skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to like Windows 7 when it came out and Windows was the only OS I'd used.

It's hard for me now to love an OS that

* blatantly spies on its users[0]

* has an update mechanism that takes way too much time and CPU

* and an antivirus software that scans those updates, making the machine even slower

* shows ads, even though users paid for the OS[1]

* in its "professional" edition comes preinstalled with all kinds of cruft like Candy Crush[2][3]

* in its home edition blocking users to install a different browser, patronizingly claiming that Edge is the best[4]

Switching to Linux made me feel like I actually own my machine again.

[0]https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/#win10

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-remove-the-most-annoying...

[2]https://i.imgur.com/qhoV17Q.png

[3]https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-10-will-come-with-candy-c...

[4]https://i.imgur.com/CBOqNmE.jpg
Proctorio sounds like Factorio for assholes.
New York LIRR employees: "he didn't get overtime pay for the fake hours? what a rookie".
Ask HN: Moving from a product org to a consulting org: What should I know?
Hi HN,

So far in my software engineering career, I’ve worked at a product focused company and at a media company (building internal APIs/tools/etc.). I’m interviewing at a small software company that’s more of a consulting shop / contractor. Teams have several active projects, and it sounds like most contracts last for less than a year, with several multi-year engagements mixed in.

So my question is: What should I be considering before moving into this sort of work? A variety of projects sounds like it could be engaging, but on the other hand, maybe I’ll get bored writing the same boilerplate over and over? It also sounds like consulting has the potential to expose me to a wider variety of technologies and languages, which I see as a plus. But I’m worried that being involved with shorter term projects means I won’t get the chance to gain _deep_ expertise in any one thing, which might hurt my future job prospects?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Original title : Susan Wojcicki and Molly Burke: A conversation about free expression

Have editted the title since it is basically a corporate press release.
I just interpreted gp as saying that we can construct a sort of musical spacetime that our minds can perceive just by stacking rhythms.

I like the concept because we can use that to help tell a story. Think about being a kid on a carousel. It starts up, you see a stand, there’s a cool bike, there’s a pretty girl standing in line, there’s your mom, there’s the stand, the bike, the girl, your mom, the stand (cotton candy), the bike, the girl looking at you (!), make a face at your mom, the stand, the bike, smile at the girl (she wasn’t looking), mom’s not looking either, the stand, the bikes gone, the girls smiling at you!!! etc etc.
You are totally right that the title makes it seem that way, I thought so too at first. Now I am happy that I have proven myself wrong by reading it. It is more like what I’d have liked my parents had taught me about social situations and empathy. Most of the points in the book are about sincere empathy for others.

Just have a go at it, it costs less than a euro as an e-book and it read so easily that you’ll be done in no time.
I was very angry until I saw your name.
Love this idea. A novel vectorization.
But it's not elastic. Or rather - it can be elastic theoretically but it will never be. If you have a cheap or even negative energy generation during peak generation hours and decide, hmm, I can run some hashing meanwhile without affecting demand. Ok, but then why would you turn off during peak demand hours? Why would you turn it off at any time? Why would anyone? It's still profitable, so everyone will run hashing 24/7. Just like today.
Scotland’s Procurators Fiscal are fairly important and frequently referred to.
Punishment does not work as a deterrent.

I propose this as a demonstration by the system that it is willing to respond to violations of the rules by the system. Such violations are inherently more problematic.
I use pandoc in a CD pipeline, the version in the repos is stale compared to upstream (normal, that's how it is) unless you're on a rolling distro like Arch.

I have reported pandoc bugs and had them fixed (great dev team), pulling the latest single-DEB install (no deps, unlike the one in the Debian repo) and using it gets all the latest updates which matter to a process like this.

In this particular case your needs to use the latest pandoc lead to the wget pull and install, which thanks to their DEB design is easy and clean to do in an ephemeral CI container.
I guess this is a consequence of the Covid pandemic, where such a thing is not allowed at the moment.
But nobody is claiming that the energy wasted in the snapchat data centre can make the world a better place by increasing demand for clean energy
As others have stated it is everywhere. The title always scared me away from it a little, but then I saw it come by in the intro of Netflix’s “The Politician” and I thought I’d give it a chance. Especially after I found out how old it is.
The Fight to Secure Rights for Rainforests
Well, Oracle was (not sure if they still are) one of these companies. Some of their products we used in the past where artificially bloated and packed over multi CDs etc to make it all look bigger.
Yeah, and this paper describes both phenomena combined.
So, basically a debit card?

Or a credit card with spending limits?

