skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple seems to be investing heavily in security and privacy, but I'm curious to see if they can actually convince the average consumer to care (and/or buy into their security narrative, depending on your level of cynicism). So far, the convenience and features offered by their competition (at the expense of user privacy) seem to be a stronger draw.

I figure either (A) they're trying to carve out a niche of hardcore consumers who do care, or (B) they're trying to play a long game, hoping that broad sentiment shifts towards valuing electronic privacy. If it's the former case, I think they're doing fine; these kinds of whitepapers will reach most of those who care, and periodic news articles ("Terrorist iPhone unable to be unlocked!") will reach the rest.

If it's the latter, I think it's a pretty big risk given the scale of their re-education task (the pool of users willing to sacrifice personal privacy for other benefits, i.e. Google and Facebook's bread and butter) and the potential pushback they'll receive/have been receiving from governmental sources.

What does HN think? Is this a viable business differentiator for them, long term? Or will they have to shift to the 'dark side' of personalized data and services to remain competitive in the future?
In most contexts, the RSP handles all T&L, making it analogous to modern vertex shaders.
Refusing to negotiate with terrorists is not a real strategy practiced by anyone. It’s just tough PR talk with zero basis on reality.
People in Hawaii received a false alert warning a missile was headed their way
> I might expect to see a handful of standard libraries pop up over time and stabilize

What makes you think this hasn't happened? jQuery and underscore/lodash are some examples of libraries that have a lot of traction. Why is JS having package management seen as a downside? It's an upside in every other language community, but for some reason we should try to avoid using one in JavaScript?
I looked at your site for a few minutes. The quick impression I got was it seems very informal and not super professional. Here's some quick feedback on things you could resolve with not too much extra work:

- It seems like you've done a good amount of work, I think I saw 1000+ docs revised in there, but then the sample work available and testimonials was pretty small / weak. Clear outbound links to your published work would speak volumes. I would rather read your samples than anything else.

- Switch your official email to a non-Gmail address and use your domain proper (even if you forward behind the scenes and use an alias to respond in Gmail which is an easy setup).

- On the resume editing page, I thought it was repetitive to have the price listed 4 separate times. (First thought in my head — did he/she proofread this?)

- I also looked for a way to find more info about you, like an About page, or preferably a link to LinkedIn or something like that, but I didn't find one.

These things are all presentation and ones you can easily resolve without changing much about your core work, but it's the kind of thing a client might pass on services for.
"If you care about equity, it doesn’t look good."
False ballistic missile alert spreads panic in Hawaii
And there is nothing stopping you from doing that - just don't start gnome shell or X on startup, and type vim on the tty.
No I said decent. A president will get a better than decent speech writer [1], but the writer doesn't make policy. The president has to have a distinct, clear opinion about policy, and a good writer makes it convincing and evokes an emotional response in the listener. And then a president makes the delivery.

[1 Barack Obama was a little unique among recent presidents in that he wrote most of his own speeches.
"You have had time to write an oped, but not call the guy on an issue you claim to find hugely important?"

What makes you think he didn't try?
The discussion went through ransoms, hostages and terrorism.
It's inappropriate to reply to all situations with "we don't negotiate with terrorists".
>However, on one front they're incredibly bad. Renewables are usually just that : a piece of infrastructure that needs to be built and needs no fuel beyond it's environment.

> In other words it's capital investment taking out operational expenses. It's capital investment reducing the size of the economy.

I didn't know that coal or oil now produce pure energy by their mere existence, with no need for extraction, refining, transportation and combustion equipment and infrastructure. This is wonderful news and really changes everything. We should tell everybody.
Researchers Found Another Major Security Flaw in Intel CPUs
I cut my teeth on a "Siemens PC-D", a German variation on the IBM PC. Not quite compatible but almost.

It had an 80186, 1MB of RAM (extreme at the time) and many other niceties that a normal IBM PC didn't have. I think it even had an external MMU, at least it could run SINIX. Though there were UNIX clones like PC/IX and early XENIX versions that ran without MMU on stock IBM XTs, without protection obviously, so I'm not certain what the story with SINIX on the PC-D was.
Probably about the same. Most of the code is defining data types and loading an OBJ file, and modern OpenGL requires quite a lot of boilerplate before anything gets drawn.
RSP microcode switches are extremely slow -- they're designed to be programmed once when the game boots up, but some games switch back and forth between a 2D and 3D microcode during different modes. So they're not like shaders in that sense -- shaders are designed to be switched every frame. And keep in mind that the RSP doesn't handle blending. The RSP can kind of be compared to a vertex shader, and the RDP is the fixed-function unit that handles rasterization, interpolation, and blending. It's "programmable" in a glTexEnv sense, but you can't upload your own code.
Kaspersky Internet Security 2018 License Key and Activation Code [Latest]
> I just don't see how nuclear has a bright future in any regard.

