skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what a lot of you are saying:

This treatment devised by sick people for sick people out of desperation doesn't make much sense to me as a healthy person. It doesn't feel very science-y when I think about it.

And a lot of you are quoting Pen and Teller. Good work, you can watch TV. Thanks for you input.
Bugs happen. Their verification process was probably subpar but I'd be surprise if lawsuits were successful in this case. I'm not sure if they buy processors from Intel with a performance promise (benchmark values). If not, no promise has been broken with this.
Oh wow, quite literally everything. My condolences :(
> New CPU microcode is enough

What would that entail? Disabling speculation completely? Disabling memory accesses during speculation?
Here is a n-pendulum, solved both iteratively (one constraint at a time) and simultaneously (all the chain at once)

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ph...
Material + non public = insider trading. Anything else is an excuse, not a defense. This should be an open-and-shut case.
True, slower than Vim, but:

1) Replacing 10000 words took Sublime 6 seconds instead of Vim 4 seconds. Both very quick compared to the competition.

2) It is nowhere near as bloated as VSCode or Atom. More comparisons here [1].

3) In the "Rehighlight test" at [1], Vim is slower than Sublime as well. Vim fails with "Time to load 3 GB file, insert character at start and exit" [1] while Sublime loads in 75 seconds. Many editors choked on that. Some refused to try, other tried and failed/died.

4) Performance is going to differ per plugin and dotfile which is often a unique setup for pro users.

5) Arguably these don't compete with each other as Sublime is a GUI application while Vim is CLI. They don't necessarily attempt to cater to the same type of user. You could say the same about IDEs though.

Sublime has the reputation of being a closed source (proprietary), portable (running on all 3 major GUI OSes), GUI text-editor which is very quick [2] and great for development, particularly because it can be extended via plugins, and being JSON under the hood (config files). Its even free to use for non-commercial use, and doesn't nag the user about a software license except for mentioning UNREGISTERED at the bottom right. I prefer open source software, but in closed source software this is about as honest, kind, friendly as it gets.

[1] https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

[2] Quick as being perceived, as well as proven by these benchmarks.
A better strategy is to start mining asteroids. Sell mined stuff on earth to make enough money to build ships and lift necessary bootstrapping material out of the gravity well.

Also plenty of water out there and sunshine, burning hydrogen as fuel should be possible.

Now you will have enough machinery in space to mine building stuff and enough fuel. Gradually build permanent colonies in space.

It won't get all humans out of earth soon or ever. But it will put some humans permanently out of earth. Then keep building colonies as population in space grows.

Once you have done this you have done two things:

1. Eliminate a existential threat to humanity more or less permanently.

2. A slow but steadily growing population of humans in space.

Several decades/centuries after that you could have humans permanently living and working in space. From there its a matter of population growth, resources are a plenty and you have a universe for the taking.

Once you have a massive presence in space interstellar travel by definition is a question of acquiring real estate to keep up with population growth.
In the UK Nalmefene is approved for this kind of alcohol treatment also. It's less toxic to the liver than naltrexone so GPs can prescribe it (without specialist intervention and liver checks).

Disclaimer: am shareholder in manufacturer. Feel there is a massive lack of emphasis on novel pharmaceutical interventions in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
For those unfamiliar with the term, "lakh" is 100,000.

So, "These groups targeted over 3 lakh village-level enterprise (VLE) operators" is referring to 300,000 operators. That gives you an idea of the scale here.
Yes and no - the aadhar agency itself didnt do anything wrong.

This is by design. I believe Nilekani took a long hard look at the trade off between privacy and achievability when creating aadhar and decided to fob off responsibility - moral and practical - to other people.

As a result the agency itself, just provides access to the DB and protects the biometric DB, and gives access to other agencies to use the system.

So the issue is always going to be the many myriad agencies and states connecting to the system, and now also the state databases which are being created.
Ideally, allocate all of the natural wealth as equally as possible among all of the world's inhabitants all of the time. New person gets born -> they get the same (now slightly smaller) share as everybody else.

Why, do you not think that's fair?
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Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs
> M-x doctor if you're feeling a bit down.

Yeah. M-x doctor is really helpful, especially when you are depressed. For example, if you say the doctor that "I'm going to suicide", it will guide you the right way.
Is “members-only” something writers can opt in to? That’s the impression I’m getting on this, but it’s difficult to find definite confirmation, though I finally find what I think is confirmation in the “Become a member to unlock a new layer of Medium:” section of https://medium.com/membership.

Alas, this evasive approach to disclosing precise information seems so often to be the case once money is involved; just yesterday I had to delve deep (as far as the T&Cs) to confirm that Zoos Victoria’s advertised “$9/month” membership actually means “$108/year, but you can pay in monthly instalments if you like”.
What about JSX?
Hyperscript's bracket closing is quite tedious to me.
The Observable Universe is the part of the total universe that we can theoretically observe because electromagnetic radiation from it has had time to reach us. In practice, some of this radiation will be detectable with current technology and some of it will be too faint.

