skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People upgrade CPUs mostly because of cache size, core count, IO speed, and core speed. Only the last one can improve by hacking microcode, and only marginally.
Thanks Donavan, I appreciate the information! I may send you an email to help decipher the job postings.
My old modded Xbox still works and boot straight to XBMC.

I use Kodi on my Raspberry Pi as a media player, and it seems to do everything now. even PlayStation Vue works on it.

I wonder if this means that PlayStation Vue will work on Xbox One now...
> It is up to the business owner to take out loans and allocate those resources responsibly.

Isn't it up to the bank to allocate its resources responsibly?
The book reads like a story....I am sure this will serve as a great read for young engineers -- very well done!!!!
> it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to hear about all these eminent people saying "This will be the next hot thing, you better get in now!"

Really? If you don't have that filter you'll be prey for every investment scam that comes along.
Not every site does it, but most of them do have tracking of some kind (at least google analytics). I refuse to give up these information in exchange for access to content.

If me blocking ads/tracking results in some company shutting down, then so be it. But maybe others will jump in to fill that gap and try something different like, say, a subscription fee, in which case I'll happily pay.

But if I/we just stop using those sites that I truly enjoy, then if/when they shut down others might be afraid to go into that market because they might think there's not enough interest in it.

All of this is just a guess, obviously.
Arbitration and multiplexing
Why does that 80% need to be done?
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker
If you spend more than 6 month outside of your home base country, it gets complicated. I did that once and wont do it again.

This year I only spent ~2 months on the road so there is no problems. From now on, that probably will be the way to go. A real home base all year long with a big (or 2) big Digital Nomad trips. Being "homeless" and full Nomad is a little too much (unless you got a VR or something, but that restrict you to North/South America)

You also have to take into account who pay the value added taxes, that's the complicated part. When in Canada, depending on the province, one of the tax is paid by the customer and I charge the customer the other one. When clients are outside of the country, but I am legally working from Canada, then it's export and it's their problem. Some there is a lot of gotcha and product categories and trade deals. Thankfully I only work in a single field, so I don't have to learn them all.
Yes. Though effective communication involves knowing who you are speaking too.

I have a mental model about the typical HN reader. So, for example, I would not bother explaining the term 'container' in the context of application deployment. Even for devops who don't use containers, just hanging around here providers plenty of exposure to that concept.

But in this case...
People won't pay 99 cents for an app because it's nearly impossible to evaluate it's quality from the beginning.
That’s mostly above ground rail through suburbs. DC built the silver line for 1/3 that in similar areas. (Still breathtakingly inefficient compared to $450 million for digging under fricking Paris).
There are literally water fountains at every stadium I have been to from pro games to kids leagues. I doubt you can get a free nasty dasani water bottle but you can use any free water fountain without paying.
OP was making a joke that Wall Street bankers are criminals :-)
A business can start losing money and later become profitable. Also banks tend to ask for something to pray in case that never happens, so they sometimes profit from unprofitable businesses.

Happy New Year from Captain Obvious ;)
Came back to add: For the first time ever, I was watching a youtube vid that was interrupted to play an ad.

Ugh. I hope it doesn't go that way. I don't even know what the ad was for.
Status Video on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnLTS4tAJKs
Instead of Making a Major Life Change, I’ll Just Go Skydiving Again
Its like email. Email without spam filters is unusable for most people. Scams, fraud, malware, targeting of vulnerable people in society. At some point people have enough and the market falls into even further decay. The web is where email were before 2000, still somewhat usable without a blocker but has reached the breaking point for a lot of users.

The major difference between email and web advertisement is that the web has so much more money invested into the system, so the browsers and the biggest advertisement system that exist is trying to save the market by ad acceptable standard. Will be interesting to see if they can do what email advertisement could not. Personally I doubt it, as email, scam, and fraud is remains something which the publishers refuse to take responsibility when distributing. Practically every country in the world has advertisement laws, except that none of them is followed on the web.
Best Idea Wins
You can't configure which shell is run, but you can usually configure the shell (in ~/.profile or a similar file).

Or, if the server is running Debian, you can set environment variables the .pam_environment file:

https://bugs.debian.org/761600
0ad is another open source project. It's a full-fledged game which can be modded with your own imagery/units, etc.

http://play0ad.com/
> They are however lowering the price to exchange batteries even for older models.

No, they’re not:

> Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.
They also wrote some scripts and ran some experiments, or did you stop reading after a while?
if your going to do it tell them as soon as possible. It will probably burn bridges, but don't get stuck at job your not going to like.
Sure beats the $2 billion bus station that San Francisco is building.
Consumers dropped $200M on apps on Christmas, up 12% from last year
I have an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 10.3.x.

