skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but how do i put things in list format in an HN comment? If there is a guide feel free to link. You make some excellent points. One of your points (3) could be accomplished in a small way by people just going Johnny Appleseed 2.0 and seeding fire prone areas with the proper vegetation without asking.
ShadesSCSS – Light Weight and Customisable Sass Boilerplate
> You can’t pay your electric bill in crypto currency.

I’m from Hanover, Germany and was surprised to see that since September 2016 my electric/gas/water company added a QR code to their bills to easily pay bills with Bitcoin [1] (They have super informative bills with easy to read charts as well). They even have service center support staff that will help you if you don’t know how to get/use bitcoin. There were (haven’t checked in a while) multiple listings for flats (we Germans tend to rent) that offered payment in bitcoin a year back and multiple little bars and cafes also offered payment with Bitcoin. I’m pretty sure I could live by doing >80% of all my outgoing payments in Bitcoin (if it weren’t for the high tx fees).

[1] - https://blog.energybrainpool.com/en/german-regional-utility-...
Nothing.

Until Google takes the stand and actually forces OEMs to update, nothing will ever change.

Not for existing devices, nor for Treble certified ones.

Updates are only for rich people able to pay 500€+ for flagship devices every three years.
ShadesSCSS is a light weight Sass boilerplate for creating & customizing themes quickly. All you have to do is set basic values for configuration and compile to create a new theme. ShadesSCSS doesnt get in your way. It gives you just enough to get going and leaves you to go crazy with your designs
Sounds like a challenge
They can’t be exclusive of each other if I successfully hold both at once
> No, what Sessions specifically said is it will be up to the state attorneys. In most cases their goals are aligned with the citizens who voted these laws into place.

No, he said that US Attorneys should follow preexisting prosecutorial principles rather than the restraint policy which, in his words, “undermined the rule of law”. [0]

US Attorneys are federal executive-branch political appointees, not state officials whose goals are aligned with the interests of the voters of the state.

[0] http://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/04/sessions-marijuana-enf...
AMD CPU microcode is contained in the linux-firmware package/repository ( https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin... ) which also contains Intel WiFi card firmware.

So if your Linux distribution provides a new release of linux-firmware package, you may get new versions of WiFi firmware packages as well with no actual changes to those. This seems to be the case with at least RHEL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0015

The RHEL linux-firmware update contains an AMD microcode update that involves Spectre mitigations. AMD microcode is mentioned at https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301 and the linux-firmware package changelog says:

* Wed Dec 27 2017 Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> - 20170606-57.gitc990aae
- Add amd-ucode for fam17h

(Intel CPU microcode is part of microcode_ctl package, updated separately)
THE OVERLOOKED SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH EBOLA
Have you ever been to Los Angeles (the actual city in question)? It is a city of suburbs. Excepting the metaphorical postage stamp of downtown and some highrise development along a few corridors, Los Angeles is basically 4 million people packed into a little less than 500 square miles of nothing but single-family home "suburban" development. Nobody living in Los Angeles believes that they live in a suburb, they believe that they live in a low-density city.
Just noticed my "Trump itself" there. Wasn't an intentional slight; chalk it up to either a typo or a Freudian slip, as you like.
I think the article addressed those points rather well. It highlighted the fact that Glover wasn't the only one doing these things, but his unique position made him a supplier for one of the more exclusive pirating clubs.

The author did a rather good job tying a few story lines together coherently to portray a few of the human interest stories at the heart of the piracy movement. Is the headline and top subject a little grandiose? Sure, but the heart of the article didn't claim that Glover was the only supplier of the pirated records, only that he was the supplier for one of the clubs that typically leaked the records first.
Fulfillment solves warehousing, inventory, and delivery of Amazon packages. Amazon built out their own network. FBA is Amazon renting out that network to third parties - whether they sell on Amazon or on their own ecommerce site.
With wayland this would be a dead end
What forapurpose said:
> but not the recent exploits in particular

What you said:
> but not any details 'in particular'?

