skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a lesser extent there’s also an anti multilevel marketing movement.

Groups whose soul purpose is to trash talk something are loathsome, even if the target deserves it.
I love your website design. What’s that animated background made of? I will check out the app in a bit when I have my android phone handy!
Yes and no.

I do miss how web development/software engineering was simpler in the 90s, since it felt like it was a lot more accessible when you didn't have all these JavaScript frameworks to learn, CSS tricks to master, and programming languages to mess around with. Also felt like standards were a lot lower in general online back then, so non designers could create comparatively decent looking sites/apps and people weren't so fussy about UX design/usability in general.

And I definitely enjoyed the simplicity of your typical video game back then too. No DLC, no pay to win, no microtransactions, no lootboxes, you just bought a game, and everything on the disc/cart was yours to play. Yeah game design wasn't quite as polished back then, but there were plenty of great games to enjoy none the less, and when they were good, they just worked.

Additionally, I guess the world felt simpler in its optimism too. The Soviet Union had just fell, the internet was new and exciting and the War on Terror hadn't started. Everyone felt like things were getting better, and in Western countries, people's rights were arguably at their most respected. It wasn't perfect by any means, and some rights still needed to be fought for, but it felt peaceful.

Still, I don't miss all of it. Today's tech is better. Science has obviously advanced and moved on. Many sporting achievements happened between the 90s and today. Thousands or even millions of great works of fiction got released, and many things considered impossible happened too.

So it depends really.
Story sounds made up. Definitely not an acceptable cultural norm in China.
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/washington-wizards/kyri...

Even if it's a miniscule amount, coupled with antivaxxer's, climate change deniers, etc. leads to pain points in society even having to prove them wrong takes a toll.
all passwords were salted and hashed with bcrypt

Now that is a breath of fresh air!
There is at least one real, operational tunnel with few side exits and electric car sleds: the Chunnel!
That paper primarily discusses a (cooperative) covert channel between processes using the FPU TS register, then mentions that caches or the TLB could similarly be used to implement a covert channel. IMO, meltdown and Spectre and MDS are a different class of vulnerability, so I don't know that I would say that paper was about "such vulnerabilities."
Thank you for your response. I was just curious about other's best practices.
That may be so, but one should use a disclaimer if he is pasting the same comment into multiple threads.
Framing a law that forces companies to allow you to export your own personal data in a readable format to reduce vendor lock in as "this will definitely cause the next Cambridge Analytics!" on the basis of "but user authentication might be bad!" is absolutely laughable and the fact that this article got so popular here is pretty discouraging.
The point is not to shift responsibility away from advanced economies. They have been responsible for more emissions historically and the carbon footprints of their citizens are much higher.[112] The typical per capita carbon footprint in an emerging economy is only one tonne per year, compared to up to 30 tonnes per year in advanced economies such as the U.S. and Luxembourg[113]. And yes, maybe this disparity is even worse due to the fact that advanced economies are consuming energy-intensive goods that are imported from emerging economies[114]). ]

But the problem of population growth and higher overall populations in emerging economies adopting more energy intensive lifestyles remains. These economies and their citizens are likely to use an enormous amount of cheap energy to grow their economies: Global energy demand is forecasted to rise by 30% as of 2040[119] because energy demand and thus per capita carbon footprints increase in proportion to income.

Also, xarbon tariffs (or border carbon adjustments) might prevent some, but not all,[152] carbon leakage and reduce emissions but are very difficult to calculate and lower trade flows and welfare, especially in emerging economies.[153]

citations here: https://lets-fund.org/clean-energy
Another vote for the git clone / pycharm workflow. If I'm thinking I might end up tweaking the code I might fork instead of clone to make generating a pull request a simple click in the browser. But I'm definitely in love with Pycharm. Even to the point of using it to evaluate code on remote servers locally on my laptop. Just perfect.
Visual Basic definitely opened up programming for a lot of people that otherwise never wouldn't have written software. You will never be able to create something everyone can use (unless it can do mind reading and even then I am not sure) but tools like VB, Access and Excel have enabled a lot of people tow write software.
Plenty of situations where people knowingly waster others time Yeah, I agree. And it seems like a crappy thing to do. Ubiquity doesn't change that. And someone that knocks on your door before they know it's not a good fit is not an apt comparison for what you're advocating.

There's a difference between tire kickers who are curious and maybe have some low level of interest, like cars, etc. They don't even take much time, because they aren't going to the negotiation stage that would be so time consuming and yet be required for what you are advocating. You're advocating for a callous desire to opportunistically waste someone's limited time for their own potential gain. You conflate legitimate albeit casual shoppers with people who are only there in a cynical ploy for self advancement.

