skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there can be honest mistakes, but what exactly is honest about dumping your shares knowing about the bug without disclosing it? Intel just flushed the last bit of credibility down the drain by this. I really hope AMD can profit long-term from this, we really need more players in this game.
Scientists lay out why some origami won't fold under pressure
Likewise if the company gave the therapy for free to everyone who couldn't afford to pay $850k, they would be in the same position as they were before.
Ya.. I don't get how they can call this a "remote-first" approach or adheres to "Do the Right Thing" for the employees

The reason these high cost of living places exist is because they are in high demand due to all the benefits. Someone living in North Dakota (sorry anyone who is, I'm sure it is great!) won't have all the culture, food, weather, entertainment, night life, etc of someone living in the bay area.

A "Do the Right Thing" would be to truly embrace "remote-first" and realize you are paying someone for the work they do, not where they live. We are paying $x for job y and what you do with the value you bring to the company is up to you: live some place nice or some place cheap.

Our company is 100% remote (most live in bay area anyways) and we don't have pay scales by area.
Microsoft is a little weird. The safe bet for a desktop application is to do it in WinForms. I'm pretty convinced that Winforms will outlive any of the newer frameworks from Microsoft.

The XAML developers will jump to whatever the next thing is when it comes around, but the conservative WinForm developers won't go anywhere anytime soon, forcing Microsoft to continue supporting and developing Winforms.

Throwing together a quick WinForm application is still much faster than building something using XAML, in my opinion. Especially if you don't know what you're doing, and that still how many in-house business applications seem to be built.
There are tabs. To open links in new tabs hold instead of tap. Couldn't find out how to open an "empty tab" though...
If your engineers are this good
You don't need support
:roll-safe:

But seriously. I don't know too much about support salaries. Most of the salaries seem in a good range. The only one that stands out for me is maybe the Android engineer — that seems a bit low especially for Toronto.
Using thought to control machines
My understanding is that the infinity of "all integers greater than zero" and of "all integers greater than zero and divisible by 2" are in fact infinities of the _same_ size.

The same would apply for "divisible by 100" or "divisible by 1 million". This would apply to the fraction of worlds that are populated, whatever fraction of them are.
maybe not, but electron requires some refactoring and learning a few new things by itself, it's also not a straight swap from a web app.
> There are plenty of examples of extremists being converted through friendship.

But equally there are plenty of examples of extremists killing people who are trying to show them why their ideas are wrong.
What programming languages do you use? What numbers made you choose those ones? Maybe if you show me an example of some numbers I could help more.

I don't have the time to write up why I think Lisp is great, but you can find essays by many greater (and more famous) programmers than me such as Richard Stallman, Peter Norvig, Steve Yegge, Paul Graham et al. But really the only way is to learn it for yourself. There is a kind of enlightenment that comes with learning Lisp and I would recommend it to every programmer.
Looking forward to listening to this recording; I'm always telling people interested in the philosphy of AI to read Turing's papers, as, like the author says, they are surprisingly relevant.

Have to comment on this though:

"
Turing then makes one firm prediction, that by the end of the 20th century computers would be able to answer questions in a manner indistinguishable from a human being – this is the famous Turing test. Turing’s prediction may have been a couple of decades early, but with the rise of digital assistants I would have to say he was completely right.
"

The bit I've italicized is nonsense in an article by someone studying Turing's work.
The Turing test is clearly designed as a pragmatic definition of a sufficient test for AI, and assumes a sophisticated human judge. The idea that just because we are building digital assistants we are some how close to passing the Turing test and making genuinely thinking machines doesn't hold up at all.

I don't think that argument would have impressed Turing, and I'm sure he'd rather we say his prediction was wrong than introduce confusion here. We have so much confusion on this issue, which Turing tried so hard to dispel, it's a pity to see more.
The free opportunities I found don't have the structure and leadership of a real company. I want to learn from more senior devs instead of having me be the only dev.
A Simple Explanation of the Differences Between Meltdown and Spectre
The usage data is not sent to Mozilla but to a marketing company called "Adjust Inc.": https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/wiki/Install-Tra...

Firefox sending my data to a marketing company should not be on by default... Heck, it should not even be an option.
Code a Bot to win Bitcoin
Maybe if they are advanced enough to send those probes specially if it's for _their_ defense then it's pretty well cloaked and small?
Is latest ESR version (52.5.3) of Firefox patched?

