skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m just waiting for the day when Tinder is down in popularity, security fixes are a bit more lackadaisical and a zero-day exposes a decade of personal preferences of a large share of the population, not unlike a nuclear waste leak. Imagine the awkwardness when a coworker finds out you swiped them left (or right).

And no, I am not going to end this with a paternalistic or moralistic statement.
One reason they include financing cost in the TCO calculator, even thought it's possible to buy a car in cash is due to the time value of money. Cars do not earn a rate of return, so any money you have in a car instead of investments is sitting idle. You subtracted your sale price from your purchase price, but that only counts the depreciation, not the opportunity cost.

For example, let's say you bought your car for 10k, then sold it 7.1 years later for 9k. You have 1k of depreciation. You also have $6,300 at 7%(a typical target rate) in lost income from not keeping that money in a productive asset for those years.
I seriously have no idea why people even use CCleaner nowadays.
No. Databases are special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
It shouldn't be, but for most people entering into it, becoming highly desirable on the job/employee market is the chief motivator. If a university doesn't cater to that demand, the students will go elsewhere.
Usually a sqr of your total ram. Zram is a another option as it a block device that does virtual ram.
The community on the front lines of climate change
I’ve run clusters of several thousands machines installed with petabytes of ram with no swap (or even disks).

It works just fine however you need to keep a appropriate headroom to allow the kernel to do its thing with caches as indicated otherwise things get very weird very quickly.

Containers are very helpful in this regard for helping explicitly divide a machine up between processes without allowing any one to get out of hand.
it's 1000
Microsoft used to be like this in 00's (I don't know about now). You had to run everything by Legal, and the default answer from Legal was always "no", no matter what you're asking. Want to use zlib in your product? Even though Windows is using it in like 3 different places already, the answer is still "no". JQuery? Out of the question. Anything more exotic, might not even ask. I'm pretty sure Microsoft wasted hundreds of millions of dollars reinventing a wheel, and doing it badly, over the past few decades.
It depends on your workload, does it not? Generally you'll want swap to be mostly unused, so you don't need a lot, but if you want to eg. hibernate a laptop, you'll need at least as much as you have RAM to do it.

Also If you use tmpfs you should have enough swap to cover the size of your tmpfs partitions in their entirety so that a bad application won't eat all your memory.
No, we don't. I used to have client-side software that would highlight specific regexes in comment text, but it stopped working one of the times that we rewrote the client-side Lisp that we used (Parenscript -> Lumen -> Arc) and I haven't gotten around to getting it working again.
Easily. It's the nuclear option. The state of Texas will make arrests for the illegal Industry they allow. It will force action.
One day later you can call your mother

And please don't give me a lecture about civil discourse. I clearly stated my opinion

If I am banned. Fuck my ban as you clearly stated
At Xero, we use Sumo Logic for logging and New Relic for monitoring, infrastructure tracking and a whole bunch of other things.

We were in a Sumo case study[1] and we've given talks in partnership with New Relic[2] so you can probably find out more if you're interested

[1] https://www.sumologic.com/case-study/xero/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPIpqx47CCY
Hasn't that always been the case throughout the history, though? Everyone always knew everything about everyone else in the village, or neighboring villages. Only the select few knew and cared enough to keep their affairs hidden.

Except that now the technology has packed the entire world into a single "global village".
Valuing something in terms of its short-term impact on stock doesn't make any sense. An iOS vulnerability is worth a lot, but that the stock price dipped 3% is more of a sign of the market being fickle and reacting to any bad/good news about the company on a given day than 3% of Apple's worth being lost in any meaningful sense.

Following this line of thinking leads to some pretty absurd conclusions, like 7% of Tesla's value being predicated on Elon Musk not smoking a joint[1].

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/tesla-sinks-8percent-after-b...
Ask HN: Do you think a Google subscription business model would work?
So this is in the context of privacy, data breaches, cookies and all that. Google relies heavily on ads, I presume much of their revenue is dependent on ads network.

To tackle privacy concerns and user data collection. If Google hypothetically considered to get rid of user data, they'd need another income source. Would a subscription be something you pay for? Sure, they wont customise search results, maybe at worst (?) you end up like DuckDuckGo.
Slightly??
The Challenge of Regulation in an Age of Advanced Automation
I read the comments on the paywalled article and often it incents me to work around the paywall - if I can.
Mostly I avoid clicking paywalls and browse their comments and then decide to dig deeper or not.
Any reason to buy branded when generics are available? So far my takeaway was the difference goes to marketing budgets resulting in more prime time ads.
Even if you remove Stock compensation their net income and FCF is negative. Their driver compensation is already poor. With governments starting to crackdown on driver they need to reduce costs.
There exists a public feed of all comments (just click on 'comments' in top bar), but we don't monitor the site that way. It's too much. We basically read the threads spottily like anyone else, plus rely on moderation lists, such as what has been flagged by users.
Human interaction will never be archaic.
The above comment is, well, not very informed.

