skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium has no audience. People go to medium for specific articles. Other than that it's basically a collection of blogs. Do you browse collections of blogs? Nobody I know does.
On windows you can disable / enable some of the mitigation via the registry.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-ser...
Getting a carrier to do this adhoc is likely difficult, but technically it’s possible now. The Apple Watch for example does this and the carrier feature it leveraged to do it existed long before Apple used it for the watch. Under the hood, it’s still two different numbers, but the second one is masked by the carrier.
> whether it's lower enough to justify the extra work of upgrading.

Extra work? I upgraded the SSD in my 2015 MBP in 2 hours. And almost all of that was waiting for time machine to restore to the new disk. Is that worth it against the £2k+ I'd have to spend on a whole new MacBook? Of course it is.

I couldn't have afforded the bigger disk when I first purchased the laptop (if you have the ability to always be able to afford to top-of-the-line model, then that's a luxury that not everyone has). And this is Apple, who claim to be environmentally friendly.
The article you're replying to is about Oculus Quest.

> The company’s non-advertising revenue jumped to $269 million during the third quarter, Facebook noted in its earnings report Oct. 30. That’s a 43% increase year-over-year [...] The revenue is coming from strong sales of Oculus Quest, one of Facebook’s VR headsets, of all places.

No idea how you can claim it has no market share when it's dominating the VR space, unless you're talking about a bigger market than VR. The point was that VR never took off until Quest and we've only seen the beginning now.

We see this with VR game developer sales as well:

> Previously, we’ve heard from the developers of Red Matter who said “we have surpassed Red Matter’s all time sales on Rift in just a few days on Oculus Quest” and Superhot who said sales were 300% higher on Quest, calling the all-in-one VR system “a watershed moment for the industry and the sales numbers suggests that players believe so too.”

https://uploadvr.com/oculus-quest-sales-strong/
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Appropriate in a Navy setting of course. Who doesn't keep a large trout around for slapping?
I think I’ve acquired “New York Times fatigue”. When reading a headline, I can always tell if it’s from NYT before checking the source.

The headlines are usually clickbait and the subjects play with your fears and concerns. It’s really tiring.
Well, better luck next time, dear.
Didn't see a lot of citations in that a article. Still I'd agree that parents may have too much authority over teens.

Growing up in a very religious household did some damage to me. But thankfully the schools taught us to break out of group think, the scientific method, and exposed us to a lot more viewpoints.

Though I doubt letting younger teens enter into long term contacts. Teens can be impulsive and lack the experience to comprehend the consequences.
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Network performance is strong across all five public cloud providers, yet important variances exist. Cloud providers are
continuously optimizing their networks to improve performance, resulting in shifting (and mostly improving) performance
baselines. While the overall performance data is encouraging, it’s important to remember that cloud provider network
connectivity is still generally a “best effort” service. Furthermore, even cloud giants aren’t exempt from architectural anomalies
and events that can negatively impact performance. Continuous monitoring, data-driven planning and a well-defined
operational process supported by thorough visibility are essential to success.
10 or 15 years ago, you'd click on a political link on Slashdot, early reddit/digg or whatever and the top comment would usually be pulling apart all the oversights and bullshit in excruciating detail.

It was good, the internet was a 'cold medium' in Marshal McLuhan terms. If the internet of that time replaced the 'hot medium' of television, things could only get better I thought.

I was a fool! I never conceived that outrageous bullshit like antivax or God Emporer memes could get so much traction.
You cant project your colleagues on a third person.
And needing to give them personal information to read their articles...

Why are independent blogs bad again?
(ArangoDB developer here) MongoDB is a document store, ArangoDB is multi-model, so you have graphs and key/value and search as a additional benefits. The query language AQL is also a huge plus. Price comparisons are always hard, but for similar deployments Oasis will be a bit cheaper. One really has to look at the details here, in particular with respect to sharding and resilience.
The number of Apple haters on Hacker News is also really jarring indeed.

One might accuse me of being the “apologist” you speak of (IDGAF), but if you’re correct we live in bubbles even here on HN, it’s much better and more honest if we don’t pretend the other doesn’t exist.
It's exactly as we hoped, wtf. Not the Internet's fault most people are dumb as a brick.

It's still possible for anyone to run their own stuff. And it's still a massive repository of all human knowledge, if you take into account all sources, legal or illegal.

What do we do from here? Stop being dumb and trying to change into subscription TV, for starters.

Fringe believers need actual education, not more control over the sources of their misinformation.
There's a lot of handwringing over how long gas will stay relevant, but I really believe that adoption of electric vehicles is going to follow a S curve. I know that when I look for my next car in 2 to 3 years, I'm definitely taking electric vehicles into account, especially if the charging times continue to decrease and the range continues to increase.
Thanks! This is what I'm trying to put my effort on. These maps.

