skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNTK-World: Simple and Ready-To-use Examples for the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
Learning to Win Rock-Paper-Scissors [pdf]
Well, we don't actually know if they did fix it on TR/Epyc.

Epyc is on a newer stepping (that has not been released to the consumer market yet), but the issue was only acknowledged a couple months ago. The B2 stepping may already have been taped out at that point. We don't really know because you pretty much can't get ahold of Epyc systems at the moment (at the moment, the only way is by ordering prebuilt servers from SuperMicro). There hasn't been the degree of testing that you have on Ryzen. But, if the B2 stepping does contain a fix, that would be the reason that Epyc is immune.

Threadripper is on the same stepping, but it's cherrypicked silicon (AMD claims they're the top 5% of silicon off the line). There is a wide range of severity reported with Ryzen processors, some people segfault in seconds, others it takes 24h+ of testing before it manifests. That strongly suggests that it's a litho problem, and the fact that Threadripper is on cherrypicked silicon may insulate it somewhat from this issue. But in general I don't see any guarantee there either. There isn't anywhere near as much testing as there is on Ryzen here either (although certainly more than Epyc).

From what I've read the finger points pretty strongly at a cache problem (likely the uop cache) and it's also possible that TR/Epyc's NUMA configuration somehow avoids the trigger conditions for this bug. I don't think this case is particularly likely but it's one possible explanation.

Frankly though I don't understand why AMD hasn't released the B2 stepping to the consumer market. They are using it for Epyc but they are still producing Ryzen and TR on the original B1 stepping and appear to be releasing Raven Ridge on the B1 stepping as well. I don't know whether the B2 stepping contains a fix for this issue, but I'm sure it has some general fixes that would be good to have.
.. what? Have you not followed anything the EU has done? They have abolished roaming within 28 countries. They have created a solid net neutrality law, upon which members (of the EU) are allowed to expand but not reduce. They have stared down the likes of Microsoft, Intel, and soon Google.
That the USA does not have an effective government does not mean the rest of the world is the same.
Many highly competent individuals like to understand the fundamentals and first principles of how systems work and how different problems can be solved, and thus find work that provides no transferable knowledge/experience to be less appealing.

Right, but to those people, whether you use Docker or Kubernetes or custom scripting or a unicorn whose horn magically creates new instances when you need them is mostly just an implementation detail. It's no more interesting than exactly which compiler or DB you use; these are just tools, means to an end. If the differences are significant for your use case, sure, you evaluate and choose accordingly, but then you use the tools to get on with the job. The deep, interesting stuff is almost always in what you can build once you're into that territory.
Gab will.

Not because the current site is that good, but because Torba understands that a blockchain based distributed social network that is able to compensate content creators is the future:

https://gab.ai/a/posts/13902759

and he has the money to support building it, with gab subscriptions providing an infinite runway, the StartEngine 1M+ campaign, his legal warchest for the fight w/ Google, etc.
From the article, it seems that it is best-applied in situations where the following constraints apply:

1. No existing national addressing system exists.

2. Streets are not named (or do not exist).

3. The address space to be described is extremely sparse.

4. Mailing addresses are transient (i.e. buildings move, as tents, vehicles, etc).

A dense apartment building in an urban area is unlikely to be described by any of these constraints.

As mentioned elsewhere, these problems can also be solved by latitude/longitude coordinates. However, this simply provides a friendlier "hostname" convention to a numeric backend.
Me too. And I do love it!
They have the winespectator, but they require a subscription.

It's not a bad idea though. Where I live people guzzle red wine. Rich, and love their wine. And they belive it's good for them.

I used to work in the liquor industry. Those ratings on wine can't be trusted. If an industry had one good year, they put those tags on all their bottles.

I had my last $25 bottle of wine a few night ago. Just a waste of money.
Enlisting Marijuana and MDMA to Fight PTSD
Interesting. Does that also mean I can't import my bookmarks from Chrome into Firefox, for example?
Hell no. And If I'm forced to I'll reroute it to email anyways.

I frequently don't have cell coverage but do have WiFi.
If you are going to use a Linux kernel (on layer 0) anyways it reduces the attack surface by half!
Someone gave my brother a marijuana cookie one time when he was about nine, but it wasn't on Halloween. Seems like giving out edibles from your own house would be an easy way to get a mob of pitchfork-weilding parents on your lawn.
A lot of people use an @their_isp email address. If they change ISPs they change email addresses.

You'll need to have a way for such people to roll their accounts over to their new email address, and you cannot assume that there is ever a time when they simultaneously know the new address and have access to email sent to the old address.

