skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was unexpected. But could you feel it without experiencing?

I've used open source OS for a decade. It has changed my mind. I've never downloaded software from site. I trust community, not vendors. I use just one non open source application (slack) and I do not trust them, I'd rather run it in a sandbox.

My system comes with a framework to download, build, install any package with just a few commands:

$ yay -G foo
$ cd foo
$ makepkg -sei

I can inspect it and change it, and sometimes I do.

No other ecosystem comes close. Browser extensions and smartphone applications replicate some of it but

* it can be adware/spyware/malware

* it can change overnight, no one checks

* one gallery by popularity or by restriction

Even my closed source software comes from community maintained recipes, Windows finally got it with winget.

Oh, I know! Compare it with programming language package managers — gems, pip, cargo.
Glass actually had a really good use case, but it's the one thing they explicitly called out in the terms of service as banned:

Facial Recognition

The killer app for Glass would have been the thing that put a little nametag over the head of the person you were looking at, provided you'd met them before. So that you could say "Hey Steve!" to your kid's classmate's dad that you'd met 3 times before and still couldn't remember his name.

Way better than today's tech of saying "Hey!..." then introducing him to your friend Bill and hoping Bill asks his name or he volunteers it. Then hoping you're remember to memorize it this time.

Glass woulda fixed that. But it would have made everything else worse.
For one, the southern hemisphere is mostly water.
5% Chance: Tesla will have self driving in every city by 6/2021
But then when you clicked on the picture and didn't see it on the displayed page might wonder if it's the right article, especially if the title was missing or editorialized in the reference.
I'm not a network person, but couldn't this be relatively easily bypassed just by running the VPN on the router?
Nice!

It'd be great to know where do the improvements came from.

Is it from a different architectural design, is it from better exploitation of new hardware, is it from JVM limitations? For example, when Valhalla and Loom land in the JDK, how much of this improvement will stay?
On Arm 64-bit Darwin, W^X is enforced at all times.
In practice the benefits of swap mentioned in that article almost never happen on desktop use. I used to use swap on my last install and it was pretty much never used. I don't bother with swap anymore. Server may be different game though.
Yup. I follow a FODMAP diet and that really works for me.
Interesting and detailed, I did notice the similarity's between RT-11 and CPM in my first Job.

And I do still vaguely recall RADIX 50
Ask HN: What do you look for in a DBMS?
Hey HN,

what are the things you look for when picking a database for a new project?

What is a must-have/deal-breaker?

What is a nice to have?
A Notorious Arms Dealer Hijacked Niger’s Budget and Bought Arms from Russia
Diet containing a lot of fruit can be healthy . Sugar consumed through fruit has a massively different effect compared to consuming only that sugar.

Fiber with sugar is not the same as pure sugar.

I’m not sure there are any studies demonstrating what you claim.
Agree with you. It is a matter of what software do you need.

That said, for my use case, I have never found a software that I need on Windows that is only available on Linux.

The opposite happens to me a lot.
For me it often hinges on whether I view the company being advertised as part of the community being targeted or as just trying to profit off of that community.

For example, I get a lot of targeted ads for fitness equipment. A company like Onnit provides quality equipment at an affordable price so it is one of the go to place for people getting into functional fitness. In that respect it is a "contributing member" of the fitness community and I don't mind getting targeted adds from them.

On the other hand, I also get a lot of ads for gimmicks or dumbed down versions of legitimate fitness equipment. I view those companies as parasites on the fitness community and resent getting targeted adds from them.
The pyramid thing is creepy, because it seeks to exploit friendship bonds. And usually only for the benefit of the company, the seller most often is being suckered into losing money as well.

I wouldn't really consider someone doing your last two things there to be doing something friendly, those are self-interested actions and I would treat them with suspicion.

The first three though, sure, those are friendly actions. Their utility is variable, but they aren't motivated by personal profit.
Yes, I've been running this on my P400 for about a week now.
It's smooth, and the baseline memory pressure makes is quite usable for dog-fooding arm builds of my projects.

Ubuntu mate is a bit faster-moving than the Gnome ("main") Ubuntu in terms of features and neat little fixes.

Martin Wimpress (the main dev of Ubuntu Mate, at least he used to be, now he might be more busy with his other stuff at Canonical...?) has been really trying to push these board-specific images, and IMHO the quality is quite good.
InferX X1P1: Low Cost AI Inference Accelerator [pdf]
I thought you were talking about the actual problems - the ones that you use a programming language to solve.

But here it's really comparing apples vs oranges. Of course you can find questions that don't have a definitive answer for programs (or program parts) written in any programming language. Much more so in a less rigid language. That doesn't say anything about problem solving abilities, though.

> This same argument applies to all sorts of DSLs too. Many use a similar type-based approach, e.g. linear types forbid expressions like 'if (bar()) { free(myMemory); }'.

