skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see the arguments downthread about how sleeping or going unconscious aren't guarantees of your unbroken consciousness, and the rabbit-hole of existential dread that entails.

It's not a matter of guarantees; “unbroken consciousness” is, itself, only a “narrative” for the experience of memory; insofar as it denotes anything that exists at all it is nothing but present consciousness plus memory, and any other explanation veers into the realm of magical metaphysics.
Why is this on the front page at all? Coinbase has made zero claims about Ripple. The price cannot go up all the time, so a tiny correction is not only normal, but expected.
I find it interesting that you mention you are using Django, since my feeling has always been that easy/dumb/quick CMS CRUD interfaces has long been its bread-and-butter, especially the Django Admin.

That said, I don't question the benefits of version controlling data, and the usefulness of GitHub's web interface for quick and dirty commit work.

I am surprised that a quick search doesn't seem to turn up someone already trying to build a NetlifyCMS-like tool for inside the Django Admin. That seems like a natural fit for Django's CRUD philosophies.
Holy crap. The stats about social media.

> It’s not only time spent that’s the issue, however. On average, we check in on social media sites 14 times per workday, or nearly 3 times an hour during our 5-hour digital day.

We're checking this stuff 3x an hour while we're supposed to be working!

I can't help but see the parallel to the incessant cigarette breaks of the previous generation. Social media might turn out to be just as bad for health/productivity.
What complexity is added by keeping data in the tree?

Polluting the commit logs with thousands of extra commit messages if you're dealing with fast changing data for one.

If a developer is working on a "data file" that happens to contain logic (its going to happen no matter how diligent you are about keeping them separate), dealing with unnecessary merging from the constant edits is another.

>That is perfectly fine to store in the tree and I think the author was talking about that sort of data.

The individual datasets may be small, but from reading the authors comments here, the scope of what they're storing this way seems to be way beyond what I'd feel comfortable managing this way.
The crazy part is that Ripple is really a total nonsense cryptocurrency it's centralized it as counterparty risk and if any time in the future Banks decide to use it, they will use the tech, not the coin, it's pure madness a lot of people will lose their investment, Ripple it's the "Pet.com" of the cryptocurrency bubble.

And btw the founder that as 17% stake is really a con artist.
Without salts, you can tell if two or more people have the same password, and you can pre-compute a dictionary of common passwords.
Even if a fault occurred (others are correct in pointing out it doesn't necessarily) I think this would be too late. I could have already observed the effects in the cache before the instruction causing was (non speculatively) reached and the fault occurred.
Alas, content blockers blocking content won't put a site into noscript mode which shows <noscript> tags because they only block requests.

The site breaks if you block their JS.
I'm optimistic about this product line but I don't think it's there yet. I have a 13" 9360 and while the price was good, it does feel under-powered, specifically the 8G maximum memory configuration with the non-touchscreen.

Mine does have the "coil whine" thing, although it doesn't really bother me since I'm usually wearing headphones when I use it. But overall, the build quality is just pathetic compared to my Macbook, and this is supposed to be a competitor. The touchpad is way worse, the carbon fiber thing is cheesy, the awkwardly fat bezel at the bottom of the display is silly, the fact that you need a $100 dock to connect to external monitors is ridiculous, the webcam is weirdly placed in the bottom left of the display, there are just a bunch of strange/bad design choices.

That was all the bad things - otherwise it's better than any non-Macbook I've used. It's lightweight, small, gets the "little notebook you can take anywhere" niche fairly well. I hope they listen to feedback and iterate, but I can't say I'd eagerly recommend it.
So, for a secure system, the blacklist cache/service becomes a single point of failure (see also certificate revocation lists, ssl/tls).

I personally think renewable, short-lived tickets/tokens are a better evil - accept that a compromised session is valid for 10 minutes (5+worst-case/accepted clock drift).

A long-lived certificate can encode authorization + but needs a short-lived ticket to be valid ("an I'd card that says three star general and today's pass phrase").
Of the KKK, Sessions once said he thought they were "OK until I found out they smoked pot."

If anyone wonders why today, Sessions might be eager to go against the momentum of 29 states + DC legalizing medical marijuana, one only has to hearken back to the words of John Ehrlichman, who was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in the Nixon administration when this folly of war was started:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

That about sums it up for me. Nothing seems to have changed since then. Different players, same MO.
How Compatible Are Scorpio and Capricorn? – Astroligion.com
Nothing like this should have ever made it into hardware. It's lazy implementation (or performance at the expense of security).
For Linux this is typically handled as an extra 'initrd' that the bootloading process hands off to before giving control over to the next (and real) initrd...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/microcode#Enabling_Inte...
Is speculative execution actually worth it? Can't compilers do the job and optimize execution sufficiently so we won't need speculative execution?

