skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took 18 months off, built a machine learning product and then sold it for a modest amount of money. It was very exciting for me. Then I joined a FAANG company, and I'll be honest, I am completely miserable. I feel like I am in a cage, and the time off only convinced me that I am happier in other modes of being. The unhappiness of working that I attributed to burn out was really because I actually just hated having a job, any job. But theres no easy answer, starting a company is financially very risky.

"They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box."

-Nassim Taleb
1) Open Whatbox from Chrome, or any other browser on your home PC/Phone/Tablet. Its all HTTPS, your ISP can't know what you're doing. It is just like any regular website, not an "app" or anything at all special about it.

2) Find the torrent in the list of files.

3) Right-click on the file you like (e.g. the big .mp4 file) -> Download. Chrome will download it like any other file and save it anywhere you like.

4) Profit!

If there is a large number of files (e.g. full TV season), use an FTP client. Instead of right click -> Download on a file, do right click -> Download on the entire folder, or drag drop to where you like it on your PC. Can also work just as fine on any FTP client for Android/iPhone.
Linux is ubiquitous. It runs on embedded devices, cell phones, and tablets which surround us. Linux runs most of the computers which underpin websites and services we interact with daily, and it is the only serious choice for HPC. A few people even run it on their laptops.

Windows has declined. It is still used extensively, but Microsoft no longer dictates the browser market. Microsoft Office is commonplace, but has genuine marketshare competition in alternatives like Google Docs. Developers increasingly build "desktop" applications as web-based or multiplatform-first instead of Windows-exclusive, with the notable exception of AAA games. The Linux subsystem for Windows is a direct admission by Microsoft that developers want to work with Linux-based software for many tasks.
It's the paradox of capitalism. Just ask yourself. Why in the world would a business want to compete with another business? They don't, it's not profitable. And only X amount of businesses can exist within a given radius before profits margins decline to the point of nonexistence. It's all a zero sum game. That's why established monopolies are protected by the system.
On Intel CPUs AVX512 instructions always block boost clocks, regardless of actual power budget or cooling capacity.

Indeed the boost clocks are on a hard timer in general and cannot run continuously.
Do you mean Autoclaved aerated concrete?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete
Chip costs are pretty low, all else considered. Yeah, AD is more expensive but I spend way less time reading documentation.

If you're a hobbyist like me, you don't really care about spending $5 on a chip instead of $2 on a chip... especially when you're paying multiples of that for the PCB and other parts of the equation.
The flip side: When I was an intern I once had four people arrive at my desk (including an HR lawyer) for torrenting ubuntu server.

Thankfully I shared a cube wall with someone smart enough to realize the confusion, and explain me out of being walked out.

They were monitoring for torrent traffic, but weren't paying attention to what was being torrented. Apparently a company-wide warning had gone out the week before I started.
Video of Tokyo, 1913-1915 (upscaled, colorized)
Don’t need it forever
Next-Gen Mask Challenge
Without incontrovertible proof that these lists are not just "connections" but "engaged in true data exchange with us, in which we verified that the data they sent us was indeed part of the torrent in question", I'm having a harder time seeing that.

Connecting to a torrent is in itself not illegal (if it were, legal torrents such as that used for software delivery would be impossible).
Scaling WebSocket in Go and Beyond
I used to do that (Demonoid...) but gotten lazy over the years. If something is rare and I really want it, I don't mind paying 15-20$ for it on Amazon Video/iTunes.

Only thing I don't like is they don't let me download it, and I haven't found ways to download them otherwise.
Ask HN: Where will the top cryptocurrencies be in 5 years?
The amount truth in that short passage is mind-blowing.
They focus on slightly different markets. Analog devices produces passives and semiconductors as well as processors and ASICs targeted at data acquisition and digital signal processing as well as power electronics. Maxim tends to produce special purpose devices and processors that are analog front ends with some minor forays into the other areas.

There is overlap, but the portfolios are complementary. It seems to be a good acquisition save the sticker price seems too high.
I take breaks regularly. By this I mean breaks during the day and actual vacation. We have "unlimited" PTO and I usually take ~5 weeks off a year total, give or take.
This is self-perpetuating. It's been my experience that moving companies has gotten me +20% in pay for doing the same work with the same title. If employers assume people will leave after 2 years and hence don't give promotions and give paltry CoL raises then obviously why would people stay? So these employers won't give raises to their current workers but will happily give new employees +20% every 2 years just for swapping names on their Resume? Obviously something doesn't add up here.
The paper was submitted to NeurIPS this year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01097
The majority of ad block rules workes based on the info provided in the url. Everything in there can be used + the ip where the domain points to.

