skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With spinning rust the ideal usage pattern is sequential: like writing a large file from the start of a disk into contiguous sectors (or reading that file back).

One of the things that screws up HDD performance much worse than placement of files on disk is randomness in the usage pattern. The mechanical nature of a HDD means that when you read and write lots of small files in different sectors, the head spends more time moving around than reading or writing. Back when we used to defragment Windows filesystems, we doing a bunch of up-front disk optimization to organise files into continuous chunks so they could be read back quickly when needed.

The biggest problem I have seen with these situations is that you don't have direct control over the order of operations that the disk will be asked to perform. You think that because your file is written contiguously that it will be read that way. But depending on how busy the system is, that might not be the case. Where many processes are contending for disk access, and especially when the kernel is doing a lot of swapping to the same device, that head might be racing back and forth regardless of your file placement, and your disk performance goes straight into the toilet.
Biden and Pelosi had to pay back the "predator pimps" somehow - - you can find them in the cathouses in Chicago, LA and Vegas . . . .
For anyone else confused by the sudden version number bump, which isn't obviously explained in the linked changelog:

- OpenSSL is switching to (basically) SemVer, where the major version indicates API/ABI compatibility

- 2.x version numbers were already used by the OpenSSL FIPS library, so by bumping everything to 3.x the OpenSSL and OpenSSL FIPS version numbers will be in sync

Source: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/11/28/version/
Oh no... more software that will break.
I thought there was some idea that you wanted core os/app data near the center since you would always be using that.
Green revolution is no joke. To do this countrywide without doing pilot projects and studying the results is kinda lame and stupid
If there are servers located on the US, they are absolutely covered by US law. In fact, all of the jurisdictions can apply in one way or another.
The EU wants to push the same dangerous idea with the green deal. Switch 25 % of farms to organic in ten years.

Edit:
People seem to misunderstand. I don't mean overnight, I mean pushing the same idea = organic farming.
It's doesn't work at scale. Doesn't matter if you have ten years or one day.
If you can make sure you and your relatives and your friends never cross Russian (or for that matter Russia-friendly state) border and/or you never write anything remotely resembling criticism of Russian regime - then maybe yes.
Seems like another good reason to not trust anyone's words and protect yourself using good OPSEC.
Wasn't this a form of fraud? I don't know what the Swiss law is but in the United States, fraud is both a civil tort and criminal wrong. The elements of a fraud are:

1) the making of a statement
2) the falsity of the statement
3) an intent to deceive
4) reasonable reliance on the statement by the injured party
5) injury sustained as the result of the reliance

ProtonMail knowingly told this activist 'we don't log your IP' in order to attract their business. ProtonMail did log the IP address. The activist believed this and got arrested.
I mean...if you read the github readme it literally describes what it does in the next line: "Uses CSS selectors to extract bits content from HTML files".
The fault is on YouTube’s reliance on automated systems, making permanent decisions, without human intervention. However, in my humble opinion, people are naturally lazy. The humans who might be charged with reviewing automated decisions are no different. Especially if there is a cultural or language divide.
In the pcloud Terms & Conditions they say this:

"If a European Union user of the Site or Services is located outside of Switzerland, then, for the purposes of any claim or action relating to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Site, or any Services, the applicable jurisdiction will be the courts that are located in the territory of residence of such European User. "
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A fee of 100-120 euros is not unusual in a part of the EU that isn't dirt poor, nothing science fiction about it.
I wonder what proportion of this is caused by the speed of change vs the changes them selves.

I assume everyone would expect lower yields from more primitive growing and processing technologies.
Ask HN: Software Engineers: What factors contributed to your success?
Hi HN,
I am in the process of writing a book and on a smaller scale a small blog post exploring the factors that contribute to a software engineer's success. I'd love to understand more about

* What factors contribute to your success (coding, design, communication, finding your purpose, etc.)

* What factors were hard for you to master or understand

* What areas you're working on now

I've constructed a survey here

https://airtable.com/shry2byax5iisFzwq

and am offering an incentive of 10 USD as an Amazon gift card to anyone who does fill it out, up to the first 80 people. I'm polling my friends and colleagues but I'd love more diverse inputs. I appreciate your responses, the survey may look long but many of the questions are asking for a rating on a scale of 1-5.

You are welcome to leave your free form comments on these topics below as well. I'll do my best to normalize those inputs, though the survey is preferred.

