skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can the paygap truly not exist when there are so many wealthy, right-wing, male sexist types in HN, Silicon Valley and any industry really?

Maybe you shouldn't rely on a thought-experiment when you can do data: Adjusted paygaps consistenly range between 4-7%.

Say, the SJW publication Fortune:

http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/myth-gender-wage-gap/

Or the left-wing washington post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/women-...
The claim of having millions of users is a valuable one.
It's not really like that at all. To begin with, a Roadster / model S is not a repurposed Toyota - and that is exactly why Tesla has succeeded so far. Further, they completely reworked those lines with a huge amount of new equipment, to the point that is was worth it to them to buy the robotics manufacturer. It is closer to a technicality than starting from scratch. And as far as anyone knows, a huge part of the bottleneck hasn't even been in Fremont, but at the gigafactory (which they also built prior to the 3) - with a supplier who they have since removed from the equation.
Yeah, when I moved to Texas, I was riding my bike ten miles to the next biggest city[1] and back for pizza. Some other kids had the same kind of freedom; some didn't at all.

My understanding of Russia is that serial murderers Did Not Exist by decree; certainly not serial child murderers like Andrei Chikatilo. The city never felt unsafe to me; I think I really felt that ethos of "we're all in this together", especially based on a childhood incident where I got lost at a public event, and a stranger brought me home. (Of course I knew where I lived; I was a child, not an idiot.)

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/jx3Y76UuXN62 - moderately rural most of the way.
>Too bad you can't long OVH and Hetzner.

What does that even mean?

Also Hetzner just introduced some AMD Epyc server.
Is this referring to free apps, paid apps, or both? I've had a paid app on both stores for about six years now and in my experience the iOS version makes about 10x the Android version every year. Many other developers have reported a similar discrepancy.
Let‘s upvote it so it‘s considered a dupe and rejected automatically!
During my PhD I ran simulations and experiments with robots + humans to explore the effect and possibility of it. The scariest part is, a small amount of companies might now be able to effect with just one update how a huge amount of people think/behave.
The reason why Alexa is more powerful than normal advertisement is, people create a social connection to Alexa. Which is needed for "trusted" influence like recommendations from a friend.

My thesis in case someone is interested: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/13598
Roku to chime in with voice-controlled assistant
Just like any other device, such as your phone, or computer, maybe also TV, etc.
According to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2

> The AMD microarchitecture does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode when that access would result in a page fault.

Out-of-order processors generally trigger exceptions when instructions are retired. Because instructions are retired in-order, that allows exceptions and interrupts to be reported in program order, which is what the programmer expects to happen. Furthermore, because memory access is a critical path, the TLB/privilege check is generally started in parallel with the cache/memory access. In such an architecture, it seems like the straightforward thing to do is to let the improper access to kernel memory execute, and then raise the page fault only when the instruction retires.
The first usage I see of "SIP" after the title is in parenthesis after the full phrase.
Having graduated from high school in 1989 I can assure you that people have been saying this since as long as I have been a teenager. It used to be that people were obsessed with how Japan was going to suddenly dominate the American economy with their extraordinary technological prowess.

It seems like what people really want is to encourage American kids to study science and math and they are using the boogey man stories of foreign domination and excellence to somehow play into that narrative.
Where do you live? Pretty sure that country has legal jurisdiction over you.

Where is your money kept? Pretty sure that country has legal jurisdiction over your company.

A smart contract / contingency procedures sound great but aren't bulletproof. When people are threatened with jail or losing everything they tend to cooperate.
Can you show a dark market actually discussing it? Verge has got to be the worst privacy coin.
I agree that this new "product" is complete BS - but I don't and will not hesitate to drink from naturally occurring springs.
US colleges and universities should be held accountable for failing in their mission to effectively and economically educate US students first and foremost! The education establishment has been corrupted by big banks. That foreign students still want to study in the US is at least a hopeful sign that there is still value somewhere in the equation, although I am incredibly skeptical about that matter at this point in time.
Lawsuits come out when you file. Delaying filing would delay the lawsuit.
I noticed that there are 'pills' in the list of items, but none of the rooms has them. Should have taken your pills, Nathan!

She said this was her favorite comment. It had her on the floor laughing!
Search is pointless on the Echo but I get a huge amount of use out of it by putting it the kitchen. It's great for creating a shopping list, music playing, timers, reminders, math, etc.
How can you look at the valuation of Tesla and think that Musk lacks public support? The company is worth more than Ford, while delivering a fraction of the cars. The difference in output is made up by faith in his promises.
So the headline here had me focus on something that annoyed me. Oh and I should say, I'm neither Silicon Valley based or elite or interested in water beyond the normal scope of human survival :P

The implication "Silicon Valley elites" and that wonderful play in to confirmation bias that they're all out of touch, cash flushed weirdos, like that's just something people kind of want to believe especially in comment sections with article like these. And ok so I'm not setting out to disprove this, but this article and the one it links doesn't do the opposite either.

