skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You answered to a strawman argument, supporting it even. But its a loosing game for you, because you submit to a dogmatized interpretation that is easy to refute saying nothing would be as black and white as implied by the argument. Parent pretty much implied media presented someone as a strawman, you concord that someone was exemplary for the reduction of an idea, seemingly with the intent to discuss it further, while the parent pretty much suggested to be tired of the discussion.

And you weasel out of the discussion when you suddenly shift to put human nature as a whole into question, just to then shift the goal post to an indefinite plurality of 'humans'.
Or you can put a sniffer on the line, or read the source code, or read the code for the receiving end.

Or .. just talk to someone on the team and ask questions. Mozilla is incredibly open and transparent. Anyone can even join team/product meetings on video chat.
A feedback that nobody wants to hear
Anyone has more info on the performance recovery today? We experienced similar performance issues over the last few days with a seemingly complete recovery today (on a cluster of ~2500 HVM T-1s).
Could you point me at any references on equal-volume cubic tesselations? I've found Dr. Sahr's work on DGGS incredibly accessible given my rudimentary understanding of the math disciplines involved.

An unfortunate aspect of all this, is how few good implementations of these algorithms exist outside of big commercial GIS packages. I'm extremely grateful that a public university financed this particular research originally, or we might not have gotten a well funded open source library.
"Go, Visual Basic, Perl - all these are great, commonly used languages - are they dead or dying too? There’s no reason to think so."

Go is fine but yeah those other two are, uh, well.
I used to use NoScript. It was a revelation to see how much junk just disappears when there's no javascript.

Now I find uMatrix better but the first rule I created was:

* * * block

Since that was the basic starting point for NoScript.

Then slowly build up your whitelist of sites to allow javascript as desired/needed.
Trying to foresee the future...

Could we expect Intel to fix the design flaw^Wfeature so that future server appliance (but also desktop) can run without KPTI while still not being affected by Meltdown ? If so, what timeline could we expect ? Say a year for new CPU designs, plus a year to roll-out new machines in datacenter ?
I had to write Ruby (with no prior experience) as part of an interview exercise, about 10 years ago. Never encountered it or used it since. Not sure it has a purposeful niche or enough of a differentiation to grow in use.
"Time scale" is actually a wonderful, pithy, accurate explanation for a lot of things!
Well it's cyclical for me for companies I work 60-80 hours a week then I live off savings for a while and work on personal projects about 42 hours a week, then I go back to work for the man.

To answer whether it is reflected in my yearly income well it depends where I am working sometimes it's kind of just a salary based set up, sometimes I get per hour pay, I don't think any software engineer ever has gotten a time and a half for over time though.
Salinity levels will vary, but there is no trend to increasing salinity globally. Remember that water is still being “added” to the surface through volcanic activity, and the water cycle dominates, while the current rate of loss to space is quite low. I’m not sure whether volcanic activity is likely to slow before Sol starts to seriously cook off our water, but one of those would eventually lead to a reduction of surface water. That in turn, as with the Dead Sea, will lead to a higher concentration of dissolved solids in seawater.

The current (meaning billion+ years) homeostasis goes like this: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/physical...
You think Brave does not send telemetry :-)

On iOS it links to Fabric and Crashlytics. Both of those did not pass Mozilla's strict data collection rules. I'd love to use them in our mobile products, but they collect too much data, too much personal identifyable data, and store all of that at a third party. (Owned by Google)
Nice! Thank you very much for this link!
The Chris Lattner quote at the end explains the fundamental difference. Kotlin is an interloper in a Java world - that includes the JVM, a VM designed to run Java.

Swift integrates and interoperates with but is not based on the Objective C runtime. Apple also controls all the relevant bits and pieces and they can bridge, compile-to, shim, wrap, etc however they want. They can can pick the design approach and fiddle with all the parts to make them fit. This isn't a luxury Kotlin has.
Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?

It is, but it also shows just how much information people could leak if they casually dismiss any permissions prompting with "allow" (or even worse, have such permissions be granted by default.)
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Nice thought but earth like planets can never get that big because of gravity.
i love “is blocker” for safari; it’s hugely configurable with regexes, allowing things on some domains only, allowing globally from some domains, blocking of canvas elements, XHR requests, frames, plenty more too!
The keyword there is, “in principle,” which is even less than “on paper.” Essentially if you had elements which asymptotically approached frictionless interactions, and you had an idealized power source... sure, less entropy than firing electrons through Si.

Things ignored to make that work:

Materials which are likely to ever exist.

A degree of mechanical perfection on the order of one of NASA’s fused quartz spheres.

An idealized means of transferring energy to the device.

