skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best kind of correct… but modern wide memory controllers turned (9,8), which only detects one error, into (72,64), which is SECDED, “for free”.
> I've heard many arguments about how its a cultural thing, old people in the west (more weighted towards N-America) are treated as a burden. A burden on the economy, a social burden (damn those annoying grandpa's and grandma's). Isn't that why the 401k and MediCare/MedicAid exist? (excluding the set of population that doesn't qualify for them) to pay them(selves) back for their 40+ years of service? I'd like to hear some fresh arguments/data on why they are treated as such. I'd be grateful to anyone who points me to more reading material on this topic.

Usual disclaimer: This is my opinion, yada yada yada. I am probably wrong on some (if not most) of this.

The elderly, especially in America, have an incredible amount of sway over national politics. Nearly 1/2 of voters are 50 or older [1]. As such, they generate a lot of ire in the US among the less-elderly because it feels like their needs are often met at the expense of the nation.

Medicare, for example, represents a huge amount of US entitlement spending [2] - though this is somewhat of a misleading number because Medicare funds quite a few things besides strictly healthcare expenses (like it funds most physician residencies, IIRC). Coming out in opposition to Medicare is often viewed as a bit of a political death sentence, because your primary goal as a politician is (at least it feels this way sometimes) to pander to older voters.

Additionally, steadfast conservatives tend to be elderly [3], which often puts the elderly in opposition to younger generations. Since politicians tend to listen primarily to their actual voters, you can sort-of understand the young liberal's decree that "things will be better when all the old people die."

Now, none of this is really the elderly's fault (aside from maybe that last part). Medicare is a reaction to an out-of-control healthcare system, and that's not necessarily your grandma's fault. If politicians listen to the people who vote for them, the logical answer would seem to be "go out and vote", not "get angry at the people who do vote."

But, if you're someone who does vote but feels like your voice still isn't being heard, you can probably start to understand some of the animosity.

1: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2011/05/04/U-S-votin...

2: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

3: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/09/the-politics...
This is clearly not true. Democracies often plan for the future, but only less so sometimes, such as when populism abounds and the democracy is too direct. Don't fall down the fallacy hole of 'authoritarianism like China or Singapore must be better.'
That's your opinion, what makes you the judge of other peoples social contributions?
Ground-breaking lens opens new possibilities in virtual and augmented reality
The only difference between PR and Citizen is ability to vote or get elected. On H-1B you do not have any rights
https://github.com/trailbehind/DeepOSM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808639
I honestly doubt the US deports a lot of H1-Bs, the article is anti-Trump, anti-Rule-of-Law fear mongering.
Swing is a very good improvement over HTML UI hacks.
An ideal web app framework would not be in JavaScript...
Not OP, but I particularly enjoy the fsharpforfunandprofit article about it.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/property-based-testi...
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In Universal React based apps, some of the lifecycle methods only run on the client side, e.g componentDidMount. So you just perform client-side-only functions there. There's also react-no-ssr - https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-no-ssr.

It is an issue, but one that is really easy to handle.
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> This means you get 100x the xy resolution AND depth information out of this process.

How so? Isn't 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000

So it's the same x/y resolution with 100x the z resolution. They extract the z by figuring out the different direction that light hitting each sensel is coming from. (And probably doing additional processing.)
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Or maybe Wu should go to the cops instead of the press.

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2015/05/gamergate-...

"Since Wednesday concerned people have been calling and emailing the prosecutor’s office in response to an online essay by Wu saying O’Brien had not acted on explicit rape and death threats originating from the 614 area code.

However, no criminal complaint had been filed in Columbus or with the county, O’Brien told me via email. Wu had never contacted him, and the office had received no recordings or phone number to investigate."
If you want to be really technical. Each data-point is not collected at the exact same instant.
Yes, mathematical verification. Normally, for an any much expensive tape out a partial mathematical verification is done with tooling on hand in addition to brute force simulation.

Ideally, a much closer to complete verification should be done in addition to simulation, like a mathematical proof that register content will never be like set A if inputs are set B
Their management won't change. They are profitable and employee owned.
- /* Assume for now that ALL x86 CPUs are insecure */

Before this patch the mitigation was active for all vendors.
They're wealthy compared to the perpetrators of the crime. If the 'victims' understood the value of their money, then they would never give it to anyone over the phone even if threatened with jail.

