skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Speaking privately is the rockbed of free speech.

I think you misunderstand what "free speech" is. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/

Note that "speech" here does not really mean "any communication". Conspiring to commit a crime, while technically communication, is not the speech the First Amendment refers to. It's more about expressing (political) opinions publicly. Otherwise, if the First Amendment means you cannot get arrested for speaking freely, why would you need privacy? ;)
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>in the US if you worked and paid taxes, you'll get the bare minimum (social security + medicare) and won't ever starve or go cold.

So, how does that apply to our massive homeless populations?
"TOSBack is a collaboration between the EFF, the Internet Society, and ToS;DR. Every day, we check the Terms and Policies of many online services to see if any of them have changed"

https://tosback.org/

But it is currently in beta and doesn't include Kickstarter.
Given that large companies face large numbers of patent suits however, typically litigating several in parallel, spending all this money on just one could indeed be seen as distressing.
A good example of "I doubled my sales" would be "My risk of getting cnacer has doubled" - this might mean my risk has gone from 1 in 100,000 people to 2 in 100,000 people.
Why you find it disturbing that someone wants to pay for OS support?
The issue is not really about how to share the link, it's about why such a link is blocked
>> there is a more profound form of debt than just what you owe to the bank. This debt still needs to be paid, and it can easily be more than the windfall provided.

I have my own thoughts on this, but would love to hear you or others expound upon it.
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This was their first meeting. The line that Nakamura would have had to play to avoid the repetition was one that McShane had won a smooth victory in earlier in the tournament, so he was leery of going into it.
I also cannot share this on FB. Amazing. The fact that FB is censoring this content deserves its own HN exposure. It is an article about international law with nothing offensive, but FB blocks it.... this is going further than I'd have thought FB would ever do. The future doesn't look so bright for social media.
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OK, sorry for the factious response. My solution for when you can't switch off is to take up keep fit. Running on grass (not concrete), swimming, weights etc. You'll be so busy, you won't have time for intrusive thoughts. And of course you will have to do without your usual chemical cosh. So not only will you feel better, be more efficient at work, but think of all the money you would have saved.
From what I read it is mostly branch predicition with data pre-loading on the CPU Level.
> subject to key-dumping

Not if you are running a skylake CPU with the new SGX instructions that encrypt RAM.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/09/26/protecting...

6, Enable software vendors to deliver trusted applications and updates

8. Enable applications to define secure regions of code and data that
maintain confidentiality even when an attacker has physical control
of the platform and can conduct direct attacks on memory.

By "trusted", Intel almost certainly means "trusted computing"/"trusted execution environment". It took a decade, but Palladium (NGSCB) is here.

Firefox already caved and ships the EME plugin, so obviously they would cave to an image-DRM plugin as well.

/* this is why it's so incre4dibly important to take a hard-line stance against DRM; it's a lot harder to reverse course once you cave and start accepting some DRM */
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The problem is that there is massive selection bias. If you're one of the very top researchers in your field you are much more likely to A) produce world class research and B) never have much problems with funding.

Conversely many of those funding their own research are doing so because they cannot get any other funding, which may be an indicator that they aren't very good.
It seems to me that the ILP is able to begin execution of branches before the branch is known to be true.

def func():
if predicate():
task1()
else:
task2()

In the above program, the processor would be able to speculatively start execution of task1 before the predicate function returned a value.

(obviously the processor does this on a much lower level than this code)
The actual clothes. Chess players are notoriously poorly dressed and the organizers want to be able to eventually package this for television, so they give some incentive for improvement.
Fb follow links to final destination. It's block this
Bear in mind the patent was filed in 1996 when considering the level of innovation.
Not sure I like the idea of cramming ASCII type tags in to the encoded JSON.

I'm more partial to the way Avro does it, where the encoded JSON remains type-tag and cruft free, and a separate schema (also JSON) is used (and required) to interpret the types, or encode to the correct binary encoding.
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If we don't discover a name, I guess we could call the first one the "Small discount, large increase equivalence?" sounds pretty bad. Anything with the word numerator or denominator in it would be far worse.

On the second one, "unqualified percentages?"
> Uber, Lyft, et al are just central dispatch for gypsy cabs.

True fact: Every single Uber and Lyft vehicle which I've ridden in, in New York City, has a Taxi and Limo Commission plate on it in the T123456C format. The so-called "gypsy cab"+ market consists of the vehicles without those plates.

(+complete with casual old-fashioned ethnic slur)
Yeah, that's still a bit wierd. There's also the [centimetre-gram-second](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%...) system that's used in some areas that has the prefix on the length unit.

