skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said about org design. Org design has to be right for the size of the company and the velocity you need to succeed. For example, when a start-up that is about to take off like a rocket ship, it needs to make a conscious change in org design to facilitate both strong foundation building as well as fast feature building with a layer of domain-specific platform/frameworks being curated to keep the leverage high and hence velocity high without blowing the headcount budget.

Ideally orgs should sow the seeds of this 3-layer org (and corresponding tech architecture) design from the beginning and consciously choose to scale the investments in those layers as needed in each growth spurt.

Usually people tend to shortchange this advice by thinking they can make the same 10 people do the work in all the layers. And that may be ok when you are small. But specialization in systems vs app-frameworks vs app feature development is highly important for velocity. Also your hiring loops and the "hiring bar" has to be different for these roles. And usually the hiring pipeline depth and churn rate is different for these roles. So, creating a structure where impedances are matched correctly between input and output, so to speak, is immensely helpful for achieving high productivity and cost efficiency.
The common characteristic seems to be a deficit in executive functions and cognitive control. Individuals have a lower ability to autoregulate their emotional state, making them less able to deal with frustration, and more vulnerable to compulsive behaviors, addiction, anxiety, and depression.
I have been hearing more mumblings in public, having more of the non technically inclined ask me about it again.

I tell them I'm not putting money in again, it's still speculation, the tech is still years away from being usable for the public There are also many who are still not back to where they got in last time.

Rinse and repeat (slightly differently)
left and right have always been relative terms. saying CNN isn't "actually" left leaning is like saying California isn't really west because Hawaii exists.
Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology - the end of freedom and equal opportunities, beginning of discrimination. What the hell is going on with this world?
Most of the security higher-ups at Equifax interviewed for this report seem pretty humble. Most admitted they made some mistakes and oversights that allowed a publically accessible Apache Struts server containing so much private data to go unpatched for months leading to the massive breach. The "former Countermeasures Manager" appears to have learned nothing from the breach however.

> The former Countermeasures Manager at Equifax served in an acting and
then permanent capacity from 2016 to 2017. He believed Equifax suffered a
cybersecurity breach because of a “sophisticated” and “highly motivated”
adversary. He added that, “if asset management was a perfect silver bullet then
perhaps this may not have happened.” He told Subcommittee staff that he does
not think the Countermeasures team could have done anything differently in
response to the March 2017 vulnerability. He was as surprised as anyone that
Equifax suffered a breach because of the “combination of the sophistication of the
attack and the talent at Equifax. We had rock stars at Equifax who were de facto
pillars in the field.” The former Countermeasures Manager believes the response
to the vulnerability was “not only defensible, but justifiable.”
> Why would Canonical care?

It become popular in the cloud because it was popular in the desktop.
> will require login to read answers and have stupid pop ups like Medium does.

And yet medium does not have ads , and neither does ~~nytimes~~, or bloomberg which are frequently posted here. Are login/paywalls not a cancer of the web though? It sure seems to be spreading fast.

The thing is, there is a 1%-1.5% percent of GDP that businesses have been spending on advertising since forever. There is nothing wrong with using that to have a free (as in free beer) internet, and as a bonus we have one that is more pluralist too. The anti-ad hysteria will pass, but the ad spending will stay.
Ah, saving money. Sure. Let's disinvest in solving the hard problems that are typically the root cause of intractable poverty. To save money.

That makes me think of this line:

UBI Is a Transfer of Wealth from the Needy to… Everyone

From this excellent analysis:

https://medium.com/s/free-money/after-universal-basic-income...

I'm not for UBI. If you are looking to convince someone otherwise, you are wasting your time.

I know plenty of things that actually do work to solve problems and bring down expenses. No one cares to listen to any of that.

But you do you and let's just agree to disagree. Some desperately poor American woman who thinks UBI is nonsense is zero threat to your plans to change European tax codes or whatever.