If someone wants to take my money, they'd probably have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. Second and third paragraphs, with some minor editing:

HTML is close to this ideal. If you haven't encountered it yet, I strongly recommend going through the tutorials at https://www.w3schools.com/html/. HTML introduced a brilliant idea: all the pages of your app are files in a your-project/pages directory, and each of those files is just an HTML page.

Everything else flows from that breakthrough design decision. Finding the code responsible for a given page is easy, because you can just look at the filesystem rather than playing 'guess the component name'. Project structure bikeshedding is a thing of the past. And the combination of SSR (server-side rendering) and code-splitting — something the React Router team gave up on, declaring 'Godspeed those who attempt the server-rendered, code-split apps' — is trivial.
But, a quantum computer would not in general solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time (as far as we know). The known exponential speedups are for "easier" problems like factoring and finding quantum ground states, which are not NP-hard.
I'm curious what you are referring to re: the DLC concept? Did you mean this thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

Seems like that was discontinued a long time ago (2011) so was wondering if there was something more recent that happened?
As usual, politics.
To quote the rules above:

> One post per company please.

So please edit and remove one.
There is a world of difference between analytics and tracking and, say, CoolWebSearch. You don't see Web apps hijacking your home page, filling your bookmarks with casino ads, installing toolbars, or replacing competitors' banner ads.
It's rarely a concern in practice. Public APIs should document if a slice may or may not be modified, for example: `io.Writer` says ` Write must not modify the slice data, even temporarily`, and `bufio.Scanner.Bytes()` says `The underlying array may point to data that will be overwritten by a subsequent call to Scan`.

The `append` builtin may allocate a new array and copy, or reuse the same array, but the result should almost always be assigned back to the original variable. The only time you wouldn't assign it back to the same variable is when you are carefully managing the slices yourself for some specific reason, which should never be exposed via an API.
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i see character limits for the title, may be that is keeping from using proper English, what do you suggest for that?
The growing consensus is that someone managed to make this work: https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-...

Reading kernel memory from user mode = reading cached disk blocks, cached credentials and anything else, by simply running javascript on a web browser.

KASLR bypass is just a small bonus.
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The "unscientific" side might be best explained by a little editorializing.

Theory, experiment and now computation have ended up split between specilaists because the required knowledge for each can no longer practically fit into one education. The effect of this is that since one brain has been separated into many heads, lots of partly-formed ideas must be communicated between them to replace what used to be internal musing.

Lots of published theory has little experimental or numerical footing; theory is the superego of the split mind and plays the closest role to imagining goals and setting courses.

Experiment would be lost without theory: experimental papers are relatively light on interpretation and usually serve to "check out" theorized results. To continue the metaphor they're the Id: sometimes experiments come up with results that no rational mind could have expected, grabbing the wheel and bringing theory crashing back down to earth, and upon reaching the earth again launching it off in amazing new directions.

Computational physicists (I'm including anyone who spends most of their time with numbers in this) are left as the integrating Ego, trying to write code that models the theories and analyses the data and on a good day gives the same answers for both.

Finally, I should add that all of these intermediate results are very carefully worded to be true, claiming no more than can be claimed. The system would still work if they were phrased assertively but there's such a strong culture of truth that nobody does that. So, you can trust the papers, but not so much the magazine write-ups which usually clobber the careful stepping.
> and yet unwilling to exert even the slightest effort to install software he needs to get things done.

Enterprises often disabled (or heavily whitelisted) both Flash and Java in the browser due to malware concerns as they were (and still are) an effective vector for malware.
I think I've been using Rixh's previous project, Ractive, onr of the first virtual DOM implementations, for 4 years now. It has a decent community and good stack overflow love.
PSA: Web devs, can we stop breaking scrolling?
There has been a trend over the last few years to override the default scrolling mechanism in browsers or to otherwise break scrolling through other means.

The laptop I've been using for the last 5-6 years is perfectly adequate for everything I do except scrolling on some of the websites being built today. It has 8GB RAM, an Intel Core i5 CPU and integrated graphics. It's not a beast of a machine, but that's the point. It's a good machine that is even powerful enough to play games like Civ V. Yet it can't scroll half of your websites without grinding to a halt or something else horrible happening.