I can't invoke SharedArrayBuffer for sure but what about the resolution of performance.now()?
Human-powered flight does exist, it's just not very good because people are weak and heavy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_aircraft
xulrunner was effectively that a long time ago, and many apps shipped using it, but it got shot in the head. There are a couple apps still out there using forks of it, I think.
My coding skills is not at that level yet where I can be my own CTO.
> Right now, after the Cliqz and remotely installed addon controversies, and the fact that Firefox Focus sends analytics data to a third party, I'd say Apple is more privacy focused than Mozilla.

Could you clarify what is the third party that Mozilla is sending analytics to?
Can you suggest another one?
I suggest reading this discussion about reinventing the AS/400: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053518
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What I mean is seek to volunteer work at real companies rather than paying them. You may be learning but it sounds like you have some knowledge so you should still be providing them with some value.
Ask HN: Why will meltdown and spectre take a long time to be fixed?
Kinda wish he'd included notepad++ too...
Strangely xodular or automatonism don't get much coverage, I guess that "nice" UI did skyrocket vcv rack
Small earthquakes are not generally a precursor to larger ones, although sometimes they can be. Here's a decent quora answer to the question from a geologist: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-little-earthquakes-are...

Summary: small earthquakes incease the risk of larger ones by 1-5%, but large earthquakes are fairly rare so an increased likelihood of 1-5% isn't something sensible to take action on.
Wheels are one thing, axles and their bearings and lubrication are another.

> take a large piece of wood and whittle away until you have a wheel

This does not resemble the actual construction of any but the smallest wooden wheel for toys.
What about on dedicated servers ? Is there a config that can be done ?
It's not a bold claim, it's quite supported by evidence. AZT, the first commercially available drug to treat AIDS, was made available in 1989 at the extraordinary cost of $18000 per year in today's dollars ($8000 per year at the time). It was reported by the New York Times at the time that such a cost was 'inhumane' much as headlines do today when expensive new treatments come out.[1] Now the same drug is packaged with Lamivudine and costs $6600 per year[2]. There are now generic retrovirals on the market as well. Now, of course the total suite of treatments is higher which means the overall cost for patients can be higher, but over time the cost of these drugs will go down too. The point is that something being expensive at the beginning ensures long-term development and accessibility for the drug, doesn't hinder it. Looking at a less life threatening example, LASIK eye surgery used to cost $12,400 with inflation.[3] Now it can cost as low as $299 per eye.[4] The list of examples is long and exhaustive.

> What about diseases of poverty in the third world?

To be clear, I'm talking about new medical innovation, not the proliferation of existing medical solutions which obviously can be paid for by governments and nonprofits without harming the development of new methods. That said, there are quite a few 'last mile' solutions getting medicine to poor parts of the world that organizations like the Gates Foundation have identified.[5]

> Here's some food for thought for a different approach: prizes

I like the prize method as a way of incentivizing innovation--and it should certainly be tested. But I would be hesitant to endorse it as a replacement for the patent system unless it was proven to work more effectively in creating more cost effective innovations. It could, of course, be tested by allocating a percentage of the NCI's budget for prizes. But I think you'll find that the appetite for that sort of risk is sorely wanting on the governmental level, as it should be. We want investors to be taking these risks with their own money (and get rewarded when they pay off), not gambling with our money and losing it when they don't. Remember that, like startups, only a small fraction of drug ventures make it to the market and we only hear about the ones that do.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/28/opinion/azt-s-inhuman-cost...
[2]https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/cost-of-treatment
[3]https://www.forbes.com/sites/larahoffmans/2012/03/23/they-un...
[4]https://www.lasik.com/category/cost-of-lasik/
[5]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUS6KE67Vs
Ethiopia to have automated weather stations to help herders
? Is the banking community, doing anything about its costs?

What is the Malthusian concern here?
Hi there. I am unfortunately based in Helsinki and so cannot offer you any opportunities - but I would like to offer some advice. You are (in my opinion) crazy to spend more money, especially to work for someone else - if you have 10K and 7 months and want to go full time.. take your laptop to a coffee shop, and build yourself an app.. start dirt simple, iterate... make yourself a website, put up sample pieces... even try to build a real MVP of some product... go to meetup.com or similar events for other IT dudes and see what they are working on. Volunteer to help. Get your hands dirty that way? Good luck!
Thank you! I am glad I know this trick now! I cited your comment in my other comment. This trick is so thoughtful from Apple - I have to mention this.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16065845
I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this cringey, inane stuff[1]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY

[1] To avoid misunderstanding: this isn't an atheist/anti-religion post, it's about the aptness of such an utterance by personnel on a top scientific mission, from one of the world's top scientific agencies.