It makes some really spurious claims.

1. I'm going to ignore the price thing here, because it seems to be heavily reliant on one store just arbitrarily jacking up the price.

2. Silicon valley elites = The Juicero guy. And pretty much only the Juicero guy. He's the only one named and the only one that talks about it to anyone. There is a landscaper from Emeryville, but I'm going to claim that "elite" is probably not something they're going for.

3. "Flying off the shelves" The atribution for this is one store in San Deigo that opened three years ago. It's heavily dependent on these two paragraphs

"And Liquid Eden, a water store that opened in San Diego three years ago, offers a variety of options, including fluoride-free, chlorine-free and a “mineral electrolyte alkaline” drinking water that goes for $2.50 a gallon.

Trisha Kuhlmey, the owner, said the shop sells about 900 gallons of water a day, and sales have doubled every year as the “water consciousness movement” grows."

4. You can find "movements" for anything. Both articles talk about "raw" water movement like its this huge thing that is sweeping the bay area and will consume you all.

So I'm not saying this is definitely wrong, but it just looks like that business insider took one article of little value and several barely linked claims to come up with the title of

"Silicon Valley elites are spending $60 for less than 3 gallons of dangerous, unfiltered water — and it's flying off the shelves"

I mean the concept is stupid, but the articles talking about it doesn't feel like its doing much better.
To make things worse there is an increasing number of games running DRMs like Denuvo and VMProtect that cause a significant performance hit. I think these will be more heavily affected by the patch.
I think you're cherry-picking what liberal arts education is all about today. Most Universities do teach Western canon and not the sensationalist things that you mention. Perhaps the latter is easier to notice because it is sensational; but most liberal arts graduates I meet have a very well rounded education and understanding of the world.
as people mentioned below, theres 'sea salt'.

i like how they are calling sugar "cane sugar", as if the sugar everyone else is using is not coming from sugarcane.
> claiming for a class lawsuit against Intel

If people who received written assurance from Intel that their hardware is 100% bug free can form a legal class, sure. I highly doubt there is even a single one such customer.
This is a bit simplistic.

If you are in a high-tax state, your employees will pay a lot in taxes, and the cost is passed on to you, their employer. You will need to pay them enough to pay 40% in taxes and have some money left for living expenses.

Which may make your startup (or any business, really) uncompetitive, or even infeasible compared to low-tax countries/states.

There needs to be a cautious balance between providing social support (which I am all for) and overtaxing. For me, the most important part is the amount of tax money that actually goes to benefit the people who need it, rather than the bureaucracy.

In the US, the value we get for our taxes is VERY low.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but let's play devil's advocate for a moment: We've evolved drinking "dirty" water until very recent history. It might be that there are some unknown negative effects that come from drinking filtered/purified water. Or some unknown positive health effects of drinking unfiltered water.

It's slowly coming out that modern medicine occasionally gets things wrong and we have to correct our intuitions (sugars, fats, sun exposure), but if you think from a simple evolutionary perspective, these things often make a lot of sense.

I'm not drinking unfiltered water, but there's some potential rationale behind it.
Generally companies try to settle fast before the IPO so there are less concerns to invest.

No domain knowledge btw, just seen it happen a couple of times before
Before we all jump on Intel for being buggy, what's the list of serious AMD bugs like for the past five years? If AMD has a similar amount of bugs we should jump on them, too. If not, then we will actually know that Intel deserves being jumped on to the exclusion of AMD.
The lawsuit might make it difficult for them to IPO:

https://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/lawsuits-can-sink-an-ipo...
What this seems to be showing is that reads to cached addresses are faster. While this is an almost obvious result, it's supposedly the basis of a bug that allows reading kernel memory from userspace.
> and would run the risk of watering down the opprobrium attached to the term "eugenics" by including a thoroughly unobjectionable practice

At the risk of touching things one is not supposed to say in this culture - wouldn't it be good to tone down that opprobrium, or at least cleanly separate out the things that are actually evil from things that are not? The connotational baggage carried by the term "eugenics" tend to infect serious discussions around genetic diseases and genetics in general, and people end up equating e.g. permanently curing genetic diseases (by removing them from the gene pool) with mass mutilation or murder of undesirable individuals (which is the evil part of the as-commonly-understood eugenics).
No he isn't. Look at his other comment.
I think the theory was that vegan food is less palatable and often less calorie dense and harder to find so vegans eat less.