A lot of people won't even remember that they need to change their email address on your site until after the old address is completely dead.

At a minimum, you probably should allow them to associate two email addresses with their account, and urge them to make one of those email addresses be at a provider other than their ISP.
Well, this has been argued to death here :) https://english.stackexchange.com/q/706/61174
> What's your working definition of "mainstream news outlet"?

A news outlet with a "one size fits most" attitude. That is, they offer a product which caters to people who could be described as "average". Typically companies focus their energy only on (potential) customers, not those who aren't a good fit for the product in the first place. There probably are more profit-promising people out there for the NYT than those who are somewhat crypto-nerds. They don't like clicking ads, some may even feel uneasy using typical payment methods to buy a subscription.

> Also there are large populations where network monitoring and/or content restrictions are part of everyday life.

yeah, that's reasonable.
> then listen in through ANY one of the apps you have installed

If there was some third party ad library that was installed across multiple apps that streamed audio and/or performed local speech recognition on everything you said don't you think somebody would have a) noticed by now, b) a security researcher figured it out, or c) everyone's battery's would be running red hot all of the time.

Teams at Apple and Google reverse engineer and debug the top 100 apps on their platforms all the time (there are teams dedicated to doing it). Facebook is also not the NSA - people leak stuff from them all the time. You're suggesting that either everyone is complicit in this, or there's a conspiracy so large and technically complex that it's managed to be kept secret all this time with no technical evidence outside of anecdotes.
The new iBubble underwater camera drone supposedly does that for scuba divers. Floating in the water with neutral buoyancy takes less power than flying so battery life should be decent.

https://ibubble.camera/
I don't see how that matters. Besides, people have been discussing widespread, domestic electronic surveillance for decades far outside conspiracy fringes. The Clipper chip, as just one example, was a big deal at the time and received widespread, mainstream coverage.
So, if FB wants to subsidize an internet plan that is exclusively for FB services, would you say that the government should allow that or prevent it?
But it does probably work. Even the threat of prison works as an incentive for people to testify against a higher up in the organization. There is no reason to believe that extreme physical pain is a less powerful motivator.

Torture does not work where there is not a cheap, fast way to verify information. However, for many cases there is: ie passwords. In those cases, I suspect torture would work extremely well and is the basis for the whole concept of "rubber hose cryptanalysis."

Thus, if your strongest argument against torture is efficacy, that is a pretty weak argument, and is just begging someone to test it. If you want to stand against torture, you need some type of moral argument, not a efficacy argument.
Simple Skype to Gitter bridge
So many people get this backwards, although I think some of this is the Constitution's fault. Originally it was a list of rights the government had, with the understanding that the states retained the rest. Then the bill of rights added a few civil liberties, i.e. rights the government specifically did not have. Theoretically this shouldn't make a difference, because anything not listed in the constitution was already unconstituional. Of course in practice we've read between the lines a lot with the original constituion, so it makes some sense that we also set some hard limits to what we can't do. But still, it makes it really confusing and leads to a lot of "interesting" legal beliefs by people who aren't familiar.
Facebook may not be recording audio, but they do pay attention to your cell phone, GPS, and wifi, so they know that you're at a particular fast food place. Then the brand-named shake is probably something they're trying to advertise, maybe even time-limited, so the fact that you're at that place is enough. Past that it's coincidence, the law of large numbers, and confirmation bias - you remember that instance and no others, and while a few people have their own anecdotes to share, HN's readership is large enough that FB could produce that population of anecdotes with a hit rate of "One time out of ten, advertise $restaurant and mention a single totally random item selected off their menu".

The "People you may know" anecdote below is, similarly, some combination of location, wifi sniffing, luck, and confirmation bias.
In 1992, we were using Xenix, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, SGI, Solaris, DG/UX, MS-DOS, AmigaOS, Atari, OS/2....

All of them allowed for static linking, and only a few supported dynamic linking.

Regarding Linux, the very first version to properly support dynamic linking was kernel 1.0.9, which introduced ELF support. Slackware 2.0 was one of the first distributions supporting it.

Before that, binutils had a set of patching tools to make dynamic loading work in the a.out format.

GNU/Linux is just one OS among many supported by C compilers.
This is no longer true in iOS 11 (and may have been true in iOS 10). Programs may opt into showing “secure” share extensions in the same way that has been in Safari since share extensions were introduced.
>and would strongly suggest sticking to computers.