How about in space or on other planets?

> And while nuclear is certainly much less CO2 intensive than any fossil-fuel source even a pro-nuclear body's publication shows that wind produces approximately as much CO2/GWh over an installations lifetime as nuclear does.

And what if it's not windy?

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Keep in mind, almost ALL the nuclear power plants built are based on 1950-1960s technology (designed for naval applications). That would be like comparing solar panels from that era with the panels designed/produced today. There is no comparison.
This sounds similar to Project Atomic[1]. The base OS is CentOS or Fedora, system files are managed by OSTree[2], and applications are run as Docker containers. You could probably also use something like Flatpak[3] for desktop apps, which is the approach used by Endless OS[4].

What I find interesting is these two projects are using a similar approach but targeting opposite ends of the spectrum. Atomic is intended as a cutting edge server OS for enterprises that want an integrated stack for running containerized infrastructure (they also started publicizing Atomic Workstation as of the last release, although I found it painful to use due to a lack of docs). Endless is targeting emerging markets, composed primarily of first-time computer users. OSTree+Flatpak allows the desktop to run similarly to a mobile OS, and there’s minimal chance of users breaking the system itself.

[1] https://www.projectatomic.io
[2] https://ostree.readthedocs.io
[3] https://flatpak.org
[4] https://endlessos.com/for-developers
I think Apple employs engineers and leadership who care about privacy and security and are willing to marshall the resources to bring that about. I doubt too many customers really truly care.
Not enough exclamation points.

Rewrote‽
Is there any way to use subcontracting to attack this? Traditionally, subcontracting is used in an abusive way to deny workers proper benefits, pay, and stability. But what if the subcontracting firm operated with essentially no profit motive, hired previous offenders, hacking around internal HR groups at large firms? They’re then not hiring someone with a record; they contacting to a firm who has their own hiring standards (which you’re using to your advantage).

Offtopic: thanks for attacking this problem. There are few people willing to attack important problems like this.
Disagree...

Your second link cites 11.2 GW of new NG capacity for 2017, which is less than the 11.8 GW of retired fossil-fuel capacity over the same time (per the original article).

Besides which, saying that the vast majority of net capacity increase is in renewables doesn't mean that fossil sources aren't also going up. In fact, unless it's 100% of new capacity, fossil fuel sources are definitely going up, by definition. There's no real conflict or twisting the facts there.
> for practical reasons

You really think there is no benefit to the reader?

I agree that the Inverted Pyramid is the mainstay of news and would be unfit for a novel and even some long features like you find in New Yorker magazine.

But the problem isn't that there are too many articles written in the Inverse Pyramid that should have been written some other way. The problem is that too many articles that should have been written in the Inverted Pyramid aren't. If you have problems with making judgments and using the word "should," I'm talking about writing in the practical interests of the reader. If the reader comes to the article for information, then the article should get to the point as soon as possible. If the reader comes for entertainment (like a novel) then the writing can follow some other path.

To say that the reason for the Inverted Pyramid was mainly so that syndicates could cut the article at any point to fit the space they had is to ignore all the benefits to the reader. The reader is presented with a large newspaper of various articles, and he is trying to decide which ones to read and which to skip, because he doesn't have time to read a whole newspaper from start to finish every day. Some stories, he just wants the gist, which is why even the headlines are supposed to present the whole story, obviously in outline. A hurried reader can browse just the headlines and know the overall news of the day. A less-hurried reader can read the first paragraph of some of the more interesting stories. And so on.

Even though we don't have paper newspapers as much, we still have readers with short attentions spans. In fact, more so.
FWIW, a lot of other 'fixed function' GPUs were internally little custom vector processors too, they just weren't exposed to external developers.
There are good resources online for software rasterizers:

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/ras...

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/triangle-rasterizat...

As a graphics programmer, I find the example code extremely readable. If you recognize the math, you'll recognize the rest.
I wonder if you have any inkling of how you're demonstrating my point.
I certainly appreciate this effort, whatever their long term intention or strategy is with this in a commercial way (or not), it’s in line with what I expect when it comes to my privacy and security.

Some of the google/Android “features” and what they do with your data, make old school keyloggers look like a joke.
Lenovo and Dell. Never again.

My next computer will be something from Microsoft's Surface line. They seem to be the only manufacturer who can make proper devices (everything working and power bricks which last more than 6 months - thanks Apple).
What did they charge you with?
I have to wonder if there is a sound business decision in all of this to force upgrades on users.

Im perfectly content with a several year old laptop for what I do but I realize that the performance hit from this patch is going to force my hand on an upgrade.

