skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Try carving a wheel when all you have is rocks and a bunch of trees and no mathematical knowledge.

You need to know how to make sharp edges. Which rocks are suitable? How to keep them sharp?

You need to cut down a suitable tree.

You need to know which tree is even suitable.

You have to figure out that either the chunk of wood should rotate, or the sharp edge rotate around it.

You need to know how to make a center pivot, or spindle to turn the wheel. You need to know that you even need this!

After making the wheel, now you need to make axles and some kind of platform to make it useful.

Before doing all this, you first have to realize that you need a wheel!

There is a long list of basic knowledge needed to invent even the simplest things. Every invention builds on previous knowledge.
I agree with you that the market allows for it to me somewhat manipulated, one could argue that's how it works.

But that's where I think there may be a better solution, (again a personal option), but I also think it could be a feature, someone with power can control it, but to what extent is the real question.

There is a lot of talk around how the rich are powerful, I have checked, and the richest around don't have that much money.

The US spends trillions a year, that's a lot of money, there isn't a single trillionaire, there isn't a corporation valued at a trillion dollars (yet, almost there though).

If you round up the rich's money, it won't last that long. and now you destroyed the system.

They don't control everything, they may control the market but the market is huge compared to them, and the rich do not have an alliance to control it, making them weaker.

And you just accepted that the state (lawmakers) are corrupt, as people tend to be. So the redistribution of wealth would use these corrupt people to make the world a better place, the idea is flawed in that sense, you would need to speculate on a new righteous system excluding the corrupt, for redistribution of wealth to even have a chance work (people actually getting the money), and then speculate on how this would be beneficial.
True; it would be as simple as crucial parts of the kernel being targeted to ARM (to run on the T2.) Good luck patching around that without embedding an ARM VM kext to simulate the T2; and then good luck getting that to be at-all performant.
Do you have to provide your ID to Motel 6 if you were paying in cash?
I have similar problems. Here's my advice:

Do the best you can. At least your code can be done the right way.

If management forces you to not do things the right way, then when it blows up, it's their fault, not your fault. In that case, you need to compartmentalize. Your job is not your life. The shitty code you get paid to work on does not define your talent or your worth as an engineer. If you do your best to fix it but nobody cares and you just get beaten down... that is not your fault! Don't stress out about it.

If you struggle to compartmentalize, that's okay. Some people are better at it than others. But in that case, you might want to start looking for other work.
In other words, the odds of there being life elsewhere in the universe is:

a very large number of planets * a very small chance of life forming = ???

We don't really know how small the chances of life are. It may be that the chances of life forming are so small it dwarfs the number of planets in magnitude. It may be an incredible miracle that we live.

It seems that whenever an article says "there are more planets than we expected", someone concludes "this makes it more likely that there is life somewhere out there", but it's also fair to conclude that "this means the odds of life forming are lower than we previously thought" since we haven't actually found any other life. As Fermi asked, where is everybody?
Might have implications for some of the CPU only mined altcoins if they're slowed down.
This is all tinkering around the edges. It may help some, but in general it's still not sufficient to address the problems with housing in this state, and especially in the hardest hit regions (e.g. Bay Area).

I really think that a policy of much denser housing in urban areas must be enacted, including liberal application of eminent domain to reduce the existing stock of low-density homes. Requiring minimum heights within a tiny area around transit hubs helps but just doesn't even come close to addressing the problem.

Applying additional taxes on individual owner dwellings (including single-family homes, condos and townhouses) that aren't primary residences would be a huge step also. It should be very expensive for someone to own these properties and not occupy them.

At the same time, significant tax discounts tied to passing on the savings to renters for multi-family, high-density dwellings ought to be considered.
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> Then you would be able to downgrade your OS version, they don't want that.

Ignoring for the moment that you can already do this, allowing users to go back to older versions is a security hole.
Is Mill ever going to come out with real hardware that "normal" people can use? Or is it just an R&D project, and focused on selling the IP?
I would prefer web notifications as well, though I understand email is probably easier to implement. Still, were the option there, I would have signed up to use this already.
the pun is apparently at least part of where the name come from, as it exploits speculative computation
I'm coming here from the hackerbooks newsletter where I saw this book mentioned. Just wanted to chime in how compelling I find the ideas.

