skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never forget talking to an NSA recruiter (cybersecurity expert doing a recruiting assignment, not a full-time recruiter) at a university job fair. I asked if he felt like he was really spending most of his time protecting people or if a lot of it was political agenda and budget protection, etc. His answer was, "well, it's not all politics..." Thank you, recruiter, for making that career choice a supremely easy one.
State level public safety agency is about as specific as I'd like to be, sorry :)

I'm sure if you trawled through my history you'd be able to piece it together.
I'd say that the majority of consumers don't really care about that, though.
Too late to edit: I forgot that Apple maintained official Cocoa-for-Java bindings for a short time, but it wasn't popular, and was deprecated.
This is such a bizarre way to totally miss the point.

Let me respond to the left turn you just took. There are genetic and social differences between our prehistoric ancestors and modern humans. Where exactly we draw the line of who is a "caveman" and who is not, is ancillary to the point:

You're evaluating the statement, a "then" statement, without considering the antecedents from its parent comment.

He uses "laypeople" to describe a group of people who are not truly interested, who are not seeking understanding, and who use pop-sci literature to abate basal emotions like anger.

> In fact, given that emotions are primary action catalysts, his post asserts Quanta is doing very important cultural work.

By that logic, every magazine for people who are not truly interested and don't seek understanding is potentially culturally important if it can connect with emotions. I don't buy it.
To be unfairly tried in a trial where he won't even be allowed to argue to the jury that his actions were justified.
You forgot to mention Chess. You can't trash Chess.
It depends on what your program is doing. If your program uses a lot of syscalls, then it'll be slower. If it hardly uses them at all, then it won't be as affected.
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"Because it's more expensive" seems like a non-answer to me. Why is it more expensive, and who's getting the money, and what rules are allowing this to take place, and who made those rules? That's what we need to know.
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Same. I've even been using the same window manager (XMonad) for probably over a decade and haven't touched the config file in years. When I get a new machine, I copy some dotfiles over, apt-get a few packages and then I pretty much can't tell the difference (other than hopefully performance).

I have a macbook pro that I use exclusively for music (Ableton Live) and it's been far more hassle.
That's what you're saying (and indeed what I said too!), but that's not what bloomberg published. What you're saying makes sense! But they didn't qualify this by major. And the qualification is important to the heart of the story, since the way they phrased it suggests that chip design is largely reliable and thus that this is an exceptional error, when in fact errors are common, and impact is merely exceptional. In effect: they're overstating the signal-to-noise ratio this event implies.

Worse, they understated the noisiness of the chip error "signal" but they also understate the noisiness of the stock value signal. And hey presto; if you conveniently present only the data you want all of the sudden a correlation looks really meaningful!

Furthermore, even the qualification "major" isn't really deserved quite to the extent that bloomberg implies; specifically there have been worse chip errors much more recently than 20 years ago (e.g. amd's somewhat similar phenom issues). What makes this one worse isn't just the bug, it's how chips are used: cloud computing makes this much more relevant than similar bugs not too many years ago.
In short, it's a bunch of reckless rich assholes who have no respect for other people on the road. Go on a proper racetrack and show what you can do there.
Aren't all biological tissues made out of proteins? I mean, the very mechanism of DNA transcription implies that products are necessarily polymer-like, if I understand correctly. DNA can't make metals. I suppose some purely enzymatic mechanism could produce 3D-cristals (a metal is a macroscopic aggregate of microscopic crystals, right?), but apparently no such mechanism exists. It'd be great though, as we could probably replicate it.

I would also say that nature does make metals, it just needs to go through a behavioral layer.
What I wanted to use them for:

1. order truckload of stuff
2. grab a pallet or 2 at a time
3. break down pallet and sell on ebay/amazon

was a no go. too small an order.
I think it's pretty obvious he means this:

M1 -- W1
M2 \- W2
M3 -- W3
M4 \- W4
M5 -- W5

Yeah the averages are the same, by definition, but the distributions differ significantly.
My understanding is that he personally learned a ton about rocket science and actively contributed to the design, as well as providing business context, which is itself no mean feat.
I switched to Elementary OS (Loki) last year and never looked back.
Small correction, but generally someone like that exercises their options and sells them for profit, keeping their shares that they've had since whenever. In this case, he exercised the options, sold those shares, and then lowered the amount of shares he had beyond that to the absolute minimum (250k).
The Long View: Richard Feynman and Isaac Asimov on Spelling Reform
Reading secret data out of kernel memory is very bad on cloud environments. Keep in mind that the kernel deals with a lot of cryptography.
Did he get paid for his work during these two years? It doesn't look like a funny work [1] but it brings home the bacon.

