skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could do without the clickbait title. "former Israeli spy" is obviously trying to make you think of something nefarious, even though there are no details besides where they worked. I was in an intel unit when I was in the military, and there's a lot of general IT people, managers, etc. It's deliberately deceptive to label anyone who has ever worked at an intel agency as a "spy".
AMD is still gaining back mindshare. Yes, they’re not optimizing for profit right now, because they’re also gaining something valuable - entrenched market position. Intel’s dominance is incredibly sticky, and their name brand alone is worth 10s of billions. By blowing away Intel at every price point by a wide margin (and with Threadripper halo SKUs with no Intel competition), AMD is flexing and showing they are winners, and Intel are losers. People want to feel like winners when they buy products.
Security effort scales with number of servers only if you’re doing something deeply wrong (like not using configuration management).
If I personally doubt something objective I can suddenly claim whatever I want about it??

You personally may have no idea what these things might cost but the people designing them certainly do. Moreover such baseless skepticism is extremely harmful to the 'public dialogue' when we are in the midst of a climate emergency.

What does it bring to the conversation to say something baseless like that?
Myth versus Lethality: Losing the Plot in the Information War
That padded salary doesn't feel too good anymore, does it?
Have you tried it recently?
I used to do that, but it's not necessary anymore.

You can almost always, by phrasing more carefully, get exactly what you need with DDG.

I also think that it's better to learn to search properly than finding the best search engine.
> I'm not so sure that it is hustling, though I'm sure that exists. I'm a firm believer of Hanlon's Razor [0], and we shouldn't rush to attribute malice.

From what I saw in academia, it definitely was partial hustling. The thing is that it became so prevalent in some disciplines that the new generation now views this as "research" and not hustling.

Academics are no less immune to social proof. For them, academics is what academics do. And if most of them do this, then this is academics. The notion that it is problematic is waved away.
Ages ago when I was doing mostly assembly, I was introduced to Forth. After few tries I've decided that for it was more of a mental exercise and nothing good will come out of it. I've felt that it was actually more easy for me to program in machine codes (I've done some fair share of it too).

No not my cup of tea but I guess other people put it to a good use.
Yeah the whole corporate security community is full of ex spooks. Look at the backgrounds of the Fortune 500’s CISOs.
> 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.

That's the standard micro economics answer. You're not wrong.

However, I don't think you're right either. The pricing of consumer products is a black art because people don't necessarily behave like economics textbooks say they should.

Some possibilities:

1. This is a short term supply hiccup. The good will of keeping the price the same of the medium term is worth more than the money AMD would make by raising and then lowering the price of their chips.

2. They are constrained in their ability to raise their prices by Intel, which is broadly thought of as a superior product (leaving out the technical analysis of the current generation).

3. They want to create the perception of scarcity.
Yours is the first response, thank you for the kind words :)
I can't speak to Chess Assistant, but as a longtime Chessbase owner/user, it lets you:

* Search any database (proprietary or freely downloaded) for games matching positions (partial position matches too)

* Quiz yourself on openings; e.g. the actual memorization of the move orders, which I don't believe ChessRoots is showing

* Generate endless tactics problems to drill on

* Generate annotations for games; e.g. branching moves, variations, text comments etc.

* Graphical markup of positions, to show tactics like pins, skewers, forks, etc.

* ChessBase gives you a perpetual license. You can upgrade if you think new versions are worth it (they usually aren't). I happily used ChessBase 9 for several years before upgrading to 14.

It's really not a fair comparison. If ChessBase is Photoshop, ChessRoots as it is now is just a simple painting tool. This isn't to say that ChessRoots can't be something worth the price down the road, but for now this is not a great comparison.

Chess.com is also something that I've happily paid for for many years. For $99 a year, you get unlimited tactics training, engine analysis (with Stockfish), and a full license to what used to be called Chess Mentor, in addition to opening specific training.
Margaret doesn't count. ;)
His LinkedIn indicates that he was a developer in the unit that created the Student Virus... Spy has a broad definition but it probably fits for a SigInt developer in the Israeli military..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200
> When they advertise that they have hundreds of servers in a dozen or so countries...

... they're often lying. In particular, servers in exotic locations are almost always the result of "creative" routing, and are physically located in a more standard country.

https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn-server-locations/
That's precisely the point. Once the direct subsidy of nuclear via the military's nuclear weapons buildout went away, new plant construction... went way.

The capital costs of any traditional power plant are massive, and fix high costs of goods sold for the life of the plant. This Canadian effort may find a way to build more smaller units, which will be great if they succeed.

Solar and wind are disruptive because the cost to add a marginal unit of generation is near zero. A marginal add of a natural gas power plant in my US state is nearly $100M and several years. Nuclear is probably 10x that.

