skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I have been enjoying Chez since the licensing changed, I even started an application book using Chez (which may never get finished), but having the full Racket environment on top of Chez will be great when the re-write is finished.
> and even if that wasn't the case, features like SharedArrayBuffer are just too useful to completely disable forever

That's only if you continue to participate in the shared delusion that the WWW can or should be a high-performance applications platform. Those of us who usually browse with JavaScript turned off can get along fine without SharedArrayBuffer or WebGL or WebSockets.
I toured the Enrico Fermi nuclear plant as a kid. Learned a lot about the man. They also tried very hard to sell us on a nuclear powered future.

They even talked about nuclear powered cars. When it came time for questions I said what would happen with a nuclear powered car in case of a traffic accident? The spokesman said that was a stupid question and refused to answer it.

On the ride back to school the teacher reassured me that it was a valid question and that he was wrong to refuse to answer it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generatin...

If nuclear powered cars seem like a fanciful idea they really were seriously considered in the fifties and sixties. Here's information about a Ford prototype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
High Sierra seems like a great OS if you want an unstable workstation that doesn't work with tools you've used everyday for well over a decade.
I don't think the number is the issue. This title reads as definitive implying a direct official statement from Apple while instead this is a statement from someone who appears to have no affiliation with Apple as far as I can tell from the article.
Title should be: "Apple to bring back $200B in overseas cash to the USA says analyst"
People are missing the point-- it's not an htop problem since a simple console app running as a user should not be able to do this at all.

This gives me the willies. Methinks another OSX security bug is incoming.
Oh, you don't have to be another person just for taking care of your computer security hygiene.
> [Tetris] simply shuffles a list of all 7 pieces, gives those to you in shuffled order, then shuffles them again to make a new list once it’s exhausted.

Interesting tidbit! So all the times I've furiously cursed at my gameboy because I swear the 'I' is by far the rarest tetrimino and it hasn't given me one for at least 20 turns... was just classic cognitive bias.
Except we're living inside the joke like goldfish in a glass.
An occasional "tax holiday", with the ability to keep profits overseas until the next tax holiday isn't so different from just being a tax haven.

Even more so considering you can issue bonds against that overseas capital and your investors can see it on the balance sheet.
Co-Founder of Paycase, Keane Tan, Passed Away on Christmas Day
ACLU Will Represent an American Citizen in U.S. Military Detention Abroad
The Gbikes are single speed, not fixies both of which are excellent for commuting longer than a block.
There's a online and updated version here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald...
It was introduced because "web developers are building more sophisticated applications where application performance is increasingly important. Developers need the ability to assess and understand the performance characteristics of their applications using well-defined interoperable measures." [1].

Browser-engine makers, like WebKit, were itching [2] to implement this, so they participated early on.

The proceedings of this W3C working group were conducted in the open; their mailing list archive is public [3].

For a cute and oblivious early message, see this post [4] from July 2010. Luckily it was eventually followed up by the first wave of enumerated privacy concerns [5] in October 2010.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2010Jun... [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2010Jul... [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/ [4] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2010Jul... [5] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2010Oct...
Not necessarily by design. If they're ordering fleets of bikes, they want them cheap. Steel bikes are the cheapest around, can take a lot of abuse, and also happen to be the heaviest.
Trying to catch wolves by enforcing wool checks.

Trope: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gjXa44QbD7w/T2xhZWK-4kI/AAAAAAAAK...
NHS hospitals ordered to cancel all routine operations in January
These bikes are a nusicance in Mountain View if you don’t work for Google. They’re left all over the place - in lawns, in landscaping, right in the middle of the sidewalk. The article blames non-Google employees, but they’re often carelessly placed right near Google buildings with nothing else but office buildings around.

If I lived in Mountain View (I used to work there) I’d help myself too.
Please read the guidelines, which ask us to post civilly, and stop the condescension.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I worked at Google, I lived walking distance from the Mountain View campus & walked to work every day. I used to like finding gbikes on my way to work, as I would just ride them in. The ones I found on the way home, I'd report to Google Security. They seemed happy to come and collect them. There were always a lot more bikes after concerts / events at the Shoreline Amphitheater.
My car unlocked on the street with the keys in the ignition is still my car. It's grand theft auto if you get in it and drive off.
The big differentiator is how attacks can be scaled. Most people/companies aren't individually a worthy enough target to develop an attack against a reasonably protected system. But with a lot of these types of attacks one can compromise a large number of systems in a largely automated manner, without risking ones personal physical security.
> never interview at Canonical, never work for them, don't even entertain the idea of seeing yourself getting a paycheck while working on tools that seemingly have zero traction outside of Canonical

All this vitriol seems like an over-strong reaction to an executive panel rescinding his offer. Canonical should definitely have been clear about the entire process up-front, but making decisions before you have a full confirmation doesn't seem sensible.

