skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've driven both and I'll have to respectfully disagree here. The Z3 was plenty nimble and along with more get-up and go, it was tighter and less like a go-kart (not to knock go karts, I have an e30). Don't get me wrong, the Miata was great, I just don't think it was a Z3. Also, the Z3 M Coupe was the coolest looking car I've ever seen (Clownshoe!).

Interesting you would argue the Z3 was heavier when the Boxster (986) was only 100 kg lighter than the Z3 M roadster and the Z3 was basically the same as the Boxster. I've never driven a Boxster or Cayman, however, so I can't comment much further than that.
I'd never heard of this graphics engine before (not my area), but the web design is wonderful. No extraneous JS crap, loads almost instantly, looks great. I wish more of the web was like this.
Don't you think you would have sold them long ago anyway?

I sold my 0.5 coin at $200 and I have no regrets. I find it futile to cry over things I did because I couldn't tell the future. I'm more likely to wonder why I didn't pork up on GOOG at the IPO price, but that's no different.
> The floor I'm on has 25-35 developers, DBAs, and BAs, and I can count on one hand the number of people who could get hired into a junior technical position at my employer. There are people who are unironically counting the days they have left until they can retire and draw their pension when they have more than 5 years left.

This pretty much sounds like the majority of fortune 500s I've worked for. Software Engineers started by being interviewed by non-technical managers, worked there for 20 years becoming 'Senior' or even 'Enterprise Architects', when at most they'd be very junior or intern level developers / engineers at my current employer.
SharedArrayBuffer will be disabled by default as a stopgap:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-lan...

performance.now() accuracy is also being reduced.
schadenfreude.
I have always at least one new habit being built.
I find very useful acquiring habits as automated routines. Whenever I have a new goal, I create a process for achieving it, make it an habit, and stop focusing on the goal so much.

Whenever I feel stagnated, I review my current habits, and do either:

A) Improve/optimize an existing habit for a more ambitious goal (ex: "going to the park and do a couple pullups before work" becomes "do a small strength training routine at the park before work")

B) Create a new habit (starting small) in an area of my life that I'm not taking enough care of - even without having a clear goal for it. I found that many times, creating a process first has ended up creating an exciting goal.

By following this approach, during last year I created and sustained the following habits:

- Review my Japanese flashcards daily (>1 year)

- Keep a budget (>8 months)

- Journal (>8 months)

- Body-weight strength training before work (>3 months)

- Working/studying in early morning before going to the office (>1 month)

The key is to start small.
If a process no longer helps my goals, I kill it.

For keeping track, I use the Loop Habit Tracker for Android, which is open source (https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits).

EDIT: formatting
PSA: Disable JavaScript. Meltdown/Spectre exploits are live
Meltdown is in the wild. Meltdown allows normal user programs -- from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers -- to discern to some extent the layout or contents of protected kernel memory areas.
What is more interesting to me is the news that came before this: Intel CEO selling his stock. I did not read the news but I got a notification on the phone through one of the many news apps on my phone. For a moment, I wondered why he sold off his stock.
Most of the time, they won't need it. When they do, they'll need to make the case to you explicitly. Some phone apps currently do this when they need a non-obvious permission.
You should read Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Fr%C3%B6ding

He is considered by some of the greatest poets of all time in Sweden. He experimented a lot with his language in the poems he wrote, often with dialects and local expressions.

"Coincidentally" he came from a province called Värmland. Värmland neighbors with Norway to the west. Dialect of Värmland (värmländska) has a close relationship with Norwegian.

Swedes find that people from Värmland speaks with happy upbeat at the end of the sentence (intonation), just like how Swedes hear Norwegians.

Many of the greatest writers & poets in Sweden originate from Värmland.

Anyway, Fröding has a poem called "Dumt fôlk" (Dumb people)

https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Dumt_f%C3%B4lk

He is walking about a Sunday morning and meets an other man that asks for directions to the vicarage, and one part of the direction uses funny dialect twist, the man will arrive to a stream where "Å i åa ä e ö" - and in the stream there is an island. The man doesn't understand a word of it and leaves.

woman reading the poem
https://youtu.be/UP_mwiOY7C8
hunter2 is the industry's accepted PoC password.
I've tried to be involved in school districts, and every single time there is a group of women who assume all men are pedophiles and make it extremely uncomfortable for any male.

It's simply not worth the harassment and suffering to attempt to be involved in child education if you're a male.
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this IS the biggest parental challenge of the century since it will affect every cognitive, emotional, and social development of our next gen.

