skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably won't try to eradicate mosquitoes, just the species of mosquitoes that preferentially feed on humans.

As it is we are mostly starting with species that we introduced into new geographies.
Moores Law has not been working anymore like what, last 5 years?
Not in the case of OpenSSL, no. (Some) OpenSSL issues, just as (some) apt issues, end with RCE. Game over.

Priv-sep, correctly handling untrusted files (e.g. 1. check signature, then 2. execute whatever; not the other way round), memory-safe languages, etc. would be more welcome additions.
Mitchell and Armon are good people and I'd expect them to act in good faith as this isn't competition, but it is still bad form for someone to do this. In some cases it can result in the original trademark holder losing their trademark.

The entire system sucks.
not coq but HOL4 and Poly/ML. there are verified HOL kernels but you’d need to do substantial manual validation of the exported theorems to make sure they didn’t get subverted during proof export.
If people won't pay for a hidden
reliability surcharge then Apple will have to reconsider how they engineer their laptops.
How much performance is gained by going async instead of blocking threads on modern hardware?

Skimmed through https://vorner.github.io/async-bench.html. If I understand it correctly, one get about twice the performance with async.

Is this correct? Seems like a compromise (code complexity vs performance) not worth taking.
Yes and no.

Essentially, card processing fees (paid by merchants), interest charges (paid by cardholders who carry a balance), and annual card fees (for some cards) are income to card issuers.

Points, cash back, and paying interest on purchases from cardholders who do not carry a balance are expenses to card issuers.

I expect income is rather static at scale. Which is why card issuers are always tweaking the expenses side. The numbers have to add up somehow, and if you go from all cardholders redeeming points for a real value of $100 to their doing so for a real value of $300... they won't.

Sign up bonuses (the easiest part of the hustle) are the hardest to gauge from the card issuer's side, as a hustler looks like a regular customer. There have been attempts by some issuers to track this in a more detailed way (e.g. Chase's 5/24), and I'd expect to see more issuers moving towards doing so. It's essentially the same problem Vegas has.
> translating x86 code to x86 code

My understanding is that it doesn't do any of this. Windows programs generally don't make direct syscalls, they're undocumented and only used by Microsoft-written DLLs. Wine provides a re-implementation of these DLLs suitable for Unix-like systems. The code of the program itself is untranslated and runs as-is with no performance loss.
Should I just chant this as I drive past the food banks at the people in line?
The title certainly implies it doesn't have interesting features.
Some of the worst companies I ever encountered also had the best Glassdoor reviews and scores.

Sounds ironic, but makes perfect sense when you consider:

1. When a system is so easy to game simply by acting dishonestly, score will correlate with unscrupulous willingness to lie to your future workforce.

2. For these kinds of unscrupulous terrible employers, Glassdoor is seen as nothing more than an easy way to market themselves. Certainly cheaper than investing in your workforce, trying to make your employees happy, or fixing any of your real issues.
PoolJacking: easy 51% attacks against Bitcoin and Ethereum
I looked through some of the discussions and they come off as pretty gross and unprofessional. Wouldn't trust such a place for honest feedback.
Well, when a philosopher considers physics, s/he is less a physicist than a meta-physicist -- literally considering that which is goes beyond physics and its premises. Take Lawrence Sklar[1] for example. (Obviously, this sort of thing can go off the rails rather readily, and frequently does, but it can in other cases, I think, be somewhat useful.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Sklar
"may" is such a weasel word.

If you're a cellular company, "may" means "will". "If you are in the higher tiers of data use, we may throttle your bandwidth".

If you're Glassdoor who sells reputation management and HR services to the very employers being reviewed, "may" means "we're paying lip service to our critics".
My browser language is English, and I live in Flanders. I never search, read or watch anything in French. So there is no reason to show me French ads, except that I live in a country where there is also a French speaking part.

I honestly don't care why they show French ads, but you cannot call such things "targeted", if you cannot even get the language correct, out of a choice of either Dutch or English.
This article is slightly ridiculous. Traditionally it's been a good thing when lots of companies IPO, and the article acknowledges that in the 3rd paragraph, and then spends the rest of the article trying to convince you that it's actually a bad thing and the financial apocalypse is nigh.

I'm not quite sure what's a better explanation: news media have discovered that fear is the only thing that generates clickthroughs, or writers in the news media are themselves afraid (because the Internet has commoditized their profession) and are passing that fear on to readers. Either way, seeing articles like this is one of the few things that makes me think that maybe the current bull run has a while to go.
DOSBox with Win 3.11 usually works well for these cases.

