skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 8 GB is more than enough for the majority of people.

I have 8 GB RAM (with no swap) and just using browser with few tabs and several times a week system get out of memory (due to Firefox eating most of it), ending with either system thrashing or kswapd running . If Linux memory management have worked correctly it would just kill firefox, but unfortunately it does not, so i have to kill it manually in mostly unusable system (due to thrashing). For a period of time, i ran Firefox in memory control group (restricting it to 4 GB), which helped that thrashing was limited to Firefox and not affected the rest of the OS. Several people around me reported the same problem (although less often).

> Combined with the advent of modern SSDs

I do not think it is a good idea to use swap on SSDs due to limited number of writes. A year ago i replaced perfectly working SSD just because SMART reported that average write count exceeded nominal lifespan and allegedly most SSDs fail between 100%-200% of lifespan (in average write cycles). And modern SSD have even lower number of write cycles (although higher capacity, so writes are better distributed).
I honestly cannot tell if you are joking/trolling or are just completely ignorant to the reality of what happened.
From the article:

> Note: Managed accounts and accounts held by customers in the province of Alberta, which have a balance of more than $250 CAD and which have been inactive for less than five years are excluded. Accounts which have a balance equal or less than the existing FX settlement amount are also excluded.

> Note: Personal accounts registered in Germany/Austria/Italy/Greece/Hungary/Poland are excluded from the inactivity fee assessment for 2022.
In Netherlands, most (all?) Ubers are actually cabs. And many of my NL Uber rides have thankfully been in the taxi cars which are well maintained Mercedes E or S class cars rather than some dude's 1995 Toyota Corrola.

What Uber did that was great was provide an app where you could call a taxi. How they got ahead was by ignoring regulation which enabled them to provide lower fares and get more business.

But Uber could not exist without traditional cabs. Or at least, something would fill the void of Uber if there were no cabs. There are many places in cities where cabs congregate to wait for passengers. Airports are probably the best example.

People leaving airplanes often need a ride to their final destination. Imagine if everyone leaving the airport had to find a way to get local mobile service and then call an Uber. Eventually you'd end up with Uber drivers recognizing this need and parking themselves near the airport, ignoring calls, and choosing only nearby airport calls.

The taxi industry needed a kick in the ass; there is no question. But all they lacked was a good software company and service. They did not need a fleet of regular dudes who happen to own cars and who get deluded into thinking they can have a real income from driving people around. The news is full of sad stories of people who struggle to get by as Uber drivers.
You seem to be the one arguing that, with respect to uncertainties about possible side effects, mRNA vaccine deployment was not novel. It's not a convoluted argument; it's a straight-forward "I think it was novel [with respect to the unknowability of low-percentage side-effects]".

If you have data that we did have a widely deployed vaccine using that tech (which I think, but don't 100.000% know, hadn't happened), then I'm interested to learn that.
I agree with you (I think?) that the implicit allocations are a pain point. I think in the Go case, it is the allocations that kill you most of the time (at least that's the case for me), but in C++ it's more likely to be expensive copy constructors or destructors or so on.
What causes this? Strong immune response? Does any strong immune response have a chance of causing this?
Yeah totally true. And a lot of times, team members put a lot of time into answering questions but there's no way to track their effort that's equivalent to PRs in GitHub for example.
Also it appears to me that there is quite some drama between GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, and apparently the author of GrapheneOS already had some drama with their previous employer. So overall it did not help me trusting both of those projects.

With /e/OS I haven't seen such a thing, it just feels like a nice community.
> FTX is being represented in the investigations and the bankruptcy by the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell

Ah, the Dulles's old firm, nothing spooky going on here at all.
Except 8-tracks didn’t have bookmarks
This is a great article, thanks! :)
Customer base is expanding rapidly! Is Tesla advertising yet? Class action, please.
How are SBF and CE not in custody at the moment? $10B of customer funds are flat out missing (assuming you start with $16B, $5B gets invested in illiquid VC and PE stuff, and $1B is used to buy shitcoins). Last I heard SBF was questioned in the Bahamas but it didn't sound like they were holding him and CE was "in Hong Kong trying to get to Dubai".
and what about Google, never heard of any leaks from Google/Alphabet.
Pardons are criminal, QI is about civil liability.
My point is that in general "have to move everything because the instance I don't pay for is shutting down" should be more common, not less.

Most people are surprised that old things they did on the internet can be found, and they're perhaps right.
Apple also said:

“We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order.”

Either Snowden is lying, or Apple is.

There are lots of potential explanations here. It’s possible and even likely that in an org as large as Apple, the people writing press copy simply are not exposed to all of the details of all of the moving parts that enable realtime surveillance of their userbase. They can also use a different definition of “direct access” (while providing realtime unsupervised access via API, but not via physical (“direct”) entry to a datacenter building).