Adieu.
My wish is a good open source UEFI implementation running on top of tight coreboot setup, that goes all out on the security features.
Sure, but Wikipedia depends for it's existence as a service on considerable capital resources. Github and Gitlab are also far from capital free enterprises, yet even though the example of such services is clear and their value obvious, the Chinese state for example has yet to provide anything even remotely comparable.

Capitalism has provided a structure to create and sustain such services, while socialism fails to do so, or even follow in it's tracks. Buy why so? It's one of the fascinating characteristics of actual socialism that it's universalist ideals turn, when faced with the problem of practical implementation, into a centralising and therefore monopolising force. That applies to information just as much as capital, because ultimately all individual freedoms threaten a centralised authority that claims sole legitimacy to speak for society.
Can we get more details about this Satan thing?
That is a lot of revenue for 360 people. Dang.
I agree they should just archive the old questions or de-SEO them on purpose. It happens way too often and is a big time waster.
Here’s an accessible and illustrated page with some additional details around your point https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/interior-projects/how-...

I’ve seen this turn into a problem with big renovation of old residential structures twice. My personal takeaway was make sure your envelope and HVAC are of roughly equivalent quality and era.
iOS App Location Data Monetization
A direct attack is very unprobable by the methabolism of giant squids. Being tangled in the chain of an anchor, lifted and mistaken by an attack on the other hand is perfectly possible.
More diversity means more chance of another Snowden. People are more likely to take risks to protect people similar to themselves, and more diversity increases the chances that the NSA is harming people similar to their own employees.
Autodiff only works because analytical calculus can prove that differentiation is a functor over functions.
windows alternative: https://www.focalfilter.com/
Dunno about on Windows, but the Linux kernel support for 16-bit code has lead to some nasty, subtle privilege escalation exploits due to the really gnarly processor state changes required.
Nexus... I see what you did here!
This is long before Telltale's involvement in the Sam and Max franchise. This game predates Telltale's founding by about 11 years. While Telltale did some good work, I miss LucasArts much more!
so are they not providing the training ?? and if they are not i would accept my comments to be missleading.
I met some monero core devs the other night. They are making this super cool, paper only (with a specific printing algo if you want to participate in the printing :), "future cryptoeconomics" magazine.

The essays are excellent
I feel the same way. I have always sought to work for such start-ups that are about to take off and do high-scale; where leverage is important. Leverage provided by code-bases where certain changes to the code makes others working on the same code base 10X more productive; leverage provided by org designs where changes to the org-design can make all the roles 10X more productive. Looking for these leverage enhancing opportunities and making it happen is a very satisfying and unique experience.

But there's always YAGNI of some kind in any situation and I'm good with the kind of YAGNI that these scaling situations have.
India: Western theories of nationhood don't capture country's complex realities
You will have to put a bit of work into thinking about it, if you don't already see it. At the risk of being more rude than effective, I spelled it out pretty clearly above if you understand autodiff, which requires an understanding of the chain rule, which most people first learn about in a calculus class.

If you want to claim that autodiff is a replacement for all our differentiation needs, then you should try to understand when it doesn't work.
I absolutely loved this game when it came out, then a few years ago I bought it again on GOG - just as good as when I was 8!

I vaguely remember my dad taking me to go and buy a Soundblaster card so the sound worked properly!

Day Of The Tentacle was another one, never owned it but played at friends houses
Turing machines are essentially automation of Turing's thought processes, so, in a way, computers have always been AI.
Dropping by to say I went to this high school. Class of '07
What about PRISM? Protecting US networks is clearly not a part of their mission.
Did you try taking the derivative of y = cuberoot(x^3) at 0? If it works fine, tell me your secret!
What to Do about Google Shopping Not Allowing Watermarked Images
Futebol Ao Vivo – Assistir TV Online No Computador Ou Celular
https://medium.com/@uefatv/assistir-tv-brasil-x-peru-ao-vivo-online-gratis-tv-ingressos-4d08b23e084a
https://medium.com/@uefatv/assistir-brasil-x-peru-ao-vivo-online-hd-22-06-2019-c73a00c223ec