My wife and I decided to ban our son (now 5) from all digital consumption as long as possible. we went hard-edged when we noticed his uncontrollable addiction. it was all he asked for daily. nothing else mattered. no interest in the robot cubetto we bought him, reading, playing with toys, or even being very communicative.

sure it was EASY to just hand him the digital pacifier when he was 1,2,3 yrs old. now we see the start of the epidemic before our eyes. its real but we are taking back control and starting on a healthy hands-on path of learning and having fun the good ol way.

and if he ends up being in the minority - so be it. at least he will be a a whole human being with empathy who can create, dance, run for miles, focus, communicate, and think critically miles beyond his zombified peers. Its never too late.
He worked at Transmeta, after all.
If instead of measuring time directly attacker would try to increment a counter in a loop in another thread, would they get enough accuracy and precision for the attack to work?
Do you have sources on this ?

Always interested to read more about how these recommendations work.
This is so weird. I was literally thinking about this exact thing last night. I was tempted to prove/simulate that even a mild interest generating mechanism (say 5% per anum) is enough to distort the wealth distribution far beyond what hard work and merit would suggest.

I was just going to do a blog post but I guess these people went ahead and published. Dang.
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I got a amazon firestick recently. Installed Netguard on it (free android firewall) and pevented a few installed apps from phoning home. My firestick then refused to work. I left some of the apps disabled and my device is stuck in bootloop.

Now imagine the data they're collecting from their suite of amazon devices, where you can't control the data-mining.
Rather damning: "Krzanich's [Rule 10b5-1(c)] plan was created on October 30 and by Intel's own admission, the company learned of the chip vulnerability in June."
I read on Twitter earlier today that they were working on site isolation for six months before they found out about this.

Certainly shows why it’s useful though.
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Your premise would hold water if the Chinese government was not so entrenched via state sponsorship in its corporate entities, but that’s not the case. China exerts its influence thorough these economic activities, and I argue that the US government does not to the same extent.

These are not traditional M&A activities. It’s an economic Cold War. The US is not innocent entirely, but we do not pour government dollars into the Rand Corp and go about buying influential concerns in other countries.

Edit: thisisit mentions this is a comment further down:

“> In a document, the US Government Accountability office specifically singled out the rise of Chinese companies with state ties as worthy of more scrutiny, noting that some acquisitions might ultimately be bad for competition.”
At their current reported burn rates, they will go through $3B in 8 months.
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I'm using the phrase 'catastrophic warming' to refer to the warming predicted by climate models as opposed to the warming directly observed today and in the historical record.

Anthropomorphic global warming theory is roughly two connected claims. 1) rising CO2 levels caused by human activity results in a rise in the average global temperature and 2) the climate system has a feedback mechanism (sensitivity) that magnifies this CO2 induced warming.

Basic physics can be used to determine the warming caused by increased CO2. There are no serious skeptics in regards to these physical properties of CO2. My understanding is that the IPCC reports have consistently reported this warming as 1-1.5 degrees for every doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.

But that temperature rise isn't enough to create the catastrophic side effects that you see reported. That rise has to be magnified by the climate system through a variety of feedback mechanisms. This magnification/sensitivity can't be measured. It is the output of the climate models not one of the input parameters. Credible skeptics argue that a positive sensitivity is incorrect and that the climate system (as with most natural systems) has a negative sensitivity.

Here is what seems to be a reasonable review of predictions vs observations using a variety of methodologies most showing observations trending towards the lower half of the predicted ranges of the models (as opposed to trending toward the center line of the predictions): https://judithcurry.com/2017/09/26/are-climate-models-overst...
You do have the option of running an older phone that has been reverse engineered too.
Say everybody has ten acres of land, because we've taken all the land and divided it out among the world's population. Let's leave aside, for a moment, that's pretty much impossible, since everybody will want beachfront property in Hawaii, say, and not a patch of desert in BFE.

Now say I have fifteen children, and you have one. In the next reallocation, do we really divide out the land such that my family ends up with fifteen times the land your family has? Think about the incentives that kind of scheme creates.

Furthermore, there's a tragedy of the commons problem. If we all own the land, or it gets re-divided every generation, I have no reason to improve it. I'll get rich turning my land into a toxic wasted dump, because I don't have any interest in maintaining its value.

In the end, that's why we have property ownership. People don't take care of things they don't own.
Theres thousands of studies on this kind of thing, and you could find one to support any belief. Here's a list of studies with several different findings: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/is-video-gaming-... Here's another, with some contradictory findings: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/08/08/3388554... One interesting study in that second set actually said that a small amount of gaming per day, less than an hour, was beneficial -- better than not at all.
I think you're reading their phrasing in an ungenerous way. Please consider the Hacker News guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

The article authors lead a paragraph by saying "most societies", but they go on to characterize what they mean with greater specificity and provide citations to further research on the topic:

> Several societies have seen as little as 1% of their population own approximately 50% of the total wealth. This was the case in many Western countries around 1900, including Britain, France, and Sweden, and some claim that at present, roughly 1% of the population owns 50% of total wealth at the global level (1, 2).