Apple also claims (in HT202303) that iMessage is end to end encrypted, when for the vast majority of the userbase of iMessage, Apple
has copies (readable to Apple) of the endpoint private keys and can, if they wish, decrypt and read and store anyone’s iMessages in realtime as if they were not encrypted at all. It’s still “end to end encrypted” if there is a key escrow backdoor in the system that defeats the end to end encryption. It’s like putting a $5 gym lock on a cardboard box. It’s not lying to say that you locked it up.

You can make factually accurate statements about certain specific things that paint a picture or strongly imply a state of affairs that is diametrically opposed to the truth. Apple is, as far as I can tell, the best in the world at this type of misdirection. It even fools professional journalists.

For example: if they log the client IP of all requests to the API, the statement you quoted holds true - and yet it is still trivial to make a single query to a) relate all of your API requests together, and b) relate them to your identity via Apple’s many other APIs. The “rotating” implies that it is unlinked, but does not guarantee that it is unlinkable (eg from having client IP and timestamp columns in the data).

Apple is skilled at lying by saying only very specific, true things, as confusing as that may sound.

It is also a mistake to assume
there is no importance because there is no threat model. Even if the data is never linked to you, it is a privacy violation for the keystrokes to leave your device if you don’t want them to. For a contrived example, you don’t need a threat model or ID linkage to not want your neck-down nudes leaked. A non-identifiable privacy violation is still a privacy violation.
> The first step is to transfer your ETH to a large scale, trusted wallet, like Coinbase's wallet.

Absolutely FALSE. I don't know how you could possibly be so confidently wrong. One of the big selling points of PoS is that you don't need mining facility/hardware. You only need 32 ETH, and the resources to run the node. NO central entity is required.

From: https://ethereum.org/en/staking/#how-to-stake-your-eth

"Solo staking on Ethereum is the gold standard for staking. It provides full participation rewards, improves the decentralization of the network, and never requires trusting anyone else with your funds."

Even if you move it to Coinbase for them to do the staking, the custodial wallet is in your name. The same happens with ETH held for trading. You can move it from one exchange to another, and still not trigger a taxable event as long as you own both accounts/wallets.
How much do you think each ad costs that this wouldn't be a bunch?
I have a few remarks:

1. Why are you calling yourself a junior engineer? It's one thing to call yourself that at your first job, but once you've had that role for even just a year, you shouldn't call yourself a junior anymore. Just my opinion. Doesn't even matter if your current title is junior. If it is, I'd just leave the "junior" part out on your resume.

2. You're learning a valuable lesson. Probably wasn't the best idea to accept any job for the same pay you're currently making. Any job you're offered should offer at least something meaningful over your existing pay. When they don't, it's usually a bad bargain.

3. Whether you should quit now depends on many things, but it mainly depends on whether you can mentally put up with it for much longer. If you're losing your sanity or dying slowly inside, you have to consider whether it's better to live with your parents. It might actually be better to live with your parents depending on how much the job sucks. You should also consider that right now we're not in a bull market for tech jobs. They're there, but I probably wouldn't have quit my job with no new one lined up last time if the job market was how it currently is.

4. If you can put up with your job for another ~6 months, a viable option is to mentally check out of your current job. Do just enough work so you don't get fired (if you care), coast on that paycheck, take lots of PTO and sick days, and interview at other companies. Work only as many hours as you feel like you can. If you feel like you have to be there 10 - 12 hours, surf Reddit or stare off into space for those remaining hours. Better yet, fill out job applications during those hours.

5. In future interviews, don't hesitate to bring up that you're "not learning anything from this role since the language is proprietary, [you're] coming home having gotten nothing concrete done." It's an excellent reason for quitting that employers are unlikely to verify and if they try they'll find out you're right. Don't make that the only reason, but it's something worth bringing up.
Let's go even deeper: "Ship of Theseus" applied to intersubjective phenomena GP described. In one sense, any institution, culture, law or religion that outlives the founding generation is fully Ship-of-Theseus-sed already.
> I'm very skeptical about their numbers.

Well the study is funded by the vaccine makers. So we can toss it out before it's even conducted.

Same goes for anything done by parties who have equated taking the vaccine with moral righteousness. If there are serious health risks it will only be found by a skeptic with a lot of perseverance.
How do you deal with the fact that the majority of people are programmed into absolute submission? I hate it.
I forgot to add that Algebra Chapter 0 takes a similar (albeit slightly different) approach of teaching Abstract Algebra in terms of Category Theory. I don't have a link right now but I'm sure you can find it on libgen. (I've only read the first few chapters of Algebra Chapter 0 yet, but from what I've heard the rest of the textbook is as good as the first bit.)
Typically 3-6 that are connected together in any stage of ripeness. The Brady one is a notable exception.
I use my phone as little as possible, I just realized the only 2 things I type into my mobile browser (currently safari) on a regular basis are new(s.ycombinator.com) and old(.reddit.com). Never put that together before, it's been like a decade.

