skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there seems to be a lot of hysteria right now. You mention speculation-based side effects in general, but keep in mind that only data-dependent side effects matter. There aren't that many of those outside the memory system, if any.

You mention idiv, which is an interesting example. Is it actually observable? Without hyper-threading, almost certainly not, because the execution unit reservations should be dropped as soon as the speculated branch is resolved. With hyper-threading? Perhaps, but it shouldn't be too hard to fix if a non-speculated thread always takes precedence over a speculated one, which makes sense anyway.

In both cases there may be leaks in practice, but those should be fixable relatively easily in hardware, and we've already established that hardware fixes are required anyway.

Another case to think about are dependent conditional branches, since those could affect the instruction cache.

It does seem like a good idea to have a strict barrier instruction against speculative execution just to have a fallback mitigation.
Why would that prompt them to decamp?
Sad news. I used cryptopay.me, but they haven't pronounced yet.
It's part of the general problem that bitcoin isn't really fungable for goods. Maybe it was back when the value was more stable or grew slowly, or the transaction fees were cheaper. But you're totally right. Currently it's barely worth the effort compared to traditional payment system in many contexts.
How exactly are the DNS blocks happening? How did you find this domain that is still working?
Then you'll end your day with about $9,950 in USD...
That's probably a question that CS researches will get to address one day in the future... Estimating what percentage of reasonable length DNA arrangements leads to intelligent organisms.
They've managed to get many of the domains blocked already, but it's such a game of whack-a-mole that it doesn't really help.
Something like this? https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing-checklist/
I assume you mean recently. I used bitcoin on Steam a few years ago and it worked fine.
The PDF appears to be 2.9 MB and is taking a long time to download, possibly due to the source being "hugged" to death?

This appears to be an abstract, based on title: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24112

This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the long-run? Which particular assets have the highest long-run returns? We answer these questions on the basis of a new and comprehensive dataset for all major asset classes, including—for the first time—total returns to the largest, but oft ignored, component of household wealth, housing. The annual data on total returns for equity, housing, bonds, and bills cover 16 advanced economies from 1870 to 2015, and our new evidence reveals many new insights and puzzles.
I consider a free market and personal freedom very important. I also prefer not to see lepers in the streets, nor do I prefer to see people with cancer suffer more because they can't pay for treatment. I also like to see the streets safe and well maintained. Finally, I like to live in a society where every kid can go to every school/university.

For all this I gladly pay taxes, so I vote for a government that aligns with my world view. Am I a socialist for wanting this? I don't think so. I feel the market should be free and hardly regulated. Tax systems should be simple and fair, without loop holes for the super rich. I think banks should die if they take too much risk (and not be kept alive by the people in some strange overly socialistic way). I think the power should be with the people and not with corporations (which means with wealthy people).

I'm a capitalist but I'd like to rid it of the cancer it has been growing lately.
The first AIX C compiler called itself a "transcompiler" in it's manual, so yes, they are.
They must also have good PR. It's not like they don't have money to hire someone good. I think it's partially a PR move. In recent years, their image has been shaken, as they have been accused of being greedy. Now, all this shaking has brought them face to face with a big "client", with a strong hand. "Hey, look, I can be nice too!"
Cache Speculation Side-channels [pdf]
He plans to buy XRP & TRX :P
Yes/No: Time tracking for a small software startup dev team?
I manage a small 4 person dev team in a healthcare software startup (2 week Agile sprints). Some stakeholders want time tracking. Pros and Cons?
Has to be one apart from ours? For what? For there to be two special species?
From what I've heard, Kalanick was a much more hands-on CEO than is typical. He certainly holds a large amount of responsibility for Uber's actions.
That's already often allowed. What the negotiators will want is that all those papers will be free to read (or actually: use, under a permissive Creative Commons license) by default.
> Anyone living in the West who looks down on certain US politicians for their anti-immigrant sentiments but is fine with China's state enforced ethnic nationalism

... is probably not a significant amount of people
That's probably not primarily a factor of needing to be somewhere to watch a movie as much as it's a factor of changing expectations set by other media: the effect was frequently commented on as early as the 1980s, and widely attributed to, among other media factors, the impact of MTV and music videos.
Uber has fired enough leadership that clearly he wasn’t the only one. But he was CEO, and he could have removed bad actors. It’s true that each of them is responsible for their own choices, but if he’s a bad actor and allowed or encouraged other bad actors, I think it’s fair for him to share some of their burden.
>very useful "grep for UI text" trick

Just, one thing: for C/C++ code-bases such as gdb, stop using grep for things, people! Use cscope! 'tis a brilliant means of navigating files and scoping out the contents of a project.

http://cscope.sourceforge.net

$ cd gdb/src; cscope -R
Massive. Direct Link to Chousou TV (rough translation equals "tentacle")

https://chushou.tv/

Combined with opening of AI China Center and push for TensorFlow adoption Google looks to be making inroads into Chinese consumer internet.