The theoretical potential for referrals is a red herring. That same potential exists in the customer they missed talking to, who might actually buy a car, that they lost because someone thought it would be educational to waste their time. Do you know anyone who has sold cars for a living? I do. I grew up with one I call "Dad". I know a lot about how the industry works, dealership marketing and promotions, all of it. So you reference foot traffic as a side benefit to your plan for negotiation experience? Hardly. 5 or 6 of your students in negotiation a day would be enough to cost salesmen money without adding to that "we're busy" look the dealership may want.

Otherwise, selling cars tends to be a soul crushing grind. At times it pays little more than minimum wage for work hours that would rival a dedicated startup team. The national average places their salary between $22,000 and $45,000. That's with commissions counted in and with a work week of 60-70 hours. That's not even counting the off-hours work like delivering a car on a trade between dealerships that is a dead loss for them. Working in the industry means making your target one month only to have the dealership owner change the compensation plan because people were making too much money, and actually tells the staff that's why. At least that owner was honest, most don't bother.

Yeah, some salesmen are wildly successful and make lots of money, some sell high end cars in affluent neighborhoods. But it's like the startup world: for every success like that, even a mediocre success, there are countless others that aren't.

So if you want to brush off this type of behavior as no big deal, at least understand what your really advocating people do. I on the other hand see your advocacy for this kind of behavior as emblematic of the worst impulses of "all about me" culture, and the thin end of the wedge towards condoning sociopathic behavior that looks at other people as merely transactional units there to provide you with something you want.
There's also the matter of device finger printing. If a malicious actor can get you to install a less illicit app that can personally identify you, they can finger print the device and then do the same in Grindr and compare prints to find targets.
> I have not found the cultural climate on HN to be opposed to the GDPR at all.

That strongly depends on the time of day, read: Whether Europe or America is awake.
It will probably be amusing to see the amount of decidedly non–kid friendly abuse hurled at this by adults who happen to like, say, watching toys being opened.
Your comments are all over the place, from asserting that "money and connections open doors"* and some people do test prep and get no better to bragging you got the best help from unpaid relatives who knew their stuff.

I have no idea what point you are trying to make. There seems to be zero consistency to your various remarks.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012049
NFS as a technology is only supposed to be used between systems controlled by the same domain administrator. E.g. university lab computers mounting user home directories from said university's disk servers. Mounting an NFS share (or setting policy allowing an NFS share to be mounted) is an implicit grant of trust—in both directions.

I say "in both directions" because, even more crazily, unless the NFS server is just for anonymous guest access, it's trusting the client connecting to it to assert which users the client is operating on behalf of. Anyone who can connect to an NFS server as a non-"nobody" user, can create or modify files as if they were root or whichever other UID they like. (Basically, the only authorization ACLs the NFS server tracks are for the client device. Users don't log into NFS servers; devices do.)

NFS really only works securely, in use-cases where both sides of the NFS connection are managed devices that don't let anyone except the domain administrator (including people with physical access to the hardware!) become root on them. (Or, I guess, when you're just standing up a read-only disk server to serve a rootfs to a bunch of thin clients. "PXE boot to NFS" is a pretty cool setup, though one that's been mostly superceded by streaming big initramfs images to client memory on boot.)

The reason for the NFS automounter in macOS, is that macOS actually used to use NFS to implement Portable Home Directories (Apple's answer to Windows' Roaming User Profiles.) This feature would only even kick in if the user profile with the NFS path as its homedir, came from your network OpenDirectory domain. (I believe the NFS server and the OpenDirectory server had to both share the same Kerberos auth realm, too.) So, in other words, your device would have to be a fully "managed" one—one of the very devices mentioned above, that doesn't even let its physical possessor become root on it—before the OS would ever deign to provide the NFS automounter anything to chew on.

The automounter itself was never really secured, though; all the security was in the glue determining what the automounter could "see." (You can't really secure the automounter itself without breaking the semantics of "transparent access to NFS shares of your domain." And if you're not locked into legacy 1970s-timesharing-BSD-cluster network semantics, then you may as well just drop NFS and use a better technology like SMB.)
Who are these customers?

In my case, we observed very marginal performance impacts from last year’s mitigations.
Climate Change: There are no simple solutions
I was hoping someone would save me the searching and link me directly to relevant papers. I think the article should have done it itself, as the assumption is rather fundamental to the whole theory.