I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.
Why Hy? Hy (or “Hylang” for long; named after the insect order Hymenoptera, since Paul Tagliamonte was studying swarm behavior when he created the language)

I'm spending my HN karma to make this petty comment that if the first sentence of your docs immediately opens up with the story of how you named your project, I instantly don't want to use it or read any more.

It's like when you open a cooking recipe on a website and you get the author's entire life story
Rivian has like 12 billion $ in cash. But they are also losing billion+ lose per quarter.
It's hard to tell if that's the case.

I honestly don't understand what remote procedure calls have to do with the client. Surely the clients wouldn't interact in such a way with the microservices, there would be some sort of API gateway, maybe even one for each platform or service, like the backend for frontend pattern.

It's probably more complicated than this, and you can't exactly put it into a few words, but he tried, and it didn't make sense, but he still managed to call his employees idiots.
I didn't even know IBM was still designing their own processors.
This, exactly. I have two ancient Nokia N900s that came out in 2009, runs a Debian variant natively and there's the Maemo Leste project that brings mainline Linux to the device (amazing!). However, is already useless as a phone in the USA. I also hear rumors European carriers will shutter their 3G networks soon; which is a shame. The hardware, while old and slow due to memory constraints, still works. I guess I should relegate it to being a small multimedia server in my apartment.

The planned obsolescence of today's mobile phones makes me sad.
I didn't argue for the legal position. I pointed out that "not your keys, not your wallet" is a trite statement that doesn't account for the reality we live in, in which property law is a thing. But very generous of you to explain it again and to do so so welcomely!!
Just how wide do you want "widely" to be? Are you trying to say we don't learn anything about this subject from clinical trials? I'm sure data related to the many clinical trials I mentioned is available.
ffmpeg is an excellent tool. It's a complete video editor via the command line.
Congratulations Ben, what a great website!
The statement was actually "a bunch of ads"
> It seems to me that they do care about user privacy. I haven't seen any evidence yet to suggest that they don't.

I think it's about priorities. The way you can tell when a company cares about something is when you see them give up something else they want to have it. In the case of privacy, they could show that they care by not collecting gobs of telemetry about every time a user plugs in their laptop, every time an executable is run, and exactly what a user looks at in their app store, and for how long. But they do collect all this data because it helps them both with advertising and with "improving" the product (using scare quotes because it's not clear to me what metrics are used to gauge "improvement"). I don't see _any_ effort made to protect Apple's users from Apple itself, and that's the core privacy problem: the mere existence of a massive store of all this data presents a very real risk to users.

> Where do you get the idea that they're not subject to the same restrictions?

The lawsuit alleges that Apple is not subject to the same restrictions it imposes on others. From the article:

> Apple’s iPhones and other devices contain settings that purport to disable all tracking and sharing of app information, but the tech giant continues to collect, track, and monetize their data even after consumers have chosen to disable sharing, it said.

Logically, this suggests that iOS will restrict other apps from tracking behavior across apps/sites, but Apple is leveraging its privileged position as the device and OS manufacturer to remain immune to those exact restrictions.
The book Stick and Rudder gave me a very intuitive understanding of flight and what it means to pilot an airplane in a very visceral sense.

The book CODE helped me really imagine and internalize the inner workings of computers, building up from the most basic electrical relay. The part where memory is explained and how the first bits were stored was truly mind blowing and cemented Clarke's third law for me.
I learnt Angular (1) from the famous John Lindquist Angular video series about a decade back: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP6DbQBkn9ymGQh2qpk9I...

Till date I have not found anyone who can explain a topic that crisply and clearly.

Maybe Jeffrey Way is a close second.
At $3000 per head, they don’t need a metaverse they just need to sell 200 of them to every licensee of Dassault 3Dexperience.
The housing market was the same way in 2008… in fact the entire global financial system is built that way. It’s what they mean when they say there are $60 trillion (or whatever) in derivatives out there, a long chain of the same assets rehypothecated over and over. It works though, mostly
How does being on a spam blacklist prevent you from receiving email?
> If nostalgia is a permanent feature of the Internet, so is the insufferable parochialism of the present.

I feel confident you could have used a more accurate word that doesn't make it sound like you're trying to flex your vocabulary. HN in a nutshell I suppose.
> The problem with long term support for my Android phones has actually not been the fact that Android devices have incredibly short security update windows. That issue has been somewhat mitigated with the newer Google Pixel phones which have five years of security updates.