In the U.K. with banks like monzo you can also raise/lower the limit instantly via an app. Also the fraud detection algorithms will automatically ask for 2FA on larger transactions or ones that look fraudulent e.t.c.
Hm, interesting. So there are articles saying it's Cellebrite https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-cellebri..., then others saying it was unmentioned professional hackers and then your article where all three possibilities are mentioned.
and because it's in US.
Disclaimer: I work at Hadean, thought I'd clarify a couple of things

Yes, the Hadean Platform is a general distributed compute platform. But 'EVE: Aether Wars' used Aether Engine, our spatial simulation engine built on top of the platform (and works similarly to how you describe Spatial OS). Some updated numbers: more recently we've hit 2 million entities with a few hundred CCU.

In terms of cross-cell ('cell' being our region) interactions, entities moving between cells has been a single tick (at 15-30Hz depending on sim) in all simulations we've built so far - 'EVE: Aether Wars' did torpedo and player transitions, as well as torpedo target tracking across cells and torpedo-ship collisions. We also have a demo of cross-cell PhysX - this has some pretty strict requirements on inter-cell interaction latency.

Out of curiosity, what would you see as a litmus test for 'simulation with lots of cross-region interactivity'?
What a great write up
My argument is there are no EU based AI companies doing that in the first place so the regulation will not even be really used.
Didn't know the G-Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Man_(Half-Life)) had his own emoji.
Please don't make assumptions or resort to baseless insults.

We have designed entirely new fully-online interactive courses in response to this.

In other courses, where we have e.g. 640 local students and 10 online, they need to sit the same test for it to be fair.
Mine charged me rent (once I was finished highschool and was working), saved it, and then gave it all back when I moved out.
For this particular use case: We previously used VMs and snapshots for that workload. The problems we encountered were:
- snapshots aren't really intended to be portable (we used ESXi and also KVM on LVM backed volumes), hence we had to write and maintain tooling to have a "snapshot repository", versioning for these and distributing them to the target nodes - that did all work, but was even slower (startup times, which can include shipping and setting up the snapshot, was 15 - 60 minutes)
- a VM will duplicate all of the services and the kernel, so all of that has to be started as well, where as the containers only start the services under test.
- Using VMs makes it much more difficult for our developers and QA to retreive a particular image and replicate a failing test on a given version of the tested software locally, especially when considering a wide range of client OSs we see in our not that large group (MacOS, various Linux distros, even Windows)

A general observation on trade-offs: With containers layering and COW you get fast development, but have to pay the performance bill when you happen to download and apply an image for the first time. Similarly, taking a snapshot of a LV under LVM or on a ESXi VM is fast, but applying the snapshot is slow.

We had therefore at one point considered using Ceph RDB and their COW clone snapshots[0]. It would let us do "cheap" restores of snapshots. Our initial tests showed that the network bandwidth requirements[1] would have needed some serious infrastructure re-engineering in order to keep up with our I/O expectations. And again, the containers slot in nicely with commonly available local resources and allow working offline, to a degree.

[0] https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-snapshot/
[1] the environment in question uses 10 - 40 Gb/s network links, 40 on the gitlab git and container registry side, 10 on the blade side.
> human invigilators using Zoom etc. don't scale (institution experience)

Could you explain further why this did not scale?

I'm imagining an invigilator watching video feeds using an interface similar to, say, that used by security guards to monitor surveillance feeds. I would think that a single human invigilator can monitor more students using this system than an in-person setting. What am I missing?
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Trying out the new social audio app racket.com
It's true you can't predict exactly the energy used in a given block, but you can predict the energy use of blocks on average: this is not very difficult because the energy efficiency of state of the art mining hardware is known, and the difficulty is known.
Composerize – Turns Docker run commands into Docker-compose files
No one is contradicting a basic tautology like that.

What do you think people are using those transactions for? The average transaction value is of $5,000 USD.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionvalue-eth.ht...

Do you think people are making these transactions for anything other than speculation? You said value, I said utility.
I've had three general anaesthetics, all as a child or teenager. I only remember "the anaesthetic" for one of them: a large dose of what I now know to be propofol went in a cannula and the (attractive, for a 14-year-old) nurse stroked the cannula on the back of my hand after it was administered. That felt warm and nice. Purple butterflies them started to come up out of my hand, through the back of the venflon, and came around my vision, until I was surrounded by warm, beating wings and a pleasant drifting into unconsciousness (tinged with a feeling of contentment). I woke up -- much to my great chagrin -- in "moderate discomfort" what felt like instantaneously later, although several hours had gone.

