skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well there were some precedents of abuse in history.

And in the case of Xinjiang is right now, unfortunately!

> Surveillance makes them paranoid and then depressed and then they snap and bad things happen.

Two points / ways I can take that:

- Big picture: In Eastern Europe, the turning point was more more complicated than that. Many informants / surveillance - but they were ancillary - antagonists being monitored were eclipsed by legitimate beef with how they were getting treated day to day. There were strikes, austerity things, and the security apparatus clamping down harder was probably one of the last straws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution

The other thing worth mentioning is how the government monitored and disrupted strikes in workplaces, which presents an impossible situation to employees. In USA there are rules around that: https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/i.... In this instance coworkers, eventually will talk to each other, and this situation is so much more direct and practical rather than a vague thoughtcrime thing

- Individuals: There are people who develop schizophrenia, very rarely will they be violent. That process begins partly due to biology and partly due to trauma during childhood, and sometimes involves substance abuse. They are super, super sensitive and associate conspiracies to objects, people, and events. They attract attention to themselves, and the thing just feeds itself.

Persecution is a recurring theme (it's not that people are oh so nice! the world is bad and spiteful), and it commonly manifests itself with suspicion of being watched and followed. Also noteworthy is the intensity attributed to events, and the compulsion they feel to keep bringing it up. Common is bringing up sexual fears out of thin air (https://youtu.be/5LPS7E-0tuA?t=525), superego run amok. The sad truth is many were traumatized as children and further degraded as an adolescent. Not being able to process twisted family situations makes it extraordinarily hard for them. You wouldn't want to trade childhoods with them.

Normal people feel distrust, in these cases they're processing information extremely dysfunctional way. Like people who complain about privacy, they have an amazing pattern of not understanding technology, laws, and organizational structure. Everyone is busy and stressed with their own lives and trying to figure it out (and people are also caring, on the other hand, but they won't accept that). You'll also notice the common theme of omnipotent paternal/maternal persons or organizations. There's always an information deficit, they don't go research or pull documents on a subject.

They feel there's no potential reality for them without a punishing, omnipotent presence. So they're in hell, no doubt.
For most of the electric vehicle revival Nissan has dominated the charts yet they still dont have anything but the leaf and I think they will also look back at it as their biggest wasted opportunity.
AMD has always been the stock markets whipping boy with shorts. Yet it stock price still continues to grow.
> doctors would love to have some space as well, since the medical field evolves as fast if not faster than computing.

They are required by their state boards to get a certain number of CME hours every year. There's no such requirement for software developers.
I've since discovered that the latest Forth standard, Forth-2012, includes an optional set of Forth words to support local variables.

Gory details here (warning, spec-ese): http://forth-standard.org/standard/locals

I don't know how widely these are supported in Forth implementations.
I think it's been well established Doug used to sell weed when he was a teenager.
Interesting, wouldn't it make A LOT of sense for the US government, or any government to heavily invest in this space, since it get two flies with one stone (i.e. better energy for land AND sea AND potentially space)?
Interesting history - thanks. My 4th edition paperback copy of "Hugo Cornwall's New Hacker's Handbook" by Steve Gold from 1989 is sitting right behind me on the shelf.
I have a Ryzen 3700x on my new PC. First PC I ever built by hand. Mostly used for music production. 10 instances of Serum in Ableton with 50+ tracks and the thing barely crosses 15% CPU utilization
You can now see an official mention at https://inmemory.stanford.edu/

"Hector Garcia-Molina, the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor in Engineering, Emeritus, and professor emeritus of computer science and of electrical engineering, distinguished for his work in distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems, died Nov. 26."
True; I would be interested in seeing the number of logged-in users who viewed and/or attempted each problem.
Is the headline of the NYT Times article How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them, an incorrect use of the apostrophe that this society is rallying against?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/how-to-be-a-ceo....
why isn't it priced higher then?
The assumption is that developers, like bricklayers, can do a certain amount of work per hour, and hiring twice as many will get twice as much done.

One great idea well executed at a company could save the need for an entire team of developers from being hired to do some mundane maintenance shit ... such is the leverage from code.
The most extreme-left political advocates, who dominate green advocacy because of their high motivation, aren't interested in solving climate change alone. What they want is to dismantle what they see as an entire system of racist sexist capitalist corporate transphobic colonialist evil.

Nuclear power, if it was used and solved climate change, wouldn't help with the other aspects of that goal. And, in fact, it would weaken the attempts to dismantle those aspects by taking away a strong source of panic and power.

The strategy is to use climate change to spike fear and thus convince people to give up thier political power to multinational undemocratic entities and expanding bureaucracies of advocates and evironmental commissars who they ordinarily would reject.