I wish they would put a new 10.3 version with the new battery code out. I have every intention of not using iOS 11 due to feature changes that don't work well for me (like the control center wifi/Bluetooth silliness).

Won't happen, though - this is Apple.

I am afraid of ever breaking this phone because it is my understanding a restore from backup forces an update to the latest code.
NCAA programs do not make billions of dollars. All NCAA programs combined might have that much total revenue.

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

Clemson, where I went to school and the current defending champs had a budget of $104,000,000. Of that, they spent $103,000,000. If you'd be so kind as to identify the shareholder who's rolling in that $1 million profit I'd appreciate it.

When I was in school around 2000 it was a $30,000,000 budget. All of that extra money happened because of Tivo and Netflix making it so much easier to skip commercials on anything that you didn't need to watch live...which make live sports (that people watch) the most viable advertising channel for traditional broadcasters. Couple that with college sports having the added benefit of mostly aiming advertising at the eyeballs of alumni and you have the most valuable advertising resource in TV.

In the mean time, have a look at the new facility that the team gets to enjoy.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18614393/tak...

In regard to not being paid professionals, if you'll explain walk-ons...the people without scholarships who work to join the team on their own dime and have to meet the exact same requirements to be on the team yet might not ever see the field. The ones who clearly seem to think that there's enough value that they'll pay for the chance to participate.

Or then this: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-growing-student-l...

I'm sorry, but this whole "everybody get the NCAA" thing is just getting tired.
I've been using 1Blocker on iOS for ages now and can't tolerate the mobile web without it. There are several other good blockers, too, including Firefox Focus. I highly, highly recommend using one.
Actually, it's worse than that, if you read the article.

NY Government (Governor Andrew Cuomo): Let's build a new subway station. Hey MTA, why don't you negotiate for us and figure out how much it costs.

MTA: Hey TWU, you can figure this out for us, right?

TWU: Hey contractors and vendors. How much will it cost us to have you supply parts and do some of the work for this project?

Contractors/Vendors: Oh, that'll be $500,000, which allows us to make a healthy profit margin of 20%.

TWU: That's not enough - you should be charging us $800,000, so we can make a healthy margin as well without cutting into yours.

Contractors/Vendors: By golly, you're right!

TWU: Also, add another $200,000, because we need an "operational readiness" consultant to help us when we're ready to finish. The project won't be ready for another ten years, but we should employ them the whole time just in case.

Contractors/Vendors: Sounds good to us. We're not the ones paying.

TWU: Hey MTA, this will cost $1,450,000. We added on an extra $450,000, because they're using a fifty-year-old piece of technology, and our contract stipulates that we get an extra $450,000 every time they do, to offset the job loss from this "technological advancement".

MTA: That sounds like a reasonable price for this. Hey Cuomo, you're the governor of NY. Can you please rubber-stamp this proposal to increase our budget by $1,450,000? Look how strapped for funding we are.

NY Government (Governor Andrew Cuomo): Well, you supported my last election bid, so I don't see why I should start questioning your prices now. Let's go!

...seriously, read the article. This isn't even an exaggeration.
> No cost, no ads, no sign-in/registration, no eye candy, no frames, no hype, no Java, no Flash, no kidding. Completely free since 1993.

There should be a medal for sites like this!
It's back to android for me; it's great to have a choice here, those pixel 2 xl are looking a whole lot nicer all of a sudden.
Monopoly is a very bad game, and you are a bad person for forcing it upon people.

Also, most people on the server where playing Minecraft with some buy and sell mods, not the sociopatic trading simulator the author describes.
Any business will fail unless it allocates its resources responsibly. If banks don't, they'll go out of business (or get bailed out, but that's a different topic), if small businesses allocate money irresponsibly, they'll go out of business. With or without a loan.
Forget Bitcoin, these guys invest in Magic cards
St. Louis had almost as many homicides as NYC this year.

Population of St. Louis: 312,000

Population of NYC: 8,537,673

http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article191211704....
> justifices the cost to society in terms of wasted materials and labour to do that?

Probably not, but ..

> Does it even justify the manufacturer's development costs to create that lockout in the first place..

I feel it must do, or they wouldn't keep doing it.
How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever
Because Nintendo completely failed at DRM on the Wii U. Pirates can actually download games directly from Nintendo's official store and load them onto a hard drive to play.
Wow a libertarian think tank is anti minimum wage? What else is new?
I live in NYC, and we're currently in the middle of a two-week-long span of high winds and average temperatures of -9°C, with lows of -15°C (before you add in wind chill).

