skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article mentions, people don't multitask. It's all fast context switching. Up to seven times per second or so. Some are better at it, others are not. One gets one thing done fastest in most detail if one focuses and doesn't switch context, but the brain makes one believe one would be super efficient if one spends time switching context between different things.
Show HN: The Meltdown Mug a terrifying bug to remind every time you drink coffee
I had some problems with this software, lot's of segfaults. Some images works one time but segfaults on the second view while others renders half or nothing at all before I reach a segfault.
Just because free ad-driven games are unsuited for kids, doesn‘t mean the iPad as a whole is unsuitable for kids.

Watching my kids (4 & 5) play monument valley is a joy. The game costs 5€ and is absolutely worth it.
Just also wonder if this CPU is free from meltdown.
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Somewhat related -- a recent 'exit interview from social media' by one of the maintainers of 9front (which is an active fork of the Plan9 OS):
http://stanleylieber.com/2017/11/07/0/
I've been working on a web app which counts your pushups via your webcam.

You place your laptop/phone on the floor, do pushups whilst looking at the camera, and the app counts how many you do.

I integrated this functionality into an alarm clock which you can only turn off by doing a preset number of pushups.

I've posted it here for two reasons.

First to see if it works. It work well for me. BUT, there must be a data/sample bias based on how I do pushups.

Second, to see if people get value from this.

Would appreciate feedback around how well it counts pushups (if you can't do pushups, you can try sit-ups, just make sure your head leaves the camera at the top). And let me know if you are interested in future testing.
In the video that you have posted, they do not seem to transfer XRP, but USD. In fact, XRP is not needed to use their products (Assuming the video was about 'Ripple Connect')

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ripple/comments/6jd9w6/this_is_the_...
That reminds of the old days when automatic "self-learning" SPAM classification began.

Back then, spammers sent deliberately gibberish messages. The goal was that users (rightfully) marked those as SPAM, somehow disturbing the machine learning and thus weakening the overall SPAM recognition.

Alas, I don't know if this was actually working, and if so, how large the effect was. This would be an interesting bit of history.
Imagine if Intel ended up buying AMD.. That'd be weird (and bad).
This is old hat. The USA's process for pricing drugs is totally in service of the drug company - even that much is obvious to mercenary financiers like Shkreli.

The deeper problem is that we aren't getting newer better drugs. Once a blockbuster like Humira happens, it seems to kill off the field. This is mostly because you need to spend a lot to do a massive trial to show your Humira 2.0 is better, with no guarantee it will actually be better. The economics are very hostile. Pharma tends to do smaller trials with their new drug in more select populations eg those not responding to Humira, and therefore end up having a much smaller market if the drug works.

Drug pricing should be re-engineered to encourage more development rather than the opposite. If better alternatives exist then pharma obviously won't be able to charge extortionate prices.
I HATE people who put IANAL and other acronym disclaimers everywhere, but I just feel these type of posts can negatively influence people.

I am glad magnesium and vitamin D worked for you, but some people may need prescription medications from a psychiatrist.
I don't know but it's not taught in my country.
Because that would mean discarding an entire package if just one component failed or is damaged during production.

It would also mean that manufacturers would have to order different parts for two systems that are identical, expect from memory or storage. In your example, with 16 or 32GB of RAM and 256 or 512GB of storage, you'd end up having to order four different SKUs from Intel, and Intel would have to manufacture four different SKUs, plus one without memory and storage.

Logistically I don't think it makes sense to add storage and memory to the package, it just adds inflexibility and more SKUs.
Yes, I understand that there is some scientific evidence that D3 is important. I'm not contesting that evidence.

My point is that scientific evidence and "common sense" are very different sorts of things; in common use, "common sense" means something that is observable without education or technical training.

In general, I think "common sense" is less useful that the knowledge you can gain through dedicated work of educated scientists and statisticians.
> If your organisation is aiming to be more than a bunch of independent units that happen to share a balance sheet, you need co-ordination and sometimes that requires a roadmap.

Yes, you need co-ordination. No, you don’t need a roadmap. If you’re doing innovative new things, a roadmap is almost the worst possible way to try and co-operate on them.

Let’s say you really do need your geo feature now. There are two happy answers from the DB PM: “we’re working on it now, estimate is x” or “it’s top of our list, we estimate starting on it after x”. Neither of these need a roadmap.

The unhappy answer is something like “we’re not working on it, it’s fifth on our priority list”. You also don’t need a roadmap for this. In fact, this is a more honest and useful answer than the roadmap one — which would be something like “it’s behind four other things so slated for Q3”.