Though the book is slightly repetitive, what stuck with me is the idea of a "stepping stone approach". In order to discover something new or interesting, all we need to do is to find the next stepping stone to jump to. The rest is not is not in our hands. I tell this to myself whenever I think I have to have this "grand vision", which I never have so I don't do anything. I'm happy I stumbled upon it.
We're shaping up to have yet another very interesting state vs fed battle occur.
Mill feels like the GNU Hurd of CPUs.
Replacing "undocumented immigrant" with "jew" or "same-sex couple" or "interracial couple" or "movie torrent pirate"... surely one of those substitutions triggers a reaction in even the most law-and-order out there.

edit: And most of those categories have been illegal in some states in the US's history.
Even if the equity ends up being worth $0, I'd still say it's a successful exit, since you're ending up working for a great company that you might otherwise not have been able to get in to. Think of it as an alternative to the standard "whiteboard hazing, recruiter ghosting" interview track.

EDIT: To clarify I'm talking about acquihires in general, not specifically this one, the details of which I'm obviously not aware.
Ah, working from home is a great thing, it is a shame more companies are not open to it. Keep up the good work!
Remember all those components can't "talk" directly to other components. They must all go through the CPU. So if your graphics card want's to make an internet connection, it must go to the CPU which will then go to the network device.

So if you don't have control over a peripheral (say your GPU for example) then yes, it could be doing things you have no control over. But it can't interfere with anything else unless the CPU says so.

But if you don't have control over your CPU, the "central" processing unit, then it's game over.
You're more strongly descended from royalty (or at least nobility) than this. Because rich people had more children for most of history, and thus their offspring tended to displace those of the poor.

For instance, if the top 10% have four kids each, and the total population barely grows for 5 centuries (not implausible numbers, from memory) then this isn't a small effect.

If this sounds interesting you should read Gregory Clark:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Alms
I am building async web framework with http/2 and websockets support. I think rust is great! You can write high level code, but if you need to you can always access low level system

https://github.com/actix/actix-web
Spectre works in javascript due to how aggressive the JIT is.

Chrome and Firefox are already working on solutions as you cannot exploit the JIT if it generates code that ruins your timing as far as I'm aware.

So that solves the problem for most people, but all other environments that allow execution of untrusted code also need to be updated.
Show HN: Raccoon – Getting into Play without letting Google get into your phone
Notifications are nice for us less popular users. :)

And they are useful when one has made a personal offer to another user. The acceptance of that offer could easily be missed, especially if it occurs days later.
I'd be surprised if other Googlers like Christian Ludloff (also of sandpile.org fame) and Dean G were not involved. They know x86 better than many engineers at Intel/AMD, having been in charge of the most performance/cost critical code (e.g. tuning search serving down to the last cycle), as well as qualifying new platforms and identifying a steady stream of CPU bugs.
It may not be based on elemental matter, or matter at all.
Great read, however, I think there is something else in play here.

With regards to what we consider inventions that move us forward (more advanced or fundamentally more novel solutions) I wonder if the problem isn't just a lack of imagination but imagination and abilities compared to what technology can deliver.

I always think of this as a reminder that perhaps it's possible to imagine things that humans can't imagine.

https://twitter.com/Hello_World/status/861735184990961664

Having said that there is of course a big difference between inventing something fundamentally new (a rope) and improving it (nylon rope).

But more and more I get the feeling that humans aren't really going to invent most of the solutions we can dream up.
If you use a hardware wallet, the private keys only exist on the device, and therefore cannot be stolen using this attack vector. The Ledger uses a secure element, which is an entirely separate MCU, and (as far as we know) can't be 'hacked' by any script kiddies.

However, if you for some reason decided to store the wallet seed on your computer, it's no longer secure.
> See how quickly life appeared once the earth had cooled down?

What if life can only appear as a planet is finishing to cool down?
Does Substrate VM have cross-platform support for major operating systems (i.e. for Linux, Windows, MacOS)? If so, can a binary compiled on MacOS run on Windows, and vice versa?
I think we need a little more nuänce here.

Sometimes, an acquihire is just a hiring. if there's any cash for the founders, it's on the order of a generous signing bonus. The founders are expected to work real jobs in the acquiring company, and sometimes the payouts are tied to golden handcuffs.

There's nothing wrong with consenting adults agreeing to such a thing, but that would not, in my books, be a "successful exit" unless the founders had planned all along to use their startup as a job-seeking vehicle.

Of course, the other end of the scale is a substantial payout, much larger than any imaginary "hiring bonus." The founders get jobs or consulting gigs with the acquiring company, but that's mostly structured to prevent them from immediately quitting and sending a signal to the market that they hate the acquiring company.

They need only attend a few meetings over the next year of their contract, and can work on their next project in stealth mode. That's an "acquihire" and a successful exit at the same time.