Edit: * sigh * and insta-downvote bot strikes again
Alcohol raises the risk of developing cancer
Such studies are very hard to do, it is almost impossible to factor out social preferences.
For me personally, I am most productive in languages like Haskell and OCaml.
Why not? Those big security vulnerabilities are going to be discussed in years to come, might as well come up with something a little more catchy than CVE-2017-5753. I guess they could've gone with more descriptive names.

At least "spectre" and "meltdown" will be memorable even for non-technical people (who should probably be aware of the issue even if they don't understand the technical details). "Bounds check bypass" and "branch target injection" probably sound like random words stringed together for most people.
Apache Kafka foundation of modern data stream processing
I found this explanation in a Linux kernel commit:

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture
does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
when that access would result in a page fault.

Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/...
A previous client used this, i always wondered.
If you need an alternative, please also keep an eye on MAPCAT. Our OSM-based public map portal is already live (www.mapcat.com), and the map API is just about to be launched. More info at http://try.mapcat.com/
How do we even JS? – Nylas tech stack
Using SetInterval and SetTimeout in JavaScript
Emergency Windows Meltdown patch may be incompatible with your PC – TechRepublic
Will Medicaid be around much longer? Given the upcoming deficit created by the tax "reform"..
However, only one of the PoCs runs on AMD, and that doesn't cross process boundaries.

So how easy is it to turn that PoC into something I should worry about? Seems like browsers are the most affected by this scenario, but that also means harden the browser (separate process per page) and it might be difficult to exploit.
Exactly. Plus, are their services priced differently according to the client's location? Obviously not.
This isn't exactly the Bitcoin community per se, but Ethereum is working on a proof-of-stake algorithm to replace proof-of-work. This is a much less energy intensive intensive algorithm, and while I'm a bit skeptical that it's as secure as proof-of-work, I'm glad they are trying something.
But this treatment isn't going to cure all blindness, so you're still going to have to have all those adaptations.
Only if you want to do something that would otherwise be a violation of copyright - e.g. distribute the module to other people (assuming it's sufficiently entangled with linux to be a derivative work therof). The GPL only licenses you to do things that you otherwise couldn't do, it doesn't restrict you from doing things that were never a violation of copyright (e.g. privately modifying your own things).
I agree. Its memory usages is a fraction of atom or slack. not sure what MS did to make that happen, but what ever they did.... its working.
I might be mistaken, but I don't think the rendering engine is the part with which you need to be concerned if you worry about privacy. So Mozilla could very well make a Webkit based browser that cares about your privacy just as much as the vanilla Firefox.
Maybe not necessarily the Bitcoin community, but other cryptos are figuring other solutions to fix this problem. One of these solutions is the Proof of Stake [0] instead of Bitcoin's Proof of Work.

Perhaps after all Bitcoin coins have been mined (currently around 17.000.000 mined, 21.000.0000 total IIRC), not much energy would be needed afterwards, for Bitcoin at least?

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake
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How to get more than a billion Aadhaar details in India for just Rs 500
That's why there's a bibliography on the bottom. Review the source material they relied upon.
What about living cost? I agree the difference now is higher than adjusted for living cost, but it's really unfair for someone living in the high cost area to get paid the same salary as someone who need to spend only a 5th of that to get the same quality of life.
> If our spaceships landed on a distant planet populated by a vast hyper-intelligent civilization of decidedly not-alive robots, would we shrug, say "no life here," and head home bored?

As a different take on that: Suppose we develop "robots" that can sustain themselves, mine resources, produce [ever improving] copies of themselves, and learn on their own and teach each other. Then we send them to colonize a distant planet.

Fast forward a hundred years. Those robots now have a "civilization" of their own.

By what criteria would that civilization fail to be counted as "life" by an species looking for such?
As best I understand it, all those reduce to aleph-zero because they're countably infinite and can be mapped to the natural numbers. But aleph-one exists and is provably bigger than aleph-zero despite both being infinite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
http://www.alephzero.co.uk/what.htm
All of that I can agree with. However, what gets left out of the equation is that the devices do provide some utility. All I'm really saying is that calling it pure evil is as silly as saying the device has no downsides.

I like the driving analogy because even though the worst case scenario is about as bad as it gets, it's not all that likely. I think people, even here, have a hard time separating possibility and probability.

A connected speaker has real and immediate benefits for some people. People that use it to buy stuff (I do all the time) aren't going to see ads for associated products like website shoppers do. Frankly, if the Echo scares you, https://amazon.com should scare you even more. I bet they collect a lot more data in a 10 minute browsing session than they do with months of Echo use.
No. No. No. I just want a well running, clean looking, audio player. Im sick of companies trying to make apps social and grow them beyond where they are great trying to incorporate bullshit that ruins the app. Spotify is great for local music, streaming, podcasts, etc. All this bullshit video and social crap they push into it ruins it. Imo IPOs kill almost any decency in a product
What would you suggest?

