skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of my friends are online rather than 4 real friends in real life

I think it's time to stop thinking of online as something less real than meatspace, and online friends as somehow inferior to face-to-face friends.

(Cue copious evidence of amazing friendships and happy marriages started online.)
As a car nut, Mazda holds the most special place in my heart. Affordable, reliable, and fun cars to drive. They proved you could have it all. And when driving them, you get the sense that it was made by happy, passionate engineers who never had to compromise their principles.
> If you could know all of the addresses of important kernel routines

Are those kernel logical addresses?
Good Apple!
Don't know about about other countries but where I live obtaining and selling spring and mineral water is nothing unusual. There are laws that regulate it to ensure it's safe for consumption.(link with english translation on the right side) https://likumi.lv/ta/id/278817-noteikumi-par-dabigo-mineralu...

Pay attention to point 16:

> 16. Any disinfection treatment by whatever means and the addition of bacteriostatic elements or any other treatment likely to change the viable colony count of the natural mineral water is prohibited for natural mineral water and spring water.
I was born in 83. I'd definitely say I had too much screen time as a kid. I was generally either on a computer or watching tv most of the time that I wasn't playing hockey or at school (or doing homework), I could still play gameboy on the way to the rink. I think I actually have less screen time now and I'm a programmer, and do programming at home on the side after work as well. Mostly I cut out the tv watching, since it seems like such a waste of time.

I don't think it's that screentime itself that's such a problem, but the content, and mindlessness of some stuff. I'm happy to let my 5 year old watch Cosmos with me, Paw Patrol on the other hand makes the kid go crazy.
Just as with SELinux or AppArmor, you can ignore it if you think your normal practices keep you safe. That's probably mistaken but it's fully under your control:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Se...
Earthquake Tokyo would like a word with you :p
That's at least somewhat encouraging. Nevertheless, it sounds rather like the old, "Yes, but will it run Crysis?" question will perhaps have renewed relevance.
That's not going to work. Trust and desire to help cannot being batch processed. Well... It can but you need strong leader qualities that few people have.

But you can mix both approaches;

You can do one-on-one to create / maintain the relationship, and utilize social networks to organize the community.

But if you want your local baker to go out of his way to get your child out of trouble, you need to look him in the eyes when you ask for it. And you need to do that for each person you recruit. There is no way around it.
How do people differentiate between packages being worked on and packages installed?

Let's say I have my-package (version 1.0) installed and in use in a lot of my other projects. But I'm working on version 1.1, but need to have 1.0 as the reference for other projects.

Right now I just fiddle with $GOPATH but that feels like a hack and is an annoyance if I have to swap around a bit.

Right now my-package might be in a broken state because I'm working on it, so I can't build anything relying on it if I go with the single $GOPATH hierarchy that every discussion seems to assume.
I hope I'm being overly-suspicious, but I always wonder: Who are they going to buy transit from? An ISP they just denied a profitable monopoly? It would be the simplest thing in the world, it seems to me, for the ISPs in the region to refuse to sell bandwidth to the city that just beat them.
Isn't the Stockholm fiber company you mentioned an inherent monopoly, then? Assuming that they're the ISP as well? Or can independent ISPs run their service on the fiber owned by this company?
2017 Predictions: Calibration Results
And you still have to visit those, one at a time, in person where things like getting shot could occur.
> They need some legal standing or the case can be dismissed out of hand.

Yes and no. Yes, Intel would get a chance to claim that the case should be dismissed out of hand. To do that, they have to prove that, even assuming all the claimed facts are true, the people suing still don't have a valid case. That's a high bar. It can be reached - there's a reason that preliminary summary judgment is a thing in court cases - but it takes a really flawed case to be dismissed in this way.

How flawed? SCO v. IBM was not completely dismissed on preliminary summary judgment, and that was the most flawed case I've ever seen.

> It may very well be a question of who has the better legal team.

Well, Intel can afford to hire the best. A huge class-action suit can sometimes attract the best to the other side as well, though. (There's not just one "best", so there's enough for both sides of the same court case.)