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/google-ai-china-c...

Two more potential US IPOs for China to watch in 2018 include YY's live game streaming service. And iQIYI which recently partnered with Netflix.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/yy-s-chin...
Those are hardwired instincts, not a conscious reflection on the fact that in the future things might be worse.

In fact they are limited to a specific behavior, like storing food, and not generalized across all things that could happen.

Fighting to defend territory or feeding offspring are strategies that prove successful for the survival of the species, not tied to consciousness of the future.

For example, zebras run away from lions, but only when lions chase them. They are perfectly fine with lions sitting around if all they do is sitting. They don’t think: “at some point that lion will stand up and chase me”
Cool stuff, Glenn! Keep doing and you'll go places!
Seems like it was a very bad business idea in the first place, and I'm surprised it wasn't cancelled sooner. Before you downvote me consider the business model of credit card processors, and how volatility and rapidly deflating currency would effect their cash flow.
Good times! I find out that my first one is still up: http://lacquemant.free.fr/
ACSS – Silver bullet for writing better CSS in teams
Just noticed WaveCrest is based out of Gibraltar. It seems quite easy to start a company based in Gibraltar. What are the advantages or disadvantages? Just curious.
Even rats have demonstrated empathy in the form of aiding other rats out of bad situations knowing they will receive no reward for their troubles.

A skeptic might say that such behavior is simply part of any social animal's instinct, for various reasons, to which I ask: other than being able to rationalize our behavior, what makes human demonstrations of empathy different?
He didn't link to the product he's building. So I looked up the company he's listing himself as working at at found this: http://maps4print.com/
another one still working is their .hk domain.
That makes me think of the custom characters on the old Commodore64s that are often used for games that ran in text mode.
I wonder if this affects Monaco. I was interested in their value prop, especially the ability to receive a low foreign transaction fee while traveling.
Eudaimonia Machine
I thought that before I had kids...
> how volatility and rapidly deflating currency would effect their cash flow.

Not at all? You obviously don't understand what a bitcoin debit card is. It's just like a normal debit card, but you fund it with bitcoin. The company you get the card from sells your bitcoin for fiat currency at the time you make a purchase (or at the time you top up the card, depending on how they do it).

The properties of bitcoin are completely irrelevant to the mechanics of the card.
Counterpoint: Radiohead is a really popular band.

I remember seeing a bbc introduction where Pink Floyd were introduced as a ‘pop band’ and you could see the derision on the presenters face.
So many people in the open access community are holding their breath waiting for what happens when access is cut off - with the expectation that there will not really be a backlash, making the negotiating position stronger.

This move by Elsevier implies that they share this expectation, in which case this would be the best move they could do, but by giving away that they don't think their position is strong, they effectively still weaken their position.

So all in all, if the German negotiators remain firm (and it looks like they will), the prospects for open access appear to be pretty good.

(Note that when I talk about open access, I mean the entire set of ideals usually associated with it as described at [1], not just "pay $3000 to $5000 to make a single article available.)

[1] https://fairoa.org/
Over the last 50 years American exceptionalism has morphed from: "We are the greatest country on earth, unique in our ability to achieve." to "We are the most special snowflake country in the world, unique in our inability to improve healthcare, public infrastructure, or reduce deaths by firearms." It's really quite sad, I hope you guys get our of your rut soon.
Is there a similar ADSL/VDSL edition?
Great developments. I am a bit pessimistic, however, as Elsevier still has all the publications related to the life and medical sciences in a stranglehold. I think the lacklustre adoption of preprint publishing in these fields is partly to blame.
It's a fiscal paradise, like Bahamas + low taxes
In our outfit (operating for some years already) we were pondering the same question in regards to tracking support.

In the end we did a comprehensive analysis of how much time each client actually uses and the results were surprising. The vast majority of clients actually are not abusing the support channels with a few outliers.

So the takeaway for us was clearly to set up Basic and VIP support packages and spare our people the braindead overheads of time tracking.
> In the coming days we plan to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre.

If Apple was able to patch macOS in the ~6 month window since the issue was discovered why were they unable to patch Safari?

Same question for Chrome and Firefox. Surely Google knew about it and hopefully they contacted Mozilla. It seems like the scope of the fixes for Chrome and Firefox are the same.

