skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accessing anything at work requires Citrix in to a windows VM that's racked up in a dark datacenter somewhere. What device anyone uses to accomplish this is their own business. No VPN or AV, no MDM or any of that nonsense.

I personally use a Pixelbook Go with an external monitor for this purpose. Really anything will do the job.
I'm running Linux and things generally feel pretty smooth to me. It wouldn't surprise me if Linux had better multi-tasking support.
Counterpoint:

> When you have a small team that write tests and a compiler that is on the boundary of interactive speed, compiler speed dominates performance.

https://crawshaw.io/blog/fast-compilers
I'm not sure precisely how the scenario you're describing differs from current police investigative techniques, where you can become a suspect for, for instance, walking past the wrong streetcorner when a crime was committed and being picked up on camera.

... which is just a digital version of being misidentified by the local corner store owner when the cops go around and ask if they saw anyone suspicious in the neighborhood.
What's the difference between 1080p and 2K?
> 32MB L3 Cache is going to be very useful for certain types of Application.

Are there applications where more cache is actively detrimental?
Yeah! Why differentiate in quality, when we can blame all holders of a type of degree?!
Do you? The skills involved in VR and exploit dev don't necessarily mean you're good at opsec.
Geany, but I don't think it is unique functionality. I suppose you could just copy from a read-only template file with any OS or tools.

Now that I look closer, I actually have to use the File menu, it doesn't have a default shortcut assigned.
> (1) The ability for the government to censor transactions to terrorists, rogue states and oppressive governments is a good thing.

This assumes you agree with the government on what constitutes a terrorist, a rogue state, or an oppressive government. Currently peaceful protesters in the US are being labeled terrorists because they are protesting the government.

The assumption behind your premise is ultimately that you trust the government to "do the right thing" and I do not, so why would I want to give them more power over me?
I saw some old mainframes in a junkyard... considered buying them only to be told that someone that knew they were going to be sent there, purchased them before they even arrived...

I think it would be hell cool to have a mainframe at home :) Assuming it is not ludicrously expensive to keep it running...
> Remember kinetic energy goes up with the square of speed

More relevant is that drag goes up with the square of speed generally... in the subsonic regime... I'm not sure what happens across the sound barrier, but I believe it gets worse.

There is a wikipedia article on the topic (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

"Concorde, a supersonic transport, managed about 17 passenger-miles to the Imperial gallon, which is 16.7 L/100 km per passenger; similar to a business jet, but much worse than a subsonic turbofan aircraft. Airbus states a fuel rate consumption of their A380 at less than 3 L/100 km per passenger"

But the real comparison should not be between subsonic and supersonic trans-ocean business trips. It should be between taking the trip or not taking the trip at all. The best way to reduce emissions is to avoid long-distance air travel completely.
As of two years ago, there's a working solution, but so far the API is only covered partially.

https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/rust_cpp/

https://woboq.com/~olivier/fosdem2019_rustcpp/
Can you elaborate on that? I worked for IBM for a little more than a year and it was deeply disturbing, but I don't really understand what's happening under the hood.
they’ve skipped for desktops.
There's an XKCD for everything
Hm, mine and my neighbors don't. There are communities with small lots like ours that simply don't look or sound like giant farms with acres of land to burn your own trash or create your own composting. In fact we look darn near suburban. We have neighborhoods and small towns. It's not all prairie and farm land when one describes rural life.
Were you thinking about Plato or Socrates?

Apparently, both didn't say this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
I think that AI is getting close to the point that it is going to be a significant factor in the story of the semantic web from here on.

What comes to mind is people training AI to parse web pages and mark them up to indicate different types of data inside of them. Such as the recipe example.

So someone who authors a WordPress plugin for recipes could incorporate it. Or, and this is more scalable but obviously very difficult, it may be possible to create plugins for web frameworks that automatically inject the semantic markup using AI. Maybe.

Then there could be another AI program that converts natural language queries into semantic knowledge queries.

But I think that AI could play a big part in rolling it out. I mean, if you had the AI systems without the semantic web, for open systems you would still want a way for them to share data unambiguously.
They mention "wider issue in float and int engines"

What does that mean? wider AVX?
S expressions are one of the most used serialization formats in OCaml. You can get pretty far relying on the standard parsers and printers. It's what I would do for a lisp in OCaml. Maybe you wanted to DIY as a learning thing? There are other options for parsing including parser combinators or using Menhir/ocamllex which are interesting in their own right.

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/data-serialization.html

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/parsing-with-ocamllex-and-men...
I have been a ROBLOX player since 2009. The Linux anti-cheat began to be enforced because practically no-one used the Wine port for honest gameplay; it was almost always to do some kind of memory manipulation or for script kiddies to execute exploits.

