skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing saying that these are not good tools for your critical thinking toolbox.

I just find it unlikely that a random blog story about being skeptical gets upvoted 18 times without a single comment in 20 minutes.

There was a similar website posted about 20 minutes ago with no attribution similarly upvoted quickly with no comments.
I find today's news media has more than enough of these techniques in play already and initially I was uncomfortable seeing something like this list with so many upvotes without a single comment. I then read thru them again and see it from a different perspective:

This list is in effect a partial rule set for fake news, a problem we should all be worried about as we deserve the facts, the truth. So by defining a problem, you'r better placed to fix a problem. So whilst not all upon the list can immediately be translated into code. Some aspects can more easily translate into some code; Like verifying sources.

One thing I do know, if all news media had the level of filtering that HN has, then life would be so much better for all. Thank you Dang et all for that.
Ideas that dumb can only last so long. I hope.

Apple has no market dominance in the graphics/compute domain and they want people to spend time and energy porting to a locked-in proprietary API when they haven't even had success getting people to use cross-platform open APIs like OpenGL/CL? Madness.
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In NW.js you can use Node.js in Web Worker: https://nwjs.io/blog/v0.18.4/ . HTH.
One problem in 1929 rarely mentioned is the Fed started inflating the money around 1917, but kept the fixed exchange rate with gold. By 1929, it amounted to a 40% off sale on gold at your local bank. Bank after bank collapsed under the onslaught and this persisted until the government repudiated gold sales and defaulted on the gold bonds.

Fixed exchange rates never, ever work out. There's always a massive correction.
> You know, a computer as opposed to a fashion statement. What a bunch of buffoons.

The fashion statement as you put it is their biggest differentiator. You are being unfair or shortsighted from their perspective.
> They can and they did - they pushed the update to Nexus and Pixel devices.

fwiw: my Nexus does not see the update yet.
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Tangentially related to this - numerai is a crowdsourced hedge fund that uses structure preserving encryption to be able to distribute it's data, while at the same time ensuring that it can be mined.

https://medium.com/numerai/encrypted-data-for-efficient-mark...

Why did they not build something like this ? I'm kind of concerned that my private keyboard data is being distributed without security. The secure aggregation protocol doesn't seem to be doing anything like this.
The risk is if your payload is not perfect in all cases. Taken to the extreme, you brick a mission critical device and cost a life. This is why malware researchers don't write clean up code once they do C2 takeovers. If their cleanup command wrecks a medical device or some other ancient box still running XP, that's a lot of liability.
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The key thing to understand about libertarianism is that all of the arguments against governments apply equally to any organization with sufficient coercive power.

Many libertarians believe that if not for government interference, monopolies wouldn't form in the free market. Those people are right in some cases (e.g. payment processing) and wrong in others (e.g. roads). But the dogmatic position asserts that it's true in all cases, and then no corporation would have sufficient coercive power so you only have to worry about the government.

If you take the practical approach and accept that there are always going to be some private monopolies and oligopolies, or even the pragmatic approach that they actually exist today and we have to deal with them today even if the wonder of the free market will eliminate them in the future, then we have to hold sufficiently coercive corporations to the same standards as governments. And at the same time try as hard as we can to destroy their coercive power, so that we can stop needing to do that.
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It isn't really the mortgage, it's having a place that's yours for your family - if we were renting, it would be as paramount to pay the rent.

The disadvantage of a mortgage is that you generally have a longer term investment, which makes you less mobile - although the truth is you have more assets and it's a liquidity problem (you'd have to sell your house to get anything out of it). The risk there is that you'd have to sell in a down market if something bad happens to your job (or you, if you're the breadwinner).

There are other breaks you get - tax and otherwise. I never realized how rigged the system was until I bought a house.

For example, if you're a homeowner, you get a massive break on car insurance. The interest is tax deductible on your mortgage. You learn a little about money, and pretty soon you're negotiating harder for better deals - you become the ultimate ballbuster. You...Are...Dad.

YMMV.
> fake news, a problem we should all be worried about as we deserve the facts, the truth.

I have concerns with this ("fake news") being presented as a recent issue, as if the media told some pure truth until Trump came along.. really, it's a catchphrase employed to dismiss something out of hand without any real reason for doing so except that it goes against what the person claiming it believes. Goes right along with #5 here.
> The reality distortion field on this guy is impressive.

