skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this informative post. I currently live in the Middle East and was just about to pick these up last night - but I was under the wrong impression they were the same as European truffles.
People should take this list with a serious health warning. Firstly, a lot of this is just 'internet sleuth'ing and innuendo. Plenty of companies want to operate multiple services to be able to use different marketing and differentiation strategies. Secondly, the fact that the site is funded by affiliate links to a coupole of the big VPN services should really ring alarm bells. I trust we all learned from the Mattress review debacles? [1]

Thirdly, the companies who are funding this site through affiliate links, despite not being investigated in this article are arguably more worth of some serious suspicion. For example: NordVPN, one of their "Top VPN providers" is run by the same guy who runs a Lithuanian data harvesting company[2], but don't worry, lots of websites who make money from affiliate links to NordVPN (Sign up Now! 75% off when you use the code "SCAM" at checkout!)

Now, maybe I'm being cynical - but I suspect if NordVPN weren't lining the pockets of all these referral websites their reviews of NordVPN would involve a lot more of the faux concern they show about other VPN companies in this hit piece, rather than the credulous write-ups about how it's totally not a problem that this shifty Panamanian company has suspicious links to data harvesters.

[1]:https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

[2]:https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/is-nordvpn-operated-by-tesone...
Letting the Internet Regulate Itself Was a Good Idea – In the 1990s
So I'm 20 and I've only got 26.5 hours of free time each week. I think this is... terrible?
Really? These days the guardian is known for its poor fact checking and misleading headlines
DNS logging and legally mandated modification. See the recent thread about UK ISPs disliking Mozilla using DNS over HTTPS.
Bad software is common in these kinds of routers. Even across software updates you can get a dying router, much less a hardware change.

That's because the software is essentially lowest bidder and untested.

(Note: running in a lab is not the same as adversarial testing.)
Carp 0.3
Well, look at Oneweb as an example. They have raised 3+ billions, still need more funding and their total system throughout is not that much larger than Viasat-3's,which has a cost of ~1 billion (?). I don't think that Starlink is gonna be significantly (maybe a factor of 0.5x) cheaper in terms of cost per Mbps.
Paying for it means losing any semblance of anonymity, without any guarantee that they won't just keep on logging everything that passes through.
The biggest earthquakes in California history
Responding in such a way as to make this seem like a private conversation which happens to be available publicly, is perhaps another example of hidden power relations, to which we've become all too familiar.

I don't know how to say this in the right way. It's never really about you - no matter how good it might feel. Not really.
Indeed. I was doing some research a while back on which countries do and don't have conscription and it's a surprisingly hard line to draw. A lot of countries have it in name, but don't in practice, and the line between having and not having conscription is surprisingly blurry.
Well, I don’t know why he’s mad, but after living 5 decades, I’m a little frustrated myself.

It’s great that people turn out in support of others. However, you’ve got to wonder if we’d made more of an effort over the past half century in research, many fewer people would have died prematurely. Great progress has been made in childhood cancers, for example:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-in-children/key-statist...

20% more yearly research compounded over the last 5 decades and we might not be reading this story today.

50 years from now this person would not die in childhood from cancer.
Apple says the future is C++ and Swift.

Microsoft says the future is a mix of constrained C++ (Core Guidelines), Rust and AOT C#.

Google says the future is C++ and Java (as of Treble) on Android, with Go, C++ and Rust on ChromeOS and Fuchsia.

ARM says C++ on mbed.

GenodeOS says C++ and Ada.

Newton, Symbian, Bada and BeOS used C++.

C is married with UNIX, they were born to each other, other OSes have long followed other paths.
"Nobody really needs to build a shed or fix a car themselves anymore."

It's true until it's not. Many well-off people were trying to cut all kinds of costs after their pay got cut or jobs lost during the Great Recession. Quite a few people down here were saving money hunting deer, raising chickens, fixing their own cars/homes, etc. Some of these skills can be good to have just in case.
You want access to read my company emails? As a sys admin, this is abhorrent.

