skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, and I don't think the situation is technically hopeless. Human (& nature's) ingenuity & adaptability can go far.

But right now ignorance is a much starker risk than hopelessness. The vast majority of people in wealthy countries still have increasing consumption as their top priority. And people in poorer countries are aspirants to the same. This leads to the abyss. Much of our amazing ingenuity is directed towards trivia, consumer-training, warfare etc, and far from being widely challenged, this trend seems to be accelerating. It's hard to imagine us not falling into a series of wars for diminishing spoils as the physical systems we're embedded in collapse.

So as I said, I don't think the situation is technically hopeless. There's much we could do. I doubt we'll do it. But I'm absolutely certain we won't do it if most of our population maintains the dulled Panglossian-consumerist perspective.
Maybe what we need then is a term separate from 'Freedom of Speech', which is inherently tied to the constitution, so that people can break away from what you see as a parrot-like response and engage in the greater debate of 'Should we be listening or not?' regardless of government involvement. It would make for a much larger and more rich discussion, I'm sure.

I just don't like the idea that private companies have some obligation to be bi-partisan; because that's the way some people are throwing around the term "Freedom of Speech" like it's this ticket to say whatever you want to anyone you want.
Relatively or objectively?
Yes, but usually ride their bikes. My town has 20+ miles of bike paths connecting the main parks/golf courses.
To be honest, I wrote GitMask for myself.
Yep,if anonymity is really important to you, a VPN and/or TOR is required. GitMask just ensures that you don't unintentionally leak personal info. GitMask is open source, so if you don't trust me to run it, just run it yourself.

Spam is a potential issue. All PR's reference gitmask.com so maintainers have someone to message if they get flooded.
Moving the goalposts, are we? The question here was if "liquidity is drying up", which is the opposite of what's happening. While you probably couldn't move a billion, you never could and that's not a sign of anything drying up.

A million dollars perhaps used to be problematic, but is now a drop in the bucket on any exchange's daily volume. A normal bank transfer will suffice, but check with your bank if you aren't moving those amounts regularly. For bigger volumes there is a quite functional OTC market as well.
Z80 OS for a 1980s micro... wouldn't be surprised if the assembly is the source.
This response is entirely irrelevant to the argument. No one is defending violating consent. I'll just bow out now.
But, that user's post was saying that their experience WAS negatively affected simply by virtue of being gay. Your comment doesn't do anything other than affirm their interpretation regarding how they were treated and why they were treated that way.
I've heard back from AMD.... At least this PR person is saying: . “Disabling branch prediction” is definitely not an accurate description and we are working to address with SUSE now.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discu...
>Life itself is a complex system that radically altered its environment - and here we are now, billions of years later.

But that is a slow process made possible by natural evolution. The present changes are happening thousands of times faster.
Author here

1. I agree that graph convolutions make a lot of sense. However, it is not shown yet that they are better than SMILES, although it might just be a matter of time. A lot of graph variants are possible, or maybe we should look at molecules not as graphs, but as quantum objects (See the other Stanford paper on atom convolutions).

2. Yes, Deepchem is built on top of Tensorflow. This additional layer looks useful, but is it really the case? Using standard NLP models is simpler than using deepchem models, and NLP models might still be the state-of-the-art for chemistry tasks, via SMILES (until we get a reasonably comprehensive benchmark, which MoleculeNet is not).

I am not buying into a chemistry-specific library, until it is shown to be really necessary.
Great idea! Privacy and anonymity are becoming hot commodities ;)

You should be aware code style is some times enough to de-anonymize a well know developer!

When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/12/29/when-coding-style-s...
Only if you run proprietary software or unaccounted code like JavaScript/WebAssembly.

If you have a completely foss system and don't execute random code from the internet, you can very safely still enjoy the full power of the hardware.
yeah, I guess thats how Docker does it. Automated builds tied to a github repo.
respectfully, ha ha. Just because an exploit is old doesn't mean it still doesn't get used.

Attacks don't follow the close-quarters-infection that physical viruses do, so it's a bad model to use.
That's a good point, the block stops them from replying altogether (or quote tweeting).
Interesting. That is exactly the route I have gone through: Setting up Active Directory with Samba in a mixed environment (Linux servers and Win 7 clients). I now happily run Linux Mint clients connected via sshfs.

Setting up Kerberos was a nightmare. Also, it is very hard to reason whether your SMB connections are safely encrypted with the specific settings one chooses. The protocols are complicated and the settings opaque. A lot of Stack Overflow is involved.
Thanks for the confirmation and inside info!

Yesterday we only guessed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16069740 based on ARM CPU list,

the RPi 1-3 CPUs

ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A53

aren't in the list.