A perfect vacuum.

Perfect shielding from external influence, especially vibration.

The faster you crank this up, the more energy is in the form of Ke in the device, and like a flywheel, it may come to resemble a bomb.
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Ask HN: Do you garden or try to grow fruits/vegetables?
As title suggests I'm just genuinely interested if folks here try to grow things. Seem,s like hn has a good bit of folks from different regions. If so, what are you trying to grow and what are the conditions where you are trying to grow? (e.g. North Carolina where I'm from has clay soil and I'm growing peppers, tomatoes, and trying my hand at some tech around saffron)

I'm interested cause I'm in the agtech space and just trying to find folks who like to grow shit.
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My team saw a 40% CPU usage increase on all of our EC2 instances and even our RDS instances. We were shocked since the media was downplaying the performance impact.

I tried to start a poll but it seems as though my team was just the unlucky one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109036
I don't think that at all. Please read my comment in its context.

It's a good thing for some people to choose to pursue other things and not have kids. There's plenty of room for both kinds of people. But choosing to have kids in today's society is a huge challenge, and society as a whole should help women (and their partners) who choose to have kids. We should, as a MINIMUM, make healthcare free for children and mothers (and really everyone). We should also make it easier for mothers and fathers to balance family and work. Women shouldn't have to choose between their career and the normal (and very important) decision to bear children.
It seems like they are taking a very difficult approach to this. As humans we develop the ability to read human feelings through our mirror neurons and biofeedback from our own body. If you take away the body, and all those nerves feeding back sensation, you're making the problem far harder. Without a body, of course, there won't ever really be meaningful emotion in a robot since emotion is primarily a body-oriented biofeedback thing. That's why people who experience total facial paralysis lose the ability to feel some emotions, then lose the ability to remember what feeling them felt like, eventually on to losing the ability to recognize them in others. Anger, from things I've read, is the standout on that count. The expression of emotion in your body in a very real way is the emotion. Put a pencil in your teeth and you will feel happier because it forces your mouth into a smile. IMO the research screams that you need a body (or perhaps a simulated simulacra of one) for emotion. And to recognize emotion well and be able to empathize, mirror neurons seem a really tried-and-true solution to that.
Ask HN: How do you disable JavaScript based annoyances on browser?
Currently, I use uBlock Origin on Firefox and Chrome. I would like to ask the HN community if there are any other JavaScript blockers I could install. In particular, I would like to know the answers to these questions:

1. Do you also use NoScript or a similar extension?

2. If you do use NoScript or a similar plugin, do you still need to keep uBlock Origin? Wouldn't NoScript itself disable all JavaScript thereby making uBlock Origin unnecessary?

3. Is there any capability or feature natively present in the browser that allows me to block all JavaScript while whitelisting a few websites where JavaScript could be enabled?
From my experience, I often see that the business guys take the engineers opinions with a "grain of salt".

As in, they listen to the engineer, but don't 100% take the advice. Being that engineers opinions don't always "align" with the business.

Example: Engineer recommends we really need to update the database. Technically it is important, but we could push it another few months and still "survive" as a business.

So I agree with the other posters that quitting might be an option.

Of course if what they're proposing is fraud, then by all means quit.

But perhaps they just aren't taking you seriously, and if you threaten to quit, then they might realize how important this topic is to you.

Also, you have more power than you think, even with minimal equity rights. Good engineers are not the easiest to find.
I had to check if this was true. So, Jupiter is about 10x the diameter of Earth, which means it has 100x the surface area. So while it would still be possible to travel anywhere by jet, it would be impossible to travel everywhere in one human lifetime (e.g. there would be 100x the number of cities, nations, etc, and it's already unlikely that any human has visited every major city). So yeah, tentatively I think it's true.
If websites were smart, they'd design their webpages to work with every unique browser. It's actually super easy to do.

It's just not as profitable to treat your users with respect, unfortunately.
Perl isn't dead so much as it's primarily only used in production by older sys admins but it still has a community that loves it, VB.NET is alive and well in Microsoft shops and among noob malware authors.

My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk.
But this is coming from a guy who's favorite pls are erlang, SML/NJ, and Ocaml lol.
I don't think that helps with metadata analysis? Assuming I'm following correctly, we're already encrypting, so it shouldn't matter what order we send... Unless you mean to shift around bandwidth spikes, which could help some
Do your webservers really not have any logging? By default they all do.