Better ad blocker could do heuristics based on the JavaScript itself...did not see this in the wild so far though
> "Sometimes on HN and elsewhere you get people saying how evil or malicious these people are."

you're making a fundamental attribution error. few people say that people in PE are evil. most criticisms are leveled at the industry, its ruthless practices, and the willful ignorance of widespread harms while chasing marginal dollars to stuff in already abundant bank accounts.
This is a very limited solution. For instance, how can you track what search keywords showed your clicked ads on Google? The advertiser keep and will keep all the power (=all the context) to themselves exactly because of that reason.
I don't believe anyone is really reading this thread and so it's probably not worth our time to further litigate this, but the criticism you're making here is of a kind with what I described in my comment: that I'm supposed to believe that Signal is either working in bad faith or is negligent with user data, when all the evidence to date strongly suggests the opposite thing: that no other project of comparable popularity is as diligent as Signal is about not exposing user data, even at significant cost to UX and uptake.

I don't understand "claiming it shouldn't be written", by the way. That's not my claim. My claim is that it is written weirdly.
That is certainly nicer.
GSoC Reports: Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls Part 1 NetBSD
Here's the exact thing that I checked when making this conclusion a few weeks back, the most up-to-date state of the compiler roadmap that I could find: https://rust-lang.github.io/compiler-team/minutes/design-mee... I see 16 top-level goals on here for next year (under the Goals section). The only thing that seems related to compile speed is to continue working at incremental compilation (no new initiatives?). And even there, the only action item for the entire year is to create a working group.

I love rust-analyzer! But I'm not sure what you mean by "it compiles the code every save." I love how fast it can type-check my code, but I was unaware it could actually compile my code into something I can run? I thought it was just a LSP provider.
Doesn't really seem like SemVer's fault that package managers can't deal with more than one version at a time.

Our code should probably start being more explicit about what it requires, and we should probably stop having this weird, complicated indirection layer where code asks for some vague thing called "lodash" and receives lodash 4.7.19 today and lodash 5.9.1 tomorrow. This is not saving us time or making our lives simpler.
Written in 1970, still relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich
No it's really different.

If I don't watch your movie or watch it for free, it doesn't change anything for you (I'd even argue that the later might actually be better for you, but that's another topic)

On the other hand, whether I eat your apple or not make a big difference to you, since you might not be able to eat it in one scenario.
The takeaway that has trickled down to educators is that "dyslexia is not visual, it is phonological". Any nuance in the research has been lost.
Maybe a very distorted type of theft but from my perspective the main immoral thing about theft is that it deprives someone of what they used to have, or takes the place of a sale. From the limited research I've seen the evidence is, at best, mixed that corporations are losing sales due to piracy.

If it was a clear choice between buying something or pirating it, equating piracy with theft would be more reasonable (though the owner still has their good so not entirely identical) but that doesn't seem to be the typical scenario. The ads only make that equivalence because it's better for the companies if they convince people it's theft.

From a moral perspective I think whether it is theft really depends on your motivation/what you would do in the absence of piracy.
Depends, was it a paid internship?
“private equity” is not a company, its an industry - so its not clear to me why only one private equity company at a tine would try to cash in on this opportunity? And if several such companies are trying to do the same thing, then its unlikely that any of them will become a monopoly.

Its like worrying about “real estate investors” getting a “monopoly” on the ownership of houses - it’s not going to happen. Real estate investors are part of the market, and having an additional source of demand tends to raise prices, which is bad for new buyers and good for existing homeowners. But there is no monopoly.
Don't the majority of FAANG engineers cap out at Sr. Engineer and that's a title you can get just a few years out of College? So are +/-50% of Google engineers stagnant?
But the content of shipping container #1 does not spill into shipping container #2. If it does, there's a problem.

Similarly with software containers, you don't want data flowing into nearby containers (unless you do want that, in which case you have setup the necessary networking and that should be the only way for the containers in question to share data).

I'm mostly interested in docker et al for the isolation aspect. The "ships the app with all its dependencies" is an interesting byproduct, although all too often it translates it means there's a mess in the amount of dependencies required. And that it's going to be an equal mess come update time -- unless of course the image is never updated in which case there's a chance the image becomes vulnerable (for example, outdated libssl).
I think the jury is still out on copyright infringement. I think it may be a net benefit to society, although a negative for copyright holders.

