skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We started with graphite, then moved to go-carbon + carbonapi. Replacing the python stuff with those two services made everything much faster - I think we had something like 1200 hosts submitting metrics every 30 seconds. So not a huge installation.
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IBM and Google disagree on quantum computing achievement
The output reminds me of Flash. That's not necessarily a bad thing considering how good Flash was at some things (especially without the security holes) but still, it feels wrong.
Email requirement? No thanks.
One perspective is that the exchange permanently hamstrings the company. You spent let's say 3 years on average, training those engineers to be the best people in the world at solving Stripe's problems, but now they're gone with (unless you're gonna do double payroll for a while) only an arms-length handoff to the new staff. That's 300 person-years of training, gone forever. Arguably even worse, it propagates upwards; there will be some number of valuable, important projects which can no longer get done because the needed expertise was lost.
It seems so obvious now that the birth of Cyberpunk would come directly out of the counterculture movement in the 60s and 70s.
Well, if you google the 'issue' about people being able to get $1000 if they really need it is pretty dismal reading. When you check reddit groups about finance as well; savings or not, most people cannot get $1000 today if they really needed to. People who make lots of money theoretically (developers etc) in western countries can get to $1000 any time even without savings. Other jobs, not so much. Also in non western countries (where developer wages average $500/mo for instance) this is very different. I work with a Russian devs daily and they simply don't make so much, especially in certain parts of Russia. With kids and mortgage having the luxury to pull 2k$ out while not working for money is a big issue for many people.

I agree with you having savings or not might not be relevant of how much $1900 is, but that article was only one example and to me it seems relevant because if you don't have it in savings, how would you risk quitting your job? The tone of the reddit post shows that this person considers this actually to be a lot of money and from what I see I would say most people on earth would consider it a lot of money. The fact that you or I don't consider it to be a lot is kind of the echo chamber of HN we are in.
Implement Inverse Kinematics (Jacobian Matrix)
Honestly, use something that actually blocks the trackers, rather than just asking the trackers nicely not to track you. Switch browsers if you have to.

Turning on DNT is like walking around a big city wearing a cap that says "Please don't record CCTV pictures of me."
Agreed, Grafana is very IT focused. Alerts are the first/last stop to IT accountability and seems there are some gaps in Grafana.
You don't need to include the name of the site in the article title.
No, I mean opt-in to telemetry as opposed to having to opt-out would be more ideal
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>I don't see any reason why the last-mile Internet shouldn't be built that way; the city can get traffic to a peering point, and from there, you can pick what ISP you want to connect you to the actual Internet.

Yet not everyone can own a Taxi. Which in an economics way make sense, it also makes sense to avoid avoid too much traffic in the street.

The equivalent on the internet would be to block certain usage, either for economics reason (well we certainly can't have a million content producer, they need to live) or for traffic reasons (Netflix is using too much traffic... we maybe should limit the number of slot that can be used for medias streaming).

I'm all in for a centralized fiber networks, but its goals should be clear and it has to be transparent over what it does to achieve it. It also needs to be outside of the government control the most possible, because Snowden has proven that governments entities can't be trusted with such important data. Having it at the municipal level with some regular audits could be good enough.
Bringing the phones into the "secure" CIF was just the icing on the cake of a straightforward attempt to disrupt the inquiry. It's a bit of direct action, almost like a sit-in. Presumably it's a crime, but not the sort that anyone is likely to be charged with if they have power.
A rock band hid a C64 program on a vinyl album in 1984
You can see the full compiler output here:

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/FbDqye
In terms of non-exit Tor relays, it doesn't. In fact, for anyone looking at your traffic, Tor relaying is opaque, unlike legal torrents.

As for exits, you'll be dealing with abuse reports from countless parties, including the off-chance that someone sends a death threat through your exit and you have may to fend off law-enforcement that still hasn't gotten the memo on Tor. In countries, like the US where any police encounter might turn deadly, I'd highly advise against running exits at home.

As a Tor exit operator, I can in fact honestly tell you not to run exits on production business networks, or basically anywhere where you're not prepared to be a recipient of a lot of unwanted attention.
The other problem is that he doesn't have a sample.txt file for people to download, so he's asking them to open a blank file, then he teaches them how to move around (but there is no text), and only after all that does he start teaching them how to actually insert text.
Just wanted to point out Gogs: https://gogs.io/

It's a very light weight, self-hosted git server, the UI is very GitHub like.

It's not a replacement for all the features of a self-hosted GitLab.

But I've seen people battling a self-hosted GitLab instance when all they needed was something like Gogs.
Not all browsers make it easy to turn DNT on (Safari has apparently removed it), so it's not an ideal opt-out mechanism.