None of my hallucinations were real. Everything that I "saw" probably took place in a 1-2s period as I was falling under, and was entirely a figment of my imagination. Were I worried about waking up during my procedure, it's entirely possible that my brain would have hallucinated something far less innocent. These reports are very difficult to substantiate, but a lot of monitoring is done under general anaesthesia: depending on the surgery and the anaesthetic this might range from measuring the inspirational and expirational partial pressures of O2, CO2, other relevant gasses such as N2O and the anaesthetic agent itself, e.g. desflurane or sevoflurane. Heart rate, blood pressure and the like are all routinely monitored. It's therefore possible to compute the effective concentration of agent in the blood stream and directly prove that the concentration is adequate. Sometimes EEGs are taken and can directly show brain activity, or nerve conduction pathways are mapped and can show conscious activation. Waking up during (competent) anaesthesia should never happen, and I think that the 5e-7 chance put above is probably an upper bound. At any rate, it pales in comparison with the complication rate from many surgeries, which, of course are usually several orders of magnitude higher: 1e-3 for death is often considered acceptable, for context.
Lots of discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880262 (this one is the most popular of your 5 submissions about this. 495 points and 154 comments.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26875971
I feel like this comment should be at the top - for anyone who feels strongly about this issue and didn’t spot this link further down in his Twitter thread.

Have an upvote.
python is slow because the extreme flexibility of the language makes it very difficult for compilers/interpreters to perform analysis that could allow optimisations

this doesn't have anything to do with the syntax. we could completely replace python syntax with e.g. pyc bytecode or serialised AST data but the language would still be challenging to execute efficiently as the language is still exactly the same

one can get a few ideas of how python could perhaps be made faster by reading about all the restrictions that rpython imposes

https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html
> but we’re discussing the EU here.

Yes I know. You seem to be insinuating that it's all the EUs fault, and so I wanted to provide a bit of perspective.
"This all makes anaesthesia as much art as science"

This is one of the most important parts of the piece. It is something that most people out side of healthcare are not aware.

Anaesthesia is very much an art.

Anaesthesia is unlike other medications, "take xx mg over yy days."

Anaesthesia effects can vary wildly from person to person. Weight plays a big role, but so does bed position, condition, sex, body part etc. There is a variety of confounding factors. There is no textbook dosage for a given situation.

Anecdotally, acknowledging this before any surgery with a simple bedside conversation, may improve outcomes with anaesthesia.

Anaestheologists move from patient to patient quickly. Recognizing how their job is more than just inserting the needle, will make you stand out from other patients.
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You keep saying that but increasingly more and more people are wisening up to what the central bankers have pulled off and you calling it nonsense won’t change the mathematics
Have you seen Sequel Ace? It’s a fork of the project that’s maintained again. https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

I also use Postico for Postgres https://eggerapps.at/postico/ the UI there is nice as well. It’s the closest I could find to Sequel Pro.
If you skip this article in a month or so there will be a whole new set of JS build things.

Javascript tooling is just a brutal slog to keep up with this type of stuff.
Wow, over 200 teams competing!
I believe Cirth and Tengwar are just less prioritized, unlike Klingon which was explicitly rejected (due to the non-usage of Klingon speakers at that time). Maybe it just needs a re-submission of the 1997 proposal by Michael Everson.
Somewhat related (but with focus on architecture): https://itabok.iasaglobal.org/
Sneaky losses solved for resistive memory
It's terrorism. You know that if they sued him, they would definitely sue you. He'll probably get his costs covered by donations in the end (after a lot of stress), but you won't.

In that way they also create a floor of wealth and/or visibility for people to realistically qualify to criticize them. Those people are more likely to be investors than critics.

It also proves to investors that they can defend themselves and are not risky.
As said: speculation. A study would have found a meaningful number expressing hesitation to discuss but doing so anyway, plus those who won’t but clearly experienced trauma - pointing to a percentage actually quiet about the incident.
I’ve been on all sides of this and bounced back and forth between consulting and product a few times in my career.

First: I think it’s a great idea. Consulting, especially in an agency environment w/ many clients is high energy. Depending on the size of the team you can still wear many hats and touch a lot of different projects. It ends up adding a lot of color to your day to day life.

As far as the monotony of boilerplate: that can be seen as a drag or as an opportunity to develop in house best practices, protocols and tooling to eliminate the drag of all that as well as the room for error/inconsistency.

It’s a lot of fun! I encourage you to jump in feet first. Don’t worry too much about your future career prospects - continue to grow and learn and i’d wager this will make you a better candidate in the future.

My network grew larger than it ever did in agency environments. I built the entire Four Loko website at one point. I have work still running on Farmers.com. I got to provision the first Linux instances inside of a big spooky hedge fund in Century City. It was a great time in my life.
It's not even the value of their brand - it's the value of all students' diplomas
The irony is, 1984 is used as a manual of sorts by some.
When your institution's reputation is at risk, you want to prevent it. Honest students don't get a lesser grade; that's not the problem. If the cheaters want to cheat their way through life, that's their problem. My problem is to make sure the rest of my students end up with a well-respected degree. I.e. the problem is being solved for the honest students, the ones I want to spend my time on.
New phenomenon for Americans.
Not an unreasonable suspicion. How often do you get to threaten your manager like that unless you have something to back it up with? And Italy, especially the south, is notorious for Mafia presence. Heck, they bombed a church when Francis condemned them.
Wow, I didn't realize that. Thanks! The way the website looks, I wouldn't have guessed it's a serious player.
FLAW3D: Hiding a Trojan in an AVR Arduino Bootloader
> And, you can't be a Catholic and pro-Russian at same time.