If you don't have good shelter for these conditions death is pretty much a guarantee. I sure as hell would never want to be homeless in NYC during a winter like this one. You cannot discount the effect of weather on homeless populations, and even the homeless can typically scrounge together enough money for a one-way bus ticket to somewhere warmer, once.
I've had my HP laptop running Windows (one of the best models a few years ago) shutdown randomly because of an aged battery. Replacing the battery made it usable again. I don't believe this is an Apple-only issue or even a smartphone-only issue. If it hasn't happened to someone, it may be due to many other factors at play.
it would be cheaper to get universal income going
>or perhaps scarcity existed in terms of time it took to procure materials.

I would say this is pretty much the case.

Even the simplest most abundant resources takes time to harvest. And that rare resources take much longer to fine, and can be much more dangerous to gather (requiring people to suit up with a set of expensive gear that they could lose in the process).

What makes different servers so diverse is that mods can drastically change the underlying cost and risks of gathering material. There is a turtle mod that allows you to program a turtle to mine resources for you. While it is kinda slow, it runs steadily without intervention and can quickly strip mine an area to provide you with plenty of resources. But it can't farm animal items like wool, so it significantly lowers the time investment of ores while not at all impacting animal product costs.
Some people want to be a business partner more than an employee. Not that that's impossible as a software engineer, but it may be easier from a different starting point.
Logical sandboxing is a perfectly possible problem that can even be made correct by formal methods. Browsers don't use a proven correct implementation because testing are enough to get almost perfect already.

So, are your concerns about side channel attacks? Side channels are nothing more than undocumented (and sometimes unfixable) logical features. Opening the microcode for inspection and making it patchable will only reduce the number of undocumented features.
If you are poor and you can't afford housing NYC has some brutal weather. With the increasing prices its hard to get housing there. I don't really know how you can survive on the streets there. At least SF has more temperate climate.
It's even worse than that:

> The critics pointed to several unusual provisions in the labor agreements. One part of Local 147’s deal entitles the union to $450,000 for each tunnel-boring machine used. That is to make up for job losses from “technological advancement,” even though equipment has been standard for decades

They literally have to pay the union $450,000 for using machines that have been standard around the world for fifty years.
I would separate PC and XB/PS in that analogy. They're very different both in terms of how you write performant code and what the support profile looks like.

Back when I worked on them getting PC stuff up and running marginally was pretty easy. X360 and PS3 took a ton more work to do properly(PS3 only would allow only allow a very small number of open file handles just to name one of many things).
Jobs had nothing to do with the Newton and killed it when he came back to Apple.
Yeh there are a lot of updates. But (and this has come up elsewhere) people call every update a firmware update and its not.

Not every update is a firmware update. But every update is a software update.

Firmware in this context is (most likely from what I can tell) 2nd stage bootloader that exists in EFI. It's pretty rarely updated. This is Package1 that they talk about here and http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=System_Versions here.
Even less if we're talking about firmware updates that burnt a fuse (bottom of this page http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Fuse_registers#FUSE_RE...)

So despite 11 Software updates, there has only been five firmware updates.

When we're talking about fuses odm_reserved has 256 bits to play with. Assuming that one bit is 1 fuse. Then they can do 256 firmware updates before they're in trouble.

Firmware is a pretty horribly misused term these days.
I'm working on my own open-source game as a Tetris Attack clone. https://github.com/omenking/swap-n-pop/

What I'm always surprised is the lack of tooling and test code and I'm of the belief that in the war of the clones, the ones that chooses tooling and a stack designed for larger teams, and a focus on BDD will get your project where it needs to go.

Instead of building a game, focus on building a team.

Great work on this clone so far, I was just talking top of mind.
Shenzhen taxi drivers are, to my mind, getting noticably worse at navigating. When questioned last month, one explained that the old drivers got out of the taxi game and purely drive didi (local version of Uber) as it makes more money. The current crop of drivers are mostly new to the game.
Respectfully, I’m not seeing how your employment at Google or your being on a plane is relevant to my comment. If you had the experience I do working at marketing agencies for brands such as Google, I suspect you wouldn’t find my theory near conspiracy territory. I concede that such a play likely wouldn’t be considered well-executed given the timing, but it’s entirely within the realm of possibility.
Nintendo goes to more trouble than most to lock down their consoles (and they always have), and they also never sell their hardware at a loss (though this may have briefly been untrue after they lowered the price of the 3DS shortly after launch).
This is when I wish people would read the article before commenting... It goes over what quantum would be good at solving, why it's good at solving it, and what can stump it. All in just a handful of paragraphs.
> Only the last one can improve by hacking microcode

You can implement entirely new instructions in microcode.
> Your non-profit status is meaningless to anyone who understands corporate structures

Care to clue the rest of us in?
> I could not launch Lyft, uber took minutes to open

That’s something that’s wrong with your phone, not iOS.
Net Negative Churn Explained and INFOGRAPHIC
Good luck protecting against offline reading with a microscope. The only defense is that this thing is expensive.
Uhoh. Page 404ed. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Even if console gamers are a different breed, I feel like the homebrew crowd is even more different from console gamers than console gamers are from pc gamers.

