skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government isn't forcing locals to accept anything. If no local landowners want to build denser housing no one is forcing them to do it. You've mischaracterized what is going on here.

The default mode of government should be to get out of the way unless there is a super compelling interest to do otherwise. I don't believe that the desire of people to live in unchanging suburbs is all that compelling. We living in a country with a growing and urbanizing population. These changes might make some people sad. Tough.
It looks like they're saying, for the bounds check stuff, it is normally enough to add a conditional move or register-selection instruction in the right place, that even their out-of-order chips won't speculate past it. And they defined a new barrier instruction, CSDB, that very narrowly promises just that a speculatively read value can't influence what data is cached later. It's unclear to me if that's supposed to be coming only in future designs, in microcode updates for existing designs, or what.

(They don't seem to explicitly promise data couldn't be leaked from the speculative execution other ways--in branch predictor state or something--though you have to imagine the idea is to avoid any leak.)
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Far too early to say "correct". Starting a company that burns cash faster than anyone and cashing out is not at the same level of Steve Jobs.
Maybe free money isn't free. That is, liberated money isn't free (as in beer). Potentially it can be, but this is a great first step.
In many environments, including when (ahem) we have a leaders in power who do not share our values, free speech is a prerequisite for advocating for what we care about. It's great that you care about the environment and LGBT rights, but try advocating for those things in China or Putin's Russia. You might as well just cross your fingers and hope the ruling party comes around to your point of view under those circumstances.
I have a relative who runs a set of independent ATMs, which obviously requires a lot of physical cash. He's been doing it for over 20 years now, but it's gotten harder and harder to find banks that will provide him with the cash. It's his money in his accounts, but many of them outright refuse to provide it in cash.

It's not so much that they mind the competition in the ATM business, it's that the regulations on handling large amounts of cash have gotten more and more involved, to the point it's just not worth it to them to do it.

He's had to change banks a number of times over the years, but now he's with a smaller local bank that he has a personal relationship with the management. Still a hassle, but at least he can run his cash-intense business.
Latest AMD processors are on par with INTEL in terms of IPC performance, there is no evidence showing AMD's pipeline design is anything less smart than Intel's. AMD processors do not have the issue because they don't speculatively load data across the defined boundary. It is _NOT_ an "in theory" security hole, it is a security hole that managed to lower the computing performance of the entire world due to Intel's market share.

Intel designers should of course be blamed for such issues - full price paying customers are now suffering from performance penalises for up to 30% on some workload, when each new generation of Intel processors give you 5-10% performance boost in the last 5-10 years. Sure, the issue is a surprise for everyone, but if they are designing processors to power billions of devices, they are expected and required to be exceptional.

Let's make it perfect clear - Intel designers don't have to be smarter, they can give up their market share to AMD. It is a privilege to design chips for the entire world, it is not a right. When things go wrong, they need to admit the mistakes and fix their craps, sadly Intel is putting too much efforts into its PR rubbish ATM.
I am sure Intel will be fine. It is effectively a monopoly in the desktop and server market and enjoyed their position and profits for years. They can handle a bit of criticism from a bunch of nerds on HN.

Maybe loading data speculatively across a protection boundary was careless. It seems besides the latest ARM CPUs no other vendor went that route. But not owning up to it and issuing PR statements saying "This works as designed, not a bug" is a bit hard to stomach.

But if it needs help drafting a better PR release, someone is welcome to point them to HN's comments section.
Uber's business model is a total failure. Hubert Horan has done an amazing job exposing it [1] and you can also listen to his interview [2].

[1] http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0D_Q8xvosM
It definitely could be. But FCC commissioner doesn’t get a security detail. And if you go to local police they aren’t going to fly people around to protect you, they’ll just tell you to lie low.

In his situation, would you risk your life at a big public event?
I wonder what this means (if anything) for machines running Coreboot.
IMO the first step would be disclosing all their tricks they implement outside of the specs they give. If researchers had adequate documentation of all the side effects that these tricks introduce then it could be properly audited.
Adding the whole pic would have introduced features which affect attractiveness in an inversely proportional manner, unlike the male torso I suppose.
my favourite is PAST4 tee-hee
Perhaps someone well versed in these matters could chime in but the somewhat bigger question is whether its a good indicator even for the economy at large, since Uber's reach is quite global.

Just today:

One of the biggest surprises of the U.S. stock market’s
relentless rally is how many individual investors have
run away from it.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 25000 for
the first time on Thursday, punctuating a record-setting
period nearly unmatched in U.S. history. Yet throughout
the nearly nine-year surge in share prices, individual
investors have continued to yank money out of funds that
own U.S. stocks.

