skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most societies" is a meaningless term. Measuring "most" is impossible and any metric is more or less going to come out of a value judgment to begin with. Some human societies have a lot of equality and some have a lot inequality.

The only useful point is that inequality can easily arise by chance but appear as "meritocracy" after the fact, being self justifying.

Anyway, the main question is "what level of inequality or equality do we want?" That is, for some value of "we" able to make it's choice come to fruition. Maybe that "we" is the elite, that small number of people at the top already. Indeed, at points in America's history, the elite actually saw considerable value in some level of equality but that seems well in the past. Maybe that we is a larger group (the voters, "the working class", "angry people", who knows). That larger group would need to be able to do something more than be unhappy, of course.
Making a stream cipher
Getting flashbacks of brainsmoke's JS PoC: https://youtu.be/ewe3-mUku94?t=1766

Edit: Also, PoCs for unpatched Windows by pwnallthethings: https://github.com/turbo/KPTI-PoC-Collection
I can read the article without JS just fine.
Why would you do that? If you are concerned for the security of your coins, you should have moved them to a wallet you own that is not hosted on an exchange. The bank you transfer your dollars to is just as likely to get hit by the exact same vurnerability. In addition you have to pay a fee to move your coins, then to wire the dollars to your bank account. Moving from crypto to fiat is also
liable to taxation. If the sole goal is to secure your coins then I don't think that the whole process is worth the hassle. Moving them to a private wallet would suffice.
Maybe bitcoin millionaires will be buying Teslas?
composite bones with kevlar skin and electromechanical muscles?
The CEO dropped his stock holdings down to the minimum allowed by their board bylaws in December.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-so...
I am not aware of any reason you should believe that.
The problem for the major OEMs is that there literally isn’t enough battery production capacity in the world for all of them to ship EV’s in significant volume, and there has been zero indication that they are taking steps to solve that problem. They are already years behind on securing GW-scale capacity.
But if you could do that you would then start making a profit, so would no longer qualify as nonprofit ;)

If you're spending more in developer fees than you're making from the apps it might make sense to make them free/ad-free so you can qualify as non-profit. You would lose the possibility of turning a profit in the future, though.

Edit: Just realised it's not available to individuals/non-profit businesses, which is a shame. If it was it could increase the number of free/ad-free apps and maybe the quality of the app store as a whole. Plus, who says one person can't run a non-profit. Surely they have to start somewhere like any other organisation?
The short term answer is to patch the servers and swallow the 30% performance cut. Still likely cheaper than dedicated servers.
Some Second Transbay Tube plans mention a stop in Alameda before entering Oakland.

Whether the project happens in San Francisco's lip-service to transit NIMBY climate is the bigger question.
You can buy things with $3000 cash as well.
Medical office #infosec: It doesn't exist
I don't know. From anecdotal reports I have heard, they don't hire from both classes of people for equivalent positions.
Yep, leading a good team in sysadmin/security space for a large corporation and love every minute of it, also working from home is a great benefit, maybe too great...
Tell me about it. The closest CalTrain to me is Atherton, which, of course, is only open on weekends.

OTOH Atherton may well be one of HSR's smallest problems.
First implementation I've seen on twitter.

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/94869396135866777...
I credit my parents restricting my internet access for my career, in a very weird and roundabout way.

My family got our first computer in 1998, when I was 13 years old. Nobody in my family was very computer literate at the time but they knew they could "ground" me from the computer by changing the Windows password.

Somewhere along the line (in a gaming magazine, probably) I stumbled an article about Slackware and Linux and later BeOS. I was determined to have access to the computer when I was grounded and my parents weren't home so I figured out how to download Slackware and BeOS floppies from friend's computers and get them working on our home PC.

Without all of this dedication to mischief and getting around the rules, I might still consider a computer just a terminal for sports news, games and email.

Breaking these rules and discovering Linux and the fact that I could write software without "doing crazy math problems" changed my life.
Not a meme at all sir. I think it is a good, thoughtful insight that conforms to the Hacker News community standards for what constitutes a "good post" however brief and, according to others, trite it might appear to be.
Looks like I'm apologizing. Sorry, I was wrong.
The second argument should also include correctness: if I increment two variables on that object (e.g. votes and last_vote_time) it needs to be a single atomic operation to not create a hard to debug race condition.

It seems better to explicitly say when to save things rather than hope that every custom method does that and you have a method for every combination of updates.

