skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia doesn't need Baltic states. Their ports lost their value and the population is dying from poverty, drug addiction and alcoholism (fertility rate in Baltic states under EU is significantly lower compared to soviet times).

Why would Russia need several bankrupt dying states? To feed and develop them like in Soviet times getting nothing but hatred in response? Ditto for Ukraine BTW.
As an OSS author, unless I ask for that feedback, “me too” comments both add noise to my inbox and come off as entitled. It feels like the author of the comment expects me to implement a feature for them because they want it. I don’t maintain OSS as a product, I maintain it because it is code that I need for my personal use cases and I benefit by having others participate in QA and feature dev.

This probably does not apply to OSS projects that are products built by companies.
Are you ready for any vulnerability as services( AVAS), Need of the hour
6 days is nowhere near a justifiable timeframe for full disclosure.

Even if you disagree with that, you should have first reported Key Compromises to Entrust and Comodo before publicly posting the private keys. They are bound by BRs and their own CPS to revoke certificates such as this one - and they would have done so promptly.

This is not what you should do as a security researcher - delete the gist until the CAs have a chance to revoke it via OCSP.
According to Wikipedia that scenario is quite controversial and not a well accepted risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja

That article is the definition of FUD, especially the bit about US presidents. Even if there is still a degree of risk.

Edit: the wiki cites the author McGuire as misstating the Alaska landslide as a mega tsunami in a BBC show. So he’s known for this type of hysteria.
I still think it's very interesting how he found the tales of UFO sightings stereotypical and tried to explain the patterns in an original fashion.

I mean it's a nice way to look at things that makes me curious of the other book.
Google already includes clicks and bounces in its ranking factors.
> it wasn't supposed to feel like work it was supposed to be a calling

Almost no job feels like this. Few people ever feel this way about what they do for money.

My advice is to reduce your hours and find something you are passionate about. Facing clients probably isn't it (which I say from experience)
Central European here: the browsing experience in the app is absolutely miserable here too. I don't remember the last time I saw an app icon in the official client.
It seems relevant that the idea of paying with things other than cash is pervasive and has been for longer than either of us has been alive.

I usually pay for things these days via an odd ritual in which I insert a small plastic card into a slot, and then, believe it or not, it is actually returned to me.

If I give you something in exchange for a chicken, and you maintain "I did not pay you, because a chicken is not cash", do you think the IRS will be convinced there was no transaction? Or s/chicken/bitcoin/.
VR Helps Improve the Architecture Industry
That was the original motivation but it slowly mutated into general guidelines for safety-critical C in embedded systems.

Although not an official regulatory requirement it is often used as a guideline in low-resource targets for Medical embedded systems.

In aerospace for example the JPL guidelines are also influenced by the initial MISRA consortium effort. And at least in style and motivation the JSF for C++ ia also influenced by MISRA.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075076
The statistic for how likely a sex offender is to be male strikes me as unjustified here in three ways.

Firstly, I doubt many parents actually do do their research on this and use such a statistic to inform their decision. More likely it will be based on gut feeling.

Secondly, the probabilities are the wrong way round. More relevant how likely a given man is to be a sex offender, vs the likelihood for a given woman. If both probabilities are very tiny then despite their relative magnitudes there are other things to worry about.

Thirdly, "sex offender" is an extremely broad term and the great majority of those offenses would not have involved nursery age children.
Probably fair, I found it insightful, and held my expectations to something self published by someone in their spare time, but may not hold up to someone expecting a more professional work.

The books I liked with more consistently higher ratings tended to be much better known.

We could crowdsource the search for unknown greats of course. If you glance through GoodReads' highest rated books and filter down to the titles with the fewest ratings you get a mix of Austrian poetry (Rilke and Trakl), lectures by Feynman, and a volume of Love and Rockets.

That's honestly not a bad place to start...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/24716.Highest_Rated_Book...
Ask HN: Any recommendations on career coaching / life coaching or similar?
Hi HN,

Seeking your advise on something I've been thinking of trying for a while now. I am a mid-career engineer, and while life is great, I was thinking of working with some one on going to the next level
(not in terms of corporate hierarchy, but in broader sense) in professional life, and in general as a person. I do have some specific goals I want to work towards, and I've tried creating my own plan towards working on those. But often, life takes over (I am a parent as well), and I lose several months before I make progress. Unfortunately, I cannot take a break from work due to visa situation, otherwise it would have been ideal to take time off and spend on some of the things I wish to try.

I was wondering if working with someone would help me make faster and more meaningful progress. Kind of like how athletes keep working with their coaches to get to the next level. Would you have any advise on that (from your own experience, or someone you know), or anyone you would recommend working with?

