skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the appeal of hot-patching and full process image save and restore. Yes, this technology is neat for some use cases, but as a fundamental way of computing it's broken, because it throws reproducibility out of the window. Reproducibility is everything in complex systems, and being able to reset and start fresh is powerful.

Evolution figured that out as well. It's why basically all species propagate via the birth of new individuals and the death of the old ones.
Waste disposal has been solved, which doesn't mean new processes and locations aren't being developes. See Urenco. Finland and the US refuse to recycle, which makes their need for very special storage even greater. But France and most of Europe use Urenco.
> Do you want latency to be larger??

Instant results are good for sure, however very often few more seconds - in addition to instant results! - is not a problem if late, more carefully processed results can save minutes of my time - for now I spend it for opening the links and scanning the content with my eyes.

The same is about not very often but important searches that may be described as 'research about something', in this case I'm ready to make complex, well detailed query and wait even hours - then back and get well organized and intelligent results.

> Do you mean users should keep their own index of the whole web by themselves?

oh no! Users should keep only their personal data - in wide meaning, this includes all history of searches, search results, refinements, anything that ML currently uses to bring personal search experience. In addition to that, relatively small index of important content may be saved. For internet search this 'personal search' will use API of anything that can be used manually for now - google, bing, consume direct API of Twitter/FB/Medium/WolframAlpha and hundreds of connectors to other cloud services. It is important to say, that this 'delegated search calls' may be anonymized.

It will be important that search results are not limited only by what google decided to be 'top results for this user'. At this moment I can do all this manually - open N tabs, query many services, compare results, open most 'relevant' (from my human point of view, not google) links and scan them for most interesting information. I believe that all this can be automated.

> First I think you greatly overestimate how useful information about you can be. Second if that worked then it would make they problem you mentioned before (information bubble) worse...

As for now, all this just thoughts. I'm a programmer with almost 20YOE; I have understanding about how google works in general, how lucene works, how WolframAlpha works, modern approaches to NLP and search-driven queries processing, and I think - without a MVP that works, this is more belief, of course - that value of this 'personal computation engine' combined with modern ML approaches might be ultimate. Challenge, but nothing impossible!
Exactly. I hate this fragmentation but it's still cheap enough that I can't be too pissed. Even if you have 4 video streaming services (Netflix Prime HBO Disney) and 2 music ones (Spotify and Youtube Red) and assuming you split them all with another family, it's only a monthly total of about 45-50 dollars. That's like a decent dinner for two in the Bay Area or one movie outing, for example. We spend so readily on mediocre brick and mortar experiences while nickel-and-diming on things that provide so much convenience and value.
http://archive.is/hmlLz
No, it's not. I think it would even have been counterproductive to find that programmer. People would have latched onto "see, it was a bad programmer!" and the real problems could have been forgotten.

The investigators did the right thing, they focused on the systematic problems. And the coworkers also did the right thing by not providing someone as a scapegoat.
Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.
If you go with dedicated servers instead of colo, the provider will still take care of swapping faulty SSDs. Prices are similar to colo, only downside is that you're restricted with the hardware the vendor offers and cannot guarantee that all servers are in the same rack. But neither of that is true with cloud providers.
On the other hand, there is plenty of work on rule extraction from trained neural networks being done. Wouldn't it be amazing if we extracted actual laws of physics from a network trained by observations?
How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
You have to take into consideration what kind of workloads lead to throttling. Laptops are usually not used for the kind of tasks that keep a CPU fully loaded for several minutes or hours at a time. People who do use laptops in that manner are a tiny fraction of the market, and when they experience throttling that does not have any bearing on whether the cooling system of an ultrabook is adequate for the kinds of more typical workloads it is actually designed for.

There have been some ultrabook-style designs that offered inadequate cooling even for fairly normal use cases, but that's a separate issue. Mainstream laptops will be designed around mainstream workloads, and heavier workloads will push them to their limits. Better cooling doesn't come free, and if it doesn't benefit mainstream workloads it's unreasonable to expect mainstream laptops to put more emphasis on cooling capabilities.
That extrapolation is far removed from what I said. Why do you reach for an extreme like that instead of assuming I'm trying to say something reasonable?
this was the worst spam of all my wordpress experience. a yoast banner on every admin page - yoast must have gone crazy. I took screenshots of this shameful moment.

wordpress plugin as well as mobile app stores are reminiscent of the ugly pc shareware and freewares of past 30 decades.
Recently started using windscribe and found it extremely good.