DNT is basically a failed technology; if you really care about not being tracked you would just block the trackers rather than asking them to pretty please not track you.

(Edited to add: as others have said, this should not be opt-out anyway. Opt-in is much less user hostile, and as far as I know is legally mandated in the EU anyway.)
France to Launch Weaponized Satellites
Implement Discrete cosine transform for video compression
Even being caught once entering your passcode on camera is enough to compromise it, regardless of how complex it is. A passphrase would possibly buy you more time (less discernible finger movement on a phone screen), but I would still consider it compromised.
The ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait tables.

Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
Maybe the phone is attached to a MDM that requires a PIN.
Hi, I am looking for people in the image/satellite mapping industry.
The idea is to map Indian farmland according to the survey no and provide the data directly to farmer.
Stack the data with crop, soil, weather, market, buyer and it could be a solution to whole agri sector.

If it is further mapped with land type data, Land purchase, subsidy, infra development red tape can be reduced to the extreme and whole process could become transparent.

I have couple of stratups in mind who have the tech platform, but not the combined application stack.

I am looking for someone from tech backgroud to help with finalizing the whole setup.
Connect me over at dishank.zala@gmail.com
This is one of the "perks" of VC money.
It's a major problem if you don't already commute by car, which is a lot of the City. Don't forget that driving to HQ often is slower than however people currently get there.
It’s all good, most people say just Box, because it is the majority case.
>Something I'm surprised hasn't come up yet is the ability to flex... "something" in your brain and turn hallucinations on and off.

>I grew up in a Buddhist family and was meditating since an early age. I'm not sure if this was related at all but since I was young I could look at things when I was bored and do something in my brain that would cause the patterns to move. If I then needed to concentrate I could focus and it would go away.

There has been some "intriguing evidence of overlap between the phenomenology and neurophysiology of meditation practice and psychedelic states."[0]

I came across this while researching meditation practices, and stumbled upon Andrew Newberg's work[1] on the neuroscience of religion.[2][3] He's spoken about an experiment where the neural correlates of nuns experienced in the "centering prayer" exhibited similarities to people who'd taken psilocybin mushrooms.[4]

I find this absolutely fascinating, yet completely expected, because the ancient literature on meditation do mention drugs in relation to meditation. For example, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras mention that "siddhis are born of practices performed in previous births, or by herbs, mantra repetition, asceticism, or by samadhi."[5]

In light of this, I've also thought about why, for example, there are the Five Precepts in Buddhism,[6] which are considered to be fundamental in the path towards attaining enlightenment. We've often understood it as a code of ethics for Buddhists, but what if it arose as a way to protect meditators from harming themselves and others in case of adverse episodes during meditation practice?

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0147...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_B._Newberg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_religion

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/what-happ...

[4] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/psychedelic-drug-b...

[5] https://realitysandwich.com/11276/psychedelics_light_yoga_su...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_precepts
> let admins upload it if they like

If that was the approach to telemetry, I think most users wouldn't have a problem. But currently the word alone makes us rethink about using the product at all.
I have a similar experience with HPPD...the ability to "flex" the mind to either increase or decrease the degree to which I was experiencing the visual pattern distortions. it was mostly just a matter of directing attention into the experience vs. pulling out of it. anyway, fascinating thread on HN this morning.
My partner is also heavily burdened by emotional trauma that has resulted in asthma, stomach issues, urinary tract infections (where every urinary analysis finds some other obscure bacteria, not common anywhere).

The emotional trauma, constant tension, lack of meaning, depression, inability to learn anything, or learning very slowly, bad autobiographical memory, all symptoms listed in the article.

I truly believe if she were to do something about the mind that stuff would get better. And I'm a very hard-science guy
that reads Cochrane and doubts everything. Although, problem is that CBT does not work for her, talking with professionals does not work too.

Obviously, the issues are that the bodies immune system is weakened from some stress that should not be there.
Why would there be a “discussion”? They knew their users didn’t want this anti-feature before they implemented it and they did it anyway.

Then they add insult to injury by pretending to “discuss” it as if user consent or participation has anything to do with this.
Production use these days is more likely to be J, which you can actually type on a normal keyboard.
Gitlab reputation went down quite a bit from my perspective. No time given to migrate.
there are aspects of Rust that are easier for llvm to optimize with than c. there are things rust isn't yet doing that it will do to make llvm be able to optimize it better as well.

the primary reason THIS code didn't optimize as well is that you can't pass ffast-math to llvm from rust in any useful way (yet)
> It has been slower than C++ ever since reasonable optimization was implemented.