From what I understand, Microsoft could have totally kept 16bit application compatibility in 64bit Windows, but didn't for some reason. Apparently someone out there even compiled a version of NTVDM that works on Win 10 64-bit using leaked code or something.
Sorry, but in my opinion the "Ind Luck" logo is no good. First, I don't even know what it says: is the second word "Luck" or "Buck" or "Cluck" or what? Second, it's too busy; it's what I see when I've had too many beers and can't focus my eyes. Third, reels of film are obsolete. Use a camera profile if you want a visual of a tool that's still being used.
Allowing the university to get the IP is another way to fund projects. If the university didn't get any of the IP, grants would have to be larger to fund all costs.
> All the installs in a professional network where the use of a proxy changes the certificate would have trouble updating. So now it is changing changing http to https and be able to recover the company certificates in some way, in many different environments.

Presumably those "professional networks" also use other software that already updates over HTTPS, this is not really VideoLAN's problem in 2019 when we are moving towards HTTPS everywhere.
I'm actually in the same boat. I've been paranoid of using ynab online because of giving a company all of my financial data. I don't know if it is unfounded, but I do have to admit using ynab on the desktop is kind of inconvenient.
> maybe we establish an abstracted platform that they target and then each respective platform can support that?

There is active and intentional hostility by many platforms to avoid this happening. Making cross platform development harder makes sense if you want to hold developers hostage in your environment and make the effort to work anywhere else a substantial investment.

Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all do this. It was really a sea change for Nintendo to support Vulkan on the Switch. Sony said they would, but never did. Microsoft adamantly uses DX as a lock in tool for the Xbox. Apple made Metal to make cross compatibility between iOS and anything else a huge pain.

At least for games, right now, you cannot do anything but write custom handler code for the Xbox and PlayStation. SDL doesn't support them, their devkits are proprietary, and the Switch is only better because Icculus ported SDL to it. You want to use Vulkan because it has the most API surface, but it only works everywhere but Xbox because there is no Vulkan -> DX wrapper.

So if you want a write once run everywhere game the best combo is SDL + Vulkan working on Windows, Android, and Linux natively. On iOS and OSX with MoltenVK wrapping the Vulkan. On Switch by PMing Ryan Gordon for the secret Switch SDL. But never on Xbox or PS4 in any form, there is no way to be compatible with them.

Which is probably why DirectX is still so entrenched. UWP + DX11 means Windows (7+) and Xbox support, DX12 means Windows 10 and Xbox One support. DX11 is now also starting to mean Linux and maybe even OSX support. That covers more of the market than SDL and Vulkan does despite it all being proprietary and Microsoft only because... thats where about half the market is by itself.

That all being said most of this is moot. Almost no modern game is being made in isolation. Everything is using Unreal 4 or Unity (or hopefully even Godot). All of those are available to varying degrees of completeness everywhere. You don't write your shaders in HLSL, you write them in your engine wrapper shader language. Once your game is done you then chose to press the deploy button to whatever systems you want. But then it turns out these humongous code monsters called game engines end up having a lot of esoteric bugs and breakages across platforms that drive developers not to support anything but high volume targets - ie, the consoles and Windows, maybe Android and iOS.
>They could jot down the MAC address of your device, and track you

Yes but a wifi MAC address is not my real name. I'd be more concerned if Google bought a telecom company like AT&T/Verizon and linked phones' IMEI/ESN hardware numbers to search queries. The IMEI is absolutely linked to a real identity because it's the billing address of the person paying for the phone.

The MAC address correlation seems more useful for targeted ads rather than abusing personal real names data like Equifax & Facebook.
It's the same product being sold, not a competing product. And as a merchant, you aren't required by any law to accept Visa, or credit cards of any kind. Many merchants don't accept Amex, for example, because their fees are a few points higher than competing networks.
I have the same one. It died on my 2 years ago and the cost to fix it ($600 for a new motherboard) was right at the tipping point between worth and not worth it. So I did it out of laziness. (Everything is backed up fine, but reinstalling all the tools etc is just a pain.)

Absolutely no regrets. I replaced the battery myself last week.

Crazy that we're now 7 years later and nobody has been able to come close to this kind of laptop perfection.
> if someone else makes money it somehow precludes others from doing it?

There is an easy way to see that and it is if the median inflation-adjusted hourly wage has risen in the US since the early 1970s. Or if inflation-adjusted weekly earnings have risen. They have not, with GDP growth, both have fallen.

That this even has to be discussed shows the deep control those heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from workers have over discourse, the media, forums like this (run and controlled by an accelerator) etc.

Workers create wealth at a mature company. Some of that pays the electricity bills etc., but then the rest goes to either dividends to the heirs, or to wages. That is the "preclusion". The heirs expropriate the profits of the surplus labor time from the workers creating the wealth. They are shorted on their wages. Sometimes this is explicit like the cabal between Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt that came out in the lawsuit.