I understand why nuclear is an appealing technology. Its magical in a way, but it doesn't make sense when engineering a power grid today. It is an awful business with high fixed costs getting disrupted by smaller, cheaper, lower friction alternatives. Again, in my state, New York, despite higher than average rates, nuclear operators like Excelon claim to be losing money operating old plants, and NY ratepayers will be providing $7-10B in subsidy over the next 10-12 years.
If you know of a language that has absolutely no unexpected behavior in its runtime under any workload, please let us know what it is!
The decade has possession of the experience? A decade of worth is also correct, sans the possessive noun.
Then you have consumers feeling ripped off when the next batch arrives, as has said above they could be trying to build brand loyalty.
Why do you have such a bone to pick on this? So one eccentric political commentator has a pet project - do you need to go piss in his cornflakes?

Moldbug is not a fascist (and he'd make the claim that most folks like yourself have no idea what that even means). He's a neoreactionary, which seems to be a mostly dead movement usurped by traditional Catholics of all things these days. Moldbug himself moved on from Urbit a year ago.

It's time to stop evaluating the software (well, _all_ software) based on whether you're in some kind of complete ideological harmony with its authors. It's not like you apply that same rubric to the food you eat or the clothes you wear, at least some of which came from totalitarian regimes implemented in modern reality that are far harsher than anything Moldbug's internet commentary seems to be after.

The "denouncement" crap you're after never appeases people like yourself, anyway, so how about you move along with your life and stop preventing someone interested in the actual technology from potentially joining up based on your witch hunt?
Regarding (i), isn't that just because it's an immature field? People don't really know where the border between knowledge and speculation lies.
I wondered about this myself. As another commenter pointed out naval plants use a more enriched uranium which IIRC allows them to run the reactors for 20+ years without needing to refuel.

One other way of thinking about it though is that this is evidence we can have a program to make specialized small modular reactors fairly economically. So we shouldn’t be so skeptical about proposals we do it for civilian use.
His late brother.
ProtonVPN, I use them for email as well. They got in a bit of hot water for helping with the legal case for one of their users, but generally I like to think that if I'm not committing any crimes I'll be ok, come what may.
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Yea the hbo streaming situation is bonkers.. totally reeks of meeting some odd corporate goals or some BS. They need to solidify their offerings at ATT into like one service or something.. just have it be like HBO+ and call it a day.
This Unit is litterally 10000 people, is the largest in the Israeli army and handles the vast majority of computer security things. So still does not say much.
> But if I watch one Netflix show, I can't just subscribe to that show, I must pay for a ton of stuff I'm not remotely interested in.

When I want a song, I've always just bought it. I still do. I can do basically anything with the file other than redistribute it. I can even play music while offline! I only use streaming services like Spotify and YouTube for songs I don't regularly play.

I'm very frustrated I don't have the same option for movies and TV. Sure, I can buy the physical media, but there's all sorts of legal shinanigans when it comes to ripping blurays and such. My ideal solution isn't one big streaming service that has everything. I want an "iTunes for movies".
That's only partially true.

A big part of security is your relationship with the people providing you hosting.

The compromises to nordvpn and others came from a rogue hosting company, for instance.
It's ok to say that you don't really know for a fact and that you are just making assumptions. It doesn't mean you are wrong. It just means that you don't have anything backing your opinion.
> State medicine is poor

b/s

Belarus Is Fast Becoming a Medical Tourism Mecca

https://www.argophilia.com/news/belarus-is-fast-becoming-a-m...

I know many, well, Russian speaking folks who fly to Belarus for a medical tourism purposes. It's much cheaper, and quality is often better. Best bang for the buck!
This is a pretty hilarious hack. I'm surprised there's no way to do this within Go runtime.
Fedora on ARM definitely works better than Yocto out-of-the-box. It's also much larger, and you don't have much control over the core components. You don't have control over how the packages were compiled, and you'd have a hard time reproducing your exact build later (especially if your flow includes a dnf update somewhere).

Yocto is the wrong tool if you're looking for a good developer Linux. It's a great tool if you're looking for a way to make a highly customized Linux image. It provides good reproducibility and strict license mechanisms to make sure you don't run afoul of anybody's open-source license. It also provides you with tools to compile and include your own recipes, and easy ways to modify upstream recipes without needing to fork the Yocto repos.
Actually, I do my best to hedge relying on trust.

But Kape is just way too beyond the pale.

Perhaps it's unfair, but the association with Israeli intelligence, and so indirectly with NGO Group and the NSA, is just too much.
That is a great question - all of our information is public whereas most other VPN companies go out of their way to hide where they are located and who they are.

Verification and transparency are more important than trust.
Actually the comments indicate that the "controversy" seems to be imagined by many people. By the way, I don't know anything about Joost, so he may not be innocent. But the article is an excellent example of an inability to distinguish between consensual but obnoxious stuff and clearly non-consensual behavior.

