skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also why true AI would advance very rapidly: no biology or society to stand in the way, few constraints re: self-upkeep, unlimited ability to record/analyze, ability to simulate variations of combining A&B, even when A or B seem useless in isolation...
>because you don't have to chase down the implementation of the subroutines to figure out what's going on

If the subroutines are sensibly named, you shouldn't need to. I'd argue they're also easier to follow than blocks of code within a long function as well-written small functions will depend only on their inputs, whereas code in a large function could depend on any of the params to that large function.
> Spectre

Spectre doesn't really care if it is cloud or bare metal. They are equally vulnerable unless disconnected from internet.
It's somewhat inherent to the design.

In a piston engine, the cylinder walls and the sides of the piston form the seal that keeps the combustion contained. You have a lot of metal-oil-metal surface area to work with here, so it's relatively easy to get a good seal.

On a rotary engine, you have comparatively thin apex seals. These wear out quickly, and make it more difficult to get a good seal. Additionally, combustion always happens on the same side of the engine housing, so you tend to get warping, which also makes the sealing problems worse.

Reciprocating engines definitely have their own problems though (e.g. valves), and here I think you can safely argue that our longer history with them has helped a lot.
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
This is one of the primary takeaways I got from reading Sapiens. Our big brains didn't pay off for millenia, until they did, and in a big way. Most times, innovation isn't enough to beat the competition...you have to survive long enough for it to give you an edge.
Well that would be just another billionaire owned blabber box then wouldn't it?

Wanna know what I don't see much at all of on the FB feed right now?

Links to FOX News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, produced "News". Almost none.

People are getting tired of tilted "News" and I promise right now do my best to help bleed Peter Thiel's cash as fast as I can by exposing bullshit they produce every chance they offer, and I'm sure that will be constantly.

Bring it on...
It is dry - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
A gene therapy to treat a rare, inherited form of blindness will cost $850K
They're referring to the POTUS campaign slogan, which isn't overtly racist but can be interpreted in such a way depending on your read of the message.
ISO 9001:2015 relevance to tech businesses?
I'm currently implementing ISO 9001:2015 for an electrical engineering business. This is mainly driven by client/contract requirements and not the firms willingness to actually use or want the system. We feel that the ISO requirements are constantly outdated given business processes move at a quicker pace than ISO. Has anyone implemented 9001:2015 for a tech firm recently? Agree/disagree with stance on ISO?
This whitepaper describes the Javascript exploit in Section IV. I'm struggling to understand it though: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf
Just an idea, but maybe at a high karma threshold, logged in users can reference a cross-origin style sheet, via linked URL?

User profile page would need to be a safe page, so users don't lock themselves out with wonky styles.

Also, stern warnings about privacy surrounding referrer headers and basic ad tech concepts like tracking pixels. Although browser extensions are just as deadly or worse.
Serious question unrelated to the article. Why are half of these comments being flagged?
First Russia tries to ban Bitcoin now they make their own. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em I guess.
> the NSA does everything per law

legal != right

> The NSA doesn't spy on US citizens.

I'm not a us[a] citizen.

qbros.
> Using an apostrophe is the technically correct way to pluralize acronyms.

No, it's not the “technically correct way”. It's true that some style guides recommend something like this (but always, AFAIK, more limited); e.g., the New York Times style (and Chicago style) uses apostrophes for plurals of abbreviatiins formed with capital letters and periods, and plurals of single letters. [0] AP, on the other hand, only uses apostrophes for plurals of single letters, but not for abbreviations/initialisms/acronyms. Most British styles I've seen don't use apostrophes for plurals at all, IIRC.

[0] https://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/faqs-on-s...
>Making it cheaper = better access = better health outcomes. How do we know? Every other industrialized nation does it better than we do for cheaper.

My understanding was that the nations that have better outcomes for the poor tax people and use that money to pay for government supervised medical care, and that it's the government paying for and supervising the care that leads to better access.

Private sector solutions, as I said before, seem to work extraordinarily well for the rich, both in medicine and education. If Stanford will let me in, sign me up. But, when I am shopping on the low end? I want some government intervention. Cheap private sector medicine, I suspect, would look a lot like cheap private sector education... ITT tech, Corinthian Colleges, or at best, the university of phoenix.
What is this thing?? I totally have no use for it, and still I want one.

