skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colm and Marc frequently post great threads about distributed system design on Twitter. Definitely worth a follow: https://twitter.com/mndoci/status/1202641319643869184

And on a personal note, I’m astounded and so lucky that I get to work with these amazing engineers!
It's even worse in my line of work because most governments, mine included, have just not caught up to the modern model of work. The legal frameworks for dealing with products that might be hosted in one country, have payments processed in another, and have customers from all over the globe are just wonky.

I predict the country that understands the modern internet-enabled venture and creates laws specifically for them will benefit a great deal in the future. I'm told that Estonia is on that path, but I haven't studied it enough to affirm it
a lot of websites assume that you’re using chrome and show content you have to copy in disabled text fields (with some styling applied)
And let's not forget the outcome of those illegally overpriced contracts: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-t...
> If websites use the Comcast AMP framework, Comcast will cache their sites and make them faster for users.

They probably do it with Netflix, some ISP do it with Steam too... there's nothing wrong with multilevel cache (except cache invalidation).
My experience with ARM (locally anyway, raspberry pi's and pinebooks) is that everything works great, if it works.

ARM binaries available? Great. You're all set. (hopefully its for the right generation of ARM though, I can't get SteamLink software to run on my pinebook because it does raspberry pi hardware version checks that obviously fail).

Not available? You're gonna run into one of two scenarios:

Closed source app? Sorry. Just never going to get it (unless you want to run it through qemu at a huge performance hit and YMMV).

Open source app? Compile it yourself! Which takes noticeably longer than x86 for me. Maybe in server this works out. For desktop, compiling st myself was actually the path of least resistance to getting a terminal I liked. I wouldn't have wanted to compile firefox on ARM though without some serious server horsepower. When I used to build docker images they would sometimes take hours, for things that were less than a minute on x86.
I don't know much about the cloud hosting for ARM stuff (since I don't work in that space), but I have been extremely happy with my ARM home-server setup in my basement. Docker swarm has been extremely nice on my ODroids, and I recently upgraded to the Nvidia Jetson Nano, which has perfectly fine Kubernetes support.

I'll admit that maybe I'm not doing the most elaborate stress tests, but I mostly use them for my video transcoding and my (very) recent interest in machine learning, and I haven't had much issue. The thing that's given me the biggest headache is older versions of Ubuntu's mediocre support of ZFS, which has largely been fixed.
I took an undergrad course in GPS at Colorado School of Mines and enjoyed it immensely.

We didn't work on the radio level (other than learning about the 2-frequency ionosphere delay measurement as a calculation input), but did the rest of the stack above that including working out programs to derive position from given data input. I was a civil engineer but I think it's a great cross-discipline subject for a lot of fields.
Joe Decuir received an IEEE fellowship based largely on his work on the Atari and Amiga platforms. He gave excellent talks this year at the Vintage Computer Festival East and the VCF Pacific NW (both of which I attended), which are online.
If you run things in cloud it makes sense to benchmark that?
SEALs are backing that one.
You can benchmark using bare metal instances to eliminate noisy neighbours, and then you can meaningfully benchmark against other types of instance from the same cloud provider to get a relative cost benefit. I'd agree that obtaining the cost benefit in terms of on prem hardware is a much more involved calculation.
Wish I knew the root cause. It's happened a number of times and passcodes and biometrics don't work and they have receipts. The phone is just locked. I assume there was a change made that they didn't understand or they just put the wrong code in. I just cannot chalk it ALL up to user problems given we hit the half-dozen point.
> Use Google search without being logged in if you really care.

AFAIK, the search is still tailored to some degree. Log out and search for "plumber" and I bet you get local results.
So what's your favorite, HN?

Personally I'm a big fan of

- the Apple ][ font,

- what I call the "Nintendo Font" that was in many 8-bit NES games and arcade games. It's the font in Pac-man. I believe some Atari games from the 70's used it,

- The VT220 font - I use the GlassTTY font in PuTTY, I really like it.
The problem with systems like Adobe Indesign is that they are “What You See Is All You Get”. For a company brochure with special typography and particular Pantone ink colors used in offset printing there may be nothing better. However, I’ve owned a license to Indesign for over a decade. I’ve done tutorials, bought half a dozen books on it and maybe produced one document using it.

In Indesign I wasted so much time figuring out how to get the layout, the formatting, the figures, code samples,
mathematics, bibliography, even page numbering, index and footers I wanted that I had to give up.

The power of bibtex, TikZ, and other packages in the TeX ecosystem make it possible to use a system that produces just the sort of documents that I want—and the software is infinitely less expensive (it doesn’t cost anything).