Thanks in advance,
Ameer
There is no team
One would need to operate the service as a Tor Location Hidden service and have no presence on the Clear Net. They would also need, very good operational security and careful configuration in order to stay hidden.
I think the physical location(s) of your stored data is probably the weakest link in the (legal) chain, so to speak.
I remember a conversation with a plumber in Cambridge, UK a few years ago. He was helping me pick out plastic pipes for a project. I asked "What material are these - are they HDPE? He gave me a weird look, and told me "They're plastic pipe!".
The New Oxford American Dictionary also defines epicenter as:

the central point of something, typically a difficult
or unpleasant situation: the patient was at the
epicenter of concern.
I believe the universe is discrete and that everything in it is discrete. I believe that “intellignece” is not really measurable. A person might have an intelligence as it pertains to art or critiquing art and be utterly clueless in another area. Indeed, I believe all people have a lack of ability in some area. For all of us there are things we just aren’t ever going to be able to learn and can’t learn. There are lots of reasons for this. I don’t know but can believe that genetics plays a role. There is variation on how our brains work so it seems reasonable that genetics plays some role.
I was born in USSR and I don't recall any aspect there that would amount to "enforcing gender ratios". The way I recall the "gender politics" of the communist 1980s was that formally, gender was effectively ignored; in practice there were quite some prejudices; but the notion of discrimination wasn't even discussed much so anything similar to "affirmative action" or even caring about gender ratio would be quite alien to that regime.

And yes, there were proportionally quite many female engineers and computer scientists. I might guess that this perhaps was facilitated by prejudices/discrimination in the "more macho" fields of construction engineering and industrial engineering, so all the high school girls with good STEM results would go to math and computer science fields instead of all the programs with a focus on heavy industry - but even those had a decent proportion of female engineers.
He works as a landscaper in Minnesota, which I presume does not offer robust employment year round. Even if he could work all seasons doing landscaping, his pay would come out to $26,000 a year, assuming he takes no days off.

I am not sure this is a smart move. It seems like he is hoping his music career pans out, but we aren't given a lot of insight into his talent level there.
Does organic agriculture use more of them? Organic agriculture uses more of a lot of things.
I wonder if they could become a net importer of organic waste?
PCs eventually outstripped the Amiga, sadly. The major benefit of standard VGA was the 256 color LUT in use and the chunky addressing - while the Amiga caught up in terms of color count with AGA (which also extended HAM to HAM8, maxing out at 262,144 colors), it was still a planar video memory architecture, requiring up to 8 separate writes to change the same pixel that the PC could do with one write. This greatly impacted the Amiga's ability to run software "3D" engines like the ones you'd find in Wolf 3D or later Doom, which were all the rage back then. Even adding a chunky-to-planar chip in the CD32 didn't help as much as they'd hoped.

I say this as a massive Amiga fan, so I'm not shitting on the platform, just recognizing its shortfalls.
I blame the extreme penetration of capitalism everywhere. We've created a culture where everyone thinks like a business and looks to do the minimal effort for the maximal compensation. If you don't do this, "you're dumb" (and, unfortunately, maybe there's some truth to this).

In a culture obsessed with looking for exploitation opportunities at every corner, what do we expect? Everyone is running so "lean" and "efficiently" that anything beyond the lowest cost options can hinder you. Are you getting ROI, or diminishing returns and if you are getting diminishing returns, then that's now viewed as waste and a poor path to choose.

Capitalism has been great at motivating people to innovate and create but the current state of capitalistic systems, I say, isn't healthy for humanity. We need to acknowledge this and fix perverse incentive structures across the board (that doesn't mean destroying the system, simply fixing it). Much of what you're seeing these days used to be used in arguments for capitalistic systems against socialist systems--what really seems to have happened is that we've just traded who we want to give power to. Instead of those who tower over government systems in an authoritarian manner in socialist systems, we seek business leadership who... tower over us in an authoritarian manner.

One reason the US had been so fantastic is that we had a government and economic system that forced capitalistic ideals to compete with socialistic ideals. We had government services inspired by socialist systems that kept capitalistic drivers from going off the rails into too competitive of states with social safety nets to protect us. Meanwhile, to avoid the stagnant systems you see in prior socialist systems, we had capitalism provide incentives to motivate people to work, to do better for themselves and improve their lives and therefor those around them. Now, we seem to have mostly swept away socialist ideals (competition in policy simply isn't there anymore), capitalistic policy has won, and we're witnessing what unconstrained capitalism looks like. It's less value creation and more wealth extraction.

If you're a capital holder, it looks pretty good. My investments that I simply threw money at have grown beyond belief--without any sort of effort on my behalf--it's astounding to think how much money I earned doing nothing. It's an interesting situation because I still work and get paid fairly well, but when I look at my investment portfolio I can't help but think I'm cheating because asset growth well beyond inflation just appear in my accounts, meanwhile, at my day job, everything has grown more and more demanding without equal compensation.

It's an interesting time and I hope we course correct this nonsense before I get too old.
For those using TOR: https://web.archive.org/web/20210828180159/https://www.theba...
more like iq is a crude measure of human intelligence
Good question. IMO it depends on the threat model. If I was a political activist I would not rely on Matrix.