I'm very not sure what it's doing, but it looks like a different algorithm to me; there are a surprising number of square root techniques. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_...
The internet is a terrible safety valve to vent at, because it's too easy to pretend what you say doesn't have consequences. One tweet by a dude having a bad day can help normalize stereotyping to 50 people. And there's always that other guy who takes things too far.

I know that people might intend Twitter or blogs to be for friends, but it's mass media nonetheless.
https://appsite.skygear.io/

LaunchKit was my favorite, they are acquired by Google.

https://instapage.com/landing-page-templates
The responsibility to document the quirks and necessary workarounds lie with the manufacturer of the hardware. If the manufacturer doesn't provide the necessary documentation, then that's exactly that: insufficient documentation to use the device.

There are hardware manufacturers that are better than others at being open and providing documentation. My minimal level of required support and documentation right now is mainline linux support.

Can you document your work publicly, or is there something I can read about it? I'm very interested in alternative kernels beside Linux.
Who knows, maybe congress will pass a law, and with that all the security issues will be fixed, like everything surrounding equifax.

Might be too soon for BTFD, but call options anyone?
Process is irrelevant for both Meltdown and Spectre.
That's why they removed SharedArrayBuffer -- that's literally the only shared memory mechanism available to JS on the web.
My grandmother has earned it. She did a great job raising a family of 7, all of whom will miss her when she dies. She does not have a criminal record and is very unlikely to get one.

The 3-month-old has done nothing of value. Most likely, he will be just typical. There is a good chance that he will be a loss for society. His parents can probably just make another kid, and that kid would be a lot less sickly.

I think the conclusion is obvious. The octogenarian should get the organ.
Additional information (PDF)[1] released as part of the Investor relations call[2] today:

[1]https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_presentations/2018...

[2]https://www.intc.com/investor-relations/investor-education-a...
too shiny :/
nowadays bitcoin mining rigs use ASICs that are optimized for the task, so I don't think that would be a good idea.

on a general purpose system you can use GPUs and BOINC with SETI, not sure about GIMPS.
Completely off-topic now, but I've had such a bad experience with the motherboard selection. So many bugs in even the most popular motherboard (X399 Taichi) that have necessitated countless updates, and the bug reports are still coming in.

At least with Intel, I could grab a server-class motherboard and guarantee rock-solid feature implementation - with the selection of AMD motherboards available we have even separate yet contradictory settings exposed in the BIOS setup. Pathetic.
> "Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors."

But their website faq says[0]: every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013). .... Currently, we have only verified Meltdown on Intel processors....

[0] https://meltdownattack.com/#faq-systems-meltdown
That only prevent reading over higher privilege (the meltdown vulnerability) it doesn't protect the arbitrary user land reads from spectre.
I’m not quite sure how you can call China “capitalist”. And even if you did, Nixon opened China up before people had any real ability to study in the US (at least compared to the last few decades).
> What you are writing here is a dangerous thing because it relativizes the holocaust.

i'm honestly not even sure what this means. could you rephrase?

> Military Dictatorships don't suddenly appear out of nothing.

sure. they usually seize power, though not always. and they tend to follow some kind of instability. after ww1 germany was in terrible shape. blockades during the war contributed to hunderds of thousands of people starving to death. the economy was in the gutter, inflation was out of control - before they got it under control 1 us dollar was equal to 4 trillion german marks. there was violence in the streets between political parties. the reichstag fire. concentration camps started with political opponents. the night of long knives was all about murdering political opponents and even allies who were deemed too influential and thus a risk.

being so absurdly reductive to just say 'hate speech' is primarily or even secondarily responsible for the formation of military dictatorships seems almost insulting. it's theater, an appeasement of sensibilities that leaves people more vulnerable to repeating the past than rational assessment of history.
Most of them do, however in multiple groups I have been part of we maintained a git repo containing all trusted public keys ready to batch import.

To make maintianing trust on this easy, all commits to this folder are made with commits signed by the owner of the respective key, and then a merge commit signed by a maintainer that verified it.

This makes it really easy for automation to have a source of trouth to check/validate commit signatures in other repos.
See, philosophically stereotyping doesn't have to be a "bad thing". When I went to school there we "polack" jokes, blond/e jokes, yo mamma jokes, etc. They were not "mean" or meant to denigrate people.
They were ways to "break the ice" as it were. But nowadays people are super sensitive, unless it's a majority or almost majority population, or it has power, unless it has power but it's also seen as being singled out by another more powerful player... it's become tragically political.

