_conf.py per project, but that's about it.
I also see people recommending https://github.com/cquery-project/cquery

You might want to try asking https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/ask or https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/ though
Reading your comment on would think there are no alternatives, but that wouldd be wrong. In the case of location the app could simply be asking you if you would allow location tracking, with regards to GDRP there is absolutely nothing that indicate putting bureaucracy on the companies is a better way than simply having rules that can be fought in court with regards to the use of data. You argue as if there arent alternatives, but there are. You line of reasoning would ban everything because of what a minority do.
I hadn't thought about that use case yet
I think you have a typo in there, "validate iterators" -> "invalidate iterators".

It should be easy to build a non-invalidating version of the iterator that has a pointer to the chunk and an offset within that chunk. That's more like 12 or 16 bytes, though.

What I like about vectors is that an index is not really about the storage that the vector holds at that position. The index is a mathematical identity of an object. It's the object itself. The vector is only a materialized function that holds some attribute for each object. The nice thing is we can have multiple independent vectors for each object type. This is true modularity.

We can get an address from a simple index with deques, too. But only with significant indirection. So I think if (1) no movement cost on reallocation is allowed, and/or (2) stable pointers are needed, deques are a fine choice. But vectors are my first choice.

Given that we have huge address spaces nowadays we could also consider preallocating large global vectors at stable addresses, and expanding them with mmap(). This way the copying when growing the vector is not needed.
You can always secede, but some systems make it harder. You won't find a better system than the one which clearly stipulate you have scrutiny and "easy" secession. So don't let fear makes you adopt for a lesser system.

Fear is the strongest of our enemy. That's the position the declaration of independence let you in. How beautiful is that?
These are all models of a constructive type theory/intuitionistic logic. The axiom of excluded middle fails in SDG and in any infinity-topos.
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No no no, you go further here, you claim that people shouldnt even be able to get the service even if they wanted to, in other words you are not even recognizing the parents right to his opinion you also want to have a say in whether HE should be able to get it.
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You are wrong that this is not 'earth shattering', 40% efficiency increases are roughly what you'd get from a process node step, given that those are rather few and far between now this is the equivalent of extending Moore's law by another 5 to 10 years.
> If this story holds truth there will soon be talk in the remaining Europe to show Romania the door out of EU

Are you serious? That's the last thing the EU wants. Strictly speaking it's not even possible (legally) to force a state to leave the EU.
> I don’t necessarily think giving up is the best sollutuon though, I think it would be better if we demanded a higher priority on IT from our political leadership than we do now.

But opting out of a broken system (many GPs are refusing to use the system as they, in their general computer illiteracy, still find it to be insecure), is not the same as just asking for the government to do better.

You should opt out now, system is broken.

You should ask for it to be better in future - we are. Our government rejected a commission investigating why the last large-scale architecture deployment, NBN, was such an atrocious failure. A year later (under a different controlling party), a different government branch did launch an investigation, and found that it was an utter failure, at pretty much every level.

But again... That doesn't mean opting out isn't wise.

1. GPs think it's insecure.

2. If you have a MHR, then the police, Centrelink, Medicare can access it without a court order or subpoena (not the case if the clinic holds the records).

3. Finally, MHR accept no responsibility for if they do get a breach. In fact, their security disclaimer suggests that the user will be considered at fault if it happens.
since this isn't immediately obvious: the code in question is linked in the article: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html
Good to hear; I have projects where others made the tech choices, and when that happens, these days it's always Node + Mongo unfortunately. So I inherit that. It is much better than it used to be, but still depressing compared to what else is there. But what works works anyway.
To illustrate my point, animal agriculture done today and in the past has invisible tail risk that can wipe out significant amount of population (livestock to human viral or bacterial disease transfer), but someone will point out that it has lower death count on average than, I don't know, hunting.

Nuclear energy is currently not a massive part of our energy production.
Do note that another term for absolute anonymous donations is "funding terrorism". So good luck hiding your donations entirely.

I suspect a sibling comment is correct - buy a visa/etc giftcard (perhaps with cash) and use that to donate online if the recipient accepts online payments - or send the card details via email, or the card via snail mail?
http://www.zerovm.org/

Not sure what progress has been made on it.
I have a Twitter account that I don't post on, but use it to follow a few people whose content I enjoy and so it gives me a nice 'latest feed' I can check once a day. My Reddit use is in a similar place, but I do see myself using it more often whenever I want to burn some time. And HN for the latest news in Tech and other interesting (not watered down) topics.

Deleted my Facebook account simply because FB as a platform sucks. I could log back on in 5 years and my feed would still look the same. Never used Instagram before.

If you want to socialize on the web, then IMO, it's better to work on something you like -- project, website, etc, -- and build a community around that.

I'll occasionally check Quora since sometimes people ask you to answer questions, but that's about it.
Smokers take more sick leave and they live for a long time with disability before they die.
Install the app, and they get all your Contacts, fine location, tap your mic, etc.
I think, long term, the best solution is something like GNU Taler[1] which is anonymous (for consumers) e-Cash system. It doesn't require cryptocurrencies or anything, it can work with VISA or PayPal just as easily.

And it's auditable, so that governments can still tax businesses (which avoids the fear that governments have around large-scale, automated and fully-anonymous payments).

[1]: https://taler.net/en/index.html
You shouldn't take the internet so seriously. Don't let any rando hurt your self esteem. If someone says you're wrong try to find out if there is some truth in their argument. Best case you grow , worst case life remains the same.
You're jumping the gun here. A number of mental illnesses are highly correlated with heavy smoking. It's a legal coping mechanism that people can easily obtain entirely on their own.
So let me explain it. I started being active on the internet after learning no one would be friends with me (I was in class 6 back then). I would spend time figuring out things, talking to people and then social media evolved. I am still pretty active on social media but the main reason people are active on social media is they don't have people around them that listen to them.
he also mentions that there are alternatives ways of dealing with the problems that only with medications, is he referring to psychedelics as one of them I am afraid, where you manage to lower your defenses in order to pain came out?
What I never understood is that many countries like America and EI states have triple A credit ratings despite having trillions of debt that is never going to be paid back. Whilst developing countries have much worse ratings on the assumption they can't pay it back. Neither the rich or poor countries are going to pay the debt back yet the system is rigged to allow the richer ones to have AAA/AAB ratings so they can continue taking more money to invest. Am I missing something or is this true?
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Only a fraction of the total power goes the actual ALU's, even on an ML chip, so the actual top line impact is probably small. Not that it's bad, just that this is a fairly complex change for the amount of power saved. Plus this requires (unproven) changes on the modeling side which isn't desirable.
Or more commonly "money laundering"