The Django ORM also has another case to consider: bulk updates, where separating logic from serialization makes a huge performance win easy and safe.
Or side-effects by loading data into the cache hierarchy.
This says operating systems must be patched. I don't see any notice from Ubuntu yet. Does this apply to upgrading Ubuntu as well?
IBM sues Expedia
Correction: it seems that AMD processors are also vulnerable to one variant of this type of attack, which either mitigates or refutes my first complaint. AMD is crying foul, claiming that Intel is creating a bogus equivalence, as the risks are not comparable, but it is itself using awkward phrasing: "AMD is not susceptible to all three variants" rather than the more straightforward "AMD is susceptible to only N of the three variants."
Agreed. Also this:

>All but a small single-digit percentage of instances across the Amazon EC2 fleet are already protected.

As of when?

Goes on to say that the "underlying infrastructure" is protected, but OS patches are required. What does it mean that instance infrastructure is protected, but the OS is not, and which step would introduce the performance degradation?
> Ballmer saying no one would pay $500 for a phone?

And he is right. A smartphone is more than a phone. How can Netflix be more than a video player? One way seems to be to become a producer.

Back to Spotify: How to be more than a music player?
Then front-runs the negotiated timeline anyway, catching projects like Xen off guard (it seems like)[0]. Will be interested to read the postmortem of the entire process from start to finish, and Xen is promising one from their perspective. I'd be especially interested to understand whether public intel was concrete enough to rush this out the door, because it didn't seem like it was, but I probably missed something.

[0]: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-254.html
It probably means if you want mitigations right now, you can flip that flag. Otherwise wait for Chrome to auto-update with new versions that have mitigations enabled by default.
That was one of the best scenes in the movie IMHO. Personally, I also had no idea that level of investigation took place. This strikes me as similar to how energy trading firms will pay for thermal imaging data of power lines and such to gain an edge.
Does that mean that he shouldn't care about his own experience? Maybe he should just watch American idol, listen to the top 20 pop hits and eat at McDonalds too, because obviously if he isn't in the majority, his opinion dosen't matter.
There you go, a small radar. https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/12/echodynes-pocket-sized-rad... the price is inflated I’m sure.

There is also a small radar inside the hellfire missile, but I don’t know the weight. I doubt it’s too heavy. And hellfire are $100k a pop, which is why I think radars shouldn’t be too expensive.
Why is a random distribution fair? Is a normal distribution fair too? A poisson distribution? Are in your mind any distributions that are unfair? What is your definition of fair?
i don't understand why you refer to us as Americans on this thread. as if everyone here is from the US.
If you hack his computer, you can find the next largest known prime?
I thought you were wrong based on my memory of the 2011 Japan tsunami and the images we all watched as it raced inland for what seemed like forever, but according to wikipedia it only traveled up to 10 km (6 miles) inland.

So even the biggest tsunami the world has witnessed wouldn't come close.
Is there a way to copy the recovery password as text? I want to store it in my password manager, but typing in 20 words (correctly) passes my threshold for trying out new apps.
> If you feel like you are providing more value than your employer is paying you for and they won't give you a raise. Then apply at other companies and ask for the rate you want. If you are worth what you think you're worth you will get a job offer close to that rate, otherwise you won't and you'll learn the value that the market places on your skills.

This has matched with my experience every single time. At almost every job I've worked at in the last 20 years it's been:

* get hired at X because it was MN% higher than what I last had

* learn new skills

* get promoted without a pay increase or with a < 2% pay increase

* ask for a raise stating my accomplishments and promotion

* get pissed off and leave for MN% increase

* repeat

At this point in my life I've just stopped asking for raises altogether. It's simpler and easier to just go elsewhere.
This means that Customer A's VM cannot attack Customer B's VM.

However, if the OS inside the VM is unpatched, then code inside the VM can attack other code inside the VM. If for example you install some malware on your VM, it could use this attack.

(I am not a security expert, this is just my understanding and not a official Google statement)
Just dig a bit deeper, what's the big deal? They should just bring some Japanese to show them how to do a train system properly.
Most banks don't use cloud providers AFAIK.

Also, real money transactions are much more likely than blockchain transactions to be reversible if fraudulent.
How confident are you that that skill is required for wiping out humanity?
I'm not suggesting posting comments, I'm suggesting writing a considered article that discusses the issue clearly, and then submitting that link. If the discussion of the link gets heated, or goes off topic, then it can be flagged and hence removed. But if what you write about it is genuinely balanced and constructive, then maybe enough people will think it does have a place.

Just my thoughts as to how you can do something that has value. The question as you posed it seems not to. And yes, discussing political things like this, especially such a hot topic as "freedom of the press", is generally marginal, and I can certainly understand why people don't want it. Personally, I wish people here could discuss things like this fully, calmly, and respectfully. It's a shame that the evidence now suggests that it can't.