Also read the comment by Jenny Halasz, it seems very telling: "I had the audacity to start a thread on twitter where I suggested that perhaps we should ask the women involved if they were being harassed before we leveled accusations at the supposed harasser.

For my trouble, I got called a woman hater, an enabler, and plenty of other terrible things (now conveniently deleted by the people who said those awful things: Cohen, Rayner, a handle by the name of callis1987, and Forden)"
I did unsubscribe a couple weeks ago and got a canned response too, almost immediately.

When your business is privacy and trust, any acquisition is problematic. Let alone an acquisition from a company with a similar track record.
Cryptostorm, ProtonVPN, Mullvad are all good choices.
As a segue, is this a good time to buy AMD stocks?
Manitoba Hydro's major export market is the US, with ~10x more transmission capacity compared to SK.

Transmission capacity to SK is a 150MW. See here:
https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/environment_and_biodiversity/energy...

Out west, the provinces are not heavily interconnected, all prefer to sell to the US. Alberta is easiest to look at. Here is their real-time supply/demand report:

http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServle...

Interchange is at right. Couldn't find a source for interchange capacity in Alberta as transmission is not outright owned by the government like in MB.
This implies that the results won't change.
You seem to be convinced that software vendors could unilaterally control where and how their software is used. If they have this kind of power why do they need copyright protection in the first place? Why do we need a trade war as the US supply a majority of software in use, some of which far more critical than EDA software.
The complaint about bundling has the implicit assumption that if you'd pay for only 5 out of those 250 it would be a lot cheaper, but that's not really true. Cost of providing those 245 channels is basically zero, so there are no savings they could pass on.

Anyway with these streaming services, it's not so much that people want to pay for a bundle. It's more that micromanaging a lot of subscriptions is a chore. If they could all be integrated in a smooth manner ui-wise, but still paid separately, then people would be happy I think.

Like imagine if adding Disney+ was just a manner of clicking a button that made money flow and content available in the app you were already using.
Do you have information on that? Quick searches didn't find much for me. Thanks.
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The pdf is easier to read and contains photos: https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1531242&ftid=316753&dwn...
Because multiple indicators conform to reveal the flimsy narrative behind China being some supreme violator of free trade. Controlling for time, China should have received 112 claims since it's accession, almost 3x more. You can examine the cases more closely here and judge magnitude for yourself, but the basic pattern is that the US is the biggest exploiter of free trade and the institution that supports it, by magnitudes, including among developed G20 nations. Not to mention their current efforts to block WTO judges reappointment, an actual attack on values via institutional sabotage.

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_maps_e.ht...

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_maps_e.ht...

That's not to say Chinese markets aren't protectionist, every country is, with the harshest measures reserved for strategically important industries, typically with extremely well funded and loud lobbying groups. A handful of large companies complain about tech transfer, but relative to all sectors their concerns are marginal - latest American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai poll of US companies on top priorities for current trade talks and 0.4% of respondents thinks force tech transfer is an important issue. But those 0.4% of companies encompass strategic industries with disproportionate geopolitical ramifications, so their concerns are magnified for IR theater to distort the narrative. There's a reason the pivot to Asia and the narrative against Chinese development started when Made in China 2025 was announced to supplant western dominance in key high tech fields. It's unserious to rationalize US actions against China to preserving free trade - it's more geopolitical maneuvering to protect US industries, as others have mentioned it's the same story behind Japan with Plaza Accord that also targeted West Germany.
So you are telling me a usb microphone needs to implement hdmi and displayport if it wants to be compliant? Or are these devices expected to stay on lower usb versions? What if the device needs some of the features from usb4 but it makes no sense to have thunderbolt features?
These approaches work (and I use one myself in addition to a group VPN) but remember, if you roll your own, you lose any/all plausible deniability for sure.
A zero sum game is by definition a game where one party’s loss is another’s gain. That covers “winner take all” situations, or purely competitive situations.

The article’s overall point is that more streaming services can lead to more people paying for streaming services in general, enlarging the overall revenues in the segment than would otherwise be there without the new entrants.

Most folks aren’t unsubscribing from Netflix or Hulu for Disney+. They’re spending more on streaming and less on Fortnite or iPad games, or a night at the pub. This may also accelerate the decline in cable/satellite over time, but even that will be sticky since they will find ways to stay relevant.
It feels like it’s cheaper to buy a Ryzen and a new motherboard than to get an equivalent Intel chip at the $200 price level.

I’ve been wanting to upgrade my Intel based CPU but these prices have me thinking about just going with AMD itself.
Sometimes I feel discussions on HN always go into the weeds with people going back and forth while losing sight of reality.

I used Forth professionally for well over a decade. I made truckloads of money with the end products. One of the companies I was involved with, which was 100% Forth, sold for just south of $20 million USD.