Not many people outside of the ecosystem are aware but ROBLOX was actually really late to the concept of dividing client and server responsibilities. It used to be that one client could actually propagate changes out to all the others; therefore if you could manipulate memory you could arbitrarily execute code (within the sandbox) on all other players. There used to be popular scripts like Person299's admin commands that could be injected into any server and allow the exploiter the ability to run chat commands like "kill/<user>" or "ban/<user>" (self explanatory). Only a few years ago did they introduce RemoteEvents and ServerScriptService which finally allowed developers to ensure some code could only execute server side, and properties like FilteringEnabled which blocked clients from propagating local game changes out to the server and everyone else. This broke hundreds of thousands of old games, which was probably why they held off, but nowadays any new games are using these new features to prevent easy exploitation like in the past.

My guess is they have nothing against Linux now, because they have implemented proper security, but the only thing stopping them are the technical challenges, and there are not enough people in their target demographic who use Linux to make porting worthwhile.
I saw a poll that Polish people trusted EU officials more than Polish officials in terms of corruption. Those countries also receive huge amounts of development aid and the threats of leaving the EU have all been coming from the richer original member states. Are there any Polls here who can confirm or correct that impression?
can confirm, IBM (GTS at least) has more people dedicated to ensuring you project your future billable hours and will directly reduce your performance rating for not providing the projections every 2 weeks than if you miss client deliverables consistently.
What are your thoughts on Secrethub?

https://secrethub.io
Remember the FinCEN investigation from just a couple weeks ago: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

Governments don't care about the crime banks encourage and enable, as long as it's large enough. The US has failed to enforce incredible amounts of money laundering through traditional currencies. Whether that failure is the result of incompetence or something more sinister is the question.

Outside of a cultural movement toward more anarchist, distributed power systems, I can't see anything good coming from the state dipping its heels into more data streams like this. It's largely obvious that the US government, for the foreseeable future, is largely dissonant from what's actually good for its public. Drugs are a fairly powerful anecdote illustrating that end: opiate producers (like most capitalist businesses) aren't punished for causing a nation-wide epidemic, while users of proportionally less harmful drugs like LSD, MDMA, or Marijuana are punished quite harshly.
How the severity/effects of the virus were drastically overstated in March/April,

Of course this just isn't true. True, some aspects (such as risk of surface transmission) were overestimated; but other aspects (airborn transmission risk) were also underestimated at the time.

At the same time, countermeasures have definitely improved. And in some areas, the virus has partially attained is saturation limit (and so its spread has slowed somewhat).

But roughly stated, the overall assessment of risk/severity back in early Spring remains spot-on (perhaps even understated - given what we know know about the phenomenon of "long-haulers").
That's probably right. A quick internet search shows up domains like applecoronavirus.com and similar, as well as this court case [1] where they acquired a bunch of ipod related names.

I suspect they are only parking those names after recovering them or buying them preemptively. Domain names are cheap, so why not. I don't think that's any argument for the possession of the /8 though.

I remember Google had ownership of duck.com until recently, so they probably participate in the wholesale acquisition of random domains as well [2].

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/07/apple-domain-names/
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
That has been discussed to death already. Common Lisp might be a niche, but it appears to be even more of a niche than it actually is when cursory looking at major projects. Common Lisp (and similar languages) are (particularly, not only) well suited for prototypes created by a small group of well interacting developers. If you shoot for very large systems, with a very large staff of various talent and experience (and inevitable communication break-downs), then e.g. Java is the safer bet. For this reason, rewriting a Common Lisp program into Java is not a sign of failure of the language, but a sign of success of the project.
What of the people wanting to argue about the two different (correct) spellings of 'travelling/traveling' used in this thread?
Been a long time since I've done heavy C++ development (long time) but how does Fastbuild compare to Incredibuild?
Apple forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors
If I had another offer, I would also take severance over Coinbase's "apolitical" stance
Who are you to tell Serbians what mindset to have?
This is completely incorrect.

I use biometrics locally with my phone, but do not transmit that data to Apple, to Amazon, to MasterCard, to anyone. All they get is the usual credit card info.

Amazon it trying to cut out the middleman here, but the middleman they're trying to remove is under my control, and Amazon definitely isn't, so the shift is enormous.
I was also thinking about HP, but a considerably earlier split, when Agilent was spun off in the late 1990s. I think the motivation was the same, to divorce the dynamic printer/PC segment from the stagnant electronics segment.

But many people at the time thought Agilent was more in line with traditional HP values than HP was, and over the long run, they appear to have performed better than HP.
>Are you seriously suggesting we lock over 110,000,000 people (34% of the population) in close quarantine for the duration?