Looking at the list of items Theo gave, most of them were fixed previously, and the others, at least to my largely uneducated eye, do not appear to be related to this specific issue.

Unless I am mistaken (and that's certainly possible!) it was not at all related to Spectre/Meltdown
A couple other discussions from earlier this week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16071731 (Yesterday)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057883 (Two days ago)

I found the top comment in yesterday's thread rather interesting. If there is a hard cap of 100 billion Ripple coins that can exist, and Ripple Labs already owns 60% of them, at today's price of $3.33 that would mean Ripple Labs has $3.33 * 0.60 * 100billion = $200 Billion in assets, making it one of the largest companies in the world. It's complete madness.
A number of responses to your post claim disappointingly low throughput on the Ubiquiti access points. Having just installed one myself, I was also initially disappointed...until I discovered that the default settings limit peak speeds to about 25% of what's possible with these Ubiquity APs.

I have the UAP-AC-Pro model; two configuration changes from the default yielded speeds as fast as any other access point I've encountered: 500+ Mbits up and down, as measured with iperf3 to a (wired) local box.

There may be good reasons for these defaults, but, briefly, the access point is factory set to use 40MHz channel widths for 802.11ac, and to reserve radio bandwidth for a wireless uplink. To resolve:

1) Update the 5GHz radio to use an 80 MHz channel width (really, two channels); this doubles effective throughput. In the Unifi interface, choose your AP from the devices menu, go to Config > Radios > Radio 5G and choose "VHT80" from the dropdown for channel width.

2) Uncheck the "Enable connectivity monitor and wireless uplink" box in the Unifi main "Site" settings panel; this also nearly doubled sustained throughput, though unfortunately it means your access point doesn't check whether it's disconnected from the Internet. (This may or may not be a problem for you. For me, it means my Internet is down, and it's not useful for my AP to know this too.)

I'm posting this in the hopes that it spares a few hours of Googling for someone else who, like me, was initially disappointed by Ubiquiti's access point speeds!
> I have no idea why many "fiscal conservatives" have a problem with debt-fuelled capital investment by government whilst embracing it as normal and indeed good practice in the private sphere

I'm going to go out on a limb and say financial conservatives would agree there should be a reasonable risk of failure for businesses leveraging debt. That's the risk they take to reap the benefits of future growth. Governments should not be allowed to (can't?) fail in the same way businesses can, so shouldn't be able to take on the same risk.
Interesting but I think Heart is more ok. Brain? Imagine you put a eeg and ecg in an alphago neural network and looked at the heat map. Any use? That is not even close to the 100 billion plus Neuton we have. Wonder. But the graphic especially the heart is interesting.
If this’s not a bubble I don’t know what it’s
Does Gizmodo miss the irony that they themselves put a Facebook share button at the bottom of this article?
Came here to say something along those lines.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/29/handcuffed-to-uber/
The Outward Journey: On the Scottish Poet W.S. Graham
Finally...someone took the time to do something I'm much too lazy to do myself. Mom's all into embroidery and I want the GD dancing bears on the back of one of my hats but all the free software kind of sucks/is abandoned.

I do have some ideas for a fill algorithm based on origami complex fold rule thingies that I think would be interesting, especially the curved folding algorithm[0]. I also think the 6(?) folding rules would be a good start for laying down the fill paths following the outline of complex shapes.

Perhaps someday I'll explore this, depends on how bad I want the dancing bears I suppose...

[0]http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niloy/research/folding/folding...
Concurrency

You forgot
2) Cache invalidation and
3)
Any other useful correlations? Also a note on the page linked: it's not clear to me whether I need another app collecting the data or if I will need to directly enter it in your app.
Thanks for asking - yes, I was wrong about that.

The main document you should read is https://images.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental... where there are some 100%s, but they don't make this particular promise.