And you're right. It helps to understand the company's remote culture. How remote are they? Will you be part of a remote team covering the whole globe or are you one of the two remote team members.

Both are cool! People just like different things. I mean, when you join a fully remote company, there's probably a remote culture in place. But when you're one of the first remote members, maybe you can be part of shaping the culture yourself.
Having a cookie policy popup take up half the screenspace while trying to read the article certainly makes for a compelling argument.
One of my favorite hypothetical questions is "Would you take a deal where you could 10X your salary, but you'd have to live the rest of your days starting in 1979."

Imagine all the same tech is available at the same periods in time, but produced by different companies so you can't do the "Back to the Future Sports Almanac" thing.

Imagine you're 40 today. Would you rather have 10X as much money, but know you won't get Aol until your 55? No smartphones until you qualify for Social Security? Maybe 10X is worth it, but 5X? 2X? It helps put the value we get from the web in perspective.

Just once, I'd love to read a story about tech in a major pub from the perspective of someone 35-55-ish who remembers the pre-internet world — and can't stop raving about how much better everything is now.

I get that it might not be a majority position, but it's not insignificant, but it's almost entirely invisible in the NYT's tech coverage.

Moreover, I find it crazy how every misstep of American tech companies portends the end of democracy, but they have the gall to write: "In China, a whole new internet is flowering."
It's a little distorted because even inside the city location changes house quality per dollar a lot. For example, I live next to a million dollar row house in Baltimore… But it's only $1m because it is split into 5 one level apartments, so you can easily rent it out and get your money back. If you were to join it into a house again, you'd lose money.
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Neither do I, but that isn't really relevant. Medium has an audience of readers who don't sign up for the service, but that's still an audience.
Jesus, technology evolves. This is a good start.
In academia the cost for running computers and software deployments is usually greatly underestimated (I speak from experience). If you are a for-profit company and compute the full economic costs of running a database deployment including training, devops, alerting, 24/7 maintenance, upgrades, backups and everything you easily come to some $60000 per year.

Managed services can beat this price by a huge margin, although they seem expensive at first glance.
by that standard Carmack retired a few times already and always came back with something interesting
Well... not making too much money yet :) I'm building this alone as a side project while working on my remote developer job full time.

But calling them "top". Yeah, not a competition or anything. Just for fun, really.
> I don't like a majority of what they create anymore, nor how they treat a majority of their employees.

The contrast to this is stark after having watched "Imagineering" on Disney+ the other night. It reminded me about why I was a rabid Disney fan growing up - the values that Walt insisted on and why these days I'm more "meh"; what they have evolved into the longer Walt hasn't been around to keep people grounded on what really matters.

It's pretty sad you can go from a company where employees invested their own money to keep construction of Disneyland going to the exploitative mess of a company that exists today :(
The lock code also prevented pocket dialing, although with a flip phone this wasn’t much of an issue.

And yeah as others have said, it protected your texts and pictures. The razr already had a camera.
If they spent more time teaching this it would be great.

I got to hear how communists are bad mkay and weed is very dangerous. Today I expect they spend a bunch of time hearing how cross dressing is perfectly natural and anyone thinking differently is bad mkay. (just to be clear, not passing judgement on the truth of any of the above just noting a large portion of public "education" is ill informed opinion and attempted indoctrination).
On the topic of power, I really don't understand how USB-C is supposed to replace charging cables. USB-C is limited to 100W. That's enough for a switch, phone or low power laptop, but if this[0] is anything to go by the 6 core intel laptop CPUs already eats 80W of power. Add an extra 2 cores and you might not even be able to sustain a CPU load without draining the battery. Not to mention much higher power draw GPUs.

My real question here is what's the plan? Because it's not possible to push 200-300W down a USB-C cable.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/review/1847-intel-core-i7-9750h-vs-...
Working towards more general AI technology is not what the author of this is criticizing. They're criticizing focusing on super-human AI rather than ethical problems of current AI. "The idea that eats smart people" is just a meme at this point, normally quoted outside its context.

But even so, history will have to judge whether the author's statements were true regarding the risk of super-human AI. Or whether a lot of _quite_ smart people weren't smart _enough_ to realize that there was a real likelihood of this being possible to achieve faster most thought.

Also, using ridicule as a rhetorical technique isn't the most sound type of reasoning, regarding the author of your link ;)
Just a side note on these kind of things, how do we actually know?

It seems with evolution, there are always these "common sense" answers. Oh, no cows to milk! no need to get up early, hence, teens have a different clock? It just seems like handwavy nonsense that makes "common sense" to us and it's accepted.