[1] Perhaps the first wave is interesting, but the third or fourth time is probably a little repetitive.
How to find (and keep) clients as a freelance developer (Part 4)
They pay you low government salary so you can boost insurance companies' huge corporate profits. Prerequisite is that you have lobotomy or be gullible fool.
I've always thought the biggest "root cause" issue of what we see is that our political system doesn't handle trial and error well at all...anymore.

In the last 100 years the US has moved much more towards consolidated federal policy. Federal level policy comes with a lot of issues.

First, combining politics with trial and error doesn't work in a 2 party system. 1 party will point out its flaws, while the other party will pretend they don't exist or be defensive about those flaws. The country will be left with people who feel the pain of that problem and those who do not. The ones who feel the pain will vote to end the pain, regardless of anything else. The ones who don't feel the pain won't see the big deal and will focus on other issues...and those other issues will be seen as issues that the other party was voting "against".

The other issue is that with federal policy, the entire country suffers from the consequences of issues. Once the legislation is in place, it's nearly impossible to change or remove so if you think there MIGHT be an issue you're better off voting staunchly against it.

State level policy doesn't suffer from this issue. With 50 states and a national idea that all policy should be state level, we'd have 50 experiments. If one state tried something and it worked, other states would research what they did and follow suit. If it didn't work, they'd stay away. Or try something new. County/City level is even better.

That's why when people were selling the ACA as "what Romney did in his state" were missing the point. The point was that was state level...so other states could follow if they wanted. It didn't mean that should be the policy at a federal level. The entire point was that it was a state level policy.

At the federal level and in the election, Hillary wouldn't even acknowledge there were problems with the ACA and IMO that is what cost her the election, because new premium letters started coming out just before election and there was a lot of pain to go around.
Somebody alive knows where it really is.
Not enough competition. Too high barriers for entry.

(The market is actually not one big, but 50+ smaller ones. Furthermore each of those have very high regulatory limitations for entry.

And since we're talking about a risk-premium business, it has inherent risks - so the easy actuarial areas are already well covered - like life insurance, but the various others are a lot harder to estimate ROI-wise better than the competition.

And since you can make a lot of money elsewhere, there's relatively not much money chasing new health care insurance.)

Plus the market is set up very inefficiently, as the HMOs (health maintenance organizations, the networks, the "insurers") can play the divide and conquer game. Play employees and employers and the government against each other, so there's no real incentive to compete on prices.
Most healthcare actually does fall into that category, and the unwillingness to acknowledge that is a big root factor in what's keeping costs high.
> Are you planning on starting to wear red and eat a lot of garlic in order to attract more women?

Yes, I do wear subtly eye catching clothing and it does affect the amount of sexual attention I recieve from both men and women. You genuinely haven't heard of this before?
The bottom of https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/ suggests that AMD isn't any better, so this is likely just short term.
> What has this got to do with "putting on his MRA hat"?

I'd say it's more a mark of red pill than MRA (although to most people outside the related subcultures, that's probably a distinction without a difference). Basically, the red pill narrative centers on people exploiting their own "sexual market value", with male SMV being determined by wealth and social status and female SMV being determined by youth and sexual inexperience. In this narrative, the most desirable women spend their peak-SMV years "riding the alpha cock carousel" and are "used up" by multiple high-SMV ("alpha") men, then cynically seek out lower-SMV ("beta") men for financial support after they've squandered their SMV, especially if they have children. This is summarized with the catchphrase "alpha fux, beta bux". Things like individual preferences and romantic compatibility don't exist in this model.

This is also behind the modern use of "cuck" as an insult in some subcultures: it's shorthand for describing the beta male in this scenario who is exploited to raise another man's children, and by extension anyone who is perceived as not being appropriately selfish.
Jews were able to essentially wipe out Tay–Sachs as an active disease by implementing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim

People are still carriers, but there is little to no active disease for the screened conditions. So this kind of screening can work.

(Wikipedia worked hard to appear "neutral" and found some criticism to include, but in actuality there is widespread support for this, and I hope they expand the list of conditions.)
It's not really a game, it was mostly an example of something that doesn't really have a content.
> Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town.

Not really. Don't get me wrong: I like the people in our post office. But they'd be killed in the private sector.

At my local grocery store (Safeway), they'll add a new cashier if the line becomes long. The Post Office? Nope! During busy times, I've seen the line go beyond 15 or 20, and there's this only 1 slow clerk taking his time, chit-chatting, in no hurry at all.