I know some foreign parents who have a preference for their home country and will tell their kids that <some thing> from their home country is better than <same thing> from neighboring but "rival" country. In a way this is stereotyping --but I'm seeing you say these parents should not talk to their kids about having some favoritism to their home country because this kind of connection building can "stereotype" the people from their (ancestral) neighboring country.
I don't understand why it didn't affect the stock price more. This is a big deal.
I’m torn on single issue voting.

It’s good to have focus, especially if it’s a topic which is that important to you.

But it can certainly backfire if the candidate that supports your single issue has all kinds of bad things in their past or present (e.g., Roy Moore in Alabama).

I hope that in the not-too-distant future, single issue voters can also find out clearly where their second, third, or fourth issues are in the priority of things a legislator will try to accomplish. That way, they can decide if that single issue really does outweigh the candidate’s other priorities.

Seems like a good use of a kanban-like system to rate the priorities for what an elected official wants to do, and track what is currently in progress. Has anyone seen an elected official use this to inform their constituents?
Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching (2013)
It's a Curta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
Why and How to Start a #ZeroBugs Policy – Part 4
Anyone run any DNS server benchmarks, esp BIND and PowerDNS?
One is a general admission of gender preferences and their consequences.

The pipeline issue is caused, in every industry and not just tech, by either a mismatch of people's preferences and the working conditions of a job, or by the way the working conditions of a job are structured. As an example of a change over time that flips gender indifferences, men dominated Veterinarian roles while it was about livestock and birthing cows, but women now dominate (80%+) when it has become much more about cute little suburban pugs and kittens.

Damore's memo - which I'm gonna assume everyone knows - made the generally accepted statement that women prefer people over things AND he offered a (rarely discussed) solution: a larger emphasis on peer programming.

I think that sounds, in theory, like a very reasonable approach to the pipleline problem. If the standard mental model for programming changed from the Richard Hendrix sitting all alone in a dark, locked room belting out the code for Pied Piper "middle out" encryption in techo blaring headphones, to peer coding with human interaction at its core, that would be far more attractive to those with a people vs things preference.
The site isn't loading, and there's no google cache yet. Does anyone have a rip or mirror?
The form of the overhead is doing a set amount of extra work per syscall. It's hard for me to picture any way that could multiply. The extra work doesn't change based on how long the syscall takes.
Nit: I don't see any that are flagged. There are some that are downvoted.

My mind-reading skills aren't what they used to be. Some of those downvoted are arguably off-topic or unsubstantive, both of which are frowned upon by HN members. Others, who knows. But then again, this is all speculation.
That's what I said - at the extremes, it's obvious that Germany is more free than Venezuela, but when you start comparing first-world countries, or even whether one undeveloped country is worse than another, it gets a lot murkier.
Exploring Hardware Parallelism’s Influence on Programming [pdf]
It's basically inherent.

At there are apex seals at the ends of the triangular rotor that need to stay in contact with the sides of the combustion chamber to prevent blow by and get a complete and efficient burn, so they have springs in them that press them against the walls of the engine. However, metal (or ceramic) to metal contact like that means that they also need to stay lubricated. Unlike the a piston engine's piston rings, there isn't a real easy way to get oil to where the seal is, so you must inject oil into the engine where it will be swept into the combustion chamber. Even then, the apex seals eventually wear out. They basically require a complete engine rebuild to replace.

The combustion chamber is quite long compared to a traditional piston driven engine, and that, combined with the apex seal blowby problem and oil burning problem, means the engine is actually quite inefficient. Rotary engines do not typically have good gas mileage. An RX-8 has a 1.3 L engine but only gets 18 mpg (13L/100km), although it produces 210–235 hp (157–175 kW). It's this poor efficiency that caused Mazda to cease production of Wenkel engines in 2012. They can't pass emissions tests. The Wankel rotary engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine) actually has comparatively poor fuel efficiency. It just also has a high power to weight ratio.

Additionally, the combustion chamber is on one side of the engine, meaning the engine heats up unevenly. That makes it wear unevenly and can make it difficult to get a seal that will work on both the hot side and the cold side.