When we hire we send out an offer letter after all the interviews are done, but that offer is explicitly still contingent on right-to-work checks and satisfactory references. This is normally a formality but there's always a chance something might go wrong.
Foreign profits are taxed immediately so there is less reason to hoard cash “overseas”.
Interestingly (in the UK) theft requires that the perpetrator have the intention of "permanently depriving" [1] the owner. So at least in the UK this seems like it wouldn't be counted as theft.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/de...
I certainly hope so.

The biggest expense that the average person pays for is rent and home mortgages.

The world be auch better place if a >1/3 of everyone's paycheck wasn't going to rich landlords.
Ok, I'll bite.

> So far he didn't cause something worse than, or similar to, what's going on in Libya and Syria

So you're saying that because the US is not physically on fire with untold civilian deaths due to violent uprisings and political unrest, everything must be "alright?"

> or introduce policies like the Affordable Care Act

Shame on those who would like all citizens of their country to have the same access to healthcare that wealthier citizens have!

> He's doing better than the previous cabinet

Care to elaborate? He's avoided doing anything about any of the actual real issues affecting this country and the world (e.g. climate change, opiod crisis, resurging racism/white supremacy, sexual assault, and the list goes on). In fact he's made a lot of those worse since taking office. Meanwhile, he would rather focus on other "important" issues like contradicting himself, engaging in shouting matches with DPRK, tax reform that benefits his family and friends with deep pockets, spending an unspecified amount of tax payer money on a useless border wall, talking about (but not actually doing anything to) improve infrastructure, and trying to deny healthcare to folks that do not have it.
No one who was going to buy an iMac pro would likely to setup a hackintosh, it’s just not stable enough.
1. Differentiable Programming is horrible branding. It's hard to say, not catchy, and not as easily decipherable.

2. Isn't the evolution of Deep Networks more advance setups such as GANs, RNNs, and so on?
> I feel in my gut that some engineer, somewhere, MUST have asked this question at one of the big chip manufacturers.

Sure, they were about to commit career suicide but then they learned to love the bomb and went on with their day. Maybe they even tried to explain the problem to management but somehow it got lost in translation.
I am a Hindu Nair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair). There is also a sub caste-I don't know which one it is. Both my parents are Nairs, but belonging to different sub castes I think.

As for offensiveness, I don't remember anybody asking me about my caste (outside of govt forms-they need it for job/educational reservations) except once. He (an Indian from my state) didn't ask me my caste, he heard my name and immediately said "oh you are a Nair" and I felt really weird and wanted to end the conversation quickly. If a foreigner asks me, I don't think I would mind. I am not sure if I would be comfortable if an Indian asks me though.
With the recent introduction of dock less bikeshare to the states, we probably will have it everywhere.

Well, everywhere with passable bike infrastructure anyway, which in the US leaves out most cities.
That's not correct.

In general, the effect of new technology is to increase the output of the economy - we get more stuff.

This translates into a higher GDP.

Now, consider your specific example.

The effect of the machine would be to free up time for people to do other things.

Some of this might be increased leisure (not capured by GDP) , while some of it will be increased output in the economy, which will show up as increased GDP.

Your comment about individuals striving to increase GDP is silly - GDP is an aggregate statistic and the result of people trying to maximise their own personal welfare.
You usually sell exclusive exploitation rights in an employment relationship. That can either happen implicitly (where the rights granted are as minimal as possible to fulfil the reason the contract was concluded) or explicitly (by the way: so-called total buyout of all rights is not easily done).

Additionally, software is special cased in German copyright law (§ 69b): the employer automatically gets all exclusive exploitation rights. For patentable software an additional renumeration is mandatory.
A walled garden might not be perfect security but it is still some security.

If you don’t run unvetted code on your system and it’s not directly accessible over the network you limit your attack surface considerably.

Limiting the attack surface is also why browser mitigation against SPECTRE are worthwhile.
The first thing he yelled was "show me your badge." I didn't know I wasn't allowed to ride them if I didn't work there. I was riding on the sidewalk on Shoreline at about 11 PM.
It's unlikely he purchased that property with cash though. And while you can use margin debt to achieve similar returns, you can't generally get margin called on a mortgage -- which I guess is the one main advantage.
Personally the first thing I do on a macOS install is remove pretty much every single Apple app I can. The quality of Apple's software is simply too low to take the risk of relying on it. Anybody who has had to fix their relatives iPhoto or iTunes would agree.
Lol, now bikes represent arrogance? Crappy bikes, at that?

Jesus, you can't make this crap up.
You might be talking about the following article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

Even in Germany high officials hinted at using mechanical typewriters:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/germany-typewr...

Luckily, the politicians in Germany and Europe wake up. They want to build up European chip and hardware facilities to have the full chain in Europe. Also they plan to demand certification and customer visible labels. Finally!