They don't want to solve the problem, they want to exploit the problem.

Here's an example: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-strikes...

"That action must be powerful and wide-ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities."
What happens when there is mass adoption for people needing to drive long distances?

This video seems to be the start of something
https://youtu.be/a1uFudf37JU
Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet
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I felt bad when I read that too. I think foreigners don't know about Latin America, they where all indoctrinated to hate "socialist" or "populist" Latin America states. All propaganda, they never think why people put them there first. Just look what happened in Bolivia.
my response after reading the title

"but it is for consumers"
To be fair, that's kinda the use case for Forth in the modern world: embedded development, single, capable developer, bootstrap something minimalist up and get it stable, create a DSL to solve the problem.
Thanks, your reply is among the best I've ever received at HN! This is why I post here.
Nuclear currently has a huge range of issues that’s outside of reactor design. Even assuming a 50% cost reduction seems viable, it’s still expensive.

Permit’s and regulation are real and significant costs. In an ideal world they would be lower, but realistically you need to consider them

Next, load following is critical as renewable energy regulatory reduces the spot price of electricity near zero. Breakeven right now is an average around 12c/kWh 24/7 if you’re capacity factor is cut in half then you need to be selling near 24c/kWh for that half. This is more or less still true even if you get to run 24/7 as the value of energy produced still drops. A ~50% price drop clearly helps, but the core issue remains.

As to the design, it’s inherently more complex than a gas turbine due to the need for shielding etc. Next, the fuel assembly is surprisingly expensive $1390 per kg up front which provides about 40kw for a year or 0.4c/kWh. And then you need to deal with 1kg of high level Nuclear Waste. Eventually you need to decommission things and that’s even more inherent costs.

Sure, some costs can come down like the current 500 to 1,000 workers per GW of capacity. But, Nuclear is already reviving subsidies in the west so it needs to be vastly less expensive to become viable.

PS: Yes compared to coal fuel is cheap, but compared to 2c/kWh solar that’s eating up significant budget for something considered cheap in the Nuclear world.
3m seems aggressive to do builds and spin up infrastructure for anything non-trivial.

Reading a bit closer, I see the author describes CI as a sanity check, "ensur[ing] the bare minimum" and doesn't consider deploying on every commit. Maybe 3-7m is more realistic then.

However, I'm slightly surprised by this definition of CI. According to Fowler [0], "Continuous Delivery is a software development discipline where you build software in such a way that the software can be released to production at any time. ... The key test is that a business sponsor could request that the current development version of the software can be deployed into production at a moment's notice." So having CI gates on the development version that are weaker than the release tests would not seem to be continuous delivery according to his definition.

We're currently releasing on every commit and our CI build (which implements continuous delivery) takes about 15m.

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html
generally to gain back market share
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Depends on whether it was sold out due to manufacturing capacity or just a local logistical issue.

If manufacturing capacity, then it should've been priced higher.

If local logistics, then this data point has no bearing on whether it's priced correctly or not.
Now I wanna change from 3700x to 3950x... :(
I assume it's not far from work. I used to only play CSGO if I drank wine to help the stress. Usually a small glass every other night or so. I ended up trying all the wine in one rack at Safeway over a year...

+1 on it being the type of game.
This article and articles like this miscast Kape in an incorrect light. To be clear, in the past the company was known as CrossRider and provided a developer SDK that could be used to integrate with browsers. Unfortunately, CrossRider didn't do enough to prevent malware (like platforms these days and their fake news) and the platform was used by some bad people for bad purposes.

When the new management team of CrossRider took over, they immediately ceased to engage in the previous business and focused on the opposite due to the insights they gained watching nefarious developers abuse their platform. With the focus on security and privacy, they changed their name to Kape and further the new company will be called Private Internet as it will be purely focused on privacy.

The merger between Kape and PIA affords PIA the resources needed to bring privacy to the mainstream. The company can now be decentrally owned by the people, and public reporting requirements are much stronger than those for private companies. Couple this with a new random audit program we are going to launch and its as transparent as it gets, and it's exactly the direction we at PIA want to go, where our users no longer need to just trust us, instead our actions are and will continue to be verified.

Ultimately, the choice of VPN is yours, but transparency is verification and with most VPN companies being incredibly secretive about their operations, who is behind it, and where they are located, what they do with their funds, etc. I stand behind the move to bring more transparency to privacy.

The company has always practiced sustainable karma - wherein we do what's best for the people/what people want, and that allows us to make a living doing what we love; that's not going to change.