The roadmap is a crutch to avoid the hard conversations about priority that are the core of good co-operation. Why? Because the roadmap suggests that while geo isn’t priority 1 now, somehow by the time Q3 rolls around it will be, and so you can start planning against that. That is going to leave you unhappy in Q3, almost for certain.

Because the truth of the matter is implied in the priority list answer: “this is fifth to us. So we will work on it when we finish what we’re on now and if we get through the four things in front of it and if nothing else comes up as a higher priority in the meantime.”

If you need geo, either way you now need to make a case for higher priority, to escalate, or figure out some other way to do what you want because clearly what you need isn’t an overall business priority. The roadmap also makes all those conversations harder because they become about dates and the PM can say “of course it matters to us we just can’t start it until Q3, do you really want to resequence all these other things? What about the impact on all the other dependencies? Seems bad”.

Obviously this just leads to worse and worse conversations, until management steps in and says the real problem is a lack of transparency. What is really needed, they’ll say, are better roadmaps, ones that expose dependencies properly, ones that let the consequences be seen, ones with a much higher granularity. And a PMO to help us run it all.

Before long, you’re no longer co-operating, you’re fighting over Gantt charts. This is the state of affairs the article is intending by “big change programs with detailed roadmaps”.

And it can all be avoided by not pretending that work stretches out in front of us on a calendar. We don’t work on geo because Q3 has arrived and “we promised on the roadmap so I suppose we’d better”. We work on geo because of all the items on the shifting sands of priority, geo is the top one now and that priority is broadly agreed across the business.

All you need are three ordered lists: “stuff in flight”, stuff that’s up next” and “stuff we’re looking at but haven’t committed to at all”. All the benefits of roadmap transparency and priority still surface, with none of the bad consequences of trying to express those things via a calendar.
HP battery recall due to overheating and melting
Data and code are not quite so interchangeable (thankfully). Typically programs have code segments and data segments, and processors actually have support for specifying the difference in behavior. A branch predictor would probably not run against pointers to memory segments without the execute bit set.
IF is based on the idea that nutrient timing isn't important partially because digestion is along process that you have little control over.

The idea that late night snacks are bad for you is based on the idea that nutrient timing is important, that you are sedentary at night so you don't want to eat then. (This idea has lost most of its support recently and now eating at night is seen the same as eating during the day -- your body doesn't care when you eat).

These two ideas are fundamentally at odds with each other. I find the IF people to be a strange bunch with a lot of contradictory ideas.
I don't understand why Instagram would ban the company from ever advertising again. To be honest, if I was the one that got tricked, all I would think of is how awesomely they tricked me.
Eelo is a Google-free alternative for people focused on privacy
Plus one on this. Telling kids beforehand how long they can play helps a lot.

My kids get aggressive only if I walk in the room, realise they have been watching videos for far too long, and try to take it away. Kind of understandable, if you imagine from their perspective.
If it makes you feel better, I had the same basic idea and only later abandoned it[0]. My optimism was tempered by going into professional practice as a software engineer.

> The only thing I want to introduce is consistency through abstraction.

By implication you're saying this doesn't already exist. Judges and legislatures undertake a constant, dynamic process of organising and reoranising the law into workable abstractions, seeking a level that renders a problem domain tractable. Typically these are called "rules", "tests" or "doctrines", depending on their scope and purpose.

> I'd like for the lawyers to just `import legal_entity::{minor};` and the definitions would self populate.

This happens when they say "minor" in regular legalese; a lot of boilerplate is generated from templates as-is. A lot of what solicitors call "bread & butter law" is repetitious, well-worn transactional law: wills, trusts, partnerships, real estate conveyancing and so on.

I do get some sense that you are mixing together statute and caselaw. These are both The Law, but the are created in different ways and have quite different forms. Statute is amenable to formalisation and indeed many legislatures have adopted "Plain English Law" drafting rules. Many legislatures also have reform acts intended to replace, consolidate, restate or remove various historical Acts resting on the books (you can find some amazing stuff in the attic).

But caselaw is very different. It is composed of judges giving reasons for their orders. It is a continuing conversation. There are no drafting rules and in general, there can't be, because the entire purpose of the system is that two parties can submit any legal question under dispute -- any question -- and be guaranteed to receive an answer.

Just as code often has "bugs" in the face of unexpected situations, so too can the law. But the law can be patched on the fly by judges (and later replaced by statute). It requires humans speaking in natural languages, which admit indefinite nuance in a way that artificial languages don't and shouldn't.

[0] http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/08/25/programming-in-legal/
Works very well with javascript disabled. If you leave it disabled by default, most of today's internet becomes significantly better.
Yes overtime it does. First step is to get used to stop without major temper tamtrum. And clear rules set in advance work much better then seemingly random attempts to remove device when parent feel like it.

