skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two issues with that:

1) We still haven't solved the nuclear waste disposal issue.

2) Even if fears around #1 are overblown, "if we wanted to" is the rub: there's very little political or public will to move any meaningful amount of energy production to nuclear, and in some places in the world, countries are actually retiring nuclear plants as the age and replacing them with something else.
The (slight) coil whine on my XPS 13 9350-4891 stopped completely after the first BIOS update.
I don't know. Cracking passwords using A SUPERCOMPUTER FROM THE FUTURE, seems plenty worthy of some decent theme music...
I received a phone call out of the blue almost two months after applying (about a month ago now). The caller admitted the ad had been posted too early and apologized for the late response. I suspect most of the early applicants, like me, were no longer available.
what would you use it for?
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Nearly no distros ship torvald's kernel. They usually take a known really stable release maintained by someone else and then add various patches that torvalds hasn't yet accepted.

When something like this happens they have to take the patches and test them against their kernel.
> Are they independent from torvalds' kernel? I thought the kernel was patched very quickly (KPTI)?

They have to package the kernel for Ubuntu and compile it with whatever modules are standard for them. Plus perhaps applying some distro-specific patches (I don't know if Ubuntu does this), and testing.
Flagged to death too -- how dare a failing YC commany be discussed.
How much did it generate before the price of cryptocurrency exploded in November?
There's two ways to read what Coinbase said:

1/ "We have no plans to add Ripple"

2/ "Maybe we'll add it, but we haven't officially decided yet, so don't blame what the market does on us"
This bill is saying that cities can’t take state money to build transit and then sabotage it with sparse housing and cars. Cars in the vicinity of transit unquestionably reduce the utility of transit projects.

This is also a big middle finger to Berkeley which for decades has refused to put residential zoning around its incredibly expensive subway stations. Berkeley’s BART parking lots are zoned “unclassified” and can’t be developed without a giant NIMBY hissy fit. This bill short-circuits the hissy fit and allows BART to build 85-foot apartment buildings without parking at Ashby and N. Berkeley stations. This will provide way, way more riders for BART than a handful of parking spaces provide.
If you're okay with scripting it, you could just `xinput disable ...` the touchscreen's input device.
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I think you're describing very atypical usage.

Labview, Photoshop, and Solidworks are not typical applications, they're highly specialized and the only apps on your list that require 64 bit. I would expect anyone using them to have a high spec machine.

Quickbooks and Visual Studio are 32 bit only apps and typically very memory efficient. I currently have Visual Studio open with a 17 project solution running the Interactive Debugger and it's only using 450 MBs.

Office comes in a 64 bit flavor but Microsoft recommends you use the 32 bit version. They only recommend 64 Bit if you're using exceptionally large datasets or handling large image assets. Office Apps are very memory efficient and typically use less than 200 MBs each unless opening exceptionally large documents.

The biggest memory hogs these days tend to be browsers and even then you have to open a lot of tabs.

That being said, on Windows you need to look at Available Memory and not Free memory when calculating utilization, I believe it was Windows 8/2012 where they hid Free memory and only display Available Memory because Free Memory is a misleading metric. Windows will also always page certain things to disk even if you have plenty of Free/Available memory.

Boosting Disk I/O and CPU speed is where a user will see the biggest benefits these days.
Three employees, then. Did you have a substantive response to make? I mean, I understand that you're not satisfied with how the events of Apollo 8 played out. What I don't understand is whence comes the belief, which you seem to cherish quite strongly, that your satisfaction or lack thereof is of any relevance to those events.
Have had very much the same thought myself.

If there were two opposing forces, always exponentially self improving towards maximum efficiency in two opposite sides: 1) ordered/creative/perfectionist/preservative/etc, 2) chaotic/destructive/disruptive/etc... suppose our universe sits roughly in the middle of these two, does that not seem to explain where we are?

Also, given the seemingly limitless propensity of the universe towards balance, and its apparently limitless capacity in both regards, it would seem natural to infer that both forces keep going in ways beyond that which we can directly observe.

Intuitively, certainly, it seems very right. Of course, it also gels very well with countless esoteric/mystical beliefs going back eons as well.
I think the parallel's a bit of a stretch, but I really enjoyed the story, so thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the links.

Qbserve looks awesome! I'm having a problem though, since I'm using a work Mac and a home Mac, I won't be able to sync. As far as I read from the website:

> For the same reason, there is no sync. Sorry, multiple Mac owners! We wish we could do that some day, but it's a tricky task because Qbserve doesn't use any server at all.