Lets face facts, intel hasn't seen a lot of real gains for real world usage in a few years - this change adds bloat to software where it simply wasn't being generated before.

Note: im not suggesting the issue was intentional but this unintended consequence has an upside for someone, the question is who.
The seas around the British Isles, which the poster is talking about, are _always_ windy. Plus this can be mitigated with the battery storage the post you replied to mentioned and solar - it's unlikely to be both still and overcast.
> Anyone with a record can attest to the stigma that doesn't leave after doing one's time. In fact, for most, it's a life sentence, a sentence that even low unemployment can't expunge.

This is correct. I have a criminal record (though hopefully after probation it gets deleted - deferred adjucation) and lucky enough to have a well paying tech job because my company did not do a background check. However, you never know when you may be fired, have to leave, or the company may fail. I always worry ahead of time when I might need another job and be unable to find an engineering job that doesn't background check me.

One time I accepted an offer after many interviews and worked at a place for two weeks - enough time for someone to settle down and feel like they are back to a normal life, and bang - background check, and I was out the next day.

I am also in a support group with people with the same crime as me and those who were no as fortunate to be college educated suffer from unstable and low paying employment. Those are college educated are not much better off because the jobs that they know how to do and pay decently are behind background checks.

It is very frustrating to know that you might not get a job not because of your skills, interview prep, or personality, but because of something you did years ago. I get it that not all of us are good guys or have learned our lesson, but everyone should be able to feed themselves and their families.
I wonder if we can glean any information from the timing of this. Blind speculation follows...

Was this a new system that has recently been set up, maybe even this week? If so, does that mean the US military is taking North Korea seriously and it's not just sabre-rattling? Do we have intel that North Korea is actually going to launch something towards us? Or is the US planning a first strike of their own in the very near future and are preparing for the inevitable counterattack?
The point of my citation is to contrast with the anecdote about conservatives detesting Trump. Overwhelmingly Republicans (not necessarily conservatives) approve of what he's doing. It'll be vaguely interesting to see if these numbers weakend meaningfully after the most recent week's episodes of Celebrity Chaos Clown.
Toyota wants to change the world with Mirai, its new hydrogen car UK
Africa’s Generational War – Foreign Policy
> It requires that you organise it yourself.

Another way of saying it is that it lets you organize it yourself.

There will always be people who don't understand, or care to understand, how the system works. You can put in all the hand-holdy nonsense you want to cater to them and they'll still exist, but you'll be adding tedious and unnecessary hurdles in the workflow of people who do know what's going on.
Yes--I've been thinking about "no more career politicians" for years. And yeah, it's idealism at its finest--a really good progressive idea that will either never break ground or will be radically transformed into something else terrible that still protects vested interests. Sigh. I hate being both an idealist and a cynic. Wait! Maybe we could get Bezos to back it :p
The Supreme Court is about to decide how your online purchases are taxed
Obviously, not a joke. COBOL and Ruby have a lot in common, as far as I can tell.
That is the exact passage I had quoted.
they probably feel like it's part of what a premium phone should feel like on an emotional level, safe.
It is more comfortable to talk with people side by side than face to face. I have had lots of good conversations with people while carpooling or walking somewhere together.

My oldest son has output difficulties. Walking together while he does most of the talking has helped him enormously.

Most of the time, I enjoy listening to my son. If you can similarly find someone in your life who enjoys listening to you and doesn't mind acting as a sounding board, just having the time to practice can really help you hone this skill.
If I remember correctly, while the U.S. makes up only 5% of the world's population, we incarcerate 25% of the worlds prison population. I am thankful for work like yours that is helping to rehabilitate people in the most danger.
Has this at all caused google to reconsider the heterogeneous nature of the cloud in terms of hardware? It seems like Google the company is constantly fixing/redoing various intel problems such as ME and now this. Google is part of openpower after all, it would be interesting to see another architecture being pushed.
I was wondering what was happening to PatchGuard in Win7 when Skywing joined MS.
Of course. I'm not telling anybody to run on kimsufi, like I'm not running kimsufi myself, but on brand-new Supermicro machines that check all your boxes.

Kimsufi is still dedicated hardware (however low-end) that costs 1 figure instead of 5/6. For normal server-grade hardware it's just 5x cheaper than AWS, not 20x.
You appear to have mistaken generation capacity (discussed in the Electrek article) with usage (cited by you).
It's an urban density issue. In Manhattan, groceries are expensive, storage is limited and there are many restaurant options across the price spectrum. So very often you end up buying dinner on your way home, whether shopping for groceries, getting take out or dining out. It turns out the price differential is surprisingly low. (If you don't drink alcohol, which is always substantially cheaper at home. )
PyCharm/WebStorm lets you debug node processes in the same way as python processes, so debugging tests doesn't seem to be much different for me.