IIRC a study showed low carb diets worked in a similar way, people just ate less as they found it harder to find enough calories.
Sadly I just bought an 8700k last week. Great CPU until next Tuesday? (Windows Patch Day)

Though even if I lose some percentage, it will still outrun AMD on single core applications (and probably also multi core ones).
> I also plug my key into my phone and tap it to decrypt/sign email or decrypt passwords too.

I assume Android. How easy is this to set up?

https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base/categories/art...

It seems to be a workable option with PGP/GPG, but do you have to plug it in per use rather than leave it in as this post says (to use the onscreen keyboard)?
That's fair, but it still entails additional trust in the host. On, e.g. Matrix, I can run my own homeserver, so if something evil happens on another homeserver it's not really a big deal for me, unless there's a protocol vulnerability that allows them to mess with my own homeserver. Whereas on Signal, I might not even know if the centralized host has been compromised, and then as a casual user I have to wait around until a non-compromised host has appeared.

I get it, but I don't really get it. The argument that "federation does freeze protocols in time" doens't make a ton of sense to me. Just look at Bitcoin: people want to keep participating, so they upgrade. It's probably easier to get a bunch of scattered servers to upgrade than a few centralized ones.
But... that's exactly what ore is: Stone made partially of metal.
10% adjusted is pretty large. Even sub-10% usually works out to a couple of thousand each year.
Two threat models where Signal makes sense:

• Users who don't trust the big advertising companies to make benevolent decisions about their data

• Users who worry about how governments tend to change, and want to prevent a future despotic administration from accessing their history.
It seems like it is all thanks to this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2

If I understand well, there may be a serious bug in some x86 CPUs but nothing is known publicly. Presumably, all current Intel CPUs are affected and none by AMD but we can't really be sure, it is still a secret.

It is impressive how a simple, yet to be justified patch has so much influence. It opens up new ways of manipulating the market...
In English, the name of this continent is "Africa". To spell it otherwise is a marketing stunt.
The Year the Home Button Died
> all companies paying for computing resources will have to pay roughly 30% more overnight on cloud expenses

Well, if I rent a VPS with x performance, I still expect x performance after this flaw is patched. The company providing the virtual machine will perhaps have to pay 30% more to provide me with the same product I've been getting.

Since most VPS offerings arbitrage shared resources, this will not increase costs of providing VPSes by the full performance penalty.
Show HN: UIFont library for iOS and tvOS
My fail, I forgot it's sacrilege to critizize Musk here.

Model 3 production is way behind and currently does not look like it progressing. Musk is blaming Panasonic on the problems with batteries, while reports from the Model 3 factory tell about a lot of manual work.

So yes it is easier to announce a Pickup some years ahead than fix Model 3 production.
But those language communities also have to do some self-reflection.

People are often hostile to things they don't know. Not taking this into account when trying to introduce new things is a recipe for disaster.

This means ...

– picking up developers from where they are, not telling potential adopters "if you write Java-like Scala we don't want you here".

– meaningful documentation, not answering efforts to improve documentation with "it's not necessary, because everyone already knows Scala".

– describing and explaining design choices like companion objects, type classes, context bounds, and so on; not expecting that beginners will understand their superiority through osmosis.

– making technologies accessible to people on their platforms, not treating backends such as Scala.js, Scala on Android or Scala-Native as add-ons for existing Scala users (or worse).

– taking tooling seriously, and not releasing major versions of the language without tooling support. Or breaking compatibility in minor versions like in Scala 2.12.

– clean-ups that removes unnecessary baggage from the language and its libraries. Not lecturing people about the number of keywords or counting the lines in the language's grammar in comparison to other languages.

Haskell does some things better in this regard, but both are far from a convincing value proposition over "worse is better" approaches like Kotlin (which will probably swipe the floor with Scala in the future, because they address the bad parts of Scala).
Architect of Detroit's Renaissance Center left troubled legacy for skyline gem
I did. It comes across to me as nothing but praise for the study of liberal arts. Am I misreading it?

I know plenty a scientists who'd love to create the next game-changing thing. But philosophy, governance, debate, argument, and understanding are not aspects taught in any good regard in STEM. Or should that thing even be created?
We evolved dying of dystentery in our very recent history too.
Not sure I get your point. These are the most interesting articles about Ruby 3x3. If you need more "context" see the Ruby 3x3 News section in the Awesome Rubyies page [1].
Anyways, thanks for your comment. Happy new year. Prosit 2018.
[1] https://github.com/planetruby/awesome-rubies#3x3-news
You can go from east to west coast in the US in 10 days while limiting yourself to ~210 miles per day. For a retired person with little need to hurry that's reasonable even with only nightly charging.