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Prozessor-Luecken-Me...
is dancing illegal in NYC?
Haven't read the book. How does it draw a line between governmental laws and social norms?
How does it feel to have no moral compass?
According to Google, they found out about it in June, and I think it's fair to assume this was shared with Intel shortly after. From the moment it's shared with Intel, it's fair game. It's up to him to setup the company in such a way that important information like this gets to him quickly.
How does "helping yourself" solve the problem? Why not report the bicycle thieves instead for causing the nuisance?
Want to fix Facebook?

Stop trying to decide what I want to see in my news feed.

Stop switching my feed from "Most Recent" to "Top Stories" every time I click the Home link.

Keep my feed in Chronological order.

Stop showing me the same post a friend made 3 days ago that hasn't even had any activity.
Intel's microcode updates are signed by a 2048-bit RSA key and some unknown 160-bit hash function (might be SHA-1, but none one publicly knows) for older models, with newer ones using a 256-bit hash function. Unless there's a very clever exploit, I doubt third-party microcode updates will ever be possible:

http://inertiawar.com/microcode/
"See more of Yann LeCun on Facebook" popup, no access to the page. No, I don't want to create a Facebook account to read a blog post.

Perhaps links to walled-garden pages where you need an account and need to be logged in should be prohibited or at least discouraged.
Somewhat tangential but if htop is unusable, I’ve always liked Glances:

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

Though it sounds like htop is a symptom not the problem.
that's a little American (and/or suburban) centric.

I and everyone around me live in urban centers because of the community and environment around your residence.

kids can just go out the font door and play. you get inspired by life and commerce by just looking out the window. etc

assuming you will drive and real state prices only impact how long is very californian.
I came for the filesystem bugs, I stayed for the absurd root exploit, but its the little crashes, rendering glitches, and feeling of general instability that made me fall in love with High Sierra...
You can see her in a picture smiling next to a bike with her full name captioned under it.

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-WV984_0104GO_P...
fixed thanks.
Technically if you count virtual machines as CPUs then every piece of Javascript etc. code runs in a CPU inside a CPU :P
Climate change is the sick old man of HN.

Post anything on this topic, and a bunch of strange things happen. For a forum for people who pride themselves on being rational, it sure is full of irrational, fact-averse deniers. Or, at the other extreme, you get all these fire-and-brimstone doom predictions.

Weird.
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation!
114 changed files with 12,403 additions and 23 deletions.

That's a pretty big patch (although some of those lines are .patch file pre- and post-amble). I feel bad for the people that had to develop/qa/signoff all of that in such a short timeframe. There's got to be at least one mistake in there somewhere.
GDP measures (traded) production. If you produce $2tn of tanks, in tanks, then by definition that production is part of your GDP. Now if China sold you $1tn in tank parts in exchange for future payments, then sure, that $1tn will be part of China's GDP.
Oo, I was just looking for something like Nearley. Perfect.
I'm not a developer, but I knew developers were previously content with Macbooks usually running OSX or linux. Given so much unhappiness with OSX, and the inability to run linux on the USB-C macbook pros, what are developers generally doing?

The Apple hardware is nice, but it generally means you have to use OSX. Windows WSL is pretty convenient, but then you have to use Windows. Linux is, of course, great, but what hardware?
Or consider the case of a university: users can be staff, students, contractors, alumni, and various other random categories. For example, at the university I used to work for, any member of the general public could purchase a library borrowing card, and that meant they had to have a login to the university library systems (to see what books they had borrowed).
Questions Concerning Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
If your confidence is that low, why use MacOS at all?
The reason we must be careful is beacuase women can suffer from mental illness just as easy as men. People with mental illness make things up.

Remember “mattress girl” or the Duke lacrosse team?

These cases ruined innocent lives, not something to be taken lightly.
I'm glad they're using GPS now, because I've lived in and around Mountain View for the past 10 years and it's becoming a bit crazy lately. There are bikes dumped everywhere. I'm always surprised how far away from Google's campus they end up. Having GPS, they'll eventually get picked up, which is good. If I started seeing stripped down Google bike parts strewn about (like in creeks) because they'd been left to rust, it'd be more than annoying, but as long as Google cleans up its mess, I think it's fine.

In terms of using a Google bike, I never have. But I'd be fine in doing so as a Mountain View resident. They use my street as a Waymo testing ground, literally using myself and any other pedestrian as beta testers for their driving safety algorithms, so I think I'd be quite justified borrowing one of their bikes: Quid pro quo.
If you look at his work history on LinkedIn, I can see why there would be an issue. Many jobs held less than a year. That's not a pattern anyone wants to hire.
I’m kind of blocked from buying an Ubuntu laptop because I want to do video editing for Youtube too. iMovie is free on the Mac, is there even a $300 software on Ubuntu that would be suitable?
The Swiss Army used very heavy single speed bikes, and people rode major distances with them. Of course, they were selected for physical fitness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_army_bicycle
Just a rebranding, though necessary one. Deep Learning is not really all about 'deep' anymore, many successful models don't really need a lot of layers.
The code is amazingly simple: https://github.com/fiatjaf/ipfs-dropzone/blob/8d7d8808ba578a...