So, the problems with the Wenkel engine:

1. Lubricate a part that you can't reach and is going to be constantly bathed in fire.

2. Make the combustion of a fuel/air mixture in a long, wide, narrow chamber as efficient as the same fuel/air mixture in a much more ideal cylindrical chamber.
I think its more then just waiting for it to become commodity tech, the big companies ( aside from Porsche at the very high end ) don't have anything on the table that remotely comes close to the Tesla portfolio, and cars don't just show up over night. These companies have roadmaps out for five years with no plans to enter the EV marketplace in any kind of scale. I think they are slow moving not because they are waiting to test the waters, I think they are slow movers because they don't have the skills in house to design these cars, and they are selling plenty of IC cars. This is the classic Innovators Dilemma and Tesla appears to know it. Musk could have slowed things down and given the big players time to acclimate, but by forcing the production timeline he essentially made them choose between sinking lots of their talent into EV design at the expense of IC design or essentially letting Tesla have the EV market and hoping they can jump in once their current product lines start to suffer. Their only move once the IC market start to lose share to EV's will be to try and poach some of the talent that has been cultivated at Tesla and hope to catch up.
it isn't. There have been a few PoC referenced on twitter, and the spectre paper itself reference a PoC in browser hosted javascript (e.g. random ad can scan memory)

it's obviously not a free + zero time activity, but I'm going to assume someone making an ad to scan memory isn't super concerned about end user cpu usage or battery life..
Rewriting Linux’s Key Management Subsystem in Rust [pdf]
Cars produced in the last seven days of the quarter is a somewhat gamable metric. They may or may not be sustaining production at that rate.
Ah my mistake I must have misread.
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It seems that, without some way to rebalance every few generations, things become anti-competitive very quickly.

But without some way to hold onto one’s gains, what’s the point of winning? Hmmm...
I’d take your thought one step further: Government cash is often a SOURCE of bias.
> Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism

> Updated on 03/Jan/2018

> Based on the recent research findings from Google on the potential new cache timing side-channels exploiting processor speculation, here is the latest information on possible Arm processors impacted and their potential mitigations. We will post any new research findings here as needed.

> Cache timing side-channels are a well-understood concept in the area of security research and therefore not a new finding. However, this side-channel mechanism could enable someone to potentially extract some information that otherwise would not be accessible to software from processors that are performing as designed and not based on a flaw or bug. This is the issue addressed here and in the Cache Speculation Side-channels whitepaper.

> It is important to note that this method is dependent on malware running locally which means it's imperative for users to practice good security hygiene by keeping their software up-to-date and avoid suspicious links or downloads.

> The majority of Arm processors are not impacted by any variation of this side-channel speculation mechanism. A definitive list of the small subset of Arm-designed processors that are susceptible can be found below.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Doom-Environmental-Renewal-Twenty...

Perhaps we should all read this, or at least look at it from a different perspective, as I confess I do not study these issues carefully, but I don't think any type of neo-Malthusianism is worthwhile.
Site as an image: https://imgur.com/B15WzJZ
Intel CEO added - "But when you take a look at the difficulty it is to actually go and execute this exploit — you have to get access to the systems, and then access to the memory and operating system — we're fairly confident, given the checks we've done, that we haven't been able to identify an exploit yet."

It seems you need root or physical access to the system as a prerequisite for the attack.
It loaded after a minute or two for me, but if that isn't working try this: http://archive.is/jVCwc
2018 is off to a great start.
What about compulsory licensing?
Fun fact: The website linked most probably runs on Intel CPUs as it seems to be hosted on Azure. Azure doesn't offer Ryzen VMs yet.

And here is an archived link: http://archive.is/jVCwc
True AI as in a true artificial thinking being? Or true AI as effectively a god?

All comments like this assume the AI is absolutely goal oriented toward self-improvement and self-propagation and has no limitations or competition.
"No biology or society" - what about the physical hardware and infrastructure needed to maintain it?
"Self upkeep" - so its directly connected to an entire automated vertically integrated supply chain and factory complex?
"Unlimited ability to record/analyze" - again, where is it getting this infinite storage and processing capacity?
"ability to simulate variations of..." - if it's truly intelligent in a way humans would consider intelligent, even massively moreso, why would it spend all its time random walking the solution space of everything?

If we are talking about AI as god, that can work, I suppose, but as someone who really likes transhumanism and the idea of AI in general, this idea of the sloughing away of all limitations and an AI actor totally dedicated with either the infinite and immediate improvement or replacement of itself makes no sense to me.

Am I missing something here, or is there just to much engineer whispering in the corners of my brain.
Because in addition to selling of his option shares he also told off all if the other shares he has been holding down to the minimum (250k shares) that he is required to hold as CEO based on the Intel governance documents.

In November he sold as much stock as he legally could in his position, not just the amount he optioned.
Patch on Azure already started rollout today on their affected VM's
Can someone please explain why this well written post was downvoted?