IANAL, but it looks to me like there's at least the potential for a valid court case. CPUs are (approximately) priced according to their ability to handle workloads; if they can't provide the advertised performance, they didn't deserve the price they sold for.
Guest OS shouldn't be an issue, from what I understand. As long as the hypervisor memory is separated, you're good.
It's an answer to your question "why haven't organisms evolved which use iron in their skeletons". The physical structure of bone would not be improved by incorporating more iron, so there's no reason for evolution to move in that direction.
From what I have read, internet coops are fairly popular in rural areas. Searching for "rural internet coop" gets lots of hits, including this:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-internet-co-ops-...
Court denies Dem's motion to avoid tie-breaking random draw for Va. House seat
They removed those limits years ago. But they were added just when they launched in the US.

https://www.wired.com/2010/05/spotify-adds-us-friendly-servi...

"Meanwhile a new free version called Spotify Open allows Europeans who had not been invited to sign up for free accounts in the past to join without being invited – however, they can only stream up to 20 hours of free music per month, with advertisements."

This is what the client looked like when you were out of hours: https://spotify.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1... (notice the bar at the top right. dakika = hours I suppose. I can't find a better screenshot)

Facebook required: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-login-required-for-spo...

"Unfortunately you will need a Facebook account to access Spotify from now on, unless you already have an account set up"

So please just because you weren't there to see it don't say it's a lie

Can't say much about music being removed. I don't remember what they removed and don't have any citations. But I remember it happening.
Corresponding announcement from Microsoft on the acquisition:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/01/03/microsoft-to-acq...

Anyone have anything to say about Avere? I talked with them years ago, haven't heard much since.
Do you accept international applicants and are the classes online or a traditional classroom setup?
Totally, even within the same company it can vary. I worked some place where engineering was really good about encouraging people to take time off and lots of upper management set a good example with unlimited PTO. However, I had heard that sales and consulting weren't as encouraged.
I've had multiple Trinitron monitors over my career. Until LCDs got good I would insist on having one. They had the least distortion and the best color.

2 monitors stand out in my memory:

In 1998 I bought myself a 19" name-brand Sony monitor, for $650! I used it for 10 years, until I finally replaced it with a pair of LCD monitors.

In the early 00s I worked for Sun Microsystems, and worked mostly from home. I bought a 27" Sun-branded Trinitron monitor off an internal surplus equipment auction and had it shipped to my home. It was so heavy it came on a shipping pallet!
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So EV's have their very own standards of speed, convenience and usability. And if an EV is ONLY TWICE AS SLOW going across the country than a gasoline car, then that's AMAZING.
>"Physically they are the same thing. A buffer could be large enough to hold a complete copy and all storage is persistent to greater or lesser degrees."

A buffer is generally understood to mean transient storage, so no not the same at all.
Bitcoin smart contracts are based on the language Script:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

Opcodes and values can be combined to yield a vast array of possible contracts, just like any programming language.

Templates are not used, except to activate the full language capabilities (i.e., P2SH).

Ethereum is effectively a generalized distributed computer -- so new types of contracts can be written, tested, and iterated on readily, without requiring a change to Ethereum itself.

Bitcoin is not a generalized distributed computer, but it does allow new types of contracts to be written, tested, and iterated on readily, without requiring a change to Bitcoin itself.

I really don't think that's true. I'd wager that the majority of the public that is aware of Bitcoin has no idea what Ethereum is.

Nevertheless, Ethereum - through the Ethereum Foundation and is sizable war chest, has a far more concerted marketing effort.
> Why is it so hard for Apple to get System Integrity Protection right? Linux/BSD were hardened years ago with SELinux/AppArmor/MAC etc.

Same reason why you still so commonly find Linux and BSD systems where those are disabled: the improved security model breaks assumptions people have about what their code can do and it takes time to redesign code and retrain people.
Having to stop production because you just got nuked and then turning around to become a major car manufacturer within a generation is remarkable.

Too bad the rotary engine never was reliable, practical or efficient but man are they fun cars. I fondly remember the RX-8 in 2004 my friend got for his birthday, that unique wailing rotary sound and go kart like experience is still in the back of my mind. RX-7 still has a ton of demand and held its value if not appreciated for spot clean low mileage cars. I prefer the older generation RX-7 but most of it is limited to Gran Turismo 2 experience.
Reactivity in Front End JavaScript Frameworks
Is red meat really considered carcinogenic?
Totally agree regarding doctors being fallible humans just like the rest of us. If you are diagnosed with a rare disease (or even just a disease that isn't common in your geographical region c.f. Malaria) there is a very good chance that you, if you are reasonably intelligent and have access to the internet, will rapidly become more knowledgeable in the specific details of your illness than your doctor. This is based on anecdotal evidence of mine through experiences friends and family have had, but I suspect it is a common experience.

