skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your own Matrix server does not spread any information unless you allow it or unless you message other servers.

Now, concerning the other servers, it may be a problem, just like Gmail is a problem for everyone running their own email server. However, it's a much smaller problem and at least theoretically everyone who cares can escape the walled garden.

You can create a server for all your friends and you will always know exactly which information is shared with others and which isn't.
Just like the fresh out of school CTOs and Principal Engineers in the US. Of course you get a fancy title, you're one of the founders in the company - it doesn't mean you know anything though =)
FedNow is a while away. RTP (Real-time payments) from the The Clearing House is already doing it. They have appx half the DDAs (bank accounts) in the US covered. Another year or two they will have 80-90% Also Push to Card and VISA/MC Debit are real-time payment systems i.e. 7x24x365 where you can pull or push money to the bank account linked to the VISA/MC branded ATM card
Bottom line: Fednow may be too little too late, but real-time payments are happening outside of VISA/MC

VISA/MC are aware of this. They expect "Interchange compression" i.e. reduction in revenue from Credit Card fees as users switch to other systems. However it isn't a show stopper because in parallel they have discovered (and are using ) new ways to increase interchange revenue e.g. Virtual Cards, Prepaid Cards etc.
I don't understand... Are you planning to write a tutorial about a feature in the first address and post it in the second address?
I had to scroll down a shockingly long way to find this.

The point is that even if Signal permanently stored everything you ever sent them, then they wouldn't be able to read it.

- You can build the client yourself per Signal's reproducible builds, so actually, they could not ship a different app to the published source without it being immediately detectable

- You can validate the source code does not send any unencrypted data to Signal

- You can validate that your private keys used for encryption are stored locally on the device and not transmitted to Signal

Theoretically, anyone who has the corresponding private key could decrypt the message. So if your contact uses an unofficial client which does share their private key with a third party, then that third party could unencrypt that message, however by that point, the app creator has compromised the device anyway, and could do something as naive as take screenshots of all of the messages in the background after Signal has done the work of ensuring the secure transmission of the message.

Note, I haven't actually done all that, because I do trust Signal. But I could if I wanted to. And obviously, this assumes that all the cryptographic standards used in Signal are still unbroken - but if they were, then you're screwed either way.
My 2 cents: I like functional programming style but it’s annoying to have both. I like that in Golang there’s usually one way to do it, even if it’s more code. Eventually most codebases look like they’re all part of the same codebase and it’s much easier to read. In Rust people alternate between for loops and map and it really takes a while to get used to the different ways people write rust.
Most users probably also didn't care about the first-party firewall exemptions. They could have asked people if they wanted a separate password for disk encryption (e.g. a small checkbox).
>If by defensive you mean isolationist, both WW1 and WW2 were started because of US isolationism, and ended when the US became offensive and occupied Europe and Japan

This is a truly impressive level of American exceptionalism. Wars only start if we let them, and then stop when we take an interest.

>However, the CCP and Islam are ideologies that believe they can win against the West. Xi is doubling their nuclear weapon count from 200 to 400, and nuclear technology is proliferating throughout the Islamic world.

Pakistan is the only Islamic nuclear power with no other country actively attempting to become one. Iran's "program" has always been overblown, and at best would not enable an offensive war.

Meanwhile, China's doubling should take into account the US's 6000 weapons, 3000 active, and I think still growing. China's program is still primarily defensive as well.

>Mao started a cold war against the US in the 1950s, which the US never took seriously until now, "Hide our strength, bide our time." And Xi is using Mao's playbook.

The US refused to acknowledge China's existence until the 70's, and are the ones that barred most of the world from trading with China. Even in the Korean War, the United States invaded before China got involved.

Much of the rest of your post is also drawn straight from US propaganda. Other countries do things out of their own self interest, not out of some desire to attack America.
We don't have the counterfactual, so it is impossible to say. But I think it is generally accepted that US policy, including wars, is very supportive of Saudi Arabia and against any other potential regional powers like Iran or Iraq, and this in turn enables US access to Saudi oil at favourable conditions.
The oldest device I have actually used to access a web site was a Sun SparcStation 20, built ca. 1992-93.

However, at 64MB RAM, accessing the "modern web" would be extremely, painfully slow, at best. In fact, the memory-hunger of modern browsers renders older machines practically unusable faster these days than any other factor, at least that has been my experience.
I found Scott Aaronson's explanation very helpful (and I'm a physicist, I think it might make even more sense to computer scientists and engineers).

