skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this also suggests that doctors suck. If engineers couldn't interpret the information coming from the security community and due to their inability to deal with their own industry inputs they got thousands of people killed per year, it would be a far more serious deal. As far as I know, Google isn't getting thousands of people killed, but nobody is talking about reigning in the medical community.

Somehow there's no egg on the medical community's face. Is medically checking the doctor now the responsibility of patients?
I would argue that we convey the same meaning during speech by changing pitch, stressing certain vowels and consonants, etc. Things that we can't do in writing without things like apostrophes.
They have actual shops in Japan, contrary to Amazon. For some reason the 3970X is (slightly) more expensive on Amazon Japan than the Japanese MSRP. I haven't checked the other models, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. I'm not too familiar with the Japanese market (only from researching for the 3970X in the past few days), so I wouldn't recommend anything in particular, but it did show up during my research. PC Koubou, too.
Only if you were right on the border line to begin with.
Another sound advice that the media is gonna overblow in 3, 2, 1...
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Your argument about Kape is persuasive.

And I do want to "trust" (as much as I ever do) PIA. It's one of the few that's actually been tested by criminal investigation of a user. And it did, in fact, retain no logs.

I've also been impressed by London Trust Media projects. And I appreciate that increased resources are a good thing.

So anyway, I do wish y'all well.
The article only told a side of the story that makes Amazon look like a bad place because one person didnt like working in a warehouse. The irony is that while I honor her perspective and hold some relation to her experience, I cant help but feel she lost out by quitting so soon. It took a few months for me to fully adjust to working here. It had been awhile since I had a job working on my feet, but I never felt like the actual labor was hard; just more like repetitious and not much of a challenge. In a months time you will be trained well enough to keep pace and avoid any write up. Then you can transfer roles if need by or work your way to some type of advancement. Thats what I did, I found a role that fit me, but my regular role is tough for some, but mostly by preference.
My assertion is that companies are not automatically related to the Israeli intelligence even if their founders came from its ranks. It takes decisive contrarian proof to convince me otherwise. I did not see such proof in your post.

Virtually any technology company either founded or operating in Israel has former Israeli intelligence people in its ranks. It's true for Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and others.
You know it's a bloated mess when there actually exist another plugin to hide all the bloat that Yoast adds. I kid you not.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-clean-up-wp-seo/
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Even trying to talk about this problem leads to censorship on this site

Trying to bypass filters in noise and tone does incur downvoting, yes. I've been guilty of the offence and of the downvoting. Part of policing the commons is that some things people want to do in the commons are low damage but not no damage: we forbid murder but we also make you pick up your litter kind of costs. Is all litter picked up? No. But, most is, and very little murder goes unnoticed on HN
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It seems making it harder to get oxycodone actually increase the amount of people buying opiates on the street. There is a strong correlation between increase use of street opiates and the creation of opiate tracking DBs and crack down on pill mills.
Ask HN: Best VPN Service in 2019-20?
Given the recent news about PIA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682

What are your recommendations for the best VPN services and their pros/cons?
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I think the accessability of publication has lead to a broader sampling of the normal curve, and as a result the overall quality of scientific literature is in decline. I imagine that just 50 years ago University was for a select elite, whether by nature or nurture, and the cost of running and printing journals pre internet ensured prioritization of a scarce resource. Nowadays publishing is relatively cheap and that coupled with what I imagine is a modern use of publication numbers as a KPI means lots of noise.

I felt it personally in grad school. If you objectively observe the work of yourself and your peers in such an environment, you may notice that there's a reason that none of you got into the Ivy Leagues.
> I also have 4 Threadripper systems

Can you tell what you're using them for ?
the article submitted specifically address this and cites figures that Purdue marketed from one incredibly flimsy sentence to claim 1% addiction rates, when reality according to the article is 8-12%
There were cloud provider outages that lasted a long time as well. They are far from frequent, but it's not like you are immune from it ever happening if you're using aws or gcp.

Anyway, I don't think uptime is the main reason to use a cloud provider. For me, the main reason is the ease to expand. You can add and remove infrastructure quite easily. If course, you can do the same in a datacenter, but in my experience it takes planning ahead a bit more than you need with a cloud provider.
Did you ask AirVPN and IVPN?

https://airvpn.org/faq/logs/

https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/891-important-notice-about-s...

https://www.ivpn.net/privacy
AWS is best for big projects with lots of data processing in different ways that need scale, that's what all the features are for. JAMstack usually implies a simple text API which you could use on AWS AppSync for example but there are much simpler horizontal alternatives since a tiny websocket server can handle many 100,000s of users.
Maybe Duolingo?
> Parts of Peru and Bolivia (especially around Lake Titicaca) are littered with ruins that are still in relatively good condition, there are terraces dug into the hills that have existed for over 500 years now.