I've accepted it as a given that if I interact with a website, it will know my IP, but "phoning home" is a slightly different matter.
that's relative. the further your frame of reference expands, the older the image of earth observable at the border of the frame of reference is, so a few billion light years out, even earth would look boring. And even if that still implied 'mostly-void', I will take it compared to 'pretty much devoid'.
It does not follow that people necessarily behave, even when they know better. We still have that problem today.
Ask HN: What is best free course/resource to learn blockchain
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> In the sense that you are cautious to accept

What anyone eats is their own business, me or anyone should not judge. My point was there is a slanderous judgement on one's character based on personal diet choices which is ridiculous.

Let me give you an example; in Texas I once had colleague who was extremely conservative and has a tremendous amount of Southern pride (he has a confederate flag on his Jeep). Professionally speaking, I never had any issues with him whatsoever. I can't say the same about a fellow Indian who despises me (personally and professionally) just because I have a personal choice of eating beef. This is the a subset of American "individuality" I'm talking about; that despite the differences they are willing to work together. In India (and Asian countries, or so I've heard) people conflate personal and professional lives, which IMO is backward and stupid.

Therefore if you choose to be American or live in America, you need to accept that people are different and learn to accept as they are. Just because someone is different from you doesn't make you superior or inferior. Now, I know you can give me examples of tensions between race relations in the US (which I agree totally exists), but people try not to mix professional vs personal lives as much in the US as elsewhere in the world.
You're right, but the fact that this guy is hung up on the language at the expense of team productivity makes me suspect he's not the "getting shit done" type.
Any idea about this line from the seeker article above?

> "Salt ions themselves aren't added or removed from the ocean, but water molecules are freely gained or lost through the processes of evaporation and precipitation, or freezing and melting of ice," said Ruth Curry, a senior research specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

"Salt ions aren't added". That doesn't seem right...
When you use a thing like "is blocker", do you still need a separate ad blocker or is the JavaScript blocker sufficient to block ads as well?
Then another search engine will happily take the that browser's market share.
Governments are not superhuman either. I am not talking specifically about the difficulty of writing bitcoin, but the collection of circumstances along side that.
Public taxi services in clement weather with on-board backup drivers is a far, far cry from full legal, hands-off autonomy.
They don't fail to tell law enforcement after paying kidnapping ransoms and don't consider the perp to be law-abiding person. Also if a kidnapper was ever located domestically there'd be about a 0.00001% chance of the person getting a payout.
Isn't the building of the houses (the actual economic activity) what expanded the money supply, not the bank(s)? And isn't this exactly how the economy should function - we create more stuff, so all else being equal, the numbers that denote how much stuff we have get larger? Saying the banks create dollars implies they are controlling the money supply.
I was actually referring to the ProPublica article linked in the parent comment of mine. I believe it's much longer than yours so I was surprised it skipped such an alarming fact. I can certainly appreciate the tradeoffs of what to mention in only 2,000 words!
I'm aware of how the passenger pegs work and why. If the passenger pegs are meant to be a signal to emergency responders then Honda should have used a more positive locking mechanism. As it stands the pegs could quite easily be folded up or down in a slide, even on one side. They are not a useful indicator of the presence of a passenger.

I don't think source means what you think it means.
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Pardon this likely naive question, but I haven’t seen it addressed yet in all the coverage: what’s the cost in electricity of patching this vulnerability? Does a company like amazon running a massive cloud infrastructure see a non-negligible increase in their cost of doing business?
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Noto is also the name of a Google font family. Be careful with trademarks here.
I meant real transaction costs, not nominal. Which of course points vaguely to the idea that if the supply of bitcoins expanded proportional to usage maybe it wouldn't be deflationary?
no more uber stores pls. kthanks.
Why? It would only be bad if your effort was not recognised by me and compensated accordingly. This would be bad management.

Your pay should be determined by what you can earn elsewhere and if you are an employee that performs above average then you will likely be paid more than the average employee elsewhere.

Being able to reward high performance is one of the great things about having a smaller business. In big companies or the public sector this is often not possible, but if I want to pay someone more I can.
Its all highly regional, but I believe my characterization is an accurate generalization. Checkout the "Word Origin and History for X" for:

1. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/supper
2. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dinner

