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The two cases (YouTube and using nonfree OSes) are not comparable as the grandparent poster and this suggest.

In Stallman's case there were no free software OSes. One could not use a computer in freedom. Therefore he used a nonfree OS to write free software until he could run a free software OS and thus had no more need for nonfree OSes. For years now he (and the FSF) don't run nonfree systems. They even endorse computers (and other computer hardware) that can be run completely in freedom (see https://www.fsf.org/ryf for details).

We already have file hosting options that don't use DRM, nonfree JS (or indeed any JS), and avoid the other problems of YouTube. There's no need for coming up with something new as we already have viable other means of sharing files.

We don't need YouTube, they need us. By buying into their limitations and restrictions uploaders endorse YouTube (which is undesirable and certainly not very thoughtful) and help foist YouTube's choices on others (which is unethical).
I edited it down to $200 B.
I'm sorry for phrasing it poorly. What I mean is, do you think the shifting economic incentives will provide the push necessary for people to invest in production and development on the RISC-V architecture? I'm not especially into it myself, but I've been wondering if this might be the thing to get people to move on from the x86 paradigm. I've always admired RISC because small instruction sets seem that bit easier to validate, though (as you can tell) I'm no expert on chip design.
In retrospect, yes this is of course a big problem. But regarding how it could ever be approved...

Until this news broke, a CPU designer would tell you that speculative execution is a well-understood, proven approach to gaining a lot of performance. Branch predictors are really good at figuring out where the next instruction is going to come from, and are a really important tool for avoiding stalling out the whole machine while you wait for the next instruction to come back from memory.

And intuitively, it seems really "safe." All you're doing is having the CPU get ready to perform "future" calculations more quickly. It gets to guess where the program is going to go, and start fetching resources that it thinks will be needed. As long as nothing architecturally visible is changed by these preparations, everything is functionally the same, so what could go wrong?

And intuitively, you wouldn't think that something like a cache, which the program has no way to access directly, should be architecturally visible. Even putting on a security-minded hat, you would think that it doesn't matter what's in the cache, because if a program tries to access kernel memory, the access still has to undergo a permissions check.

The attack is pretty damn clever. And disheartening.
Ha, I thought I was on /r/apple
Try FileExplorer. Not as pretty, but substantially similar at 50% of the price.
Are you kidding, last time I played with crypto the confirmations took like an hour - I didn't really bother using it any more.

I don't know how XRB makes it so fast but I'm calling it right now - whoever has the fastest transaction speed will become the first global currency.
That's quite a claim made without any pointer to evidence. Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

IA has been around for many years and not bumped into this problem. Nor are they making choices that even hint at this problem. In fact, they have long made choices (such as default derivatives generation) which suggest they have plenty of storage space and bandwidth.

Also, this isn't an evidenceless complaint specific to IA.
> If I invented a cheap machine that did all your housework and fixed your car for free, GDP would fall.

If we take "free" to mean something along the lines of [Negligible compared to current cost] - i.e. no free lunch: Is it not the case that this has already happened, at least in terms of technological advance (of a similar magnitude), and overall GDP has not fallen.

Or, by GDP falling, do you mean in ideal conditions where nothing else changes (i.e. All other variables held constant)?
IA (https://archive.org) offers a BitTorrent feed for each of its uploads. You should check out what IA offers.
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Why is a multi-decade trade surplus bad? Doesn't that mean you have an extremely productive / competitive economic engine?

Is it bad because of the opportunity cost of not levering up and investing research and future productivity growth?
If you ever had had a dog, you'd know that it has a mind of his own; probably not a full adult-human sized mind, but maybe about as smart as a toodler (and with a fair component of non-human capabilities on top of that).

So, no, animals are not merely flesh robots, which is what "they just act by hardwired insticts" actually mean. That's an old fashioned 19th century idea that needs to be put down if we are ever to figure out what is precisely unique about human nature vs animal one. Geez, the whole "humans are rational animals" is a bunch of ancient greek philosophy (you know, the same guys who claimed that everything was made of fire, water, earth, air and soul). Surely we can do better, after this many millenia???
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Code, that is unreviewed, unaccounted and executed automatically. Now it shall be high-performance, too? Does the sandbox work? Does it really work? Are there no side channels? Are you sure? How do you make sure you don't take part in a DDoS attack or mine cryptocurrencies for somebody else? These are just points I can come up with spontaneously.

