skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on whether you compare to 1944!Hitler or 1930!Hitler.

Point being, comparisons to Nazi Germany, or other evil regimes of the past are usually exaggerated because no western country in the present is a comparable regime. Nevertheless, there have been some worrying developments in the west over the past two decades, and they invite caution.

Or, put more bluntly (and I think in line with Maciej's talks): Trump is not Hitler. But the next president - in the US or elsewhere - just might be.
That's fine, and it's also their backyard, not "the web", which is what the parent comment said.
Container Structure Tests: Unit Tests for Docker Images
> Also... does anyone notice that this test shows that the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest.

That does seem suspicious. On the other hand, that's precisely the party that would have the most incentive to publicize the results of the tests...
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If your code doesn't reach out beyond the blockchain, then there's very little it can actually do. You are limited to twiddling balances of coins. This turns out to be great for making casinos and ponzi schemes, but little else.

To do anything more meaningful, code needs to interact with the real world. And this is generally the point at which blockchain apps lose all of their purported benefits, like decentralization, immutability, reliability and so on.
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Yeah, the site looks promising. We have to wait and see how it grows.
How important is speed really? It's not like it's the only parameter you can measure a framework by, just happens to be the only quantifiable one.
In System L the evaluation contexts are first class and treated symmetrically with values. This goes beyond the functional paradigm. The Haskell proposal seeks to implement functional aspect of linear logic.
What I didn't hear was anything about the customers.

You may have heard the old saying about relationships: "If Momma ain't happy - ain't nobody happy". I think the same thing goes for a firm's relationship with their customers. If the customer isn't happy, there's no repeat sales and no positive word-of-mouth advertising, leading to decreased sales and revenue, leading to reduced shareholder value.
Marin residents voted against BART a long time ago as it would have attracted crime.

Not a new topic, wouldn't change much.
> It requires changing browsers, to let people distribute Google Hosted Apps on their own domains

Does it? The web packaging spec linked to doesn't seem to require any of that. And it's intended as an open standard for all browsers to implement, so you wouldn't need to switch.
It costs a couple of 2017 dollars per month to host a basic site. If you get hammered by many GB of bandwidth you could get into tens of dollars (around $0.10/GB on a few sites I checked for non-bulk tiers, and it only gets cheaper from there).

That's stupidly cheap, and much more easily available than trying to get your content online in the 90s without being at a university or corporation that could act as a patron of your online activity.

But continuing on from the patronage angle, Amazon etc are already doing massive things even without external compute customers, so their economies of scale for providing servers & bandwidth are already in place.
Would "flushing on ignore" not leave the cache side channel open for many instructions before the abort?
My first thought exactly. Particularly with any area that's largely single-family dwellings, this would completely galvanize opposition to transit, as the locals would quite correctly apprehend that it's the fast track to having the neighborhood change, and explicitly so.

It's also essentially a way of telling everyone "want a life where rail travel is your primary commute? hope you also don't want a single-family home."

Now, maybe that's an acceptable loss, given that single-family neighborhoods are already not exactly friendly to rail lines coming in, and they are by nature exactly in heavy supply near rail.

Or maybe the unintended consequence is going to be to halt the expansion of rail.
No need for that. Use the "upvote" button if you want to express a "+1".
It's not in the program itself, it's in the frameworks. That is, the way the frameworks handle the HTTP requests uses blocking IO.

There are other frameworks that are non-blocking; they just didn't include them. To be fair, Iron and Nickel are the old guard of frameworks, and Rocket is one of the new, hyped ones, but they don't use any async stuff. This isn't so much blaming the benchmark as it is adding context!
Thanks. This is probably the most coherent pitch I've seen for tokens (and also helps me understand a little better why certain people are so attracted to them). I was of the opinion they were a pure ponzi scheme, but this gives me a somewhat better balanced understanding of what actual expectations underpin the speculation.
I'm not sure about that sequence but the sound of the chip is lovely... nice experiment!
> all for their benefit

And the benefit of everybody with a mobile device that just wants their article to load quickly.