Some previous threads worth reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123997
Ah, I wasn't aware of the assault. Is there a news story that talks about the eviction of the squatters?
Good. The mix and match of 1s, 0s, and letters in the previous versioning system was very hard to track.
I think widespread panic hording of essentials triggered by the other shortages/price increases.
>A virus being airborne instills an even greater level of fear then is already apparent, because "airborne" takes the control out of it. "How can we clean the air?" Air isn't a "thing."

What about air filters? IIRC at the start of the pandemic various transit authorities and airlines were assuring the public that travel was safe-ish because their vehicles ran HEPA filters.
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Note that the recent case involved a crime in France.

So really, it's more like 'unless you commit a crime in a country that cooperates with Switzerland and the Swiss legal system decides to hand in a request'
Not author but neither is the poster: Jq got away with it because it's one of the few 2 letter combinations that wasn't absolutely overloaded and "jquery" was already taken. OTOH nobody shortens HTML to H and HQ is an extremely common acronym, if not one of the most popular 2 letter acronyms you could pick.
>Whether it's underseas fiber optic cables or bouncing signals off of satellites, the datacenter will be rendered useless if nations' citizens get a "This site can’t be reached. [...] ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"

Not if Elon succeeds with Starlink:

>>@thesheetztweetz:
How does transmitting into a country without a local downlink work on the regulatory side?

>@elonmusk:
They can shake their fist at the sky [0]

For context, certain countries like India have quite strict regulation of satellite comms, requiring special permission[1] even to use plain consumer tech like Iridium. I presume EU would also try to tightly regulate consumer satellite comms, just like it requires real (government issued) ID to use cell phones - specifically to register locally purchased SIM cards, again for national security reasons.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1433123220643717120

[1] https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/9db45731-1eec-477a-a7af-... >There are multiple instances of authorities confiscating undeclared satellite phones from foreign travelers upon arrival in India. The official notice states: "All foreigners travelling to India are hereby informed that it is illegal to use/carry Thuraya or other such satellite phones in India. Custom authorities in India may seize such phones and legal action may be taken against the passenger concerned."
Oh, is it a "crisis"? Sounds like we need a "war on" it then.

I think food waste is horrible and I literally donate money monthly(1) to multiple charities to fight hunger, but I'm sick of this framing language that exists to tell simpletons how they're supposed to feel about a topic. Thanks for "raising awareness" though. Enough with this newspeak that carries framed thoughts in specially coded phrases.

(1) Just joined Feeding San Diego!
Another major challenge is communication. Even when you have a data haven, how do you plug into the Internet backbone? How do you get Tbps bandwidth to serve the world? The Cypherpunks did some related research in the 90s, nearly all communication lines are controlled by the major ISP or the state, and they are extremely expensive to build.

> The dot-com crash not only cut the bottom out from colocation pricing, but also took out HavenCo's fiber-optic link when the company providing it went bankrupt. That left the entire operation with a pokey 128 Kbps satellite link, which staggered badly under denial-of-service attacks.

In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, the data haven is a main theme in its plot.
This is an absolute travesty.
The government is trying very hard to preserve its USD reserves. Importing vehicles is downright banned for 16 months now, and there are many rules imposed to control the USD outflow and improve the inflow.

I don't think this is anything new amidst a global pandemic, in a country that depended on tourism.

Saying that chemical fertilizer ban caused a food shortage isn't any fair or accurate, because the sugar crisis (a can of worms by itself) happened before the fertilizer ban, and the government imposing lockdowns caused the food supply issues. That said, there are many companies increasing their organic fertilizer production, and even smaller scale individual investors who are planning to produce organic fertilizers too.

Many of us see this as a net positive, but there must be a ramp, as opposed to an overnight switch.
Perhaps this idea could be extended to treating content differently for all messages from unverified identities. Getting people to verify identities in an end to end encryption system is a huge problem. This could provide a conceptual hook that would mean that unverified contacts were untrustworthy contacts. This would be a state, rather than something that you get nagged about from time to time.

Otherwise an attacker will usually be able to figure out a way to fake a message from someone already in your contact list.

Of course iMessage doesn't do identity verification which is why it does not have effective end to end encryption in the first place. So they would have to solve that, perhaps larger problem, first.
> built my house with union labor (union shop) and found the level of competence higher than was typical with jo the random contractor

So you built two homes, one with a well researched union labor group and one with a well researched contractor? Or is this just some BS elaboration based on comparing contractors you hired for small time shit with the big house job?
You're probably right there. That could be what is alluded to when they mention that the organic technologies "generates more air pollutants and environmental emissions". Basically they burn more stuff.
"Unhindered capitalism"

"it has been balanced with more progressive policies."