Or the DMV. Visit the SF DMV if you want to see government at "work".
I wouldn’t describe the ~30MPH you get from a 240V RV plug as “fairly quickly.” It’s fine for an overnight charge, but you’ll basically be limited to driving the car’s single-charge range each day. It’s possible but I wouldn’t want to try it.
Kinda. The issue is the microphone. It's a specialized piece of hardware that uses a microphone array and also has wake word logic built in. There are only a couple companies that sell this and they don't sell one offs. But maybe in the future.
This is typically what happens when you go for a long time without real competition. You get way too comfortable and bad habits start to pile up.
Calories are calories. People can eat huge plates of rice because that is all they eat and don't snack or drink soda.

A huge plate of rice might be 1000 calories, but if all a person eats otherwise are some veggies and some tea, there is nothing unsustainable about that
It makes you wonder how people managed to survive at all 20 years ago!
No one outside of Intel knows enough about Intel's microcode to answer that question, especially since we don't know the full details of the problem.
Sounds like Facebook and Youtube, too.
Everything Keeps Getting Better: 2018 Edition
Very cool; I'm super glad to hear its still going strong.

My last full stack project where I touched the front-end was 100% knockout + some custom routing + commonjs module organization, and I still have fond memories of it relative to most other front-end experiences pre-2014.

re router: I think having an option for a built in 1st class router would be nice. My hacked up quick ~75 line solution was essentially just using the dom as an event bus with custom (consistent) payloads to control state change/ notifications/etc... works great for small stuff, but would probably break down in a huge application.

If I get back to the front-end any time soon, I'll definitely be looking back at ko.
If not for NATO Sweden and Norway might well be part of Russia.

Nations are not isolated systems. Comparing national policies as though they didn’t interact gives wrong answers.
Wow, this is not at all what my screen looks like. Maybe it's the extension itself that's lacking? [0]

I don't have any of these other options either. If I click on generate password the box just goes away. Maybe I should scrap the extension and just use the mac/windows application? I was reading a number of reports about not syncing between these. If I have both on maybe it'll cause issues?

[0] https://imgur.com/a/msydX
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I think the genetic risks of first cousin consanguinity are far lower than one would initially think. The real problem occurs when there's multiple generations of 1st cousin consanguity - the likelihood of concentrating recessives, etc increases in subsequent generations. In fact, I believe historically speaking, there's a very large precedent going back centuries for first cousin marriages (resulting in offspring) and as far as I know, it's not illegal anywhere in the USA. Here's an article dated back in 2002 that discusses the genetic risks: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-c...
The median might be significantly different though.
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There is this thing called "return oriented programming". You write your program as a series of addresses that are smashed onto the stack through some other type of vulnerability. When the current function returns, it returns to an address of your choosing. That address points to the tail end of some known existing function, such as in the C library and other libraries. When the tail end of that function returns, it executes your next "instruction" which is merely the next return address on the stack.

The first "instruction" of your program is the last address on the stack, in the list of addresses you pushed to the stack.

You are executing code, but you did not inject any executable code, you did not need to modify any existing code pages (which are probably read only), you did not need to attempt to execute code out of a data page (which is probably marked non executable).

Address Space Layout Randomization is a way to prevent the "return oriented programming" attack. When a process is launched, the address space is randomly laid out so that the attacker cannot know which address in memory the std C lib printf function will be located at -- in this process.

Now let's think about the kernel. If you could know all of the addresses of important kernel routines, you could potentially execute a "return oriented programming" attack against the kernel with kernel privileges. Without modifying or injecting any kernel level code. These hardware vulnerabilities allow user space code to deduce information about kernel space addresses.

Now that's a lot of hoops to jump through in order to execute an attack. But there are people prepared to expend this and even more effort in order to do so. Well funded and well staffed adversaries who would stop at nothing in order to access more and better pr0n collections.
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> each application can be presented with its own mix of system packages without any conflicts between them

Furthermore, everything is done, or in the way to be done, in a functional way: system configuration, deployment, etc.

There are even efforts to manage dotfiles currently getting implemented.