Similarly I didn't see any mention of intermediate evolutionary stages being found for either a case 1 or 2? If someone sees a paper that does that, it'd be cool
Thanks for your comments. This is actually a externalized layer between RDS and application. It hosts the persistence logic normally implemented by ORM. However, this platform attempts to provide a simpler method for creating the logic. For example, to create a query service, you would just specify the input and output for the service with JSON and then a SELECT statement for the query. The other two services you may create include a SQL command service and a aggregate CRUD service, all with help of a GUI Service Builder.
With your comments, I see the need to carefully phrease my product to avoid confusing. Thanks.
Drawdown seems very interesting overall, but their ranked list is confusing with the top 'solution' being about refrigerants, which amount to no more than a couple of percent gross CO2e emissions. Thats not what most people would expect from a top ranked solution, and potentially detracts from IPCCs seriously worked out advice - that we need to deal most with CO2.
Totally agree. Whole companies run on Excel spreadsheets maintained by non programmers. Maybe they are not up the quality of good software engineers but they are good enough. When I was contractor I saw in one company the IT department taking over all Excel spreadsheets and creating "proper" software. It was a total disaster. Instead of same day turnaround users had to wait requirements and then wait for months often. Costs went up, productivity down. Good software engineering practices have their place but if something works we should leave it alone.
Ugh, so true. The hard part is building the non-tech part of the company so you can hopefully do some coding ever again.
That is mostly Africa nowadays. The average age there is 19.3.
> I asked him whether he thought China's stellar economic record over the past three decades in some way justifies the crackdown. "I don't think so. It's like you cut off you know somebody's limb, and he's still surviving. And you cannot say that: oh, he's surviving because you cut off his limb. The person is actually crippled. And that's what China is."

This is an article reflecting on an event where several thousand innocent young activists were killed by the Chinese government. I think most "Westerns" within my filter bubble have zero reason to be disappointed by China's inspiring economic successes, but have many reasons disappointed with modern China's continuing record of human rights violations e.g. against the Uighurs, Falun Gong, political dissidents, and most recently victims of its draconian social credit score program. Though I suppose in the current state of geopolitical affairs, between Xi, Putin, Trump, May, Erdogan, Duterte, Morrison, Bolsonaro, etc. there is plenty of disappointment to go around.
Odd contrast between the garishly huge "no" and the flyspeck-sized body of the page
I edited my post right as you responded. Immigrants are relevant because they're often poor but because of language and happenstance, for very specific reasons, not because they're stupid or unreliable. Their kids have a lot more upward mobility and they outperform academically.
Haha! All IDs that start with 0x0FEE ;p
I agree. I meant to expand on that a bit, in that no one used SSL and individual site security was lax or non-existent. Now the transport is secure but the data is intentionally shared to far more people. It was just a mess back then.
Tracking down dsync errors in a deterministic game simulation
It's worth pointing out that Jackson wasn't specifically thinking of TLA+ when he wrote that. In _Software Abstractions_ he compares Alloy to B, OCL, VDM, and Z. TLA+ is very different from all of those, just as Alloy is. At some point in the future I'm supposed to write an in-depth comparison, though documentation work is higher priority right now.
What's expensive, and some time ago became a significant limiting factor in densely packing machine rooms, is removing heat from the room. As long as you can supply cool air to the racks they can take care of removing heat from motherboards and other components.

If cooling systems for machine rooms haven't caught up with modern systems that dissipate more heat, the direction you're thinking has merit. But I doubt there are serious limiting factors here, besides cost.
Sounds like you are joking. Not all do. And a lot of seniors are getting laid a lot.
>no, seriously: Linux is a kernel, and has nothing to do with choice.
It has, however, something to do with ethics in games journalism.

What?
Not according to the citation I posted.
That may be true in some sectors but not all. In capital markets (banks, investment funds etc) a lot of coding (via DSL or not) is done by folks who are not developers/programmers or self-declared coders. They just get it done and don’t bother calling on IT which is often counter-productive. Wether its SQL, VBA, R, Python or some some horribly-convoluted Excel worksheets, there is plenty of technical work getting done by non-developers.
> Which is exactly where their power comes from. Because each time you shrink the required knowledge to do work, you broaden the pool of people who can perform that work.

That's an excellent point.

It seems the same concept could also apply to broadening the scope of complexity that an individual could handle. The fewer things that the user needs to have in mind, the more mental space is freed up for other things, like domain complexity.
I'm a technical person and so it happened that at my current company I moved up a bit and eventually ended up being part of the management with C-level meetings.A lot of things that used to seem plain stupid and idiotic, no longer do so,because now I know the background story as well. Also,for various reasons(lack of resources,time,etc.) a lot of great ideas coming from people below me in the company's hierarchy will never get anywhere,which is shame.
You argue that powerful open-source tools should lower the barrier to entry. That's probably true. But I think there is also some differentiation that happens: the best developers are able to learn more tools and squeeze out more productivity. So a highly motivated and somewhat clever engineer can do a passable job of ops/db/backend/frontend/design on their own, which makes them quite valuable to businesses.

