skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weird thing for me is that instead of partying people are watching Netflix videos of fictional people partying. Which makes those people fictional indeed. Are we going to eventually have movies about watching movies, about playing video games, and so on?
> The generic game physics engines use very simple models of mechanics and allow for numerical issues (e.g. by using finite differences)

Most modern game physics engines aren't actually discretizing an ODE or a PDE, at this point. The current standard techniques (see Nvidia's PhysX, for example) are instead solving something that look like a constraint satisfaction problem but gives force-like effects. You don't even get consistency under refinement with these methods, but they are cheap, and importantly, stable when terminated early (to remain under strict time budgets required of game based physics).
AT&T “You Will” Commercials are now 25 years old
I also used to think that there weren't very many primes. But the prime number theorem says that the number of primes less than n is about n/log(n). The function log doesn't grow very fast, so a large proportion of numbers are prime. For example the number of primes less than 10^100 is 4*10^97.

Primes are really really common.
The CPUs in cloud environments are not maxed out in general. There will be some area like batch processing and compute-specific VMs. For other cases, there's quite a bit of overcommitting of resources. And that's before you start doing scheduling that mixed workloads on a physical host for better utilisation.
Source: worked on a public cloud environment.
I think this is a good point.

How are the screens being used—are they playing games or learning to make things? Making things should be encouraged.
Interestingly, those primes' primality is normally proven statistically rather than deductively. This is not really a practical issue for people using RSA, but could be a philosophical issue for someone interested in the question of how many different numbers' primality has been proven by humanity.
It's useful to also bring counter-arguments to this exact post: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
Companies that manage away their best talent don't last long
I tend to agree, though I also find having everything be in the root of the repository equally rough for larger projects.
Why accept any competition at all when you can have none or almost none?

Because that won't last forever. One top-level comment here lays out how much money the incumbents spent to defeat such measures, and they still lose. Incumbents such as Comcast appear to be so hated that the only thing keeping them in place are monopoly deals written years ago. IOW, they are not going to get widespread public support.

Without public support, they rely on cronyism and old regulatory deals. They would do well to at least have a plan for how they would fit in this new world order (and I would be shocked if they didn't), if for no other reason than to not be caught off guard when the tide changes.
This is a good time to bring up Intel ME. It is a black box and has already proven to have security issues. There maybe be more we do not know of. This paging flaw is accidental however Intel ME is designed to have unfettered control over all parts of the machine.

If Intel really believed in making secure products and believed in secure computing, they would remove Intel ME.
I guess no one has mentioned this - but they definitely have a function. Their main function is to prevent sweat, water, and other debris from falling down into the eye socket, but they are also important to human communication and facial expression. It is not uncommon for people to modify their eyebrows by means of hair addition, removal and makeup.
> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed

A bit of an oversimplification. More like it keeps about 25-30% convinced they'll someday be a CEO of a corporation, so to vote in the interest of businesses. There's another 5-10% that have zero issues taking advantage of that naiveté for their own end goals.

But, on the other side, you have a highly apathetic and disillusioned crowd who hardly show up to vote. And, who can blame them? The system seems built against their own interests. But it's a self-destructive thought process.
> They do own half the physical radio stations in the country which is still how people find new music, you know.

IME, lots of people find new music by genre/mood/etc. curated or “like this song/artist” algorithmic stations in streaming services, not terrestrial radio.
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> Please just don't. It isn't worth the pain

No, it very much is.

> and risk

No, there is no risk. I already run everything as admin.

> just to have a little faster system.

5-30% is not "a little".

> Maybe you don't care about this patch

Indeed. And I expect many other power users also don't (but regardless, this is irrelevant).

> but you will need others that are dependent on it.

Well when that actually becomes a problem I will act accordingly. If more patches like this pop up I obviously won't install any of them. If there's a patch for a drive-by browser exploit depending on this, that will obviously be a different story.

> Just patch.

Hell no. My patching this makes my computer slower while providing exactly zero benefit to anyone.
Update (copied from elsewhere on this comment thread): I've added a button that loads in a random URL (from a small set of TED talks) so that it's easier to test the app out quickly.
That was discussed as one model. I suspect the city is not "against" such a model, but doesn't want to tie the success of the rollout to private providers. Fort Collins already got burned by Axia backing out of talks about a contracted model.

Once you assume the city is both building the fiber and providing services over the fiber, I'm not sure if also making it an OAN makes sense anymore?
ARM is interesting because of the customisability of ARM chips. Some companies, such as Apple, license the ISA and spin their own silicon. Others license the whole CPU design from ARM holdings, and ARM produce several lines of designs with different CPU capabilities.