Why exactly? Sure there are some people who want legacy connectors, but majority don't really care, in the last 3-4 years the only time I used non type c USB connector is when I was charging my phone. When I got a new Mac I just got a type c cable for 10$ - problem solved.
Milton Friedman wrote in "Monetary History of the United States" that the money was more stable when interest rates were set by the blind workings of supply & demand than when the Fed did it, and backed it up with charts and statistics.
Nvidia has a history with names. Remember when they used "Tesla" to both call a microarchitecture and their HPC line of cards, for which it's still used? When Fermi based Tesla cards came out, everyone was saying 'huh, wait what'?
"intelligence reports on Russia" = had a phone conversation with Russian ambassador. in soviet union one could easily get a prison sentence for talking to US ambassador. it is fascinating to watch the transformation of US into USSR.
At first I thought it seemed like the kind of language machines will invent to communicate with each other.

But then I realized it's main features aren't clarity and precision. But instead it's a just another way of mapping human mental models to encoders and decoders. Speech and script on to ears and mouths and eyes.

Machines will have fundentally different mental models of meaning and also be able to create any encoder decoder pair to suit any range of sensors and actuators​.

Machines could have a language in light, 3d printed objects could be scripts. A sculpture could literally be art and treatise at the same time.
This reminded me of a great quote from Hermann Goering:

Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Designing a computer is a lot more complicated than that.

1 year is pretty amazing.
Goodbye HN
Nothing but a bunch of leftists and a half assed news feed.
Don't forget the Mexican/American war, the Spanish/American war, the unending "Indian Wars", and various other military expeditions during that period.

It's probable that the War of 1812 showed America how unprepared it was for conflict with a serious power.

The civil war from 1861 to 1865 required the complete commitment of both sides, with the Union in particular developing massive industrial capacity to help the cause.

This rapid and urgent industrialization was further developed during the Reconstruction phase when a large chunk of the country had to be built back up from ruin.

If these two conflicts never happened there wouldn't have been the same urgency to develop industry. It would be much more of an agricultural economy like the southern states and not like Ohio, New York or Pennsylvania with their enormous appetite for large-scale manufacturing.

If that was the case the US would be utterly unprepared for any conflict in Europe. As it was the US military was in really rough shape prior to the outbreak of war in Europe. There was no pressing need for a large, well-equipped standing military since Mexic
I wouldn't call my previous comment particularly libertarian, although some of the claims seem to overlap with libertarianism as I understand it. Most of my comment is descriptive rather than prescriptive. I certainly think you're looking into my comment and find things I didn't say or imply, like the "private entities filling in gaps without restrictions" part.

Really, what I'm saying is that there are two ends of the continuum that look pretty obvious and which I suspect the vast majority of people would agree with, but within the continuum things get less clear are offer more room for disagreement.
18 times is.. not that many. But hey, I just upvoted it, here's a comment to prove my authenticity.
It's obvious that elements of US government in both parties have been captured by the business of war, for a long time now. I could argue until I'm blue in the face about this, but now I'm mostly just tired. These people are twisted and they need to pay for their crimes. I'll die happy if Bush, Obama, and Trump all spend the rest of their lives in prison. I don't believe a fucking thing from any of these bastards, their PR teams, their 'intelligence' agencies, or their media surrogates.
I don't get why we see so much negative about Apple here on HN. Yes, they made some wrong decisions. But the OS (macOS) is still the same, and most pro use an iMac nowadays. On the otherside it looks grim if you eant to continue the PC pro path as Windows 10 just sends way to many data. I cannot imagine it's okay for anyone that locale docx, pdf and jpg files are sent to Redmond/Washington when Windows thinks it's about time (if a application crashes, gets unresponses or slow downs). Or I cannot imagine it's okay for anyone that Windows 10 sends a list of all music and video played, as well as the browser history and the speech-recognition text-results in plain text to Redmond. (You don't believe, well read their recently released documentation!!) Every other company would face a outcry and be called adware and spyware. Yet Windows 10 gets away? Why? Mac is still way better.
Still don't get it?

I think SJW's have lost the plot and are enlisting people with mental illness into their cult of culture to further their own cult while doing damage to them and the community at large.

Do they think something similar?
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There's nothing altruistic about that. Emails with those words will cause problems for the legal department when they come up in discovery during antitrust litigation.
http://www.newstarget.com/2016-07-20-double-standards-leslie...
Is there any layman's introduction to this subject? I can't comprehend how having an accurate timer lets me steal information from other processes.
>Why are people being so critical about this work?