In that report, they list iPhone 6 disassembly recovery by kg/100k phones (search for Tungsten.) Cross-reference with the components by weight for the iPhone 6S (6 is not available; see https://www.apple.com/environment/reports/ for all reports.) Ignoring battery, screen and plastic leaves .063kg/phone, and according to that side bar, Liam recovers .033kg/phone or ~50%. Assuming Apple recycles most of the battery, screen and plastic, they are recovering ~75% of each 6S. That's pretty good, and it's good to know that the unrecoverable portions are staying out of the trash (and hopefully heat/vapor waste is mitigated), but it's years away from being close enough to 100% to round up.
Isn't the CLR just the same as the JVM?
Their shockingly bad PR and general response are directly tied to the loss of trust. Sure, the downfall of a monopoly is economically disruptive but also creates opportunities for progress.
Because stock often makes up most of a CEOs compensation. Most people wouldn't want to have their pay locked up for long periods of time somewhere they can't spend it. So, companies like Intel can set up some agreement that says they can sell some of it as long as they keep some minimum amount.
They got my business back after he left.
Are local, state-chartered banks with no branches outside of their home state just as squeamish when it comes to marijuana businesses?
I'm reminded that Atherton has a Caltrain stop that trains only stop at on weekends.
in activities that recharge them

Which one please?
I don't find Apple designs hostile at all for Objective-C and Swift developers, their main developer customer base.
Wow, you do realize that you can mention the Uber rape case without trying to make it so personal to the OP, right? he's not defending him in that regard at all.

All he's saying is that he brought about the concept of ride sharing (debatable since there was, for instance, Sidecar before the advent of UberX) to the public and that he understands the pain of being ousted by your own company.
Hmm, where do cities come from? Did all the big cities stand right where they are now when the humans first came to the planet?

Cities grow when people go there and settle down. When cities grow, the suburbs turn into parts of the cities and new suburbs come into being. That is called progress.

If you really love suburbs, like GP says, move into a new suburb. Do not try to hinder progress.
What is the most advanced open source solution to the brain computer interface issue? Afaik they had gotten pretty good at decoding even the low sensor density data into actionable input, but all solutions suffer from input/compute lag.

So that said, FMRI's won't work for realtime will it due to how long scans take? So EEG's seem to be the only choice. Perhaps to make up for accuracy you have to increase sensor density enough and you should get a system thats fairly accurate. My guess is that most modern attempts have poor sensor density.
How could they ever afford to do the recall? They would go broke. Something that would help nobody.
> they'd never have even dreamed up

Side channels in general have been known for a long, long time in mil and intel communities, so it is likely that folks there long ago identified and understood that it's a bad idea to share a single x86_64 core between multiple tenants in a public cloud, for example, even if this specific attack vector was not explicitly tagged & bagged.
it's not a new word. i find it odd how some people react to it.
Apple Joins the Alliance for Open Media Developing VP9 Successor
Looks like a repackaged wt3020 to me?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wifi-Router-NEXX-WT3020H-300...

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/nexx/wt3020
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/gl-inet/gl.inet_gl-mt300n_v1
> businesses can be legal in states while being illegal under federal law

It still sounds a way ridiculous for a thing to be legal and illegal at the same time. There ought to be a non-ambiguous mechanism to decide whether a business is legal or not. As long as the feds let the states decide on their own they shouldn't consider something to be a crime as long as it is done in a state where it is legal. E.g. pot money from Colorado should be considered perfectly clean while pot money from Idaho can be treated as criminal. Doesn't this make sense?

> Banking is heavily regulated for a reason (terrorist financing

Doesn't seem to help much, terrorists still get everything they need.
The New Version of Tensorflow 1.5.0 Released
> makes it all make sense

Yeah, I know this kind of thinking... To many people have it. Hopefully I can try to "cure" at least a few from the "need for things to make sense" and to teach them to think more from the first principles of physics and the givens of biology. That's the only thing that needs to make sense.
Can't say I've had a similar experience.