It's more being anti-EU than pro-Russian, but the geopolitics of Poland are brutal enough that these are both almost one and the same. And being a Catholic, at least of the variety we have here, pretty much requires you to be anti-EU. The effect is that, the warlike rethoric notwisthstanding, the right-wing Catholic nationalists are working hard to benefit Russia. I think this is where the word "covertly" comes from in the GP.
It should be easy to disprove false memory, I'd think, at least in the case of procedures that are recorded. Ask the patient what they remember happening, and compare with the recording to see if those things did occur or didn't.

I'm not inclined to assume every report of this happening is due to false memory, which is itself a somewhat controversial topic. As the article points out but is not even slightly novel in saying, we don't have a firm understanding of why general anesthesia works, just that it does. That's good enough to be going on with, but not yet understanding the mechanism at work means it's reasonable to expect we also don't yet have perfect knowledge of why and when it doesn't work perfectly, and there is therefore nothing implausible about there being rare outliers such as those under discussion here.
Playstation Portable Architecture
I have no idea what this means, personally. I did understand the math and its practical implications long ago: I started with the paint-mixing example, which helped a lot, and went from there.
Small correction: he’s being sued (by a US company) in Canada, under a new Canadian law.
The BBC a Tory newspaper?

Wow, that's a new one. Is the NYTimes a Republic rag then?
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The idea is great, but it gives some very weird ideas, like having 4% interest p.a. (not something I think still happens in the west). Maybe add a stock market fonds aspect in there (which may rise and fall), have more risky, more potentially lucrative, and less risky, more stable fonds in there.
Sure?

Edit: Oh now I get it you clever person you. Only took an hour ha.
I am sorry, you arument is all over the place. What on earth are you arguing? That human trial does not excuse what would otherwise be a crime? That airport security is not tested with real bombs? That every study outside of natural sciences is a human expriment?

Studies of airport security are done all the time, thats how we know its terribly ineffective. The staff of the airport are not told about them, they are not human experiments.

The experiments on people have a spesific definition that goes beyond "a human is present"
> I shouldn't be able to buy a house after about 5 months of salary

Why not? If you have the cash for the downpayment, a fixed contract, and the property is within 4-5x your yearly salary, you can definitely get a mortgage. I've seen people do that within a month of arriving in a new country & job, depending on the local market it's a very smart thing to do.
Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn
> no invigilation leads to cheating (by few students but enough to be a real problem, especially for professional qualifications - my direct experience and institution experience);

How is it a real problem (I've never cheated but always felt I got fair grades, not affected by whatever cheaters did)? If a student memorizes everything they need for the exam today, but forget all of it tomorrow, is that useful? That's a very real thing happening every day in exams, and nobody highlights it as as big a problem as cheating (I think it's a bigger problem actually, but the solution is not necessarily in finding those who can do that, but in optimizing the material so memorization is not such a core part of it before you start specializing).

In careers where such things really matter (think medicine), people only progress by demonstrating actual knowledge and understanding while gaining real-life experience. We don't get a surgeon out of a medical school that hasn't shadowed a surgeon and been quizzed on things to do next.

It's similar with engineering: you are given smaller, simpler things when you start off, and you build up your knowledge and experience before being given the role of a lead engineer for an airplane engine.

Exam grades are never used as a measure of someone's knowledge on the topic, though a paper they authored, or their dissertation, naturally, might.
This is AWESOME. Thank you.
This comes from CSS Tricks and should be obvious
Kinda fun idea and with a bit of polish could be great. If you enter a negative amount when you transfer between accounts it does weird things...
See section 1.5 ("Base Instruction-Length Encoding") of the RISC-V spec. It's actually a bit more complex than just using 2 bits (I had forgotten those details), but the basic idea is the same in that there is a fixed cascade of bits identifying the instruction length.

There aren't any standard extensions with instructions >32b yet, but the extensibility is there in the base spec.
No, it's based on common sense. Do you not see that criminalizing prostitution did not and continues to not do anything positive for these sex workers? Do I need to have worked in this field to have an opinion? Really?

What's your argument for keeping prostitution illegal? And have you worked in the field?
Are fonts consistently localised? What happens if the pool of people who use a font (eg Arial) contain multiple washing symbol regions? Do you spin up a new, localised font for every country?