Some people can't stand to miss an opportunity to remind everyone about how smart they are.

However... one criticism I have of the article is that their first graph doesn't start the y-axis at zero, giving a false impression of how much their method improves on others.
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Exactly. Thank you. I actually implemented a platform game with melonjs a long time ago (like 6+ yrs ago), before that a platform game using Flash + AS3. I have since given up game dev. I was asking hoping to solicit a response from current game devs on what's the preferred js game frameworks. But alas, Im automatically presumed to be some random lazy web guy asking on HN who doesnt know how to do these basic cybery stuff like goooogelling.
How is web assembly going to help with multithreading?
twitter has every right to do whatever they want on their platform. we have every right to ridicule twitter for double standards.
Still not quite as good as MC in Sublime, but pretty close.
Of course they do - you'd think that they would just lag behind, while Intel is implementing it's malware, and selling it to corporations? It's called AMD PSP
When you can run a real CAD program on a phone, I'll be interested.

The web is for disposable toys, uninteresting ones at that. All of Windows 3.1 could fit in less space than the Apple website. You're telling me a silent install of Windows 3.1 would take more time to install than...Some app to find local hookups by GPS?
Are you kidding? Metal isn't just on macOS, it's on all of Apple's platforms. With the iPhone alone they have all the market power they need.
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Not only your genes worthless, since everyone has genes, but you leave them everywhere, like when you get a haircut.

Might be important if you were planning on a life of crime, or if you owe someone child support. But for the moment there's no good way to use them to make money off you.
Fake news is quite the buzzword at the moment.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news
I was genuinely worried that basically all HN users lack any insight on this topic. It's great to be proven wrong! And thank you for being humble about it. Most other commenters spew out bullshit as if they were an authority on the topic. It's funny how ignorant the average HNer becomes when they're not discussing the latest JS framework.

I essentially agree with your reasoning. It's a very delicate situation, but Assad, Iran, and Russia have gotten away with too much. The US and its allies have to show them that their actions have consequences. You can't just use chemical weapons over and over again without repercussions.

As for the long term, it's very difficult to tell what will happen. The way I see it is dialogue is the only way forward. Both sides have to figure out an arrangement that ends up benefiting the Syrian people. Otherwise, this war is going to become irreversible, if it hasn't already..
Is this in reference to anything in particular?
It's a lot for a random blog, that frankly doesn't say a whole lot of unique or interesting things or come from a respected source, and it's not new. The timing in the pushing of the narrative that the chemical bombing in Syria was a false flag kind of went hand-in-hand in my assessment that this was not "organic".

Meh, I'll adjust my tinfoil hat.
I did it at 36, but only because my wife is a doc and the marginal tax rates made W2 wages pointless.

If I were the sole provider for our family, nfw. There is too much out of your control, even if you are competent and have a good idea.
Is there anything that can be done here? Pai and his little buddy O'Rielly have an easy majority on the FCC here, and I doubt they'll listen to any comments. Short of like, the Trump government being dismantled before then, how do you get rid of such a transparently corrupt head of a federal agency?
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Why do people even need Apple to produce Mac Pro? If this is for developers, they can build their own, and probably do a better job for less money: it's just a PC with components that OSX has drivers for [1].

I also don't quite get what are they going to be spending all this time on, what kind of "designing" is going into it? Picking components on NewEgg and figuring out the shape of their Apple-branded case? :)

Seriously, unlike mobile/laptops, Apple has no competitive advantage in traditional desktop computing. They don't make CPUs, chipsets, GPUs, etc. And there's no battery to fiddle with, or a case to make thinner or a keyboard to mutilate.

[1] https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/april/2017#CustoMac_P...
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Or The Verge is just trying to grab attention with a sensationalist clickbait headline?
They did - librecore; but not much work was done on it. Libreboot is a build system more than anything else - and to be honest, that jungle of bash scripts - I'd rather see it rewriten from scratch, rather than forked. To answer your question - they kinda forked it, and kinda not.
> The law is not on twitter's side.

Could you cite the law you're thinking of? Simply claiming to be a federal agent to set the context for a discussion is very different from claiming to be one and then acting under the authority of that pretended identity.
See my replies downthread. It's not Hindi that I dislike, it's the choice of the name. I'm definitely on board about Hindi being a good idea for Indian spacecraft.