- your doctor may not be able to spend significant time getting up to speed on all the details and angles of your particular case

- they probably have no idea about what clinical trials you might be eligible for

- they won't be as emotionally invested in the outcome as you. For most experienced doctors it becomes just a job the best you can hope for is that they are highly professional and take pride in their patient outcome record

- they may misdiagnose you or offer inappropriate or downright counter-productive treatment

- not all doctors are of equal ability. This applies to doctors just the same as any other profession, albeit the minimum bar to entry is usually strictly enforced in most countries
> It was an average state college.

Fair enough, the article does mention some very mediocre colleges. I was thinking of decent colleges like Ohio State or Iowa State.

> Is the Kentucky State going to call a school in Bangladesh to verify the transcript? Wealthy people who can afford to send kids to school in US with full tuition can probably find a way to "buy" a good transcript from a local school. Maybe you meant that SAT is a requirement, then yes, it thing might have changed and it is more challenging.

Most decent colleges admit international students based on some standardized test like the SATs, IB, A-Levels or equivalent. High school transcripts are rarely acceptable due to variability in standards.

But you are right about Kentucky State. Its website states that it accepts "Official SAT/ACT OR TOEFL scores" from international students with their high school transcripts. This is utter garbage.

http://kysu.edu/administration-governance/student-engagement...
>It's, however, really bad if you sell CPU cycles for a living.

Who really sells CPU cycles? Cloud providers sell instances priced per core. So the real hit is by the customers since they have to shell out for more instances for the same amount of computing power.

The hit I see is by providers of 'serverless' computing, since they charge per request and have their margins reduced.
At least part of the article (the 'More updates' section) had to have been written in 2017 because it references Ryzen chips which were released in March 2017. It's not entirely clear when the original article was posted but it seems like it could have been either late 2015 or early 2016.
Right. Well, sometimes leaving is good -- for instance, when the new company is so exciting, or when the old one, uh, isn't.
They become replyable after some amount of time. The amount of time varies based on how active the thread is and/or how deeply nested the comment is.

You can reply anyway, but you have to click on the timestamp ("X minutes ago") to do it.
My doc recommended that I take 10K IU/day. That's the very upper end of the new (higher) range. (I only take 5k, and believe it's incredibly helpful for my mental health.)
The latest big bug evidently affects all intel x64 processors back to 2007 or so.
>Dong, an expert in vitamin D and a professor in the MCG Department of Population Health Sciences, says about 15 minutes daily in the "young" sun -- between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. -- but before your skin starts to get pink, is the best source of vitamin D.

That's what works best for me! Mood and mobility improve!
Hmm. Since everyone that sells (Intel) CPU cycles for a living suffers the same loss of supply this boils down to pricing; the same demand chasing fewer cycles will drive up prices and the market will adapt.

30% is a big hit. I'm wondering if that isn't a bit exaggerated, or perhaps the consequence of a poorly optimized workarounds that will rapidly improve. I recall seeing figures on the order of 3% only a few days ago.
A couple of my doctors have now recommended Vitamin D supplements to me. It seems like more than a passing fad, that in fact there's very widespread vitamin D deficiency.
As an American, getting very sick or hurt shouldn't cause you to lose your entire livelihood. There's no choice there (except in some circumstances). Yet we also perceive "bad luck" as a choice or a matter of circumstances that were the natural outcome of choices either you made or your parents or their parents made.

Unless, of course, you're the one who's afflicted, then all of a sudden, it's a great tragedy and it wasn't your fault. In other words, we're full of shit.
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Then by that point privacy as a selling point apple will have the homepod for sale?

I have a bunch, and you only really use them for about 5 things, with the most useful thing being music.
Artificial Intelligence, AI in 2018 and beyond
Well, I am forced to pay for my jobless neighbor. I also pay for the road between me and him. I also pay for the guy on the corner with mental health problems and for the cops that are patrolling the streets at night. I am more than happy to pay for everyone, because it's this system that enables to me to focus on my job.

And I voted for a system like this. Just like my parents, my neighbor, the guy on the corner and my jobless neighbor.

It's not holding anyone back in any way.
<Parents often fail to teach their kids how they got to this point.