Affected ARM cores:

Cortex-R7, Cortex-R8, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex A15,
Cortex-A17, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

(I tried to post it 3 hours ago, but HN is rate-limiting my posts, oh well)
Out of curiosity, how does employment and contracting work in Germany?

If you pay me to make a software product, does it mean that I always keep the copyright?
I work in marketing and if a tool isn't web-based I have no interest.
The bug where speculatively-executed code can access privileged memory is Meltdown, and it doesn't affect AMD systems since apparently they did the sensible thing and blocked even speculative access to unauthorised memory addresses. Unfortunately, Meltdown apparently can't be fixed in microcode on affected Intel CPUs, so they're stuck with a performance-killing workaround that AMD CPUs don't need.
I am deeply impressed by the tech that Google puts out but it seems that Pichai has not really improved Google's biggest issues : a complete lack of focus and over-reliance on ads.
I'd be very interested to see what dolphins could accomplish if they were to have hands and feet.

Maybe one day we will be able to give them robotic limbs controlled through brain function and see if they able able to that utility. My guess is that we would be impressed, especially if the experiment were done on a pack.
I've read a little bit about it. I think it would be a good idea since we don't need to run the subgraphs on parallel or something like that, therefore eliminating the need for a TF session per se.

I'll be helping Diego with some new models, it'd be awesome if you join :)
A lot of newbies put everything on an online exchange and don't bother with handling private keys. I haven't found a single exchange yet where you control the private keys. The public keys on exchanges I've seen are different for Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin. Also, can you imagine the end result of paying for a good or service that accepts Bitcoin with Bcash?
> correlation isn't causation

That misleadingly implies the reasonable plausibility of a coincidence, for example that it is random chance that gay marriage is a nation-wide political topic but the legal status of eating shellfish isn't.
I’m curious if anyone knows:

Less say we take a recent CPU and just totally turn off speculative execution.

Just how bad a performance hit would that likely be? 30%? 50%? 75%? 90%?

Does anyone even know for modern processors?
Too good to be shared perhaps? I don't like this conspiracy theory way of thinking, but post-Snowden it's difficult to draw a line.
Why many restaurants don’t actually want you to order dessert (2015)
I think you're definitely getting at my point. There's the recognition of your inherent freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights, but it is not derived from the piece of parchment, just recognized by it. And if the US Federal Government can't impede that right, why should some random corporation that's never even turned a profit be able to?
Or we could have multiple different numbers (including all the things you describe, plis employment measures, plus medians where you've already named averages, plus gini coefficients of wealth and income, plus other distributional measures, plus...) and recognize that the economy is multidimensional and how to balance the importance of those dimensions is a matter of ongoing debate.

Which is what we—when we choose to look beyond what mass media focus on as the headline number—already have.
IIRC, first generation Intel Atom CPUs are safe from Spectre due to their nature of being an in-order execution design. Those are the most modern/powerful in-order chips I can think of and now I regret selling the old Dell netbook I had in college.
The first few tries were a little too obvious, but then, magic happened:

interactively orchestrate B2B meta-services

Cool idea!
People overestimate the impact of climate change. Yes it will lower GDP, destroy property, and weather will kill more people, but most nations are vastly more wealthy than they where even 50 years ago and that represents a lot of slack before people end up starving etc.

People will pay more on food which will mean they can't spend as much on rent or a mortgage which will lower the value of real estate. However, that's just another shift in a long line of them.

Even say a 20% drop in world GDP over 20 years, which would significantly increase suffering, is less dramatic than generally assumed.
I'd wager you're getting downvoted because this stock discussion has been beaten to death AND is completely irrelevant to the technical details relevant to this topic. Just in case you were curious.
With Postgres, SQLite and Lucene one has to always worry about VACUUM, one has to babysit the database from time to time, or write code to do so.

With InnoDB engine of MySQL/MariaDB the similar OPTIMIZE TABLE command isn't needed, InnoDB runs carefree.

I wouldn't want to take the database offline (write) and stop the world to do a VACUUM in production, would you?
Hypothetical GiftCoin cryptocurrency
The main idea is to create a standard protocol for exchanging electronic gift certificates.

1 GiftCoin costs 1 USD. Always.

Privately signed GiftCoins can be issued by any company in the same way like eGift Cards, but only using unified system.

For example, Google GiftCoins, Amazon GiftCoins, Apple GiftCoins etc.

Bigger corporations may have an agreement to exchange GiftCoins directly on their servers.

Every GiftCoin contains encrypted public key of the owner. In order to change the owner, send a privately signed request to the corresponding server, to reissue the GiftCoin using a new public key.

Safe exchange of GiftCoins is possible with two privately signed requests of the owners.
Chaotic oscillators to seed a CSPRNG. Either on-chip[1] or discrete[2].

[1] http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/attachments/xlnx/EDK/27322/1/H...