That's nice, but the concern I expressed in my original post is - at what cost?
This got me thinking of articles by Joel Spolsky. Here is an example:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Text-wise his articles are often very interesting though.
I have a couple of linux workstations, and currently a Carbon X1 laptop (switched from a macbook air a few weeks ago). On linux reaper works fine with zero config with my steinberg audio interface, and a 2 input behringer mini audio interface as well. The only thing stopping me from installing debian on my thinkpad is the difficulty with connecting MIDI devices in Reaper, and maybe that the VST setup needs messing with WINE. Other than that, the linux experience is vastly superior and lower friction for me. WST makes using windows at all viable for me. It's much nicer than when I looked at running windows last which was admittedly > 15 years ago.
This research was sponsored by the office space owners association /S
The Dutch police bought Porsche 964 Targas for motorway patrols:

https://witmerodijk.nl/CarImages/1681/DSC_2492_703381.jpg

The open roof allowed officers to stand up in the car and direct traffic, while the rear-mounted air-cooled engine meant the car could reverse along the hard shoulder for long distances- they also fitted a rear-facing siren.

Allegedly it was official policy that only officers who were married with children were allowed to drive the Porsches, as it was thought that they would be more careful.
That would require turning off automatic updates and vetting each update individually. On any modern phone with tons of apps installed that would be completely unrealistic. I used to do that in iOS until about 4-5 years ago when it became intolerable.
My answer to your question is yes. The reasoning is a little longer.

The main problem with this question is its representation of faith as a binary system: either an atheist or an agnostic or a christian or a muslim or a... The truth is religion has been (and will be for years to come) a massive part of the story of mankind. There is no penalty to exploring faith and a lot to gain from it: you'll either find yourself on a spiritual journey that will take you somewhere and influence you deeply (the religious, believing way of seeing this) or you will have learnt about how humans have interpreted the world around them and told each other stories about it in the form of scripture and from there religion (the sceptical way of seeing this). You'll either find the Truth or you'll realise you don't believe its there - but you'll have learnt a lot about other people's exploration of what the Truth is and what it means for them.

Should you explore Faith? Definitely. Should that mean you'll be on an unstoppable course towards becoming a devout Christian/Muslim/Insert your faith here? No. It means you're learning about human experience and listening to other's beliefs. Take it from there and decide what that means to you.
Nobody wants to learn yet another language.
Remember this when their ads touting privacy/security inevitability are presented to you.

Apple marketing is disgusting.
You might enjoy the games of Federico Perez Ponsa, chess Grandmaster. He plays Age of Empires II at a 2k+ level and is known as Fedex.
What if you flip the order and give someone $10 in credits, expiring XYZ, and they use it on a $40 order?

Here's from the S-1:

> >> Our marketing efforts currently include referrals, affiliate programs, free or discount trials, partnerships, display advertising, television, billboards, radio, video, direct mail, social media, email, podcasts, hiring and classified advertisement websites, mobile “push” communications, search engine optimization, and keyword search campaigns. Our marketing initiatives may become increasingly expensive and generating a meaningful return on these initiatives may be difficult.
It can also be important to let these things go sometimes. The rabbit hole is often quite deep.
Isn’t it a fork?
You can always put a vpn before mac eg using some Cisco or Linux based. Although it is obviously more complicated and expensive.
As I said in the other P400 thread, yes, this is quite nice to use. Pay attention to which apps you use: electron/node based apps will quickly make this a drag. Use script/ad blockers (umatrix...) to save on web resources. Be weary of e.g. bash prompts that traverse the file system (to show git status or such) as these things will be slow on an sd card system.
Both approaches are meant to stop malware from launching so I don't see much of a difference. Blacklist/whitelist? Whitelist could be implemented locally as well.
there are a lot of things that need translating e.g. signs are an easy one, but what about pieces of paper or forms you need to register for car rentals. Translations would need a kind of "always on" intrusive capability to see at the moment needed.

Note. I'm neutral if this would really benefit us all or not. I guess we will see?
Climeworks – Let's reverse climate change
I would suggest they remove the screenshot of the Avengers movie given the amount of DMCA going on for such things... (loosely suggesting some open source software could be used for viewing pirated material.) Big Buck Bunny by the Blender Foundation could be a good replacement [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ
I want a computer that I can use for music without internet. Only connect for software upgrade. Very simple. And I don't want to use linux or freebsd. Mac used to be for pros, not it is just for hispsters.
Hardening DSLA Against CEX Programmatic Sell-Offs
I imagine the other sats didn't pay 5% of the launch price though...
So is the i686 part incorrect also? I was about to say, who is even still on that in 2020
Aitite and aitona are synonyms for grandad, the Basque language has a surprisingly large amount of dialects :-)
I cant comprehend why would you find it insulting. I mean, this is not even nano-aggression, it really says nothing at all and even less something bad about you.
All the more important for SpaceX to keep the masses impressed and interested which they seem to be doing a good job of. The Apollo program died party because people lost interest.