Anyway, "caches of any sort" sounds frightening: I can remember disabling all the caches on Pentium-3 to make it about as slow as 80386 so some ancient games that can't run on fast CPUs would run ok and be playable.
Discussed on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052451 .
Meanwhile Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said there are many more that will be added to the platform in 2018, not even a month ago. https://youtu.be/lKviUIeGlgw?t=1m11s
Lead conda dev here. Am definitely interested to hear more if you don't mind elaborating.
Thanks for the thorough explanation. I am curious how hard / time consuming is to reimplement the existing languages in Truffle.
Meteor doesn't bring anything to the table plus add a lot of constraints. I'd not develop any freelance with meteor again.
> I think the scenario of a despot like that keeping rejuvenation technology to himself and ruling for a long time is not likely.

That's not an assumption I'm making. Death resets ossification and concentration of power every couple of decades, regardless of whether rejuvenation therapy would be available to the top 10%, 1%, or 0.001%, or whatever. The problem is not the therapy, or even who gets it, the problem is what happens when it is available.

The problems that immortality causes are social, not technological. People with wealth and power tend to accumulate more wealth and power, at the expense of everyone else. When they die, it is distributed among their successors. A slow, and inefficient form of trickle-down, if you will.

Ever hear the expression "Science advances one funeral at a time"?

Well, so do politics, except that they have a far more dangerous (to us) positive-feedback cycle.

> Third, since the technology is not a magic ring to just hide, people who fight against the despot would be able to use the it as well, and next to despots gaining more experience, you'll have people fighting agains them living longer and having more chances to fight.

Life isn't an RPG where you punch wolves to get experience points, having a therapy that lets you live longer doesn't help after you starve to death in a GULAG, and most revolutionaries are young men with little to lose. You couldn't have picked a better example of asymmetrical technology if you tried. (Well, I suppose there's also the surveillance state, and drone armies...)
> AMD isn't vulnerable to Meltdown not because they foresaw this issue, but probably because they simply weren't as aggressive as Intel in allowing speculative execution.

You don't see why being "aggressive" with speculatively loading data over a _protection boundary_ could be considered irresponsible? I for one, think AMD has the right to gloat if they want. It's not just AMD, besides the latest version of ARM it seems all the other CPU vendors decided to not be "aggressive" with their users' protected data (sparc, mips, amd, power, s390x).

Does it mean all those vendors and architects had PoC for years for this and were sitting on it? No but they could have had a hunch not to go that route. Just like a sane developer might have a hunch over opening a wide API surface to a server that contains sensitive data. It doesn't mean they know there is security vulnerability in one of the API endpoints, it's just sane practice.

> If next month a researcher develops Meltdown2 for AMD, are AMDs designers now suddenly idiots for missing an obvious security hole?

But who called any developers idiots here? I think you were the only one.
"white"

If transhumanists were almost exclusively ANY OTHER ETHNICITY would the writer still have pointed it out?

Not trying to derail the thread into a race war, I'm just fatigued by the double-standard that keeps showing up in modern journalism.
Terrifyingly, this seems to work on a DigitalOcean droplet. I'm assuming this means people could potentially read memory from other VMs on the same system, albeit with a great deal of difficulty.
> https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Front_National

Nevertheless, and notwithstanding the racist
murders committed by some members (see Brahim
Bouarram thrown in the Seine, and Ibrahim Ali,
shot), the FN continued its progress and even
managed to gain some towns in 1995, such as
Toulon and Orange, where, once more, such mayors
managed to show their crass incompetence[3] and
got booted in 2001 by the electors.

Source for Brahim Bouarram mentioning FN: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/paris-crowds-gather-m...

On May 1, 1995, skinheads rallying with the
far-right National Front (FN) threw Brahim
Bouarram, a 29-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan
descent, into the River Seine and disappeared
into the crowds. [...] At the time of Bouarram's
death, Jean-Marie Le Pen described the incident
as "minor". [...] "The FN is an anti-Semitic,
racist, xenophobic party," said Abdallah, also of
the ATMF. "The normalisation of the ideas of the
NF is worrying us. Even more so, it scares us
that a large proportion of the army, gendarmerie
and police vote for Marine Le Pen. We are scared
for our kids who have brown, black and Arab faces
when they get stopped by the police."

Source for Ibrahim Ali mentioning FN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ibrahim_Ali

Root Source for Ibrahim Ali mentioning FN: https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/france-shooting-a...

[Ibrahim Ali] was walking with a group of ten
other young men in Marseilles' XVth
arrondissement, when they encountered three
supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National
party, armed with guns, who had been posting
campaign signs nearby. The latter group opened
fire on them. Ibrahim Ali was shot in the back.
The Precision is a great option if you're looking for a 15" laptop.
Just for the record, this isn't my work. I found it via github [1] but it doesn't have any source code of the website or backend for those interested, unfortunately.