Which compilers? Which platforms? Optimized for speed or space (because "faster" is only one dimension of optimization)?

Many C / C++ compiler implementations share the same front ends, back ends and runtime libraries, so it's hard to see how the code generation for C would be much different than that of C++. (In fact, C++ will be harder to optimize if features like exceptions and RTTI are used).

Given the many different commercially and freely available toolchains, this statement is difficult to back up.
"senior human acquisition engineer" - what a gross and inflated thing to call someone who sends out emails and shuffles people into recruiting pipelines.
A good reminder. It holds true with any vendor.
Hi Tom. How long did the raise take from start to finish? I heard it was ... rapid.
I always thought that Android's 3x3 dot pattern draw password thing was superior against these type of over the shoulder attack, as long as you turn off the tracing effect. Without tracing and if you do it quickly, it just looks like you’re dragging your thumb randomly all over the phone.
> There is no way that I would host a solution that includes third-party scripts.

At least for now, it appears that the self-hosted versions of GitLab (both CE and EE) will not be getting telemetry scripts. This is only for gitlab.com (again, for now). See the table on their ticket[1] for the issue

1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164
"No need to go into the details here, except to say that, apart from a few specific areas, Apple doesn’t do a lot of automated testing. Apple is highly reliant on manual testing, probably too much so."

This tells you everything you need to know about the poor state of Apple's software. A large, untested code base that's been in development for years and years is going to reach a maximum point of complexity where the cost of adding new features exceeds the business value. The ROI turns upside down. That's when your technical debt turns into a bankruptcy and your software is kaput. It's quite conceivable that Mac OS, which is built on top of NeXTStep OS which dates back to the mid-80's, is reaching this state.
My 2cents, ditch the monthly plan, price it yearly instead. Monthly plans are for things you will actually use day to day like netflix, yearly are more like "insurance" products which is what this is, I think displaying the yearly option will be a better value proposition for people looking at it.

Second, I don't know what payment you're using, but seriously consider paypal if you're not already, because I'm pretty sure you can setup yearly recurring "subscriptions" on paypal and people are much more likely to keep their paypal funding sources up to date. So you're not going to have to nag them to update credit card info every couple years and they're less likely to have occasion to think "do I really want to pay for this", it'll just be pay automatically.
If you knew the location of "the site" (because you drove to it) - what benefit was the blindfold for the site?
interesting, I've never heard of novelty seeking, but both your description and wikipedia's describes me very well.

What I've found from a lifetime of experience is that I absolutely need to be able to scratch that itch, and I need to be given the autonomy to do it or I quickly learn to hate life until I move on.

Wikipedia states that it's highly heritable, and I remember my mother telling me the reason she would go through and completely rearrange rooms in the house is because it gave her the feeling of having moved to a new place. I'm wondering if that's the result of her having that temperament as well.
This morning my neighbor's car had frost on it, but my car didn't. I thought about it for a good chunk of my commute!
I don't lock my phone at all. Never have. However, with the new iPhones that don't have a home button, I believe that Apple is forcing you to either use face unlock or a passcode. There is no choice to just leave it unlocked.

So, as soon as my iPhone 6s stops working, I will have to choose to: 1) Give in and use my face to unlock. 2) Use a dumb passcode like 000000. 3) Upgrade to the newest iPhone that still has a home button (I think iPhone 8) or 4) Become and Android user.
The difference is that this is native. Super exciting.
it isn't always that simple. FMA instructions are tricky to use in a way that actually improves performance, llvm may be doing it right while doing it manually that way may not.

also, sometimes a SIMD instruction is used but only on 1 lane at a time. this is actually common with floating point code.
The scariest thing about being a parent is that the only thing that keeps your kids from wrecking your life and running everything is that they're too short-sighted and impatient to do it. They have a lot more power than they realize—fortunately, they don't realize it, and won't keep pushing when things get tough for them.