I was just trying to read this article from the HN front page: https://mymodernmet.com/carl-stormer-hidden-camera-photography/

I can't. I literally can't scroll the page on my laptop, at least not whilst it's still loading. It did just try to make me download a bunch of files though so perhaps that site is compromised.

The usual experience is a site using some sort of "smooth scrolling" JS library that may work well on the latest MacBook but on this regular laptop of mine it's like wading through honey. Each two-finger swipe on the touchpad scrolls the page half a line of text for instance.

I think collectively as web developers it's important to recognise that if you're going to override core functionality in a browser you'd best be prepared to test it on a wide range of devices. Because not being able to scroll or having the browser/tab lock up in response to such a basic action is unacceptable.

Thanks.
We just left it as a 'dev' one so it never got published. You just have to have it on the Amazon account that the echo was setup on.
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You get to live in Canada as long as you want on a PR instead of a few years in the US on an H1b.
It's fine to hold that opinion, but in order to usefully contribute to this conversation you need to give a concrete reason why.
This comment was killed because the commenter is banned for serial abuse of HN. I'm going to unkill it because I don't like to leave smears unreplied to.

Moderators didn't touch this article or affect it in any way; users flagged it.

YC alumni do not have HN mod permissions or any ability to demote articles beyond the flagging ability all users get (once their karma passes 30).
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>"Out of a sea of "private, no logs" VPN services, ..."

Has this ever been verified in any way?
>The inconvenient truth is that the US has a national debt of over $21T

That isn't an inconvenient truth at all. The US is not dollar constrained.

If you think that the US is natural resource constrained - that's another matter. Are we in danger of running out of the resources required? Clearly no.

If you think the US is labor constrained - that wages are too high and we cannot afford to hire more people without causing spiraling inflation - that's another matter.

However, if you believe that, you also have to believe by necessity the idea that American labor is becoming less efficient and that automation isn't eliminating any jobs - let alone lots of jobs.
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> I'm South Indian, I didn't grow up there, but I can vouch for the condescending tone of Snigdha (the author of this piece). It's very much like how a condescending North Indian talks about a South Indian. And she's the 'educated' North Indian here talking to an 'un-educated' one. The condescension is palpable, and present throughout the piece. I have not read her other 2 pieces, but they're on similar topics, and I expect a similar tone. I'm not sure if it is a reflection of her distaste for the people in these highly questionable occupations, or just sprinkles of editorial hate.

Maybe I just didn't pick up on it, but as someone who doesn't know anything about the background of the author (nor about Indian stereotypes) this article didn't seem condescending to me at all. Are you sure you're not just projecting your own stereotypes about North/South Indians onto the author here?
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There have been many comment layering systems for arxiv, none of which seem to have taken off. Also, users are pretty split on whether they want this: http://www.nature.com/news/arxiv-preprint-server-plans-multi... . Personally I'm not in favour of such a system, as it's unlikely anyone would spend enough time to write a high quality comment that won't detract from a paper.
The germans could. When the anglo-british bureaucracy took over the german Huntsville engineering management and forced them to Houston/California and switch to solid rockets it started failing. This was the inside view.
The new type of management was called "destructive organizational culture".
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25611289 [of course the new management blamed it on the germans]
There's a discrepancy if the user doesn't see something when the page first renders but then does see it once the JS runs.
Social security includes contributory pensions, though? In particular, if you're talking about US Federal debt, some of it is owed to the Social Security Trust Fund (mentioned upthread as "national debt of over $21T"), so either social security is part of government (and the internal debt should be deducted from that total) or it isn't (and doesn't count as government spending).
Probably the paid hardware RAID unlock key.
vDSO-based timing is unaffected.
That's not how most reasonable people would summarize it.

Only because a reasonable person would choose a more subjective statement, to convey the full breadth of depravity a visitor could expect to find on 4chan.

I mean, you've also got the gore pics, the incitements to racial and political violence, the fucked-up hentai, the homophobia, the raids on children's games, and the incessant insistence that everyone kill themselves.
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