skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I won't be able to communicate with anyone else?

This is exactly the reason I stopped bothering with PGP.

Edit: Admittedly it might be different for a trained / disciplined group of people who really have something to hide.
Just like Metamask, I wouldn't put more than a few hundred bucks of Ether in there and keep my real money in cold storage or coinbase.

Similar to how I put the majority of my money in a savings account and keep my savings account lower.
Hate Speech Isn't Real | Change My Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0hPd2gMlGw

I found Steven Crowder's arguments here to really challenge my thoughts on what is free speech and what is hate speech. Give that a watch if you have the time.
I was making reference to this [1].

The original fix had a comment that literally said, "/* Assume for now that ALL x86 CPUs are insecure */" They've since added a check to exclude AMD processors.

[1] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip...
Making Web Servers a little more secure, quickly
Certainly not. Germany can block twitter, but I don't think the German people will accept that. Countries that love censorship need to realize that if they want to be part of the global discourse, they need to be part of all of the global discourse.
Bitcoin doesn't pay out cash when you find a block. It pays out Bitcoins. So the value of that is based on how much other people will pay for a bitcoin.
144,000 Gigabits from Hong Kong to L.A. In 1 Second
Google's Latest AI Can Tell If Your Photo Is Good or Not
You're wrong:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder
KDE Community Goal: Streamlined onboarding of new contributors
Why not just let citizens use it for a standard fee, just like a regular road? (In the case of roads, the fee is gas taxes, registration fees, and sometimes car property tax in addition to the general fund.)

Why should the businesses get preferable treatment to individuals or citizens?
"Nostalgia was better in the old days"
~ unknown author
Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995
That's usually not really 4K, or 4K@30Hz at the most. To do 4K@60Hz you need HDMI 2.0, and a GPU (discrete or not) that can cope, and there are few (silent, tiny) machines that ship with that built-in.

(edit: parentheses)
I could be wrong, but I take the "bug/flaw" language to mean this: the processor is doing exactly what it was designed to do (unlike the Pentium FDIV bug, for example). A new class of exploit was recently discovered, and these CPUs are vulnerable to this new exploit. But there was no bug in how these CPUs were implemented, and the only design flaw is that they failed to withstand a new class of exploit that was not known at the time they were designed.

(I don't have any information that could confirm/deny this, it's just how I interpret their verbiage).

I don't get the sense that they are trying to deceptively contradict only part of the previous statement.
You think that people were sitting and doing nothing, because everyone was hording gold, because it would be worth 1% more in year? Really?

The main function of money is not transferring value. It's keeping track what society as a whole ows to whom. Transferring is just a secondary job. And there's absolutely no need to incentivize it. That's why some cultures used stuff like big rocks as money.

Money is a good money, when you don't want to part with it. And its crappy money, if everybody are just looking for a way to get rid of it.

All the speculative bubbles that we're seeing are caused by lack of real-money. People are trying to get rid of their fiat, and park the value anywhere else.

And it's not very productive when young famillies can't afford to live anywhere, because the houses are used as speculative investment and essentially.. money. It was actually much better when otherwise useless pet rock was taking a function of keeping track of debt in the society and inflated and deflated according to real market conditions.
Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't agreeing with "government intervention leads to wealth concentration" I was stating that people who bring this up do not believe it is a given that "extreme wealth inequality is inevitable in a globalizing world unless effective wealth-equalizing institutions are installed on a global scale". Cutcss was implying this is universally agreed upon but I've seen many people believe the opposite.
It would help if you define "Dapp" and give a few examples of "Dapps" that people might get value from.
Google doesn't have that either
Walking in any major city in Germany you can find young neo-Nazis. I would agree that they are good at clamping down on any symbolism, but the ideas are unfortunately still there.
> There is relatively little room for the lazy and useless in the private sector.

Spoken like someone who has not spent much time in the private sector.
if the law states that companies are deputized to act as police and enforce the law of the land, then i guess they have to comply.

do the companies engaging in policing actions receive the same protections and considerations as actual police and government officials when it comes to legal issues involved with the act of law enforcement?

i feel it's better that the state should be expected to take responsibility for and enforce it's own laws.
Yeah.

I just found it in their git repo, looks like it was added today. https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip...
>The other week, my kids were watching TV and my wife and I were in the kitchen and one of them yelled out, "Mom, something popped up on Netflix saying the price is going up. What should I do?" My wife and I said the same thing instantly: "Just hit okay." We didn't even know what it went up to...hell I don't even know what it cost before.