CAP is a simple, generic academic model. Researchers and implementers moved on from that a long time ago.

In the case of Google, they have partition-free networks for newer databases, so CAP rarely applies.

Galera/Percona Cluster has solutions for all the above also. Generally multi-master writes continue, and the behind server either catches up or gets automatically rebuilt.

MySQL 8 has something equivalent to Galera.

I would recommend testing (or waiting) a year for multi-master Aurora to bake. In the meantime, you can use Percona Cluster if you can't wait.

You can learn more here about the state-of-the-art in multi-region, multi-master RDBMS' here:

http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2017/11/internet-latency-and-mu...

Source: DBA who's operated Percona Cluster for 5+ years. Contact me if you need extreme database performance or availability.
> And to me that just seems part and parcel of modern capitalism, so I'm not really in favor of outlawing a particular flavor of it.

Net neutrality is also threatened by capitalism. Do you also want that gone?
Developers who hate on OOP don't know how to use it
At a certain point I think we'll arrive at the collective realization that we all have digital skeletons in our closet. When we all stink, nobody stinks.
Do you provide relocation assistance or visa sponsors?
this is an oversimplification, you still have to file capital gains, there are some exemption, so it works for debt cancellation and few other things, but it's not as straightforward as "neither gift nor estate taxes"
You should visit Europe once, you'll see that life here is different.

Specifically regarding Friedrichstraße: It's in the city center, brimming with tourists. 3 major subway lines have stops there. Few cars drive in there as it is, because you have bigger streets nearby that are better connections. If you still want to go with your car, you just park in a parallell side street, there are even parking garages if you don't want to look for a spot.

Having it car free will be lovely for the tourists, cafés and restaurants will put out tables.

The same was done in other city centers like Budapest or Vienna decades ago, and it worked out extremely well for everyone involved.
I am afraid that might be illegal as they did not un-paywall the PDFs yet.
Given I know "stuff" but compared to anybody who really "knows" I am a noob in exploit engineering. I just know basic inner workings of a computer and a little reverse engineering.

Would it even make sense for me to try? It seems like the probability I find something, especially without user interaction, seems so far off that it would be hard for me to find a constant motivation.

Imagine one year where I dedicate two days a week learning, understanding and trying. Do I would have any chance at all to find something worth the $1M?

Thank you!
Connectivity is not always available, and errors retrieving it may mean you have to re-enter everything. Being able to "navigate" the site without the dinosaur is a tremendous boon for end users. You wouldn't be able to send anything without a connection, but you could buffer it for an opportune moment.

Sites like HN and Stackoverflow have a vastly different audience than most bread-and-butter sites, and tackle different kind of issues.
Retroactive legislation is usually frowned upon or outright banned in many jurisdictions.
Baidu is facing an unlikely challenger in China’s search market – ByteDance
As somebody who has once lived next to a major crossroads in a big German city. When I sat at my balcony after wiping a layer of black dust from the table and chair I could witness the daily spectacle of the commuter induced traffic jams.

The most surprising finding for me was how rare one could see more than one person in a car. Most of the traffic where you saw more than one person inside was vans with workers of some kind. Regular cars were mostly just the driver with their personal 6m².

If cars didn’t exist and we had to come up with a system of individual transportation today, it wouldn’t look anything like a car. And I think one can see that more clearly living in Europe, where most cities weren’t designed with cars in mind.
But if you loan someone $100 at 20% interest and write it off when it's $1000, it's a $100 deduction.
Mayfair and Marylebone are a mix of individual houses and 5-8 storey apartment blocks. It’s not that anonymous depending on the address.
You think end of the year bonuses are bad too?
Well, TFA is loaded with "gadgets" that I've never heard of. It could just as easily pointed to VirtualBox and Whonix. Or even running VPNs in host and VM to give a simple VPN chain.

The AirVPN and IVPN clients for Windows are pretty much leak free. And dead simple. Buy account, download client, install, and run.

And for Whonix, it's just download and install VirtualBox. And then download Whonix, import into VirtualBox, and run.
Most cities in the US have terrible public transport. Also, people like to Uber back after a night out.
There's nothing ambiguous about it at all, they are indisputably not original components even if they adhere perfectly to the original spec.
Public Transport Route Planner Based on CSA
In many smaller Danish towns you _can_ drive on top the shopping streets, but there'll be big signs telling you that it's only allowed for "service/special vehicles".

If you get caught there you'll probably get a nice fine. And you can be sure all the pedestrians will make you drive slow.

