skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has big plans for Alexa ads in 2018
That doesn't make the effort required of a developer to remove an existing JS dependency any easier, though, other than allowing them to see how the site breaks which can already be done using the F12 dev tools.

A lot of sites rely on JS to function even at a basic level these days and I think the parent was saying it's unlikely that that's going to change.
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> is ridiculously complicated and uses terms and concepts that the vast majority of people don't and won't understand.

You are being a bit harsh. Sure, it's complicated if you don't understand the basics of public key encryption, but as soon as you do, GPG is trivial to use.

The problem most people have is an unwillingness to learn the basic concepts. Public key encryption is a novel idea, and really isn't hard to learn.
Spectre is much scarier than Meltdown, from my understanding, because it represents a whole class of strategies that lack a single fix, even at the hardware level.
That is the approach Firefox is taking [1]:

> Since this new class of attacks involves measuring precise time intervals, as a partial, short-term, mitigation we are disabling or reducing the precision of several time sources in Firefox.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-lan...
how is this downvoted? Unbelievable
I think a kernel developer, let alone a core kernel developer and the guy who started the entire project by himself, is probably one of the BEST qualified to comment on the situation.
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> There's no reason Toyota can't bolt on some sexy electronics; the charging network can be accomplished ... somehow, some other way.

Tesla's charging network is largely a US phenomenon, really. There are 1200 public charging stations in Ireland (owned by the state monopoly electricity distribution company; there are also some independent ones), a small country (many electric cars could cross it without charging) of 5 million people. Of these, 70 are 'fast' chargers (usually 50kW). Tesla charging stations? 2.

Tesla's fast charging stations are a big deal in the US, a very large sparsely-populated country. They are less of a big deal in many European countries, especially where there are robust non-Tesla networks being deployed. Ultimately, I suspect standard fast-chargers will win out over proprietary brand-specific fast chargers.
how do sales bonuses work under this system?
I wish they'd merge with Slack. There's been virtually no improvements to HipChat in more than 3 years now aside from some tagged on, half-usable features.
Which sucks for people who've built sites which rely on it.

It isn't exactly polyfillable.
I don't know much about how ISPs operate, but I do know a bit about gas, electric and water and I can't see how they would work without some sort of central entity managing it. It's hard to see what benefit leasing that infrastructure out would be considering the municipality would still need to load balance, repair, and meter. And frankly, those services don't need that much maintenance on the service end and when they do, private companies do generally supply it. I hope that someday using the internet becomes as easy and natural as using the electrical grid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think super computers are updating there kernels at all.
He's done the impossible how many times?
This is incorrect. Logic and reason have value, of course, but most people are emotional animals rather than pure rationalists. The trick of political demagoguery is is to activate those emotions and then rhetorically direct them. This is why laws against incitement and suchlike generally require the potential harm to be imminent.

It's one thing for someone to say 'really, I think out_group_X bears liability for certain faults of society,' which is unpleasant to hear but not directly threatening insofar as it's refutable. It's another to be at the locus of a mob with people stating their intention to kill you in the immediate or near future.
Brand, yes; it's valuable, though almost certainly not 50 billion valuable. Design, eh, questionable. "Gigafactories", certainly not; as mentioned in the article above their car factory doesn't work. As it stands it's a liability.
GPG is hard to use with email.

That is because web clients like don't support it, and offline clients require setting it up.

It's a rather unfortunate reality, because GPG itself is fantastic.
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You're seriously going to attempt to advance the claim there is no evidence to support the assertion that global consumption doesn't sustainably scale to 7.5 billion people in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary (you might want to look into Global Warming and the anthropocene mass extinction as a start) and then have the cheek to claim veganism is some kind of magic bullet? I'm guessing you aren't conversant with what percentage of total global consumption of fossil fuels is used by the agricultural industry, either as fertilizer or as part of the sow->harvest->packaging->delivery pipeline. You also really won't enjoy a clear-eyed examination of the impact of the agricultural industry's use of pesticide and herbicides.
I have owned RX-8 which was at the time perhaps only rotary engine car. Here's the thing... its cool engine and makes that great fun noise BUT its very inefficient + strictly requires premium gas and has a very short life. Ours was under warranty until 50K miles and engine died out exactly then. While searching the forums it appeared that this was rather common issue. So cost of the car alone was 0.5 cents per every mile driven, + expensive gas + maintenance.
Spotify eventually makes great recommendations. The Daily Mixes (I think there's always 6) consistently deliver music I enjoy while maintaining a much better "genre theme" than anything I ever heard from Pandora.