Consent to Access Your Email Conversations and Files BY UTILIZING THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES AND/OR SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO ALLOW NOTED TO ACCESS EMAILS IN YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT. BY POSTING FILES, AUTHENTICATING YOUR EMAIL CREDENTIALS OR SHARING MESSAGES, YOU CONSENT TO SHARE ACCESS TO THE CONTENT OF THOISE FILES AND THOSE MESSAGES WITH OTHER USERS IN YOUR ACCOUNT.
If you're angry at the universe, try to channel that anger into action in however small a way you can think to improve the world. Emotions are a powerful motivator.

The universe does not and is under no obligation to care about any of us and just being angry at it is like being angry at a rock, but that is no reason for us not to care. Quite the opposite if you ask me.

I think we are responsible for making the world the best it can be for everyone because we are the only ones here who have the capacity to care about making it so.
This is really weird, what might it be doing?
And it is used commercially.

Astrobe has been selling development kits for ARM based boards for years now.
I have never been burgled, mugged or had my car broken into. The only crime that I worry about on a regular basis is pickpocketing but this is similar to other European countries.
The problem is with the modems, not the WiFi.
I'm almost not. I made the point because this level of ambiguity and "do it yourself" is consistent throughout the language.

I know why we still use C, but the use of C is inherently prone to security problems.

C does not provide bounds checking by default, so it can be forgotten (Heartbleed) and the lack of either static checking, RAII or garbage collection (Not as a library e.g. Boehm) makes memory corruption all but inevitable.
You are absolutely right, but my point is that when you do modern C++, in the application code, it is very unlikely that you need to use reinterpret_cast in your code, and therefore you don't need to know all the subtlety about it.

So despite C++ being more complex than C, if you limit yourself to some practical subset, it is actually easier than C.
I also use Resilio Sync for distributing backups with encrypted peers, but I use Borg to backup into the folder for compression, de-duplication, and really easy PIT recovery. I've also added rdiff-backup on one of the encrypted peers in case the write host gets hit with ransomware and the backup overwritten.
Yes, of course! I didn't even realize my mistake, and now it's too late to change. Thanks for the correction, and my apologies for the confusion.
Just some parts of it.

Some device classes (not to mix with OOP ones) can only be programmed with C++, while others can be developed in any compiled language able to link to the OS APIs.

There is a WWDC session on it.
I thought the point of the Dutch Reach is that you look in the mirror and keep twisting so you're looking backwards as you open the door.

Mind you, I can't remember the last time I was in a car, so I could be getting it wrong.

«I can't remember the last time I was in a car» ← the real benefit of living in a city made for humans!
And pre-OS X, Mac OS was Object Pascal. :)
I'm regularly passed by grannies on unmotorized fixies.
Most people on HN are probably on several lists.

If I mention "The Anarchist Cookbook" then I imagine every username on this page will be added to a GCHQ list, I'll probably have my internet traffic mined to establish if I downloaded it (which they arrest people for in the UK -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41802493). Presumably they have my online purchase history that relates to reagents, etc..

I also expect to be on lists for being critical of the establishment, doing online web security courses, buying remote connectable electronics, etc..

The difficulty I expect is profiling to reduce those lists to meaningful actions that have indicative value.
VPNs are the best data mining solution out there. You're literally giving them all traffic plus using their DNS. TLS helps a lot now but DNS hurts.
With multiple slightly incompatible competing compilers.
That's my point -- it's not necessarily higher than the US after you consider the fact that in the US you will most often be paying other taxes as well.
Oasis LMF is an open-source climate risk modelling framework funded by the insurance industry: https://oasislmf.org/

You could try to contribute to that or get hired to work on that project or something similar.
It is an exponential curve with cleverness as input parameter.