> We focus on wealth and not income distribution, which is much less unequal and—perhaps surprisingly—poorly correlated with wealth inequalities across countries (SI Appendix, section 2). As a first illustration of the similarities of patterns in nature and society, consider the wealth distribution of the world’s richest individuals compared with the abundance distribution of the Amazon’s most common trees (Fig. 1 A and B). The patterns are almost indistinguishable from one another.

> For a more systematic comparison, we also analyzed the Gini indices of a wide range of natural communities and societies (Fig. 1 C and D) [emphasis mine]. The Gini index is an indicator of inequality that ranges from 0 for entirely equal distributions to 1 for the most unequal situation. [...] Surprisingly, Gini indices for our natural communities are quite similar to the Gini indices for wealth distributions of 181 countries (data sources listed in SI Appendix, section 1).

If you want to critique their argument, please consider examining the societies that they included in the analysis described above. They appear to be examining societies that are countries, probably because economic data is available aggregated at the country level.
Yeah sometimes this happens. I recommend refactoring and removing any infringing code if any and posting it on github as part of your portfolio.
The gigafactory is their battery factory, which is the limit in the supply chain.
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So for what it is worth my company has all Intel kit. We run servers that run docker. In each docker container we do build / test for our product. That is all we use them for. 1RU with 2 blades, each blade is dual socket, 72 total cores, 512GB RAM. We will not apply this patch as none of this is public facing and we do not want the hit to build / test throughput. The one big thing that this has done is we were looking at AMD for new servers and that has now become a higher priority on the to do list. Given our environment we care about the number of containers we can run, period.
To the gulag with him.
> Resolved by software / OS

It's not resolved by, it's mitigated by.

Furthermore, it wasn't mitigated by AMD (or Intel or ARM), it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make workarounds for the hardware's design flaw. It would have been nice to see a nod to such developers for taking the time to help with the problem.
Thank you for the explanation, I have always wondered about that
Can you describe common pipeline problems that deter women from entering tech? I'd like to be part of the solution if possible, but I don't know the cause(s).
"Because it's there."

- George Mallory
>The difference between keeping slaves and having employees is one of degree, not of essential quality.

No. It is one of essential quality, because your employees are working for you by mutual assent and your slaves aren't. Employees can quit and work for someone else if they decide it's in their interest, whereas slaves are stuck with you no matter how you treat them.
Also they have pretty high debt accumulated, so they really need some cash.
My understanding is it's anything that can make a running process mis-train the CPU core and read the values back. Consider, for example, shared hosts without separate process pools, running code from different users with the same interpreter processes.
That's a bit of a false dilemma though, as you don't need any monopoly. It is the local governments that granted the monopolies in the first place.
Ok, I understand, I thought you meant you wanted to leave IT behind altogether. Sometimes I get that feeling myself, but it would be a waste of the skills....

I'm with you about getting stuck, I have felt frustrated with the same. I work in an aerospace related manufacturing company, but it is not an area of the business that is furthering society, like space exploration would. We always say, "we do cool stuff", but I can tell you, the niche I work in is... well.. "around" the cool stuff, but it's not the stuff that benefits humanity/society/really moves us forward in a big or meaningful/beneficial way.

I think your question is the same that I have - how can I use the skills that I already have, but applied to something more meaningful/beneficial, in a field or job that I would enjoy as well and would be intellectually stimulating to me - maybe even - gasp - a little bit fun.

I personally looked into jobs at the companies/orgs I thought were on the edge (SpaceX, BlueOrigin, NASA, JPL and others) and I think with a solid software developer or IT skillset that you can get in. My issue was, these companies were all too far away from where I live, and I couldn't relocate for family reasons, even if I did get an opportunity. I think you really have to go to where these jobs are to be a part of it.

Also, don't expect that you can totally get away from the politics of "business", because I know for a fact they follow you around, even at the more exciting places.

If you're able to move to get closer to the job or niche you want, then if I were you, I would apply to all of the companies or organizations that move your heart and does what matters to you, and then lend the skill you have to that. If it means moving, well, then do it. There's a reason that aspiring country artists move to Tennessee, for example!

Also, if you're like me, and have not much in the way of experience that would get you into such a place, other than your dev/tech skills.. I would start finding out as many ways that I can get involved in those communities so I could start learning. Go to JPL open house day in Pasadena... go to space related meetup groups.. start one if you can't find it... anything and everything until I was able to find my way into a place I fit.