Interesting side note, Sup (verb) the root word for supper has been in the (old) English language since before 900 AD.
PowerShell is terribly slow compared to basically anything, but the slow bit here is probably the I/O. Each Add-Content call is a opening appending and flushing to the file, in the inner loop. The fact that Foreach-Object is vastly slower than the foreach keyword and that Add-Content itself is much slower than System.IO doesn't help, but I suspect this is basically I/O and the fact that this type of file access pattern tends to drive AV software crazy. Using a StreamWriter and getting the associated buffering would probably be a lot faster.
It's not that they normalize them per se, it's just that NaN bit patterns are mostly undefined behavior. I think the JVM spec (or JLS, I forget) implies that you can't really rely on the NaN bit patterns being retained. Double.longBitsToDouble mentions that some processors might not return a double in the same bit pattern as passed.
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I've used "waterproof" in-ear headphones for years and they work great. They're not cheap but they do work well. http://a.co/dItFKD3
Not altruism (except occasionally), incentive alignment. Websites that don't otherwise profit from you are incentivized to be as you describe; websites that profit from your happiness (paid directly, funded for a purpose, a generosity, etc) aren't.
The problem hereby is that nobody can actually verify this. But this is true for all companies/servers you don't control.
wireless transmission costs magnitude more then CPU cycles hence delta frames.
It's also against Canadian law to pay ransoms for kidnapping, even if you're a private citizen. (Although you'll be hard pressed to find someone who has been prosecuted for this.) The U.S. has a similar "we don't negotiate with terrorists" policy, but I'm not sure if it's explicitly illegal to send money.
the undercover videos, showing twitter's bias against conservatives (and as some participant called 'red necks' is here:

http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/okeefe-uncovers-twitters-shadow-b...
This is very much in the "uncanny valley" territory for me. The only feeling a robot needs to read from me is "I don't want a robot showing some fake 'emotion'." It brings to mind the irritatingly insincere, smarmy fake friendliness that some companies like to exude in their communications.
I don't have a baby on board sign on my motorcycle, should I get one in order to get people to stop trying to kill me on the road? Or do I need to bring an actual baby?

It's naive to think that anyone is going to drive more safely when they see one of those signs.

And frankly, anyone who actually does needs to reevaluate their priorities. If you see those signs and feel the need to change your driving style, then you know intuitively that your actions are putting people at risk. Yet you continue to drive like that when there aren't babies around?

Why is it acceptable to put everyone else's lives at risk except when you're told one of them is a baby?
So Kentucky has done some bad things with healthcare, but in this case, it’s a test on health habits and financial literacy to encourage people to study for them.

Was thinking more back to “poll tests” Jim Crowe days at first. This was not that. Just saying “literacy” was deceiving.
Indeed. However, it is a very good practical example of why encryption alone doesn't do much. (If the attacker can measure your data stream, they can make statistical assumptions and pull a lot of useful data out without breaking the encryption).
Wait, but what if you are a consumer and you got scammed by a seller? Chargebacks are legitimate means of consumer protection.
Absolutely. For clarification, I've tried and liked Rust and would probably use it on the right project. I still feel like there's some hype around it though.
> It read, to me, like "I don't see why medieval monks cared about death since I don't."

I didn't see anything self-aggrandizing in what was written, merely someone describing how they personally related to both the comment and the article. I can't see a reason why it wasn't relevant since the post above it is basically the same sort of thing, just with different conclusions.
Superintelligence is hyperintergration of the metasystem.
Ask HN: If I wanted to create a very small cooperative ISP for my family and a handful of neighbors, it doesn't seem like rocket science, except...

At some point it has to connect to the Internet, meaning I have to buy some sort of connection. How's that work?
What I’ve seen is it takes five years to design a CPU from scratch.

I imagine they’ll try and rush this to get it out there as fast as possible (obviously a lot of people would like to buy CPUs they don’t have this issue for security/performance reasons) but it’s going to take a while. I think years is definitely the minimum.

Meltdown is easy enough (relatively) but Spectre is kind of a disaster. What do you do? Does the branch predictor have to start tagging every branch guess with some sort of process ID to prevent one process from messing with another’s predictions? Tag the cache lines instead so even though the data is in cache you can’t see it because YOUR process didn’t pull it in yet? What a mess.
> Entourages being ever larger numbers of people hanging on to them and getting their expenses paid for just being friends.

Given the size of the wealth, I don't know why these people get a negative connotation. It's the job of those with wealth to share with those who don't have. Moreso if it's inherited.
There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fiction.
Actually I don't. I never had any account on FB for example, but once in a blue moon I get to visit a public FB page (like a recent blog post posted on HN recently), and having JS disabled let me browse it without worries.

How can a skillful JS developer make the site better for me when I want to avoid ANY extra features and distractions?
My personal tastes tend to go not too far off this kind of design:
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

If this hypothetical developer is really sharing my goals then he'll use the <noscript> tag, and I'll be happy enough with HTML/CSS.

For text-heavy sites, which are the ones I use the most, JS adds nothing I want: tracking? 3rd-party ads? lazy-loading? comments via disqus? sharing to social media? Thanks, but not for me.
Because the fact that it’s about health and finance means they definitely won’t make the tests horribly biased like the old literacy tests?
And what happens if someone can't pass them? They die because they can't get health care?
Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.