The article is about work, using models of galaxy formation, that tries to better estimate the number of galaxies we can't detect due to limits on telescope sensitivity, but which are nevertheless theoretically observable.

It might be useful to describe the detectable part of the observable universe as the "visible universe", but astronomers have a different meaning for that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe.
The developer board instead of job boards?
That comes across to me really strange. Labor is a market just like bananas or mobile phone data. How does it make sense to pay the ceiling price of all markets, everywhere?

I'm all for personally earning more money, but this also disproportionately rewards people who live in cheap places.
Coin generation will never be complete, it will slow down infinitely.
> Does anyone know if you can ... on Emacs?

Yes.
One is TomTom's Home Route Planner, I'm pretty sure it's based on Xulrunner, I need it to update my car's navigator system. Unfortunately it works only on Windos and Mac...
As long as the nuclear apocalypse in question leaves the Internet effectively untouched, sure. Oh, and shipping companies, to deliver things people buy. And power generation infrastructure, to run the Internet, and fuel infrastructure, to run the trucks. To whatever extent the nuclear apocalypse leaves these things functional, Bitcoin can still be used. That the extent to which the nuclear apocalypse leaves these things functional, is inversely proportional to the extent to which the nuclear apocalypse is a nuclear apocalypse, seems a detail not worthy of much regard among serious-minded cryptocurrency aficionados.

(On a more local level, if your postapocalyptic enclave finds it more practical to denominate transactions in cryptocurrency instead of barter or some physical medium of exchange, congratulations! The power, time, and effort required to maintain such an infrastructure, in such a time and place, represent unimaginable luxury. Try to enjoy it, in whatever moments you can spare from repelling raiders drawn by the prospect of gaining access to a working power plant and all your other riches.)
Take a look at dagger2. It does compile-time dependency injection through generated .java files, so it wastes no time scanning classes at runtime, and you can look at the quite readable generated source code to see exactly what it's doing.
Discovery of Ancient Population Changes Understanding of First North Americas
They used to publish the effectiveness but quit in the early 80's.

It's easy to track anonymous users when the same anonymous users show up for the same meetings for years. AA has had a LOT of meetings over the years, so coming up with a baseline of effectiveness isn't a vexing problem.

Why they quit publishing those numbers isn't exactly a mystery, either.
This seems to be the paper referenced http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517...

>Not true.

Massive gold reserves are still held by all central banks, so I'd say it is true. Gold and the military back the US currency.
So, I googled quickly but couldn't see anything obvious.. this does or doesn't affect Linux running on IBM Z Series mainframes then? I haven't seen much about if Power CPUs are affected by the same flaws
This sounds like an academically interesting question. Is there an academic community around these questions?
Another useful trick the other direction, which I'm sure is mentioned somewhere in the article or the comments but what the heck: if the sum of the digits of a number is divisible by 3, so is the original number itself.

123: 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, 6 rem 3 == 0, so 123 is cleanly divisible by 3.

123456789: sum is 45, 4+5 is 9, 9 rem 3 == 0, so 123456789 is divisible by 3.
The main motivation is that the web will take over apps because apps are today's flash and apple wants to make sure it has a stake in the platform.
Scalability solutions should help (SegWit and Lightning Network), but energy cost is closely related to the potential gains.

Other crypto currencies use Proof of Stake instead of Proof of Work for consensus. I think one of them will emerge as a better technical solution and will dethrone Bitcoin.
Yes, both within the formal Bitcoin Community, and extending to the larger crypto asset business space. There are a few broad initiatives that I know of, forwarded by different groups:

* Tennet and Sonnen collaboration to stabilize European power supplies with renewable sources; built on IBM’s blockchain tech[0]

* New tokens with “green” focuses and schemes, represented by SolarCoin, KWhcoin, EverGreenCoin.

* Significant research into “proof-of-anything-but-work” hashing schemes, as previously mentioned by others in the thread. This includes long-running experiments such as Peercoin.

* I count the on-going efficiency gains made by the major mining hardware suppliers. That work isn’t altruism, sure, but arguably more efficient miners are better for the environment...though more efficient miners can also be run in denser clusters, so let’s call this one a wash.

* Anecdoteally, I’ve heard of direct seed and early stage investments by people I know in the community to bootstrap renewables. Partially because they are “pet” interests, partially because they were early miners and would like to find a way to bring a cost effective and sustainable electrical source to the networks they contribute to.

——-

https://www.coindesk.com/tennet-sonnen-ibm-renewable-energy/
Meaning if there are 24 factors crucial for life to
evolve, and each has a 10% chance of occurring - it's
actually quite likely only one planet would win on
this lottery.