Insofar as Bill Gates and invention - it takes a hell of a lot of gullibility to swallow the fantasy you concocted. Kemeny and Kurtz created BASIC. Gates hacks into a military research computer at Harvard and steals computer time from it according to Paul Allen's book (and Harvard admin found out and had proceedings) - they port BASIC to the Altair.

Then IBM comes to Microsoft. IBM got wealthy with computers on taxpayer funded government contracts and a monopoly which was lightly overseen. Gates's mother is on the United Way board with IBM CEO Opel who helps makes this meeting happen. Microsoft sells Seattle Computer Product's Qdos to IBM (Gary Kildall said it was a complete ripoff of his Drdos). A purchased ripoff of another product, sold thanks to family connections. So much for "invention".

At times like the current one, with real wages falling since the early 1970s despite economic growth, that this is even discussed is a sign of how the heirs have bought and paid for the narrative as well.
It seems reasonable to use the term "GNU/Linux" to refer to a system based on Linux and the GNU C library and utilities. You could also just call it "Linux", but with the term "GNU/Linux" you distinguish it from Android and BusyBox-based systems (with some other, smaller C library, such as musl), which are also "Linux".

Certainly, you'd expect most of the CPU time to be spent in application software, but we're talking about how to name the platform, aren't we?
> HGST doesn't fail a lot, but we also have statistically insignificant numbers of them, so <shrug>."

They have over 20 thousand HGST drives now, according to this year's report, which seems significant to me.

They continue to have lower failure rates than the Seagates.
Some folks did, but most people by the time they are out of the door don't care.
Google products and services tend to provide immediate and obvious value. Unlike the "connections" businesses where "value" is poorly defined and prone to change.
It's amazing, because I used to (naively perhaps) trust Glass Door reviews. Then I started at Canopy Tax and heard in almost every weekly company meeting, an encouragement to go on Glass Door and rate the company. They would also brag during those weekly meetings about the current Glass Door rating. The "Glass Door" rating was also reviewed in the meeting, with lamenting over any negative reviews that would pop up.
After that experience, I started viewing Glass Door with a very skeptical eye.

Overall Canopy Tax was a good place to work (for someone that meshes better with the culture than I did). I have many friends still there that are very happy, but I did find that Glass Door manipulation to be pretty distasteful.

If anyone from Glass Door is reading, please go back to your roots! You were such a valuable resource for me in the past, and an important force to help balance the power differential scales.
If anything, tools for sales prospecting are crucially important. “Feedback” is always mentioned in passing, but it is quite the skill in itself to persuade non-techies on a new tech solution.
I've built a pipe which in very rare cases ran into a segfault. Never found out why.
What was Bill Gates invention? Wasn't that PARC?
Yikes. Guess I won't be using it any more.
He says from Twitter, which is waving "what about me? I'm awful too!"

My runner up is Youtube, now infested with piles of crap, and when finding something decent it's infested with ads. What an innovation! It's now just like cable TV!
That draft you feel is money going out the (proverbial) window. It's better to stop the air going in/out through walls, doors, and windows, and bring it in in a controlled fashion:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcrXut_EFA

The problem is that many retrofits don't bring in outside air into the mix and just recirculate what's already in the house. This is not current best practice.
imo this is endemic in areas with poor job markets where there's really about 1 or 2 large employers. It's not just time to leave the company; you need to leave the whole area as well.
So you can’t see how a CEO being compensated 1000x more than whoever cleans their office is a problem? Money flows like a river, and when every executive diverts egregious amounts of money that they’d never spend in their lifetime into their little pools, theres less money flowing downstream along the river. Do you really think that Bill Gates needed to become one of the richest men on earth to proselytize ms dos? Beyond paying the man enough to keep him fed and working, thats millions and millions of dollars of compensation thats removed from the broader economy solely to generate Mr. Gates a comfortable dividend.
I still have a 2006 Mac Mini, and its power brick is external. The size of the computer suggests it was built around the optical drive, while the newer Mac Minis are visibly wider than a CD. http://lowendmac.com/2006/mac-mini-early-2006/
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> keep developers happy and then make integrating with Microsoft's other products

The 'then' part of that sentence is the issue. It isn't then.

Microsoft are about keeping developers on the Microsoft stack happy. Historically they don't want anyone using any other stack, so they don't want developers making things for other stacks.
"Should not be able to take complete control"

Sure, in a normally-functioning country with available leadership and logistical resources. But that is not Afghanistan, at present.

That was my whole point.
In a lot of European countries, payment cards use the domestic payment scheme and are co-branded Visa/MasterCard (or V-pay/Maestro).
If I had to guess, the seagates are sufficiently cheap in ridiculous quantities, and Backblaze's multi-pod redundancy/parity and drive monitoring is good enough, that even if they have a 3% failure rate and the HGSTs have a 0.75% failure rate, that it's still an acceptable risk for them.