I would agree with this. Almost any core non-software business will have some software related work, if the volumes are high enough.
Interesting concept, but lifting rock "only" gives you a ~3x advantage over lifting water, which can be lifted much higher.
In my case I was talking about flying with some coworkers and mentioned the entertaining safety videos that New Zealand Air had done. Probably hadn't thought or talked about it for 3 years. Opened up Facebook and had an ad announcing their new video. The microphone permission was turned off on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram on my phone too, so either Android isn't blocking permissions properly, or they are getting it from somewhere else which is even worse.
"Personally, I think this is a feature."

That is how I see it.

The more terse the better.

If there is a downside to APL-inspired language interpreters, it is that too many are closed source.
Another issue is the labor. I haven't personally looked into what the underlying reasons might be, but in Quebec, construction workers have all the power. If they don't show up, come late, under-deliver or do sloppy work, there's not much recourse, there's no one else. Given that these jobs are some of the highest paying relative to education level, there must be some artificial constraint that perpetuates this. If you are a general contractor, it's nearly impossible to provide consistent, high quality service, because they simply have little control over their workers.
We're updating that. Right now it uses test ether so you don't pay anything, we want to get the cost down drastically before we start using real money. The cost is for something called gas which is a fee that pays ethereum miners to verify transactions onto the blockchain.

Here's a video to give you an overview of how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8pVPJhlmw&t=233s
Except when you neighbors are the ones renting out the apartment next to you on air bnb, and you have drunk noisy people bumping around next door all the time.
Joining some tobacco products as the only examples I know of, other than obvious safety-related items (live animals, aerosols, etc.)
Did you read the article? It's not about competing social networks, it's about regulators.

> Pressure is mounting, at home and abroad, from legislators, regulators and activists, all looking for various ways to nudge and, in some cases, shove Facebook to acknowledge and act on its responsibility as the most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth.
xkcd deserves a mention, I'll pick this as my favourite:

https://xkcd.com/149/
I think you mean Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES). Supercapacitors are a different thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
> "only privacy nerds"

There's nothing weird in caring about security.

Data in tech companies and banks is worth hundreds of millions. Attackers are therefore willing to pay millions for a ME 0-day.
BazQux is the best Google Reader clone, with great support. Really terrific.
What does that have to do with the article about Facebook's upcoming regulation challenges?
I'd be really happy if we could handle radioactive waste with the same level of concern we assign to things like arsenic, cadmium, mercury, or any of the other poisons we dump into open pits that'll kill you horribly and won't go away ever.
Anyone who defends the Copenhagen interpretation. To be more precise, anyone who thinks that the "measurement problem" is still an unresolved problem, or anyone who defends the concept of "wave function collapse" as having any scientific or pedagogical merit whatsoever, except as a historical example of how science can go badly wrong.

Richard Feynman would be the poster child for this point of view were he alive today. Freeman Dyson defended it to me the last time I spoke to him, but that was 20 years ago so maybe he's come around.

According to a poll taken in 2013 [1] Copenhagen was the most popular interpretation among physicists.

Sean Carroll apparently thinks Copenhagen is tenable [2] along with many of his commenters.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1069

[2] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/17/the-most...
Another relevant read is "No Place to Hide" (!) by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist working on the Snowden file disclosures:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18213403-no-place-to-hid...
This is both sad and hilarious to me, because lead writer Dan Harmon has explicitly spoken against Rick's character.
Only if you use "cgo", otherwise it doesn't have access to the run-time linker.
Lotus insisted on a structural redesign because the original design was neither sensible nor safe.

Details here: http://www.lotusespritworld.com/EHistory/DeLorean.html
On a related note, how well Crystal is suited for number-crunching?
Facebook is eventually going to hurt its own reputation enough that people are going to stop using the platform.

A social network/messaging app isn’t that hard to build and Facebook has been building a lot of extra shit on top of it that people don’t really need.
As I understand it, English is your mother tongue. If so, that's probably why you don't have this issue.

For me, French is my mother tongue and I live in France. So, there's lots of things that I'd want to research that are specific to France (laws, culture, geography etc.) and then obviously, if you speak French fluidly, you get much more precise and detailed information for these in French texts.

If you're lucky, the English text is just a bad translation, but more often than not, the English text assumes that you must be some guy from a foreign country that really doesn't care about specifics and instead just wants an overview.

On the other hand, if I need to look up technical information or most international science, then English is the lingua franca, what gives you the best results in most cases.

In some cases, I'll even try both languages, just to make sure I'm not missing any useful information or to gauge which language gives better results (for example when a globally usable technology happens to be exceptionally popular in France).
> There are tons of information pieces that functionally need to be private, for example passwords, and tons of information pieces that better just should be kept private for your own benefit, like medical records.