I'll leave it at that.
It's worth noting that Tesla isn't starting from bare earth, they inherited a complete factory (NUMMI) that at its peak produced over 8000 cars per week. They've already adapted that factory to make two models, so adding a third model might well be expected to take far less time than siting, permitting, and constructing an entire factory from scratch as was done in Luqiao.
Hitler wasn't elected, he was appointed. Which doesn't take away from your point, but it's really astonishing how such easy to correct falsehoods about such a deeply important subject just linger on and get repeated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_presidential_election,_...

The Nazis lied and cheated and murdered their way to power, make no mistake about it. And that was kind of like an onion, too, in that every layer of the Nazi apparatus deceived lower layers.

Apart from the intrinsic importance of things like poverty and unemployment simply because they hurt people no matter how people to react to it, what turned some people into sociopaths (and why it didn't others) is useful to know to prevent more coming into existence, and to leave the ones who aren't beyond the point of return a way out -- but it's also a destructive red herring when dealing with those who are beyond the point of return. They are eating chalk and holding up people who delivered themselves as hostages unto them, so you can have empathy they can only feign and use; and the question is, at what point does the tragedy of their hostages outweigh the tragedy of who they and their hostages will trample on, forever, if given half a chance.

I know it's cold and kind of heartless, but for many people who turns abuser after having been abused, you will also find those who have been abused even more, but did not turn to abusing others. It's not either person's fault or credit, but I can't cater to the first while ignoring the second. Insofar it's a zero-sum choice (and that's not generally the case, mind you, but it's also not never the case), I made my choice. Sometimes, the wheel that squeaks the loudest shouldn't get the grease, but simply should get replaced by a better or even no wheel.
The cache in question is not something which stores the result of these speculatively executed instructions, but the normal L1-L2-L3 caches we are used to. The result of these instructions is discarded, but as a side effect, they may load something from memory into the cache. The exploit detects whether or not a particular memory address was loaded into the cache (reading from something already in the cache is much faster than reading from the main memory).
Yes, you can easily make money if u get it at the right time and get out at the right time... How long this will last, nobody knows..
The Humble Book Bundle: Work It Out
it's inevitably with assets that are multiplicative. Multiplicative is the important detail.
> The infrastructure that runs Compute Engine and isolates customer workloads from each other is protected against known attacks. This also means that customer VMs are protected against known, infrastructure-based attacks from other malicious VMs.
First of all muslims aren't really a "race". Debates about race are completely irrelevant, they are criticizing islamic culture and religion. No one would care about someone mocking christian beliefs of culture.

Second you are right. Beliefs about differences between races aren't political. They are scientific. These are scientific question that are completely beyond politics. Your morality or political opinions have no impact on the truth value of scientific claims. Censoring things does not make them untrue.
How long will I have to wait for the Firefox port? This extension is yet another way that free software is being shut out of the browser market. And worse, women are being targeted to be locked into proprietary software.

Cmon y'all, this is super important. Let's get started on GNU/HNCute!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988652
So how much legal liability are they exposed to due to this security flaw?

Since this affects legacy systems that may not be able to be upgraded it seems like this issue will be around for a very long time.
Did I read that comment wrong, to think "US Government" literally meant U.S. (United States) Government?
I like it, there are some colors that are still present like the comments view still has the orange and red colors here and there. I will keep it installed and look for updates :)

One request would be to make the font sizes a bit bigger, maybe different font families as well!
Why does the size of the grid matter? In Linux, you can press mod+arrow key to move to the desired desktop, no matter the layout.

If you just want more desktop space, why not alt-tab between programs? They're all going to show on the same screen, anyway. Even disregarding all this, the fact that Apple didn't even give me the simple option of hiding programs on other spaces from alt-tab was one of the main reasons that made me switch to Linux.
Would I be correct in assuming a browser-level mitigation isn't necessary if you're running a patched OS?
> The problem is that the Nazi propaganda fell on ears that eagerly wanted to believe it, so the Nazi leader was democratically elected before he seized the absolute power.

That's not really accurate; the Nazis got power not by outright winning a democratic election, but because the various other parties were more concerned about each other than the Nazis, and thus more willing to tolerate a Nazi-coalition government than to form a coalition against the Nazis; the Nazis never were elected to power on their own before seizing power; they actually lost a large number of seats in the election preceding their coalition government from the preceding election (after which no government was formed), and even in that preceding election they had only around 1/3 of the seats.

Nazis didn't come to power because a receptive populace gave them a mandate, they came to power becausea large enough minority of the more numerous elected not-Nazis were more afraid of each other than the Nazis.
best for now to get your crypto coins off the exchanges if you have them there
The same is true for ä and æ. The latter has a broader sound while the former sounds a bit closer to e. It is easy to spot Norwegians talking Swedish (such as myself :)
wow, nice job milking your users Apple (getting someone to pay you for something that they made).