And I wanted to ask, is this feature planned?
Screen sizes are reported on the diagonal, but the makers are not constrained to maintain the same diagonal size with different apsect ratios. For instance, the pixel Chromebooks have 12.82" and 12.3" diagonal screens. I've never seen a 16:9 laptop with those sizes.

And specifically for an xps 13 device, where they trim excess bezels, etc., the keyboard width becomes the limiting factor.
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Anyone doing mobile or web development?

It's sorta unfortunate that folks consider touch screens to be a useless luxury. I suspect if folks didn't, a lot of small X11 utilities would be easier to write.
No, people I have in mind were not burned out.
Here is the crazy ripple chart

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/#charts
The key here is that they linked to their requirements for adding Cryptos, which strongly suggest that XRP will not be added for not being decentralized. This doesn't directly say it has to be fully decentralized though, so it's a bit of interpretation.
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This one's good, because, like asbestos, there's not really a good alternative to this on current platforms other than giving up some of the performance value of branch prediction in exchange for long-term safety. As far as I know, asbestos remains an unparalleled material for fireproofing, and it is still used sometimes under controlled conditions, even though we've been forced to accept other materials for general use.
I've never had anything but bad experiences with these sputnik machines. They're underpowered, the one I had required custom drivers that were always awful to get into any distribution but Ubuntu, and I've never been a fan of the keyboard.

But people seem to love them. I don't really get it.
That is correct enough, but now sure what “it’s own” means.

To be clear, this is not some mystery chip, it runs a derivative of iOS, and you can check out the firmware in /usr/standalone/firmware (You can even reverse engineer it if you have experience with ARM).
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, so I'll split it in two parts and hope one of them is applicable.

> With Truffle i can get whatever prog lang abd compile it with Graal and either use with Graal VM or Substrate VM.

Truffle is basically a toolkit for building language runtimes. It provides a framework for creating AST interpreters. Generally AST interpreters are easy to work with and reason about, but slow. Truffle addresses the speed issue by using Graal's API to perform partial evaluation on the interpreter. So, you get very fast runtimes without having to build a custom VM. But, it also exposes some compiler details by way of an annotation-based DSL if you want to take advantage of it. This includes control for PIC sizes, loop exploding, and explicit branch profiling amongst others.

As a language toolkit, Truffle also gives you an instrumentation framework so you get things like a debugger and profiler for minimal effort. It provides a polyglot system so you can call into other Truffle languages. Since they all inherit from the same base Node class, the compiler can even inline nodes across language boundaries. Truffle takes advantage of that itself by shipping functionality, such as its own native function interface, as its own Truffle language.

> And i get what ? an executable which includes only what the program needs / uses ?

The SVM can be used to compile any Java program. Truffle-based language implementations are just Java programs. Compiling with the SVM allows you to build a statically linked native binary that contains your language runtime. Generally that binary will have improved startup time, ease distribution issues, and so on. The SVM links in Graal, so you get all that without sacrificing peak performance.
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Never meet your heroes, am I right?
The title of this post must be changed.

From the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

It's misleading as hell!
How can you say ‘mainly serving as a secure enclave’ then list a bunch of it’s other equally (or more) important functions?

It’s not ‘mainly’ any one thing, anymore than your laptop’s CPU is ‘mainly’ a JavaScript processor.
Selling a laptop with 4gb in this day and age is a joke, right? Especially a developer edition? Why bother. Even the Apple Macbook (not pro) come with at least 8gb.
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With Substrate VM you get way faster startup for your Truffle language and potentially overall less dynamic footprint.

Graal VM is based on HotSpot, which is sort of "bloated" for the specific use case that Truffle has.
What's the difference between substrate vm and jaotc?

https://mjg123.github.io/2017/10/02/JVM-startup.html

Substrate VM is more mature? jaotc was response to closed Substrate VM?
As a security guy who sees alerts thrown when people visit NSFW sites at work, I can assure you that they absolutely do.
Ask HN: Bought a new laptop i7 7th gen. Should I return it?
Spent $850 on an ASUS development laptop. Specs are pretty good with 16gb ram, 256gb ssd + 1tb hdd, GTX 1050. But having seen the recent intel bug news, I feel that I overpaid for a machine that will only perform worse over time. Should I just return it and wait for the next gen CPUs that will have this fixed?
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Maybe think of it less as a one-time transfer from one singular place to another, and more a redistribution of a workload whose larger outcome is consciousness. After a migration period, that consciousness would find it's not using the meat-resources anymore.
Coming from C, I get excited by boring things in Rust:

• 3rd party dependencies are easy to use (often even on Windows) and usually have no runtime overhead.