That doesn't sound like unhindered capitalism.
> RDP is pretty easy to explain: if you need a GUI, RDP is infinitely smoother than VNC or anything else the Linux ecosystem has to offer.

The last time I was assessing Windows remote * for performance, VNC* implementations with a mirror driver provided far better performance than vanilla RDP.
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VW Foundation “Life?” project funds membraneless organelle research
This is another very good example of a ‘motte-and-bailey’ term. The term means whatever you want it to mean, at any given moment. When the term is attacked, it retreats to mean only the toxic parts of masculinity. When not attacked, it means the inherent toxicity of all masculinity.
I play games very infrequently, but my anecdata is the opposite: games usually have laggy UI with an inconsistent reaction to input events, noticeable latency, frequent breakage and generally worse user experience (and of course mostly without the ability to resize anything, to compare with browser), even when compared to browsers and Electron apps.
Sri Lankans can probably answer this but Sri Lanka is in a vicious cycle - Covid-19 devastated tourism, which reduced the foreign currency reserves, which weakened the Sri Lankan Rupee, which made imports costly for an island that depends on imports for many basic necessities. This combined with harebrained policies of the President have put Sri Lanka, one of the richest countries (by per capita GDP) in the Indian subcontinent onto a path of economic devastation.
No need to fact check, just declare vague criticism for snopes every chance you get, pretend like it's self evident, then disappear because evidence is far left propaganda.
It's sold as FSD, Full Self Driving, but the reality is more like a aircraft autopilot. 3 year owner here and I can tell you it's deeply flawed and if aircraft mistook the top of cloud layer as the ground, it'd be a good analogy for the kind of mistakes it makes.
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However it is, 70 is the average IQ of some underdeveloped countries. And their average citizen is not mentally disabled per se.
So are they underdeveloped, precisely because of that average?
And speaking of distributions, are the people on the right hand side of the tail distribution, in a big enough number to lead their society, despite the low average?
Actually I don't think science has democratic nature. Yes we do somehow do that as a theory would still need to be accepted widely. But in reality one person can have the correct idea while all others disagree. Still this person is doing it right.
> even though the exact set of problems still exist today as the article shows.

The article is from 2018
Everyone has to make trade offs. You want to live in the cultural capital of the world or place where the average income is over six figures, but everyone else does as well. There's limited space in these cities, so you need to bid top dollar if you want to keep a place for yourself.
Signal has since changed their encryption methods so that it's harder to know who's sending messages to who, and what groups exist. On WhatsApp, these changes have obviously not been implemented, so it's not true that WhatsApp uses Signal encryption.
Is the "broken" approach something from the Intel-designed x86 or the AMD-designed AMD64? And is aarch64 just following what the PC world did? Seems like it.

Too bad PowerPC fell by the wayside.
True, the panic hoarding almost certainly wasn't restricted to foods only. See toilet paper hoarding early in the pandemic.
Certainly not all people can learn how to teach mathematics. That is not at all disputable in my mind. I may be in the set of people who can’t learn to teach math. I’ve tried for over 20 years and appear to be just average at it. Maybe I’m below average.

My collection of anecdotes that not everyone can learn math works as an anecdote that not everyone can teach math.
But it is technically feasible! I hear your point, but even in space, you are not safe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_...
> long as you pass the interviews.

40 applications and 2 resume consultations later and no interview even offered. Meanwhile, some guy you run circles around in real world programming/business experience is 8 for 10. My white classmates noticed this before I did because I’ve just accepted it as part of life.
I'm not commenting on gender disparities in other countries, although I have seen first hand what you are saying about China and India. What I am saying is that when I hire for various tech jobs, I get a ton of non-American candidates. It can be hard to find good American candidates at times. The demand for the jobs is there, but it's clearly not be communicated to American high school and college kids enough.
You can see how much genetics matter with how people treat ugly/deformed people. They pretend they're not biased while forcing you to jump through hundreds of hoops to prove yourself and then gaslight you into saying looks dont matter.
> Their servers are based in Texas, USA and Luxemburg, Europe and their development team in Bulgaria

I don't believe it means anything. They form a company in Switzerland, which makes them compliant to the Swiss laws, they rent infrastructure from a provider where these services are most favourable for their business(which in this case could be USA and Luxembourg) and they do their tech dev work in Bulgaria(Which is in EU) because they get the most bang for their buck in this country.

What I see is simply business as usual. Are there even single origin tech companies? Even if everything is Swiss, if you have your app on the Apple App Stor or Google Play, you would be required to comply with US laws. You came up with an interesting encryption? Well, you will be asked to document it as part of you export compliance if you are going to make the app available outside of the US.