Personally, I have little interest in driving 600+ miles per day making fast charging minimally useful.
Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052451
Obvious hypothesis: first complacency leads to incompetence, then starting to cut corners has catastrophic consequences. The two problems are wonderfully complementary.

As other comments suggest, there might be a third stage, completely forgetting how to design and validate chips properly.
The patch isn't out yet. Once it's merged in, your distribution will release patches you can install on the normal way you update your distribution.
nor was the practice of running untrusted code on one's own machine common

Doesn't multi-user timesharing and virtualization predate every modern CPU and OS though?
We all benefit from a society that is not pumped full of willpower-draining advertisement.

So, yes, we as people, as citizens, and as a society, through the collective apparatus we call "government", can and should step on advertising quite strongly to help us as people, as citizens, and as a society recover from the onslaught of the last few decades.

This is but one way.
>Some of their early efforts literally required you to re-encode your music into another weird format to use (ATRAC, I think?)

It's not really different from iPods, those required iTunes to load music just like Sony's devices used SonicStage, with the difference of the iPod having an internal hard drive instead of a MiniDISC drive (and later CD walkmans with ATRAC/MP3 support).
Just sit and wait, it's all too fresh to make solid statements on this. Maybe aside from, think twice before buying Intel again.
I think it's because of the high fiber, low processed sugar nature of the good vegan diets. There are very unhealthy vegans that eat lots of weird processed things. But yeah. Anecdotally, I know people who were "cured"* of type II diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc by switching to a high-carb (no refined carbs) vegan diet. I also know people who have had the same results by dropping carbs and moving to a high fat, high protein, high veggie diet.

It sounds to me as if it's the refined carbs/sugars that are the primary enemy.

* By cured, I mean they were able to get off of all medication. But if / when they revert their diets, the symptoms come back, and the meds are again required.
Anyone can sue anyone else at any time. If you think Intel isn't going to be sued for this, you're wrong.
Again, I ask that you refrain from characterizing everyone as lazy and useless. I know a lot of women friends who choose to join Government service because of its long term stability which is important for them as they raise a family. They are some of the hardest working and smartest people I know.

Sure bad apples are harder to eliminate, but that doesn't mean everyone is bad.
> Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To add to this. This exiting scamming shows it was never watertight.
`/dev/mem` is not available in a container, so I cannot use `/dev/mem` to read other tenants' memory on my VPS.
"Sexy" has long been used to describe something visually attractive, not remotely related to sex. Here's Jonathan Ive talking about sexy computers: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/sexy-design/. Do you think they're actually sexually attracted to these machines? Or implying other people will be? I think you need to revise your word connotations.
That's not why Amazon sold you an echo, though.

Cortana or Siri exist without obvious nefarious purpose. Alex and Google are clearly trying to push advertising. I know which I would prefer to set timers and play music for me.
Why PIVX instead of Zcoin itself?
You have to account for the fact that before modern filtration civilizations developed other ways to make water safe to drink, like brewing beer and boiling water for tea.
That would be the http://www.the2904.org : )
It was set by other Teslas. The Verge has more information in their story at:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16842816/tesla-model-3-la-...

The relevant quote reads:

Not only did the time best what Roy and a team did in 2016 when they did the run using a Model S and Autopilot by about 5 hours, but it also beat a record set just last summer by friends Jordan Hart and Bradly D'Souza in a Model S 85D by more than an hour.

("Roy" refers to Alex Roy, editor-at-large for the Drive, who was on the trip.)
+1 for Software Foundations
I think this is true even in the US, at least as far as my American English takes me.
unfiltered water => worms, bacteria, death
especially if you're in the warmer zone of the Earth.
> I'm not drinking unfiltered water, but there's some potential rationale behind it.

There's also a potential basis for that increasing trend-line for life expectancy... well, up until the last two years, anyway. :o)
Natural selection at work? ;)
The doubt on Tesla is not whether the cars are great, it’s whether they can scale production. You need both to be a Model T.
"Long" as a verb means to purchase their stock.

As opposed to "shorting" a stock, which means making a bet that it will go down in value.
Steve Jobs was hacking on electronics in the 1970s and building the most advanced personal computing devices from then until his death.

He was not a programmer but he knew more about computers than most programmers do. There's absolutely no way to call him non-technical accurately. Bill Gates giving up programming did not make him non-technical.

Elon Musk wouldn't make this mistake. He's very openly trying to emulate Steve Jobs' entire skillset.

Maybe the cause of this confusion is that most people only saw Steve Jobs when he went up on stage for an hour every year. Try asking yourself what he was doing the rest of the time. Elon Musk did.