You and your wife both know (subconsciously at least) that people will switch to HBO, Hulu, or any other number of services if Netflix gets unreasonably expensive. It's broke college students that buy Netflix the most, and they would have to get rid of their biggest set of subscribers to raise prices significantly.
I notice you give direct person to person examples, but you never talk about how you paid more in taxes than you needed to.

Do you think $500 extra to the federal government will do as much good as you directing that $500 to specific individuals or families that could really use it?
Same patch I think.
I'm not sure that calls for genocide are part of the global discourse.
But what if the octogenarian really wants to live? It may be justified to give it to the 3 month old, but that is not fair to the octogenarian and incredibly ageist.
State of Startups 2017 AMA with Camille Ricketts
Quite often people suffering from a specific nutritional deficiency or cognitive imbalance can go for years beating themselves up over their inability to get an exercise/salad/meditation habit on track, until they get on a substance that ups their baseline condition enough that they can establish these habits. I've seen this happen for people taking one of vitamin D, methylfolate, magnesium, Adderall, or anti-depressants.

Your advice is correct for most people, but anyone who has made honest efforts for years to pick these low-hanging fruits and failed consistently with a shelf full of books on discipline to show for it, should also do their research and try to find a doctor that leans towards an integrative approach or is young and still curious, who will also explore your genetics, experiment with medications, and order a wide-range of blood tests to see if anything is out of range. It's important to monitor improvements and side effects, and it's better to not do this yourself.
GIMP startup is only a few seconds if you have a decent SSD. I certainly remember it taking a long time on mechanical drives.
This GC bookkeeping cannot be compared to the refcounting madness. A GC needs 1-2 bits during the GC, but does not disturb COW pages at all during run-time. It also has no word overhead, these 2 bits easily fit into every object.
Also a GC compacts the live heap, which makes all upcoming accesses much faster. Well, not Mark & Sweep, but a compacting GC.
> Intel should now recall the affected CPUs and ship new fixed CPUs

You think they have the tooling to manufacture drop-in replacements for up to decade old CPUs, even if they wanted to?
Rust vs. C++/Qt complete ecosystem?
Hi All,

I am an immigrant in Europe. I am pretty good in C++14/CMake/Boost library. I have also worked in Qt. For my better future, what should I choose ? Should I build expertise in C++/Qt or should I learn Rust ?

I don't have a lot of time, because I also have to learn German.
Well, at least one time I found a bug in OpenBSD, told NetBSD, then looked at their fix and discovered our fix was incomplete because my regress had a false negative. But up until that moment I was pretty confident about our fix.

I think that's sort of a pattern. Vendor X is affected by a POC, so they fix the issue. They then develop more tests. Vendor Y concludes they are not affected, perhaps based on a false negative test, and fails to investigate further. Now X understands more about the true scope of the problem than Y and they have tests to demonstrate on Y, but Y does not.
mocking with interfaces is so straightforward, it just kind of happens without much thought if it something you are used to in other languages. The first thing I did in my very first go project was mock the repository/DB tier out so I could learn go without focusing on learning a new DB at the same time (I was using dynamo for something ultimately)
Net Neutrality Is Gone for Now. But  Everything That's Next
If you know the specific kernel being used, all you have to figure out is the base address of the kernel to have to whole layout to break KASLR.

So if it had been a timing attack where an unmapped memory reference takes longer to fail than a memory reference with the wrong permissions, then you could scan all of the KASLR slots without actually reading back any data.

Actually reading data is a waaaaayyy bigger deal.
I don't think anyone is doing this to make a quick buck, just for fun.
If you want to find specific place in large function, you will need to read all code line by line.
If case of smaller functions, you can locate branch of interest much faster if naming is good enough.
New device selects healthy sperm
Reminder that HN is proxied through Cloudflare so that might be the actual organization blocking your traffic.
That's such a juvenile reaction...

Germany is considering a stable, open, democratic, peaceful, constructive and successful country. There are any number of rankings/scoring regarding freedom of the press and of expression, resilience to corruption, democracy, economic opportunity etc in which Germany scores better than the US.

These are laws passed by the national parliament, elected to represent its constituents. The law is subject to approval by not only the national courts, but the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.

To somehow consider it a grave injustice when Twitter is now required to act when they are informed of activity considered illegal in that jurisdiction is ridiculous. Because presumably you're doing so out of some understanding of "democracy". Yet you are ignoring quite a bit of the local democracy that lead to this.
You're projecting a bifurcation. "Screwing up your kids" isn't a proposition; it is relative. Every single kid gets "screwed up" in some way (some severe, as you claim you are). The lessons they got taught in life during child and teenage years is their manual for getting themselves fixed afterwards, in order to function in society. If they fail to succeed by themselves, professional help can aid them.