My understanding is many of these have undergone substantial partial restoration to preserve them in a somewhat arbitrarily determined state of ruin. So it's not really obvious how well they've aged, they're not left to decay naturally. It was a fairly controversial thing when they decided to start rebuilding Machu Picchu.

"Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared. By 1976, 30% of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu
This. It seems to be exactly so the founders could cash out.
I agree with your comment and feel similarly about the piece.

The last paragraph though:

> I really didn't enjoy this op-ed, and I wish people wouldn't bring it a larger audience by posting on HN.

I think it’s good to have it here, even if I disagree with the article it made me think why and started a valuable discussion in the comments.
You comment does not give any argument behind it.

If both "it's" and "its" are merged, what, do you also propose merging "weather", "whether"?

Weather that is nice, is nice weather.
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In fact, I'd argue that credit cards are US thing. You can pay for most stuff on-line with debit cards just fine. Over the past decade, I had to use PayPal maybe 3 times, because some braindead payment system wouldn't accept debit cards.

(It may differ between classes and countries, but over here in Poland around people I know, having a private credit card is like shaving with a straight razor - it's awesome if you can handle it without hurting yourself, but most people can't and are smart enough to not even try.)
Unity is amazing, I agree. Moving from scratch to unity seem like a big step. Why not play with a 2d game library on the browser (with typescript, and a teacher to give a starter project and the basics) ? Making games in 2d is a very similar experience a smaking game in 3d, just easier. Unity can be overhelming with the richness of what it propose.
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Why would you think your VPS provider is less likely to save network logs than e.g. Mullvad?
Some people call it automated stealing. Taxed, it would collapse.

Usage of APL-related languages in finance, KDB in particular, is always exaggerated. Where it is used, it is amazingly slow.
Yes, you need to trust the VPS provider. But many people already trust Amazon with their credit card number, their home address, which books they read when, and which passages they highlight in them, to say nothing of all the other websites they use that Amazon hosts; trusting Amazon instead of Comcast is probably purely an improvement for them.

Tor is not operated by the US government; it's founded by them and partly funded by them. One reason is certainly to spy on Tor users; another reason is so that their own spies have anonymous internet access to exfiltrate stolen information; a third reason is to enable political dissidents in countries like Australia with onerous censorship regimes to access uncensored information.

If you want to use a nested VPN chain that isn't Tor, how do you authenticate to the last provider in the chain, the one that knows which website you're connecting to? Are you using a VPN provider that you pay in ZCash? Or do they allow anyone to use their server without paying, like a Tor exit?
I'm familiar with the concept of a Design Doc. I've been playing with existing apps and seeing how close they can get to what I want to do and making notes about what I'm trying to achieve in light of those experiments.
Because of Matt Mullenweg's strange philosophy of keeping only barebones features in "core" Wordpress and having all other functionality be delivered by plugins. This means that even to have a basic site, you just have to install various plugins to deliver key features, which leads to the bloat, instability and security problems that Wordpress is infamous for.
the author wasn't talking about hacking but recreating the exact same conditions that existed when he was a young person...

That sums up the article. Kids can do far more today than in the Commodore 64 era. On the other hand, the field is much bigger, so they won't be doing the same thing as their local friends. But there will be someone on the web doing something similar to talk to.
There was a term from the early 00's for malicious "hackers", which was crackers.

Yes, it doesn't have the same ring to it so I understand why the media didn't latch on to it.

But if the media is unwilling to budge should we just make a new word? "Hack" was never a good term to begin with, originating from the model railroad club at MIT.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/dhha...

Ha! After discovering that PIA runs a background process I posted that they were one evil change of ownership transaction away from fucking everyone.

Looks like they were way ahead of me.
I have a lot more respect for a response that contains the words "sorry" and a statement that the entity admits that they made a mistake, vs. the usual corporate statement that contains neither.
Mullvad is controlled by Elad Yarom - ex-IDF
i went from old second generation i7 , to 3700x, its awesome :)

i also put in 64 gb of memory, so i can keep all the tabs open (insert "EVERYONE" meme gif from leon), while i develop

At the moment I don't feel the need to upgrade. My bigest problem is that my cpu fan tends to throtle up and down a lot, can't find correct fan curve.
It’s not about preferring one style or the other. These developers are blind to white spaces and consistency in general. They semi randomly change style within the same file, even if this is something that they themselves have created from scratch. I had numerous conversations about that with them and they are clueless. Sure they will acknowledge the issue if you point it. However they have the same attitude as OP about apostrophes. They are unnecessary, the code is the same, it’s unimportant and they can’t be bothered... can’t even be bothered to install tools to fix the issue.