Edit:
Looks like ARM64 was affected, but it has an architectural feature that makes the mitigation much easier: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-N...
> slightly underpaid

don't worry about it. You aren't underpaid because your job has other benefits that are worth a small amount of money. Or look around for a competitive job that has similar benefits and better pay
Just curious, what do you do that requires a fast single core? I always find it strange when people value that, as most computers nowadays generally run more than 1 process at a time.
It's not dumb. 401k is pretax money, so you're essentially able to accrue value on the money you would've paid in taxes.

When there's an employer match, it's a nobrainer, otherwise you're throwing away money. W/o a match, it's a personal decision, but I think it's a pretty good one.

If you expect your salary to increase over time (significantly), you may prefer a post-tax ROTH IRA instead (that's what I'm in, after my employer move the vesting schedule to waaaay outside my intended employment period.)
Life as a New York Times reporter on the national security beat
> I thought Prisoner's Dilemma was more about the inability to have good information: the prisoners can't communicate with each other

That sounds like the Byzantine Generals Problem. Prisoners can communicate all they like, it just doesn't really matter what they agree at the end of the day.
The ads look like this, hilariously stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjulAWmLmx0

[0] https://www.ftcollinspriorities.com
It looks like in 2005 and 2008, revenue was similar. It's diverged since then.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/606439/tennis-atp-and-wt...

2007 was also the first year that Wimbledon (the last holdout of the four majors) paid the same to men and women victors.

It seems psychologically hard to regress from that benchmark, even if in recent years overall revenue has once again diverged.

And in non-majors, the pay disparity has returned, reflecting the differences in revenues:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/sports/tennis/equal-pay-g...
I want the liberty to compete with Spotify, Pandora, Google Music, iTunes, etc. without fear of debilitating litigation.

I want to enjoy music without ever sacrificing my security or privacy to DRM.

Just because the music industry is in a significantly better position than others does not make it good enough.
That can be accomplished with private market tenders though.
This is attributing emotion to things that have none, but regardless: Species don’t compete, genes do. My genes want to beat your genes, were you another human (in-species), a bonobo (in same-ish morphological niche) or a rat (another modern urban dweller).
It's not you, it used to be shorter.
Siri, Next Monday Isn’t Christmas
> You are being hyperbolic here, but cones around a puddle warrants a discussion.

Maybe not putting safety cones but I recently saw 5 workers fixing some box looking component at a station. One was doing something to the box. One was holding down the 3 foot step ladder. One was shining a flashlight at the box and two others were standing behind the flashlight holder looking at the box. I wish I had taken a picture.
macOS 10.13.3 fixes the Intel KPTI issue
True. But this statistic is only bandied about as the most glaring inefficiency.

Consider if the project has 25% more workers than jobs, and also 25% more jobs than needed, and also workers are on the job 25% longer than needed (that sweet sweet double overtime!) and we're already at about 2x inefficiency. Just a couple more factors and you get to 10x ...
Show HN: How I Made $1934.66 in Two Days Consulting with No Proposal
As someone who was actually, legitimately, very seriously screwed up by my parents... I don't agree. "Screwing up your kids" and "parenting" are not at all synonymous.

Can we please treat this topic with the seriousness it deserves? This dismissal attitude makes me feel physically ill.
haha same here. I was spending $100 a year just to run an app on my phone that I didn’t want to release
> OpenPGP at it's core is surprisingly simple standard

A simple standard doesn't automatically give you an end-user product that is simple and that anyone wants to use. GnuPG as a piece of software is ridiculously complicated and uses terms and concepts that the vast majority of people don't and won't understand.

Is it possible to make a simple experience from the OpenPGP spec, one that would be accessible to the majority of non-technical users, and could be seamlessly integrated into common communications workflows? I don't know, though I would suspect it's not.
For what it's worth Signal client builds are reproducible: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

I agree with the rest of your arguments.
I take 4000 IUs a day on the 45th parallel from late September to April, 2000 IUs during the summer. More than one doctor has OKed this dose.

I was at 8-10 ng/ml a few years ago and now I take Vitamin D very seriously.
If you don't get more money and then don't leave then the employer has no incentive to give you more money. Wanting more money is by definition disloyal.
"The problems that we continually have with broken switches and rerouted trains and shutdowns, etc., don't seem to have gotten worse, but are just a perennial problem"

I have a close relative who works for the MTA (has been there for decades), who says that as far as things breaking down it is worse today compared to the 90s.
Come on, stop spreading nonsense. These huge primes are irrelevant for cryptography.
Modular C is basically a language extension that just automates the standard C conventions
for header files, namespaces, makefiles, and modules by adding `import` and `export`
semantics into the source files.

cbuild is the preprocessor. It outputs human readable `.c` and `.h` files, and a `.mk` include file
compatible with both GNU make and bsdmake. The default `build` command will generate the files and
run make on them as well.
GIMPS = Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Completely unrelated (apart from similar naming) to the GIMP (GNU Image Editing Program).

