skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim wasn't "CPUs in 2017 are not faster than CPUs in 2003" or even "CPUs in 2017 are not much faster than CPUs in 2003"; the claim was that they haven't followed Moore's law since 2003, so applying it to CPU speed nowadays is inaccurate. Of course CPUs are faster now than they were 14 years ago, just not as fast as the case where Moore's law still applied to CPU speed.
> Annual Package - $105,000

> Expenses - $35,000

I wish I could say that, and I think I'm doing fairly well.

> Electricity - Sawnee - Yes we have a air conditioning unit for both cold and heat.

You appear to live around Atlanta, correct? Your housing expenses seem to be good for the area (not SF-level outrageous).

And by "we", do you live with someone? SO? Roomie? Family? If they can cover some of the housing/utility bills, that's an easy win. (or has that already been factored in?)
> This is the same problem Netflix & Amazon have been successful in combating.

I would say that the jury is still out on that. Lack of Blockbuster movies has always been one of the weak points of Netflix, and they are still in the process of getting started with producing content there (with "Bright" being one of the first of their movies trying to be a Blockbuster).

On the other front, they are highly dependent on existing content that people love, and more and more of that is being owned by Disney and pulled from the platform as they are gearing up for their competing service. If they also fail to keep the other big right holders on the platform then soon all they have will be Netflix content (which is probably their 5-10 year plan anyway since that makes them more profitable).

I'm not sure a Netflix Originals-only catalog will go over well with the subscriber base. Despite some of their first original content having some good hits (e.g. House of Cards), I think over time their hit-rate pretty much adjusted to the levels of traditional cable channels like HBO/Showtime with a lot of mediocre content.
I think it's important to remember that the national speed limit of 55 was put in as a fuel saving measure in the 1970s. Drag increases in a non-linear fashion with velocity, so you don't just use twice as much gas to go 110 than to go 55. In a world where we worry about carbon output (either from your ICE or the natural gas plant that makes your supercharger electricity), that's a very real reason why one should not drive at triple digit speeds on a highway.
This crosses into personal attack, and several of your other comments are bordering on breaking the site guidelines if not breaking them outright. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make a course correction? We're looking for thoughtful, substantive discussion here.
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If that's really what I wanted, there are many much easier ways than making a full app, such as writing a lame whitepaper and doing a scam ICO. You will see a lot of open-source code from Cipher soon, hopefully that puts your mind at ease.
ARM may have a flaw: https://lwn.net/Articles/740393/
>Is medical care something people need?

No, nor is it a right. It's a luxury.
Citi doesn't sound like the bad guy in this case.. BT borrowed from Citi for the buildout. Citi was told 40% of payments to BT were not from tax receipts, and were available to service the loan. Then when it became clear the buildout wasn't going well, the mayor decided to allocate $0 in the city budget to service the loan, and declared that all payments, no matter the source, were tax receipts(ie: payments from BTs customers were tax receipts now).. and therefore Citi would receive nothing because in their interpretation of the loan agreement, only non-tax revenues would be available for loan payments.

Where in that is Citibank doing the wrong thing? Is Citibank wrong because they wanted to receive more than $0 from BT?

And casting this as Citibank's fault directly conflicts with the fraud investigation, illegal borrowing from city bank accounts, etc. There was clear mismanagement by BT, bad forecasts for subscriber numbers, and no more funds available because this occurred during the financial crisis in 2008 (prompting the illegal borrowing from the city).
Actually, because Nissan screwed up introducing the new model year of Leaf, in November there were twice as many Model 3s delivered in the US than Leafs.

It's unusual for Nissan to screw up like that, but there you go.
Explosive growth of cities, adding modern infrastructure as fast as you possibly can, labor mobility, etc: Think of how China is doing these things and turns out to be growing economically at an unbelievable rate. We're only blocked by lots of smalltime local rent-seeking behavior.
The road to decentralizing urban mobility with blockchain and cryptocurrency
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Probably the best approach is this:

- Go get a blood test and find out what your current levels are. if you are too busy to hit up your physician, blood tests can be be purchased online without a doctor visit - After purchase, you just show up at Labcorp/Quest location and get your blood drawn. Vit D tests are pretty cheap at around $50

- If deficient, supplement with Vitamin D; 4000-5000 IU a day seems to be a good start.

- Get a follow-up blood test a few months later to confirm that the current dosage is adequate. If it is great. If not, rinse and repeat as necessary...