Thanks a lot, and look forward to gathering all the awesome advise!
Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski.
To add to your very good insight, I believe that oftentimes it's not even a dichotomy. Being right does not give a right to be condescending about it, because it turns the conversation into emotional clashes by triggering a desire to oppose on the other.

But the very bad thing about that philosophy is that it makes one tend to default to thinking that it's others that are inferior and can't handle the facts you see so clearly... so if it turns out you were not right in the end, we've got the worst case scenario -- Now you're not just preventing yourself from learning and improving (which should always be the goal), you've become just like a troll, an asshole who's wrong.
So you do disagree with the dictionary definition? Is that what you’re saying? The fact the IRS wants to tax you for bartering with a chicken doesn’t change anything about the English language.
It doesn't really matter. Once you are concentrating and "in the flow" you don't hear it.
The article says that it is unlikely for consumer cards to get 20gb. The same chips go to pro-level cards, and they will have it.

As far as I know from the latest gossip and tech details, 4k textures pretty much fit 8gb, and 4k gaming still struggles with 60fps, which 3840 cores will not change by a large margin. From that, 8k is simply a marketing move (apart from eye physics). Also, 4k/144 requires an active cooling of a monitor, and these still cost too much to become mainstream in 30xx lifetime. 8k is basically 4k x4, do the math.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073908
facebook is attempting to become the church which all the Puritans came to the U.S. to get away from.
"The Method of Paired Comparisons" is a 1980s dissertation which discussed a strange form of statistics called paired comparisons. It is the fundamental math behind the ELO system (chess matchmaking) and other tournament designs. It was originally for psychology experiments.

My ELI5 version is... Imagine data of the form Alice > Bob (Alice beat Bob in one match). Because many matches take place, the data can be contradictory, like Alice > Bob and Alice < Bob. (Alice won the first match, but Bob won the second match).

There can be loops, like Alice > Bob > Carole > Alice.

In the face of these apparent contradictions, how do you linearize the data, or in ELI5 terms... How do you assign a score to each player?

ELO is probably the most popular methodology, but there are many kinds of linearization strategies, Bradley Terry for example is another one that ELO was in fact based upon.

The math is very well formed, and is likely a secret weapon for fantasy sports players. But it doesn't seem like many people know about this form of math at all.
What is the legal standard for say YouTube about not carrying illicit content? Just follow that. Make a list of banned hashes or something of the sort.
I can fully sympathize with this. We have an open-source app on Google play, and the amount of dirt flying at us from users is astounding. What makes matters more funny, app is a client, so most of the problem are related to improperly configured servers. Also, since Google play allows users to leave ratings, every jerk feels entitled to award you 1/5 rating for every minor glitch he experiences.

We have learned to ignore this, and adopted a policy that we just don't care about ratings. If the user is asking for help in a polite way, we help him however we can, for free. If he is an entitled jerk, we just mock him for being entitled.

Of course, then some start ranting how immature our behavior is are and how we must learn to treat our 'customers' better. Of course, right.
I'm not sure what you mean by "any measure".

What I'm recommending would protect all sorts of users from all sorts of adversaries. So it's nonjudgmental.

But that doesn't mean that it's "circular".
Yeah I never understood that, why don't they order it by usage frequency? They have those metrics as they introduced Screen Time
These issues aren't specific to FOSS, just ask Shareware authors or website maintainers. From personal experience and other such stories, I suspect they are also more frustrating if one's motives aren't exclusively altruistic or professional, i.e. if one craves the attention a little too much. The whole FOSS scene seems to me to be too much about other issues than quality software lately (10-15 years or so).
Your argument is invalid. Not the absence of services but rather the fact that back then you could crash a box by means of simply sending a single well crafted TCP packet to your adversary. It was adventure among the kids, and the "elders" did not really care plus no one in their right mind dared assaulting their source of knowledge. ( And shell accounts :P )
Thought the same... maybe what he finds rude is the comment itself in cases (like Github) where you can react to the comment with a thumbs up to say the same thing, instead of a new comment that sends a notification and maybe even an email. There needs to be a non-rude way to show support for a constructive idea.
Astronauts and addiction: Ending the stigma (op-ed)
Croesus, king of Lydia, has been waiting 2566 years for this.
Great article! I've been in this sort of role for around four years now across two different companies. A very big problem I see is balancing out my time to learn technical skills vs leadership/mgmt skills.

I feel like the software engineer is not being kept as up to date as I want. An issue I see w/ this is that companies rarely hire for lead software engineer and if I were to change companies I would have to exercise the software engineer side of knowledge for interviews / first couple of months.
Auto-mounting encrypted drives with a remote key on Linux
With Google you can use their search operators to find some relevant content and I wish more search engine would support the minus (-) to ignore content with certain keywords.