On a related note, tonne (i.e metric tonne) is widely used, though not generally in the scientific arena. This is partly for historical reasons, but I think there's an element of it being a little awkward to apply prefixes to the kilogram, as one must multiply the "kilo". Nonetheless, we should exploit the full power of SI prefixes and use "megagram" instead. With two short syllables rather than one long syllable it takes about the same amount of time to say and is far less ambiguous.

This works well elsewhere; Fat Man wasn't 21 kilotonnes of TNT, it was 21 gigagrams.
Easy there tiger ;)

What does it even mean that something is string based?

Here: https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki a JVM bench where JSON is pretty competitive with binary formats [and results would be event better if project owners actually merged PRs ;( ]
The first (and often only) thing to read is the claims. Claim 1 for example:

1. In a processor capable of executing program instructions in an execution order differing from their program order, the processor further having a data speculation circuit for detecting data dependence between instructions and detecting a mis-speculation where a data consuming instruction dependent for its data on a data producing instruction of earlier program order, is in fact executed before the data producing instruction, a data speculation decision circuit comprising:

a) a predictor receiving a mis-speculation indication from the data speculation circuit to produce a prediction associated with the particular data consuming instruction and based on the mis-speculation indication; and

b) a prediction threshold detector preventing data speculation for instructions having a prediction within a predetermined range.
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This list is rather daunting to check for a match against this example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
It's either in this list, or we should describe this bias as new?
I don't like the use of soft/fuzzy for certain fields, but I do know what it means in this context: it's shorthand for "fields so complicated that we aren't even sure if the questions we're asking mean anything." Take physics vs. psychology as an example. The top story on HN right now is about standardizing the kilogram by answering two questions: how many silicon-28 atoms do you need to equal the mass of the current reference kilogram, and at what pount a watt balance can support the 1 kg weight. This depends on a bunch of terminology and assumptions, but we're pretty clear what those are.

In psychology on the other hand (a field I have a huge amount of respect for, incidentally), we're trying to ask questions about human behavior; everything we ask about is taken within a cultural context, predicated on assumed levels of "normal" behavior, and even assumes that humans /are/ repeatable in some sense (and a lot of psychology studies may not be repeatable at all...)

That repeatability question is a big one, I think: we're a lot more sure about our ability to prepare equivalent circumstances with silicon-28 atoms for an experiment than with people.
You know what they say: Live by the patent sword...

Why doesn't Apple start lobbying for real patent reform?
Maybe not, but wouldn't it be better to avoid antiquated ethnic slurs like "Gypsy cab" in favor of cool neutral terms like "unlicensed"?
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The ERP product we use has gone from an iSeries native product to a Linux version, it's so much faster it's not funny.
They sold what, 400 Itanium servers last year?
> The noble savage is another Victorian invention.

Are you sure? I would have expected them to take the opposite view of "savages", namely the Hobbesian view that their lives were "nasty, brutish and short".
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There were branch-predicting mainframes back in the 80s, though it really came to the fore with the advent of superscalar microprocessors in the early 90s (MIPS R8000 and DEC Alpha 21064), what is the paper's innovations above these?
We actually know why. Check the paper series "Stability of reference masses" published in Metrologia. Summary: mercury contamination.
Well, OS's are usually designed, at least everyone that I have encountered… and US system is no less designed than any others in so far as they are quite suboptimal at resource allocation, but better than say 10k years ago.
did not pay enough attention when I was reading then. That's even more strange, to pay in order to play in an orchestra ? Most musicians already have a hard time making a living...
Man, that's such a humbling stat. Many of us here don't even earn that in a year!
I found the answer. It is called the Framing effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)

I would posit that there could be benefit in naming the more specific form of discount/increase, as its hard to derive benefit from the knowledge of a general "framing effect" as framing is more often non numerical.
Based on your racist and derogatory statements, I have to wonder if you're involved in the taxi industry.