TeX isn’t without its difficulties. I’ve been programming for over 50 years and still dread diving into the macro language based code for complex packages—but at least it’s available, something you can’t say about these other proprietary systems.

TeX was written by a Computer Scientist (perhaps the most eminent Computer Scientist) and it shows. Its real power is revealed only to those able to program. This is a shame, because using it has made me appreciate good typesetting—something I’ve found difficult
to achieve in the kind of papers I write when I use other tools.

I use MS Word when my recipient needs it that way, I use Apple Pages or Google Docs for simple documents when I don’t care what they look like, and Markdown or Org mode for my own notes. For anything important or for something I want to have as archival source (TeX is a purposely frozen format) I use TeX and its related tools, LaTeX etc.

Give it some time, it may grow on you.
It's kinda sad that he's acting so childish.

Some guy ruined my PR stunt by rescuing some kids without building a submarine. Guess I better call that guy a pedo.
How it's this not copyright infringement? Can't we fight it on those grounds?
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They have a EAP program till end of 2020, probably to gain enough attention. Maybe even migration plans from existing tools.
You are basically using lawyer-speak. You can be legally right, while still being morally wrong.
Bill Clinton repealed glass steagall in 1999. It allowed that 08 bank meltdown to occur. General Motors and Chrysler business culture of excess led to their financial troubles around the same time. Hoover Dam? NASA doesn't even build its own rockets anymore. SpaceX does the job better and more affordably. The united states is the only major power in the world that fails to upgrade its aging amtrak system in favor of high speed rail. How many trillions did the state waste on war and failed projects like the F-35 and obamacare. Imagine what someone like Elon Musk could accomplish with $1 trillion in funding.
It's probably also the only "phone" that can't place phone calls.
restartPolicy is set to Always by default in the podspec. So, change it to Never, and see whether it helps.
Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Expected to Be Valued at $1.7 trillion in IPO
I'm not very familiar with Tokyo real estate but prices far west on the Chuo line are quite reasonable, but even out there you're still much closer to the CBD than Shinkansen commuting from eg. Saitama or Kanagawa. (Of course I'm not arguing about quality of life, sailing in from your minka in the real countryside on the Shinkasen sounds great if I could afford that life)
Many years ago, David Owen wrote about this--though the customers mentioned were in the private sector--in an essay called "Punks in Pinstripes". It suppose that it may have been collected in The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning.
I care because I want to know what server I'm hitting up. There are many servers that I don't want to be touching, regardless of whether the bits being delivered are correct or not. If the URL bar is lying to me, then I can't detect if I'm talking to a server I don't want to be talking to.

I also want to avoid AMP pages themselves, and the URL is the easiest way to see if I've hit one or not.
Why is it essentially impossible? Compared to the rest of the phone that seems like a relatively small thing.
Remote authentication bypass in OpenBSD Libc
This is incredibly polished, so much that I kept looking for a pricing page. How are you able to cover all this with support licenses?
>Are there accepted mechanisms for systematically identifying these knock-on effects, and if so, what are they and how can they be more broadly applied?

Yes, look for cases where A is rewarded, but B is expected:

https://www.ou.edu/russell/UGcomp/Kerr.pdf
Which means they were something of a penny-ante company by the standards of the street.
Trump Visa Crackdown Hits Outsourcing Firms
Would you rather the laws and justice be determined by Religious views? Like they are in ultra-conservative Middle East or Europe in the not too distant past? Or determined by a monarch with absolute authority?

You’re being naive if you think politics don’t shape laws or justice.
They have a nonbinary degree of confidence in the Chinese supply chain, while keeping in mind that the risk is slightly higher than it would be if it was assembled closer to them within an imperfect, but at least less openly hostile government that has less access to directly control business operations.

The likelihood of China compromising the Librem 5 is very low, and there are safeguards in place to prevent that. But no safeguard is absolute. Even manufacturing in the US isn't absolute security -- it's just a bit less dangerous than China.

Whether that reduced risk is important enough to be worth $1300... I tend to think it's not, but I assume there are a few people who will care enough to pay that.

The same situation applies to companies like Apple, Samsung, etc... the only difference is that those companies have judged that the potential market benefits of catering to people who have extremely strict privacy requirements is too low to justify starting up US operations.

The hardware switches are also a good example of what I'm talking about here. There is a small risk of malicious firmware or a bug in software allowing a camera to be turned on without your knowledge. Does this mean the iPhone is insecure? There's not a yes or no answer. It means there is a specific subset of users who would be served by a stricter (but still imperfect) extra security control -- a physical kill switch.