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7111269/
You keep the copyright, but you give away all rights. It's mostly semantics - the result is the same.
At least the second part, the system of the two computers and the checker, is compared to even the very simplest parts of a modern computer laughibly simple.
Oh goodness, tell me your typing secret! I've already broken several keys and it sounds like I'm trying to kill someone when I type
I think the real only limiting factor prevent them from accomplishing what we have is that they do not have the limbs and dexterity available which we have. This enabled us to perform many tasks which are out of the question for them. I'd say they do damn well for what their body's allow them to do.
> Will we have to adapt and possibly vacate large parts of the world?

Coming from a nation that specialises in imprisoning & torturing asylum-seekers, by the way, I must comment on this point. Hundreds of millions of people (mostly poor) live in these areas that will need to be 'vacated'. Do you think they will be welcomed? Where? And when they are not, that peace will be possible? And that we can deal with these huge global challenges while simultaneously fighting the inevitable wars?
It really saddens me that it that the more times go by, the more fragmented the messaging ecosystem gets.

I just want a secure messaging solution that I can use with anybody, regardless of what device/service they use.
Weighing massive stars in nearby galaxy reveals excess of heavyweights
Physical security is not necessarily automatic, but it's much more straightforward than computer security. You don't have to worry about someone in Russia getting a hold of your pen and paper while you're sitting there with it in your room.

I think that anyone who has worked professionally understands that it's a miracle we make it through life with the relatively limited quantity of exposures and accidents that we have. Things like Spectre/Meltdown usually don't get the notice of people who care to expose it publicly until they've been privately theorized, discussed, and practiced in some form for many years.

Personally I believe that if Spectre had come out 10 years prior, the likely response from Linus et al would've been "How about instead of crippling useful CPU speed optimizations, we just don't let random people feed instructions to our CPUs." Obviously, with cloud computing underpinning so much critical profit/surveillance-- uh, I mean, infrastructure-- these days, that won't fly. (Meltdown is a different story since the CPU is supposed to be protecting that.)

Computers are very complex systems designed by people. Work with more than 5 people and you quickly learn how much trust is warranted in complex systems designed by people (hint: very little).

I absolutely believe that relying on the security properties of the physical world, particularly "this item cannot exist in more than one place at a time, nor can it be replicated and transmitted across the earth in under one second", is much more reliable than any computer security.

Pen and paper is the only way to go for the truly paranoid.
Wow, a year ago. Reading the title made me assume it was just now, and somehow related. Good catch.
I think the danger is that if you then give both A and B an incentive to increase GDP and tell them that the GDP measures wealth, then they will start paying each other $20, then $40, then $100.

In and of itself that isn't harmful, but if you conclude from this that you are getting wealthier and wealthier then you might end up lying to yourself and making bad decisions based on this.

As a concrete example, women have slowly moved out of the domestic sphere and into the workplace. At the same time, child care and rearing have become booming industries. Both these things increase GDP.

But the question is whether all the increase in GDP is real economic value, or whether a significant portion of it is just recording value that used to have $0 attributed to it (e.g. domestic housework, rearing and educating children, home-cooked meals).

And a secondary question is whether continuing to push women to work even if they would rather stay at home is the right approach, because if you are a government policymaker, the latter choice will lower your economy's recorded GDP and might make you look bad/incompetent, even if the real value generated by domestic housework is very high.

Problems with metrics create problems with incentives, which eventually may lead to skewed or wrong choices.
I've read that fructose is stored primarily by the liver, but again, this just gets a bit more confusing it I'm to follow the logic of the article.

They mention the problem with sucrose (and HFCS), but sucrose is 50/50 glucose and fructose and HFCS is 45/55 glucose/fructose.

If fructose is the sugar with a real impact on diabetes and insulin resistance, why are diabetics given glucose tablets to raise low blood sugar?

Maybe I'm the one who is confused, but if fructose were the main evil component, I'd imagine there would be a lot of fruitarians with diabetes (though I have anecdotally seen a lot that run into pancreatic problems, but rarely obesity or diabetes).
OSS makes vulnerabilities easier to discover, but if the project isn't well known they may still easily go unnoticed.
> I don't expect that asymmetry to happen again;

With Twitter granting preferential status to “world leaders” not available to others including internal critics and challengers to such leaders, asymmetry no longer needs to occur as a matter of candidate recognition, because it's baked in as a matter of Twitter policy.

Even if such privileged were granted to official challengers, there would be a by-policy assymetric, because in practice political debate which affects election outcomes is continuous, not just during particular phases of the electoral cycle.
1) What short-term goals are you trying to achieve ?
Recent AI advances have made it easier to transform unstructured information into structured one. But you'll still need to do some boring correspondence dataset construction. There is great value for a better research/cataloging of publication data (but probably not many people will pay for it).

Find what the users do with the data and make it easier for them using modern tools.