I don't know why advanced users use Apple products...
If there's $100 to distribute among 10 people, and everyone has an equal chance of winning, but the winner takes the full $100, then no, of course that is not a just outcome merely because it's random. Come on.
The majority of coins on Coinbase are in cold-storage and crypto on Coinbase is insured against this type of breach. I personally wouldn't panic to get my coins out.
I've always had great results from Google Play Music. There are a couple things that could be improved, but I'm big user of it.

Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee (but I've been using Play Music since long before my employment)
Indeed. Appears the "stylish" extension and/or https://userstyles.org would be a natural fit for this?
I see nothing that could end the general health care system. Unlike political opinions, science and technology progress (only).

European politicians prognose bad times because of the demography (too many old persons, too few young persons).

IMO politicians and many experts are very bad at predicting the future. Like many other people, they feel smart when they prognose problems and anounce austerity.

IMO technology and automation could and probably will solve any poverty problem soon enough for most Europeans. Even today, most poverty in the world is a political problem and not a natural or technical necessity.
Chromium is not proprietary software, it is open source. This extension is written for open source browsers as well, not just the proprietary Chrome browser.
The past is a poor predictor of the future.

In the past the NYC subway was an almost unusable mess overrun with graffiti, trash, and hoodlums. Changing the fare gates and being aggressive about patrols and cleanup turned things around.

Obviously different methods will be needed to fix subway construction, but the idea that the most recent construction effort had problems means all future construction will have the same or worse problems is not necessarily correct.

The article is not about construction costs but the essentials of urban design.
> Space stations are less expensive than moon bases so why do a moonbase? It teaches us nothing much more compared to a space station and cost a fraction.

We need to learn how to build habitats off-Earth, out-of-atmosphere with all that entails (e.g. handling fine sharp-edged dust), and outside the van allen belts. And these things need to be closed systems that can be inhabited for decades at a minimum. At the same time, they'll be under nonzero gravity, and they will have access to bulk matter. That's a very different set of engineering challenges from a space station.

> There are so many things to solve even when it comes to the space station. Just getting the price down substantially is hard but necessary before it make sense to putting a base on the moon

But the cost-reduction techniques would be very different for planemo-surface bases than for space stations. E.g. a popular proposal for cheaper space stations is using inflatable modules to save having to ship up building materials, and that's a good idea for space stations. But on a surface under gravity, inflatables might not be structurally rigid enough, and building structures from the local soil might be a better option.
Right. But it means that once the VM is fixed, assuming the customer does this, they are guarded from such attack right?
> EDIT: It’s not nice to vote people down just because they politely point out you’re demonstrably wrong.

HN doesn't let you downvote the replies to your own comments or top-level comments for your own article submissions.
at least the dollars are insured ;-)
> is a very strong requirement because it means the song must be theoretically able to disturb the peace in germany, eg. incite riots or something equally drastic.

Many american rap songs do just exactly this, and it's not satirical. Sometimes rap songs do mentioning killing jews specifically although it is relatively rare. Most of the time it talks about killing other black people, which falls under the second part of the law you describe. Do Germans make a big deal about this? I'm not german, I'm just trying to understand the viewpoint.

Also, do germans find american thugs in low regard? One can argue they can be just as dangerous.
Job hop. I've had one time in my life when I got a raise as good as changing jobs. The way to manage your career is to see each job as a step.

Companies are full of management from junior to executive, who are good at making problems someone else's. Not actually solving them. They love to make their financials improve on the backs of the rank and file, rather than their own skill, then compensate for lower pay will with guilt trip fantasies about loyalties. Then treat people: employees, contractors, customers, vendors, doesn't matter, like toilet paper. Your real boss is you.
AMD server CPUs currently outperform Intel on some multi-threaded benchmarks. This usually isn't a problem for people buying for peak-performance because you can always buy more CPUs to increase parallel programming speeds, but it's harder to make single threads faster.

It's possible that the patches applied to fix this bug will cause some single-threaded benchmarks to change from Intel being the fastest to AMD being the fastest.
> In my experience, I've seen no correlation between eyebrows and the number of offspring.

Many people pay money to disagree with that assessment, at least according to sales of eyebrow pluckers, waxers, and makeup kits that are specifically designed to make it more attractive.

Either those people are wasting their time (which needs explanation, since over time people who waste their time and money on things that don't aid reproductive success should be selected away). If it does matters to their reproductive success, then it reflects either cultural or a deeper preference.

Personally, I have heard people comment about people who either lack eyebrows (usually through some stupid prank or accident) or have very thick eyebrows.

Not having eyebrows definitely interferes with facial signaling, and we signal quite a bit through eye contact. 'The eyes are the windows to the soul'. The eyebrows frame them.