Nearly $1 trillion has been pulled from retail-investor
mutual funds that target U.S. stocks since the start of
2012, according to EPFR Global, a fund-tracking firm.
Over that same period through Wednesday, the S&P 500
soared 116% and, along with the Dow Industrials and Nasdaq
Composite Index, rose to 190 all-time highs.[1]

[1]

As Dow Tops 25000, Individual Investors Sit It Out

Since 2012, $1 trillion has been pulled from retail-
investor mutual funds that target U.S. stocks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-dow-tops-25000-individual-in...
I don't really agree. I'm not one to readily or easily condone violence, but this falls into the grey area, like "punching nazis". If threats of violence are the only tools left to us to protect values, then it is better we use violence, then we lose the values. This sounds really terrible, and not all values are worth violence, but it's probably true - internet freedom is a lot to lose in 2018.

The best sort of way to think about this is to imagine Ajit Pai as some sort of Feudal Lord appointed head of the Internet by a King. In this sort of scenario, it would be nearly a no brainer to threaten violence - who the hell cares about some Lord in some distant comfy Castle, protected by an even more distant King? But no - we live in a Democracy! One with an elected President by the popular vote, the will of the people, and ... er...wait...

Violence sucks. Death threats are bad. But sometimes the other side is even worse. We need to not cache "violence is bad" and actually stop and think first. I don't actually think Ajit Pai deserves death. But he probably does deserve to feel not-safe. If he is unhappy with that, he can always quit.
> Crypto solves the problem (partially) of where to store your revenue instead of a bank.

The question on everyone's lips is: in what way is storing money in a bank a problem.

Any way you slice it banks are a number of solutions. Problems not so much.
Until very recently laws against gay marriage were Constitutional. Was the government doing it's job well when it passed these laws?

No, it was not. There are underlying principles of good government that should constrain citizens and politicians further than what is strictly defined in the constitution.

That is the case being made here: NIMBY zoning laws, while constitutional, are not ethically or philosophically sound so we shouldn't have them.
Good for him. This is probably an unpopular opinion here, but I feel bad for this guy. Could have built a really great empire, and he probably would have if it was ten years ago.

But things are changing so fast nowadays and the masses have a lot of power (maybe too much than they deserve) and Uber unfortunately was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

When I talk to real people in the real world (not Twitter trolls and social justice warriors), most people appreciate how Uber changed the world for the better. He deserves every cent of his billions of dollars.
An excellent, succinct explanation!
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Do you know why Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple?
Happy for him. I can only imagine how much being ousted from a company he created and raised to its current level must have hurt.

I do not look fondly at what a pain local transport was in cities without public transport (and even those with), and it is Travis (yes, Travis first, Uber second) that led this paradigm shift.

We can debate about Uber's business practices until the cows come home, but this is undeniable. And yes, other so-called 'nicer' / 'ethical' rideshare companies who didn't have to get their hands dirty because they profited from the ecosystem that Uber created exist precisely because of that.
I've had both the Eero Gen 1 (3x Routers) and Eero Gen 2 (1x Router and 2x Beacons).

The Gen 2 is much better. Part of that is topology. I've got a long railroad-esque SF apartment. The beacons along the main hallway are unobtrusive and get great backhaul to the main router. They also function as nightlights, which is neat.

Hopefully they keep afloat and iterating the product. Having raised $90M you've got to wonder if they're betting a lot on growth of their SaaS "Eero Plus" product.
I would like to propose a decentralized cryptocurrency, market and transfer protocol for a self-organizing, peer-to-peer packet network.

This is a pre-proposal, and as such there are no technical specifications, only a discussion over a hypothetical system which can allow achieving this.

I am publishing it to gather feedback, mainly I want to see if I missed anything for which no obvious solution exist. I am also open to find others who would like to contribute to help fill in the voids for the eventual technical paper and implementation.

Before you ask, there will not be an ICO, as it is a distracting process which I don’t see providing benefits for the establishment of a successful network. If you would like to contribute to the development of this project, you can contribute intellectually or make a personal donation to one of my wallets addresses bellow. Provided there are regular contributors, a nonprofit foundation will be setup to support the ongoing development of the project.

BTC: 1E48iBFm98B3hqjAhPeEDdCVQHYVPFjXQK
ETH: 0xc0bFe51cF2c25b8121DDBa80b3E49f7c985f4Efb
LTC: LXn8JxbsixHU3oLm66DZHuFDRZykQmi6rk
Normally I'd agree but:

1) Facebook goes out of it's way to show you what it wants to show you, and not what you actually want[1].