... so long as you keep pushing when things get tough for you. They'll cave. After a few times, it'll stick and the struggle will get easier. Unless you start caving too fast. Unless you can't handle frustration and deferring goals or altering plans. Then you're so very, very screwed.
First Cat in Space to Receive a Proper Memorial
absolute nonsense.

websites in fact should stop using cloudflare, however the rant displayed here is irrelevant.
This worldview you are trapped in will damage you in exactly the ways enumerated above. I hope that you find a new story to live in.
> [Accept new TOS] [Decline and erase account]*

Actually, that's still a GDPR violation. A user cannot sign away their rights in the ToS. From https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/ "Conditions for consent":

If the data subject’s consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. Any part of such a declaration which constitutes an infringement of this Regulation shall not be binding.
[..]
When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

In other words, if Gitlab ties the consent for telemetry together with access to the service itself, the consent is considered not freely given and therefore not legally binding at all.
Why is this of interest?
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That can only works without risk in a monopoly.
Looks like 777777 to me.
Which isn't saying much. For the majority of the people in the world $100 would tick the same box.
As someone who is completely ignorant about QT, what are the arguments for using it? I looked at their product page and it seems incredibly expensive. Why pay to develop for a particular platform?
This cycle seems consistent with past popular image hosting services. First, attract users with a simple, no-nonsense service. Second, shove ads in there. Third, try to build some sort of community. More ads. Lastly, fade into obscurity.
Where was this? What was the "site?" What country? And what kind of work were they outsourcing to outside the military?
I just entered some garbage e-mail address, it showed me the result after that.
This service (Passbox) seems to be equivalent to LastPass's "Emergency Access" feature. See:

https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/set-up-and-mana...
It's coming up to a decade since I moved here. I came sight unseen and thought I'd move on after a year or two but now have a wife, kids and a house!

There's a reasonable tech scene and a pretty big part of that is made up of immigrants. I worked in three companies here and all three were mostly English speaking. That can vary a bit but none of my peers have had problems moving into new roles where that wasn't the case (and its a surefire way to get better at the language quickly). Now I'm working remotely for a SV startup.

Moving here is pretty trivial if you're in the EEA as is staying on if you have work.

For tech jobs there is also:

https://www.tvinna.is/ (in Icelandic although some job ads are actually in English)

For startup news about Iceland:

https://northstack.is/ (English)
I am guessing to obscure which building was which since the blind fold didn't come off until you were inside the building.
just use https://temp-mail.org/ for thinks like that.
Instead of providing your real email: https://www.guerrillamail.com/

Second, I entered that I have a US Citizenship and #1 country where I'm 100% likely to get a work visa, was the United States. Not exactly a revelation.
If I were him I'd be more worried about being seen on the street in any city where there's a WeWork by a current/former employee who went from planning how they were going to spend their options windfall to wondering how they were going to pay the mortgage next month.
The problem isn't the password or the camera that captured it.

The problem is that the phone required a password in that scenario-- same user, phone never left his vicinity, probably not a long interval between uses. Being more selective about when to require a master password is a better protection model IMHO.
In principle, pretty much any crime you can commit over tor, you can also commit over BitTorrent. For instance, you could advertise your assassination services by writing up a document, making a torrent of it, and then distribute the magnet link for that torrent on floppy diskettes... or whatever.

In practice, though, TOR is more convenient for such things because a resource's name (the onion address) doesn't change when the content does. This difference makes it rather unlikely that you're going to find the lets-make-an-illegal-deal crowd gathering around BitTorrent.

But legally, and from the ISP's perspective, seeding a torrent with incriminating content is no different than running a TOR exit node that happens to be trafficking that content--it's just that since they attract different crowds, one is more likely to attract the wrong kind of attention than the other.

Also, you get to choose what you seed on BitTorrent, but when you run an exit node, you don't. So you're unlikely to even know what kind of incriminating content is going through your internet connection.
Find more exciting stuff to do outside of it. There's something of a percentage of the population that are probably meant to be running on loads of adrenaline all the time, and people are happy to capitalize on their restlessness to make them produce things to sell at work and buy things to feel better outside, like unhappy ever-moving little economic wheels.
Dark web isn't inherently negative though, is it? It's not like they called it pedo-web.
One person can very easily buy alcohol for someone else, and they can drink it in their home. This would be literally impossible to police.
I read a lot of comments about people recommending the use of psychedelics. I don't understand why some people with a healthy mind are so eager to alter (often definitively) their precious mind/self/brain.
Everyone knows roughly where Area 51 is, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll let a contractor know where all the external security cameras are sited.
On Supermicro hardware and maybe others, IPMI has a very dangerous default setting: if you're not connecting the dedicated IPMI port to a network (typically some closed network dedicated to management), it will use the first ethernet NIC on the motherboard (sharing it with the host), possibly making it accessible through the internet (with default, insecure credentials adding insult to injury) or at least neighbouring machines.
Gitlab Terms of Service and Telemetry Update – No Telemery for EE
There's a lot I disliked about the Bush administration, but the HUD programs changed homelessness immensely. You wouldn't know it in California, but they arrive there by the busload daily. It's unfortunate. The SV echochamber of HN isn't exposed to the massive changes of the last 20 years.