School just sucks. It sucked when I was well rested and it sucked when I wasn't. Sleep deprivation may impact peformance. but I know one thing - the later I could wake up, the later I stayed up. Curious to see how these changes in California actually impact students.
>Not trying to be an ass here, but what would the screening process entail?

One example would be questions on the financial decision that you have taken. If you have blown up your savings on your marriage ,it is a red flag. If you are deep in dept because you cannot resist the urge to splurge after you get your salary, that is a red flag.

>Will it only be you who does the screening? Why would that be more advantageous than a screening overseen by a group of people?

To start off it is just me who will screen( because, I got to start somewhere .) Later others can do it. The process is not fundamentally different that interviewing candidates for a startup.
Looking back, the early days of our internet use were so weird.

We had a dial-up connection and a computer well before anyone else in our county/tri-county area in the mid-west. We also had a home line that was a party line.

All the old ladies in our small (<50) town were pissed that anytime they picked the phone up, they heard that robotic screeching noise. We were pissed that we kept getting booted every fifteen seconds.

Weird times. Why did the company even offer internet connections to a party line? What an odd thing to do.
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Would be nice if you guys would check the site out by creating an account, and critiquing it

The site is for Discussions and posting about everything from cybersecurity tech, important life issues, and alot more.

There will also be a Tor link soon, we aim for people who wants total free speech also on the internet, users Who got interest in deep web, tor, tech, hacking, cybersecurity etc..

Anyone who stands out, this will be the place for you

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I imagine Samsung had their own reasons for not doing this particular obvious thing. In particular, you need the body depth to get away with the screen curve, which they may have decided they couldn't get away with.
I study on my own and present it on my website, no paywall or subscription. I do what I want, rather than what a professor tells me.

I've been featured on some top websites.

My point is, you don't need academia necessarily. And after meeting PhD grads, I'm not sure I believe in the positive association with intelligence and accomplishments.
Good point. What kind of stats would be interesting? I'm thinking about doing some questionnaire with remote companies on my site.

I've started with "interviews". Basically a list of questions remote companies can answer. Not too many yet, but some:
https://remotehub.io/remote-work
fwiw, this isn't something I've consciously "learned", just something I've discovered I can do over time.
Here's an example of post-mitigation reading of protected memory using Javascript and Spectre https://alephsecurity.com/2018/06/26/spectre-browser-query-c...

I think it's just silly that you would rely on browser mitigations like disabling high precision timers when that's obviously just a hack.
USA is a plutocracy. Source - this study:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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Under the hood they are all about religious Gnosticism and the physical universe as a false facade to the "true" universe. VALIS is a pretty good explication as well as a really good book; if you are into mental illness+theology, only then is his Exegesis a good read
You mean like video editing / special effects?
I really qeustion this is something that should be moved to cloud, as it's really easy to have several Terrabytes of source material one has to handle.
I made an Instagram account for the first time a few months ago, the first two weeks it had zero ads. It was just long enough to draw me in, if it had had that amount of ads when I signed up, I might have chosen a different platform to display my computer generated art.

On the plus side, it has been very cool chatting with people from all over the world doing the same things, and getting compliments (like, actual comments, not just likes).
It's an indicator of intelligence.

Although I'm glad to have learned at work, that a PhD is not the only way to showcase this.
You just described Life360, which is running on my phone right now.

Also, corporations monitoring customers is not as scary as you make it out to be with your connection to the military. Yes it sucks. But you can choose which company to be a customer of. With the rise of corporate surveillance, the choices we all make about consumption just got another layer of importance.
It happens occasionally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Stokhof
I can't hear any hint of an English accent in the French-language recordings, they just sound like regular Québec French to me.

However, I'm not convinced at all by these voice transfers across language. I can imagine the second Chinese one being the same speaker in both languages, but not the three others.
"The researchers found that other physiological responses to stress were also dampened in this group. For example, their blood pressure and cortisol levels did not increase as much as in the low-adversity group in response to stress."

Focusing on dopamine to try to predict negative outcomes seems weird here. Sounds like a just as viable title could be "people who have been through real adversity don't get stressed in trivial situations where someone calls them names"
ARM is no better. One of the most popular ARM boards (the Raspberry Pi) uses a core which is affected by an errata which also needs a workaround on the assembler/linker. I don't have my RPi with me at the moment, so I don't know the errata number (it's one of the two printed by the kernel during boot).
I wanted to find some discussion on this topic. I’m not pessimistic, but I am curious to consider what it may mean for humanity if/when AGI happens.
In a Platonic dialogue, they discuss the definition of knowledge as "true belief with an account". You have true beliefs about language, but you don't know it in the Platonic sense if you can't explain it to someone else. Another way I've heard this defined is, you don't know it if you couldn't write the algorithm for it.
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The argument against Plasma Universe was always that if heat and gravitation sufficed to model observations, Occam's Razor says the plasma could be taken to "not do anything" coherent. But aligned axes was a key prediction of PU.