Calling the Mars mission "Mars Vehicle" in any language is stupid.
I just did.

Simply incorporated myself and started earning 250k USD as a contractor.

It seems more risky to me to spend your most precious years in some awful open office shit hole.
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> And I don't think BDSM or Goreanism count as protected sexual orientations.

I think the answer to that question would make a couple of lawyers pretty affluent.
You are comparing apples with oranges here. Metal and OpenCL are different technologies. OpenCL is cross platform and an open specification while Metal is used only on macOS and iOS.
I ran into this too. As far as I know, nope, it has not improved.
Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Surprisingly, this trend started way before sexual issues got intermingled with technology.

Remember esr, who got shunned for his libertarian and pro-gun-ownership views?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Un... Just a cursory glance at that will show that isn't correct. Prior to the fed you had panics every two years.
The papers "The Spy in the Sandbox -- Practical Cache Attacks in Javascript" at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.07373.pdf and "ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU" at http://www.cs.vu.nl//~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pd... are good starting points, though they are not very accessible to a layman.

There have even been timing attacks that let you recover AES keys from analyzing a device's power usage.

In layman's terms: computers are extremely complicated beasts of coordinated timing of software and hardware, and timing data leaks many things about what a piece of software is doing. This is the reason that many modern encryption libraries pad operations as a defense against timing attacks.
Doing nothing is still a choice.
The model 3 is the cusp of mainstream electric cars.

I'd mention the bolt but GM hates electrics and would rather they go away, as documented in "who killed the electric car".

This car may transform the world for the better and be part of the great solution to co2 emissions.

I don't think any Kardashian sighting has the same implication.
I wonder if the Mac would have touch if Microsoft didn't have it.
"Interesting another conspiracy driven website batted to the top"

More interesting: You use points #5 and #4 from the article to suppress. I add this article to highlight how ^suppression^ of information can be justified.

cf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254
The amount of time something takes is often related to the input. Measuring the time, gives you information on that input.

For example measuring the time of a=b with constant b tells you roughly how large a[:n] such that a[:n] = b[:n].
The solution has been known for a long time. Dismantle the military industrial complex.
Bachelor of Arts - Security Theatre should be a genuine coarse universitys make available.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/apple-watch-helps-man-survive-pot...

It's also good for lessons on why not to drink too much coffee on Adderall.

Actually, this is a lot more useful than checking your own genes once they've already produced you. Generally you've already found all of that out.
That's a very good point. The gold pegging definitely tied the hands of the Fed back then, as the Fed had to raise interest rate to defend the depletion of gold due to gold redemption.
Oh it has been around for a while in many forms, call it disinformation, propaganda, social engineering, clever humour, manipulative, it has many names. Just many today know it as "Fake News" as a catch-all. In much the same way as a selfie would be known as, well I'm not sure as always called them a photo of myself without the need to mention I'd used the timer mode upon the camera or held it at arms length.

Just that the term "fake news" became the Flavour Of The Month and stuck in much the same was as selfie did. Do we credit Obama for the rise of the selfie, nope. So in that your observation about the term itself being something that can be categorised in that list does make you wonder.

Still facts and the truth are still that, and those ain't changed. But when News media is more about reporting opinions more and more over the facts, then the environment for social engineering becomes much more ripe for the picking. More so when such control can be utilised for fiscal gains, due to the effect. So share price or indeed currency manipulation being obvious examples and to be able to do that indirectly as a side effect.

This and the rise and access to the internet and the growth and use of social media has reached a stage in which it is easier than ever before to pull a hoax on the news. Let alone something more sinister. All via manipulation, or as it is referred to by the populus these days "fake news".
and looking outside the US, Australia hasn't had a recession in more than 25 years
I ran into the cancellation loop a few months ago in Oakland. Had 3 drivers confirm, after 10-15 minutes cancel. Ironically, one driver called to tell me she was cancelling for another ride and then literally drove by us.
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That's not just rumors. In the interview, Craig Federighi said:
> I’d say longer than six months ago. But I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner, if you will. We designed a system that we thought with the kind of GPUs that at the time we thought we needed, and that we thought we could well serve with a two GPU architecture… that that was the thermal limit we needed, or the thermal capacity we needed. But workloads didn’t materialize to fit that as broadly as we hoped.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-c...
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Maybe it's cause of the Christian bit, but it's totally true. The real meaning of life is to find your purpose, so that you don't die meaninglessly