Between those two extremes, there are varying degrees of "successful," and "exit." I don't think it's as simple as "equity is worth more than zero equals successful exit," especially if you don't have the freedom to do WTF you want the moment the ink dries on your signature.
Ever hear of DMA, dude?
When building chatbots, you face this choice. You can either try to poorly impersonate a human, or you can cop out that you're a chatbot and tell people what you are capable of assisting them with. One leads to frustration for the user, the other to potentially useful outcomes.
Ah ok, I really just made an assumption that the goal is to generate convincing harmonic music. In this case after spending a couple years fighting with that problem I've been reaching a conclusion that the chords and melody are absolutely by far the most difficult & 'human' aspect where as counter-point/polyphony are actually very mechanical & really just support the chord/melody structure. Recently I've been having very good results by first generating chords/melody with RNN's then having subsequent processes generate supporting harmonies.
I can't find where it describes anything like what you are talking about. I think you are using the link as a deflection of the fact that you don't understand how these attacks are mitigated, and in fact it doesn't appear that anyone in this thread has the answer either.
What happened that the disclosure was too early?
Are you implying that Apple has deployed 10x more devices than Intel?
It’s not just that. I’ve been experimenting with different distros a lot this year (Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu for committed stretches) and Fedora is the only one where the machine didn’t regularly hang for some reason after a few days. Was happening multiple times a day with Ubuntu and currently much less often with Mint. Never happened at all with Fedora though.

Between that at Redhats promptness on this it’s just giving me more confidence in that side of the house.
This is about them voluntarily giving guest information to ICE without informing the guests. Which caused actual harm to at least 6 residents in the state of Washington. There's no federal law saying that hotels must provide detailed guest info (name, DOB, drivers license, car license plate, room number, and other info) and the hotel. So my plain reading of their terms would suggest that data should only be shared "during the discovery process in litigation [or] pursuant to a court order"

Washington state however has a statute that protects consumers from such data sharing.

(Also, I added a link to the terms in an edit that also fixed formatting. Wasn't my intention to be deceptive by omitting it)
The point was that it's too complicated, trying to fix is pointless, my point is that it is not fixable, if you accept that is a problem, even in a perfect wealth redistribution system, there will be luck involved.

But I also make the point that it is not a problem to begin with, I think inequality makes sense, me having more that my peers when I went where they wouldn't seems fair.
To be more explicit, this is exactly the same thing browsers (should) do: when verifying a (code-signing or server) certificate, is is proper to also retrieve an up-to-date Certificate Revocation List from the CA.
i wonder if theres a way to implement this in bash as a cron job. no reference to a github...
Yeah, they don't like to talk about that. Which I always thought was interesting, though not really surprising.
High Sierra fixed the KPTI issue without perfomance loss: https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/948609809540046849
I'd think that Pachyderm [0] would be mentioned in the article, but it wasn't. It uses Docker under the hood for the data pipelines. I've always wanted an excuse to do some data science...

[0]: https://www.pachyderm.io/
From one of the papers:

>> While makeshift processor-specific countermeasures
are possible in some cases, sound solutions will require
fixes to processor designs as well as updates to instruc-
tion set architectures (ISAs) to give hardware architects
and software developers a common understanding as to
what computation state CPU implementations are (and
are not) permitted to leak.
A blockchain in this case would just be a timestamping service, to prove the minimum time that elapsed since the image existed. That’s only useful if the time to create a fake is significantly more than the resolution of the chain - 10 minutes for bitcoin, 15 seconds for ethereum.

But that I only makes sense if you know ahead of time that the information will be valuable, and it only proves the age if there is sufficient hash power on the network, so a “private” blockchain would not be viable.
I wouldn't say thats accurate at all. If anything a lot of new key members of the community of stepped up. With all the new additions to Meteor you can essentially depend on the NPM ecosystem for any 3rd party packages.
There is an ARM processor in your SSD
It never finishes. At any given time what it says differs, but at the moment the pulldown menu says "Backing up: 2 KB of 115.3 MB" and it's not moving. It will move slowly, make some progress, then the rightmost number will creep up. It never gets ahead of whatever is mysteriously changing data on the disk, I'm guessing. Even when I leave it alone and go on vacation for a week without the laptop, with all apps closed and the laptop left running.

Eventually the Time Capsule disk (3TB) fills up, from my 1TB laptop, without ever having finished a backup.

It was happening on Sierra for me too.
Right, you're replacing kernel extensions with patched ones then? Problem is, intel is intel, so again any such limit could be patched.

I understand your concern, but consider it this way: The only real mitigation Apple might have is to offload certain critical functionality to the ARM chip, and even then, they would have to drop support for all macOS hardware without T1/T2.
Improving coding skills is a lifetime work :)
Does Bay Area work out for you? I heard salaries are high, but so are life expenses.
But the "imitate human" part, as you put it, provides a simple framework & easy to validate testing protocol which is flexible enough to cover the above example and many others.