They get used to stop playing, they are forced not to treat game as number one priority in life and because they find other things to do with time. And maybe also because they cease to feel entitled to tablet all the time.

It prevents them into getting into habit. And makes it harder to join social groups where your game score is you social standing (thus feeding addiction via social pressure).
And this is what all border security want to know.
"Do you have money to spend?"
Probably, but this just because studies include non-tech people too. For them a useless help message is ... well not useful. But at least it doesn't confuse them with tech words.
For tech people it is also useless, so I don't know who those error messages should help.

I also dislike the first person error messages. "We are sending ...", "Let me fix this" when you are clearly 'talking' to a computer.
A channel that disappears the moment you look at it seems like it would be very vulnerable to DoS.
I love reading about experiments performed in the 50s and 60s before all those pesky Ethical Review Boards(?)

>In an early version of the study, Brady placed monkeys in 'restraining chairs' and conditioned them to press a lever.[2] They were given electric shocks every 20 seconds unless they pressed the lever during the same time period. This study came to an abrupt halt when many of the monkeys died from perforated ulcers.
> With parental controls, kids do not have other ways of obtaining games ...

Still possible outside the home or at school. Borrowing a device from the next door neighbor who could care less about parental controls is one way for kids who are intent on playing a game their peers are raving about.

Then there is the option of using an older (teenage) sibling's device for the same purpose if left lying around in the house.
Evidently not.

I wish they could ban the word "meltdown" from comments because it's becoming a hideous meme.
> At “raves”, for example, lots of people are under the influence and yet they have not lost contact with external reality.

Taking LSD is a strange choice for a rave, IMO; you want less visual and audio stimulation under it's influence, not more.

MDMA, MDA, 2CB, amphetamines, mephedrone and other similar substances (and their mixes in ecstasy pills) are much more rave-friendly.
> How many forks of left-pad could one expect to find?

Javascript github repos: 70 of left-pad and 29 of leftpad. Some are jokes, but still...

If you try the C++ package manager conan.io you will likely run into similar troubles. See for example https://github.com/lasote/conan-zlib/issues/23
Psychosis is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of experiences and causes.

LSD might simulate some of these experiences, but all it really tells researchers about is LSD induced psychosis.
Pray tell which developing country you are really from.

This comment seems to have learned nothing from the near-complete-debacle that Arab Spring became.
More generally, this term is used in basically every game that has a big RNG component (lots of rogue-likes, for instance).
What if the laziness is not a problem, but feeling unhappy because of this laziness? Why you should be unhappy? Billions of people are lazy and they love it.

There are lot of people preaching that being "efficient" all your life is what you should aim for and, weirdly, everyone accepts this as unquestionable truth.
An energy efficient PoC based blockchain supporting transactions through PSTNs [pdf]
Its only a matter of dosage. If everyone at a rave have been ingesting over 800ug you would see a very different event. Typical blotter will have anywhere between 60ug - 150ug.
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In the UK that sort of merger would almost certainly be blocked by the Competition Commission: I'd be interested to hear what the situation is in the US, where Intel and AMD are based.
> (with limited fat of course)

This part, in my experience as someone who is muscular w/ a low body fat percentage, is not necessary. I actually find it easiest to get very, very lean (< 7-8%) by adding more fat to my diet, along with fiber-rich foods like green vegetables.

I am American too and otherwise totally concur with what you've written. It's shocking how badly Americans eat, and how distant their diet is from what I consider the basic staple foods that humans should be eating. My dietary suggestion to anyone looking to lose weight would be to cook large batches of high-fiber vegetables and eat those before each meal. The combination of fat and fiber is key to feeling completely 'full' and satiated while maintaining a moderate level of caloric intake. Beyond that, eating a wide variety of foods and eliminating sweet drinks / packaged food gets you 90% of the way to a healthy diet.
Bathrooms in London train stations used to be free - but a few years back, a lot of them started charging money. Usually around 20p, sometimes as much as 50p [1].

You can usually avoid paying (many stations have pubs and restaurants with free toilets, for example) but you don't have to go to 30 years ago to find OECD countries charging for public toilets :)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/train-statio...
Disagree.

I think you are descibing empathy and selfishness, not anxiety.

Anxiety and empathy are probably somehow connected, but they are different things.
Aren't you overestimating facebook influence and underestimating the real life?
If "evil Russia" is spreading misinformation isn't it a great opportunity for traditional media to expose and correct the misinformation?
Censorship will mate the matter only worse.
Opening sequences weren't required for the old broadcaster either as the had a special pre-show clock that would count down on the tape before the start. I'm fact You sometimes saw this on TV.