Does it really take six months to do dev & QA for a fix like this? Wasn't the plan to disclose this to the public in January anyways?
Wikipedia's page on Sci-Hub is usually pretty quickly updated with the still relevant URLs. It's rather interesting to watch, as they also list outdated URLs. Really exemplifies what a whack-a-mole game it is.
Really super stuff. Especially if this is your first time with HTML.
Socialism is where the state owns the means of production, which hasn't been successful anywhere. You're likely thinking of a larger welfare state, using taxes on a free trade economy to provide for those in need, which has been successfully tried over and over.
It's not possession that constitutes copyright violation, it's distribution. And that's up to a court of law to decide whether your actions constitute it.
On the spectrum of actions that goes from "supportive" on one side through "completely irrelevant" in the middle and "oppressive" on the other side, this action lies on the oppressive side.
Wow what an insult to Nolan. Why would you hate on him like that?
Which animal we morally can eat is a huge and difficult concept...

In some cultures eating horse meat is normal, in others vegetarianism is the honourable goal. Have you ever asked yourself why you eat or why you don't eat some animals? It is typically a product of the culture we grew up in, rarely the product of an intentional thought process.

Would you eat another human? What about another ape? An elephant? A monkey? A cat? A rabbit? A cow? Where do you draw the line?

I once decided that the "mirror test"[1] was my litmus test for eating or not an animal. But then as I looked more into it I realised that that test isn't as straight forward as I thought, lots of false positive, methodology issues (eg: some animal start passing the test after being exposed to mirrors for a long time). And the final blow was that most humans under 6 months fail the test and I decided not to use this test rather than starting to eat human infants.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
I had the same experience with drones, which are another popular use for GoPro cameras. It was fun for a few weeks and then stuff breaks, doesn't work right, etc. I'm glad I never spent a ton of money on an expensive drone or camera.
All you are saying is that we do make such distinction, only that it does not stay the same across time.

Is there any other animal that does this?
Thinking about thinking about tech
I believe that's pretty much it. I remember going fishing with my uncle as a kid and I was disturbed what I was doing to these animals but my uncle told me that fish can't feel pain. I didn't believe it then, and even less now.

To combine the eating of other animals, a rational brain and a mind at peace, you need some amount of self deception. Without it, you can only pick two.

For evolutionary reasons, it's obvious why eating meat is very beneficial. Today, it might not even be necessary for good health.
> Congress has given DEA full authority to reschedule drugs, and this includes removing them from the schedule altogether.

Not if they are covered by a treaty commitment; in that case, the DEA can change the scheduling but must maintain a certain specified minimum restriction level.

Marijuana is a subject of treaty commitments, and therefore, while it could be moved from the spot on Schedule I where Congress put it when they passed the Controlled Substances Act to replace the Marijuana Tax Act, it cannot be removed from the set of schedules.

Of course, the President could abrogate the applicable treaty, but it's not a marijuana-specific treaty, but the core international narcotics control treaty that the US lobbied for and which is the underlying basis for pretty much all international cooperation on drug enforcement.

The US administration could also lobby for a global change to the treaty to take marijuana out, but the required consensus would be hard to secure even when the US had better international standing than it has today.
> don't set Access-Control-Allow-Origin (or only set it to a star)

Huh? These are two _very_ different situations. Not setting `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` would mean that no third party site can read data from your domain. Setting it to `*` would do the exact opposite, allowing any site to read data on the page.

It's also unclear to me how this relates to Spectre and Meltdown.
Each country has their own laws. The EU is mostly harmonized, and most other countries have similar laws. However if you want to do jurisdiction shopping you might find a country (in Africa?) that will allow you to sue.
Sure, though coming from Washington state that wasn’t much solace. Even without state taxes, it some how worked out that I was fairly even with my USA federal tax liability, probably because the deductions are different in china.
The sixth referenced paper:

Bird, R. B., D. W. Bird, B. F. Codding, C. H. Parker, and J. H. Jones. 2008. The “Fire Stick Farming” Hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal Foraging Strategies, Biodiversity, and Anthropogenic Fire Mosaics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:14796–14801. Crossref, PubMed, Google Scholar

Not quite an aptronym, but close.
This is still a technique used by DOS game programmers today to get access to the full CGA color set with graphics. See Paku Paku for an example:

http://www.deathshadow.com/pakuPaku
She never claimed that they were equivalent. The disparity in quality of health care for transgender people in this country is well-documented and stems from many of the same reasons as the situation described in this article.
I wonder how you'd implement something like this in Wayland? Would you have a composer on the remote side rendering the text to a terminal (that you'd connect to over ssh/mosh)?
The guy calls someone saying it's not oppression a snowflake.
All that caused is a big shift in income from record labels to venues and concert promoters, the artists did not end up any better off than they were before.
There is an increasing awareness of the "reproducibility crisis"[1] where it seems a large portion of published scientific studies have dubious findings.

