skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start here (from Simon Davies, the founder of Privacy International): http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/how-the-online-g...

They are as bad as, and often indistinguishable from, the least salubrious corners of online advertising in their tracking and data gathering. Unfortunately their determination to keep feeding off addicts and keep tracking the whales is what has driven their data abuses. Responsible gambling is 99.9% greenwashing. :)
> why "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified

This is not hacking in the proper ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto ) sense.
A lot of higher-bandwidth, real-time networks to be enabled when 7nm multi core mobile processors enter the market. Personal servers will get a boost. Hopefully 5G rollout will be going well then too.
How Does the 2PL (Two-Phase Locking) Algorithm Work
And even they struggle to come up with replacements for their agying fleet of reactors.
>Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world... (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD).

>The core component of TM is Trismegistos Texts, currently counting 804,940 entries.

>... Trismegistos increasingly wants to be a platform where information can be found about all texts from antiquity, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.

>...our aim is to lead people to the partner websites, where more information, often including also photographs, transliterations and translations of the texts, can be found.
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The extensive research on the ME I actually conside a pro for Intel, since I know more about what it does and how to disable it. The PSP is still more of a black box.
If you define hacking as gaining access to scarce compute resources, then yes, hacking is dead because compute scarcity is dead.

If you define hacking as controlling your computer hardware at the lowest level, then hacking is dead because no-one wants to write device drivers.

If you define hacking as *making the lights blink in interesting ways"[1] then hacking is incredibly, richly, and totally alive! You can make the lights blink in so many interesting ways!

To sum up, that's one really good change, one somewhat unfortunate but understandable change, and another really incredibly good change. (BTW I don't think the OP's point about complex OSS really fits in this particular essay - minimalism is important topic and deserves it's own essay, but it's not related to hacking, IMHO).

[1] I don't recall where I read this, but Feynman wrote about being involved with the Manhattan project, with the simulations they were trying to run on very early, primitive computers, and how one or two scientists put on that part of the project had to be replaced because they got too fascinated with the "blinking lights" to get any work done. I find this anecdote very easy to believe.
Western Australia is very flat (especially the bit near all the people). And pretty dry (though the bit near all the people is not so dry). There's nowhere to pump water to, and not much water to pump.

However, there is a huge demand for fresh water, and lots of available seawater. You could just soak up excess power by using it for desalination, which is power-hungry.

But that doesn't benefit the mining industry, so no-one in WA govt will think of it.
> The walk is mindless, just letting my mind drift

Agree on that, I tried switching to the running to make this time more productive but it wasn't the same, somehow walking has a special place between getting relaxed and active for my body.
It reminds me of one of the reasons why I stopped using Getoffmylawnbook: far too many of my friends were using it to complain about "kids today". They were angry and indignant about things like kids being allowed to use calculators in math class and not enough kids knowing how to drive a car with a manual transmission. It's like there's this arbitrary "right point" at which kids are supposed to start from and it's coincidentally the same as the point where we started from.
sorry I dont click pdfs from companies I dont trust.
> Basically communication is bidirectional, if the listener don't understand anything, it's probably their fault too.

I wouldn't say "probably". It might be. It might be the fault of the speaker. Or maybe both. Basically, my point was that it's not ONLY the listener's fault.
Tough question. Depends on EULA of a service and laws (both US/the target country and VPN's user) regulating the particular content type (for example the mandatory age rating for a film) and copyright.

A close counterexample: the Japanese guitar manufacturer ESP was forced to stop selling worldwide and producing MX-250/MX-2 models which exactly copied the shape of Gibson's Explorers (court decision and an agreement IIRC), but anyone can still order one in their Custom Shop with the restrictions of making an order by sending a letter with order form and paying from inside of Japan as well as picking it up from the factory (no delivery services). All of that because they can still sell them in Japan and by client's specification.
Hacking has changed.

I tinker with a homegrown family information and media center with a dis-used Gigabyte BRIX behind an old flat screen running Linux and chromium-browser in kiosk mode. I bought a NES style USB gamepad and use it to make things show. It's a hobby, but it turned out to be nice.

For me that's hacking.
There are queues even for pachinko every morning everywhere in Japan. Frankly nothing out of the ordinary in these pictures.
Reposting what everyone knows? Intel announced this May they are planning to release their first 7nm product late 2021 and I believe they used the accelerate word. Based on what we know about their 10nm and 7nm processes, the chances of 7nm actually working is much higher than the 10nm.