See also Dr. Ingeborg Bosch on Past Reality Integration [1] or this Wikipedia article [2] for an introduction.

> This dismissal attitude makes me feel physically ill

Argumentum ad misericordiam [3].

[1] http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/introduction-psycho...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_psychotherapy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_pity
Silicon Valley 'working homeless' sleep in cars as tech titans live like kings
> The law applies only to a narrowly defined class of hate speech.

The thing is that (despite the reporting in the English-language media), it's not actually a hate speech law [1]. The problem is that social media companies are being deputized as enforcers of parts of the penal code without proper qualifications, safeguards, or ways to appeal (unlike real courts).

> As such, nobody's freedom of speech is more limited today than it was a week ago.

Yes, it is. Speech cannot only be constrained through legislating what types of speech are legal, but also through creating enforcement mechanisms that encourage platforms to be overzealous in what they don't allow.

[1] The whole terminology does not really make sense in the context of German law. Not to mention that even in the broadest sense, it's inaccurate, as the law also applies to things such as illegal pornography and threats (regardless of motivation).
This reminds me of a quote of General Ripper from Dr Strangelove: "Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream."
Yeah, that's true. I hadn't considered that the fragility of KASLR meant that there are lots of vectors for breaking it that don't require a huge chip break. Sorry, I'm making the thread dumber.

But, I mean: that's what that dude is doing in that tweet, is all I'm saying. :)
RSA implementations do use probabilistic primality tests when generating primes. OpenSSL [0] uses the Miller-Rabin primality test for RSA, which can be wrong, but they use enough iterations to make it very unlikely.

[0]: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Manual:BN_generate_prime(...
"Awful" would be the first word that comes to mind.

I've spent three years at my current position at one of the "big 5", and after the first 9 months there were reorgs and I haven't been doing the things I was hired to do since. Instead I work on things that I have zero interest towards, and can feel my soul being sucked out of me daily.

It has gotten to the point where I cannot even imagine heading in to work each morning. My entire body and mind rejects the notion. Somehow I manage to make it in on autopilot, and pretty much autopilot throughout the day. Any acts of sentience on my part while at the office are immediately doused with reminders of how much I hate all of this, and I quickly retreat back.

Unfortunately, this has done nothing but cause an ever-amplifying depression spiral. At this stage I can't even imagine trying to get another job as I don't think I'm capable of passing the whiteboard-hazing at any tech company given my current state of mind.

I'm just going to wither away here until the end I imagine.

To be fair: it's not "awful" by any traditional metric - I'm not being overworked, yelled at, treated like shit, etc. But acknowledging that doesn't help my thoughts, any.
My grandmother's rural Minnesota town laid fiber as part of the process of replacing the roads in the town. This greatly reduced the installation costs since they were able to basically sneak in halfway through the road repair to install the conduits.

It seemed pretty smart and it got her some cheap high speed Internet/TV/Phone through a third party ISP. The only weirdness is that the company doesn't appear to have a website, so she can order gigabit internet but has to call them up on the phone to get it.
The site doesn't even perform its basic functions on mobile anymore.

Agreed, it's a shame, but such is image hosting.
> We science fiction writers tend to treat history as a giant toy chest to raid whenever we feel like telling a story. With a little bit of history it's really easy to whip up an entertaining yarn about a galactic empire that mirrors the development and decline of the Hapsburg Empire

It is really fun, while reading a science fiction or fantasy book, to recognize the history that is being plundered for the story, and then be able to predict the next few plot developments.
The video seems to make the point that there isn't a satisfying legal definition of hate speech (I haven't watched the whole thing).

As a counterpoint, imagine you are a minority (if you are not already a minority), and further imagine that someone uses speech that has, in the past, been used to incite violence; or speech that is similar (dog-whistle) to that which incites violence.
It happened 70 years ago. Obama has a good line, something similar to:

If you were in a restaurant in 1930s Vienna surrounded by great art, music and intellectuals you may have been forgiven for thinking that wonderful setting would continue on forever. Unfortunately, a short time later millions we're dying on a continent engulfed in war.

When the stock market is up we think it'll keep going up. When we have peace we can't imagine war. History is not a straight line and destructive ideas can still take hold in the wrong conditions.
Twitter, if it wants to continue operating in Germany without facing lawsuits / prosecution, has to bow to German law.

It would be better if they could just reliably block the account from reaching German users only, while other users would continue reading the tweets. It, of course, is impossible unless Germany implements a country-wide firewall, the way China did.