As opposed to 100% of the population? It sounds like an improvement to me. I'm suggesting relaxing restrictions for a part of the population, not increasing them.
Haskell Language Server 0.5.0: Case splitting and auto filling of typed holes
No? Other than the next best use of that silicon/heat budget, to whatever degree the latter is relevant for cache. But not afaik from an architectural point of view.
Their GPU numbers show parity with the 3080, which is what everybody expected.

They probably don't have their final lineup yet, much less pricing.
> As with static typing, an automated tool prevents you from doing something. It comes for free at the cost of you needing to satisfy the tool. Where is this in a monorepo?

In a monorepo if your change breaks someone else's code, you'll know immediately because you won't be able to check in the code with a breaking build. If you have the correct monorepo tooling set up it will help you figure out what you're breaking.

With multi-repos others will have to upgrade to your new version and then see that their code is breaking.

GP's analogy was imperfect because as you pointed out the company has to invest in the monorepo tooling. But it makes sense to me.
(1) Are you sure you want Iranian, Russian, Venezuelan, and other 192 governments all be able to censor your transactions?

Or maybe you only meant a single benevolent government to have this power? In that case I propose the Polish government to censor world transactions (simply because I am a Pole and a patriot). I trust you don't mind!
Sorry, forgot to post the link, which contains a reasonably detailed white paper alongside the headlines on the webpage: https://www.polestar.com/uk/electric-sustainability/transpar...

I expect you're right about the equilibrium extending beyond the first owner in many instances. Volvos are renowned for their longevity (100,000mi is not uncommon) so will be interesting to see how Polestars fair with battery degradation. It would be interesting if Polestar go the way of Apple and try to recapture cars at end-of-life to recycle them and reduce subsequent generation car production emissions.
>I see the other big players going the opposite direction. e.g. Google and Amazon are building their own silicon for an edge in Cloud and AI.

IBM still designs chips - what they divested was their semiconductor manufacturing (fab) business.
I had (before switching jobs) the 2018 MBP with all the options maxed out.

Was running a Docker stack of about 8 containers, plus PyCharm. It worked okay-ish, but everything was maxed out all the time and the fans were always spinning. Battery was being drained even when on the charger. Pycharm would lag for a second or two here and there.

Now switched jobs and was issued a 2018 MBP with only 16GB RAM and the 2.2GHz i7. I have gone to the trouble to run everything locally (A single 200MB Python repo + Spark). I don't see the same power drain but Pycharm lags VERY hard on its indexing and code insight... sometimes 5-10 seconds.
It's funny, because the received wisdom in the industry is that Apple behaves exactly this way. I guess not in their production environment!
AMD keeping the same standard TDPs at 105W and 65W was such a good design decision. Clear contrast to Samsung's oft-criticized MLC to TLC move with their 980 Pro.

People care about both absolute TDP and power efficiency.
What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe. The impact of long-form well-written essays like this is huge, and fits perfectly with the theme of the essay itself about helping others succeed at scale.

I like the personal notes included a ton, e.g. mentioning that he has struggled with depression personally, which I wouldn't have guessed, even if naively so. Being open and helpful with those topics helps a lot of people out in a serious way. Also love quotes like "I cannot say this enough: pick your peer group wisely because you’re giving them write access to both your conscious thoughts and your entire worldview".

Just reading this post makes it tempting for me to apply at Stripe (They apparently have 530 roles open, wow! https://stripe.com/jobs/search), especially given all the other positive comments I've seen about the company.
While you're at it, to help with this specific case, you could also get a local copy of OpenStreetMap. That way you can look up and navigate to addresses without touching the internet.
Are we really going to assume that your average user doesn't already have FB installed and already signed in? They have over one billion users, you know. It's not exactly rare to find Facebook on any arbitrary person's device.
Coinbase Loses 5% of Workforce over Political Speech Ban
That was just them describing random internal wikipedia things with a debate about google scholar. There wasn't really a debate there...
#letthemeatipv6
Hoping the PS5 digital edition becomes a perfect Linux workstation with an early days exploit.
Constructive? Maybe not. But accurate [1]? I think it is a valid concern and one which Tesla is facing. For all intents and purposes, driverless vehicles present a potential public health hazard and a moral dilemma. Do you not agree with that?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2020/05/16/lawsuit-a...
React-chrono – A flexible timeline component built for React
Render timelines in three different modes (Horizontal, Vertical, Tree).
Use the Tree mode to layout the timeline cards vertically in a tree like fashion.
Auto play the timeline with the slideshow mode.
️ Display images in the timeline with ease.
⌨ Navigate the timeline via Keyboard.
Optimized to render images efficiently on (tree & vertical mode). Images not visible are automatically hidden.
Customize colors with ease.
Built with Typescript.
I’m curious what the new name will be. I want it to be International Cloud Business Machines (ICBM).
> When people say they “like pytorch”, they’re expressing a preference for how to organize ML code

Maybe that's the way you feel, but for me that's very different. Pytorch is much more than just an API (which is also nothing to scoff at).