https://medium.com/@uefatv/ao-vivo-peru-vs-brasil-copa-america-2019-en-vivo-online-96cc905b881c

https://medium.com/@uefatv/brasil-x-peru-ao-vivo-online-grátis-copa-américa-2019-e25fb25ff6e8

https://qiita.com/brazil-vs-peru-live-tv/items/1112dda5740e303019e7

https://qiita.com/fox-tvonline/items/4da2dab2284b1d3f36d1

https://qiita.com/brazil-peru-Live-Free/items/845189ed5e3e8ff2e125
https://qiita.com/Copa-America-2019-5k/items/bce96ab67ee4c22939fd

https://qiita.com/brazil-vs-peru-live-tv/items/1112dda5740e303019e7
https://qiita.com/brazil-vs-peru-copa-tv/items/7ee295fcbdc7f6789542
Which Leads to More Sale? Free Shipping or Discount Coupon Codes?
I don't know anyone that works there, but there was this article in The Intercept a while back about how management has become more corporate. That was back in 2005/2006. https://theintercept.com/2018/08/15/nsa-sigint-curmudgeon-si...
The scenario I heard posited is that they only come to the surface to die, so it's really a large animal in it's death throes thrashing about wildly.

It may not be an attack per se, but that doesn't mean it's no threat to a small wooden ship.
Does exposing GPU functions to the browser mean that my gaming PC will be mining ether for random sites? Compared to btc/cpu attacks, the reward here would be ludicrous
Libra: Blockchain virtue-signalling; centralised, not private, good for Facebook
Ah, thanks. The slide is interesting for extra reasons.

With respect, I think you're misunderstanding. I thought you meant light/heavy versions of eg. adders, for some definition of light and heavy addition.

I'm not an expert but... CPUs will put in extra execution units according to need (will typical code get faster with an extra X?) and cost.

Shifters are typically very often used, and are simple. So are adders, though more complex. IIRC recent intel x64 will have several of of each[0]. Multipliers are less cheap so they have fewer (and often you can turn them into adds in certain cases such as progressive array lookups). Division is slow and very expensive in transistors, so they have 1 (division can often be turned into reciprocal multiplication anyway). Sqrt is even worse.

And to repeat, I'm no expert and any corrections welcome.

[0] <https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/coffee... If I'm reading this right, 2 shifters (2? I suppose they are fast so they are available soon after), 4 adders, 1 mult and 1 divider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bronx_High_School_of_S...

This school has produced 8 Nobel laureates.
There is always consequence. You only see the dramatic ones from outside.
Already happening around the web. A new monetization strategy for web apps pay to 'opt out'
Object-Oriented Programming Is Bad
This allocator appears to have some genuinely interesting things in its multi thread support:

- it looks like it avoids atomics on common cases of malloc and free. That’s a big deal and not all malloc a accomplish that.

- it looks like it has cleverness specifically for the case that one thread frees an object into another thread’s heap. It seems like this case was given some special consideration - in particular avoiding the need for the thread that owns the heap to stop or synchronize at the moment that happens even though that thread is non-atomically allocating and freeing in that same heap.

So, it’s always easy to sound smart by saying that a field is well explored - but it looks like this thing actually has some cool new ideas in it.
How is this about “rich people?” It seems turning this into a class warfare issue is a folly. “Rich” people had their data compromised too. Rich people are also affected by credit data issues — probably more significantly than poor people. Stealing the identity of people with few assets is a lot less profitable than stealing the identity of rich people. As far as Equifax shareholders — presumably the rich people to whom you are referring, the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board has significant Equifax holdings; by crushing Equifax shareholders, you aren’t just affecting the so-called rich, but the health of pension funds which typically support the non-rich (rich people don’t rely on pensions for retirement as much.)