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
Electron Auto Update Introduction
I work at Intel. Maybe my experiences are not representative, but everyone I've worked with is competent at what they do, and most people are helpful and friendly. But the trouble is that isn't enough. The really effective programmers aren't just good at writing code, they're also good at designing elegant interfaces, and at understanding customer problems, and strategic thinking, and so on. Competent programmers aren't useless if they don't have those skills, but you need some people that do if you want to make great products rather than just check off boxes in feature lists.

Intel doesn't have as many of those great programmers as I would like, but I think their bigger problems are organization rather than individual. There just isn't enough high-level coordination and sharing of information. Every group just kind of does their own thing, and if you want to know how something works you have to know who to ask. Too much tribal knowledge (which often has a short expiration date) and too little writing stuff down in one place where it's easy to find.

It's funny you mention git, because I joined Intel from a startup that used SVN and that was the one bright spot about Intel's technical culture that they used git pretty extensively. I don't think I've ever used a non-git source repo at Intel. I assume that there was some major internal struggle to get to that point, but it was before my time.
> from the perspective of Apple this must've been a non-critical issue at best.

From the perspective of Apple, this wasn't even an issue at all. It "behaves as intended". https://twitter.com/david_ddw/status/1329017113709842437 So that's why Apple didn't fix it. You don't fix something that you don't think is broken.
Technically speaking even the vacuum is nonlinear, according to current theories (although it hasn’t been observed yet).
Because software has hundreds or thousands of tanks, compartments, cogs, levers, buttons and switches. And if it's not designed robustly, using any one of those things slightly wrong (or even right, but there's a bug in the software) can make the entire thing disappear in a cloud of smoke, taking your groceries with it.
Even that leaves a lot of room. If you can fix certificate problems, any simple browser (even text mode lynx) can still do a lot these days.

But let's go really "modern", i.e. being able to access web applications without missing features, timeouts etc.
Slower, maybe just one at a time, but what you do works.

That's surprisingly hard. I sometimes use TenFourFox, a browser for Power Macs, which is a bit of a mashup between older versions that were still supported and back-ported newer features. And that can run on a quad core G5.
I'd say that still misses the mark, but might come close enough. With a G4, that would bring you to maybe 2002's tech.

But in the end, for a lot of modern stuff you're basically required to have an "Evergreen" browser or IE11. On Windows, that means Windows 7, which IIRC won't run on Pentium IVs and requires about 1 Ghz/1 Gig RAM. So 2005/2006's tech.

On Linux, you can go lower. There's still 32 bit Linux support for Firefox, so if you can get a recent enough distro on an old computer, it should work. A core solo definitely does, and I guess a souped up Pentium IV should work well enough, too.
Beyond that, it's going to get interesting. Pentium II's should work and you can give them enough RAM to chug along with a recent OS. So that' about 1998/1999.

Beyond that, CPU speed and max RAM will result in some breakage.
At leats he admits it. First step towards a better world.
The whales would dive, but whales have to breathe air so come back up again. My knowledge of this is based on Moby Dick, so take it with the pinch of salt necessary. It describes the experienced sailors being able to estimate how long the whale would be under water for, and look-outs on the larger ship could see where the whale broke the surface and head there to attack it in the smaller boats. Then they'd spear the whale with a long rope attached to the spear and the whale would dive under again with the spear stuck in it. As it dived, the pressure of the water would cause it more pain in the wound and it would have to resurface. Repeat, with a grisly finale. But yeah, it does seem pretty insane (and cruel) that anyone would attempt this.
A mafia/crime organization had it tattooed. They were violent.

Also, I read about military group having that logo, it was written about due to crossing the lines.
These are great soldering irons for the money.
The people who work on "social history", which is the social justice-y branch of history, are passionate about history. Just different history. I'm not uncritical of social history (I think they're not good at economic history), but I don't think you can say that they don't care about history. No one who lacks passion for history is going to spend years reading papers in dusty archives.
5-10% for top schools typically is where I got my number from. MIT, Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, UCB all are around this range for CS. Slightly more accepting schools jump up to 10-20% range. But all these schools are rejecting huge swaths of qualified candidates, simply because they don't have the space in a traditional campus setting.
I have a cheap Dell laptop from 2009 which boots in ca. 30 sec. A recent Linux Mint.

Compared to my recent company laptop which needs at least 2 min. Even more before I can work productively. For Windows 10.

It's definitely not dependent on hardware. Even not on functionality (I do the same on both machines).
Is it like “British scientists discovered...”
>This comment makes the mistake of treating Europe like a country, which it is not.

Of course it's not, never said it was but cherry picking countries with larger inheritance tax is also a mistake as you can't choose where you pay your taxes as an EU resident. You pay them where your main residence is.