An even safer policy would be to remove the camera entirely -- then you could be certain that the physical hardware isn't defective and allowing the camera to be flipped back on. But even that wouldn't be binary security. There is no such thing as binary security.
Is anyone working on the Linux Vulkan driver for Vivante GPU that's used in Librem 5?
I must not think bad thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbn3hGkpeo

>...and Americans just ... don't care.

I don't think that's fair. There's evidence that we have been placed in a system designed to not allow us to care, much less do anything about it.
> I don't think JohnFen is particularly concerned about cameras owned and exclusively operated by private citizens disconnected from any network

This is correct. I'm not worried about the cameras, I'm worried about the database and who is in control of it.
Didn't fully understand the statistical analyses tables in the paper because college statistics was a long time ago, but to me it seems like other variables had way more effect on life satisfaction than commuting time. To me those charts imply that having a partner (or being married) and having an education improve your satisfaction way more than adding subtracting 60 minutes to your commute.

If we're able to weight correlations of different life parameters with life satisfaction, where is the "how cost-effectively to maximize your satisfaction according to statistics" guide?

All my coworkers commute 40+ minutes to have a larger house for their family and a slower pace of life than in the city.

This seems like pretty biased against commuting. Is it because everyone here is salty about having to commute to SF or Silicon Valley because rent is prohibitively expensive?
We're trying it out in a dev-cluster/dev-account setup to let teams provision their own buckets/SQS and some supporting infrastructure easily without AWS access.
Sure - you're benchmarking something a bit different from whether ARM is ready for "server dominance". You're essentially benchmarking Amazon's prices to early adopters of ARM vs the cutthroat x86 cloud marketplace. That may be interesting for many people but tells you little about ARM hardware.
FERT FERT FERT at the bottom of that cover is the motto of the House of Savoy.

Also known as "Frappez, entrez, rompez tout!" (Break in, enter and break everything) among a certain french extreme music fringe.
@dang Can you replace the URL?
It all depends on which program/hospital/patient/government we're talking about. Everything about government in the US is fragmented.

Scenarios range from completely free at the point of use, to 100% out of pocket, and everything in between.

The 5 programs I mentioned above are just the largest federal programs. States and localities in the US often implement their own programs. There are hundreds of government healthcare programs that someone in the US might take advantage of, depending on where they're at.

The problem with healthcare in the US is not that there is no government healthcare initiatives. The problem is that we have too many. Fragmentation is inefficient and expensive.

Governments in the US spend $4,854/person/year on healthcare. The NHS spends $4,192/person/year.

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nh...
In the cloud, we believe forward-thinking application developers will have little problem porting their software to support their users on the new chipset. That is definitely more of an issue for on-prem or private use, though.
That mixes the massive improvements in child mortality rates with the modest improvement in "age of mortality when child mortality is excluded".
Compare that with 413 syllables for Chinese if you ignore tones, 1522 syllables if you consider tones. This is why Chinese speakers so mangle foreign names--they have no alphabet to learn the sounds of letters and they have so few syllables that learning to speak by syllables works well. Unfortunately, it works horribly when faced with names that use syllables they don't have.
Why software engineering tools and processes don't work for machine learning
I wonder if they couldn't use Firefox Replay's features to enhance privacy: "taint" code that has touched identifying or fingerprinting information. If that code tries to exfiltrate such information, replay that data path with dummy values.

It would also be interesting to extend this to the OS level (maybe for user data first, and maybe move on to fingerprinting information later).
I plan to read it at some point, but I was really turned off by Stoller's relentlessly cloying self-promotion in his newsletter. I get it, he writes well on important topics, but he could use a bit more subtlety in pushing his stuff.
But those different prosecutors would also be doing this kind of misconduct. This is a systematic issue. They would not be able to sustain the same rate of conviction if they acted ethically.
Social Security pays out negative returns. Meaning you're guaranteed to receive lower returns from it in contrast to whatever capital you invest. A person could do better putting their money in a bank account that pays out 0.000001% APY.

UBI is the same as social security. You're guaranteed to receive less money than whatever you invest in it. The state will likely funnel a major portion of collected tax revenues into dubious projects like giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants and funding transexual beauty pageants.

Then when the program fails as it inevitably will, they'll say the problem is taxes are too low. They'll propose tax hikes and people unfortunately being uneducated will far for it and think its a good idea, the same way many are falling for it right now.
Capability-based security model for Cloud IAM
> This is blatant anti-competitive behavior;

Agreed. So take them to task via the law/regulation, and stop giving them your money! Seek out the product website, pay the extra shipping to order right from the seller, buy the TV at best buy etc. etc. If you want other markets to be viable, it will certainly help if you put your money into them.