If someone knows where to plug into Uppy's upload function then it should be really easy.
On Mac OS 10.4 (tiger) when I left Activity Monitor going in the background for a few minutes and returned to it, sometimes it would all of a sudden refresh the values super super fast with historical data (appearing to catch up on the iterations that it did not display.)

On 10.6, when I ran Windows in a virtual machine while it was doing windows update, and left it running in the background for a few minutes and returned to it, sometimes I would get 60fps in the machine for a few seconds and it updated very very fast, and then it went back to 15fps (seemingly getting more CPU power.)

On 10.7 (if I recall) if I left Activity Monitor running in the background for a few minutes and returned to it, I would get nonsensical values for the CPU usage for a few seconds (e.g. 398423.34%) but then it would return to normal. Perhaps this error has been accumulating over the years.
I was going to say the same thing. I was in Switzerland a while back and thought "this place looks like an industrial park".

Also, when in the U.K. I thought "everything is so small, can't they afford better?".

Of course I know neither of those is true.
There's a reason why no modern processor is in-order.

No modern performance-oriented processor, that is. Plenty of low-power, area-constrained embedded ones still are. The Intel Quark series of SoCs, for example. Those are basically a very fast 486, with the same 5-stage in-order pipeline. (For some amusement, get Quark datasheet and compare it with the 486 datasheet --- some of the microarchitecture diagrams are identical, and some clearly had only "Intel486" replaced roughly with "IntelQuark".)
Yes, I did mean 10.12.6 and 10.11.6.
Agreed. I think many posters here assume that everyone has an account at FB, WSJ, NYT, and so on. The web search trick doesn't work for all of these situations either.
This is a common misconception that I think is worth highlighting.

Economic production does not increase the money supply.

No matter how much economic value you create in a transaction, the amount of money in the economy is constant (putting aside the activities of the Fed, Mint, and banks).
> Transmit iOS made about $35k in revenue in the last year

Not good given the obvious development effort that went into it, but the transparency is appreciated.

I suspect this is directly related to the extraordinarily difficult experience that comes with trying to accomplish technical work on iOS. Perhaps that will change as iOS matures. Personally I've tried to use even boring old ssh and vim from an iPad a handful of times and it's beyond frustrating, you'll never want a real keyboard and cursor more in your life.
The law distinguishes between petty theft and grand theft for very good reasons.

There's an obvious and huge ethical difference between taking one person's very expensive mode of transportation and taking a megacorp's bicycle-shaped trash off a public sidewalk.

I'd call it sub-petty theft, and not even worthy of punishment.
Thank you. I'll try to think in a better layout.
Isn’t this why they added support for externals GPUs?
If you want to see that same tech in action but on a public blockchain, check out Stellar.
> who knows what/how/where this binaries are made

Reproducible builds (https://reproducible-builds.org/) is an initiative to fix that part of the problem. With reproducible builds, a third party with the same source code and compiler will get an identical binary, so we can have independent entities certifying that the code you download with apt-get was built from the corresponding source code.
fully associative memory is generally very power hungry.

Thats why in CPU's caches are usually "2 way associative" or "4 way associative".

That means the data you're looking for might be in one of 2 (or 4) places. Fully associative means the data you're looking for might be in any memory slot, and you're gonna have to check them all. Checking them all in parallel is possible, so it isn't a speed issue, but it is a massive power issue. Average power use is the main limiting factor in CPU's today.

In general in a CPU, transistors which stay in the same state don't use much power. Transistors changing state use power. In a fully associative memory, the transistors doing the comparing change state with every comparison. Whereas with a regular memory only the transistors for the individual bit of the memory being read or written change state and use power.

(the above is a simplification, but contains the key elements).
The best metric we used when optimizing low latency systems was fixing the slowest outlier. Maybe a similar metric could be used for economies eg focusing on the worse off person.
Sweet, shades of FORTH. Very retro yet timely
Not the op, but until recently I felt like while Apple's apps were going downhill, its OS stayed very good, both in terms of user friendliness and stability. With High Sierra, any trust I had was utterly shattered.
I like it, at least from the little that I read about it. The name describes the core of what it is: differentiate programs, in order to figure out how changes the the program affect the output and using that for optimization purposes. Do we really need to invent obscure, new names for everything just so that it sounds catchy?
The cost of paying fines for non compliance would be more.