The fact is, taxi lobbies are just protection rackets. I don't like Uber at all due to the way they treat their customers and drivers, but ridesharing is the future and the taxi mob is desperate to stop them from growing. If that means paying off the local law enforcement and city officials to illegally and unconstitutionally seize law abiding citizens' vehicles (including regular folks dropping off or picking up family and friends, which boggles the mind), they will do it.
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which is the best online shop in worldwide?
I was amused to read this:

"They never found the cause for the disagreement, but in late 2014 the NIST team achieved a match with the other two"

at a time when this story, also from Nature, is also on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10383984
It would take ~8 days of net income (they declared $10 billion of net income in the most recently reported quarter).
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Exactly. I've been preaching for other languages to get that for years. Avoid many of these odd floating point issues, esp when handling money. On top of it, the POWER processors were wise enough to include a decimal unit to accelerate it.
That's a lot for supporting a free OS on a single server
As a co-founder at an on-demand shipping service (fetchh.io) I've been watching uber's entry into this segment. We don't operate on the delivery side (not to mention we're in Australia) so we don't feel any competition. There are a ton of different liabilities around deliveries and I'm surprised to see uber expand in this direction, to possibly crush sidecar again.
Because no smart person in the history of the world has ever gone broke from spending too much, right?
My NYC remote spot is here: 40.876717, -73.927732 . It probably doesn't conform to the metrics in the article - but you get a beautiful view of the Hudson river - the Amtrak train passes by every now and then...
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Not really, although the technique employs a look-up table. The basic idea is that they found that many instruction sequences that cause a mis-speculation once tend to cause it again in the future. This is done in the context of ILP -- mis-speculation means that the processor thought an instruction doesn't need data from a previous one and it executed it in advance, but then it turned out that the result did depend on a previous one, so the first result was retired and the instruction was executed again.

In order to avoid this from happening too often, they added a(nother) feedback loop in the whole process: if a sequence of instructions seems to cause a mis-speculation often enough, it's added to a table, so that when it's encountered again, the control unit doesn't speculatively execute an instruction whose result is most likely going to have to be retired anyway.

I don't know if there's prior art to this, but the basic idea is fairly straightforward. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that IBM or DEC engineers knew about this prior to 1996.
The reason I make the distinction is that there are very specific composition trends and rules that make a musical piece "classical", and contemporary game or movie music is not following those at all.

It's not because music is played in an orchestra that it's the same genre as the popular orchestra music that was played x00 years ago. Unfortunately most people don't make (knowingly or unknowingly) the distinction.
$862 million?

> Man, that's such a humbling stat. Many of us here don't even earn that in a lifetime!

FTFY

Unless I missed the /s ;)
They're spiky, grumpy, and they run in front of cars. People seem to equate predator with dangerous, but many of the world's most dangerous animals are herbivores.
Try as I might, I can't bring myself to love Blood Meridian more than The Road.

But I would definitely place it among my top 20 books of the last century. Perhaps even in the top 10
No, the new definition defines kg using Planck constant (according to Wikipedia).
Get well soon. Also, get over it soon.
If it keeps smaller companies out of the market because they are not able to join patent cross-licensing cartels, then it may be a price worth paying.
One kg and one litre of water are the same thing.
I didn't understand what then will be used: the Si sphere or the Watt balance?
The \N in 'NIST' is for "National" and the nation to which "national" refers is the United States. I'm not against switching to metric, but after forty years since I read about it in fourth grade, I am pretty confident that the switch won't make most people's lives better.
Maybe, but the cost of good public transportation per inhabitant increases as density lowers - as does every infrastructure cost. Density makes excellent public services more affordable.
What I mean is, the proposed new definition defines kilogramm using a relationship to Planck constant. Instead, I think that a more intuitive definition would be something like "the mass of {huge number} of C or Si atoms".
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I'm curious if such trash would ever be picked up. While I can imagine people being more altruistic once their needs are met, humanity seems to be really near sighted when it comes to subtle-yet-broad problems like trash. "Out of sight, out of mind."
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It is interesting how something considered harmful can have beneficial effects. In this case reintroducing wolves could control the deer population and help the re-establish some of the Caledonian Forest.

There was another example I read recently: the Indian Vulture Crisis[0]. Apparently the vulture population in India has been declining dramatically. I wouldn't have thought vultures were particularly good, but their declining population has led to all sorts of significant issues such as an explosion in the number of wild dogs and the spread of disease. It has been traced to the administration of an anti-inflammatory called diclofenac to livestock.

Nature has many complex interactions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
Because it makes no sense for them to do so. Large companies join in cross-licensing agreements, keeping smaller competitors out. Occasionally some small player comes along with an important patent, and they refuse to be bought off and win in court. That makes the news like today because it happens so rarely. But it's a price worth paying to keep competition out of the market.

Competition is so tedious.
Based on my work Power processors are simply the backbone of AIX and iSeries machines and perform very well in those applications. The interesting part is that either platform can move off the Power processor to another, the least impacted from a business perspective would be iSeries as the layer above the machine level is independent and would simply rebuild programs without customer intervention beyond upgrading the OS
The problem is that even if you can't own a person wholesale anymore in this country, you can own the right to be the sole provider of one type of service to that person, and charge them exorbitant rates. To the taxi lobby, the citizens of New York are not free men, but their property as customers. Uber and the like are therefore dirty thieves, abolitionist usurpers.