EDIT: One more idea, that I have had as well - make your own thing if you can't find it. Start your own "space research" or something org or company, and go to the companies in these areas and see if they have extra projects that need worked on, maybe it's a way to pick up some of the extra work they couldn't do in house.. ...no idea if this would work though :)

Best wishes, and maybe someday I'll see you in LEO too ;)
The simplest thing to do is to just put the cars underground. Dig trenches, build reinforced concrete boxes in those trenches, leaving surface streets for pedestrians only.

True, this isn't a cheap fix. No, it's not intended for anything but downtown areas, where the density is high enough to make it worthwhile.

This would open up a lot of space in major cities - new buildings could be built in the former streets, leaving narrow European-style streets on either side. This is space that could be filled with cafes, shops, restaurants, etc.

What makes this possible? Uber and the electric cars. With Uber, you don't need to park the car. And electric cars don't require nearly the kind of ventilation that gas cars do! (Although some degree of ventilation is still required, because no one should die if and when an electric car catches on fire!)
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I forgive you. You missed the point, which is that the line between "laughing stock" and "industry dominance" is pretty fine when you're still in the exponential ramp-up period of something, whatever that "something" is.

The production rate is clearly changing from week to week, month to month (increasing at a decent clip on a percentage basis). As long as that is happening, they're still in the ramp-up phase.
or just look for BurningMan parties or meetups.
I think it's more intended in a mocking manner.
This looks really bad from a PR perspective. Huge performance effecting security vulnerability and their CEO might have traded on insider info, doesn't look good.

I hope their lawyers have been productive these last few months before this all went public.
I realize this idea is a bit old fashioned... but how about a news network where they simply try as hard as they can to report objective reality, and we don't worry about whom that favors?
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I warned about high accuracy SharedArrayBuffer-based timers on Hacker News[1] when Firefox and Chrome were adding SharedArrayBuffers.

Glad to see people finally waking up to the fact that high accuracy timers are security vulnerabilities on most synchronous systems.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14057091
I think you hit it the big difference between public/private sector work -- the rules. My spouse has spent seven years in a land agency specializing into a position that really entails knowing, and keeping abreast of a very narrow, specific body of legislation and regulation that is applicable only to that land agency and only in very specific agency/business relationships.

There is no comparable position in the private sector (there isn't even a comparable position in different land agencies), and there is no way you could pick someone off the street and expect them to be versed in that legislation without a similar timeframe (and no agency will ever foot the bill to train you on it either. They'll just leave the position empty and the work to pile up for years or decades until a similarly skilled person becomes available).

Unfortunately, the biggest issue that this particular agency is facing has been a multiple-decade campaign to hire externally to the agency rather than promoting internally. The result has been a body of upper management from the public sector that neither understands said legislation or how it applies.
Does this disable the branch predictor for all function calls?
SEEKING WORK | Seattle (remote preferred, travel OK)

I specialize web applications with a focus on scientific data visualization. I'm good at making better ways of interacting with large sets of often very technical data than querying a database. I'm friendly, communicative, have opinions both on design aesthetics as well as tools, and enjoy the fresh challenge of learning a new domain.

As a freelancer, I've worked on graph visualizations of pharmacological data, made data dashboards, built apps with React Native and Electron, and taught data science. I've helped bring products to market and built proof-of-concepts. I have dual degrees in CS and studio art, and spent several years at the University of Washington working on serious games in microbiology.

I'm currently looking for projects starting in February.

Most-used tools:

* Javascript stack: Node.js, ES6, React, D3.js, React Native, Electron

* Python data science stack: pandas, matplotlib, scikit, sklearn, basemap

Also-used tools:

* MongoDB, MySQL

Node apps shipped: http://gochip.com/apps

Map with D3.js: http://dovinmu.github.io/cascadia-maps/washington.html

Serious game: http://nanocrafter.com

Gmail: rowan.copley

GitHub: github.com/dovinmu
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One of the rationales for cloud computing is it saves money by cracking up utilisation. Providers observe how much users "really" use and then provisioning that much.

True, sometimes you will leave boxes at low utilisation for various reasons, e.g. to deal with traffic spikes. But those reasons have not gone away. So now instead of heaving a predictable increase in CPU cost, you have an unpredictable increase in performance snafus.

The only good news is that the real performance hit will be less than 30% on many workloads. Especially once the providers start juggling and optimising.
Why would they? The performance loss being discussed on HN and affecting AWS and others is primarily for the 3rd variant, not the first (which your quote was with regards to).
I wonder how much the company really needs those fees.