I pay for 150mbps from Comcast. I was getting around 40 directly next to my old Apple airport extreme. In the basement it was really bad at around 5. Spent $350 on eero and now I get 130 throughout the entire house.

For me it was by far the easiest decision and I've seen real results. Everything from online gaming to streaming are flawless.
It is such an obvious rip-off, I just don't get it. 100% pre-mined. Essentially centrally controlled. Do a little searching on Jeb (remember a business called MtGox?). Mark is made out to be the daemon but look into the history of the site.

Disclaimer: I'm long on Bitcoin as well, longer than I want to be. Bitcoin is hugely overpriced IMHO. The technology has some promise but there are gigantic challenges to overcome. Ripple is a totally different beast, like comparing cats and bananas.
Have any accessible sci hub link
bz, io, ac... can't found article at all links
We had three stories about Ripple appearing in front page in 3 days. What’s going on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser
I got a Linksys Velop system after researching thoroughly. It's also rock solid.
Well, in general the problem with flash was the plugin wasn't well isolated, and often would crash the browser, and before NT-based windows was common the entire OS pretty readily (presumes windows). Not to mention the security track record. Browser isolation, and how well it will likely be with wasm is quite a bit different.

That said, it will lead to more closed commercial sites, but the JS outputted from webpack+babel+uglify is already unbelievably difficult to wade through without source maps. It's not significantly different imho.
The Problem with Abandoned iOS Apps
Meltdown and Spectre: All Mac Devices Affected Says Apple
Haha, you are correct, but there are some other hard problems that I now remember after some quick googling since i forgot all the related jokes :)

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery

There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny.

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
It says 'highly experimental.' Is it ready for prime-time, given the situation?
These things depend on jurisdiction and your particular contract, but in the western world generally some things apply:

* transactions are printed physically (iirc SEPA mandates this) (account balances can be recovered, like bitcoin)
* accounts are insured up to some ammount (will be covered by insurer provided bank cannot cover)
* bank will cancel/refund transactions that happen x hours prior to proper notification of account compromise (details vary)
Several are named here: https://tidbits.com/article/17342
WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser
The two most difficult things in software development.

* naming things
* cache invalidation
* off by one errors
The other horrible part of the touch screen is that it is super glossy. To get 4k I had to buy a touch screen and put a matte film on it.
Fascinating. So we should ignore Kansas' state economy going belly up due to grotesque mismanagement by "conservatives" attempting to implement libertarian-inspired economic policies? What about the sharp (and enduring) spikes in income inequality and the market crashes provoked by the Reagan and Bush Jr. regimes? We pretending basic economic indicators are hard to track or something?

Incidentally, you probably don't want to drag body counts into a conversation that's teetering on the brink of a larger critique of capitalism. Unless, that is, you'd like to review deaths world-wide from preventable illness due to lack of access to healthcare? In the US alone it's estimated to be 45,000 deaths annually. Meanwhile Texas (in all it's staunch conservative glory) has 3rd world infant mortality rates.

Regarding collapsed leftist economies, what percentage of these are attributable to inherent failures of socialist policy vs simple economic sabotage and regime tampering by the US and it's allies? Would you like to review what the CIA has been up to since the 1950's?

Or would you rather simply review the number of times conservative legislators have run afoul of the constitution just in the last 5 years? We can start with the electoral maps of North Carolina getting chucked over illegal racist gerrymandering, and a thick stack of executive orders that have died in a judge's trash can this year.
I paid my electric bill ($2400/mo) in BTC in 2014 at the first bubble for a while because I was runninga 13 terrahash mine from my spare bedroom. I used a lot of weird methods to do it. My friend did it once using this service where someone would pay your bill and the BTC would be held in escrow. The card used was fraudulent and now he has to pay his electric bill in cash for his home and business.

You definitely CAN pay your bill in BTC, it's just harder than most people want to mess with.
I have low expectations of human behavior when it comes to IP. They have a chance to be exceeded in that case, and when they are, that feels good.
> It still sounds a way ridiculous for a thing to be legal and illegal at the same time.