Finally, the road usually has tiles so you don't get in there by accident, nor would you want to.
It depends on what you're doing on the box. Lots of disk I/O and lots of different apps each causing a spike of RAM usage at a different time, like a typical LAMP server? You probably need a bit more swap. Just one app with a very consistent RAM usage, like a database server with an explicitly configured buffer size? Then you don't need much swap. The old rule "2x RAM" actually isn't bad on a desktop PC, but it's a terrible default on a server.

Linode has been configuring 256MB swap partitions by default on their VPS for a long time, even for large plans. Maybe it's bigger for the really large plans, but I haven't tested them. Anyway it feels like a nice default, and seemed to work fine with most kinds of loads in 10+ years of usage. Some of the newer VPS services (DigitalOcean, Lightsail) come with no swap by default, and I don't feel comfortable about it so I add a 256MB swapfile on them. I do turn down the swappiness a bit, though.
You could have just refrained from posting.
Porsche Taycan first drive and launch control testing 0-200kph
The obvious lesson would be not to try to find out if your business has enormous environmental consequences.
Your argument is limited to technical and political science concepts, and by limiting itself so, is correct. It is inapplicable to the real world.

Governments have used zero days. Most famously to use a zero day unlock an iPhone against a terrorist (whose house was ransacked by the news media). Less famously was to botch a legal case against a pedophile (amazingly, it would be possible to find and arrest nearly all pedophiles on Tor by burning half a million dollars in zero days). But the government didn’t want to release the zero day for Play Pen and Mozilla got involved in the case.

But Freedom Hosting’s zero day was discovered while it was being used. I think the government still uses zero days, but parallel constructs the evidence from them. This is policy making by mismanagement.

On face value, the government is involved in abhorrently irrational decision making. The government cannot be considered responsible enough to have zero days, but that’s an argument that will lead nowhere.
Now you are assuming there IS a right person to talk to.
The problem is that technically finding the exploit at all is in violation of the CFAA. Once you approach Apple with the exploit, you're then skating on their goodwill. Trying to play hardball probably won't go well for you.
They are made up, in my head, figments of my imagination. Hence “for some reason”.
> The fact that the taxpayers already funding a lot of the research (university grants mostly, I believe)

I see this argument a lot, but most people don't realise the amount of research, work and vast amounts of money that goes into turning an academic finding into an effective drug on the market.
Identifying a cellular pathway involved in a disease, or even going as far as presenting a hit compound that targets that pathway in a paper is such a small step towards a useful drug. There are hundreds of things that are yet to be considered and any one of them could result in the entire project being scrapped, and that is of course assuming the work published by academia can actually be replicated.
But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity

That's arguably 90% of law in hindsight. The problem is that humans aren't psychic, and without the legal system we have a hard time getting along.
If you don’t hibernate or other reasons to use swap, what does adding half a gig of swap do that adding that as extra ram doesn’t?

Or more practically, if I’m doing stuff with 8gigs and then I upgrade to 16gigs of ram, then why would I need to keep my 512mb of swap? Surely the extra 8gigs comfortably covers that extra room? Am I missing something?
Well how would you otherwise monetize the exploit? You could sell it on the black market, but I doubt you'd be able to make 1M off of it. Then again I don't know the black market so you could?

But bug bounties like this are competing with the shadier markets. I suspect they found out the shady companies are offering more than their existing bug bounty program did.
I still wonder how Chocolately works in comparison to "classic" software installations - I take it you're satisfied?
Slightly off-topic: I'm having a feeling that in last months HN is getting flooded with links coming from big general news, newspapers portals like there's some kind of content "promotion" going on. Or maybe it's just me?
I don't get the hate against Huawei. Not that I've seen much of it. Google are not the good guys overall, neither is Huawei. The two companies do good things and bad.

I've recently watched a talk by Jonathan Corbet on Linux Kernel Report [0]. At one point he asked the audience "Who's running Linux on their phone?". Lots of people raised their hand. He then said "Well, are you? Because a lot of companies have as much as 2+ millions of lines of custom kernel code on their devices. Huawei in particular has 2.7+ millions. If the kernel currently is at about 24 million lines of code, and you only need a small subset of that for a phone, then what you end up with is something different than Linux." It happens at approximately 30:40 in the video. I have a suspicion that HarmonyOS is just what they have now plus another 200k+ lines of code or so to change the look.

[0]: https://youtu.be/yt29BKVfI0I
Thanks! This is exactly what we have decided to do.

Cheers.
Please don't disable the context menu. It's basic browser functionality.

Also, think about whether your desire for information on visitors really justifies adding yet another data point to Google's dataset.
The irony of complaining about the author using gadgets to keep his privacy, and then going ahead and saying how you also use (software) gadgets to keep yours.
I ended up selling my car and using a car sharing service instead. This had multiple positive aspects:

- it was cheaper
- I didn’t have to deal with any car related stuff anymore (insurance, maintainance, remembering where I parked, ..)
- The cars are usually just close by to where I lived and needed to go, no long roundtrips to get to the car or from the car somewhere else

Whether this works depends on the amount of usage – but should your usage decrease, it could be a viable alternative.
As the judge said "[it] would be almost impossible without such technology". So it doesn't have to do with "on a computer", but companies like Facebook violating privacy in ways that would have been impractical without computers, so it hasn't been an issue before.

