skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's valid, but the Buzzfeed executives carry much of the blame, not shareholders. There are a number of successful private companies, e.g. Wolfram Research, Huawei, Trader Joe's, Deloitte.

It's quite evident that Buzzfeed went public not to finance their news business, but to seemingly cash out. After all, it's now nothing more than a $700M list builder.
IMO, pre 2015 Apple is not the same as post 2015 Apple.

My 2015 MBP is still running. But I wouldn't count on anything Apple releases today to last more than few years.

Especially since they seem to gate features now that you will have to upgrade earlier than expected.

I wouldn't be surprised if they release a Studio Display V2 a year or so from now that supports FaceID.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but why is it so hard to just make more?
This is really unfortunate because it seems like there might be some good value in the idea of charter cities, but this particular example used the idea to steal land for doing crooked stuff. Many of those involved appeared to want to do good, but the idealized commercial center they conceived of seems to need more structure, transparency, and rules in order to function as intended. With so much money on the line one might think that there would be a hard nosed focus on making things really work, but the oversight of the project seemed to work in a manner similar to a monastic order. Oh, well, but hopefully people keep working with these ideas, maybe in an alternative form like a specialized zone or neighborhood incorporated with an existing city.
Seems essentially non existent to me, outside blog posts.
Precisely, I just don't buy closed down stuff unless I absolutely have no other choice.

I don't care how good the games are, they're ultimately entertainment, which is at the very bottom of the list when it comes to spending. I did pay for MMOs that turned into garbage after a while, which only reinforced this "hardline" stance, I guess.

Hell, I've hacked my ISPs ONT, the piece of shit wouldn't let me set it to bridged mode or even change the Wifi name/password. Couldn't care less that it's against the terms. There's things that people must compromise on all the time when it comes to personal freedoms - in this case, I'm not going to even if it's illegal.

They'll march me off to war if need be, but God forbid if I upset some company's marketing plan or bottom line.
Fast iteration times and iterative feedback are exactly the topic of my other project Lafajol: https://youtu.be/fMQvsqTDm3k ; adding support for the UI thing is in-progress but so far I have compilation times around the 200ms mark for the kind of UI I target
I got it in about fifteen tries. Pure-D American IP here.
Snooped around and looks like the only option is to purchase VS Enterprise + Github Enterprise (professional versions don't work). This is definitely going to be pricy. I guess if my company has enterprise license I might be able to take advantage of that...
I am not sure about Linux kernel internals and I/O operations. However, on Windows kernel the filesystem (or any driver incl. networking) can complete an I/O operation in non-blocking way, it just marks the IRP (descriptor for I/O operation) is pending and complete it later in different context (i.e. in an interrupt handler even when it is in different process/thread context). Since the user mode application can wait for multiple different kind of objects at the same time (this includes networking, file, mutexes, events), I guess in theory it can really scale when thread_count = core_count.
Yes, but not by choice. Spinnaker is definitely the equivalent of docker-swarm, at best. Okay in some aspects and the idea is there, but it’s clunky and doesn’t scale well with multiple applications and teams.
No, they're still uploading the same data as they did before (last I looked into it, it was still enough data to rather easily reverse and get pretty good accuracy. if it wasn't accurate, it would have unacceptably many false-positives, so it's a necessary quality of the system).

Regardless of how you hash them, it needs to work on a phone, and it needs to be reasonably unique... so you can just enumerate literally every phone number ever on a decent computer in a few seconds and, if combined with basically any other information at all (like an area code), that's enough to figure out many or most contacts trivially.

The difference, which that article goes into, is that now they're going all-in on you also trusting Intel's SGX and thus every single thing in between you, them, their hardware delivery pipelines, etc. Which makes collecting that data completely ok (it's done securely now thanks to SGX!), because you should obviously trust Intel because CPU vendors have had such a fantastic track record in their on-chip security systems. (</sarcasm> in case that wasn't clear)

There's a lot to like about Signal's privacy, both in isolation and in comparison to other messengers. They're doing great work. But I have absolutely no idea why they persist in this data collection. Their bull-headedness on zero options around it for years on end smells more suspicious than anything else at this point tbh. About 3/4 of the people I've known who installed Signal immediately left forever because someone they knew contacted them to say "welcome" and they got super creeped out wondering how they knew they had joined. And then the contact-er frequently left too because they had no idea it wasn't consensual, and were creeped out as well.
> room for a competitor to come in and sell another huge accelerator but with only one of these two features either at a lower price or with more performance?

They'd need fab capacity first. I wouldn't count on it any time soon, and chip gens have short lives.
I use a free library for window arrangement that automatically resizes and moves windows to different parts of the screen.

The window animations and changing desktops is buttery smooth for me.

Just the way Mac OS renders fonts is enough reason for me to use Mac over Windows.