2) Facebook deliberately exploits techniques for you to spend more time on the service, and for you to put more data on the service. At this point I'd liken it to gambling. Is it the gambler's responsibility to ensure their time is "well spent", or is it the state's / organization's? What about when gambler's fallacy (or one of the numerous related cognitive problems) takes hold? What then? [2][3]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

[3]: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2...
Good post. I agree.
I get your point, but is roughly 1/3 of my stake having lost direct control that strong a statement?

Personally, I think his next move is more telling. If he holds 2 thirds, that's an endorsement. If he keeps selling, then, yeah...it's a signal.
It looks like we will have to respectfully disagree, but thanks for keeping it civil.
Ask HN: Does anyone use a voice assistant for thier day-to-day business?
I've been seeing a big push from Amazon Echo to get voice assistants onto people's desks. Does anyone have any experience with this? Or any experience with enterprise Alexa skills?

I feel like there is a lot of room here for cool voice interfaces and I am looking for some feedback from anyone already using it.

I remember one HNer was talking about a voice interface for displaying business graphs("show me the last six months in revenue. forecast the next 3 months. etc" but concluded that the platform(Echo) just wasn't ready yet.
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I just wonder when will this nonsense ("banks saying no") end and when a financial system at least as free as cash and as quick and convenient as just using debit cards emerge. It seems that we have came to a point when we need to separate banking from state and police the way church has gotten separated from them earlier. That's a pity BitCoin has failed to do this. Hopefully Monero or something new will succeed once and set the people free...
Boy, where to even begin... "wrong place at the wrong time"? Are you actually aware of the circumstances under which he was forced out?
Article said board members were limited to 50% of their stake.
Yep, I was looking into Eero and Google Wifi when a friend suggested I just get a single, more powerful router instead. Got the Netgear Nighthawk and have been very happy
I think automatic systems like Content ID should be illegal. Plus I doubt a robot can consider things like fair use. Well maybe they could do some machine learning of past cases where videos were complained about but ended up being fair use...

I think a real human should have to spend all day finding content and manually doing the work. Kinda like how some states have banned red light cams. Technology is not perfect. I heard of those cams going off even when it's legal to turn on right. A real human swearing under penalty of perjury or giving sworn testimony seems perfect for accountability.

At least the money is held until you do a dispute now with Youtube. I know if you license royalty free music - the system will even flag it. I know someone personally who had that problem. I guess the systems aren't linked so no idea you had a license but annoying. So say you made a video for a client and uploaded it, and embedded to their website. Even though you didn't monetize it, your client website now has ads for their competitor as they'll allow the video to stay up but with ads where the money goes to whoever claimed it! I guess the way to protect that is to upload as unpublished or unlisted then dispute it before publishing it when you already purchased a license.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but reading through the linked list code it seems as though it's just a linked list structure on top of a normal vector (via the arena class), combining the worst aspects of each.
This seems to be intended as a tree of achievements gained in the process of developing web, rather than a guide for what to use for any particular instance. Several of the paths I have happily skipped.

The backend could be further broken down into separate parts, each potentially using a different language, in order to give a clearer picture of the options and complexity. 1) web server (request/response), 2) search 3) database/store/access 4) data pipeline/ETL 5) payments
I expected this to be an elaborate joke, but the author obviously has a good use case for it. That is quite ingenious!
After all the history of shady things with Intel ME/AMT, hindering coreboot projects efforts, etc I highly doubt there will be people who want to do that. Hopefully this story will start a big change in Intel policies (more likely it is not though).
Perhaps the 'real people in the real world' would be offended and stop using Uber if they knew of Kalanick and his team's doings, not the least of which has been the intimidation and attempt to discredit a rape victim.

EDIT:
I appear to be mis-remembering Uber's actions - they did not initially share their denial of the victim's experiences with her, per the accounts I've found. In this setting, 'intimidation' may be too strong a word.
Right. Now how do I send you a death threat?
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You only make him into a victim/martyr and delegitimize your side when you give into stuff like this. You don't like the result of the democratic process, fix it.

What happens when the other side decides threatening violence is justified because they can make analogies too and worse they feel under threat? What happens when people who don't have a limit go from threat to action?
> Create a company that can take cash in big amounts and sell cryptocurrency.

I believe this is commonly referred to as an exchange. I believe there are quite a few in existence already.
he probably needs cash to start his next thing
Is this Fake news to make those for net neutrality look like looney tunes?
Does this support GC?
Great time to sell with SoftBank throwing money around. Get out and retire to an island with your billions.
"Cryptography is the silver bullet by which we can hope to reclaim our privacy. The solution, however, has one drawback: cryptography shields the law abiding and the lawless equally. Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies contend that if strong codes are widely available, their efforts to protect the public would be paralyzed. So they have come up with a compromise, a way to neutralize such encryption. That's the Clipper chip and that compromise is what the war is about."