It's also much cleaner documentation, a very different ecosystem of libraries (mostly better, but sometimes lacking depending on the niche), less magic (which makes it easier to debug). It also has the benefit of less ecosystem churn, while the transitions of TF1->2 as well as the external Keras->internal Keras are a shitshow that's almost as bad as Python2->3.
RedBeanPHP 5.6 Christmas Edition
There is a very real risk that companies spin off completely dead weight (see Honeywell's spinoff of Garrett). eBay spinning off PayPal a few years ago is an example on the opposite end. Assuming the management team is acting in good faith, it usually is because the two divisions lack synergies and have different potential growth trajectories and paths. For instance, the fast growing division might not be able to spend enough money because investors view the overall company as a slow, stable grower while the stable division is upset that the fast growing division is sucking up its profits to grow. In cases like these, it might not be a dead business, but something like eBay.
> How much money has been proven to be laundered through the traditional banking systems, with the support of the banks.

Basically any news story you hear about money laundering involves traditional banking systems.
Steels with significant amounts of vanadium carbide like S30V should be sharpened with diamond abrasives, as the carbides are harder than most natural stones. They will still take longer to sharpen than less wear-resistant steels, of course, but it should eliminate the difficulty in actually producing a sharp edge.
> I'm not the GP

Thank you for volunteering to clarify. I've upvoted you, but I disagree with your points, I'm afraid.

> I think the idea is that advertising isn't coercive.

I'm not sure what definition of "coercive" you want to use, but I think it is absolutely possible for an advert to lead to someone acting against their best interest. (The term "best interest" is also quite loaded, but we can at least acknowledge cases where someone's actions are influenced by an advert and they then go on to regret those actions).

Perhaps a more concrete example would be cigarette advertising, which many societies have deemed somewhat "coercive" (albeit not as "coercive" as the nicotine itself). If these ads didn't encourage people to smoke, and merely assisted existing smokers in choosing the brand which best suited their needs, then I doubt they would need to be banned.

> "being able to find people that might agree with some ideas and showing them media that expresses those ideas"

While that sounds reasonable, I believe it misses some subtleties particularly in the case of elections.

Firstly, people should have a right to know which entity is authoring these ideas, so that they can be held accountable and any past reputation and potential biases taken into account. Just as importantly, the public should know which ideas are being selectively broadcast by each campaign, as it is more than possible that a campaign presents mutually contradictory arguments to non-overlapping groups of people, which again should factor into the credibility of the campaign.

If those concerns are taken into account (and the general concerns of people having their personal data used to target psychometrically-engineered adverts at them without their consent) then I have no objection to "bad" ideas being widely distributed.
I think focusing on the basics. Being really good at the fundamentals. Not overthinking too much about what bigger players are doing, because they want to get EVERYONE so their software/product becomes EVERYTHING.

VC backed companies I feel are under a lot of pressure to make x10 returns for their investors so they exhaust everything and everyone. This is where we come in I believe. Nimble. Good. Fundamental. Solid. And people respond to that in a good way.

Tweeted about this just a few moments ago: https://twitter.com/valsopi/status/1314270863261405191

Thanks for your comment!
That's probably true.

Honestly, companies shouldn't be worried about the FANG's, because they will create alliances and largely refrain from suing one another. It's the never-ending, death-by-a-thousand-cuts onslaught from trolls that will murder small/medium outfits.

The east texas troll court is going to have a boom like it was 1840s California just to support all the litigation in our near future -- if this passes.
It doesn't really matter, tbh. Culture eats strategy for breakfast, and Google have a terrible partnership culture. FB are a little better, and I assume Amazon must be OK, but MS have a sales force that can actually sell, supported by an organisation that commits to products for the long term.

MS will do very well with Azure, but note that their cloud revenue is also Office 365 revenue (which I suspect is a lot higher).
Based on the precedent set by Uber, Waymo will be held financially responsible, but won't face criminal charges. I'd be interested in reading more about the liability insurance coverage Waymo has for its self-driving program, but can't find info anywhere.

Source: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/08/uber-got-off-the-hook...
I think if you substitute all your questions with env vars, all the same issues present themselves. You have to roll secrets whenever someone with access no longer has access, and the env vars can be stale just the same as the encrypted file.
To add insult to injury, your account of the state of things gives me no reason to think that their internal systems aren't rife with similar vulnerabilities, so rather like DRM only making life hard for paying customers, I suspect that these measures only make access difficult for honest employees.
Stop being a perfectionist, make better decisions
In the article you linked to, I didn't see Apple claiming they alone can protect user's privacy. I read instead that Apple suggested all companies should strive to protect their user's privacy.
Now do longshoreman. :)