My personal setup is using iTerm2 with ohmyzsh. It’s an amazing dev setup. Blazing fast and very easy to use.

I don’t really use Finder on Mac, although with iTerm2 you can command click on any directory and open it in Finder.

In the past couple years, I’ve been doing lots of C++, Java, Scala, and some Python. Builds are pretty dang fast. I restart once in a long while after Apple updates.

The only annoying thing was on my Intel Mac, it would get very hot when building C++ code. That’s been squared away on my M1 Mac. Also, battery life is incredible.
I'm aware of that and use it, but it's only useful if you're alternating between two or three windows. If you have many instances of the same app then you need to use mission control which has a long animation and requires the mouse.
For example, Bulgaria didn't want in NATO and our corrupt politicians dragged us into it without a referendum. Till this day, most Bulgarians want out of NATO, but given when joining NATO all our Soviet-era weaponry was dismantled, if we're to leave now, we literally will have no means to protect ourselves. Our government prepaid a bunch of F-16s years ago, the US is way behind on their delivery! Basically, our arms were twisted to buy F-16s, not the European Gripens!
Preach. I agree with both comments. The reality is that we need at least something to differentiate ourselves from the competition and that cost money/resources/time.

The era of "ugly but functional to a certain extent" is dead. Customers want good solutions right out the bat.
Were they hacked?
Wiener and Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism
Gads, don't get me started on SPI software upgrades on the Mac Book Pro. Serious cramp in the calvins. Forced non-down-gradable (sp?) OS because of that.
This peculiar behavior (where the Service health check is unaware of the Deployment’s known instances) mirrors Google Compute Engine (where the httpLoadBalancer’s healthCheck is independent of the instanceGroupManager’s known instances). If you want your program to exit as soon as possible rather than waiting for a SIGKILL from the instance group manager, you have to hard-code the health check timeouts like so:

1. After a SIGTERM, the shutdownHook should keep the HTTP server running. Future /@status requests must return an error, but user requests must still succeed!

2. The shutdownHook sleeps for a minimum of the load balancer health check’s checkIntervalSec * unhealthyThreshold + timeoutSec (which by the way must be less than the instanceGroupManager’s health check’s checkIntervalSec * unhealthyThreshold if it uses the same endpoint)

3. Now the load balancer should not be sending new requests. The shutdownHook then waits for any existing requests to drain.

4. After requests drain, the shutdownHook can finally exit gracefully.

It is annoying to have to wait for the health check’s delay (rather than simply draining existing requests as in AWS), but it seems to be necessary for Google-designed load balancers and instance group managers.
> Erlang can get away with this because it's interpreted.

Erlang gets away with this because of its programming model; it doesn't matter if it's interpreted or JITed or if you managed to compile it ahead of time. The relevant parts of the programming model are that any function call can yield, and because it's a functional language, there's no looping without function calls, so you can't stay busy forever without yielding.

The value of green thread over native threads is the difference in numbers. I haven't tried, but I imagine most OSes would fall over if you did a native thread per connection and you had a million connections; some OSes would probably hit a thread limit before then. Of course, if you've got a million connections, you're probably starting many per second, so startup cost is important (although maybe you could do a pool if it's cheaper to clean up an otherwise dying thread than kill it and start a new one)

Edit: read the article; that was a weird rant; I'm sure there are better things to rant about on an idle windows machine (like how much disk I/O they do... especially on spinning drives with Windows 10)
Non-curved 60Hz monitors are a thing of the past they should be relegated to monitors that cost 200$.

That was an easy comment to make! Do you realize that other peoples have different preferences than you do and they are equally valid.
The Amazon kindle os does not allow downgrades, not sure if it’s using fuses or not.

In that case it isn’t about access to pirated content either—people want to be able to modify it for basic features the company has neglected to provide.
Showed in three tries, US IP.
“Right-wing cancel culture” is a well understood, world-wide phenomenon. To use the example in your other post, people try to blockade abortion clinics because certain religious people understand those clinics to be engaged in mass murder. Or to use another example people freak out over cartoons of Mohammad because it’s a grave offense in Islam. That is what it is.

I talk about left-wing cancel culture because it’s a marked departure from certainly what’s been my experience. Unless we go down the path of calling progressivism a new religion, I think we have to posit that the cause of left-wing hostility to ideological pluralism has a different cause.

The overwrought nature of @otterley’s post suggested one possible explanation. If people genuinely believe that members of “unprivileged groups” suffer so much from an errant joke or political statement (even one made outside their presence) that it affects their ability to “have a good career, live in a nice place, and raise their family” then that might explain their hostility to any expression that may even remotely affect such “unprivileged groups.” If issues of race, gender, immigration status, etc., are literally life and death, then that justifies zealotry.