Customers don’t go to Home Depot to buy drill bits. They go there to buy holes.

The world could not care less if solution A was coded in C, solution B in Forth and solution C using a keypad to enter machine code. All they care about is the best solution at the best price.

I have always felt that the distinction between experienced and less experienced engineers is that those with experience focus on what matters —delivering value to customers— while the less experienced folk needlessly burn time on theory, languages, code editors and other stuff.

25 years ago I made over $500K with a small 6502 embedded system used to help control lab equipment during cancer research lab tests. I made this box with a 6502, a couple of UARTS, a 2x16 LCD display and four pushbuttons. The box sold for $2,000 each. Sold piles of them. The code was written in Forth. The buyers could not care less. Neither did I frankly. I love Forth, but, at the end of the day, it’s just another tool.

Customers want holes.
Calling it a war is a great strategy. It implies that one company will be left standing. I think we can all agree with the article, there won't be one person left standing.

But it's war! You have to choose a side. Are you Mac or PC? Are you iPhone or Android? Are you Netflix or Hulu? This strategy, although I don't think it was concocted by a secret group, is great at creating loyal customers. Some will cheat of course and will swing left and right, but in the end, companies make money.
Changing of ownership fundamentally resets the trust we all had in PIA, which was due to you having proven in court you deliver on what you declare.

And in the VPN world, trust is fundamental.

I am still surprised you didn't see this coming.
Mullvad is who I decided on after this story came to light. I used that one privacy guys website Excel sheet comparison thing plus personal recommendations.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
I agree, many have underestimated China resolve to be number one. Many also don't understand China's history because they've gone through much more suffering than a trade war in the last 50 years.
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No, my ancestors were very likely somewhat involved in the violent takeover of Australia.
That pretty much describes everything in the first 20 years of computers (1945 to 1965) as well as everything in the first 10 years of personal computers (1975 to 1985), plus a fair bit of stuff that came after that. Even once operating systems were invented, they took a long time to get adopted.

Just about every PC before the IBM PC came with a BASIC interpreter with a built-in editor and some kind of storage interface, running on the bare metal. So did every IBM PC up to at least the PS/2. CP/M did provide a BIOS and BDOS, but they really were very basic, providing little more than a convention for talking to the terminal and avoiding overwriting disk sectors some other program was using. MS-DOS didn't do much more, especially in the early years. So, I'd say that every programming language implementation from that time qualifies, including Microsoft BASIC-80 (originally Altair BASIC), VisiCalc, Turbo Pascal up to version 3.0, Apple Integer BASIC and AppleSoft BASIC, the 6809 BASIC Microsoft developed for the TRS-80 Color Computer, ZX-81 Sinclair BASIC, BDS C with the RED editor, and so on; not to mention the first FORTRAN compiler (and up through at least FORTRAN III), LISP 1.0, COBOL, and assemblers for pretty much every machine. Also, and perhaps most notably of all, Smalltalk on the Alto, Mesa and Cedar on the Alto, and Oberon on Lilith and its successors (including a version for the IBM PC).

So, Forth is far from unique in being a bare-metal IDE without requiring an OS. It's just unusual in still surviving in that form.
What kind of technical queries are you running?
I just searched for "HLCD0438 datasheet" on Google and DDG.
I think it is a great example of very precise, and very techinical query.

DDG's first page was only fake sites and wrong answers.

Google gave me the right answer right away (in the positions 2 and 3)

(for those who don't know legacy electronics: I was looking for the box with labeled pins, like on first page of https://www.turus.com.tr/class/INNOVAEditor/assets/PDF/MM584... )
Command Line Tools to Install Local Debian (.DEB) Packages
Do not compare a hate speech against races or minorities with a totalitarian state.
Here are some useful posts:

https://www.securityweek.com/protonmail-accused-voluntarily-...

https://www.neowin.net/news/protonmail-confirms-it-helped-in...

"Drug dealer post" with ProtonMail response: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/dd5dkk/warning_...

Search for "court order" on ProtonMail subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/search/?q=court%20order&...
That's a plausible use case. Question is, if the engineer goes away, how long would it take to replace him? Languages do not take too long to learn, but Forth programs are often hard for others to read.

I think most people prefer cross-compilation on small systems for professional use.

If you are doing it as a hobby, ignore everything I just daid. I see the fun in it, and applaud it. Enjoy!
The last Intel security bugs made them lose a lot of the reputation they had, at least amongst system adminstrators though.

Now is a crucial time for AMD to strike back.
Its just simpler to not worry about the apostrophes. Theyre unnecessary for understanding what a sentence is saying. Im confident that future English will be slightly superior once it has eliminated the apostrophe.
I honestly can’t tell whether this is satire.
How hard is it to say "take $known_aluminum_alloy and add $dopant using $heating_process"?