• Basic unit testing is built in, so there's low friction to use it (not only for me, but across the entire ecosystem).

• Result type + `?` operator is a nice compromise between clarity and flexibility of return-based error handling and low syntax noise of exceptions.
I have no idea, and to be completely clear I think this is an incredibly dark and dystopian line of thought. I'm just very curious what the world looks like when the rich no longer have any need for the poor.

It feels like this is a novel situation in human history. Interested in being proved wrong...
Um, what? You can have 16gb.
> Unfortunately in the world of facts there is only incidental and anecdotal evidence that paying more for electricity would have even a small effect on the habitability of our planet.

Huh? You're not really making sense here, and that's not what I've said. I'm not saying that the simple act of paying more for electricity will solve our climate-change problem. I'm merely stating that continuing to use non-renewable, polluting means of energy production is wrecking the planet.

If renewable energy is one thing we need to adopt to slow/stop/reverse that trend (available literature seems to point in that direction), and renewable energy is more expensive (as some people here are claiming), then I'm ok taking that hit.

> To turn your logic on its head - if you believe this then maybe you would let me re-sell you your local electricity at 2x or 3x the price?

That is a complete non-sequitur and has nothing to do with my position or the discussion at hand.
Are you joking? They already did release those things...
Go door to door to small businesses to build them a webpage for free.
The Maintenance of Everyday Things
Inadequate parking is a much better problem to have than inadequate housing. I mean, not even close to the same level of problem!

But that's assuming that there will even be inadequate parking. With car sharing services, and enough transit, it's not a problem. I just got back from Vancouver, a city with high density, not a huge number of cars, but extremely easy mobility for both those in cars and those on transit. Parking is less of an issue because not everybody has to drive.

Cars don't scale well. They are massive, take huge amounts of space when moving or when when not moving. That's not to say that we shouldn't have cars, we absolutely need them. But we also absolutely need transit.

One of the first steps towards that possibility is allowing housing that allows a car-less life. Parking spots add expense to every unit built. Those who don't have cars have been subsidizing those with cars for a long time. That's OK, but maybe, JUST MAYBE, we should try some housing where we let people live without a car.
that's most likely intentional, I'm sure Oracle has a lot of lawyers to look over this kind of stuff ;-)
System76, specifically the Galago Pro. I want it because Linux runs well on it, it has 8th gen i7, 16gb ram, and a 4k non touch screen.

But only US layouts. European, specifically scandinavian and UK layouts, have 1 additional button, so labels cannot fix it either
deployment is not the only reason. distributed ml (not deepmind scale but we're still talking about several instances, usually for something like hyperparameter tuning) is fairly common in practice. without docker, id waste most of my time provisioning and getting things to work - even if it's just for myself!
They haven't destroyed the NHS since the NHS still exists.

However, this aside, do you have any ideas regarding turning around this perceived calamity?

Personally, I think the solution is politically unpalatable but I am not so narrow minded as to think there may be a solution that doesn't simply resort to giving doctors and nurses a bonanza pay rise.
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For those whose workers try to use such an excuse, ask them for historical graphs showing that they designed and operated the system to use 99% of provisionable RAM, and ask them what emergency response planning they included with that design in the case that a fluctuation in available RAM occurred due to unforeseen circumstances.
Well, it's not a slowdown really.

The high performance of the physical CPU was achieved through means that compromise security. The top of the speed range was bullshit, basically. Now that the top is being lopped off, you experience the true speed of that CPU while operating in a secure manner.
At first. Civilization develops through automating things; there's nothing suggesting the methods for longevity won't improve past initial stages.
I am working in games now and I want to switch to being a linguist or translator. Something to use my language skills.
Yes but not before 11 and not after 3.
A completely transparent audit like you're suggesting would compromise the majority of the security features of the enclave. The white paper gives enough about the mechanism to understand how it works without detailing specifics that would compromise the security of tech.
and what if it was preceded with

cmp $0, [some_readable_but_uncached_addr_containing_zero]
je some_safe_location
//now the exploit
mov rax, [somekerneladdr]
...the rest of it...

cpu may speculatively execute past "jz" and speculatively do the load. no fault generated
> ends up creating a billion dollar business,
> that's leverage Nvidia has for a lawsuit.