The currency -- like the internet is so decentralised it could survive a nuclear apocalypse. Even attempting to corral this into an some environmentally friendly structure is far beyond trying to herd cats.

The problem isn't Bitcoin -- it's using fossil fuels for energy -- solve this at a global level and the Bitcoin issue is solved as well.
I use Spacemacs but it isn't always perfect and if Spacemacs doesn't wind up working I end up just using vanilla emacs because MELPA is a dice roll whether it will work or not every single time for me, usually regardless of OS. I just know enough basics of emacs to edit code, but I wish adding packages didn't involve so many hoops such as having to add a repository that everyone already goes out of their way to add to emacs and having said repository fail on you.

I'm not sure what reason the emacs team has for just not adding MELPA but it would change the game for me if it were an official addition and would require it's addition to work out of the box. Till then, emacs is a long way away from being my default editor, and VS Code and JetBrains are more of my defaults.

Out of the box functionality is key for any editor in my opinion.
There are new promising minerless coins on the works that look promising. They might end up being a substitute or alternative to bitcoin.
There is no need for relentless condescension when all you’re trying to say is what people consider “fair” should not actually be fair at all, but rather skewed to favor whatever world view they subscribe to.

The coin flip is no good if you believe wicked people should not be held in equal regard to those who have done nothing wrong. But it is perfectly fine if you believe the only thing that matters is a truly fair outcome.
At least one syscall happens at some point, but performance-tuned systems already use "bulk" syscalls where a single syscall can send megabytes of data, check thousands of sockets, or map a whole file into your address space to access as if it were memory.
There's a history tab?! Thank you kind friend
hey, is it me being far from expert, or:

why use UUIDv1 if you can just use timestamp?

wouldn't time-based solution be prone to time misconfig across servers? Or that little shuffle doesn't really matter?
I find the idea of equity that is quickly spreading deeply flawed.

Equity is not equality, which is giving everybody the same opportunities, like the same starting salary and the same objective performance reviews (which I fully support).

Equity means equality of outcome regardless of merits. It means you have to actively discriminate against your most productive members and reward others for their poor choices.

This usually has two effects: the most productive people leave for places that reward their productivity and others have no incentive of being more productive [1]

You can see this in their formula:

* Location base: did you chose to live in a place that cost more? No problem. Here is a bunch of money completely unrelated to your performance.

* Cost of living correction: we didn't reward you enough for your expensive choices, so here is some more money on top of that.

* Loyalty: did you stay here for a long time, maybe because you have no other choice, or because we give you money to live in an expensive place? Here is another bunch of money again unrelated to your performance.

At least they have multipliers for role value and experience, which sort of reward the ability of each individual.

But what if a person is more productive than others in the same role with the same experience? Can they negotiate a higher salary? Given the existence of a formula, I doubt. Although I might be wrong.

And yes, these people could be promoted, but there are not enough higher positions for everyone (there is only one team lead in each team), not everybody has the skills for a different role (managing people is different from writing code) and not everyone has even interest in changing roles.
I think Focus uses WebKit (or at least the regular webview) on Android as well, due to Gecko not being that amenable to embedding yet and this being a quicker way to get to market.

That said, I believe they do intend to switch to Gecko at some time in the future, but no idea how soon that would be...
> Perhaps after all Bitcoin coins have been mined, not much energy would be needed afterwards, for Bitcoin at least?

Nope, "mining", which is proof-of-work solving, is needed as long as Bitcoin is used, even after coin generation is complete.
To continue: you are thinking of yourself as in a weak position (and I can both understand and sympathize having been in a couple rough patches myself before), but ask yourself which you think sounds better, to a future employer: "I spent my own money to work for someone else" vs "I spent 7 months working on an MVP for this little idea I had... you know, it never turned out as a big success, but I had fun and I learned a lot as I worked with x,y, z other people that I found in similar community...".
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On one hand, it's a sign of a dysfunctional job market and that's sad.

On the other hand, you dude may be taking the right approach here. Warren Buffett famously did pretty much the same - he offered to work for free for Ben Graham, his mentor cause experience and insight were much more valuable to him that money. Funnily enough, Graham turned him down initially, saying he was still too expensive :)

So good luck to you !
Green Mining ;)
Then why can't we make sharp high resolution photos of distant planets? Shouldn't we be able to average out all the noise for every pixel if we just collect light long enough?