So on the other side of the spectrum you have Austria which has high income tax (because socialism and income equality) but basically no inheritance taxes, and taxes on assets are levied on their original purchase price so you end up having countless residents who earn small incomes but are sitting on millions of euros of wealth due to exploding real estate values but only pay 5 Euros tax per year as that's levied against the purchase price from 60 years ago when their grandparents bought it for pennies.

So you end up with huge wealth inequality where even people with good incomes pay high taxes and are priced out of the real estate market if they don't come from families of means.
I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum", but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan".
Lloyd's Algorithm - Finding evenly spaced sets of points ...
McCain was not portrayed as dumb if I recall correctly, he was cast as a kind of super-hawk, IIRC. In that election cycle, Sarah Palin took the role of the dumb republican.
Increasing wages for everyone doesn't inherently mean everybody will earn more. Less money will go to shareholders, decreasing inequality
But almost nobody buy a house for their family in city centers. People rent/buy apartments, or just move a few kms outside and buy/build a full house.
Yes and you'll see parameters tuned for V100, not parameters tuned for m1 somehow limping along on a V100 in emulation mode.

I wouldn't complain about a benchmark executing any real world SOTA model on m1 and V100, but those will most likely not even run on the M1 due to memory constraints.

So this article is like using an ios game to evaluate a Mac pro. You can do it, but it's not really useful.
If it's important for you and Linux security is not enough for you, consider using Qubes OS.
I replaced a gasket on my lawnmower's motor recently, which is a 3 hp Briggs & Stratton.

Looked up their stock price the other day. All these newfangled battery operated garden tools you can get these days have damn near killed their company valuation. That should tell you where the auto market is heading this decade. Electric.
Procedural Maze Creation in C# and Unity – Part 2
The comment you're replying to is a bit ambiguous. Did they mean don't put anything directly in /usr (i.e. except /usr/local)? Or did they mean don't put anything anywhere under /usr? Both are consistent with my comment.

Personally, I stopped using even /usr/local (or /opt) many years ago. If it's not managed by the operating system then it goes in my home directory (except a few things in /etc that have to go there).
Which was helpful till now but there is no a priori reason that this must always be the case. And we might actually have reached to bottom in this regard with quantum physics where splitting things into pieces, studying them separately, and putting them together again does not really work anymore. A system of two or more quantum particles is not just the sum of those particles, the combined system can be in states that are not decomposable, i.e. the particles can be entangled.

Splitting the universe into galaxies, those into star systems, things in them into cells and molecules and then atoms and eventually elementary particles and all the success we had with this might give the impression that reductionism, that decomposing and reassembling things, is the only way that the world can be and that this will always work, but this is not true. And there is no a priori reason that the universe should be easily decomposable all the way down.
I'm surprised about Scunthorpe, if any name with a profanity substring would trigger the filter I'd have thought this issue would be more common than Scunthorpe.
What do you mean by "doesn't really cut it with modern Internet speeds anymore"?

Turris Omnia can route 2.5gbps easily, via SFP cage.
> We can’t have twice the cars since there will be nowhere to park them.

We won't have twice the cars. Every time Tesla sells a new electric car, an old gasoline car will depart.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Pc8NyKMjaV3MNPyu8

Tell it to that kid.
Politics aside this is an interesting situation in that social media companies have forever sought special protections based on the claimed impossibility of their moderating user content - turns out they can moderate content just fine when they want to, so maybe it’s time for their special protections to end, and for them to be responsible for their content.

You can blame Twitter for shattering the myth since they keep broadcasting the number of accounts they are suspending and hash tags they are banning, at this point it’s impossible to backtrack and say it’s too hard to do - and if Twitter can do it then it’s hard for any of the other giants to say they can not.

I’m betting in future we’ll see these companies held to the same standards that newspapers, tv, and radio are held to today.
In France, IT consuling and outsourcing companies are promoting wage dumping. It is not common to be an independant SWE, so consulting companies have a better supply when they hire, thus lowering the wages.

Now, cuturally speaking, in Europe the cult of principles and values reigns whereas in USA it's the cult of god and money (which both work together, cf Harari's thesis).

Interesting topic demanding hours of debate.
Probably because it's a very low-effort, highly derivative and puerile Lisp humor posted to a hacker site that is written in a Lisp dialect and that receives quite a lot of Lisp-related submissions and discussions, and whose main rule is that comments require substance.

Just a wild guess.

Better luck next time.
>We can see better performance gains with the m1 when there are fewer weights to train likely due to the superior memory architecture of the M1.

Wasn't this whole "M1 memory" thing decided to be a myth now some more technical people have dissected it?
This is - of course - impossible to say, and quite frankly, this question should not pop up in a job interview from either parties (interviewer or interviewee).