https://windscribe.com/?friend=qoeb14pf
func main() {

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That's not really compatible to improvements in printing technology. Printing on home inkjet or let was and still is hugely more expensive and slower per page than buying a mass produced book or newspaper, and Amazon didn't introduce any printing technology unless you were referring to e-ink used in Kindle (but they didn't invent it).
Is the code available, after all these years?
The Coming Savings Meltdown
What you are doing is actually a felony in the US. Please be careful.
Trust and ethics are important. A company that is identified as using questionable ethics in business, for an extended period, is not automatically "reset to neutral" by airdropping in a new management team and a rebrand. Honestly? That sounds more like a move to bury the bad news, which has a long and effective history, just as the day a story goes public does - The Friday News Dump, Thanksgiving News Dump, etc. So, for this PIA user, Kape are in significant negative territory that needs making up to even hit neutral again.

Transparency is verification, but it is critical you like what you see. With the newly formed Kape link, owned by Teddy Sagi with extensive links to other online advertising companies, mobile advertising and online gambling. Nothing good for humanity is done by his investments. No, don't like what I see at all. With the reputation PIA had I'm actually really surprised you chose to be associated with such a stable as Sagi's.

My sub is due for renewal shortly into the New Year. It won't be.
Using a VPN is only one piece of maintaining privacy online. It doesn't eliminate the need for end-to-end encryption when dealing with material you wouldn't want third parties to have access to.
This title is clickbait af. Who is to say what is and is not 'true' hacking?
I recently extended my subscription by 2 years, now I guess I can just toss it.
People are responsible for their actions. There were many things wrong with this project, but one of them was fatally bad code, which this guy took money to write. Having him be named strikes me as the very minimum in accountability.

I think it's also important to name him, to interview him. To understand how he came to kill. So that anybody writing life-critical code today can say, "I'd better not end up infamous like that guy. I can't make the same mistakes."

Maybe if he had been held accountable, the programmers at Uber wouldn't have been lax enough to code up the negligent homicide of Elaine Herzberg.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and the Debate over Section 230
GPL version it seems:

https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/13961
Yes, that seems about right. There’s always behavior at runtime, and your language shields it away from you to varying degrees. It is the same for all languages, which is exactly what I am trying to drive home.

However, even if you go to the extreme of not using any features that require runtime support, if you are using hosted C++, in practice you still have one bit of runtime: the entrypoint. Technically, an operating system could implement the bits that call main, but to the best of my knowledge none of them ever have. So every compiled binary from every hosted C++ implementation begins at the runtime library. (Admittedly, normally the C runtime library, since C++ doesn’t differ here, but that is just another layer deep of pedantics. In practice, everyone has a runtime.)

Nitpick: As far as I am aware OpenMP is not part of the language itself but an extension. But yeah, you could argue that is runtime scheduling in C++, I think.
"...The man (the authors seem to know it was a man, at least) who wrote the software for this machine did so alone, without documenting what he was doing. The company then sort of vaguely tested it."

Lone wolf programmer, no docs, vague testing. What kind of manager(s) would let this out the door knowing this? Never mind the lone wolf programmer. Find the managers and beat them with sticks
People figured out pretty quickly that if you crush the pills, you absorb the oxycodone quickly. It was the coating that delayed absorption.
> Laptops are usually not used for the kind of tasks that keep a CPU fully loaded for several minutes or hours at a time.

Web developers work hard to change this. Browsing without an adblocker and with Javascript enabled is often enough.
Sure, it happens all the time. But the implications depend on context.

It's not a huge issue that Palantir is loaded with former CIA and NSA people. Except about financial issues.

But former intelligence folk running a VPN service? That makes one wonder what their goals actually are. That is, "maintain those connections and shared goals therewith".

Many don't trust the Tor Project, for just that reason.
I'm not the author. I'm just fascinated with size optimisations and I thought that it was an interesting achievement. But yes, the simplest optimisation is to not write code that you don't need to.

I've had my fair share of x86 assembly programming, and I used to do all sorts of tricks back then as well (I vaguely remember calling DOS interrupts just to get multiple registers into the state I wanted them when speed didn't matter as much as size), but I don't think that I'd have been able to cramp a working chess program in such a small amount of bytes.
Is docker necessary or can I run it on a bare vm?
It's not about heat, more probably vendors have a contract with Intel that makes Intel parts more expensive if they are not bought exclusively (it will be worded differently because Intel already got sued for this practice).

I recently bought a Thinkpad E495 with a Ryzen 3700u and thermals are just fine. The surface barely heats up under sustained load. The E series is more budget, though. But the T495 (14") or X395 are of higher build quality (and price) and also have Ryzen 3x00u CPUs.
So a company that was so badly associated with malware they had to rebrand thought buying a privacy focused VPN company would be a good fit?