I certainly want companies like Equifax held accountable when they break the law, but lamenting that shareholders haven’t lost money is to fundamentally misunderstand the financial system. The solution is to slowly ratchet up the unprofitably of Equifax when they do wrong so that it makes the sector less attractive over time. Simply crushing the company with a multi-billion fine would collapse the stock all at once, destroying significant percentages of pension funds which hurts the very people for whom you ostensibly feel sympathy.

In short, naïve, knee-jerk reactions are dangerous for markets and can cause widespread harm. The right answer is to tighten regulations around this industry so that risk gets priced into the stock which makes it less profitable over time which gives institutional investors time to reallocate with minimal shock to those who can least afford such shocks.
This site really needs HTTPS. The app is fun, but please add HTTPS.

Caustics look pretty good after increasing the number of passes: https://gc.gy/28927731.png
terminally ill patients, or those with a slowly deterioration condition who lost hope in Western medicine ... their attitude is that "at least it won't do harm, so what do I have to lose?" Doubt that this group of vulnerable people that are preyed upon here can be compared to somebody shopping for a sports car.
Why true open source software is inherently ready for enterprise environments
doesn't microsoft also need to keep 32 bit windows so companies can run 16-bit software if they need to?
As I mentioned in the other thread.

I've switched to flatpak steam, works well and its working towards the sandbox this stuff should be in.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

For wine itself -

https://winepak.org/
Yep, not to bash the author but just to show how easy it is to write unsafe C. First function i started reading i already found a memory leak within a minute: indexer calls dsplit which calls dcreatea which calls malloc, this value is never freed inside indexer or anywhere on the way down. It might be that the buffer gets shared with index so by coincidence it's eventually freed but the fact that i have to think so hard and juggle all those buffers in my head for such a simple function just makes my head hurt.

dsplit(), an even simpler function also calls dcreate() which allocates memory into the variable called 'new' that never gets freed. This is schoolbook example of a memory leak, showing the guy didn't choose C because he's already proficient in it. Or even worse, if he is proficient and the language still allows such serious mistakes to slip through so easily.

Edit: the code is actually completely full of memory leaks the more i read, stuff like else if(dequals(commands.values[0], dcreate(SEARCH))) where dcreate returns a buffer from malloc which would have to be freed.
That doesn't help you much if you're starting out. You have to trust somebody and someone has to point you to something.

If it's a specific browser extension or a web page that you can run after you've cut the internet doesn't really make a difference. Note that vanity-eth.tk points out that you don't have to trust them and how to ensure that the private key stays private. But that needs some knowledge and that's certainly not for everybody.
People who use gold as a money store don’t buy physical gold, though. They buy insured, gold backed securities which are held in a stable location, usually the United Kingdom. The account that holds those securities is protected by a password, just like Bitcoin
Executed in a systen where law is not supposed to be impartial but only a tool among many to upkeep the states power. I don't think humans where worth much after death before modern organ transplantation. State arbiter gets more reasons to less leniency when there is a profit to be had from the execution.

In an already 'unfair' system adding profit motive to executions can only worsen the humanitarian result.
> Building a distributed system isn't hard per-se.

I think this may be a bit overstated.

It's certainly true that most of the algorithms, etc. are -- if not necessarily simple -- at least understandable/understood generally. IME the problem is really all of the engineering around the algorithmic stuff.

One thing which I don't think is really well understood yet is different levels of Consistency. There are a lot of trade-offs to be made here, but generally I find that it's really hard to help people understand what those trade-offs are and how they could impact the UX and business.