Perhaps you were joking; but I'm sure others might be confused.
> since they are addressing it soon. They make it seem like everyone should be working in the same boat to address this

I can assure you that indeed "everyone is working in the same boat to address this", and has been doing so for months, across multiple OS and processor vendors. It's already public that Microsoft and Apple have also implemented page table isolation, and certainly Intel didn't name-drop AMD and ARM carelessly in the press release.
I don't care for Opera, but they are agile.
In tech, when your employer hires you as an engineer, they hope they're getting 10x your cost back in value each year, at a minimum a startup needs to get 2x return to cover debt obligations with growth, on average they get 3-5x. You can get a rough estimate (with profit or earnings as a proxy for capital growth) by looking up a company's (or sector's) profit per employee.

These are averages and not reflective of engineering roles.

Walmart: ~5-6k profit per employee (Q3)
Exxon: 176k profit per employee (Q3)
Facebook[0]: 1.7M profit per employee (Q3)
Apple: 522k profit per employee (Q3)

Internet Services & Social Media sector average: 497k profit per employee
Internet Services & Social Media sector average: 2.1M revenue per employee

A competitor can/should/will try to steal you from your current employer with a higher compensation if they can extract good surplus value from you, relative to anyone else. The last part (relative to anyone else) is the crux of the situation, everyone selling their labor is doing so at a massive discount because of the competition in the labor pool. You can't actually demand anything close to your value because somebody else will undercut you.

The people/firms that can demand the highest percentage of their
value as compensation are those with the most unique skills, those for whom few alternatives in the pool exist.

[0] https://csimarket.com/stocks/FB-Efficiency-Comparisons.html
Some ARM cores are genuinely implicated in this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16058454
What? There are doctors that are prescribing 2000IU+ daily. I have vitamin D supplements with 2000IU per pill.

I've read lately about multiple papers that propose multiple k of IU per day.
Apple have to approve every app before it is release so the cost to them is really the approval process.
Do no harm
Vitamin D is fat soluble and isn't cleared by the body as quickly as other vitamins such as B. Therefore it can be taken in higher doses, but less frequently. This is often done for convenience sake. A 3000-5000IU pill every week is easier to remember than a 500-600IU pill every day.
"Don't compare yourself to your co-workers"

I don't agree, I think you should. You're selling your labor, you need to know what the market price is. The article says that you don't know why the other employees are earning more, and that's a valid point. Only way to know what it is that your employer values more in other people? Ask your employer about it. If it's something tangible, like education, certificates, landing an important account, good deliveries on time or something like that you know what you need to get a raise. If your employer comes up short with reasons for why you're paid less than your peers you have the perfect argument for a raise.

It could be that I'm Swedish though because it's rather common and not taboo to do this research before asking for a raise. Why do you think we're way ahead of the US in income equality between genders?
> I think it would be good to read this post remembering that Moxie is competing with OpenPGP with his Signal app.

No, this is incorrect, for several reasons.

1. Signal and OpenPGP have substantially different intended use cases. OpenPGP is a protocol for encrypting and signing fully offline, asynchronous messages using only public-key encryption and digital signature schemes such as RSA and DSA, respectively. Signal is an OTR-based protocol for both asynchronous and synchronous messaging. You can send something that looks like email using Signal, but you cannot natively use OpenPGP for encrypted instant message, voice calls or video calls.

2. Due to these differences, OpenPGP and Signal also have substantially different features. OpenPGP is not only intended for asynchronous messaging: it cannot be used for synchronous communication from a purely technical perspective. OpenPGP does not have a native system for symmetric encryption or key exchange, which means it cannot establish or maintain a secure channel efficiently. Therefore by necessity OpenPGP is slower and has higher latency because it can only natively implement public-key encryption for communication, and users must manually supply the rest. Signal's cryptosystem is much more sophisticated, and incorporates mechanisms for public-key encryption, digital signatures, private-key encryption and key-exchange.

3. Aside from just supporting synchronous communication, Signal's larger cryptosystem scope allows for security guarantees beyond the basic trifecta of confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation that OpenPGP cannot provide. For example, Signal's protocol provides perfect forward secrecy and message delivery notification. You could only do this using OpenPGP by manually handling key exchange, then manually pre-sharing sufficiently large secret keys, or doing a new key exchange for each communication.