Regardless of how they’ve changed, the internet never forgets and it’s incredible no one involved considered the optics of selling a VPN company to a company associated with malware.

IMO you’re likely 100% above board here and they’re a reformed company, but it doesn’t matter. It looks bad.
My instinct is to mock the ridiculousness of campaigning for correct use of apostrophes. Since english is pretty lawless these days and often gets dragged in new and wonderful directions. It seems stupid to rail against the tide of mutable grammar and syntax. But what about the development of High German and standard Italian? Both are examples where, with sufficient resources and nationalism, you can coalesce a disparate heap of diverge language(s) and make something coherent that people will stick to.

Both of them (and others I can think of) had central government sponsored organisations to help. But english doesn't have anything more formal than the Oxford Dictionary, whoever decides state curriculums, and ESL staff. I wonder what organisations have the biggest impact on contemporary english? Google and Microsoft with their spellcheckers maybe?
A culture of blame leads to programmers of safety critical software hiding their mistakes.
I for one would welcome this. I'm not sure if they push themselves into a corner or it is this idea that math is scary that pushes them into a corner. Probably some combination. But they definitely have some things that have a lot of practicality that is yet to be untapped.
https://outline.com/DsZE2C
> Since PIA was in debt, it doesn't sound like maintaining the current service as is would be profitable.

Private Internet Access is very profitable [1] and our new partner’s action of merging with PIA speaks louder than words whether privacy is important to them.

[1] https://investors.kape.com/~/media/Files/K/Kape-IR/reports-a... (Slide 5)
> The sad and inspiring story of TempleOS,
a.k.a. what the Raspberry Pi should have been.

Eh?
If they ask loaded questions / trick questions that are irrelevant to the interview and the job description.

Some friend of mine was interviewing for a junior position at some startup in London and he noticed one of the interviewers secretly recording him while asking a strange whiteboard question all from memory which they don't use in production at all. The interviewers ridiculed and belittled him straight through the interview with the recording and he told me he found the place very unwelcoming.

The thing is, it is usually the self proclaimed 'senior engineers' who have less than 4 years of experience at a single company who have also been bullied that are most likely to be this arrogant and cannot ask the right questions, thus cannot interview juniors properly; only to feel better about themselves afterwards.

After this he told me that the company in question raised two series rounds in less than 5 months; a statment that they're haemoraging cash. I'd say he dodged an unprofitable bad egg anyway.
not in every angle. Take for example the right side of Italy...there are 2/3 Superchargers only and from Foggia to Lecce there's none (and they are like ~400KM + none around)

Also in Germany there's the same problem: if you see around Berlin, the capital, only one supercharger is there
This company has no association with the Israeli intelligence whatsoever. Many, many of the Israelis involved in the technology world have served in the IDF Intelligence Corps (being that Israel has mandatory conscription and the intel corps select the best and brightest).
A hacker is motivated to hack great software/systems.(Hacking in the "modern" sense has been more about software than hardware, since not as many people have the resources to tinker around with hardware,potentially breaking in the process).

I would argue the reason why hacking has kind of "died" is because of the massive amounts of garbage software that gets put out.

On top of that, hacking isn't actually dead,it just kind of moved in the shadows.(This has been de facto true after the 2012 "era of big-brother revelations", and shortly when the "big figures" of hacking have jailed.)

I'd say firstly modern hackers have to always adapt by "working twice as hard" while having the "penetrating" mindset towards software that becomes increasingly harder to penetrate(through different techniques,which CS has developed firstly at theoretical then practical levels).
Secondly,software developers now usually work in groups and are incentivized by money.Even if they're less skilled individually, together they manage to create harder software to penetrate.

However,this "brothership" in the hacking community is very hard to acquire,because 90% of the time it is motivated by something other than money: ethics,sense of justice, etc.(What i subjectively consider a "hacker" isn't someone who "hacks" an ATM by putting a cloning device on a facade)

On top of this,you add the fact that governments try to gain more and more control over the internet and all-things computing, punishing people who "legally deserved it" but did the society a favor(Snowden,Assange,etc. basically any leak that has been "proven true" but the means of acquiring information left the boot-lickers unsatisfied).

On the bright side, i wouldn't exactly say hacking is dead,it's just that the computing sphere is changing so fast, it leaves hackers undecided.Some people don't even bother when in the relatively short future we'll probably see the "downfall" of classical computing as we know it.
Do you have any sources on that? As far as I know they had the same rights given by the Crown (legally at least).
>assuming you split them all with another family

I'm surprised the t+c's allow you to do that
> Maybe it's a sign you need to take a step back and do absolutely nothing.