Moreover, some older shows didn't have opening credits and a great many that did, often only did so after an acted prelude
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Being racist on the internet = "free speech", no ban

Being creative with an ad in a very harmless way = BANNED FOREVER

Internet 2018
Pesky user.
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IMHO better error messages start with less architecture. When we try to optimize the code reuse, we obtain a split between the code that detect the error but do not have any cue about the action the user is performing and the caller that will receive a generic error message (string) with no way to do something clever without breaking abstraction.
I wonder what this will do for $INTC?
Why are AMD helping to sell a competitor's product? The article says it's strictly business, but I would have thought the quick buck made today by selling graphics chips to Intel would be outweighed by the long term benefit (e.g. growth in the combined CPU/GPU market) this provides to Intel.
Burnham and Anderson is a fundamental book to understand why AIC and BIC and the like are useful.
Correct, I'm living in Thailand currently and the local bananas all look very much like Gros Michels. They taste great to me and are super cheap, very good joules per money.
Nope. This bug is far from new. Intel knew about this since 2012 [0].
I don't expect them to release a fix within a year or something. I know that CPU design is far from easy or doable within weeks. But how they handled the whole matter shows that they don't care. Intel sucks, that's true. They should admit that they produced shit and start talking to their customers and show that they care.

Oh and also, who in their right mind would buy a CPU with those bugs?

[0]: https://twitter.com/TheSimha/status/949361495468642304
I did so for previous ventures. For my current consulting business I'm a sole proprietor.

I'd advise against incorporating early. Especially with product-based startups there's this temptation to "do it properly right from the start" and plan ahead for when you need to do things like raising venture capital.

This is the business version of premature optimisation. In all likelihood you aren't going to need it and you most certainly don't need it when you're starting out.

In general, I'd say that incorporating only makes sense if either

- The risk becomes too high for you to assume personal liability. This can happen due to several factors such as needing to hire more staff or investing into machines or infrastructure (please note though: Banks generally expect the principal owners of a business to act as guarantors for loans anyway. So, limited liability doesn't help all that much in that case.).

- Some third party wants to invest money in your business in exchange for company shares.
The real result will be that kids will be educated by devices instead being educated by their parents.
Windows. Where some things happen.
Schools are banning best friends to protect students' feelings
Currently, Ryzen.
From what I know about posts circulated in WeChat timeline, I would bet that most Chinese have already been brainwashed that national security should be defended at all cost and that Edward Snowden is a traitor whose action indirectly benefited motherland China, and therefore he should be applauded but not be learned from. Think the Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Perhaps that toilet paper dispenser with facial (faecal?) recognition might be hinting at the future of retail. I can imagine people walking into supermarkets, picking their items, and then simply leaving through the doors. Stealing will occur when a face isn't attached to enough credits. Ditto for public transportation. Sounds terrible to me.
Seems like a combination tailor made for Apple yet nothing I have read points to Apple actually using it, Dell and HP I have seen mentioned.
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The intel CPU still has an iGPU.
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perhaps both sides don't want Nvidia to dominate the graphics market?
Whoever says want we want to hear
A valid perspective, although I'm not going to lie: I don't particularly appreciate the extra (non-value-adding) work that's been dumped into my team's backlog in terms of figuring out and implementing mitigations, ahead of applying patches, when we already have a dozen projects on the go, with about half of them scheduled to deliver in the next couple of months. _Thankfully_ we're running non-virtualised on dedicated hardware, due to performance and cost considerations, so the risks are somewhat reduced for us.

I also admit to taking a fairly dim view of Intel's PR around the issues, and the suspicion that Meltdown, in particular, exists because they - specifically - have played it a bit fast and loose with their processor designs in order to gain a performance edge, and perhaps to a greater extent than AMD and ARM.

Granted, this will take years for a final resolution in hardware though.
These are designed for mobile computers, notebooks for that matter. You don't need ECC in notebooks (consumer hardware). So no they are not useless.
> I am a woman. So the physiological differences may also come into play. I dunno.

I looked into IF and decided against it for that reason. The documentation on it recommended longer feeding windows for women to the point that it didn't seem like intermittent fasting - it was just eating breakfast an hour later.
I just looked it up again now [1] and I guess it does have to do with our hormones. Either way, I appreciate you speaking up to balance out the raves.

[1] http://paleoforwomen.com/shattering-the-myth-of-fasting-for-...
Warning: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs
Source- human history, people have been eating pasta as a staple food for centuries.

The Japanese are some of the healthiest and thinnest people in the world and have a carb heavy diet.