It's not legal and illegal at the same time. It is not prohibited by state law, and prohibited by federal law. It is, therefore, illegal, plain and simple.

Much like California's prison policies few years back: they were exactly what state law specified, but violated federal law. They weren't in some weird legal-illegal contradictory state, they were illegal.

> As long as the feds let the states decide on their own

Federal law does not allow states to decide on their own, in fact, it prohibits them from doing so (OTOH, on state authorized medical marijuana, there is also federal law tied to spending bills for the last several years prohibiting federal enforcement that interferes with the state implementation, but an enforcement moratorium isn't legalization.)
Some users will think it "not worth their time" to offer constructive commentary along with their downvote. Also, commenting on the downvotes you receive will invite more silent downvotes :P
I came into Google as Senior with about six years experience at another large tech company (where I'd also made senior recently).

Senior (one level below Staff) is deemed "career level," and if you just want to build stuff it's a good place to stop. Staff involves a much more substantial leadership and coordination component, and that requires both the skill and desire to take on that sort of work.
Reminded me of this person who built his own electric plane in his garage.
https://youtu.be/eNSN6qet1kE
Sadly, things cannot be discussed here. Apologists quickly point out the the community flagged it, of course. Questioning anything related not allowed. /s

With Meltdown using Docker became highly questionable. In future clear seperation using bare metal or complete VMs like Bochs/Quemu offer mitigating the current issues. And on the other side, Kubernetics ate Dockers lunch. And Dockers renaming of the open source component wasn't well received by the community either.
There are way too many on-line SF sites for me to recommend. Just pick one. :-)

Personally, I'm old-fashioned and get my short-story fix via traditional SF magazines like Interzone (UK) and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (USA).

If it's hard SF you're looking for, one site that might be worth a look is Compelling Science Fiction [1]. Here's a HN post about it some time ago [2].

P.S. Okay, I'll recommend looking at Locus [3], which covers the SF world. You might be able to get some good recommendations of current SF stuff from there.

P.P.S. This is self-advertistment, but I maintain a Goodreads list of books I've read and would like to read [4]. It's mostly on SF and Science / Nature stuff, but if you are interested in that, you may find some interesting stuff on it.

[1] http://compellingsciencefiction.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106748

[3] http://locusmag.com/

[4] https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5876605-kam-yung-soh
In the SFBA, the land use issues with suburbs are that most of them are building far more office space than housing and thus the jobs-housing balance is out of whack. A suburb like cupertino, that’s builds office space for 12k workers (the Apple campus), and then received payroll taxes for those 12k workers, needs to accept that they also must build living quarters for and provide social services to those 12k workers, as opposed to the status quo, where they floist the responsibility and costs onto neighboring communities while hoarding the benefits (taxes from large commercial spaces).
SSD maxes out at 512GB, Ram at 16GB... no go.
> Is there any risk of privilege escalation?

> Meltdown and Spectre are, by themselves, only information leaks. There is no suggestion that speculative execution can be used to modify memory or cause a system to do anything it might not have done already.

Aren't they a bit too casual here? The answer is not wrong in the sense that Meltdown and Spectre themselves can't directly be used for privilege escalation.

On the other hand the question they posed was: "Is there any risk of privilege escalation?" and I wouldn't be so quick about that. If I can read arbitrary kernel memory isn't there a chance (at least under some circumstances) that I can find something (clear text or hashed root password maybe) that enables trivial privilege escalation?
Sci-hub's wikipedia page (always?) has up to date links.
Current domains are hk,la, tv and tw.
I got a new XPS 13 9360 at work 3 months ago. I was afraid how bad the coil whine will be, since that was the most common complaint I found on the web about this laptop.

I can't hear any coil whine. Maybe my hearing isn't what it used to be or our office isn't that quiet, but the only thing I hear from this laptop is the fan when it's running at full speed (and that comes up very rarely in my experience so far).