So it depends how complex they are.
I would add cryptic error java stacktraces to this list but, as someone who recently overcame the "java is gross" bias, I'd say benefits of JVM and its vast ecosystem outweigh the cost.
Damn, and it was written in 1932.
Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)
Well, that's a copout. Of course, if you take absolutely any computer architecture, you can't assume simple things like sizeof(int) or data structure alignment. But if sizeof(int) is at 4 and data needs to be aligned by its own size - like on any real architecture relevant today - many of these questions have a deterministic answer. In practice, compiler bugs are a much bigger issue than architecture assumptions.
As you know Tetration has been around a number of years. While it may be one of the few in-house products, on the security side, that Cisco hasn't acquired it's very akin to Cisco ISE in my opinion. Cisco drives hardware through software because that's (still) where the margin can be made up. Tetration isn't all that different in that line of thinking. Let's look at the data sheet to find the hidden, proprietary link to hardware, shall we?

"The Cisco Tetration platform is designed to fully address these challenges, using comprehensive traffic telemetry data collected from both servers and Cisco Nexus® switches." [0]

And there it is... Also it looks like Cisco wants to sell you Tetration hardware clusters. To be fair it looks like you can also run Tetration-V on your own, but you'll still pay for licensing.

Regardless I still think this is a miss for the next decade. Partially because the solution is dependent on proprietary hardware and partially because the solution is "agent" based, which is a legacy approach to security spun out in Tetration by ties to hardware and a bundled data lake (Elastic, I assume?).

[0] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/data-cente...
Eddy Currents
I'm from one of the poorest countries on the planet, which is neither politically aligned with the US nor the Chinese, because it isn't geopolitically important enough. Though to be entirely honest, it's aligned with whoever throws money at it. I'm wary of the economic moves the Chinese are making in my part of the world, because they come attached with fat strings, which most people are willing to ignore for said economic benefits.

Nations aren't single discrete entities, so everything from individuals to collectives of all sizes within a nation will want to align with the US or the Chinese, depending on money, politics, ideologies, etc. I personally would much rather have the NSA read my emails, not the Chinese. It may be an unfair choice, but it is a choice.

> I think we are approaching a time in history where we are going to actually choose if we are human resources that are to be spied on and controlled by the political class or are we individuals.

I don't think you are right about this bit. The oppressor/oppressed duality is never going away, because it isn't determined by some kind of social realisation that we could do better as a species. It is determined by our biology and our drive to acquire resources. That kind of change won't happen until our biology changes.
This approach seems absurd when applied to many equality laws that were controversial at the time but are no longer.

For example, what if someone forced you legally to allow women to attend your school, or African-Americans to use your water fountain (which they generally do in various ways)?

It appears you'd intentionally bar them because before you'd have had basic human decency if they asked you nicely, but now the law got involved you're going to become institutionally racist and sexist just to make a point about freedom?

But presumably you didn't and don't do that kind of thing, so why threaten to do it in this case?
Once humans will get their hands on asteroids, it would be a game-changer
Denmark does not own Greenland though, haven't for half a century.
To be fair, this can be said for pretty much anything that isn't domesticated.
Mark Fisher and the War on Time (2012)
What Makes a Good Engineer?
And what if you don't carry ID, as is normal in UK. Do they arrest you?
http://systemarchitect.mit.edu/docs/delportillo19a.pdf

I am one of the authors.

This was donde in Sept 2018 so its a little bit outdated by now.
Dutch cities were not made for cars. Cars are the guests.
Thats the difference between the US and the Netherlands: by the time Dutch people started to buy cars in the 1960s cycling had been a popular means of transportation for half a century.
This has been such a positive change in Amsterdam
Made me laugh. I mean, if most Chinese got 6 packs, then probably nobody in the right mind would even think to mention that ban.

However, I don't like the "banned behaviours" mindset. It's unpleasant too see of course, but banning it is over do, or "矫妄过正"[0].

How about to teach people good manners instead?