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
I see. I'll try to make a habit out of collecting those again.

That said, I might have something on an old blog somewhere. I'll see if I can find it before work starts...

Edit: found it here http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-... . It is from 2013 and had probably been going on for a while already at that point.

Edit2: For those who are still relying on Google, here's a nice hack I discovered that I haven't seen mentioned by anyone else:

Sometimes you might feel that your search experience is even worse than usual. In those cases, try reporting anything in tje search results and then retry tje same search 30 minutes later.

Chances are it will now magically work.

It took quite a while for me to realize this and I think in the beginning I might not have realized how fast it worked.

It seemed totally unrealistic however that a fkx would have been created and a new version deployed in such a short time so my best explanation is they are A/B-testing some really dumb changes and then pulling out whoever complains from the test group.

Thinking about it this might also be a crazy explanation for why search is so bad today compared to ten years ago:

There's no feedback whatsoever so most sane users probably give up talking to the wall after one or two attempts. This leaves them with the impression that everyone is happy, so they just continue on the path back to becoming the search engines they replaced.
A Proficient Leader with Exceptional Leadership Traits
Price is relative so I don't think there is much to compare. Where I live, $80 is enough to buy clothing to survive one whole season for 2 years.

Warranty and replacement may benefit from being tied down to income of the people in the area the product is sold. I am not sure how that would be possible.
Drood was a fascinating read, and was my first exposure to Wilkie Collins. Reading Drood is the reason I have a copy of The Moonstone on my shelf waiting to be read at this very moment.
Maybe for real-time previews for video compositing such as Adobe After Effects?
Stella: Report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity
Closely observe where they are creating technical debt for this can be your future cash cow.
Subscribe to a post-capitalism world.
> 2. Highlight and delete duplicates duplicates even if the data has mismatched text.

I see what you did there
>Machine learning, data scientist and real time professional simulations.

With photogrammetry (my field) we need to process anywhere between 1GB and 500GB of DSLR photos in one project and triangulate points between all these photos. Lots of RAM helps. Lots of VRAM helps JUST as much.

Also crypto mining takes advantage of large VRAM too.
Burntsushi, Andrew. My man. You don't know me, we have never talked but bro I admire the shit out of you.

Trolls are much louder than lurkers. There are a silent majority of us that know how much time and sweat goes into building free tools. We appreciate what you do because you do it for love of being a hacker and showing everyone else how you did it.

I don't think people realize how hard it is having a day job and then building a huge project people want to use. It's mentally taxing. It sucks even more when it's only negative things. Life is already hard man, why do these people have to keep trolling you? It's enough to make you want to flip the desk and give it all up.

I love reading your Rust code, and seeing how active you are on reddit/hacker news. Going through how you built the Aho Corasick crate and comments on you trying to reverse hyperscans teddy algo. was amazing for me. I spent so many hours that day reading ripgrep source code. I was amazed and what you did and the comments everywhere about why, like why the printer was pull/push. The whole time, I was geeking over what you did so much that you started my love of Rust.

Anyways, thanks for just being you man.
Singapore's Mapletree Acquires US$557M Data Centres from Digital Realty
I just want to mention that the Elo system is named after professor Arpad Elo, and thus not in all caps.
> Tech favors the young. For people with more than 15 years of experience, there’s practically no correlation between years of experience and income (corr < 0). After 15 years of experience, you either retire, switch to management, or change career.

I’ve never quite understood the dynamics of this. Do people mostly self select? Is there organizational pressure to do this? Is the constant rate of change in terms of technology too exhausting for people to keep up (More senior engineers are def capable!)? In my experience I’ve seen a it of all of these, but honestly not enough examples to see clear patterns (...precisely because I’ve only worked with people in their 20s and 30s).
> When I was a young adult, I'd pride myself on being “logical” and “free of emotional decision making.” Like all good lies we tell to ourselves, there's a kernel of truth to it. But for the most part, at least for me personally, I am a deeply emotional being.

I’ve seen this in quite a few people, both online and in the real world – people that think they are all about logic and not about emotions. And in each and every case, I believe they are only fooling themselves in thinking so. Emotions are really powerful and they affect us all in far more ways than a lot of people like to admit.

Love, hate, jealousy, insecurity, and the list goes on.

People are really good at rationalizing their feelings though, so it is easy to get fooled into thinking that a decision or stance we took was based in some objective truth when in reality emotions were steering us.

Yet so many people refuse to accept that this is the case for them just like it is for everyone else. Even though it is blatantly clear to a lot of people around them when they are acting as they do because of emotions.