So there it is, a government-mandated encryption device that has a backdoor built in.

The IME is a well-intended system management feature that can be turned to nefarious purposes since it can go around all operating system security features, e.g. read or update all of the system's memory.
A notably worthy response while others aren't handling it so well. It's nowhere close to being Coinbase's fault, but they are far in front the matter. Kudos.
The reason doesn't change the fact that it's too early to say that Kalanick is the next Jobs. His current and past actions can resemble Steve Jobs and Apple, but that says nothing about how the future will occur for Kalanick and Uber. Given the state of Uber with the Waymo lawsuit, their moonshot long-term investment I'm guessing you're referencing, I think things are very different between the two futures.
Seems like a good time to dump this =).

I think I know the kind of world Travis comes from. He was in a fraternity, and he treated it like a business like I did. When he owned a real business he applied those lessons far too liberally.

Fraternities are ruthlessly competitive, going as far as planting fake pledges and building internal dossiers on all the other frats on campus. Very valuable was your loyal man with a generic young face that could walk their way into other houses unsuspected.

Fraternities are also bound strongly by shared goals and lifetime membership, something that doesn't translate to a company where you can leave anyday. They're both a company and a political structure within the university. A strange 501c3 title 9 exempt chimera that forever walks the line.

I'm not defending what he's done, just saying that ruthless counterintelligence is normal for Greek houses trying to get an edge, just like politics. We did much of the same, going as far as putting together wifi sniffers with long range dish antennas pointed at other houses to figure out how many people connected to their WiFi during parties.

We never did any harm, but we watched as closely as our abilities (and the law) allowed. It was opposition research, as bad as politics, and often intertwined. At one point I was fraternity president and my roommate was president of the Student House of Representatives, in charge of the school's 'activity fee', which was close to 50 million a year. We both hated politics and left them forever after graduation, but seeing into the void was a hell of an eye opener for both of us.

I have a strong feeling Travis tried the fraternity formula on a unicorn. A fraternity is much different primarily because you're elected. If you own it, you don't have to pander to anyone or spend half your time watching your back. I think the shadier and secretive projects are a reflection that Travis didn't understand that.
Nope, but if enough people do share it, they should be able to elect a local government that will help to keep them out.

Just like if the people in a neighborhood find pig farms to be stinky, they should be allowed to, through zoning, keep a property owner from building a pig farm next door.
I think you should cut the guy some slack here. He is talking about working to keep his kids safe online. That sounds like responsible parenting to me.

The internet is full of crazy awful stuff, and yeah sure I get that at some point you have to let them be independent and trust them, but we don't know how old his kids are, at younger ages there is certainly some protection required. And as they grow up and learn you can gradually give then more trust and freedom.
Finally, good news in the world of computing. The zoom function is a nice touch...
> Why do companies still hold that limit in 2018?

Because laptops don't need server levels of RAM. What are you doing that needs that much RAM that couldn't better be done on a remote desktop/server than on a developer laptop?
Write a letter to your state DA asking them to pursue barratry charges against the lawfirm.
Mere hours later the state legislature of Vermont voted to legalize pot. Between the lack of enthusiasm for perpetuating prohibition and Sessions' general lack of political capital/support from above, it doesn't look like they care what he thinks. Chances are that any individual businesses he tries to attack will have the state attorneys-general filing amicus briefs in their favor.
What is the "real" cost of mining? The way Bitcoin is set up, the cost of mining is proportional to the security of the network from a 51% attack. However, there is no force that anchors this cost to the actual level of security needed; so the cost of mining could become arbitrarily high; and all we would have to show for it is an unnecessarily secure network. The block rewards also provide a lower bound for the (Bitcoin denominated) cost of mining and (until they resolve the congestion issues), the auction based transaction fees add to this lower bound.
No gigabit port.
Still going to give it a few more months. Might even wait until 10.14 :)
So with the repeal of net neutrality the FCC can't afford to have Pai video-conference in?
He at least showed us that waving a smartphone in the face of regulators and the public was the next best thing to a Jedi mind trick.

waves smartphone
"Uber is not a taxi service."
-"Uber isn't a taxi service"

waves smartphone
"There is no need to regulate us as a taxi service."
-"There's no need to regulate them like a taxi service."

waves smartphone
"Uber drivers are not employees."
-"These drivers are not employees."
Ugh, this argument is tired and dumb. Thank you for bestowing upon us all the sacred knowledge that there are different kinds of IP, but we all already knew that, and choose to continue to refer to them, collectively, as IP, because they actually are similar in a lot of ways.
Holy crap I agree. I mean I know it's not polite to point and laugh but this thread is nuts. How do people write and upvote some of the opinions in this thread? It's like they have zero sense of irony or introspection.
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