I say eventually, because it's conditional on you using the service to seek out a variety of music you enjoy, and also on providing feedback via thumbsup/add-to-library actions. Try this for a month and you'll get good recommendations that continue improving over time.
I'm bookmarking this article, for the next time I see someone say that financial speculation has no social value. When smart people have the opportunity to make big bets against a company, we all stand to benefit.
I started a YouTube channel with the aim of digging into the crypto world and exploring ICOs, new coins and news etc.

I've had some laptop troubles since so there's only the one video up so far, but I'm planning to make many more.

Let me know in the comments if you've any suggestions. Thanks https://youtu.be/BkF9v5AYCac
This has been done for the past 30 years. Grouped and explicit permissions is a thing. Not sure why this would be any different in an integrated environment.

You just need the glue.
Having lots of natural resources entrepreneutrial.
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> It seems quite obvious that Geely represents the latest iteration of a continuously, incrementally, optimized production machine.

Does it? The impression I get from the article is that it's one of many. There are plants like this all over the place.
It's email clients that are the problem here, especially web-based ones like Gmail.

I have yet to find an email client that is actually comfortable to use, especially one that supports GPG out-of-box, or even with trivial setup.
That SpaceX page is over 4 years old. That was back when "production" meant a few rockets per year. (Not that the volume is anywhere comparable even today.)
How does that pertain to the vulnerabilities that involve eBPF? My understanding is that eBPF code executes within the kernel, and so would run at the same privilege level.
This is such a terrible, terrible plan.

A lawyer's dream come true.

An employer has two choices: don't hire any women, or create a flat uniform compensation structure that can't possibly attract star performers. This only works for janitorial, fast food, and the like. This does NOT work for high skilled high value knowledge workers like lawyers, programmers, etc.

If you DO hire women, prepare to get sued. If you DON'T hire women, prepare to get sued.

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Isn't that patch for the bug that's present on basically every CPU, Intel, AMD, ARM, etc., though? I thought the Intel-specific bug was fixed by "blank out the TLB every sysret".
AFAICT injecting any sort of delay that prevents this attack would also completely negate any benefit from caches and that would take us back to 2000s performance at best, even with 10-16 core Xeon monsters. The branch predictor is really just a glorified cache prefetcher so you'd not only have to harden the branch predictor but anything that could possibly access the cache lines that the branch predictor has pulled up.
It looks like he registered for the trade in October, well after Intel was made aware of the issue.
Your OS needs patching, as do any programs which handle secret stuff like passwords, cookies, or tokens and interact with the internet (ie. web browsers).
That's assuming that they take longer than they said, but still get a functioning plant. They could, alternatively, after 3 years, end up with a plant that doesn't work, and won't work in another three years. Manufacturing is difficult, and "delayed" isn't the only failure mode.
The richest person I know works very very hard and is still going.
I browse with NoScript and quite a lot of the web works just fine, in fact. I can selectively enable JavaScript for sites that need it, and that I trust.
“[French president] sets out plan including emergency blocks on websites”
I'm so very glad the USA founders made the first amendment. Other countries are not as lucky as we are.
It's both. It wouldn't be so rhetorically useful to the latter if the former weren't repeatedly knocking out runaway success stories.
Tip: you only need to factor it to the midpoint. Factors occur in pairs. Identifying the smallest factors will automatically identify the largest.