> "And Apollo was a victim of its own success. For laymen, one moon landing after another was a little boring."
Ref. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch22-8.ht...
If I see any person wearing these near me or my house, I'm going to personally ensure their headset is shredded to bits.

And I'm sure no FB employee will wear this. You can only pay contractors to wear it.
To me mate tastes like making a brew out of the contents of an ashtray.
I give a version of this every time I give advice. I remind people that it is just that: an advice. "Please, remember the decision is still your responsibility and I don't mind you doing anything you see fit with my advice including completely ignoring it"

Being advisor is dangerous because you can become entangled in the matter you have no power to decide on. I make sure that people understand managing the issue and advising on it are two completely separate roles. It usually is a chat in the form: If you want, cede the power to make decisions and only then I can try my best to resolve it and be responsible for results.

When it comes to somebody's life, it is not possible to cede the responsibility and so by very definition it is just not possible for me to take any responsibility for the advice I give and it is still up to the person to decide whether they can trust the advice and how to use it.
...plus, it becomes very cumbersome to manually update 'some apps' but not 'other apps'. The UI interface makes it nearly impossible to manage this because you can't click "update all apps" anymore;

So, you'd then have to manually click like 100 apps individually/one by one to update them.
Show HN: faasd - a lightweight and portable FaaS engine
> I think people LOVE the kafka _api_ but they have a hard time operating clusters at scale.

That is very true, and this is what you should emphasise. Wish you the best of luck!

The actual speed of Kafka has rarely been a concern (but huge numbers of partitions are, which makes rebalancing a pain) in my experience, in fact it was mostly overkill. But operational complexity was definitely an issue!
I got curious and started to search out some other reading[0]:

> The pathogenesis of [aquagenic urticaria] AU is poorly understood at this time, and it appears to be mediated in both a histamine-dependent and independent manner. [...] Currently, the first-line therapy for AU is an oral administration of nonsedating, second-generation H1 antihistamines, but many patients may require further interventions to have adequate symptomatic control. In this review, we discuss the diagnostic and management challenges of AU.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5136360/
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That is something that must be done, but not by facebook.

It should be done by public and private institutions with a clear control of the data real access and ownership.

The problem with cloud providers is that you can not control them. They can tell you nobody but you access your data, but they can give data access to the US gobertment or their employers or their automatic surveillance and intelligence gathering software without notifying you.

They promise they won't access your data, but of course they do, because you can not prove they did. Everything is under their control.
At those speeds the problem is that the CPUs are not fast enough. Say you need to process these 25 Mpps (and that's being generous, the maximum packet rate at 100Gbps is 162Mpps), in a single core at 3,6 GHz: you have 144 clock cycles per packet. A cache miss or a branch predictor miss will already eat quite a lot of the available time for that packet. Even if you split the workload among multiple cores you're still pretty limited in what you can do. And if you need to forward those packets, you might be close to the PCIe 3 x16 maximum efective bandwidth.

In my company we're developing traffic capture/analysis software at 100Gbps (which is orders of magnitude faster than IDS/IPS) and in order to achieve those speeds we need fast processors with a lot of cores and quite a lot of RAM, interact directly with the NIC buffers (we use DPDK now, we previously worked with modified drivers) avoiding the kernel entirely, and we have to limit the tasks per packet a lot to the point that flow state management is pretty difficult, and TCP reassembly looks impossible. I don't see a software IDS/IPS system getting anywhere close to the performance of an FPGA.
An A100 isn't a consumer GPU; a more valid comparison would be the RTX 3070.
what a terrible and uninformative article.
On the contrary. I'm a ball of melted down, gibbering insanity. And, the people who parrot "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" have clearly never met a quadriplegic. :^)
You can still do a 6 or 4 hour work-day at your day job, and dedicate the rest of the work-day to your project.
As much as I get the outrage I also see where valve is coming from.

Reasons for suspension usually imply you don’t want the person playing either.

eg basically all provider tend to lock accounts if automated fraud detection flags it.
I'm surprised to not see this linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_(series)

I thought this series by Greg Egan was really good by any metric.
I think the primary reason why I don't trust Facebook on this sort of project is that the marketing is only about the personal benefit - "If you wear these magic glasses then Facebook can augment your world with all of this useful information! Isn't that great!" That's Facebook selling the idea to people. They're telling people relatively trivial but fun use cases. Maybe that would make some people buy.

However, at no point does it mention what benefit there is to Facebook, which is effectively a constant data stream about the world around us: who is there, what's happening, what are people talking about, etc. Google and Apple get similar data streams from mobile phone location data, but a video and audio stream (and lidar maybe) would be a much richer information source. I want to know what their plan is for that data, how FB intends to use it, what I can do to opt out of it, and so on.
Absolutely not.