Sincerely,
Andrew - Co Founder PIA
It's amazing how we have gone full circle in the last 15 years or so. In the old days, people complained about their cable tv bill: why do I have to pay for 250 channels when I only watch 5 of them? Let me pay only for what I watch.

Now that the future is here, people are complaining that they need to sign up for too many streaming services. Why can't I just pay once for a bundle and get everything I need?

I'm just as guilty as everyone else, I don't have a good answer...
Your ability to gain market share ends when supply ends.

If the demand is exceeding AMDs manufacturing capacity, then they should have priced higher or need to increase manufacturing capacity in order to actualize the potential market share to be gained.
I happily pay for Netflix, but actually I travel a lot and don't always have Wifi, so I like to download the movies.

My problem with Netflix is that its download function is very unstable, so actually I'm thinking of going back to torrenting just because there's no payed option for watching movies offline easily.
Google attempts to protect users from sketchy stem cell clinics
Those aren't global variables; they're just variables. They are statically allocated, which you would think would lead to the problems you describe. But multithreaded Forth systems traditionally use cooperative rather than preemptive multithreading, and since VADD doesn't invoke any words that can yield to another thread, it can be assured that no other instances of VADD will mess with its variables while it's running. So that problem doesn't actually exist unless you're using something like GForth's experimental pthreads interface. In that case you could define the variables as "user variables" (TLS, in more widespread terminology) as well as the possibility of making them stack-allocated variables as you suggest.

I like stack-allocated variables, and they'd be the obviously correct solution in a language like C; but ANS Forth doesn't have them (oh, I see they've been added in Forth-2012; thank you!), they make it harder to factor words, and some of the other problems they solve in Algol-family and Lisp-family languages have other solutions in Forth, so the case for them is not as strong.

Also, traditionally, multithreaded Forth systems were multiuser; each task had its own dictionary. So a fourth way to avoid the problem (in addition to procedure-local variables, cooperative multitasking, and user variables) is to load the definitions above after spawning the potentially interfering task rather than before.
It's still 14nm, even the quad core KLR chips were a minor miracle and only brought 25-30% from the dual core KBL.
Geez... This is a worse outcome than even the cynicals predicted.
I'm taking it easy this weekend.
My brother bought a Leaf and loved the thing so much that he drove it over his BMW. He's now getting a Model 3 because Nissan has nothing else in its stable that's above the Leaf.
Allende's Chile wasn't USSR. It was a democratic government. And USA HELPED too kill that democracy that was the promise of Latin America...
That is why I said "no hard feelings". Fastmail or Plex could shut down tomorrow. I would be disappointed, but I wouldn't scream for a refund.

As long as I felt that they tried I would be alright.

Our wonderful journey wouldn't cut it. But a simple, we went broke would be cool.
They are accelarating 7nm as much as they can, there's little else they can do. The 10nm process is a broken disaster.
We are dropping Disney+ minutes after the last episode of the Maldorian finishes it's screening at our house. Unless they release something immediately thereafter. We split Netflix with my best friend and my wife and I split Amazon prime/hbo. As soon as last week tonight wraps up we're cancelling hbo too. We briefly had Hulu while the wife was binging on handmaid's tale but have since cancelled. Not keeping these services on 52 weeks a year
A quick ctrl-f returns 0 results for "8200", "Israel" while it returns 1 result for "adware".

This article centres around the details pertaining to the company's operations in and around 2016 when it launched the Crossrider malware as well as the founder's former employment with Unit 8200 (Israel's IDF Signal Intelligence operations unit).
How to Build an App Like TikTok: Top Features, Cost and Tech Stack
Don't disagree with the broader point you're making, but nitpick: every symplectic manifold looks locally like R^{2n} with the canonical symplectic structure. Not necessarily so globally.
The gaping security holes plaguing Real-Time payments [audio]
Damn those are fantastic prices. Wish we had a micro center around here...
Keeping notes as raw text files synced to git is really the easiest way to keep notes forever. I've tried multiple note apps like evernote and etc. Somehow I never really port notes to the next platform
> There is a whole bunch of manuals

Ah, yeah, the manual. I forgot another abysmally bad part of Yocto: the manual.

Yocto documentation is the single worst documentation I've ever dealt with. It's a huge giant wall of text which tells you... nothing concrete whatsoever.

Wanna know how to change an image fs or image format? Go figure with the manual, just look at these entries:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.0/ref-manual/ref-manual....

https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.0/ref-manual/ref-manual....

So concise, but even more useless. Which filesystems could I use? How to know that? Ah, don't bother.

The whole manual is a huge wall of text telling you what classes, tasks, recipes and dozens of other overengineered concepts are, but nothing about how to use them beyond the basic examples. Wanna build an fs for the device with a local storage and external ssd, good luck to figure out how: decoupling where machine starts and image ends, and which part should you modify.