Everyone is unique so I think this i sthe best approach. Also, IMO being (too) afraid of the sun is one of the reasons this is such a problem in modern life.
Then why is Spotify so freakin popular? Why do they have more than double the subscribers as Apple Music which arguably has major advantages (resources, pre-installed, etc)?
You say this as if every single Windows user in the history of Windows doesn't just click every dialog box that says "OK" or immediately dismiss the UAC boxes that come up when something needs Admin access on Windows 7 and above. On Macs, at least, you have to enter the user's password to do anything damaging.
I think Americans are probably among the first to admit the issues with their communities, hence the increased trend in helicopter parenting.
Ask HN: Best books/resources to learn about blockchain tech?
After mostly ignoring the hype over the past several years, I’m looking to learn about blockchain tech.

Though technical myself, I’d like to start with a less-technical overview of the technology and it’s potential, before taking deep dives into the more technical aspects. There seem to be a number of well-reviewed books on Amazon, but given how new the space is and how fast things are changing, I’m not really sure what to trust/where to start, and was hoping the wisdom of the HN community could point me towards some good starting resources :)
> The Roman Empire was fantastically multicultural at its high points and its low.

Citation needed. As far as I am aware from my understanding of history, Roman Empire was very large geographically but there were homogeneous cultures / tribes living in separate areas of the vast empire. You had Germanic tribes living together in proximity, same with Gauls, Eastern tribes like Vandals or Visigoths, local cultures also inhabited parts of Roman Empire outside of European continent such as Northern Africa or Israel.

This should be evident as Europe was very homogeneous until early 20th century still with societies being mainly composed of similar peoples in their respective areas and this was obviously a continuation of Roman Empire’s former tribes.

Trying to make a comparison with current world where you have melting pots in places like London or New York might be inaccurate. But I’d like to be educated on this issue more.
He actually has a point, though it was poorly made. The Omega 3: Omega 6 ratio of grass fed & grain fed beef are vastly different. If you subscribe to any of the ancestral diet theories, the difference in ratios is enough to make grass fed very good, and grain fed very bad.
A big break pokes a big infected hole in muscle and skin
everytime someone says that to me I say.. He's the dude that landed a freakin rocket back to earth and then again! most other things he's done can be termed as ruthless execution but to attempt stuff he's doing with SpaceX requires real vision and strong faith in that vision. This is real engineering.

I do feel that his critics often lose perspective. for instance he gets a lot of heat for not ramping up M3 production as fast as promised but in the grand scheme of things I fail to see what impact that has whether EVs ramp up to a million cars a year a few quarters earlier or later. only thing that matters is tesla/spacex/etc lives to fight another day.

That said I would never invest my money in tesla stock. Its simply because I dont think its His ultimate goal to make money & that will always reflect in the decisions he make.
Keep in mind that Universal, Sony, and Warner all own a chunk of Spotify.
The problem is that "average users" pointedly does not include server and DB admins. I don't know about anyone else, but that's what I'm sweating over. We already know high I/O is what takes the biggest hit. I want to know what kind of a hit I can expect on our MSSQL VMs, and I am pretty sure the answer is not "minimal."
Good for your mom! Pity about the talent agent, who does sound vile.
I think the best we can do is speculate on this, as China's cyber capabilities are still relatively unknown by the public [0]. However, based on their investment in academics and a generally more positive view of government jobs in general (possibly due to historic sociocultural contexts [1]), I believe it's likely that their equivalent groups are probably treated quite well.

For example, for successful US-trained Chinese researchers, the Chinese government offers generous funding, publication bonuses [2], and high pay (comparable to, or better than, US institutions) for those who are willing to return to China and run research labs there.

Additionally, due to the relative lack of commercial opportunities for talent, creative, and ambitious home-grown talent (vs the opportunities in the US available to similar US-trained talent), the bar the government must exceed is commensurately lower.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

2. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/cash-bonuses-peer-rev...
Most 5-8 year olds I personally know have cell phones.
Different perspective:

Often these things are done in a half-assed way that isn't well suited to production deployments (e.g. not secure, requires connections to random hosts on the Internet from production boxes).

"Testing" means many things to many people in the context of many different kids of software. Defining a fixed framework for same can be detrimental to some proportion of that space.
When has that ever been the case? The FCC doesn't build anything. If you're worried about the federal government paying private companies to build out such a thing, take a look at the first decade of the current century where taxpayers funded the telecoms to build out broadband infrastructure with pretty much zero regulation around, well, any of it. There was no specification that the network be nationalized or become government property or that some random government agency could coerce the telecoms into controlling information on the internet ...