Passwords are a solution of authorization , not authentication. Your face is not private but it can also be used as a password.

Medical record information is valuable only because it is private. If it were public, it wouldn't be considered as important. Much like wage data.

> You're not helping us customers. If every company knows everything about us, then every company can exploit our mental vulnerabilities to get us to buy more things we don't need.

The opposite on two accounts: today, the company that holds that data uses it against you without you knowing, precisely the requirement of privacy makes it impossible to understand how a company is using that information the way you describe. And secondly, nothing better than to erode a company's benefit of using that information than competing with others that do the same.

> Privacy is a basic human need. Lack of privacy can lead to severe mental issues, as illustrated by Panopticons.

Im not a psychology expert, but I'm willing to argue that privacy is a defense against other injustices, not valuable in itself.
It seems like an incredibly bad idea to use their API. It seems like one should just use the downloadable database. And besides, it'll be faster to just use the database rather than making an API call anyway.
Give me a photo sharing site that my kids use and I'm gone from FB.

Has to be easy-peasy. Clip save pics. No cloud crap. Open and see the latest post. See others' comments. End
Similar to how the Daily Show and SNL are not news, but have precariously fallen into a position of authenticity.
The article does feature a picture from somewhere in Nigeria, featuring a cluster of high rise buildings, and one of their 3 word addresses pointing toward them.
Lubos Motl has that effect on people.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/08/lubo-motl.html?m=1
Not sure if I'm missing something but... Instagram?
I'm honestly not sure which direction you mean - should we be really careless with nuclear waste, like we are with heavy metals, or should we treat heavy metal waste with more care?
> The only thing that makes me skeptical is that there should be reproduceable cases someone has documented for concrete evidence.

I'll throw another layer on the conspiracy pile and say they deactivate that behavior for anyone they notice trying to prove it, similar to Uber's Greyball.
I think they meant that they legally won’t be allowed to forbid you from exporting your data.
Buy a different phone.
I selfhost tinytiny-rss. I like it well enough.
Presuming Facebook has some sort of totally encompassing omniscience is a little foolhardy in light of e.g. the Russia issues, isn’t it? I tacitly admitted they may at worst suspect but not know that third parties are targeting in this way.

I’m not sure I trust that security researchers can be relied upon to catch everything. There are so many flagrant abuses of user privacy that go unchecked or remarked upon and nevertheless ignored that such an avenue of prevention seems highly unreliable.

Also you’d be surprised at what people are willing to do when you define a certain culture and incentive structure. While you may dismiss it, I find it frankly astounding that the NSA program managed to metastasize into the behemoth it became before it was finally outed to the public. And even a cursory reading of behavioral psychology will help to explain how that can happen.

I also know that Facebook perversely prioritizes metrics above pretty much all else. And it means they’re perfectly willing to indulge in dark patterns if the numbers line up.
Both, meeting somewhere in the middle - nuclear waste is treated way too carefully, and non-nuclear heavy metal waste is treated rather too carelessly. Either way, the important point is for the level of care to be proportional to the actual danger, rather than determined entirely by whether it's called "radioactive" or not.
please note that we at Delft University of Technology have been working on a similar bandwidth-as-a-currency system since August 2007.

BBC New article from 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6971904.stm
Running decentral market code and tech portfolio:
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

Notes after reading your whitepaper, latency and complexity matter. We copied the Tor packet layout and deployed a simple NAT puncture method to avoid difficulties. Your proposed approach looks like many years of work.
Thanks. Sounds like the law was structured this way to avoid exactly this scenario, that people would purposefully avoid paying off what they could, pay only the interest (or the minimum amount acceptable to the loan company) and then stick the government with the remainder.

I'll be honest, this is a shitty situation for this guy, and maybe he was misled, but this does seem to fall under the "if it's too good to be true" category. The idea of trying to game this situation by paying the minimum possible should have set off alarms bells with everyone involved, like, every month. I'm surprised it took so long for the issue to surface.
I've been playing Civ 5 on the Mesa radeon driver since it came out on Linux with great framerates. That being said, My FPS at 1080/high has gone from ~45 to over 90 in the last two years on the same 290 card.
and no one in the equation killed you yet. :)
Right. I guess I should be more explicit in my prediction that the market will move faster than the governments will.

I know that people here don't like Gab, but looking at it rationally they look like the most likely challenger in that the leadership understands the coming tech stack that will route around whatever governments and private consortiums come up with, and they have the cash on hand and ideological commitment to do it.