Tweakers.net leaked and semiaccurate reposted https://www.semiaccurate.com/assets/uploads/2019/04/20026799... a leaked roadmap and there's the recent news of Rocket Lake -- a 14nm desktop chip slated for 2021. https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-desktop-14nm-cpu-8-co...

If you choose to believe Semiaccurate, https://semiaccurate.com/2019/04/25/leaked-roadmap-shows-int...

> Intel moved three of the four fabs slated for 10nm to other processes, some are going to 7nm while others backported to 14nm.

It's very clear Intel can't make 10nm work as they hoped it would and they will limp along with a limited number of halo chips for notebooks. They hope for server chips late 2020 https://hothardware.com/news/intel-10nm-ice-lake-sp-q3-2020-... but at this juncture I wouldn't be surprised if those would be first postponed then cancelled.

If this guy thinks I am posting insider info or stock manipulating, well, you need to go after wccftech and semiaccurate.
1. It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0].

2. If the ad was an admin notice, it didn't look like one. It's a banner image with an outbound tracking link [1].

[0] https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detail...
[1] https://imgur.com/a/oN7ZFRU
Manifestation Miracle Review, Work or a Scam?
Seems to me that the "spy" was doing mandatory military service when he was 18 in the Intelligence part of the army? It seems common for many Israeli technically minded teens to go into that or similar wings rather than the more on the ground units.

It was from 1995 to 1998 (that's 20 years ago now) before he was at University and is the first item in his work experience. And the length of the position is about the same as military service. I do not know his current age.
I'm currently slowly building up a print shop in my basement. For now, it's just something to keep my retired dad occupied, but should it be successful I'll have no qualms about jumping in to it full time.
Deaths are clearly on the company, not on the programmer guy
You’ve described the legal basis for British sovereignty over Australia, but ownership and sovereignty are different and independent (eg my backyard is the sovereign territory of Australia but the property of me).

The legal basis for considering Australian territory to be the property of no-one was that the Aborigines appeared to have no concept of landownership; they were nomadic, didn’t build and permanent structures, didn’t farm, didn’t have any concept of which bits of land belong to whom. Without that, it’s difficult to say that anyone actually owns any piece of land in particular.
How do you even know they are only queuing for the CPU? As I said in Tokyo there are lines like that for pretty much ANY shop in the morning. This is such non news.
Making a functional plugin for one’s own purposes is one thing, releasing it to the public requires quite a lot more work.
You'd need to work a bit more on your excuse, because this study clearly suggests that you shouldn't occupy your mind with anything else during the downtime.
No need to experiment, this is already done commercially on a massive scale.

"Stockholm Vatten's sewage treatment works produce 4.1 million m³ of biogas annually, but have the capacity to double this amount." [1]

[1] http://www.stockholmvattenochavfall.se/en/water-and-wastewat...
> You were one of the most, if not the most successful VPN provider for years. Did you really need more resources? For what?

I don't know if you watch Twitch or YouTube but it seems that every streamer and video is sponsored by NordVPN. I feel like with that kind of advertising budget, it's going to be harder for companies that don't advertise as much.
But is this only the E line? That's Thinkpad's budget line, isn't it? I've been looking mostly at the T, X and P lines.
Climate change: COP25 talks open as 'point of no return' in sight
For the untidied version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190330095314/https://news.ycom...
You're right. My mistake.

Unless it's also doing other stuff (e.g. shutting down cores), 1GHz isn't a huge throttle.
Mostly photography gets noticeably better, but I still hope that at some point "convergence" becomes good enough. It has been tried again and again but always fell short due being not quite good or easy or convenient enough (getting docks, cables etc.). With usb-c/usb4 as a single connection and "good enough" processing and storage maybe in a few years?

https://maruos.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
their landing page design is... unusual; sets `dir=rtl` on english text, making the fullstops show up at the beginning of sentences.
Yet if you are a conservative you believe that the original meaning is the actual meaning.
The uneducated masses of plebs merely utters a word, they do not use it.
Yes, and CrossRider mostly did an SDK for cross-browser extensions. I used their product before they did ads and it worked pretty well.

I stopped using them because I could stop supporting IE but they had a real product back then.

Teddy Sagi is bad for other (gambling related) reasons - but he is just an investor...
Unlocking geolocation-locked content.
When talking about economics relations, there is a difference. In most cases, and I am sure that was meant here, there is an "outside option".
And then things differ.