So what are you talking about?
The Princeton bitcoin textbook is also excellent (see https://citp.princeton.edu/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is... - it is easy to find PDFs online)
People are making way to much of a drama about Model 3. You can go 2 years back and find information that they hope to get mass production going by end of 2017.

Sure the might have fallen short 30-40% but given the scale of their plan, this seems like a extremly miner problem.

The buissness reality is that there are 100000s of people who want these cars and they have essentially a proven market for years to come. The waste majority of these people are not gone start hating elon because their car is a bit late.

> As far as following a vision: history is full of failed visionaries, and vision alone is not enough to propel mankind forward. Execution is.

Like building a reusable rocket or massivly improving the price and production capacity of batteries?

People need to stop listening to Elon own prediction of things and consider where things would be without him. He has already revolutionised the space and the car industry, that is just a fact.
How is this even an argument? Why is it that someone always trots out the "well other company/industry does it" argument?

Actually, yes, I want to control what I run on a game console, a smartphone, a router, a computer and even my refrigerator.
"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."

Sounds like AMD's chips are not affected by variants of this attack either. Sure, we should wait for the details to be published before making sweeping claims, but the details we have so far paint a reasonable picture of what the vulnerability involves. It is reasonable to assume that AMD's design decisions prevent this attack, while Intel's decisions enable it.
Can you elaborate more on "buy a cheap island"? Do you mean actually purchase land? Have you done this? Where are the cheap islands I can buy?
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You have created a new account that only has anti-Intel and anti-Israel comments.

Seems like you have some bias here. Source?
Yes I should have qualified my comment in that I assumed a functional and healthy manager. Optimizing for a dysfunctional one would lead to what you describe.
I've 34 years of experience in software engineering. Since about 1986, I have been either hired as the team lead or eventually been appointed the team lead at each of the six employers that I have worked for. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am once again starting over as a team member in a new group. I wasn't given much choice in the matter as my attempt to apply to an open position that I thought had potential, was squashed by my management. At least, knowing my desire, they offered up two choices of becoming a team member of a couple of projects with funding, openings, and years of internal customer base. However, it was a choice for me between the least of evils. Something that I could not convey to my management since I was already apparently "in the dog house" for having applied to the position of my choosing earlier. So now I have the psychological dilemma of trying to act like I am joining the team by my own choosing because I do not think any existing team member has any idea of the way I was collared. Whats more, the technology stack and engineering practices of my new team are poorly thought out if not completely random (and this is the better of the two choices). There was no mention of me being added as some sort of white knight to fix it. As far as I can tell, management has no idea of the cruft that is this system. So my spouse urges me to have patience, that I will eventually take over, as I have done in the past. But I struggle to keep my head up day to day, being assigned feature and bug tickets and instructed on kluged up solutions that match the overall product. Meanwhile, I fantasize how I could rearchitect and rewrite this system into a much better product. It isn't healthy. It isn't fun. I hate it.
Process Context ID and the TLB (2015)
For producing something of no intrinsic monetary value?
I'd say considering the crazy mergers we're having stateside that this is just another example of sinophobia.
Hi! I'm a PM on Kubeflow (working at Google) and we've been chatting a bunch with the Pachyderm folks. Think of Kubeflow as a superset of Pachyderm - we're really working to just make it a framework in which you can choose your specific tool for a given step, yet all the tools work together. But I'd love to hear if there are anything things that we can do better and/or to clarify!
As someone who's used a lot of dating apps:

It's an awful way to meet new people, especially potential partners. You (being the average male, since this is my experience) are competing to have a coffee date against a ridiculous number of above average males with someone who you've never met, who knows none of your friends and likely has very little in common with you. If you get their attention (which is a very hard thing to do) you might get one or two reply messages before you're forgotten about. If you manage to get a date it's unlikely to be someone who has all that much in common with you, it's likely to be someone looking for sex rather than an actual relationship, and they're unlikely to go on a second date with you anyway.

Honestly I haven't had a lot of luck dating in person or on line but at least I've made a lot of friends from doing stuff IRL, while dating apps leave you with absolutely nothing.
Are there scripts to aid changing services to convert playlists etc? That'd increase competition and decrease lock-in.