1. https://github.com/scriptzteam/BitCoin-To-The-Moon
I noticed a microcode update which was expected, but there's also been firmware updates for Intel WiFi cards - which I wasn't expecting.

I don't suppose anyone can comment on why the WiFi update?
I am always wondering about people saying this.

XRP is counterparty-free

I have studied their consensus protocol and it is indeed decentralized.

We are planning to use some of the ideas from it in our network.

As for founders having 20% of a startup company, that's common. Look at Mark Zuckerberg for instance. Why does that make them con artists?

Bitcoin whales and Satoshi control 40% of bitcoins while over 99% of the MONEY contributed its market cap came from regular buyerd who came just recently.
Making History by Doing Nothing
> It'll also be interesting to see what state attorney's do.

What can they do? The Supremacy Clause means there really isn't anything for a state attorney to do about a federal enforcing federal law.
A bit off topic but I asked the same issue in a thread that got delisted as [dupe] so I'm reposting here so hopefully someone can enlighten me:

I've been reading up a bit on these attacks and I was wondering if there are any particular requirements to implement them in an arbitrary language?

For example, can you implement the attack with Java but without JNI? i.e. are syscalls required to be able to leverage the exploit?
I can say one thing - if they can make it where I can manage K8S using the Docker Swarm interface that would be great.
"Con" is often short for "conference". In this case, it's from http://bangbangcon.com/.
That is indeed a weird way to measure and report. Without the associated userspace/kernel usage ratio those numbers are meaningless.
Having more of the same type of memory would not make a lot of difference.

Using different types or ram (such as you have to do to get 32gb) which is not low power will make a difference.
In the same way that I'm not forced to invest in XRP or support Ripple, Coinbase has the right to support whatever projects it wants to support. Ripple's project is dangerous to the fundamental mission initiated by Satoshi Nakamoto. They didn't need to elbow into this space and poison the well if all they wanted to do was compete with SWIFT.
They don't need to be rational for it to work. They can both either become more rational over time, or you can influence them in irrational ways. Both often go together hand-in-hand in good diplomacy (e.g. letting the other save face even if they don't "deserve it").
An acquire can be a successful exit for the founder, but if Investors are not recouping their investment than it isn't really successful for the whole startup ecosystem.
I had to get my bank involved with a purchasing issue from Coinbase. They declared the charges as fraudulent since I couldn't get a response from anyone at Coinbase. This was back in early 2016 before the recent crypto madness too...
I now see that my misunderstanding was about who exactly the users were and who the provider was. My opinion of provider was only GCE, AWS, etc. while the commenter I believe when talking about providers included users of those services (who again were providers of serverless services).
I think we are very much on the same side. I'm not suggesting what the US does is right--I'm criticizing my culture. What I wrote is, to me, inexcusable and deplorable, even as a caricature--albeit one I do not believe is overly broad or unfairly overgeneralized. We need to do much better.

When I say we expect/demand self-reliance, I mean that is the dominant cultural & historical narrative & social expectation here in the US. I do not mean I personally expect or demand that of others as a general rule--but I am expected to. A fair amount of the political division in this country often revolves around where individuals fall on the spectrum of expecting/demanding self-reliance of their fellow citizens. America doesn't care about its poor, homeless, disadvantaged, disabled, and otherwise weaker citizens. In fact, I don't think Americans typically look at such people as citizens at all--or at least not as equals. They are, instead, burdens.
Of course, and given the "crowd" I should probably have added a caveat about glibc[1], but using a non-glibc is pretty non-trivial for many developers (and thus, eventually, distros).

Even if you don't buy that reasoning, it's just not very common to use non-glibc on most common distros.

... and honestly, I should probably just have been more explicit about the absurdity of comparing "hello world". That would sort of agree with the OP's post, but not for the same reason. I think reasons are important.

[1] ... but then you end up with discussions about the importance of locales, nsswitch, etc. etc. Even though I didn't bring it up, it necessitated this footnote. You see what I mean?
Lessons I learned from my first failed contracting gig
AMP Prerelease
I agree with you. It's an interesting situation: a cultural problem that one side argues can be solved via a technical solution. The problem is that some people want a more just housing policy and some other people want a housing policy that only favors them. But the latter don't want to admit to themselves that this is their position, so they misdirect with technological optimism.

It's tempting to answer in kind: "don't worry about traffic! Let's just build more housing, and self-driving cars will reduce traffic anyway."
> don't like the system on a system stuff going on

This was already the case, right? Previously, there were all these controllers (disk, I/O, cooling, etc) running only-god-knows-what-firmware from only-god-knows-who vendors, and now that's all been rolled up into a single integrated thing.