The problem with long term support for Android devices is absolutely short security update windows, i.e. short term support for Android devices. Pixel comprises a tiny fraction of Android devices sold in the US, and a miniscule fraction worldwide.
Most in the US have the majority of their heath insurance premium paid by their employer AND have higher than Euroland salaries.

After spending time in impossibly small Euro homes/apartments I’m still not sure what people are referring to when their cite some better quality of life. Better access to muesli?
People in this thread know nothing about brand value. smh. Musk is just as clueless
Bloody November
You raise a good point but I would never have thought caching appropriate to an RTS, not that I have any experience with those. But yes.
I presume his walking around money was from loans from banks based on his equity in FTX. This seems to be like the standard thing that the super rich whose wealth is tied up in tech stock do these days.
Twitter Microservices Bloatware
Nobody should be forced to publish my garbage if they don't want to. OTOH when people think their instances are moderating too heavily, they can move to mine.
I just found this on their site: https://www.buysellads.com/ad-block-revenue-calculator

This is the type of thing I was interested in learning about. So if I have 50,000 monthly visits with people using around 25 pages per visit, and I show 1 ad per page.. it would generate $945.00 per annum. Ouch!
100% agree. For those saying online shopping is bad, revenues say otherwise.
awesome,you can train a model for free here: https://88stacks.com/
I would hope Linux support is decent since Ubuntu is supposed to be adopting Flutter as their default choice for UI https://ubuntu.com/blog/bring-multi-platform-apps-to-linux-d...
Just the other day I was talking about webrings and how some discord servers are emulating this by having "partnered communities".
"Only". Retail price of 32 ETH is about $40k USD which seems like a lot to me.
Strike by 48,000 University of California Academic Workers
There is not much free will, people's goals are informed by what they see about high-status individuals.
It's very regrettable that being a mother (or a father) is no longer seen as an achievement at all.
Good luck building a hospital wing for $170k.
> Jane Street risk controls from people who didn't have that role.

I'm talking about the Jane Street risk control people not being able to filter out two of the biggest fraudsters of this century. Yes, I know that, technically, the Jane Street risk control people most probably only focus on the risky stuff that might bring their house down, and, as such, they most probably wash their hands when it comes to the deeds of their former employees, but I was under the impression that when those sort of shops hire someone there's also a general screening for "is this a guy/lady that is going to swindle billions of dollars in the near future"?

And, to be honest, I guess that's what the cachet of people like SBF was, especially in a very deregulated and wild market like crypto is. More exactly "normal" people would have thought along the lines of: "this guy has worked for Jane Street -> I've read Jane Street are cool, honest people, so they must have done some vetting of their employees -> SBF most probably won't run with my money".

More generally speaking, as you most probably well know, the whole house of finance is built on trust and trust alone. That goes for crypto, that goes for traders like JS, that goes for boring money market funds, that goes for the FED itself (probably with trust decreasing from Fed -> to MMFs -> to traders -> to crypto).

When such swindlers like SBF and Caroline Ellison both happen to have worked at any one entity that's part of that chain of trust that I mentioned, then said entity can't just wash its hand saying "well, we checked out on them, they were fine when they used to work for us", it doesn't work like that. People will start asking themselves: "Are there other swindlers now working for JS that JS has failed to catch during its vetting process? If yes, do they risk bringing the whole JS house down?".
Semi-related, I sometimes see a photo of some bar advertising (IIRC) discount for bringing your spouse XOR lover, and free drinks if you bring both at the same time.
This is both funny and depressing.
I've never seen a kid break a toy that fast.
Two things…

Logged into PayPal to find out when I joined and found out there’s a couple hundred bucks in there I didn’t know about so thanks.

And as a PayPal customer since 2000 all I can say is “fuck you, PayPal”.
It is certain that the new 5-nm AMD Genoa CPUs have a better energy efficiency than the 7-nm IBM CPUs, for the applications that are executed on the CPU.

Nevertheless, for certain workloads this IBM server might have a better energy efficiency, when they can exploit some of the many accelerators that exist in the IBM server, for offloading some tasks from the CPU.

Intel pursues now the same strategy, because the soon-to-be-introduced Sapphire Rapids cannot beat AMD Genoa in a CPU vs. CPU competition, Intel stresses now the advantages offered by the accelerators that they have included in Sapphire Rapids, following the traditional IBM model.
> I agree that BLM missed their chance to agitate about government immunity.

BLM had good reason for not principally being concerned about limitations on civil liability for government agents, given that, when it comes to accountability, its primary focus is on the most serious of crimes, and not exclusively when committed by government agents.