2) Medecine is a legal minefield. There is definitely a place for AI to cure illness and improve health. It's hard to get the data, and to standardized in it shape, but I'm convinced that just by the mere fact that it will have more personal data and vastly more general knowledge that AI generalist doctor will trounce any generalist doctor even with simple predictors. The real value is not to cure you when you are ill, but preventively to keep you healthy by continuous monitoring and adapted personal recommendation. Look at performance enhancing equipment for athletes optimal training for example.

There are plenty of things you can do with your graph database (probably more with the metadata than with the data) which can provide value, you can use it to make recommendations of paper to read (like arxiv sanity). Use it to connect researchers, for example if one of your co-paper author work with another researcher then you can suggest a work relation. You can cluster researchers. You can rank researchers according to a multitude of criterion (like an ELO score for researcher). You can create recommendation so that you reduce isolation between clusters and promote information dispersion.
Totally agree. It just seems that public discourse likes single factors.
what? What use is a "counter-example"? This is simply a bizarre response.

The claim is that GDP is only an approximate measure. Why? It fails in certain cases. A humorous example of such a case is provided. I don't see how your comment provides any value in this context.
Connect Four Solver
My interview experience with Canonical
Much as I am in support of open source, this isn't a magic cure.

I just got confirmation that POWER is susceptible to Meltdown/Spectre so there's that...
I think this article makes a good point. What incentive do bitcoin holders have to use it as a 'currency'? I bought $80 worth of parts for my Raspberry Pi kit (which was essentially free to me due to the increase in BTC value) and I now "deeply regret" it as the author mentions in his article. A friend of mine has 15BTC that he is lothe to spend due to the increasing value of the cryptocurrency market. When will we see stability? Even if prices did stabilize, would we ever see widespread adoption of btc, or any other cryptocurrency for that matter, as a medium of exchange?
That's already an idea for a startup here!
Did you find this in the citation of an ICO white paper?
> its editorial board (i.e. regular researchers not employed by Elsevier) collectively resigned

Cases that might be closer to many HN readers are:

1999: Journal of Logic Programming editorial board resigned and created Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

2003: Journal of Algorithms board resigned and founded ACM Transactions on Algorithms, prodded by Don Knuth (see links)

2006: Topology -> Journal of Topology

So, it is possible to overcome the coordination problem and cooperate to defeat Elsevier.

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Ehal/jalg.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13557667
Kucoin exchange is on the verge to defeat Binance on Altcoins trading volume
Google before Alphabet was only Eric Schmidt right?
Not as cool as this one

>professionally incubate state of the art "outside the box" thinking
Off topic, but I haven't seen this discussed anywhere yet. My understanding is that font files can contain complex instruction sequences to control exactly how a font is rendered. I believe Windows implements a kernel space VM to execute these instructions. I know variants 1 and 2 did not necessarily require eBPF but that it made the attack simpler because the desired instruction sequences could be injected directly into kernel space (rather than finding existing sequences in the code base). It seems that in theory font rendering could serve a similar function on some platforms.
You've ignored how the business got the Bitcoins to begin with. Its customers have to pay the transaction fee to send the Bitcoins to the business. The business's wallet is therefore fragmented, so the number of bytes in its transactions to pay its employees is higher than your estimate.

Or they could pay you via the bank and accept payments through their bank like every other business. Then the transaction fees are negligible. The Lightning network did not help at all in this scenario.
...all of which structures you'd somehow need to synchronize writing to, to keep them accurate and fresh. Global write-locks do not scale, no matter how fast it might be in the toy case.
reminds me of Enterprisify your Java Class Names!:

https://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
so, conspiracy?
So then couldn't the same apply here?
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS stands for Long Term Support, so it stays supported longer than non-LTS versions. Software can be out of date, but its rock solid. Instead of updating software (like on Windows and macOS) they backport security & reliability fixes from upstream.

Some people also don't wanna run 57 (yet) because their favourite extension(s) aren't ported from <= 56 yet. So they stay on older versions. Current ESR (Extended Release, akin to LTS) is 52.
If you don't consider humans special. What is your definition of special?
The liquidity is increasing because of the current gold rush. People who have no business getting into this kind of investment are buying in, thus increasing liquidity. I can no longer count the amount of acquintances who have bought 5-10K USD worth of BTC or Litecoin or Ripple or whatever, without having even a cursory understanding of the mechanics behind it.

These types of investors also panic easily, once the bank run starts, nobody will be buying. In fact, I bet most exchanges will simply close up shop.
I'm not sure what the situation is for the OP, but in some areas, local governments give tax subsidies to developers. I like development, but I don't like tax subsidies for developers.
What's the point? Just make an anonymous GitHub account, they have no real name policy, after all.

Participation in discussions is a necessity for most interactions with an open source community.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075911