FAANGs are a bit of a different story, as you point out. But they also have a lot of infrastructure and culture in place that allows specialists to work efficiently.
The product being designed in 1995 was very different from today. Many of these trade offs result in much lower risk vulnerabilities in 1995 when you don’t have virtualization or hardware shared with anyone with a credit card.

I lack the technical expertise to honestly critique the architecture. My assumption is that the folks behind the design of some of the more advanced technology on the planet aren’t morons or seeking to defraud the market.

All of the noise here is about significant vulnerabilities that haven’t been exploited in public. It is a serious defect, but not the end of the world.
That doesn't have a breakdown by income, so it's impossible for your link to address anything I've said.
> A cluster of smartphones can get by with passive cooling

Is that true? My phone gets quite hot if I run a taxing load on it for too long. My, perhaps poor, intuition tells me that phones can rely on passive cooling because of the burst nature of phone use. If you’re utilizing your smartphone cluster, I can imagine your fleet overheating.
I disagree with the argument that you can't have a high level of skill in multiple parts of the stack without sacrificing a personal life. But I do tend to believe you can't operate at that skill level for each discipline at the same time.

This is based on my own personal experience of course, but in any given job I tend to be full-stack, but with a bias towards a certain area of the stack. My contribution to the other areas of the stack is in more of an advisory/consultant role.

On the other hand, I know full-stack devs who are far better at context-switching than I am. Subjectively I don't think their output is at the same quality as mine, but there is definite value in what they're able to do.
If you go with older CPUs you're gonna have higher loads to execute the same work. Which means more heat.
The green new deal LOL. To do that it would bankrupt the country!
I don't think so. DX12 has the same performance characteristics as Vulkan, yet the DX12 games tested show performance degradation when HT is disabled but Vulkan games do not. As I said, I think it's because the particular Vulkan games tested happen to be more GPU-bound than the DX12 ones.
I don't think it's a difference in cultural norms. It's just what happens if you give people access to production databases without oversight. Snapchat [1], Uber [2] and police departments [3] have had employees abuse their database access, and there are probably many more cases that didn't turn up in a quick search.

Whether or not a company has proper access control in place is mostly a function of whether they've had a scandal in the past that required them to lock things down. If it were widely known that Tencent employees are spying on WeChat users, they'd probably pretty quickly lose that access to stop the inevitable outrage.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnva7/snapchat-employees...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-whistleblower-sa...

[3] https://apnews.com/699236946e3140659fff8a2362e16f43
What? An entrepreneur shot for the moon but didn't make it on the first try?

Burn him at the stake for trying.
They probably ran the benchmarks on Windows. Is it possible to customize the microcode version on Windows without a patch from Microsoft?
As someone who has been on the interviewing side of the table, here's my unsolicited advice.

Highlight the skills that are relevant to the position you're applying for.

Don't list absolutely EVERYTHING on the resume. Leave something for the interview.

Bonus points if you can tell me how you used $RELEVANT_SKILL to solve $RELEVANT_PROBLEM that $PROSPECTIVE_EMPLOYER is needing solved.
As I'm posting a lot of such disbelieving comments, let me address it here: it's not about consumption reduction in general - it's about enough people voluntarily reducing consumption enough to matter. We should each try their best at it, but I don't believe you can count on it when planning climate policy.

The best way to trigger a bottom-up consumption reduction would be massively brainwashing people. But I can't see the usual brainwashers (media, advertisers) interested in doing it, nor do I see why would they all want to do that, on a systems level. The incentives are not there.

Then there's a matter of effect size. As the climate saying goes, "a lot of people helping a little helps a little". How far are you willing to voluntarily reduce your quality of life? Are you willing to change your job just so that you could stop using your car? Because current predictions indicate that it's the least it would take, from everyone. Most people don't engage in enough spurious consumption to have a lot to cut back before it starts significantly degrading their quality of life, and possibly becoming a health issue. I do my best to reduce my carbon footprint; I even work remotely these days. But I also have several people depending on me, so you can bet that ensuring I'm physically and mentally capable of doing my job is one of my top priorities, and I'm not going to cut consumption down to the point it degrades my ability to support my family. Most people I know ultimately face the same situation - they could cut down on some trivialities of no consequence, but beyond that, it quickly becomes a matter of survival.

The situation is even worse if you consider the developing nations, who are slated to have the biggest carbon footprint in the near future. Asking them to cut down on consumption is asking them to go back to living in extreme poverty. Not going to happen.

So sure, let's talk to our friends and relatives some more. But we need systemic solutions, and we need more alternatives with smaller carbon footprint.
So do you have a better citation of immigrants doing better or is it just the meme of “the model hardworking immigrant”?