One salient point though is a rather simple fact: supply is limited, and demand isn't - and unless a black swan event occurs, the price is likely going to continue to grow, as long as your investment horizon is >3/4 years.
I try not to do business with companies that censor on political grounds. I don't like politics being banned in a professional context, but I slowly see no other solution.

The political alignment of many Parler users isn't a secret and if they decide to measure skulls again, I might be in trouble. Still, I don't see them as a relevant threat at all. It is even more ridiculous as the terrorism scare.

However, the actions of SV social media sites and hosts like Amazon censoring unpopular opinions and content outweigh that danger from neo-nazis by magnitudes. These groups have absolutely no political power in the 21st century.
They have more influence than a decade ago, but that is mainly due to their ability to reinforce their prosecution narrative and martyrdom.

On the internet there are calls to violence in any political group, even vegans and cat lovers. We ignore that because they aren't relevant. But if you seriously crack down on cat lovers, you might need to expect real violence.

Either there are rules and principles that are valid for everyone or there are none.

Some say people get influenced by far-right propaganda. Far-right groups think in the same way in that they believe everyone not on their side is an "NPC".

I think Dorsey and Zuckerberg handled it relatively well in the grand scheme of things. Their latest ban attempts were over the top though. I know that some people might need help instead of a Twitter account, but that is beside the point. They set the precedent for countries to suppress their opposition and for state propaganda. I think Uganda is one of the latest examples.
Right, if you don't value your work, why would anybody else?

I see this opinion a lot and I do take it personally.

I come from a workers family and getting into IT was hard. I still pay off a (small 10k) debt from university. It took me years to get into the industry, working for very little pay. All the while I didn't do anything for my pension. Now I have a good income, but income alone is not enough to buy a house near the city. Having a migration background in Germany might not have helped.

Do you really think engineers, bankers, administration, lawyers, teachers and real estate agents have it worse?

In an industry that's created to destroy jobs, why would I work for less?
Betteridge says no.
Crowdsourced Ethical Hacking – The Future of Penetration Testing?
Crowdsourced Ethical Hacking is an exciting phenomenon of the gig economy and global players seem to be particularly attracted to the concept...
> I got here by taking no risk at all.

This is the most European thing I've ever heard. Most people would not like to take risks and would not even think about stepping outside of their comfort zone. Personally, I think this is the reason why there are less startups in Europe compared to US. No one would like to take a risk unless it's absolutely necessary.

> I have worked 20 years in the same job and so have my colleagues.

I do not mean to be offensive and I know everyone has their own cup of tea. But 20 years doing the same the job?? This would literally be death to me personally as a software engineer. Changing your job is part of your career growth in-order to expose yourself to new challenges, problems and new environments. Of course this comes with a risk factor and personally, this risk and excitement is what makes life interesting. I would kill my self if I got stuck in the same job for 20 years.
btw there is a possibility for porting Omnia on FreeBSD, so pfSense support :)
The interesting thing about this is that if we get close to the Landauer limit we may have to seriously start thinking of using reversible computing[1] paradigms and languages to get optimal performance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
GUI fuzzing was a thing way back on the original Macintosh: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

Something similar should be reasonably easy to build these days using AutoHotKey or the like. I bet it's been done.
Why not say "when solving problem X, we can approximate it as a particle" or "when solving problem Y, we can approximate it as a wave"?
Wasn't there a lot of drinking and drugs between his SAT scores and becoming president? Enough of that can create some cognitive impairment, but I don't know if he indulged to that degree.
I didn't cherry pick anything. I chose the UK and Ireland as they directly contradict your statement that:

> False, this mechanism only prevents income inequality but not wealth inequality as existing wealth is not taxed much in Europe.

The E.U. is home to both the highest and lowest inheritance taxes in the world, and averages very close to the US. I think this adequately refutes your statement that "existing wealth is not taxed much in Europe."
I'm finding this hard to square with the video record of a president who was legendary for making unforced errors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhmdEq3JhoY

And nearly as legendary for policy failures.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/what-wa...

Unfortunately for the author - who incidentally was dead to rights about Trump, so he gets some respect for that - he's either wrong about Bush's IQ or he's wrong about Bush's character.

Because if he's right about Bush's IQ then the policy failures were either the result of ideology and negligence. Or they were deliberate.
ok. This is basically what I said, so it seems like I did not explain it well enough.

It's like what Google did in China. They did not want to agree to the censorship terms imposed by the Chinese government so they stopped operating there. (It looks like they are reversing course on this now and may release a censored version soon, but that is neither here nor there)

The Polish government cannot make Twitter do something it does not want to and still permit it to operate in the country. They will have to ban it outright if Twitter does not agree to their terms.