I do that every once in a while. After enough of it, I end up feeling full of inspiration and desire to start working on something. It's a good way to kickstart little personal projects.

Only problem is the amount of downtime needed for that effect seems somewhat long. I wish I could do it more often.
From reading Nancy Leveson's paper, I get the impression she probably does know the programmer's name, but little or nothing beyond that, and has chosen not to publicise his name. (She probably thinks that is the ethical course of action.) The lawsuit depositions to which she refers, quite likely include his name, but not much else. You would think you would remember the name and gender of a former colleague, but that doesn't mean you could answer any questions about his past work experience or qualifications – most of us know very little of our current colleagues' past work experience or qualifications – even when they tell us, that kind of information often isn't very memorable.
Non-hydro renewables overtook hydro a couple of years ago in the US, and are on track to overtake nuclear, too, in a couple more years.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/images/Fig34.png
These kinds of analogies are not intended as precise engineering or business definitions. They are simple thinking tools used to deliver a point.

If you are in the business of delivering holes for aerospace customers your focus should be on delivering the kinds of holes they need. At the end of the day, they still only care about holes. That’s what they are buying.

Most customers using a software-based product could not care less if it was created using vim and python or toggle switches and machine language. They are after the solution to a problem; that’s all they care about.

Our customers don’t buy language features, compiler flags, stacks, lists, dictionaries, classes, variables or functions.
I’d also be interested in reading more.

My guess would be all the pointer chasing during marking is expensive and since Go doesn’t use a compacting GC there isn’t anything to do other than push freed memory back into the allocators internal data structures during a sweep.
It’s truly bizarre. Think a lot of it comes from people being influenced by YouTube , and rgb lights being one of those things that really only exists to appear on video.
This is hard to grasp without a diagram. The detailed example is probably easier to understand.

The result computed in the current iteration is a[i - j][j]. The result computed in the iteration before that is a[i - (j - 1)][j - 1].
This is such nonsense... The author ought to be sued for slandering.

Crossrider/Kape acquired quite a few companies over the years. In fact, it went public in 2015 when it was profitable, and the money was going to be used for M&As. I know, because my own company was acquired by them. I know Koby, the first CEO. He is no more of a "spy" than any other Israeli who served in the army (now is the cue for anyone with a hidden racist agenda to respond). Army service in Israel is mandatory, and Koby did serve in the army intelligence about 20 years earlier. The majority of software companies in Israel have people who served in army intelligence when they were 19. They're not spies, they were teens, and by the time they were 21, they moved on with their lives. Not to mention the fact that Koby left his seat as ceo in 2016, along with many of the original team (myself included), and the company turned its business around and killed the developer platform that it created because it turned out other companies were using it sometimes to create malware.

I really do hope someone gets the author of this piece for slandering.
(Full disclosure: I haven't worked in the company since 2016, I havent owned any shares for a few years now, I hardly know anyone who works there anymore, and I have no inside knowledge of the company)
I know there are plenty of Mullvad recommendations in this thread, but I can wholeheartedly recommend Mullvad as well. They don't seem to spend as much on marketing as many of the VPN services do, but the service I've gotten is solid, and they seem to have a pretty clean track record.
>And no, before we keep going, I don't mean that we should not be political in our actions, today. We are social animals and we should care about society and politics, in fact, it would seem to me that the only reason, at least if one is to take the book at its word, why early hacking was a-political is because hackers were fairly despicable a-social people.

Fuck you too buddy.

The hackers were anti-social because the mob is not a thing to please. It is a plague to avoid. That we let them into our internet to pollute it with twitter, facebook and instagram was the worst mistake of the 21st century.

Enough of 'empowering everyone', most people are barely worth keeping alive, let alone being given a voice. It's time that we empowered those that can create beauty. For a start anyone who can't write their own networking software is not someone who should be online.

To quote a better man than us both, destroyed by the mob:

>Artists have visited despots, not as subjects to be tyrannised over, but as wandering wonder-makers, as fascinating vagrant personalities, to be entertained and charmed and suffered to be at peace, and allowed to create. There is this to be said in favour of the despot, that he, being an individual, may have culture, while the mob, being a monster, has none. One who is an Emperor and King may stoop down to pick up a brush for a painter, but when the democracy stoops down it is merely to throw mud. And yet the democracy have not so far to stoop as the emperor. In fact, when they want to throw mud they have not to stoop at all. But there is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-...