PU had its own suggestions for galaxy rotation curves that didn't need dark matter or modified gravity.

What do these new observations offer to plasma astrophysics?
> Episode 8 was killed by playing it safe - it was such a wasted potential.

I get that, although I'll be honest—a bit part of what I liked about 8 Ep. 8 was that it killed off all of the dumb hanging threads from Ep. 7. Episodes 4-6 had huge surprises, but they mostly came out of nowhere, not with giant neon signs pointing at them "GEE DON'T YOU WONDER WHO REY'S PARENTS ARE IT'S A HUGE MYSTERY!". Episode 8 just threw all of that out the window and I loved it for that.
I suspect the way we think in terms of clear symbols and inference isn't actually how we think but a means of providing a post-hoc narrative to ourselves in a linguistic form.

Edit: Which kind of explains the failure of good-old fashioned symbolic AI as it was modelling the wrong thing.
Same thing is happening in other cities, btw. Always thought it looks ridiculous.
I wonder If Backblaze will eventually offer some sort of consumer solution to Backup. An App on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows that simplifies backup to your Backblaze NAS, that Backup to B2 as well.
The point is that the fold causes a trade-off - x/y for z.

I've got some pants with deep pockets but tight enough that my cased iPhone is too thick to comfortably fit. A folding phone like this wouldn't work at all.
Anecdotally, had better success with Apple USC-C cables than with the old MagSafe cables....
I've never had a good experience with swappable batteries.
of course this works only for some political opinions. Others, like the ones expressed by Damore grant you fired.
A child does not need vitamin supplements in a omnivore diet though
Are you in doubt that Carmack has used the scientific method to do anything? [1]

If not, does your definition of scientist require something other than doing work using the scientific method? Perhaps some specific quantity of work?

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[1] One of his companies, Armadillo Aerospace, was pretty much just a series of scientifc experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace
Intel is becoming a meme with those 30-50 page erratas in their documents. When they can't improve IPC or nm tech why don't they at least focus on fixing bugs?
The first wave of "online universities" failed, but that's preobably because instead of trying to copy Education , they should unbundle it first. This is happening now. Things like MOOCs , youtube courses and Lambda school are unbundling the education/learning part. Entities like Ycombinator or tech interviewing is unbundling the competitive admissions/vetting process, Github is unbundling the networking/reinforcement/certification part. There aren't many processes left that are being monopolized by universities. CS shows the way here, and it's nice to see that , for competitive students with a track record to show, a PhD is seen as an accessory, a luxury that they either delay for later or completely forgo.
Nobody is presenting them as a single solution to all individual transport problems. Also nobody is pretending that this is the new "people's car".
You can observe common properties of the way people at similar skill levels behaved however.
Indeed, and that's the reason why a lot of current "sandboxing" efforts are rather misguided.

There is no reason to filter syscalls from some kind of bytecode with an interpreter run with full privileges if you simply run all of that unprivileged and you already have all syscall hardened and ACLed.

But for as long as there is a remotest possibility of a process being able to get around MMU, there is no reason to do that either.
obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1172/
True, but it works vice-versa. I remember what Fox News & conservative radio pundits used to say during Obama's two terms.
Having previously owned a Windows RT device, I think I will wait a while.

I don't even understand why this move is needed. You are just trading performance and compatibility against, at best, 20-30% better battery life.
This is often overlooked but it's the only approach that is pretty much guaranteed to succeed given enough time. That said, it's also likely that AGI will come about way earlier from another approach (just as planes came before the "robot birds").
It's not a perfect solution. As @dfalfndfk says you will know that you're eavesdropped.
This is the article I wanted informed comments on the most
Not everyone makes Bay Area money as an engineer especially in the hard sciences. Even though I’m one of the lucky ones, it’s annoying being forced to pay Apple prices for storage which is about double the market price eg Apple 8TB $2400 vs decent brand decent speed 8TB ~$1200-$1500. It is very hard to justify. This also doesn’t account for inflation and the general decrease in storage prices over time. Yes, the price drops are no longer as fast but in a year or two, we’re still seeing %25 price decreases; it’s still worth waiting for a lot of people including me. I feel the same way about Apple RAM. Soldering it down does nothing for me. it just helps Apple’s profits, since it seems they’re no longer able to substantially grow their user base. It feels like extortion and this isn’t helping growth long term even if they only see iOS as the future