Is it? What is the probability?
If people were truly paid for what they did and not where they were, this would probably exclude most Bay Area people since they're at the top of the market. Perhaps your company has adjusted to the normalcy of SF rates?

OTOH, location matters a lot. Otherwise your company wouldn't be in the Bay Area. Centers of gravity are a thing. Why not pay for location? Even if an employee is remote only, if they network well where they are, it's worth paying for location.
That's why the smart remote developers live in cheap places. It's the rational choice, since your bill rate is determined by the work you do, not the place you do it. The choice of whether to be disproportionately rewarded is yours, not the employer's. It costs them the same either way.

They do have places where your value is tied to your location. They're called offices.
A CPU bug with undocumented opcodes, possibly Intel (scroll to p. 155)
When dom96 said "there could be very many ways for life to exist" I understood that to mean there could be very many different "biological substrates" (for want of a better term), nothing to do with how the species organises itself socially. The challenge is to come up with a hypothesis for "life" that's not based on long carbon chains.
Antibody caninization
One theory for what happens when the reward drops (i.e. no new bitcoins are rewareded anymore) is that the already high fees will further increase. If that is not the case, the competition will lower and Bitcoin will become unsafer because it is backed by less mining power.
THAT is your take away from that post? Or is this just trolling illustration of U.S.police mindset?
Microsoft Bob (codename "Utopia", seriously) “Assistants” and the vestigial Office Paperclip beat Siri, Home, and Cortana to the punch, commercial products anticipating agents and chatbots by two decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
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Suggestion: Put registration forms in the main page. Put simple captcha. Remove whatever barriers to encourage registration
There are a zillion reasons to live in high cost areas aside from job liquidity.

The magic of concentrations of people is that the advantages scale faster than population growth because of the network effect.

Which, separately, is why cities are awesome and population density is a good thing for the planet and most people, even if it upsets some people that they can't have a big yard.
I'd be interested to hear your science based recovery method. And what yardstick are you using for 'healthy'?

Thanks.
Do we already have hints who's doing a power play here? I mean even the leak was a surprise to companies like Google as I see it. Is there someone who wants to become CEO at Intel or a bigger company that wants to become a majority stake holder?
No, that would not be enough. CPUs speculatively execute across multiple branches. Even if you had a separate speculative cache for every code path, you could still build a side-channel from the amount of contention. [1]

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/613.pdf

> Both hardware thread systems (SMT and TMT) expose contention within the execution core. In SMT, the threads effectively compete in real time for access to functional units, the L1 cache, and speculation resources (such as the BTB). This is similar to the real-time sharing that occurs between separate cores, but includes all levels of the architecture. [...] SMT has been exploited in known attacks (Sections 4.2.1 and 4.3.1)
I'm glad they at least put a minimum on the "Cost of Living" multiplier. For me that works out at 0.45 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
What type of stuff is between us and the planet and stays on the same pixel all the time? I would assume everything in the universe moves all the time. We move. The other planet moves. How can something block the same pixel of our view of the planet all the time?
No offence intended as I'm sure it's a bit of a madhouse there right now, but is your statement really correct? I read the Spectre paper quite carefully and it appears to be unpatchable. Although the Meltdown paper is the one that conclusively demonstrated user->kernel and vm->vm reads with a PoC, and Spectre "only" demonstrated user->user reads, the Spectre paper clearly shows that any read type should be possible as long as the right sort of gadgets can be found. There seems no particular reason why cross-VM reads shouldn't be possible using the Spectre techniques and the paper says as much here:

For example, if a processor prevents speculative execution of instructions in user processes from accessing kernel memory, the attack will still work.

and

Kernel mode testing has not been performed, but the combination of address truncation/hashing in the history matching and trainability via jumps to illegal destinations suggest that attacks against kernel mode may be possible. The effect on other kinds of jumps, such as interrupts and interrupt returns, is also unknown

There doesn't seem to be any reason to believe VM to VM attacks are either patched nor patchable.

My question to you, which I realise you may be unable to answer - how much does truly dedicated hardware on GCE cost? No co-tenants at all except maybe Google controlled code. Do you even offer it at all? I wasn't able to find much discussion based on a 10 second search.
I have 16 GB of memory and a octa-core cpu.

Editors aren't slow and I can be productive, it's simple as that.
Natural Blockchain Selection, for that venture capital money.
Have any other human species been found in America?
I wasn't thinking straight last night. Basically all in order application processors use speculative execution.
> Right now there is more evidence for the universe to be finite rather than infinite.

There is the observable universe and there are good reasons to believe that there is "some universe" beyond the observable universe. The observable universe is finite, the reason for that is the geometry of spacetime and the consequences of it (cosmological horizon/particle horizon). But I would not make absolute statements about what lies beyond the horizon(s), since there is (and can be) no data that would justify a statement about the infinity of space or the falsification of it.
Not all developers care about salary first.