The taxi lobby will also say that it's all for your own safety, even as unlicensed taxi drivers in licensed cabs proliferate. (fun story: I've had colleagues whose luggage was held hostage while driven to an ATM because the driver didn't want card payment because he wasn't driving the cab legally. good luck pursuing recourse for that.)
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That's the beauty of it! Since they are now yielding the same result you can (in theory) use whichever one you want.
Having a look up table for branch prediction? If something happens a lot it might happen in the future. That doesn't even sound that novel.
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Contrary to the opinions of others, I appreciated your post. While a nitpick, you provided the both the correction and a good way to remember which word is used in which situation. As someone who has to stop to consider which one to use sometimes, I appreciate the extra effort.
You're missing the point, "cool female hacker" isn't a trope.
why would anyone report it? Facebook owes me nothing
I don't think of it that way. Even the most destitute person can go to the ER and get medical treatment that Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller or JP Morgan couldn't buy with their entire fortune. It's not always free, but it's available. Most people living near or above the poverty line can afford devices fit in their pocket and instantly share information with anyone on the planet. Entire ivy league university courses are instantly available for free anywhere with an internet connection. We've developed the technology that we were able to because we could. Wealth inequality sucks, minimum wage sucks, environmental pollution sucks, but we aren't doing all that bad for a bunch of apes just trying to figure things out.
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Looks like the "idea" of the patent in the description is to use a predictor to predict when a STORE and LOAD alias and not speculate the LOAD and any instruction depending on the load (although the claims generalize this to any non-static dependency).

As it generally happens in software/hardware patents, the claimed solution seems quite obvious whenever one wants to solve that particular problem, and the hard part is the "execution", i.e. implementing it efficiently and figuring out whether the tradeoffs are worth it.

So assigning patents to things like this seems really dumb.
Explicit arrays are what I consider the most important advantage of JSON over XML. In XML, every element is repeatable by default and only out-of-band specification can restrict cardinality. Two bytes extra per array, that convey so much structural self-documentation that is just not there in an XML document.

So JSON succeeded because XML is not verbose enough? Really did not see that one coming.
American exceptionalism.
Interestingly, the pound is already defined as a multiple of the kilogram, and has been for a few decades.
I don't get how they settled out of court and then did it again, that seems really bizare.
How do you stand on VanillaJS vs React these days? I remember some posts from you recommending that path.
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One kg of water is definitely one kg.
He was referring to the command in the Old Testament that bans wearing fabric blends. One thing to remember is that Jesus didn't nullify the law, he fulfilled the law. There were two types of rules in the Old Testament, ethical and lifestyle. There are a few instances in the New Testament where lifestyle rules are explicitly ignored without any condemnation for the actions (the opposite instead). The bleeding woman touching Jesus, Peter being told to eat unclean animals (meaning go talk to the Gentiles), and Paul telling the Galatians that the Gentiles do NOT need to be circumcised to be saved.

If one loves God and their neighbor, all the ethical law will be followed. One interesting loophole that Jesus removed was to love one another as He loved them (John 13:34) which is different than "Love your neighbor as yourself".
There's a lot of great game music out there, but the orchestral stuff is generally derivative of Mahler and Strauss. It's a genre that was plausibly modern 75 years ago, but isn't today. I would love to see games expand beyond the cliche orchestral action style, but I understand with so much money on the line that nobody wants to take those types of risks.
Settled with a different company.
Do commissioned officers actually do any navigation at all? I understood that this is mostly done by enlisted quartermasters (QM) an navigation electronics technicians (ET).
Don't you think that some people use LinkedIn as a way to be contacted for new jobs? I think based on the way profiles are written and optimized, at least a fair number of people use it as an ongoing passive job search.
Question: I looked up the price of an 18
core Xeon processor, with a clock
speed under 3.0 GHz, and got $4000+.

So, why be willing to pay so much
per core for such slow cores?

At first I guessed that having lots of
cores per processor would reduce the
number of processors needed and, then,
maybe for some software reduce licensing
costs, but the IBM Power processors likely
are going to be running Linux. So, the
goal is to reduce licensing costs for
Oracle? Something else? Or licensing
costs has nothing to do with it?

As I plan my server farm for my startup,
what am I missing about the value of
paying $4000+ for 18 relatively slow
cores?