IMHO, the Nix way is a great leap ahead.
You'd imagine, but as someone that's tried, voice recognition is just one part of it, and is a rather hard problem in terms of computing power required. Note that the linked DeepSpeech stuff is a tensorflow based solution, and only hits a xRT of 0.44 on a GTX 1070. While that is slightly better then twice realtime, I really doubt anything less powerful then a handful of years old GPU is going to pull it off in realtime, and def. not a rPI or similar.

edit: follow up clarification, the echo is NOT doing voice processing on the device itself, it ships it up to the cloud to do so. You could of course set up something similar to that using a raspberry pi and shipping audio to your desktop to be processed.
What’s the connection between the performance hit of this bug and Qubes’ business model?
I referred to using FB regularly, not having an account, but I've edited the above to be more what I meant (wasting time on FB).
> they don't really know why, just that it is

This taboo does not come from the Bible, since the Bible does not prohibit cousin marriage. I assume the taboo comes from seeing problems in offspring.

Scientifically, occasional cousin marriage is not usually a problem. It's only when it's repeated more than once that it starts to be a problem.
That Reddit thread is repeating back information from previous hacker news threads.
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Agreed. I imagine most people wouldn't buy things through a voice interface literally sight unseen.
When rich people had manservants, it wouldn't be uncommon for them to discreetly get a cut from vendors for recommending their services. Corporate-provided electronic manservants will be no different: they will serve themselves before they serve you.

Obviously the simplest solution is credible open-source alternatives; or there is always that pesky thing, the legislative process.
Hooters Franchisee Surges 41% on Cryptocurrency Rewards Program
They don't have to be better to benefit from purchasers wanting to diversify their plant across two rather than one CPU vendors.
I would be amazed if you could list credible nutritionists who would claim that calorie restriction will not help you lose weight.
No love for the PS2 which was the champion of its era?

By the time the PS3 rolled around Sony was getting a little too full of itself, lacking the competitive fire that made products like the Walkman and the Trinitron screen. It was a good console, but not one that redefined what a console was.
When in the history of Mac OS X could you not install kexts?
I'm curious what database this is. Even mysql supports ON UPDATE CASCADE back to 5.5 (or earlier?).
These issues are often talked about in the abstract, but I've seen them first hand.

I worked in military medicine, and the IT department at one of the hospitals was entirely staffed with (in some cases well-meaning), but wildly unqualified staff.

Mostly this was people who were previously department secretaries and who turned out to be just generally incompetent, unmotivated or abrasive. As they couldn't be fired, they were promoted to IT. It was a dumping ground.

Their "Database Administrator" literally didn't know what SQL was and that's how it was for everything. One of them told me to my face (I was a contractor there to train them on an app): "I'm only going to be here for 5 more years, so I don't really want to learn all this."

Disgraceful.
What is to "stop these guys" is the legal parties and officials involved have brains that they can use. The engineer idea of "mwa ha ha, I found a bug, I can walk" is rarely true in practice (n.b.: having quite a lot of money is a different kind of exception).
And to add to it: the other car companies are ACTUALLY working on EMVs now, not just show some design study drenched in blue lights at some car expo once per year before going back to selling Diesel engines like they did in the past.
The Independent is likely to be a deficient source of information compared to other outlets: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/12/independent-an...

> It's a left wing source (which are regarded as more reputable on HN)

Yes, most major outlets are left-leaning but that does not necessarily imply that most left-leaning outlets are more reliable or are considered more reliable by HN.

Edit: to add even more to this silliness, the linked article isn’t even written by an Independent employee
This seems vastly overstated. I've never even bought something with my Alexa, let alone heard an ad from it.
The pre-2018 LEAF has around an 80 mile range with a passsively cooled battery that does very poorly in the long term. The new version is better but still not in the same league as the Model 3 or Bolt.
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I agree with the post --- this is broken behaviour regardless of whether you agree with the security or not --- if you have permissions to install something, you should also have permissions to remove it, and vice-versa.

If you're really into "higher security", then saying they shouldn't have the permissions to install it in the first place would also make sense, but this weird "can install but can't remove" doesn't.
The tall part may not necessarily be true. Many actors are on the shorter side. Coincidentally, having a shorter stature makes filming easier because everybody fits within the frame more easily.
Rewording your comment (and not commenting on its veracity), it sounds like you're saying that women can differentiate between what their consciousness and what their reproductive glands want better than men. That's a pretty common stereotype about men...
Wow, if the receiving businesses could write off those services provided as donations to that nonprofit, there could be some incentive on their side too to make some kind of credit/voucher system for social-good professions work out. I wonder if anything like that already exists (teacher/military discounts are close, maybe). But yeah there could really be something there if done right.
differences between any group of humans is non-existent

That's clearly a false assumption. As long as I can identify a group say people who's social security numbers end in 7 then their exists a difference between them and all other groups. Now placing any real value on having a SSN ending in 7 may seem meaningless, but the difference exists.

PS: It could even be useful as a means of load balancing.
So is today a good day to buy Intel stock?