That's why its useful.
>> No, that was the "generic you".

OK. Sorry if I sounded a bit rude, above.

>> No. That's how families work. Sometimes.

That trade exists and people exchange goods and services for money, does not
mean there is no solidarity, or that there can be none. People -in capitalist
economies- give to charity. They help each other with personal problems. When
there is a natural catastrophe, they help each other. Public money is spent to
help those in need, even if they themselves cannot contribut to the communal
pot (e.g. with disability allowances and unemployment benefits). Public health
and public education are also prime examples of this.

I am prefectly aware that these benefits that come with simply being born into
a given society are not universal. For example, I know that in the US, neither
healthcare nor (higher) education are free. However, these are examples of
erosion of solidarity, that have been strongly criticised and should be
strongly criticised.

>> Because we can't cure them yet without breaking other things.

I don't see how this is the case. Where should public money be better spent
than in healthcare?

Also, btw, I'm really not convinced by the claim that "good things come to
those who wait" (in this case anyway). There are plenty of examples of drug
firms resisting the release of generic, cheap, alternatives to their
proprietary, expensive drugs. There is Martin Shkrelli, who bought Daraprim,
first in 1953, and hiked its price from $13.50 to $750 (per tablet). There is
the Mylan, who hiked the price of EpiPen from $94, in 2007, to $608, in 2016
(Epinephrine was first approved for marketing in 1987).

There are also examples of technologies becoming cheaper, but I'm particularly
interested in medical technologies, not computers. I don't care if computer
become cheaper and available to everybody. People can live without computers.
They can't live without, well, without drugs that keep them alive.
Isn't that a feature of the CPU though?

*edit sorry I am wrong. DMA seems to bypass the CPU [1]

1. https://www.csoonline.com/article/2607924/security/stop-snea...
Is this safe to view at work?
The Justice Dept has now issued a memorandum https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-mem...
Even with Linux on an open system, you're going to be hard pressed to get access to the source code for all of the controllers in your system.
Do Intel even sell any non-vulnerable CPUs?
Given the recently disclosed vulnerabilities, instead of a cryptocurrency miner, it could be a Spectre exploit trying to scan and exfiltrate data from the computer's memory. We might be now at the point where disabling all Javascript for non-HTTPS pages is a good default.
Given that the CRD/NDA came from Intel and that spectreattack.com is hosted by the University of Graz, I'd assume that that was a one-sided CRD.
See the comments. FSMark with mitigation showed a 50% performance loss. So that immediately makes me wonder about any file system intensive operation, like databases, getting hit far worse than the 5-30% hit that's been floated thus far.
You can still turn it off and downgrade.
Downvoted or not, its legit question and i would like to know.
And this has what to do with secure enclave?
>And I am saying that the confidence interval on that calculation is just orders of magnitude not tight enough.

You're also saying, implicitly, that therefore we must default to assuming it is incompetence.

That link isn't a given. Stating that it is incompetence is also speculation, not some kind of universal backup truth.

However, when it comes to that last 5%, I assert that the historical data does not back a claim that Intel's marketing department is incompetent.
Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug
You can do that fine with secret-key cryptography too.
Wouldn't WPA2 protect users from an attack like this?
I hear you, getting comfortable at job sometimes means you might get bored too quickly :) Depends on the person really, wish you best of luck!
Arc is implemented in Racket and uses its green threads, which don't do multiprocessing.
Unlike Tesla, GM doesn't own its dealerships. Each dealership tries to optimize their selection for their own profit, each salesperson to optimize their sales for their own income. There's a complicated web of incentives tweaking which models are best for which entity at which time, but as a general rule if they are relatively inexpensive to manufacture and/or there are lots of them in inventory that's what they want to sell you. Trucks and those SUVs built on truck frames are always at the top of the list (Ford's F-150 is rumored to be the most profitable vehicle ever built, I think the Escalade is among GM's most profitable vehicle). If someone can create a cheap to build electric truck it might well grab the interest of dealers and salespeople, but they're never going to be excited to sell you a hard to build, low-margin family sedan regardless of powertrain.
Are jews illegal per se?

Are illegal immigrants illegal per se?
What about the regions of nebulas that are about to coalesce into stars? Wouldn’t they have some kind of protostellar “stuff” at point that makes the region more active than the rest of the average nebula?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_cloud
Pedantic: it's "whet your appetite" not "wet your appetite"
Oh dear - I definitely don’t support The program, and have opposed it from day 1. This means opposing it at a time when most of the Indian internet world was not concerned or staunchly pro aadhar.

The program has only served to prove that every informed concern about it has been proved correct.

Also it won’t surprise me if my opinion is unpopular because it opposes aadhar.