Back in the Napster days I bought so much more music based on stuff I downloaded. Not everyone was like me, buty piracy made money for the record industry.

I also think copyright infringement has allowed lots of knowledge and entertainment to be available to low resource markets that would never attract releases. How many young people in Lagos got software and media only through piracy?
I think the irony is that someone on HN will jump on this thread saying copyright needs to be abolished, and you didn't lose anything as the user wouldn't have paid for it anyways, with the irony being that a large majority of HN either earns money via tracking ads(which is far worse than any copyright), or works money by writing paid software.
Glad to hear it helps! Do you find it only helping during line transitions, or does it also help with the accidental ignoring/replacing of words?
Extreme Privacy Workbook
I mean, large scale tent encampments. Right now, you have relatively small encampments in some metro areas. I expect to see tens of thousands of people living in tent cities in every major metro area by October.
For a wonderful and accessible intro in these topics, I wholeheartedly recommend The Art of the Interpreter: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6094/AIM-453....

It’s also uniquely funny. Or I found parts of it funny. You can implement it in most lisps, but I like implementing it in Arc.
I believe the interview you mention is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfrWKHB1Gc - I'm not yet familiar with it myself.

edit: And having duly familiarized myself, I have to say, I appreciate you mentioning it! High-grade Bircher nonsense is tough to come by these days, and it makes a nice, nostalgic diversion from its more modern and more dangerous conspiracy-theory descendants, like antivax stuff and QAnon.

Nothing but respect for Bezmenov and his obvious grift, but it's not a surprise to me that anyone still peddling this nonsense with a straight face in 2020 would do so in a way that's cagey. I mean, you could hardly expect to be taken seriously if you were more upfront with it, could you?
At our home we had one, in 2004.
Plastics are mostly so cheap to produce because they are currently by-products of our massive petroleum processing industries. There are a lot of interesting questions if plastic recycling will become more prevalent/necessary as we transition out of petroleum-based energy models.
Compounding the frustration with trying to read this page is the sans-serif font, making Is look like Ls, etc. This certainly makes a clear use case for serifs in my head.
I agree that the statement "Physical copies don't exist for digital media" is false (And I wasn't trying to assert that, of which I could have been more explicit), time of release aside. I can still hold the above position and not be in conflict with that, though.

The issue we saw is that there is no way to legally lend a digital resource to someone else, which is a constructed limitation. Lending here involves two things, one is that the resource is exclusive and the other that it has the same traits as the original good. In crux, why do an illegal, but "not as bad" thing when there is no legal difference -- just do the illegal thing at that point.

This is how torrenting, piracy, and account sharing became normative. Access to digital goods was restricted further than physical goods, meaning that as content moved to digital first, there was a dissonance between worlds (This is where all the "First Sales Doctrine" litigation tens of years ago comes from). When that dissonance was resolved in favor of businesses, we adjusted via legal brinksmanship -- wherein we said "This is normal behavior, but if you're calling it abnormal and illegal I'll just do the actually illegal thing because it doesn't matter anymore".

I have a library card, where I borrow exclusive, digital copies of a resource for a reasonable price (If we snake a path between my taxes and the library service). I think this system is great, even though it has just the same properties as physical lending has. It is when properties are lost inexplicably that you see new, emergent behavior.

Once again, I understand that this isn't widely accepted view point in some circles and that you may just fundamentally dislike it. I know that behavior might be illegal by US code, but the nature of something being illegal is that it is illegal because it is an accessible possibility. We create laws to inhibit possible behavior, and, in this case, many of us have just said "I don't care" to these laws in a similar way to jaywalking or speeding.
Perhaps because they see it going even higher. In that sense they're like any other stockholder: they want to sell only when they think it has peaked. They're just fine having debt as long as they can get the debt cheaply: raising money with debt is easier and more flexible than issuing stock.

They see themselves as far more than a car company, and their opinion is that they are going to inherit a lot of the energy sector. I suspect that they believe their stock is still a bargain.
Since everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works -

Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore.

Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address.

Do it on a large enough scale and there you go.