If we analyze supplier networks, trade relations in old style bazar or markets, or even just the playing of simple two-player games, then we see that a long term relationship, or its prospect, may make it much more likely that people cooperate in some sense.

This has two effects: A code develops where blatant exploitation is unusual, even if it would be an equilibrium in a one-shot contact. Second, however, there is more leeway for small exploitations, those that can not be "identified" to be causal from the seller (price hikes elsewhere etc.).

Anyhow, your point is true (since he said all senses of the word) but I think this issue is too multi dimensional to find an analogy in home violence
Well, do you know anyone at Morgan who is using it? I must say that I do not.
I'm curious as to why these processors make it easy to debug threading issues? Is it just due to the sheer number of cores or something? not sure why that would help either.
Will take your word for it. I'd guess that in the past here, you'd wait a day or so for a torrent to finish. Now I'd guess they take minutes.
would you mind to elaborate how a centralized VPN-service is helping against suppression of the internet as a channel? Once your DNS/servers are gone, your VPN is gone, thus your users have to fall back to metadata collection by their ISP instead of you...

P.S.: you are aware that you can still go into the next pub and speak freely with verified (e.g. drinking liquor) humans, which solves by far the biggest issue with "free speech" on todays internet in the "west"
Not because they want to. Netflix refused to give full 12-week exclusive what the main movie chains (AMC and Regal) require. It will be limited release.

As I understand it, Netflix does cinema releases because it's required for Oscar nominations (at least seven days in a theater) and many creative partners like–like Scorsese and Baumbach–want their films into theaters.
True hacking is only for true Scotsmen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
In-App Purchases Data Model
I'm writing this on one of their laptops. Because, as you say, my income apparently doesn't matter to me and I really want them to succeed. It's actually a good laptop, though, and I love having a native Linux machine (and the styling - I'm a sucker for plain matt black stuff).

It feels like early Apple over again. That dancing on the edge between business pragmatism and perfectionism. I can easily see them becoming the "new Apple" in a few years' time. I hope so.
Probably. Snowden showed that every phone in the USA is used for surveillance by the NSA. I don't have any reason to expect China to be any different.
And Fukushima was built to the requirements of 1970's, not those of today (which are much stronger).
Specialized cases such as high end development or servers?
I love the point and sputter. I said, Putin got corruption under control to the point where oligarchs (none of whom were or are FSB agents) are not fighting pitched street battles in Moscow. As a result their GDP, unlike Ukraine's, is doing fairly well. They even have a GINI index better than in the US. Imagine that!

Do you have a plan for fixing Ukraine's corruption under the neoliberal looter regime the US put in place there?
Show HN: Class file disassembler written in Clojure
>You mean autarky, full economic self-sufficiency. China is certainly big enough to operate as an autarky. The US used to, up to about 1980 or so.

You think the US is less industrially capable than in 1980? that... seems unlikely. Sure, we import and export a lot more of our stuff now than we did then, but that's because we live a lot better when we trade (and because the technology of trade has improved vastly.)

I mean, certainly, both the US and China could survive without trade. hell, there are a bunch of people who could pull it off just by themselves. But... in all cases, all involved would be a lot poorer; they'd work a lot harder for a lot less.
Are there any driver issues or conflicts with other HW?
I'm usually a fan of Hanlon's razor, but I don't think it cuts cleanly when there are well-known and clearly visible incentive structures that strongly promote hustling. Attributing malice here seems closer to saying "water flows downhill" instead of "water flows randomly, and it so happened it randomly picked this direction".

EDIT: I also don't buy the dominance of stupidity for another reason: if you're being stupid, you'll make mistakes. But you can't obfuscate and bullshit without intent to do so.
John Gray Reviews the Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory
Interesting. Which services did you use, and were you happy with the service and prices? Did you find anyone who will print pages punched for ring-binding?
It's not. It's a tech problem. More specifically, getting the tech cheap enough.
Albert Cohen from Google gave a really good lecture on polyhedral compilation in the real world at PLISS [1] this year: slides [2], lecture videos [3, 4].

A core problem of the polyhedral approach, is that the thing that makes it so appealing (it being expressive enough to enable the many interesting program transformations), is costly for large programs making, the overall optimisation process and hence the compiler hard to scale. Naturally, this difficulty makes for interesting research problems.

[1] https://pliss.org/

[2] https://pliss2019.github.io/albert_cohen_slides.pdf

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6pIpt5Wk0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNT5rFVTUY
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This sounds like a bad idea.
well, yeah, I get that. I spent 3 months trying to come up with something decent for the last one, and it did drive a lot of imaginative thinking about the brand, which was actually useful.