I could see an argument that this is a bit of a security concern: "There is now one God-level firmware unit with multiple possible attack vectors! Own the USB controller, and get access to the disk controller for free because they're on the same chip..." but it's not clear to me that this would be worse than what we already had...
I think I should have used a different word than secure exprerienc. Maybe sacrifice for security.

Although, I don't disagree with your statement. Considering how they seem to be attempting to catch up with ML projects and maybe it wasn't as emphasized in Apple's culture that could be it.

It seems like the AI so far has been powered by acquisitions and they are playing catch up.
OK so this might be only partially related, but earlier today I checked out the poc code for spectre and saw that it uses that instruction to discard a cache line. That reminded me of that performance issue ryzen had after launch in some game I don't remember the name of, which was tracked down to the same instruction for flushing a cache line. In the case of that game, the instruction was for some reason emitted by the vc++ compiler in a tight loop for a variable that was accessed therein. On Intel CPUs that didn't do any harm, because these actually don't evict the line from cache but just mark it as least recently used, while ryzen actually invalidated the cache line and had to repeatedly load the data back from ram.

Back then I already wondered how many valid use cases there are for these kind of instructions, apart from synthetic benchmarks. And even if you can use it to make an algorithm faster, how many times is it used incorrectly because someone just thought it would be better without benchmarking properly, (or because they mess up some compiler).

So my (naive) thought back then was "why not just noop all those cache related instructions in the CPU itself?" Then during 2017 I saw a talk about using these very same instructions for creating a side channel between two VMs in Amazon's cloud, and now this here. I am aware you could still make sure the data is not cached by just thrashing the cache (which would make this attack much slower than it already is) but really, what have these flush and prefetch instructions ever done for us?
OS updates will fix this - but the bug remains on the chip, right? Hm, I guess I'll check for updates =)
> Bearing in mind that I find Rust to be an annoying language there are things that stand out as better than average

What do you find annoying in it specifically?
Self-Driving Trucks
Bitcoin stopped going up so people started looking where to park their value. Ripple was next, followed by Lumens. And followed by smaller cap ICOs like TXR.

I would say that the best strategy is lookfor smaller market cap ICOs run by a team that is WELL CONNECTED. The better connected the tram the more chance the coin will explode several times as articles come out about new initiatives.
title: Why you can’t cash out pt 3: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi! It just works like one

but if you're cashing out, doesn't that mean you already made your money? cashing out is completely orthogonal to actually making money. at least your first two posts were at least vaguely related to "cashing out" .

>This makes Bitcoin a zero-sum investment

>This is, again, why “market cap” is a misleading and useless number. If someone bought a fraction of a bitcoin at $19,000 per BTC, that doesn’t make anyone else a “Bitcoin billionaire” whose bitcoins could be sold at $19,000 each — the total actual money recoverable from the system hasn’t gone up.

so basically, just like any asset?
So in essence, we are going to test States' rights.
Let me try to save you all a year of therapy sessions:

You do not have a time problem. You have an energy problem. We. Have an energy problem.

The reason you only get three hours of stuff done on Saturday and then you ‘waste’ the rest of the day is because you had three hours of energy. The rest of the day you’re just filling time. Not because you’re bad, or lazy, or selfish. Because you’re spent.

The difference between productive people and you is not time management. Their skill is in dealing with taxing experiences. They avoid it, delegate it, or confront it on their own terms at the time of their choosing. Some shift their perspective to make it less taxing (not everyone hates weeding). And when they run out of energy they engage in activities that recharge them instead of filling time or merely drain them slower (see also: me and video games or TV)

If you know where to look, we already know this subconsciously. A bunch of industry Best Practices are more time consuming but less energy intensive than the alternative. We balk at scheduling two difficult tasks in the same time interval even though they both “only” take less than half of your time. A task that takes four hours might leave you exhausted, and all you can do for the rest of the day is read email and code reviews and browse Hacker News. Nobody can rearrange your schedule or demean youbinto anything productive during that time. If you try you’ll just make mistakes. Which is why you’re trying to Do No Harm by “goofing off”. You already know this you just don’t have the words like “self-care” to express it.
That's a bit disingenuous, trying to invoke a blue vs. white collar dichotomy where none exists. Many office workers have equipment to lug around regularly, and many more types of people than office workers would be taking transit.

Regardless, transit should pay for itself in the same proportion that roads pay for themselves. Transit has per-use or per-distance fees around using it, but are also subsidized by the government. Road travel has per-use or per-distance fees (tolls, gasoline taxes), and are also subsidized by the government. I'm sure we can continue to find a balance for all of those numbers so no one is disproportionately burdened to support their needed mode of transportation.
App Store Sees Record-Breaking $300M in Purchases on New Year's Day
For me that post is behind a RedHat subscriber paywall, is there a free link somewhere?