[0] https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....
I am a bit confused -- are you saying that the article in your second reference is one of those "credulous write-ups" that we should be wary of or are you using it as a genuine reference?
None of these are seriously privacy-centric VPNs. I was very pleased to not see any of my old favorites (AirVPN, IVPN, Mullvad and PIA).

Although it's not easy to find them on their site, I believe that the https://cure53.de/ vulnerability assessments are more interesting. Google "vpn site:cure53.de".
I think the argument is that shops won't be able to get stock in without lots of road access for delivery trucks etc.
better yet it makes it really easy to pinpoint traffic to a single person despite all other measurements to make this harder. I would guess being an IP transit provider would be a lot more beneficial for them otherwise with regards to the amount of traffic they would handle....
I was going to comment on the same thing. I’m squinting at my mobile phone screen so I bookmarked the site so I can check it later on a proper screen indoors. It just looked so good I thought I’d heck back later to learn something about lovely documentation:)
If you work full time You might not be able to manage all these things in a satisfactory way.

First make sure you have sane foundations: enough sleep + exercise + proper diet.

Then experiment and see what sticks. I find it easier to meditate right after I wake up and take a shower, I also manage to do 10-15 min of stretches/yoga.

Reading is the perfect pre bed activity, dim the lights, make some tea, read until you're too tired to continue.

I also found that some activities are just not a fit for me. Maybe you like the idea of, let's say, journaling, but in practice you don't like it = you procrastinate to avoid doing it. Focus on what you truly enjoy doing and build habits from here.

> I'm kind of overwhelmed or I can't spend qualitative time in my relationship / don't have time to do other chores.

It's also a matter of expectations, you can't do 10 things and excel in all of them. You can't watch all the new Netflix shows, meditate one hour a day, learn to be a professional guitar player, &c. while working full time and having a kid. Pick your battle(s).
EverQuest was actually the game that taught me what the bad signs were.

In high school, my friend was into drugs and partying. I was into EverQuest. I think we'd have both been better long term if he'd gotten me into drugs instead of me getting him into EverQuest.
Try cryFS.
https://www.cryfs.org/
I think they typo’d “mail” and wrote “email” unintentionally. Or at least that’s the only way their post makes sense to me.
What’s the latest compiler bug that caused a serious issue for you? (Genuinely interested, no sarcasm here.)
This isn't accurate. They were not made for bikes.

Is was only in the 70s and 80s when there was a revolution in the introduction of cycling infrastructure.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011...
I sync to a homeserver and back that up with Borg using a time4vps storage server.
And Greenland is still Danish, so the decendants of the vikings did manage to hold on to it, even after their settlements died out, they came back.
The difference is America good China bad.

And thats fine if you're a US citizen swallowing the propaganda. I don't think anti Chinese sentiment is going to make the world better. China exists and its not going to disappear.
No one color as it referred to the cotton fabric used to make uniforms.

The exact color or colors it would be associated with for a particular country would depend on what color of uniforms if elected to use.
i guess a main point for Boxcryptor is easy access through mobile apps, does your solution provide that?
US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for first time ever
> Someone has since pointed out to me that HFT is currently done by bouncing microwaves off the atmosphere.

I would love to read up on this. Is this similar to HARP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki lists three tones of Khaki.
By the third question it was obvious that all of them are implementation-dependent or undefined behaviour.
That's true with any hardware level raid. Do raid in software or better yet, use btrfs.
While I said less than 30 seconds, it really was about 10 seconds but I didn't want to sound like I was exaggerating. And that was of course including switching apps, the initial Tor connection, switching apps back, waiting for my feed to load, clicking a video.

I just tried again, it took 6 seconds to open Orbot and completely connect to Tor. The rest was business as usual. Maybe a 1, 1.5 second delay getting to YouTube and for the video to start playback. For what Tor offers, that is impressive, and I don't know what could possibly be convincing beyond that point. Not to mention that one can just leave Orbot running as well. And since I'm on Android, I can opt to have specific app traffic sent through Tor, or Orbot can act as a system-wide VPN.