I'm more thinking of the waste and expense. Clogging up infrastructure with utterly useless "holding pages". People spending vast amounts in registration fees in the hope of getting that big win. And that big win being at the expense of a company that genuinely needs the name but is forced to spend massively more than it needs to in order to get it.

If this was what was intended, then whoever designed it was evil.
That sounds like defeating the selling point of those small reactors? Can it still be cost effective with such short service cycles?
At an internship we had this exact problem (though for us spanning tree was disabled because it would take new hosts half an hour to show up on the network so instead of solving it properly it simply got disabled.)

The way this eventually got diagnosed is by the activity leds on the switches. Of course on a busy network you expect blinkenlights but having every activity light blink at full tilt on every port is fairly suspicious. You'd at the very least expect some ports not using any network just by chance.

From there the conclusion "something is generating a crazy amount of packets" was fairly simple to make. Less simple was finding which piece of equipment it was. In the end we did a binary search by unplugging internet cables, the network was down anyways so it couldn't hurt. That narrowed it down to a building real quick, and a specific office not long after. A short trip to the netwerk port that seemed to cause the traffic later and we found a really cheap switch in the corner with a patch cable forming a loop. Someone had just moved office and just plugged everything in -- including that loop. Problem solved!

Of course we ran into way more problems with this setup later. At some point after installing a new set of computers the switches would start randomly rebooting, one after the other in a cascade. New switches got bought for a single rack without really diagnosing the issue. The new switches had the exact same issue. Turns out switches have limited memory for routing tables, and having too many machines will balloon the size of the routing table to the point of the switch simply giving up. There was a critical amount of computers that could be on at the same time at which point booting up one more would get the switches into a reboot loop. As I was leaving the internship there were finally VLANs being set up, which I assume solved the issue in its entirety.

I haven't got much of a conclusion to this story, It was a good internship. I learned a lot and had quite some autonomy when doing my job. I had great colleagues and a lovely time. I do suspect that if I had gotten an internship at a place with more IT experience I wouldn't have learned nearly as much as I did here.

If someone can point me to some resources about how to conclude stories that'd be great, but that's neither here nor there.
>1. 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.

The former represents the philosophy of startup culture. "Move fast and break things" is a Facebook motto. You're on a forum run by a Silicon Valley VC company, so connect the dots.
"Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change." Does this sound neutral to you? Have you seen the half-red, half-black star which they use as a logo?
So, we should stop both nuclear AND coal plants and use solar, hydro and wind plants. What the problem with that? Batteries? Let's spend cost of 1 nuclear plant at electric batteries or pumped-hydro or compressed-air storage units and solve this problem.
don't work at uber but have similar problems at my job and i'm quite convinced the problems you ask about are part of the 'not easy' in the OP comment. maybe they can queue whole branches instead of single checkins?
Good that someone at last making it.
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It was one "John Smith". I almost feel as though it must have been many programmers and they pinned it on the guy who left before it blew up. No one wants that black mark on their record and it would be insane to think most people didn't remember anything about him.
Thanks.

Indeed, the very first instruction is

int 10h ;BIOS display mode 0

that relies on AX being 0.

As for CX, there aren't that many loops in LeanChess (precisely 5, but who's counting :)). However, CH being always 00h allows to save a couple more bytes by doing

mov cl, 8

instead of

mov cx, 8
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For surveillance in the open very probably, e.g. the UK bought Huawei equipment for that purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...

Backdoors in the phones seems highly unlikely. Considering that the government can simply listen in at the cell towers and data centers there is no reason to risk the reputation and thus influence and reach of a Chinese company like that.
it takes 3 min to run linters here...
Not sure what you mean, I was saying it's a strange stance for the BBC.
Solar probably has a worse waste problem than nuclear (and probably a higher risk of actually harming me in the case of retail solar). Batteries and storage do too. The damage from a hydro failure is higher.

Wind might be a solid par technically. It does kill more people than nuclear though; that is a big negative. Better displaced than dead.

There isn't an option here that is obviously better. It would be pretty sensible to loosen the environmental restrictions on new nuclear plants, protect them from NIMBYs and then leave it to the market to go with whatever is cheapest. Could be anything, I have no particular horse to back as long as the race is fair; although I would like to see more nuclear because it just looks to me like the technically best option.
What is the future of surrogacy in India?
I don't think it is unreasonable, they already passed some regulatory steps and want to build a fairly simple reactor.