I see this overall approach as more like flying a flag and publicly indicating culture because there's a particular crowd they want. This is how they advertise what's important to them and draw like minded people closer. That seems 100% legit to me, and super useful for any dev considering them that they're so straightforward.

No one has to like it or choose it for themselves, but I see it as nothing but laudable. It's a big wide market out there, and this is a quirky option I'm glad exists
Vertical onboarding gives progression and better flow than horizontal swiping
This is not how "backing" is normally understood, though; the currency is not exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate. People like to say the military "backs" the currency too, but I've never understood what this means in practice. The stability of the US dollar has caused it to be used by all sorts of countries as a reference, entirely voluntarily.
> Each mined block have limited bitcoins in reward

This is true, but the value of bitcoin is not limited. If more people buy bitcoins, it's value (compared to USD) rises and so will the reward if converted to USD. Because you pay the mining costs in a real currency like USD, the total mining expenses are definitely not capped.
He misses the main problem with fork which is poor interaction with threads. Amongst the things you cannot do between the fork and the exec is malloc: another thread in the parent might be in the middle of malloc, might have grabbed a lock needed by malloc, then that thread disappears after fork but the lock is still held by the new child process which deadlocks in malloc.

This and other things are a massive cause of trouble for libraries that need to run subprocesses but need to also link to main programs that might use threads (such as libvirt).
You should try a bicycle.

If you want actual wings, that's just one of those problems that need absurd amounts of money and brains to figure out. Genetic engineering is certainly a lot more difficult than inventing Nitrocellulose.
I can only recommend "What is Mathematics" by Courant and Robbins, which has a great chapter about divisibility
I would recommend Naval Ravikant (@naval) and Nick Svabo (@NickSvabo4) as the smartest people I know who are heavily engaged in cryptocurrency professionally.
Absolutely. (And I say this as someone without a dog in th

I want to add to the above.
It may not help everyone, but it's helped a lot of people with a lot more than just stopping the addiction.

I'm not part of NA or any 12-step fellowship, but I have colleagues and close friends I deeply respect who give credit to '*A' for showing them how to make for themselves better, happier, more fulfilling lives than they could have without them.

Perhaps it's not the best system for everyone, but the core elements of meditation, self-accountability and rigorous honesty have helped my life, even as an outsider.
So Luxturna is a DNA sequence embedded in the AAV2 virus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voretigene_neparvovec). It seems like they modified the Kozac (header, basically) of the DNA slightly (see Wikipedia). But essentially what they're doing is injecting the 'correct' DNA sequence into people with a biallelic (both copies) mutation on the RPE65 gene. The AAV2 virus is there as a delivery mechanism to get the DNA into the cells more efficiently. The injected DNA then hangs around (loose, I think) in the cell and will get read and the correct proteins get manufactured even though the patients main copies of the gene are faulty.

The virus bit might be hard to do, and maybe editing the header of it. I'm not sure. I guess that probably is quite hard.

But manufacturing DNA and injecting it is fairly trivial, as in this guy with a PhD and a small lab was able to do it for about $400. There are biotech companies who will just make the DNA for you. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayne... ... this was using CRISPR which is like a DNA find/replace, so in some ways more sophisticated than the way Luxturna works.

I'm not saying anything about the price of this treatment per se, obviously a load of R+D and regulatory ballet had to be done here, but just saying the basic building blocks of some gene therapies are quite a bit cheaper than I imagined.
I dated a sober person in the AA program for a number of years. They had 15+ years which I applaud.

I agree with you that one of the things I didn't like was the whole higher power cruft. They say it can be anything as long as you acknowledge that it's greater then you. I know some people who's higher power was the sun or other celestial bodies, because they were atheist and highly scientifically minded.

I'm with you, I believe it's possible to get sober without a higher power. I think I remember reading some where that while AA doesn't publish success rates, at one time they did and it's 5%, which is the same percent for cold turkey.
> the latest Chromium engine, which gets bigger and slower with every passing day

what?!?
I believe the post above was working out math that would make it so the probability would be 1 / #(of planets in the universe), which, following the law of large numbers, would mean that given an infinite number of universes, those universes would tend to have exactly one planet (Earth in our universe's case) that would have life.
Wooden boat building. I love to work with my hands, wood is pleasant to work with, and wooden yachts are a beauty to behold.

That being said, I realize the above has 0% of being a commercial success. The market is flooded with affordable plastic-fantastics churned out in factories in nearby lower income countries.

Also, I suppose it's one thing to enjoy working with my hands when I do it for my own enjoyment in my spare time vs. doing it for real work on a deadline.

Sigh.
This may be a proper way when being a CEO but also not a good stock trading advise. Try to make any money even without insider knowledge following such a process.
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