That mindset and reaction, in turn, seems to me to be a direct outgrowth of liberal paternalism. You have people preoccupied with harms to other people—harms that they are unable to experience directly and thus cannot put into perspective. Nonetheless, they’re convinced that they understand how society should be reshaped to help the people they’re concerned about. It’s a political agency problem.
Switch does not forcefully upgrade on reboot, but you might be required to have at least firmware version x to run game y.
Why give it to humans either? I suspect if you can't answer this question, you won't be able to answer the other.
I think the original reason I posed the question is because I used Okta a while back for one org and IIRC there was no password reset available to me; I had to contact one of our IT admin to do it.
That’s just privileging people with really good social skills alongside Orthodox Privilege.

http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html
The controversy started when actual properties started to be bought and used as part of this plan. Prospera operations are not subject to Honduran laws or taxes. Instead of enabling the locals to prosper they have been pushing them off their land. What was supposed to be egalitarian and empowering has turned out in practice to be just another ugly example of colonialism.
Don't forget the carrier locking in the US, and the "Verizon phones" / "global phones" vs "ATT phones" with different LTE bands.
Except it might not be in shareholders' best interests to sell at the current prices, especially in the middle of a chip shortage. The presence of a scalping secondary market is at least partial evidence that the market will support higher prices.

Either way, your "as long as..." conditional statement may be logically consistent, but the condition is by no means guaranteed to be met.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?518855-1/white-house-cyber-adv...
This seems pretty old since the newest piece of "news" on the site is fairly old. Also the top article is from 9 years ago...

I'm also unclear on how narcos are involved in this.

In general this seems like "FUD".
Congrats on launching! I work for a competitor (FusionAuth), but there's plenty of room for more different ideas and companies.

I like the open source ethos and appreciate you being upfront with your future business plans.

Welcome!
>There is some (not large) risk I will loose access to my Amazon account, or Google, or whatever.

I think people significantly underestimate what it would take to lose access to their entire library or digital identity. The wake up call for me was having my access to Youtube revoked because I watched a livestream of Ukraine coverage. I'm assuming all of the stream viewers (helpfully enumerated in the "who's watching list") got mass reported.

For Amazon, this could be as simple as someone calling up your bank and managing to convince a service representative to charge back a few items. That's a pretty much one-way trip to losing your library for good.
i don't know what he meant by it, but large wheels are better "flywheels" and that storage of momentum might make sustained pedaling easier.
So eminent domain type things are being used?
Indeed, if the demand exceeds the supply then the prices have to go up. This way more money will be available for the manufacturer to increase the supply. This is the basic law of economics, and anybody trying to play games around it will only make things worse and end up in poverty.
What I find repulsive isn't the point. There certainly are people who will avoid working with you if you make public statements in support of (2). It's not up to us to define the threshold at which people will or won't shun us. Unless you want to give up on the concept of free association --- it seems clear you don't --- you're going to have to accept that it's possible to have and express opinions that will foreclose on some options in life for you. You have freedom of speech, but not freedom from social repercussions, and there is no clean divide between "social" and "workplace".
Isn’t it time we abandon the search for dark matter?

https://www.cosmology.info/media/open-letter-on-cosmology.ht...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170624042109/http://www.nytime...
A reasonable question, but also a simple answer: we're in a global chip shortage.
Yes I agree (and share the hope). In fact, earlier today I was thinking about Peter Norvig's "pytudes" (https://github.com/norvig/pytudes) as good examples of literate programming — and they are notebooks. Also, last weekend I picked up some code I had written a few months ago, threw it all away and started writing it in a notebook (Colab) precisely for this "literate programming" reasons.

There's also "nbdev" (https://github.com/fastai/nbdev) which seems like it should be the best of both worlds, but I couldn't quite get it to work.
Unless you really need the act of pedaling, you should also strongly consider an EUC. They have trolley handles, fit under a seat more easily, go as fast as you could ever want, have much larger 16" wheels, and can easily handle any hill. Kingsong 16s got me to and from the bus every day.
I was thinking I was out of the loop and this was a reference to when Trump talked about buying Greenland. Maybe I’m even more out of the loop than I thought.
Use Semantic Indenting
Whatever you do daily adds up, good or bad. So simple course changes to your daily habits can make a difference.

If you drink alcohol as part of your routine, consider deleting that whole thing.

Make time for getting outside in the sun most days, even if just a half-hour walk.

It depends where you are, but if you can get fresh relatively unprocessed food most days, like high end salads, it's good.