A great problem to have. Maybe first concentrate on creating a billion dollar business and by that time you can afford to get some 'approved' cards.. ;)
fake news?
Well, and some 6 years later computers with 1GB of memory were common. That's not too much error for a prediction made in 1950.
I don't think we're anywhere near that inflection point. The "best" locations for hydro may be taken (I don't know anything about hydro availability so I have no opinion there), but it's laughable to suggest that's the case (or nearly the case) for wind and solar.

I agree with you that once we run out of viable locations to put our renewable infra, it'll become more expensive, but I think you vastly underestimate the amount of space we have for that sort of thing.
`jaotc` integrates with the HotSpot VM, while Substrate VM provides its own runtime (GC etc.) and intentionally supports only a subset of the JVM features.

FWIW, both use Graal as a compiler.
I find that the chrome emulator works pretty well. Haven't had and issues.
How do you support multiple keys and key rotation without using RS256?
I posted this elsewhere, but there's performance data from Red Hat Performance Engineering in this blog post. (Numbers for Linux obviously.)

https://access.redhat.com/node/3307751
Ah, that makes sense indeed.
Attempts thus far in history by the wealthy to "manage" the poor have worked reliably only insofar as the poor believed they were OK.

Or more properly, the poor were afraid of their own lives getting worse.

This is all speaking from an USA citizen's perspective...

If the elites had their own act together, they could easily avoid a violent revolution this time around. Get the masses all addicted to some new forms of entertainment, and slowly and carefully take away the means to resist.

I mean, that is sort of happening right now, but badly. And the elites in general seem to be, to put it bluntly, dumb as fuck. Most of them are so focused on their own narrow and short-term self-interest, that what they're doing is far from sustainable. Crossing over into the "outright destructive" category.

They are failing to think in the long term (i.e. not just "think of the children" in the abstract, but in the specific, "think of my own grandchildren" respect), and failing to pacify the masses effectively.

What's the point of being rich if you're not going to be around to enjoy it?
Because it's not a problem for his large, wealthy homeowner constituents.
What is the analogy behind being able to go into the restricted room?
Cory Gardner is universally hated here in CO by both political parties. He refuses to show up to his own Town-hall meetings, and actively votes against his constituents.
Whatever he says should be taken with a grain of salt and thrown to the wind.
As dang discusses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053051

it got flagged by users. The title is incredibly misleading, which seems to be the most likely reason anyone would flag this piece.
I see that now under the search options. When I clicked into purchase the displayed models, it showed a static 8GB with no option to modify. My mistake.
But they have already developed a non-standard Mac Pro in 2013, and it is widely considered a failure. I'm not sure if they'll really make the same mistake twice?
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> This bill is saying that cities can’t take state money to build transit and then sabotage it with sparse housing and cars.

And, that's a fine general idea; the specific implementation is a bit different than that.

> Cars in the vicinity of transit unquestionably reduce the utility of transit projects.

So does an overbalance of residential property without adequate alternative transportation compared to the employment, retail, etc., services accessible by transit.

> This is also a big middle finger to Berkeley

Yeah, look, I think on balance this is likely to be a net benefit, if something of a blunt instrument, in the Bay Area and L.A. Basin, but it's not limited to those places, and it's triggering transit conditions have no consideration of the connected services and only limited consideration of capacity.
This is very interesting. I found my Surface Pro 4 had a very audible buzzing while my 12.9 inch iPad Pro didn't have any sound. It could be that the latter is better sealed so it muffles the sound effectively.
I think the scenario of a despot like that keeping rejuvenation technology to himself and ruling for a long time is not likely.

First of all that would assume rejuvenation is very costly, more costly than raising a child, which is unlikely.

Second, the despot doesn't work alone, he needs to have other people who do all the killing, and these people are going to want to not die as well. All of the despots you mention had a large base of supporters, and it is difficult to remain a supporter on you are going to die for no good reason.

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.

What i think is more likely, is a softer concentration of power, where rich people keep money and power for much longer, but poor people are still kept content with a small chance to get rich themselves.
Why exactly did Ripple start going up in the first place?
Right cause if they would have just used an Intel chip there we could sleep better at night
What?! I didn't know it indicates that the user is "untrusted", I'm from Sweden and my impression has been that the green users are super users of some kind.