I think the world would be a better place if everyone admitted to themselves that emotions is a part of our nature. Then perhaps more people would be able to handle their own emotions better, and we would all, including themselves, be better off.

I certainly try to listen to my emotions and to understand how they effect me.
> Facebook use is not a right

I always get downvoted for saying this but ... it’s getting that way. Facebook has become the primary social and contact mechanism for a large number of people. The network effects start to transcend the point where someone unelected in an office in California should get to decide who benefits from it and who doesn’t.

Facebook needs regulating, urgently.
And AIs "mind" is absolutely obscure.
SoftICE and Diablo are the reasons I have a passion for software security and do software development for a living! Ripping Diablo and battle.net to pieces to understand how to make it do what I wanted it to do instead of what Blizzard wanted it to do was how I spent a good chunk of my childhood.

So yes, thank you very much for literally changing my life, SoftICE!
Hypothetically, if I was writing an open source library for game development or HFT (two other big users of C++ code), would the Rust community respond similarly to use of unsafe code? In HFT at least we have zero concern for buffer overflow vulnerabilities and the like because we're not on the open internet, rather we're running in a colo directly connected to the exchange, so we face no risk from security vulnerabilities in code (as long as the code works as intended). I imagine it's similar for games, where unless you're writing DRM it doesn't matter if somebody gets root on their own gaming device (and even if your code is perfectly secure, they can still try to modify the code in memory to exploit it).

In which case the "downside" from unsafe code is much less (it's not going to leak an entire database of people's private details to the web), so would people still make such a big fuss about removing it? Especially if removing it involves any performance compromise, which in HFT at least would be unacceptable (or at least politically unacceptable when trying to sell Rust).
My absolute favourites are Abul Mogard's Works album and most albums by Alessandro Cortini. If I want something more high energy, I just find a techno or psytrance playlist from Spotify without paying much attention to which artist is playing.
Mucking around with SoftICE was essential to my understanding of reverse engineering and low-level programming. It was an amazing piece of software, as was all the other NuMega products!
> anyone remember the infamous BitBoys GPU hype?

Shrug, probably the same guys who were behind the original Adreno. That obscure GPU architecture running on hundreds of millions (or billion+?) phones.

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

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/medfield-krait-smartpho...
Can anyone make out what the funjsq.com is about?
YES! For rendering medium-large scenes in GPU based rendering engines such as Octane, Redshift, Arnold, etc.

Take a sportscar sample model with good resolution, say 250k polygons. If you want to create an animation with 100 cars crashing into each other, you'll need a lot of GPU RAM.
> -site:quora.com site:stackoverflow.com site:github.com`

A mock-google that excludes quora and optionally targets stackoverflow/github sounds useful.
The original browser wars were predicated on the internet being the new center of profit, and the company that controlled it via the browser being the main company of the next century. Nobody thinks that you need to control a browser to make profit anymore, Google uses it's browser more as a bulwark against real profit threatening things like extra security and privacy in other browsers.

For these reasons Microsoft did not win the browser war, because there is no war if there isn't anything financially important to fight over.

on edit: changed a was to were.
The EPA[1] defines particulates produced by tires and brakes as emissions, and lists exhaust as one kind of emission. Exhaust[2] is a term used to describe the gas byproduct of a combustion engine. The "context" is a category error mistaking a part for the whole.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas
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I imagine at least a part of that is because gamers want to see new hardware have bigger numbers than the old hardware and RAM is a pretty easy metric. RTX 2080s have 8-11 GB.
TLDR; uses “netcat“ to do all the real work, doesn’t actually do anything useful on its own.
Why not just go to a store at that point? It would be less hassle...unless there is a specific bulk option for trial, that is so much waste and not very environment friendly.

The only times I have returned a thing is when it came broken or was radically different than advertised. If the cost of shipping, environment and combined wasted time of everyone involved is higher than the 70% price of the product, then I will put it in the store room or donate it away at some point later.
Free CP for Call of Duty Mobile
On the Amiga, hrtmon.
I'm not aware of disagreeing with a dictionary definition.

However, if a dictionary definition is presented to me, and it doesn't include a usage of which I am aware, that doesn't mean I disagree with it even then. It likely just means that something was left out - maybe because people still hope to sell dictionaries, or alternatively because, having given up on selling them, neither accuracy nor completeness is required to sell online ads.
That first statement "For people with more than 15 years of experience, there’s practically no correlation between years of experience and income" doesn't imply the second? Certainly there are possibly different dynamics at play wrt age, but regarding just experience as mentioned couldn't it just be that after 15 years you've gotten as good as you will get?

Edit: I read through the article, I believe these statement are not implying causation, just an AND.

That said, I don't think the editorial "tech is for the young" is really justified by the following statements, as neither is necessarily a bad thing.