You are implying that hating people based on something they cannot control (e.g. ethnicity) is normal.
> Just make products that excel at every aspect of what it does and make sure there is a demand for such a product

Or, just make a mediocre product and make sure you have a big enough moat that competitors don't stand a chance.
The case of youtube-dl using snippets of copyrighted material for testing is very different from showing a media player viewing copyrighted material. The former is easy to argue is breaking copyright protections while the latter is not.

We'll be in a very different world if VLC couldn't even show that it can play mainstream media in it (check out the screenshots over at https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)
A significant difference is that on one OS you can change the setting from the default, while on the other you can’t.
No it doesn't, it can also be on-demand. They don't need people to record the inside of my house for that.

Nothing Facebook has done has brought benefits to the world, so I am sceptical that they will do anything positive with this. You are more likely to get a partial translation with links to facist groups on why this language shouldn't need to be translated. Then banning you for life from translations because they believe you didn't use a valid name.
Wage growth has slowed, but hasn't ceased altogether. Statistics showing wages not growing or diverging from productivity are due to a misapplication of the inflation index:

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

Anyway, the US has embarked on a massive social democracy course since 1965, so a slowdown in the rate of development is what you would expect.
Ask HN: When is it safe to “disable side channel mitigations” in VMs?
Latest versions of VMware Fusion highly recommend [0] that VMs with "side channel mitigations"
should have that feature disabled to improve performances.
From what I understood, these vulnerabilities are mostly fixed by processor manufacturers, is it correct? Do they depend also on the hardware? So, is it "safer" to disable these mitigations on machines running newer CPUs rather than older ones?

[0]: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/79832
The article's subtitle literally says "The best backend is no backend at all". The article gives the impression you have no idea what a backend is supposed to do, except expose some data.
DEF Con Endorsed by POTUS
Private individuals deciding that objects X, Y, and Z are valuable, then buying them at auctions, and sealing them away from the public, to then have them be lost in time and space, is not exactly better.

Digitize as far as possible, otherwise replicate if possible. Then distribute all over the place. Make it accessible, and make it ubiquitous. Any single point of collection will eventually fail. Private collectors are (even) less likely to do this correctly than public actors.
Please read this with a sense of humor. I guess here on HN most of us are IT guys (me including). Persons which share some skill set (such as basic computer understanding, programming, more or less networking experience, no fear of the command line, etc).
I was able to get around the paywall by using "reader mode" in Firefox.
I always thought that the 'mate' in Ubuntu MATE was synonym with 'pal', but after checking it actually does come yerba maté : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)
But does that help Amazon?

Buying a vacuum, returning it, and buying a different one is less profit than just keeping the first vacuum, so I don't see why they'd want to encourage this.
It could also lead to getting fat.

> Institute founder Ed Kessler said as more people work from home they risk going "back into isolated silos".

Forcing people together risks getting totalitarian. Both claims are probably reaching.

You won't get that back to popular media landscapes and it would constitute a severe loss if we tried to enforce that. BBC is still an "authoritative voice", but only on some topics.

Next week: Working under 50h leads to prejudice.

Easy tip: people might get angry at you but you probably noticed yourself by now.
Let me know when I can watch Netflix on it in reasonable resolution.

Until then it’ll be mainly a server OS for me
Another example. Laptop SP513-52N-59M4, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Non-operational driver for USB fingerprint sensor ID 04f3:0c03 (ELAN). "Device disconnected" error when trying to add a fingerprint.

Probably not a driver problem, but screen tearing while playing youtube videos is annoying.
This is borderline hysterical.
You might want to buy into the Red Hat world and also buy some consultancy from them.

They pioneered advanced security on GNU/Linux across the whole stack and depending on your needs they might help you define security policies and also implement them.
"Don't let it in" - if I got the message right.
I understand your point about "invisible hand" hacking, the kind where no one official on the ground is aware, but is orchestrated globally.

But reality is: The printed paper shown to the voter has to go somewhere. It cannot disappear or be hidden in the machine in secret compartments because the paper is in the mechanical side of things, not software. Such hidden compartments will not fall invisible to officials on the ground. It's not a black box machine in that sense, officials run basic physical and mechanical tests on it before voting happens. The machine is dumb and tiny.

I still understand your point about "anything can be hacked", but at this point, to hide something in physical sight needs on the ground support (which can happen regardless of machines), or needs discrete parts like a shredder which will make it mechanically huge and does not go unnoticed by such a large chain of command.
Is it the opposite of elves then?
Ahh. So many nights lost (spent) :) AoE was sooo much fun. Dunno. Feels like nothing similar out there nowadays?
right hand rule for orital motion instead (or am i as usual getting this wrong)