Besides that, the appification of the web is bad because it leads ultimately to dependency on software that is outside of the users control.
Of course not, this is about property that is knowingly left unsecured in public.
Amiga Plot Routines
The secure enclave is the only part of this that might be considered unique... and I'm not even feeling like that's a terribly great idea (combining it with other functions).
Also sad to see it go. I use it all the time to transfer videos from my Linux workstation.
The approach of Sir John James Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in the 1960's, who famously "refused to collect economic statistics to avoid officials meddling in the economy." He is subject of a recent well-received biography, The Architect of Prosperity.

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

http://architectofprosperity.com
Fortification has not been a prerequisite to maintaining property rights for a few hundred years now.

It's called progress, and it keeps the knives of the poor away from your throat as much as it does Larry Page's.
If I invented an expensive machine that destroyed your house then GDP would increase because manufacturing the machine (and rebuilding the house) count as economic activity. This is a big problem with military spending as reflected in GDP. GDP isn't a measure of wealth or quality of life it's a measure of economic activity that is mostly relevant in regards to trade and almost nothing else.
Branch prediction is neither new nor modern. Modern state of the art design doesn't actually do branch prediction in hardware at all. I mean look at all the ideas from VLIW architecture, no hardware - no problems.
You may be interested in Gitnonymous which does not require a trusted 3rd party, and strips everything out on the client side.

https://github.com/chr15m/gitnonymous
The fact that no one else was doing it started to feel like an obligation. Cixl is an attempt to find a middle way; a more permissive, less religious, yet modern and convenient approach to solving problems in code. Unlike most other languages; it isn't very interested in reinventing or ruling the world; and doesn't mind being embedded in and extended from other languages.
If this is to be taken at face-value I'd view it as "poor show" on Canonical's part. An offer of employment was made and later rescinded. However, while a "provisional" offer might seem unusual, from a UK-perspective it would normally be down to things like eligiblity-to-work, ID checks, and references (a "provisional offer based on satisfactory references" is quite normal).

I'm not sure if the author would say, or know, the reason _why_ the offer was rescinded, but, on face-value, it presents Canonical's HR and recruitment process quite poorly.

On the other hand, if Canonical requested and could not get references, or references were negative, the offer would quite understandably be withdrawn.

From the article, all we know is that Canonical advertised a position, the author was provisionally offered the position, then Canonical withdrew the provisional offer.
> it's still not enough information

That's the point.
Not only is the tool awesome, so is the documentation and presentation. 10/10 (from someone who likes to complain).
Seriously, it's absurd. I cannot believe the mental gymnastics people will go to in order to justify their behavior. At least accept that you're doing something wrong.
Hmm. The dangerous animals (say the stats) are humans, horses and dogs (in that order). None are particularly special to Australia, though Homo Sapiens Boganus is a unique local variation (often spotted Queensland).

The so-called 'deadly' animals (some of which, including a variety of snakes, I come across frequently where I live) barely rate a statistical mention.
Death Warrant
Couple of thoughts on this.

1. GDP would still be useful to show growth in the same community over time.

2. It sounds like an edge-case, and when talking on national scales across most of the big economies very few countries actually operates like that to a significant degree. GDP is of not too precise but still pretty alright on a big picture level.

3. If there is a demand for it an adjuster can be made. Well I'm not an economist so there might already be one. I'm sure someone thought of this at some point.

4. GDP values are not cumulative, so even if there's an error in one year it does not stack and fixes itself in future years.
A link to an ad for, as far as you or me can tell, a fantasy book doesn't constitute an argument.
> git pulls information out of your OS and sticks it into your git commits without asking you

Really? The only information I know of that gets into a commit is your name & email and the current time, and the first two have to be configured before you can commit.
The explanation is at end of page 4 and begin of page 5 on the meltdown paper. In a nutshell, the speculative feature allows the read to happen, it "doesn't segfault," and only signals the OS of the segfault or whatever until it's actually executed.
We use Concur for reimburseable travel. I can't stand it. The interface is very confusing, especially when it comes to approving a travel voucher. I work at a large government agency, so change occurs at a glacial pace, but I imagine other employers face similar frustrations.
>Assholes

Flavortown, baby
How does plugging this device into a broken Debian system fix it?
The bikes literally have an explicit warning sign on them saying not to take them. There's nothing implicit about this. http://www.timboelaars.nl/media/image/resized/7f65959de38848...

https://farm1.static.flickr.com/293/32393099485_6f16d1bfb6_b...
Unlikely. Humans are always adverse to strange cultures and people. For sure, it's going to be tough. Tough for people who crave stability and status quo, and much tougher for those who have to leave their homes and communities where they grew up and face hostile regimes.
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OK, Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase.
Deep Learning est mort. Vive Differentiable Programming!

Yeah, Differentiable Programming is little more than a rebranding of the modern collection Deep Learning techniques, the same way Deep Learning was a rebranding of the modern incarnations of neural nets with more than two layers.