If you're an individual person with a 12-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 with hotspare, in a file server in your garage or something, you might prefer to pay the premium to buy HGST, because what if you have a double drive failure during a three week period while you're on vacation out of the country?
So basically this is a counter study to the 'brain stimulating games' do nothing papers.

Presumably the game is not that complex in its mechanic such that an open source version that ran on more platforms could be devised.

That said, I'm waiting for the study where they take participants and structure their access to email, social media, and television in such a way as to limit it to a prescribed time and duration. One hypothesis is that trying to multi-task negatively affects the ability to single task (concentrate) effectively.
These review sites come and go and all end up “going” for the same reason—-it becomes a polluted mess of marketing and manipulated data. Then some new site comes out claiming to be the “new” raw review site where none of this happens... until it does. Rinse and repeat.

Glassdoor is now going through it’s jumped the shark moment where everyone catches on that it’s the same BS as all the sites Glassdoor claimed to be replacing. History repeats itself again.
I'm enjoying this thread. Maybe HN needs a new monthly "Glassdoor HN" or "Who's Reviewing" thread.
I didn't apply for a job based on the reviews.
Wasn't that they were 'all bad' - were pretty mixed with no standout embittered ex-employee, nor sudden influx of positives.
Just reading through them a common complaint got made pretty often - and as am currently annoyed by similar issue with current job, decided it wasn't worth the leap.
If you have a 2%/year failure rate per drive, then that leaves you with a nearly 12%/year chance that at least 1 of 6 drives will fail each year. Or a 31% chance that at least 1 of 6 drives will fail within 3 years. Or a 52% chance that at least 1 of 6 drives will fail within 6 years.
That’s amazing. Do you have any tips? I was trying to do this and got completely overwhelmed with all the numbers.

Plus for the life of me I can figure out if a travel card is better than cash back.
This was a issue way before clicks got invented though...it’s basic human nature
>It is the "sex" factor. Meaning, it makes no sense, but a lot of people buy consumer hardware because of how sexy it is which means thin, light, and attractive design trumps a lot of core utility.

It goes further than that. Apple products are status symbols and owners of Apple products are seen as more sexually attractive.
I won't name the company, but I watched a prominent startup CEO stand in front of the entire company and angrily scold everyone about bad reviews on Glassdoor. He didn't understand why someone would post a negative review online instead of just coming straight to him.
Interesting, I've been using a Discover as my primary payment method for a couple years now, and I think I've run into maybe two businesses in that time that accepted Visa/Mastercard but not Discover.
Perhaps it's regional?
Computer people really hate Searle and Penrose, because they spoil the beautiful picture of Strong AI.
Ask HN: Are you an indie developer? please share your story!
Hi,

I've always loved building new things ever since I learnt about the power of programming. Since then I've developed many small tools to solve the problems that I faced in everyday life. Recently I watched Pieter Levels' Turning Side Projects Into Profitable Startups video and I came to know about the existence of solo entrepreneurs who are making money from their side projects. I think this is what I've always wanted to do. I'm a beginner in this space and I'm struggling to get good project ideas which can make money. So I would like to know how you guys got started, came up with an idea and earned your first $. Also, please share the things that you wish you knew when you started!

Regards,
Sunil
So no different than a high-level Cisco, VMware, or Redhat cert.
Elixir/Phoenix + ES6/Vue + Stripe + PostgreSQL + Vultr
Tendrils of Crime: Visualizing the Diffusion of Stolen Bitcoins
> Google is invaluable because of its utility and amazing results? It's able to provide those results because it steals your data, which it also abuses and sells.

I've been using DuckDuckGo lately and haven't noticed a drop in search quality.

But I've always maxed out Google privacy settings so maybe I don't know what I'm missing.
I've priced out 2019 A4 Premium Plus w/o optics but with sport, cold weather, vented seats packages and it comes out to under $47K, and that's for a car that has more meaningful luxury than Model S.

Gas is SF is very expensive, though, but then so is electricity.
I don't see why it would be, to be frank. "Serverless" is a how. It's a tool, not a solution, and you should be expected to pick up new tools without waving around a piece of paper saying you know a tool.

Except for button-pusher roles I've always hired for whys, not hows, and certification programs seem to never care about the whys. College degrees don't assert that you know how to learn, that you know how to derive the whys--but, in my experience, they correlate better than cert-hunting does.
Assuming that the monetary supply is fixed, then there is a deflationary effect. Even those with less money are able to purchase more value as more value is created. This is why incentives for creating value are important to an economy as opposed to just increasing the monetary supply.