I don't think it's likely, though. The point of actions like this is not to strictly eliminate any last vestige of hate speech. It is to send a message, so that other would-be-satirists could reconsider starting an account that breaks the law, and that other international companies which deal with UGC knew what to expect, and took preventive measures.
I love that you had five kids. Kids are wonderful and our population is declining. You’re doing the best thing for yourself – and the best thing for society.
I've always used `lib` in every other language. I see no reason to change....
IO performance is actually more worrying than CPU performance IMO and the hit is considerable for PCIe SSDs.

So many applications depend on it. From databases to pro video, pro audio, etc.
That patch would be this git commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/...

Not yet on the mainline AFAIK, but I'd guess that whole branch will be merged soon (before the next release candidate).
I have my doubts that any new thoughts on the subject that merit consideration would first appear on Youtube...

Plus, you didn't read the last sentence: "There is debate to be had on hate speech. This is not that debate".
There's Xen XSA-253 with an embargo lift of 2018-01-04 12:00 (UTC) which some said might be related.

edit: XSA-254 is about this, XSA-253 is still embargoed, so probably unrelated.
Free speech doesn’t mean the right to be on twitter
So there is a conflicting tx, your software is going to vote on it automatically. How do you pick which tx is the 'clean' one and which one is the 'dirty' one?
>Economic war it is, plainly and simple.

Sure beats the hell out of war war.
Human Values: A Quick Primer
LOL they managed to get reuters.

Banning messages via NetzDG is on message basis, that means single tweets get removed.

Here a whole account got banned which is twitter SOP when accounts violate their TOS.

Because the new NetzDG came into effect this month now every media in germany is confused. Seems like the international ones follow suit.

Also the Titanic account (the satire account) got - wrongly - banned some time before so it propably was some kind of repeat offender thing
>Well when that actually becomes a problem I will act accordingly.

I don't mean to be rude but if you are having to ask how to disable automatic updates then you probably aren't someone who keeps up to date with all the latest issues. When it becomes problem, you just won't know.

Let your OS vendor do all this for you. They are good at it.
It really depends on the context of the problem being solved. Some problems become more complex when modularized like this.

Splitting functions is basically adding indirections and spreading the context all over the place.

For reusable tasks that works wonders, but for single-use functions that usually obfuscates the intent more than anything.

I don't want to follow fifteen 10-lines one-use functions when I could read one 150-line function (which would most likely be a lot less due to less boilerplate).
I vaguely remember watching the same documentary, so I don't doubt you. But surely they would emerge at the same time every 21 years?

Edit: I looked it up, its 13 and 17 years, giving a 221 year overall cycle. I guess it only really "matters" that the years are coprime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
With shared accounts, the price is already pretty low at ~3-4€/person/month. I don't think that a price drop would adequately compensate for a significant loss in content at such a low price point.

Yes, in the long run producing their own content will be cheaper. Mid-term buying proven content will probably come out at around the same price as producing new content that the viewers may or may not like. They have better viewer analytics and better ways to globally monetize the content than traditional content producers though.
>That's such a juvenile reaction...

Ban this user for ageism /s
I think you should x-post this to reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
AWS accelerates instance reboots in anticipation of research findings
I had some instances that I hadn't manually restarted, scheduled for reboot on Friday and Saturday. Just received this email:

We previously advised you of important security and operational updates which will require a reboot of one or more of your Amazon EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 region. Unfortunately, we must accelerate the planned reboot times for these instances given anticipated publication of new research findings.

The new maintenance window has been scheduled between January 4, 2018 at 8:00 AM UTC (12:00AM PST) and January 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC (6:00AM PST) during which the EC2 service will automatically perform the required reboot. During the maintenance window, the affected instance will be unavailable for a short period of time as it reboots. We will be performing this maintenance in a single Availability Zone of each Region at a time. For more information on EC2 maintenance, please see our documentation here: https://aws.amazon.com/maintenance-help/ .

To avoid your scheduled reboot, you are able to reboot this instance any time prior to the maintenance window. More details on rebooting your instances yourself can be found here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-reboot.html

To see which of your instances are impacted, please visit the 'Events' page on the EC2 console to view your instances that are scheduled for maintenance:

https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1#Events

Sincerely,
Amazon Web Services
Downvoters: yes, the NYT and its local journalist are covering for the totalitarian misery imposed by a theocracy on the Iranian people. Just as the NYT was complicit in Duranty's paeans to Stalin and calculated lies about the Holodomor. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor#Walter...
Hm, looks like the websites describing the bugs...require Javascript. Forgive me for being a bit nervous about running random code from the Internet at the moment...

(Edit: problem is gone??)