What a great statement. So true! It may seem trivial but this is important..
That's "a major overhaul of the KAISER patches" as the commit message says. It doesn't mention the connection to speculative execution, though; that was the bit I was interested in.
It’s really not though because music is a loss leader for amazon, apple and google, but it is spotify’s entire business. The only other major competitors out there are either in major cahoots with the big 3 (tidal, pandora) or gone (soundcloud, grooveshark, rdio).

Netflix has this problem too but they “solved” it by making their own content. Amazon are Google are doing the same thing. That’s the direction I see Spotify going, though I wonder why Apple hasn’t done this yet.
He knew and he sold shares ahead of everyone else. Why is this legal?
I would say that unless you are underpaid for your position, then extra time off is the prize. Most research shows that time is happiness, not money. Having extra time off to spend with family/friends is what is going to make you happy in life. An extra $10K/year isn't going to make a difference if you don't have time to spend it.
I think "threaten" is the wrong word in an at-will employment context where the employee can be terminated at any time for any reason or no reason, barring exceptional circumstances involving discrimination. I'd rather view it as someone requesting a market rate salary, with proof of what constitutes market rate. Moreover, the employee didn't have to give you a chance to retain them at all. They already have an offer -- they could have instead told you that today is their last day and good luck.

If a valued employee came to me showing that he or she had received a large raise from another company and they really don't want to go but don't see how they can turn down the money, rather than resenting them I'd wonder (1) why were we underpaying a great employee at all? (2) why did we create a culture where they felt like they couldn't discuss this without another offer in hand?
GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number
Time's Up
In other words, sometimes competition is a race to the bottom. But then a bug like this tends to have a "reset" effect on everybody in the market.

I look at a statement like "Our competition is moving much faster than we are" as craven and lacking vision. At that point a wisened old Zen master type figure should've stepped forward.

Competition isn't about imitating the competitor anyway, is it? It's about differentiation, right? Maybe not. But it's not like you can't easily market literally any reasonable decision you make. Paul Masson wineries bragged about selling "no wine before its time" and turned their lack of "velocity" into marketing cachet. (Even though they weren't even unique in that regard.) There's no theoretical reason why Intel couldn't market itself as "the accurate chipmaker," keep on validating "lavishly"(1) and let AMD rush headlong into this kind of bug.

(1) Obviously not... but unfortunately you never know it's not enough validation until it's not enough validation.
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone. Its potential impact on the body is substantial.
An outlandish idea for mitigating the effects of Bitcoin's energy consumption
Yes, this. I've seen it happen on several occasions.

Also: Let's say you use this tactic to strongarm the current employer into giving you a raise. But that won't make you happy. You looked for a different job because this one did not fulfill you -- and most of the time, the dissatisfaction is not money related.

If you aren't happy with the current gig, leave. If you like your job but feel you deserve more money, help the current employer recognize that and respond to it.
As much as I dislike Northern Virginia, I'll have to disagree with you about Maryland. Chattanooga has municipal broadband, and they even provide service to places within Georgia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPB
Posted because I found Evan You's[1] explanation of "push" vs. "pull" philosophies (and how front-end frameworks often mix both) was insightful.

[1] The creator of Vue
WOW! The Tesla run was 3 hours faster than the original 1933 record set by a gasoline car! It was just over HALF AS FAST as current gas cars! Pretty soon Tesla may catch up the the 1950's gasoline cars!
The New Guy Is a Better Coder Than Me, and That's Wonderful
You do need exposure to bright light, even outside of vitamin D, for sleep patterns, and probably eye health.
What does "improved security model" mean to you? One where the user cannot access ring0? My thoughts are: It's my fucking machine, I bought it with my hard earned money, so I should be allowed to do with it whatever I please.
Another quick postgres estimate [1] with lower impact and a a reply from Linus Torvalds that this values are in the range what they are expecting from the patch.
"... Something around 5% performance impact of the isolation is what people are looking at. ..." [2]

[1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/01274.html
[2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/01299.html
"Can't go" is probably the wrong term, but rather it's not very practical without a Tesla. "fast-charging" just isn't that fast in the US for non-tesla setups. 50kW max (which you don't normally get, usually it's something less) requires you to stop for at least an hour every 2-3 hours in a Bolt.

Add in winter conditions and driving at the usual ~75MPH and it gets worse than that. I wouldn't attempt any trip longer than ~200 miles in anything but a Tesla because even the superchargers at 130kW make it just ~bearable once the supercharger novelty wears off.