If I change password manager there are scripts. If I change browser there's addons for the other browser as well. [...]
You can use other implementations that not require Math.
Anyone else get a chill seeing that name? #KSP
My background is in financial applications, where an inconsistent state can literally be a multimillion dollar problem, so maybe my perspective is skewed a little. But FKs and other constraints are simply used to outright enforce consistency, in my experience at least. If you rely on your custom business logic to maintain consistency, then you leave yourself open to the possibility of breaking that in some way, and if you do, who says you'll notice right away? What if you don't notice for 6 months, and then realise that you have a billion transactions that have some form of integrity compromise?

Complexity obviously makes this problem more serious, but something like this can easily occur at any scale of complexity or transaction volume. If you try to commit some code that breaks the integrity of an important relationship in some way, or even if you just want to run an arbitrary statement directly against the database, then you want the DB to throw an error.
Martha has been off of people's radars for a while now. I may need new material.
Who says they won't?

The issue is embargoed, but that's, as usual, not keeping everyone from speculating. That's fine too, but also realize the layman (even people in this thread) is getting pummeled with ideas like "my new laptop is going to be 30% slower tomorrow; WTF!!!"
Course on Hyperledger, enterprise grade blockchain
https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-...

Course on cryptocurrency:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

I have taken both, the coursera course actually walks thru some other data structures needed to build a blockchain, and points you in the direction of more heavy math if you want to go there.

Both of courses are solid introduction to blockchain tech. And best of all they are both free. :)
Wouldn't a conductor interfere with the in channels, by moving electrons and thereby cancelling the gradient?
Learning from Conway's law.
> Based on the analysis to date, many types of computing devices — with many different vendors’ processors and operating systems — are susceptible to these exploits.

Yes, many. Not your biggest competitor though, AMD. They're fine. And that may be the point you're trying to downplay here.

> Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world

Again, your biggest competitor, AMD, does not have this flaw. So precisely how is Intel the 'most secure in the world' if your biggest competitor is more secure than you?

The title of this post should be 'Intel PR Responds to Security Research Findings'.
Your average driver drives way, way too fast on your average residential street and especially parking lots. I've noticed an uptick in the amount of times I've been illegally passed on residential streets in the last 10 years. My street is only around five-six small lot houses long and I'm almost impressed with how fast people manage to drive on it.

Of course, I'm not sure that it has much to do with the speed of the car they are driving.
In this case, it is, though, because the security prompt to enable the kext in question doesn't have an "OK" button. It doesn't really offer a button to perform the action at all. It offers a shortcut to the System Preferences pane where the user would have to unlock the pane, type in their admin password, click on the extensions button, and then click to allow the extension. If the user has jumped through those hoops to enable this, they've already passed the barrier of entry. This isn't something someone can accidentally do.
Is this the average doctor or some specialist? The fact that some specialists can hugely profit from the system the same way the hospitals, pharma companies and insurance do, is likely port of the point of the previous comment. The important takeway is the average doctor does likely also not see much of that overhead money that goes to the pockets of a couple individuals and already rich companies.
Also cool for Mad Max.
Amazon Echo might be "an ad machine" but that article is a good example of business-minded misdirection: using a relatively minor problem -- persistent advertising -- to deflect attention away from a much greater problem -- persistent spying -- where businesses are the main beneficiaries of the misdirection.

The real problem with Echo is that it's an always-on microphone connected to a networked computer that runs proprietary software (see https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/ for how proprietary software is often malware). Users have no software freedom to inspect what the software on the Echo does, change the Echo's software to make the Echo do something different, or share the Echo software (whether modified or not) to help their community. Even if Echo's software comes with some form of user controls, those controls are implemented with proprietary software, software users cannot trust. No matter how technical and willing a user is to improve their Echo device to meet their needs, the permission to do so is purposefully missing. Amazon does not respect a user's software freedom. Therefore there's no good reason to trust the Echo. For all we know Echo is now or at some later time will relay whatever is within mic range to someplace else, thus presenting a constant threat to one's privacy.

Nobody needs Echo; it does nothing users weren't perfectly fine to do another way by visiting a website to place orders. But one should reconsider doing business with Amazon at all (see https://stallman.org/amazon.html for details).
You could resign the app using Cydia Impactor. This avoids the rebuilding process, and keeps the app data on the device.
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> All my friends are in the same age-group (21-29)

Your friend group is millennials. This article is about Gen Z, a decade younger than most millennials.
Not only are there an infinite number of primes, there are so many that the inverse series diverges. That is, Sum 1/p_i is infinite.