For code running in a browser, you can do in-IDE debugging with PyCharm/WebStorm via a run configuration [1], although I tend to not bother and just use the Chrome devtools instead, which I find to be very high-quality.

My company does a lot of JS and Python, and I've found that people tend to be more comfortable using a debugger with JS because you can just open Chrome devtools, set a breakpoint, and go. In Python, you need good editor support or you need to use a command line debugger, so there's a larger barrier to entry.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2018/01/debugging-javasc...
Any finite graph can be embedded in three-dimensional space without edge crossing. [1]

Thankfully the human connectome doesn't need eight-dimensional space to exist.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02522826
Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say
No. Well, yes, to a certain extent, but they don't need all the abstraction of containers, they can just be regular old directories. DOS applications were managed this way, MacOS applications were managed this way, RiscOS, NextStep, and OSX (now confusingly renamed to MacOS again) worked this way.

None of them use any containerization hackery to make it work, they just don't hardcode paths at compile time in their applications like UNIX developers do.
> Who buys a laptop with only 30 GB of storage?

Somebody who doesn't work in the IT industry - the target demographic of Windows.

I'm also surprised it's possible - but if it cuts the price, then why not? I assume 10GB more than the minimum is enough to earn the Windows badge.

But I don't think the crux of the issue was lack of disk space.
This is a model some staffing agencies employ, whereby they are the employer of record, serving a larger corporate client. In theory, it makes sense, however it fails to address the real needs of job-seekers with records: they need a full-time, stable job. Flexibility does not serve their interests. And those newly out of prison are generally required to have a full-time job as a condition of their release. As any general contractor can attest, it's nearly impossible to maintain full-time employment for their crew. And "crews" are rarely the scalable solution to a problem faced by many millions.
Ask HN: Anybody who wants to start a project in the crypto space?
Hey!

I do have a lot of time in the next two weeks and want to build something in the cryptospace. I am open for everything: Niche site, affiliate site, SaaS, app,...

Only condition: It should be profitable from the first week.

Ping me at ideavalid@icloud.com if you are interested :)

Regards,
Jakob
You're talking about Lodash. But the remaining issue is of locality. If you use a package as a standard library, you still have to send that package to a client for them to use your app. Whereas a 'real' standard library would already exist as part of their interpreter/browser/operating system.
No one. If they wanted to die they'd just wait for the missile.
Was that the one that came with a remote control to turn it on and off?
Loving how the tone of the article is more about "you dumb users" and not "our architecture is so shit we couldn't implement a feature so we just lied to our users instead".
Yeah, I also don't care for that, but I can't argue that that policy hasn't achieved its goals. The Linux kernel has more and better driver support than any other open source OS and also most closed source ones.
What psychopath sells PCs with a 5400 rpm hard drive as the main drive?
Yes, actually. It looks like the increase in petroleum and gas in the last 5 years is more or less nullified by the drop in coal, while renewables is steadily increasing. What do you see?
When you define "new" in such a way that you can only count renewables then it's really not "new" is it?

Unless you can come up with some stats that prove that all of the non-renewable production that was added was directly replacing old non-renewable production, and all of the renewable production was added just to meet new needs, then you have no case.
Facebook's Sandberg, Twitter's Dorsey to Leave Disney Board
I would hope that this forum understands the importance of not censoring truths that are politically incorrect....
Thank you. Your facts are correct. As a patriotic American, I'm ashamed with some of our country's medieval criminal justice practices, including our distinction of being the only country in the world (which includes China, Iran, North Korea, etc) that keeps juveniles in solitary confinement.
That is the clearest graph ever to show the degradation in performance. How do you get your usage so flat?
Murdoch’s News Corp. Warns Facebook to Avoid ‘Political’ Changes
Indonesia central bank warns over cryptocurrencies
>that's not why games aren't being ported to Linux //

What's weird to me is that a lot of games will run on Linux, eg via WINE (PlayOnLinux) say but the companies then appear to be hostile to users doing that. I used to play a load of the Tom Clancy games on WINE [single player], but then Origin messed with something, maybe their cheat system, making it no longer work on Linux. So now I don't buy games from Origin any more and stick with Steam.

It's not just "not ported to", game companies seem actively hostile to [paying!] Linux users, I don't know if MS pay them to be like that or what their motivation is?
It is not that you cannot build 186-based PC-compatible computer, but on the other hand using 186 for PC is somewhat pointless because you cannot use most of things that 186 adds to 86/88 in order to remain PC compatible.
Apache httpd 2.4.30 (next release) will have native ACME support
Vista was crap, especially compared to contemporary Windows Server 2003