I really don't see why people think they can't resist Amazon's hegemony both in the political arena and with their wallets.
They program it to be winnable. There are various constraints which ensure the game can be beaten. None of them (that people actually play) are 100% random.
Thanks; I hadn’t read that since it came out. Hitchens’ voice is missed. This article cuts through the noise to the heart of the torture conversation.
Perhaps some non-naturalists are - deep down - motivated by a fear of the unknown. I myself (from all that I can gather) and many other non-naturalists I know, aren't so motivated.

The majority of my close friends over the years have been naturalists, and if I was being uncharitable, I could say all of them are naturalists because of a fear and loathing of having something outside themselves set limits to their moral freedom or life choices. While some naturalists probably do, I don't say all of them or even most of them do because people are people everywhere. And generally speaking, many people follow arguments where they lead, given whatever epistemic tools they have available to them.
>My country* was repeatedly bombed by terrorists, explicitly supported by Americans (but probably not the actual USA government). I always get incredulous at the hypocrisy when Americans talk about how 9/11 made them feel angry.

Really?!

You guys treated the Irish like crap for generations. It should come as no surprise that there was no shortage of ex-pats willing to send a buck to help them wage war on you.

>I'm not saying my country didn't do things to deserve this. Or that we were innocent victims of unprovoked foreign aggression. But then, can the USA say the same? Was 9/11 really unprovoked?

You can certainly make the argument that 9/11 is a response to our prior actions in the region but whether that is true or not will not make the people who feel attacked feel any less attacked. This is a complex issue about which reams upon reams have been written and I doubt anything we say here will do it justice.
Just FYI, this is for the Atari computers, not the 2600 console. The 2600 used the 6507 processor, basically a 6502, but it didn't have the interrupt pins (to save on cost). I imagine it made programming for the 2600 a lot more interesting.
I have an older Synology NAS, it's really slow, and TBH need more compute for a few things at home... but don't want to spend on yet another box for this. The main role of the new server is NAS stuff, but if I can do a few other things in the background, so much the better.

I'll be running proxmox and VMs off of an nvme drive in a 4x pcie adapter, and the NAS drives using the hotswap bays in the front.. it's a used R710 (iirc), and has 6 3.5" bays (came with 2TB drives, but replacing the raid controller with one that will support larger drives and upgrading to 8TB as time/cost permits).

I could totally drop the home server compute requirement before the NAS requirement as my desktop could handle those chores.
I wish I knew enough about appointments to provide an insightful comment.
> How do you feel about so many people having Gmail accounts? Do you refuse to communicate with them?

My perspective on this is easy -- this isn't a problem I have to deal with much, because almost nobody that I exchange email with uses Gmail.

But yes, I avoid sending email to gmail accounts when feasible. When not feasible, I keep the emails as brief as I can, and I don't engage in lengthy exchanges.
>They shipped out a "phone" that can't place phone calls.

They also shipped a devkit, whose screen did not work. But a software update made it work. Same here. This is the only phone, where updates make it better, not worse.
I'm the author here. If you have any questions on secure access control vs ACL, I'm happy to share my thoughts.
Be that as it may, with the problems purism has been having in developing this phone this announcement points to a desperate attempt at getting cash.

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...
If you had a picture of the license you could certainly scrape it--but then you're doing it legitimately anyway, no need to scrape. Without a picture of the license it's not going to return anything but an error.
I got the ticker too but still no history chart.
I lost a loved in the last year and I find that idea extremely odd, if not just plain wrong.

I'll listen to the podcast, but the concept of having something crawl through someones social media, namely someone you care, to emulate him/her (to become a "it") it's disturbing.
I feel like there isn't even a straightforward way to learn the principles of the syntax of LaTeX, in full. I've been an occasional user for years, I love the results, and I can do basic math typesetting off the top of my head. Anything more involved (diagrams especially), I really do need to start from scratch with some new package to get things working. Fortunately, stackoverflow tends to be a one-stop solution for me most of the time.

I don't believe I'll ever have a deep enough grasp to be able to do those more complex tasks on my own, and that really bothers me. I can imagine some syntax improvements, but like a sibling comment said, I don't see the mindshare shift happening any time soon.
Seems like it can be fixed with a software update, though. A few days of waiting doesn't seem like that big of a deal. It's not like the phone is going to be forever unusable.
firefox still has horrible performance and battery usage on mac.