Sure. You can automate the white space issue away. But unfortunately the same traits tend to show elsewhere... hence the high correlation between this behavior and the fact that they were terrible coders.
> Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'

Well, it's that, or the fact that the "founder" is 96 and is cutting back on his hobbies.
I had a copy of the 1st edition paperback when it came out[1], I was in my teens at the time. Some of the phone numbers in the book actually still worked, and connected to various services like early online banking. As someone with a Prestel account as well, the whole 'hacking Prestel' thing was quite interesting.

Years later I realised I'd lost my original copy, so replaced it with exactly the same edition, mainly for nostalgia reasons. It's still a fun read if you want an insight into early dial-up stuff - it's got a lot of technical stuff in it too about how all the hardware worked.

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[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hackers-Handbook-Hugo-Cornwall/dp/0...
What is the problem with operating the power delivery infrastructure at those temps, exactly?

And as for distances - power grids have been built at similar scale, and even longer. When there's essentially free power for the taking, why wouldn't you invest into delivering it where it needs to go?
No one in academia has time except for a few at the top. We're constantly swamped with tasks that aren't research and we're not paid to research. What do people expect?
Was recently thinking that single pair power over Ethernet could probably handle 90% of the use case for residential power. 50W is enough for a LED/Fluorescent lighting, power a laptop, lighting, charge your phone.
Mullvad on the other hand does not log anything at all (other than their Stripe payments where they try to keep data minimal). Is that in violation of the Swedish law? Maybe, but as long as one of the medium sized ISPs, Bahnhof, is still fighting the law in court I cannot foresee any court cases against small fry like Mullvad or any of the other Swedish VPN providers.
I know that it makes blocking harder.

It's just that one wonders whether the people whose devices are being used as proxies are aware of the situation.
Given that this is one of the most arid regions in the world, with a huge oceanic coast line, how about water desalination?
Once the last reactor decommissioned and the last nuke waste inert we may try to evaluate the impacts. Until them everything can happen, even the worst.

As for Fukushima there are many hypothesis about the real impact until now, and even more for the future. Believing the effects are already fully known is at best 'weird'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

Thinking that we can only replace fossil fuel with nuke is not even funny, as solar and wind soar. In Europe solar and wind already produce as much electricity than nuke plants, and sail around while nuke plants are shutting down.

Storage is indeed a challenge, and the real choice is between our capacity to lower nuke-induced risk (waste, disasters...), which seems low after decades of efforts, and on the other hand our capacity to further enhance existing other energy 'sources', which are progressing at a very fast pace.
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Yes, it's the same CPU with better chiplets in it.
It isn't specific to Silicon Valley, people are like it round the world.
Exactly this. :) I am quite familiar with c++ (no expirience i D) but for fast little projects go is great, I wouldnt mind having more control over GC.
/me raises hand

On our newer services there is a CircleCI pipeline which parallelises work and takes ~1-2 minutes on a branch, and maybe an extra minute at most on master - where it automatically deploys to production if the build is green.

If you make the choice to prioritise this from the start, it isn’t all that difficult.
It doesn't matter if you game or not. AMD is crushing Intel on every dimension w.r.t. consumer and HEDT CPUs. Just look up the benchmarks.
> There were many things wrong with this project, but one of them was fatally bad code, which this guy took money to write.

If I remember correctly, the bug in this case was a race condition between "normally" running code and an interrupt handler. The race was only triggered if an interrupt happened in just the right window between two instructions. I'd be willing to bet that 99% of programmers, if simply given the code and asked, "Is there a bug here?" would have answered "No".

Should people writing operating-system-level medical equipment software be required to have a basic training about race conditions and how to prevent them? Yes. Is it fair to expect a random engineer who was ordered by his company to rewrite the code to work without a hardware interlock to know what he doesn't know? No.
That depends pretty much how the programming language allows for value types, stack allocation, global memory static allocation and off heap access, even in the presence of a GC.
I'd suggest anyone looking fo a new vpn to have a look at this site: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison

It was recommended by privacytools.io in an article a few weeks ago as being one of the few sites that don't take money from vpn providers to list them.
Since the real solution to the problem ended up being a hardware solution (a rate limiter) I have trouble believing the culprit is the "guy who wrote the code".