> Without understanding the philosophy behind the whole system and the recipe language just trying to "discover" something seems indeed mission impossible to me.

Yeah, it's hard to introspect something which have dozens of concepts, yet no other form of introspection but file reading.

And I'm fine with file reading, but with yocto half of important stuff is concealed within the build system, leaving just strange config variables and gluing scripts on the surface, making it incomprehensible for a sane person.
They try, but REVOLUTION is though and lives!
This brought a little joy to my evening. What a clever, creative idea with an equally emotionally-palatable name! Love it
Nuclear energy languished largely because of fear, I think.

Our failure to invest in nuclear the past several decades was a huge mistake that future generations will rightfully scorn us for.
Narrator: they only made 12.
Thanks for the suggestion. That does sound exactly like what I want. I'll be ordering a few pairs to see if it works out as well as it sounds.
Are you claiming that Infowars is a legitimate news source?
Hm, I’m in college right now and I have the opposite perspective: ask people whether they’re doing any side projects. If they are, then they’re probably not packing their schedules with classes and with busy work. At the least, you know they don’t care about the veneer of productivity because working on side projects and hobbies is probably the least productive thing to do from a normal university perspective.
Just a general question about VPN services in general. When they advertise that they have hundreds of servers in a dozen or so countries, is it even possible to think that they are able to secure all of that themselves? Surely some State actor with enough know-how is going to be able to hack into some of the servers, right?
I've tried this system before. It didn't work well when using in a workplace. Mainly because the info/knowledge in workplace is scattered and sometimes incoherent.

But, then, I've realised that this is from Cornell, and the note taking system here is for students noting lectures.
>is the single-mindedness that goes with it. It quietens the rest of the world for a time; nothing matters but the immediate, and it takes up 100% of processing to do it justice

This right here is the essence of "Meditation". No gimmicks, No bullshit, nothing.

Stages from the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali - "Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi".

You can do this instant to instant on any current activity you are engaged in (aka "Mindfulness") or for extended periods of time on literally any one objective/activity.
glad I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. it's not a huge deal, but it made me "WTF?"
I'd say it's not so much inaction as inability to fix 10nm. By coupling architecture to process node for so long it really hosed them since they couldn't execute 10nm in a reasonable timeline.
it doesn’t seem like a crazy idea to pay for a quality privacy focused search product. I’d better pay with actual money than with personal data.
Seems like a pretty risky move, but the owner has historically been controversial so wouldn't be too surprised.

https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-...
Except if you want to be known for being as the cheaper option and not just thinking about short-term profits; even if it takes a little delay to actually get the supply needed to satisfy the demand.
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Ask HN: Kubernetes Service Dependencies and Bootstrapping clusters
We are using kubernetes. We have about 15 or so pods/services, about 3-4 statefulsets. Things work fine and we are happy with kubernetes so far.

However, for our dev setups and also for CI, we are looking for a better solution. These 15 services have a few hierarchical dependencies. For example, the postgres stateful set should be brought up first, followed by the users service and then the auth service.

The users/auth service will work fine (albeit returning 5xx errors) even without the other services being up. However, if all the services start together, they will all compete for the tiny amounts of CPU that we have given and eventually some starve and kind of gets into weird unrecoverable situations (in CI and test clusters where we can't give max cpu/mem).

I know of ways to increase the cpu/mem limit but keep the initial allocations, small. But I believe that since I know about service dependencies better, if I bring up kubernetes pods/services in a hierarchical way, it would be far more useful for me.

Do any of you that use kubernetes, use any tools/hacks/techniques to bring up pods/services in particular order (without lots of kubectl waits) ? In the past, with `docker-compose` I was able to achieve this via service dependencies but can't find similar in kubernetes. Any pointers ?
Sure, nothing has changed yet. That's how it goes with acquisitions. But people (including myself) are more concerned about the future. At some point in the future there will pressure from within Kape to increase revenues. And at that point I don't want my browsing data to be sold to advertisers and marketing agencies.
What you are seeing as bad, thousands of business owners are going to see as a huge, huge opportunity to make money.
What? Increase price to lower demand so they have a lower market share than they do now so they can have a higher market share later?
You really hit the nail on the head there about hustlers VS innovators. This is also epidemic in my fields - volcanology, planetary science, and robotics.
Yes, it's so good that Chileans come to the universities in my country, Argentina, and many work here. And we're happy to help them, because Neoliberalism took their opportunities and their future.
Holy. I just missed it completely for the last 12 months then :(.
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Hi Andrew, you may want to tidy up your HN "about" info if you're speaking on behalf of the company.