But the important point is that people are now building a new kind of software by assembling networks of parameterized functional blocks and by training them from examples using some form of gradient-based optimization.

An increasingly large number of people are defining the network procedurally in a data-dependant way (with loops and conditionals), allowing them to change dynamically as a function of the input data fed to them. It's really very much like a regular progam, except it's parameterized, automatically differentiated, and trainable/optimizable. Dynamic networks have become increasingly popular (particularly for NLP), thanks to deep learning frameworks that can handle them such as PyTorch and Chainer (note: our old deep learning framework Lush could handle a particular kind of dynamic nets called Graph Transformer Networks, back in 1994. It was needed for text recognition).

People are now actively working on compilers for imperative differentiable programming languages. This is a very exciting avenue for the development of learning-based AI.

Important note: this won't be sufficient to take us to "true" AI. Other concepts will be needed for that, such as what I used to call predictive learning and now decided to call Imputative Learning. More on this later....
It's really just semantics, but Merriam Webster defines a compiler as "A computer program that translates an entire set of instructions written in a higher-level symbolic language (such as C) into machine language before the instructions can be executed"
There's nothing special about "video service" nor is that even a relevant concept to discuss and in no way contradicts anything I said. If you're going to claim otherwise, please be specific about this alleged contradiction so we can have a meaningful conversation. Serving data is serving data. Hosters have to put effort into disguising/obfuscating a URL to make it not be a static link (and thus completely useful for HTML5 video/audio use, or pointing others to download and keep, or something else).

If a hoster doesn't want one to distribute the files, that is the issue. Not whether one distributes them for use in an HTML5 video/audio element, or downloading for local storage, or use in some other way.

https://blog.archive.org/2009/07/01/archive-org-supports-the... would seem to address your claim.
It's not like Apple was perfect before and these QA issues are somehow something new.

- The keyboards on the old MacBook Pro models (back when were silver) were also terrible. The keys kept falling off mine.

- MacBook graphics glitches also go way back (they even had a recall back in... 2010?). Several macOS releases had an issue where the screen was garbled when you got back from sleep.

- They've had tons of little USB issues, especially related to audio.

- My 2015 model has an issue where sometimes coming back from sleep, the internal keyboard no longer works. Everything is fine except no keyboard input.

(Etc.)
Is ATARIBOX Going to Make It?
Valuation is based on net income, which is easy to game.

Also, most new development in my area is getting partial 10 year tax abatements. So the owners get to undercut the rents, which drives more of the traditional 2-4 family houses to lower rents and less maintenance, and eventually to section-8, which is the price floor.

So I get to pay more property tax, I get to pay for tax abatements via sales taxes, and we get to enjoy more traffic and a decline in the maintenance of legacy housing stock.
> If I invented an expensive machine that destroyed your house then GDP would increase because manufacturing the machine (and rebuilding the house) count as economic activity.

This is again a faulty assumption; while they would count as economic activity, it likely wouldn't be additional economic activity, but displacing economic activity that would otherwise take place, especially the house rebuilding.

Also, destroying someone’s house doesn't guarantee it gets rebuilt, anyway.
How the ride-hail companies are all connected
To be fair the problem with the Gbikes is not that they are fixies, but rather that they are super heavy. They work fine for moving around the campus, but you wouldn't want to ride more than a mile in them. I'm pretty sure that's by design.
Information regarding security fixes are published every time there is an OS update. This one is actually from December, although the following was added today:

> Kernel

> Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

> Impact: An application may be able to read kernel memory

> Description: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache.
> ... there will be a kernel command line flag to disable it ...

FYI:

pti=off
>When was Ballmer ever good for shareholders?

For pretty much everything that wasn’t consumer facing. Office 365, Exchange, Azure, CRM and SQL Server all saw huge growth under Ballmer. He really killed it in Enterprise, but as you mentioned, consumer facing products had several missteps (and where a lot more public).
Well, from one angle it's statically typed; names never change their types within a scope. It's also strongly typed, more so than common scripting languages. On the other hand it has a very dynamic, gradual feel to it; to the point where you almost don't notice. That and the fact that using the word 'decent' seem to upset a lot of people, which is an indicator of much needed mental debugging.
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Mailgun, not Mailchimp.

Those are two entirely separate companies (unlike Mandrill and Mailchimp which is the same company.)
I live in a 1800 ft^2 single family home on a 50x140 lot in a city. Our block is 50% single family, 50% 2-4 Family. We walk to school, library and grocery.

Because of the developer incentives, there is no incentive to build old neighborhoods like mine. 5-6 story sticks on bricks crappy apartments, or McMansions on cul de sacs rule the day.