Imagine entering an electronics store in a mall and looking at a fridge. You leave the store, but an employee of the store had spotted you and what you looked at. They follow you out the door and into another store. There they whisper to an employee of that store "psst, give me $5 and I'll tell you what this guy's after". The other store's employee then proceeds to offer you a discount on a fridge.

If some store had been doing that in meatspace people would have been up in arms, but for some reason because it's a "re-targeting ad" on a computer people have mostly been blind to what's going on.

Facial recognition is the same. If you were doing it on the scale Facebook is doing it but in meatspace it would be illegal.
Good example. I read up on it, and on reflection my view on the common definition of censorship was too narrow. Not sure about the legal one, still, but it'd differ per jurisdiction. I guess the reasoning was that, in the end, only a government can enforce it.
Does it rely on acceptance? If ExxonMobil's research indicated their business had serious risks relating to climate change, and they failed to disclose those risks to shareholders, does it matter whether their research later on turned out to be right or not? Isn't the main claim here that they chose not to disclose information that they fully believed was correct?
I had a ton of fun with Cairo and my dad’s ImageWriter II as a boy.
Zig is worth supporting. Andrew Kelley, the author, was recently accepted into GitHub's Sponsors program. This means for every $1 you contribute, GitHub will match your donation for the first year:

https://github.com/users/andrewrk/sponsorship
Pretty sure you’re not supposed to discriminate by age when hiring
Blocked for the GDPR conscious.
In my city it is full of dumpster diving spots that seems to be imported from trashwiki(?).

Three of four fruit trees in a sea of trash compactors, electronic waste disposals and residential trash. I can filter on a specific category but I can't seem to filter "everything but a specific category" to get rid of the freegan stuff.
> Can people please stop posting about posits,

The linked article is a decent explanation of how posits are defined in memory. While posits may be overhyped, technical articles are exactly what I come to HN for.

> every post about them dramatically misrepresents what they can represent while under present ieee754

This appears to be untrue as the linked article does not misrepresent Posits or IEEE 754 floats. It correctly points out the main reason to use Posits over floats being increased dynamic range for same number of bits. It doesn't mention the corresponding lack of precision, but that can comfortably be deduced from basic information theory.
And never get hired because the people doing interviews have to protect their jobs :)
There were plenty of them driving, slowly, and loudly beeping. Enough so it was simply impossible to walk without constantly having to move over for them.

It didn't really work as a pedestrian mall. I've been in other European cities where it did work, i.e. no vehicles.
Crypto CTF
Have two calculus teachers, A and B, each with 20 students. Look at the final exam numbers. Put all the numbers in a bucket, stir briskly, draw out 20 numbers (test scores) and average, average the other 20, and get the difference in the averages. Do this many times. Get the empirical distribution of the differences in the averages.

Now look at the difference in the actual average for A and B. If this is out in a tail of the empirical distribution, then we reject the null hypothesis that the two teachers are equally good.

For this non-parametric, distribution-free, resampling, two-sample test, to make theorems about it, which should, will likely need at least an independence assumption and likely an i.i.d. (independent, identically distributed) assumption. Else maybe each student of teacher B is an older sibling of a student of teacher A!!!!

In a nutshell, what's going on in statistical hypothesis testing is that we make the null hypothesis, and that gives us enough assumptions, e.g., i.i.d., to calculate the probability of our calculated test statistic, e.g., the difference in the two averages, being way out in a tail. Without some such null hypothesis assumptions, we have no basis on which to reject anything, are not testing anything.

There's chance of getting all twisted out of shape philosophically( here: E.g., I outlined one statistical hypothesis test for the two teachers A and B. Okay, now consider ALL reasonably relevant* hypothesis: Maybe we on the test I outlined, the two teachers look very different, not equal, maybe teacher B better. But in ALL those hypothesis tests, maybe in one of the tests the two teachers look equally good or even teacher A looks better. Now what do we do? That is, there is a suspicion that teacher B looked better ONLY because of the particular test we chose. Maybe there has been some research to clean up this issue.
The cynic in me thinks this is purely a factor of smart kids in tech realizing Facebook is old news and provides little path for differentiation (or rapid promotion). They better than anyone know the exciting startups their friends and friends of friends are starting especially compared to the tedium of a (cushy but) relatively non-challenging job at Facebook, Google, MS, etc. Plus, there's more chance for a moonshot 10/100/1000x at a company that's not already a behemoth. The smartest people I know are itching to work at startups. They could care less about FAANG.