>Console makers aren't interested in making devices that sell at super thin margins and provide zero incremental revenue because they get bought by a homebrew crowd that won't buy into the ecosystem.

But are they really a threat, and are they a big enough threat to be worth spending the time and money to lock out?
>is it possible to build a ProteinFoldingCoin?

I've thought about it, but don't think it's possible. Basically quantum chemical methods like Hartree-Fock or Coupled Cluster is a question of finding eigenvalues to some very very large matrices and/or solving non-linear equation. Verifying a solution (such as electron correlation energy) can, to my knowledge, only be done by using the result and checking if the equations are still valid, which pretty much is just doing the whole work.
Just a day ago I commented on a different thread about the Pixel 2 XL and its display flaws. It won't look a whole lot nicer once you get it (pun intended). [1] The Pixel 2 (non-XL) has a good display though. But you may just be trading for random shutdowns instead of CPU throttling after a while (as other Android users have commented here).

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/pixel-2-and-2-xl-rev...
> That's because you've legalized bribery. Your political system rewards corruption. Every actor in the described mess is (re)acting rationally. Is this somehow a surprise?

Ugh, please stop saying this. Bribery is not legal in the US. We literally just tried a sitting US senator for corruption including bribery, and we just convicted the former Speaker of the New York State Assembly for corruption, including bribery and kickbacks. It's very much not legal.

New York politics is an outlier - in fact, New York has literally the most corrupt government in the country. The problem isn't that it's legal (it's not legal); the problem is that New York has such a wide and extensive network of corruption (as this article shows) that it's damn-near impossible to actually address any of it.
Wow. The author really pissed your cornflakes, didn’t he? I’ve been an engineer for 30 years, this is the first i’ve heard of author or his book, but i have to say i agree with much of his advice.

When you have a choice, you should always choose high leverage. You should work to limit distractions and get more focus time. This is all great advice.
Cool idea, I can see how it is useful. Doesn't have to be only for Twitter, if you get gif file, you can use of wherever (e.g. Product Hunt).
Crypto for Kids: Messenger's Story
I think you're thinking of HTTP Public Key Pinning. A CAA record just tells a CA whether it is permitted to issue certificates for a domain.
Your last several comments all break the HN guidelines by being uncivil and/or unsubstantive and/or flamebait. We've warned you about this before. If you keep doing this, we're going to ban your account.

We do appreciate your substantive posts but you're damaging the site with these other ones, which are not at all the kind of internet forum HN is trying to be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I agree, weather plays a huge role. To praise NYC for lack of homelessness when very few homeless could live there as a result of that factor, doesn't make much sense.
Cardano: Ethereum and NEO Killer or Overpriced?
> My dad would always say this expression to describe the difference between a criminal on Wall Street and in construction. The only difference is a suit.

Also, the construction worker or MTA worker is probably making more money and working fewer hours.

For those who don't believe me, read the article - or even look up the salaries online, since they're often public. This is not even an exaggeration.
I paid for Red a long time ago just to get rid of the ads. I forget they even have ads.

Particularly nice for the app.
Downtown Chicago is completely full of "watch for falling snow/ice" signs all winter. Not a problem unique to this building...
Second time mainland China business founder here - foreigner. As everywhere there are barriers. However, I would say that in China it is not that hard to get going all told. While foreigners cannot really sole trade and there remain linguistic and cultural barriers, low initial capital requirements, a non-litigious environment, relatively relaxed licensing and a reasonably transparent and predictable visa system are big pluses versus the US. These days, the VC environment is also solid.
Balancing your portfolio with domestic (US) and international index funds would seem to take care of that since.

I'm currently 60/20/20 US/International/Bonds IIRC.

If the US market is mostly tech and tech bottoms out when I want to retire, I won't be completely wiped out.

I also plan to semi-retire early and work a lower stress job between 40/50 and 65 so I'll be less under the gun than someone who needs sell stock and can't tighten their belt.
It sounds like something is really messing with your sleep, you may want to try fixing your sleep hygiene and forcing yourself to adapt. Before I was diagnosed with ADD I had serious sleep hygiene issues, now that I'm medicated and taking better care my sleep is much better and more regular.
The quote you pasted literally says "Don't note the irony, you idiot".
Classical searches are O(N). Grover's (quantum) algorithm can perform such searches in O(N^(1/2)) and is optimal, so what you're talking about can't be faster than that (without nonlocal variables or some nonsense like that).
"300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco. Evolution! Updated." :P
Sounds good, will try it out.
That’s no different than replacing parts on a car. You can pay Toyota to replace your brakes, or do it yourself. If you choose the later, then they fail, it’s not Toyota’s fault.