(After that there's things like how to handle configuration changes safely, how to properly dispose of nodes, etc. etc.)
True, but Wine and Steam are very common use cases on the desktop. While both applications could probably go the snap route, I'm not sure they'd be up to taking on then entirety of the 32-bit stack support across all platforms which is what they'd effectively have to do (maintaining the 32-bit stack just on some platforms while using the provided versions on others would be more work for them)

Canonical has, yet again, made a mistake here if they care about the desktop at all. Sure, 32-bit x86 hardware is pretty much obsolete. All 32-bit software? Not so much. Seems like the reasonable compromise would be to identify the subset of 32-bit packages/libraries needed to support Wine/Steam and continue to maintain those rather than the entire 32-bit version of the distro.
It's an absurd number that can't really be considered as is.

Does that include storage for 100 years? Or just the few seconds needed for transfer.

Do they count all of the datacenters energy usage as something needed to just transfer and store the data (with no other processing)?

Unfortunately that article didn't answer anything.
Do you even understand what PRISM was?
That's not true, as much as people want to believe that.

Ubuntu and Canonical jumped on AWS quickly and started to generate supported images that people liked that gave them fresh stuff that they couldn't really get with Amazon Linux and RHEL was still stuck in the 90's enterprise pricing model, so Ubuntu was a natural fit there.

Sadly, most Ubuntu users are on mac clients, and Canonical isn't going to care about 1 laptop when they need to spend the money to support the millions of instances that one laptop is spawning on AWS, Azure, GCP.

The few "linux desktop" people who are left will still have the same desktop, as long as they get their vscode, docker, cloud tools, and a terminal/ssh they won't care much.
It's mostly passive revenue from the 30% cut of games sold on Steam, and revenue from cosmetic items (many of which are user-designed, anyway).
Most claims are not patented, though. No new claims are patented. The ones that are patented are therefore on the county records as private parcels, and most counties have GIS systems available to get the boundaries.
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It's not all about revenue. Ubuntu has generally had the reputation as the most user friendly and easy to use flavour of Linux for years now. Not always justifiably, and they've made some questionable decisions lately, but it's still been the obvious recommendation for new Linux users, and the one people are most likely to have heard of. A pretty large percentage of technically minded desktop PC users (eg, those most likely to install Linux) are going to care somewhat about gaming.

If someone asks the question "what distro should I use for gaming on Linux", the answer is usually "any is fine, but Ubuntu's probably the safest option". With this decision, the answer becomes "literally anything but Ubuntu". Ubuntu became popular because of good sentiment and word of mouth. And the same geeks trying out Ubuntu on their laptops are the ones who end up making the decisions on what distro their company should use on their servers/VMs too.

I don't know how much general popularity really helps them, maybe it really is irrelevant, and if everyone stopped using it on desktop tomorrow they'd still retain their popularity in server/cloud. But I feel like the only reason they became popular on servers is because they're popular on desktop. There aren't many reasons to use Ubuntu over RHEL or some variant on servers, except that more people will go "oh yeah, I've used Ubuntu before, I know how to use apt".
Squids do not use the tentacles to swim and all species advance with the ten arms fused in a cone. Taking the more aquadynamic shape possible Is the more efficient way to swim for them
Well, the difference between distros is pretty marginal as an end user. If two of them are roughly equivalent but one offers the massive Steam catalog, that seems like a major selling point. They might not directly make money off of it, but they could lose users over it.
The simple system is reliable, has certain anti-locking behaviors, and doesn't depend on complex electronics while being obvious if jamming happens
This is, in a nutshell, why high-performance systems engineering is a rare skill set. It entails writing C++ (or whatever) with full understanding of the machine code that is likely to generate and how that machine code will interact with the incredibly complex internals of modern microarchitectures. It essentially requires de-abstracting two levels of abstraction below the programming language, which exist to reduce cognitive load, in your software design and implementation.

It is unfortunate that this is still so useful in practice, given what it implies about the magnitude of waste in typical software systems.
A bit of a hyperbole on this. Slack is allowed for example, but only the enterprise edition which allows for them to meet compliance regulations.

This sort of policy is pretty typical at any organization of size with a proper legal team.