I'd make a video showing how painless it is, but setting it up, recording and uploading would take a hundredfold more time than just trying it out.

edit: I know that it's purely anecdotal, but I just enabled Orbot VPN mode and fired up "Speedtest". It is reporting 7Mbps and 3.65Mbps up. It's not great, but to me that is usable if your privacy needs outweigh need for speed. And a screenshot if it's of interest, you can see that it's in VPN mode and Orbot is running: https://i.imgur.com/UZu4aJs.png

edit2: yikes, I actually just backed up 29 full-resolution screenshots to my Google Photos account without even realizing Orbot was still connected. Convinces me!
Or alternatively, these are very important days in a person's life where serious thought and reflection might actually be needed, in the event that there really is something after this life, and our decisions in this life do actually have consequences on that. But instead, this person was offered constant distraction until the very end.
I'm Swedish too, and grew up with the same understanding as the parent poster. Only in recent years have I understood that khaki can refer to both a military type green or sand like beige color.
As you know the basic idea, which precedes word2vec, is to classify each word in certain meaningful vector dimensions, for example "furryness" for pets.

If you code this manually, it makes sense to manipulate directions. For example, removing furryness from the archetypical pet vector, leaves you with non-furry pets in proximity.
It essentially works the same way for word2vec.

Word2Vec encodes words without manual coding of dimensions.

The distributional hypothesis is that if words occur in the same context of other words, they share similar positions on some dimensions, and those dimensions are defined by the contextual words.

Now take two words that appear in more than one "cluster" of words together. Since these clusters differ, their similarity is high in these two groups of dimensions, so we may remove one cluster of dimensions - say related to gender - and we are left with the similarity on the other dimension.

The analogy operation used in the examples works by finding the relevant dimensions from the second word. We pick a word, and then another word for which the semantics are clear to us - like "male". Removing "male" from our starting word, we expect to move the semantic dimensions of "maleness", setting them to zero. Any word now left in proximity, retains the other contextual bundles distinct from gender.

Here you can see that this is not cut and dry. It is not clear that male is situated in a distinct semantic category. It is probably also related to dimensions that we would not want to set to zero. Nevertheless, the approach works well.

For your last question: It should be clear that a linear space can not encode true relations between words - it being linear. Moving toward another cluster usually means moving away from another, which is not true to meaning as a concept.
It has been shown, that more sophisticated embeddings encode a non-linear space where such transformations are possible.
Luckly, the modern Python installers for Windows do all that.
Don't use any VPN providers client, stick to straight openvpn.
My understanding is that bad/poor gateways are penalized. In my own experience, I've only ever needed to change circuits manually once (but I'm primarily using Tor to NAT punch to hidden services, not sure if that matters ).
Did someone just said Battelle Memorial Institute?
Pascals wager is garbage, it underestimates the time, effort and thought cost if there is no god. What sort of reflections would otherwise be meaningful? All the regrets they have? It's a kid, he had cancer, what could he have done differently?
I never heard of pixz... cool! For anyone else like me, this comparison is worth a read: https://www.rootusers.com/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-performance-co...
Fantastic story. That’s too bad how it turned out. Looks like he claimed to have had a pilot’s license that was suspended/revoked after the first shenanigans. Went on the be a steamfitter, but could have been a good pilot, had he reigned in his temperament. Maybe it was for the better.
Love the idea and execution! How do you deal with repetitious fact/links being added to an article?

good luck!
Yeah I find this question rather weird. Why do countries not sell off their unprofitable parts?

One nation indivisible under God thats why.
To try to articulate why this is an unfair and bad idea, it's very hard to subsist on Greenland. Probably it would involve generations-long learning from those who can already subsist there on their own.

If we're not talking self sustenance, then the settling people would be supported by the existing civilization on Greenland, and it's already small, so it can not support that many.