Boeing is having these same question asked about them and I wouldn't be surprised if their "solutions" would essentially be hardware solutions.
> and only have Amazon Prime Video because I don't pay any extra for it with my Prime subscriptions

While I pay extra all the time on my Prime subscription for all the stuff I don't use but Amazon bundled in anyways.
Plus wireguard support if you care about that.
Is this title really "Resting is a good way to rest" ?

> It seems to benefit young and old people alike

Oh wow this is science.
A fair amount of techies suffer from 'math sickness' which is most often spread by hot papers at conferences that apply some difficult to grasp mathematical approach to a new problem domain.
Yes, that's one of the many workarounds for not having unit files. There are different workarounds in the Windows world, and the Linux workround does not work on some file system types.
I suspect Sublime realizes that they have three classes of customers:

1. Companies

2. Private individuals who are happy to pay for software

3. Private individuals who aren't going to pay for software

The discreet notification is enough to get 1+2 to pay. Group 3 isn't going to pay anyways, and making the notification more annoying will just make it more likely that they crack it and never see it again. Most importantly, when people from group 3 start working at a company, they may get the company to buy a license (which is now a subscription, i.e. makes them a lot more money than a personal license).

A more annoying notification would likely win them very little, and lose them a lot (from people who use a different editor instead).
In general I agree with you on this, going after people motivates them to cover up or obfuscate mistakes, or refuse to participate in investigations, and this generally leads to worse safety.

However, it seems notable that they couldn't find the one person who actually knew the details of this situation. I suppose that in that era people could just move to a new place an be extremely hard to track down, but that ability to 'move away' and be hard to track down could also have been used as an attempt to lead to a more beneficial settlement. If this anonymous programmer were to testify that 'management was aware' of potential problems in the software, but insisted on shipping it anyway, it is the difference between negligence and gross negligence. The potential punitive damages would be dramatically increased in the latter case, and it would be 'cheap' to pay someone to hide to avoid this.
I'd suggest you have a look at this site:
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison

Personally I'm using Mullvad atm. For windows I use their client, but you can also download configuration files for wireguard if you want to do that.
Indeed, OWL, MFC and VCL already supported them for COM programming since its early days.
I was once responsible for designing mission critical embedded application that would be guaranteed to withstand power cycle or crash at any time and continue from the point it interrupted.

Wasn't very hard but it required rigorous design. The important pieces were state machines that were committed to a log based storage at significant points in operation.

Then there is detection and handling of repeating crashes which is where it really gets interesting.
One of the looming problems as solar/wind power ramps up I don't see discussed much is the loss of system inertia. Grids rely (almost implicitly) on the fact that power comes from big, heavy spinning turbines of various kinds. The sheer weight and inertia of these turbines ends up synchronised together via the grid, and provides stability to it. But solar has no inertia and wind has only tiny turbines, so they don't contribute much either. As system inertia falls that will increase the risk of blackouts. I've seen this problem discussed amongst electrical/grid engineers but I've never seen reference to any solutions.
I found commuting on a train was really good for this. I would purposefully never look at my phone and just stare out of the window. I really miss that time now that I work from home.
> I have no idea why "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified while "building good reliable programs" aka "good programming" is not.

Going fast is revered, breaking things is not. And why is going fast so important? It is because an individual can't accomplish much when going slow. Why are individual works important? Because individuals do things that would never get funding, they make decisions that would never pass a committee and they can pivot the entire direction of a project many times in a single hour without any issues. Therefore many problems can only be solved by hackers as large teams are too restricted to do them.
Are israelis trustworthy?
The VPN that I connect directly to, I pay with a credit card. They know who I am, so why bother trying to hide.

All other VPNs in my chains, I pay with Bitcoin that's been mixed multiple times. I have a bunch of Whonix instances that I use for mixing and storing Bitcoin. They all hit Tor through nested VPN chains.

Each one has an Electrum wallet. It gets its Bitcoin from another Whonix instance through a mixing service. In any given mixing chain, I use a different mixing service for each step.

So then, generally, VPNs that I use less directly get paid with Bitcoin that's been mixed more times. And I never use the same Bitcoin wallet to pay for VPNs at different "levels".

Edit: You say:

> But many people already trust Amazon with ...

I trust Amazon with all those things. As my meatspace identity.

But I wouldn't trust them with information that associates my meatspace identity with Mirimir.
These things usually take way longer than 10 years. There are MSR projects (not your proposed small variant) happening since the sixties. China startet multiple new projects about 10 years ago and currently estimating it will take at least another 10 years. The EU suspects it will take 30 years from now.

https://www.thmsr.com/en/challenges/