Furthermore, Signal is an open protocol much like OpenPGP, and in that sense doesn't "compete" with any other protoco. I use both Signal and GPG, and I'm not affiliated with Signal; that said what I'm trying to convey here is that OpenPGP has significant technical limitations that make it basically ineligible for being fairly compared with Signal (or any other similarly sophisticated messaging cryptosystem). Moxie and Perrin didn't really have to "compete" to get the Signal Protocol adopted at a massive scale by Google and Facebook - from a technical and usability perspective it enables secure communication that OpenPGP simply doesn't.
How to Create and Start Successful Revolutions | Ben Horowitz

Saw this in-person and really recommend it. Detailed historical example of revolution and key takeaways for establishing a great culture at your company.

https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8c

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-cre...
Yes, and they don't, respectively. Comcast could simply choose not to use the public OAN and stay on their private (or "private") lines, for better or for worse.

As for your third question: probably yes, heh.
Do you really believe the same customers who buy a game the week it comes out would not pay for that game if they could pirate it soon enough?

That's absurd.
> Intel believes these exploits do not have the potential to corrupt, modify or delete data.

Reading from kernel memory [edit: from unprivileged apps] is still a severe security issue though, right? This sounds like they're trying to downplay that hard, especially with the "operating as designed" phrase.

> Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw”

[Unprivileged] reading from kernel memory is something of a flaw, no? Fair point about not being Intel specific though.

> any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant

Hearing echos of Intel's early FDIV response along the lines of "the average computer user doesn't need perfectly accurate division"...

> However, Intel is making this statement today because of the current inaccurate media reports.

This and similar sentences has a strange tone to me, it sounds almost grumpy. I guess it got rushed out.
> extreme wealth inequality is inevitable in a globalizing world unless effective wealth-equalizing institutions are installed on a global scale.

Yeah, and water is wet; since ever is known that the best tool to make money is... money; so the resource tends to get unevenly distributed and pile up in the hands of a few. And what's worse is that the punishment for not having enough money is... to lose money, obviously overdraft fees are the best example of this, but there are a million ways more.
In fact if someone worked out how to crack RSA when it turned out that one of those numbers weren't prime then they would have invented a fast primality check. Which would be really cool in itself, and allow RSA to be fixed.
> Are we going to eventually have movies about watching movies

MST3K and it's descendants already exist.

> about playing video games,

Again, it's been done.
With GPG there are many more options: have internal keyserver, have "certification authority" key that signs new employee keys and everyone else trusts this authority (via trust signatures. For details see: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/pgp-web-of-trust-delega...
> Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw” and are unique to Intel products are incorrect.

Isn't the quote above which is from the Intel press release a blatant lie? All the articles I have seen say this only affects Intel processors. Not AMD processors nor, ARM, MIPS, SPARC or PowerPC chips. Did I miss something or is Intel lying in it's press release.
"The most secure in the world" does not mean "flawless". Thinking like that is pretty dangerous (and silly)
I disagree with their conclusion. Yes, teens are certainly partying less. But they're also increasingly unwilling to get driver's licenses or jobs as well. Basically, the overly controlling atmosphere of schooling and helicopter parenting has worked - it has broken them. They are successfully being prevented from experiencing the natural maturation process of growing independence. We can only hope that the neurological development which supports independence and the ability to form and maintain complex human relationships is not like other aspects of neurological development which is impossible to compensate for if the critical period of development is missed.
Running "dep prune" after "dep ensure" should remove a lot of unnecessary files (this will be integrated into ensure somewhat soon). Also, in a lot of cases it's not needed to commit the vendor directory, so its size doesn't really matter then. Finally, I really recommend checking out the #vendor channel on the Go slack if you have any more questions regarding dep, everyone there is really helpful.
> In countries where the government foots the bill for healthcare, and healthcare is obviously a big portion of their expenses, the government will usually scramble to do everything it can to improve the population's general health.

That is actually one of the bigger problems with the single-payer system. Your health is fundamentally related to everything you do, and consequently giving the government an interest in your health opens the doors to monitoring and controlling every aspect of your life in the name of regulating health care costs. In forfeiting the liberty to do things which may negatively impact your health then you become not a free individual, but more akin to the government's pet, your every action subject to their approval.
Awesome, thanks. Best of luck with the project!
“Workload dependent” clearly implies (despite the spin they are trying to put on it) that some users will be worse off than others. What isn’t my at all clear (to me) is what they mean by ”will be mitigated over time”. Are they implying that when we buy new professors (from them) there’ll be a hardware fix that won’t require the performance-sapping patch?

Quoting ARM and AMD is really a bit pathetic too, IMHO, especially if it turns out that AMD chips are immune to the flaw.