When I looked at building a home, you can see why. It’s very difficult to build a 1700-2500 ft^2 home unless you go prefabricated, have cash, or can do the finish work yourself. The financing only works for real big or real small.
Meltdown and Spectre: what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it
Binance, Coinbase and GDAX
>You can not do the same with biology - no student or expert, given unlimited resources, equipment, or reference material can construct a new living cell from scratch (proteins / molecules).

Craig Venter did exactly this.

https://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-ra...
It would have nice if that would have been communicated earlier, but thank you for clarifying. Also, I am primarily a developer, not a designer.
> We should never have done that in the first place and, thankfully, that's an error We The People can correct.

Assuming enough people in enough places that 'matter' (not a majority of the voting population.. if you recall) wants that shitshow of a president to be replaced.
Past HN coverage of Differentiable Programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10828386
I don't think redacting her name is necessary. Ms. Veach's full name, place of employment, and picture appear in the article.

Is it theft? Probably by the definition of the law. But it's also a bit nebulous in practice and expected repercussions.

I personally have pirated movies, jay walked, and danced at a bar in NYC, and would be perfectly fine with a news article quoting me admitting as much.

Is it illegal for Uber to skirt taxi laws? Is it illegal for AirBnb to ignore hotel laws? Probably. But no one is going to stop them and no one is going to stop Ms. Veach from borrowing a bike left in public.
This Startup Wants You to Rent a Gaming PC in the Cloud Just Like You Do Netflix
I don't buy it.

Google security can't tell if you're an employee or not at first glance. How would they know to yell at you?

I'm guessing you were riding in the middle of the road or doing something else stupid.
Please stop posting like this or we'll ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What about gaming performance? Once everything is patched[0], that is. I know no one knows, but it'll be interesting to see Intel's last remaining advantage (clock frequency) mitigated somewhat by all of this.

[0]https://gist.github.com/woachk/2f86755260f2fee1baf71c90cd653...
Call me when a Harris hawk posts a snarky comment on Hackernews.
Sure it would.

Why are you building a house destroying machine (let's say tank) in the first place? Let's say it's because your nation is going to war, and has gone into deep deficit spending to finance high levels of production of war materiel. That's a lot of economic activity that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Similarly another nation going to war and paying you to build them tanks might be a similar situation.

This isn't hypothetical. In the US GDP and military spending went way, way up during WWII though overall quality of life remained stagnant or went down (due to rationing). Only after the war when production capacity was re-allocated toward consumer goods did quality of life and wealth start to increase.

The same is true for houses. Not having a house (or lots of people being recently deprived of houses) is great motivation for building houses. Lots of resources get leveraged that would not normally have been leveraged. The economy isn't a zero sum game, even in regards to production capacity. You notice this all the time when there's a recession or a boom. Total capacity (manufacturing, home building) is elastic, it responds to demand, and that can vary a great deal on a huge number of factors. Destroying a house doesn't guarantee it gets rebuilt, but destroying lots of houses will typically be associated with a lot of home building in response.
Somehow this doesn't seem to be up for discussion.
No, because caltrain bike lockers at the station cost money (~$70/yr). I take my bike on the train to get to work at the other end, but if I worked close to the train station in SF I'd walk from my house rather than pay for a bike locker or leave my bike in the open during the day.
Would be pretty funny if it were
And it also goes against the standard advice of never clicking on anything in an email.
Having built a search engine I can tell you that your minimum index size is on the order of 5 billion documents. You can back fill long tail searches with one of the big players. For minimum hits on the backfill 10 billion documents are better. To get 10 billion high quality documents you will want a “crawl frontier” of probably 500 billion URIs, which, given the power log rule of data you will need to actually crawl about 20% of those every 7 days.

Of course you can hold much fewer pages in your index if you are not particularly broad in your searches. The gotcha there is that when you need that thing you don’t normally need, you either have to go online or go without.

Not impossible of course, just that the scale may be larger than you expect.
> Call me when a Harris hawk posts a snarky comment on Hackernews.

How do you know any given snarky comment on Hacker News isn't posted by a Harris hawk?
Honest question, why would you "want to" adhere to compliance? It's almost always more work and more cost, I think.
You've got me there.
I always wondered why people bother with htop on OS X when the built-in Activity Monitor.app is so nice already.

I only use htop on remote boxes myself.
I ride a fixie (Fuji Feather) daily around a city that is reasonably hilly. It was $600 which fills the gap between beater 6-speed mamacharis ($100-$200) and a serious geared bike ($1000+).

It is much nicer to ride than any cheaper bike I have owned and I was happy with the price.
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