100 is divisible by 2. 2x50=100

No need to wonder if 51-99 are factors. They aren't. 50 is your largest factor.
I assume it doesn't handle any multithreading yet.
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rofl, you don't simply upgrade chips installed in 1+B servers and laptops and network devices and embedded systems. In fact, statistically-few devices-containing-a-CPU are designed to ever have their CPUs replaced. At the last, you replace the motherboard, which requires coordination with the vendor. Consider cars - good luck coordinating that recall!
I just shine one of those UVB reptile light bulbs on myself for a few minutes a day.
> Sure, it's complicated if you don't understand the basics of public key encryption, but as soon as you do, GPG is trivial to use.

Do you have any research to support your claims?

Because everything I've seen says that PGP / GPG is hard to use, even for smart tech-literate people who have something to hide.

These are all old. I don't know if it's got much better.

http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1998/abstracts/98...

https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Ca...
are 'calls for genocide' actually a thing worth caring about?

If you're a member of the subject group, then they most certainly are. Instead of constructing silly examples, let me suggest you look into the history of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia or Hutu-Tutsi animus in Rwanda.
A little bit more info can be found here [1]. In particular, site isolation [2] will also assist in protecting against this vulnerability.

[1] https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138#chrome
[2] http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolatio...
Tesla only shipped 260 Model 3’s in Q3. Now they’re approaching 1000 cars a week.

http://h4labs.org/tesla-is-approaching-1000-model-3s-a-week/
As a developer, it's even easier to test without Javascript: open Chrome Developer Tools, select Settings from the hamburger menu, and check "Disable Javascript".

As the other comments point out, though, the biggest problem is that this is economically irrational for most site owners. The figures on JS-disabled usage I had when I was still at Google (3+ years ago now) were at the lower end of TikiTDO's range. It generally doesn't make economic sense to spend developer time on an experience used by 0.1% of users, particularly if this requires compromises for the 99.9% of users who do have JS enabled.
Hate speech does not refer to spreading hate, really. It's just a misnomer.
This is interesting. How would you quantify empathy?

It’s pretty hard to compare. Perhaps donations isn’t the right measure. What is more accurate?
Frequently at my job we end up with a bunch of people around a computer. One is typing and has all the access rights. Another is taking notes about what has happened and a couple more are watching.

These people are all needed. The person with the access rights is authorised to be on the system. The one taking notes is recording what's happened so we can write it up in a post-mortem. The others are watching and ensuring the person who's allowed access is doing the right thing.

If you walked past and saw it for 10 seconds you'd thing one person was working and three were standing around, but in reality they're all needed to ensure the right thing happens in the right way.
Google isn't making a profit on its childcare, so clearly that money is going somewhere else. Better teacher:kid ratio perhaps.
Anecdotal, but the mods have always replied to my emails and usually within a few hours. Suggesting they take weeks to reply or deem some users "unworthy" of a reply is more conspiracy theory than reality. If you had specific instances in mind while typing your comment, contact the mods over email, there's usually a reasonable explanation which is not "we didn't feel like replying" or "you're not worthy of a reply".
The patch that was under question was related to a workaround for Meltdown, which makes AMD's note regarding the lack of necessity in agreement with the paper.

The Spectre paper seems to be a bit less specific on how platforms might differ under explotation but very clearly states that it was verified to be possible. Workarounds for that problem will likely be much more application specific from what I can tell, but I have only skimmed that paper so far.
I am curious how multiculturalism makes people fear for their life. Do you mean that a certain group of people may lose their lifestyle? Or do you actually mean life-death scenarios? I am trying quite hard, but I cannot think of any situation of multiculturalism that makes somebody fear their own death. Unless, if in fact you are talking about violence and crime from immigrants, you are free to express it.

Furthermore, the principles of racism and multiculturalism are so different, that it’s interesting that you compare them. Almost always racism can be shown to be linked to violence and murder, but multicultralism is a policy that my country, Canada, has successfully modeled. I have never feared for my life. I think it is safe to say that although the implementation of multiculturalism policies may be flawed in some countries, multiculturalism itself doesn’t cause life-death scenarios.
Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits
Different bug, AFAICT.
I’ve worked for lots of companies that I really liked but it is just sooo much easier to go someplace else that values you more than to ask for a raise.
Don't. Care.