I wonder if this is another argument to overthrow Elsevier to as clearly their peer review for publication is a poor filter. Or, is it possible the peer review process will become even weaker in a new more open paradigm?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778
I believe to have read Lynch himself say that Inland Empire doesn't have a deeper interpretation that makes sense. As far as I remember it's even largely made up of footage from other projects.
Try http://web.archive.org/web/20180105120132/https://www.frbsf....
BECU (Boeing Employees Credit Union, WA State) only has tellers handle cash out of their main office, in Tukwila. Every single other "branch" is a Service Center with ATMs. They will help you get a loan or print a cashier's check, but send you to the ATM for any withdrawals.
Nice list. Nr. 1, FastText, was actually released in the middle of 2016 :-) The world moves fast…

Maybe they confused it with StarSpace [0], also by Facebook Research, which was indeed published in 2017?

[0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/StarSpace
Could hybrid-electric aircraft rule the skies?
That is completely true and at the same time terrifying. What does that say about how our brains have changed? Maybe it's not a problem, but if it is a problem I'm afraid it might be a big one.
It's probably a matter of whether the TLD/registrar gives in to US interests. ICANN might also have a say.
I’m not sure what the big deal is here, they have offered something like this for awhile, and in my experience, is nearly impossible to obtain unless you’ve won a Nobel (and not the peace kind). Most of us were just on work visas that were renewed yearly, the lucky ones got two year visas. Someday that might change, but I’m not sure how it would make things much better.
It's not Elsevier-specific peer review that's under scrutiny, but institutionalised peer review in general. That's said, that's still only among a minority of academics, and considering academia is pretty conservative, I don't think that that will play a large role in this situation.
Wow, I hadn't considered that the Beijing police would be too fearful to inadvertently pull over a high ranking party member to conduct their jobs properly.
Maybe for open Internet publishing, instead of publish/don't publish peer review, it'd make sense to have a rating of the reproducibility. If you could search only for reproducible papers that met a threshold, you'd know what you were reading.
Cluster Analysis of the Top 1%
I look at their Facebook page, generally: https://www.facebook.com/sci.hub.org/ From one Gustavo Rosa on Facebook:

All these domains are working!

http://sci-hub.la/

http://sci-hub.hk/

http://sci-hub.mn/

http://sci-hub.name/

http://sci-hub.tv

http://sci-hub.tw

http://tree.sci-hub.la/

http://80.82.77.84/

http://80.82.77.83/
Bitcoin Cash fixes that.
Instagram-Py – Simple Instagram Brute Force Script
Looks good. One bit of advice - replace the background image with a solid color. A busy background image can make the text difficult to read.
I'm reminded of the oft-linked Goldbloom quote in Jurassic Park. ;)

I'm also reminded of a guy I knew in college. He would LOVE this, because when we were working together at a university computer lab, he was the guy who would learn a tool, and then use that tool to the exclusion of all else, even to the point of absurdity.

The only tool he really knew when he started working there was Lotus, and he ended up figuring out how to automate all sorts of network administration tasks in Lotus macros.
Am from Amsterdam, have lived in the States, will second this: the Netherlands has a great public transport system and 90% of the time the only consideration when choosing between driving/cycling (predictable/personal transport) and PT is the cost.

Sometimes there are routes that take significantly longer with PT, and in those scenarios it's just another argument for taking my bike.

There are a few scenarios in which I take taxis, but they're rare and usually when it's the only reasonable option (caused by time or availability of PT like at night).
Suse already has them.

I guess Intel only focused on Windows NT for several months, and there it's not so easy as on Linux.
Discontinuing support for MonoDevelop-Unity
What Meltdown and Spectre Mean for the Scalability of Your Server
MS Front page editor and Notepad were the only tools those days. But was really cool. I still remember my first website showing Dinosaurs family classification inspired by movie 'Jurassic Park'
Timelaps video of Seattle from top of the Space Needle over course of 3 years
How do you infer insult from this remark?
What is the role of the publisher? I think there are many ways to publish things nowadays... Is the publisher responsible for peer review? Or how does that system work?
General safety is worse in china if you include traffic accidents. Crime safety is better in china.

You are unlikely to be affected in any case. Though I did know of stupid foreigners who became crippled after stupidity on motor scooters.
SO true. Imagine how much important business knowledge is tied up in an Excel macro, or -- God forbid -- in a ridiculously long formula stored in cell Q237 or whatever.

Less snarkily, Excel is so capable that lots of office workers learn IT and never bother going any deeper, and so they do things like re-inventing relational databases using Excel, etc.
Self-fulfilling experience? Buy cheap stuff; it breaks or doesn't work right; regret the experience and write it off?
Just read a few of your posts - great content and approach :)
As an industry we dont take maintainability very seriously. You think it would be easy to maintain web apps written in more "mainstream" languages from a couple of years ago?
Yes, chimps dictators don’t fare well. That’s not what I meant.

Chimps don’t have a complex set of morals about which they discuss and evolve with time. I didn’t say we know for sure what is good or what is not. But we can abstract the concepts and evolve our morals. Chimps will never get to debate about gay marriage or other “chimp” rights.