If you don't have a partner, aim on getting one so you can help each other. If you have a partner that can't help you, aim on getting a better partner.
What's really practical about th Strida is that it uses a belt instead of a chain and keeps the brakelines internal. So it has very little to rust and folds in 20 seconds.
Nintendo makes a profit from game sales, therefore sells the console almost at cost. This hardware measure prevents piracy.
While I can understand the kneejerk reaction to a bunch of foreign folks coming and building up land, especially as it sounds like there was little local stakeholder involvement, I think this presents a seriously one-sided view of the project. I personally always thought the idea of Prospera was interesting if not particularly economically compelling (I'm much more of a fan of building charter cities more fore locals and really focusing on fulfilling their needs like what the folks at Talent City Nigeria are doing) and would hate for it to be brought down or damaged to a point where it hurts the whole movement and of course, the economic opportunities that FDI can bring to locals. All that said, I think that this is relatively old as it refers to the President as Juan Orlando Hernandez who was replaced in late 2021 during the latest presidential election.
In the modern era, threads are more of a memory problem than a compute problem. If you spawn a thread per request (or several) it can be an issue by maintaining too much stack space. But I don't know of any reliable benchmark showing that threads or events outperform in real systems, except in cases of extremely high numbers of simultaneous contexts (i.e. very high number of ongoing requests/very low cost per request of operation).
It doesn't matter that you have 0 contacts. They will still be able to map you through other people's contact list.
(clicks link) time to get /sad/ about being a SEGA fan again.

More seriously I wish some of the old consoles were officially opened because the absolute install base of PS1 and NES compatible hardware must be insane. Indie NES games specifically have become popular lately, but I don't think any of the 3D capable consoles are popular or open targets.
Could you expand on how this causes problems? As far as I'm aware, this has never prevented e.g. downgrading to an older version of macOS. (I assume I would know because I downgrade everything to OS X 10.9.)
The bicycle is a real pinnacle of beauty among human invention. When I think about the concepts of "function" and "form" in design, they are at peak marriage in a bicycle (I need not even point to a specific era). I'd own 10 if I had the space.

The folding bicycle is bastardized version that shoehorns the concept of portability at the expense of nearly every other quality except "gets from point A to point B".

I'm likely wrong and they probably are a great solution for many but goodness.. I love normal bicycles too much to look at a folding bike with anything but cringe.
I Googled a bit more and found the history of Nintendo v.s. fans is fascinating...
It’s not really “blowing a fuse” but more “increase hardware counter by one”.

Is that still “malicious destruction of property”?
Your idea of a cohesive and loyal republic here seems to hinge entirely on the fact that the senate never surrendered, which isn’t nearly as remarkable as you’re making it out to be. Carthage didn’t surrender in the 3rd war either, but they were certainly not a highly cohesive entity at that stage.

During the second Punic war nearly half of the republic defected, and almost all Roman allies turned on them. Including a pro-Carthaginian uprising in Sardinia, and and outright defection of Syracuse to Carthage.

I guess you’re free to interpret things however you want, but “cohesive and loyal” is such an incredibly creative interpretation of the Roman republic during Hannibal’s invasion.
Putting a 50TB+ database that enables eye watering revenue on k8s is a hard sell for a lot of businesses--especially when they have non-containerized solutions that work.

Simple topologies and NoSQL databases (or databases they can handle replication/partitioning/node failures automatically) are pretty easy to stick in StatefulSets.

There's crazy things like this https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/circular-replication-in-... that would be fairly difficult to run in a StatefulSet.

In addition, the patch and lifecycle cadence of k8s is pretty quick so rebooting SQL databases with 100ks TPS more than 1-2 times a year tends to be problematic
I don't know really how to argue this here, but there is no such thing as a switch. It's a general purpose computer, implemented on a very specific set of hardware, restricted in its use by software whose only purpose is to maintain the illusion that a switch is a thing.
I'm not interested in rehabilitating Pinker, who appeared in Epstein's flight logs and has been photographed socializing with him. My point is simply that he tends to be a bad example when brought up in these kinds of discussions. He's treated as if he's simply a celebrity scientist caught in the limelight over political tweets. But he's not just that.
A discussion about folding bikes would not be complete without mentioning Helix. Helix folds almost as small as a Brompton but has 24” wheels and standard bicycle components such as disc brakes, Shimano/SRAM drivetrain etc.

Also the fold is the most compact possible, even more compact than Brompton in terms of maximizing the use of space. It also fits in a standard airline luggage without any disassembly which few other folding bikes can claim.

The frame is full titanium including the locking mechanisms. It’s made in Canada and is the lowest cost complete titanium bike on the market, folding or not.

https://www.helix.ca

Full disclosure, I’m the owner/founder of Helix. Happy to answer any questions related to it or folding bikes in general.
I disagree. The nation state evolved when and where it did for good reason. Charter cities and minor polities not loyal to the central government is a good way to leave your nation in ruin. I’m obviously referring to Germany and how it faced a demographic and political collapse following that war.
Having some kind of physical activity during the day several times a week is essential for me. Otherwise, I feel awful.

One thing I need to get better at is respecting working hours for myself. With WFH, I basically live at the office. Instead of ending the day when the day is done, it's over when everything is done instead. I typically end up spending a few hours more per day in front of my work machine than I should.