There are many ways to secure against this, usually USA IP holders use USA cloud services or USA IP addresses. Some are public, but even if not, you can block the entire USA , so geoblocking by a simple tool such as: https://www.countryipblocks.net/acl.php

And you're pretty much in the clear. Not perfect, but pretty much.
Individuals on HN, and other internet communities, have brought it to me. I was also briefly exposed to it in uni.
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
Colored backgrounds and colored transparencies seem to be helpful for some people. However, research in this area has been mixed, and of course it's impossible to do a double-blind test when the intervention is so clearly apparent.
That depends on how you work. I switch between multiple projects at work during the day. Not very efficient, but that's just how it is. I do exactly what Partizion does in tmux. I run a separate session for each project. This allows me to quickly jump between projects without mixing things up.
You never know what type of logging is set up though. You can log others users commands too, making use histories irrelevant.
Yep, Comcast ties your modem's mac address to an IP address.

However, if your modem is off long enough for a new user in your area to need a new IP address, they'll snatch up yours.

Also, 10 years? I guess DOCSIS 3.0 has been around that long. That's pretty impressive.
They already did an offering earlier this year for $2B when it first started going crazy. You're right that they should do another.

What I don't understand is how all the S&P 500 index funds don't get soaked every time a stock enters or leaves the index. Everyone in the world can front-run those giant trades, just like we're seeing now. Do the index funds just absorb the losses every time or do they have enough flexibility to avoid it somehow?
That claim isn't true. There are games that are not provided with a physical copy (i.e. Beatsaber for PSVR, Quest for Booty-Rachet and Clank, etc)

Also, I'm sure there are other Hulu, Netflix, Prime excluses that won't make it to the physical market.

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This still avoids the main issue here: It's the right of ownership of the copy. Having a digital copy, in it's current state, prevents you from transferring it to others. Amazon's ebooks have the option for lending, but you're still reliant upon Amazon's "holy permission" to do that. (They can reascend it at any time). With physical mediums the original creators cannot prevent you from reselling what you own. (They can try.. but often times they've failed)
Companies must be profitable in the past four quarters to be qualified for inclusion; I might be wrong though.
It's a large company that built their own bespoke internal credentials service running over a TCP port to the application with another proprietary protocol to push key material to hosts.

Can't say much more due to NDAs.

Edit: this service handles credentials and rotation for hundreds of thousands to millions of hosts.
Companies need a straight year of profitability to be included in the S&P 500.

Tesla has only had 3 quarters in a row profitable. If their upcoming quarter turns a profit, that will make 4 consecutive quarters.
No point. He just made a commend about something he things is annoying in a mailing list and some media makes a big deal out of it because it's Linus Torvalds. That's all there is to it.
The author looks like he speaks from experience at least.
AllTrails has a free trail creation tool. Check it out here, you just need to create a free account to save.

https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/new
Probably better to run a container or VM behind a VPN to do "VPN" things there, and normal stuff on the host.
I have many Prolog books and by far the most practical or "real world" of them is "Prolog Programming in Depth" by Covington/Nute/Vellino, which the lead author has made freely available as a PDF:

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/books/PPID.pdf

It doesn't shy away from explicitly discussing how one goes about expressing various procedural/imperative constructs in a declarative manner.
If you're not broadly familiar with Matt Stoller- he's an ideologue. He is a far, far leftist on economic issues.

>He also dismisses economics of scale as an accounting fiddle

He proposed on Twitter to make bulk discounting illegal for the entire US economy, on the theory that any kind of discounting is just predatory pricing. In other words, whether you buy 1 computer server or 10,000, 2 avocados or 2 million, the price per unit would be exactly the same. He thinks this would harm large companies and help smaller ones
Because it was great and it wasn't available legally in so many countries, or it was with forced reader and no native-English language versions in TV or 480p streaming online.

It's most pirated because it was great quality product with low quality service and delivery.
It is more than just market cap that lets you into the S&P. There are also other rules. Tesla is projected to pass the GAAP positive earnings test soon.

A committee selects each of the index's 500 corporations based on their liquidity, size, and industry. It rebalances the index quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. To qualify for the index, a company must be in the United States, have an unadjusted market cap of at least $8.2 billion. At least 50% of the corporation's stock must be available to the public. Its stock price must be at least $1 per share. It must file a 10-K annual report. At least 50% of its fixed assets and revenues must be in the United States. Finally, it must have at least four consecutive quarters of positive earnings.
thanks. i misread that and assumed that growth implied economic growth. My other point stands - India's market with any meaningful purchasing power is minuscule compared to China's.
>Never forget. We are fighting for our rights.

>Also never forget that we're having this discussion on a site that is hostile to us.

Poignant words, I say. I see that people have downvoted you. The enemy is not an external entity it's internal.
... and yet they still haven't answered questions from David Einhorn about their accounts receivable:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-22/einhorn-a...