Give me a good story. I could care less if the hero is male or female, black or white. Just make a good movie dammit.
You can be both. Not sure how many families you need to save to even out the homophobia.
You can charge them with a crime, but leaving specifically objectionable content up is rather pointless because you're not litigating whether it's specifically prohibited (as calls for genocide are in Germany) but whether liability attaches to the apparent speaker/writer (whose account might have been compromised, for example).

Another reason not to leave it up is because it's frightening to the subjects of such eliminationist discourse, who shouldn't have to put up with being considered acceptable targets for systematic violence.
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the tight loop iteration used a shared array buffer to provide a high resolution timer, specifically to deal with the obvious fix of truncating precision of performance.now().

The reason for /further/ truncating performance.now() is that the relative cost in this attack means that you don't need as much precision as was needed for the original (page table? I think) attack.

A SAB timer just needs to increment a counter in one thread and read it in the host thread and the granularity is however long it takes to get through a for-loop.
Here is an example with the very common programming patterns that result in indirect jumps/calls:

https://godbolt.org/g/LPycpY

Every single call rax and jump rax that you see on the right will be replaced with the following:

push rax
jmp .indirect_thunk

And indirect_thunk does an lfence and a call to another function that gets rax from the stack and jumps there in a very roundabout way that interacts terribly with CPU prediction. I can see why they somehow didn't get around to benchmarking this yet, because they are not going to like the results. And it doesn't end with the kernel. Every JIT is going to need the treatment.
Uhh, isn't that a GOOD thing though.

If the other companies can't compete because their prices are too high, well sucks to be them.

The only thing that matters is the consumers.
Do miners necessarily have the most coins to sell? 12 BTC every ten minutes isn't a lot compared to the 16 million minuted coins out there
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It depends on what kind of notes I'm taking, but I'll often put page numbers on the pages when I first get a notebook. I'll devote the first page or two to a table of contents and use sticky notes to keep track of where I am in the book. I don't have a good system for searching between notebooks, but I keep the notebooks restricted to a topic. For example, I presently keep three notebooks: the first is my to-do list for my personal life (including my shopping list, etc.), the second is something similar for work (focusing on the current project I am working on), and the third is tied to a particular side project I am working on. I keep them in my backpack and have them marked so I can easily tell which is which.
I can't really see how it would be fixable even with new hardware.

Speculative execution is fundamental to getting decent performance out of a CPU. Without it you should probably divide your performance expectations by 5 at least.

Rolling back all state rather than just user visible state in the CPU is neigh on impossible. When you evict something from the cache, you delete it. Undeleting is hard. There are also a lot of other non-user-visible bits of state in a CPU.
Record labels are already in a dynamic where the streaming services have at least equal leverage. Playlists are already taking over radio which is where the labels would give you the most value.

More artists are publishing their music independently. I think the negotiation power of older records owned by record labels will diminish because the next generation of independently owned records will outweigh them.

The thing I'm unsure of is how Apple Music vs Spotify is going to play out. I feel that Spotify is currently an overall better product but Apple has had major cultural impact with its curation which IMO is more valuable than building software.
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I rarely talk about finances, so I'm not even sure who the richest person I know is. It also depends on how tightly you define "know". Like, I've met Mark Cuban and exchanged a few words with him, so by that standard, the richest person I know runs a basketball team. But in terms of people I know on a more personal level... I used to work for Bob Young at Lulu and while we're hardly buddies, I can legitimately say I "know" him. So by that standard, the richest person I know does whatever it is that Bob is doing these days.

Outside of that, I know a few VC's and a few founders who have had successful exits. Of the ones who fall in the "founder" camp, I think they've all gone on to founding new companies since their exits. The VC guys are all still VC's as far as I know, although I haven't talked to most of those guys in a while.
it is effected by spectre, but not by the other.
That has to be crazy slow. They probably haven’t published benchmarks yet because they’re still waiting for it to finish running!
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Comparing a game console to a smartphone is a nonstarter, IMO. That said I'd very much like to control what runs on my game console.