> And now they’re trying to get a new standard feature to let them lie about the URL to make it even easier

These are called "engineering tradeoffs". It's not perfect, but it's better than what we had before.
I think a better NPM Install would be something closer to what Yarn does with how it de-dupes and deterministically lays out the node_modules folder.
I think it would be a mistake to assume that Meltdown/Spectre are somehow obvious and should have been spotted early in the design process. Remember that these vulnerabilities have been preset for 10 years and only now have people found them. If the issues had been spotted within the first year of CPU release you could argue that it should have been more obvious to the designers as well.
Show HN: Python framework prototype to avoid the need for JavaScript
This is what my criticism is, as well. A few days ago I had been pondering a similar concept of a blockchain-based platform for tracking image ownership. The main blocker I encountered while thinking about it was the problem of immutability. Specifically, what happens if something is wrong?

Like, the first problem I see here is a troll just importing images from all over the Internet and claiming ownership. If something like this happens, would it be possible for the actual artist to ever regain "ownership"?

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the blockchain and tell lies?
I think the idea is you just never accept foreign machine code.
I believe you're right about that looking back. One of the safest developments in car culture has been the round-a-bout. Of course that works so well because it physically prevents the collisions that would otherwise happen in the centers of intersections. My hope is that we will extend that idea to all roads everywhere, and that future generations will physically separate roads intended for cars from roads intended for cyclists and pedestrians. Burying them underground but w/ ventilation for the exhaust, for example.
Typically, that would be called "a virus"
It's a good question and I bet there's going to be a lot of speculation and pointing to documents and people that predicted these issues years ago. But it's important to remember that hindsight is 20/20.

All of us probably have, on some level, risky behaviors we participate it. Maybe you're reusing a password between a few of sites, maybe you're driving a little bit too fast sometimes, or maybe you're sitting at your computer a bit more than you should. We take these risks daily, both at home and at work. Risk is a fact of life and of business.

Most of the risks we take turn out OK for us. But some don't. The problem is we tend to ask "why didn't we foresee it" only when something goes wrong, regardless of whether that risk was worth taking at the time. So the question is incredibly biased. Risks don't exist in a vacuum.

Anyway, I'm not an expert on CPUs or the CPU industry, but for what it's worth I'm guessing that they knew that there was a theoretical way to exploit this architecture. Maybe they knew how bad it could be, maybe they didn't. But market forces today are a lot stronger than some theoretical problem that may or may not happen in the future, especially if that theoretical problem would also hurt your competitors. I bet that fixing the problem is expensive in either money or performance. If that's the case, then fixing it when the risk is theoretical could be a bad business decision and might give your competitors an advantage (cheaper or more performant hardware).

I think that a much more interesting question to as is how do we incentivize this industry to avoid these types of problems in the future
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16073219
I'm pretty sure it was a light-hearted joke, not a serious theological thesis.
Inevitably because of the ICO component, there will be a lot of applications that tries to use block chain to search for a problem to solve more inefficiently than not using block chain. With the main idea so they can get the ICO to work for them.
Got it now.

Yeah, I guess you're right - Facebook is insistent on suggesting their way of doing things, constantly trying to tell me what to read and what to do.

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In my personal experiences they have failed, though.

All their suggestions were way off and totally useless. So I just auto-ignore their mails, dismiss the notifications just by type without checking and whatever and use only what I want to use (they have some good uses).

Heck, even their Android apps are so awful, so even though I wanted some of features they sort of forced me to not install any apps and just use a browser. ;)
Did Euclid really exist? Or was it another case of racist history rewriting? [pdf]
Crystal is a relatively newer language aimed to combine Ruby's syntax with the speed of C per it's project page [1].

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
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> I wonder if this could backfire

In regards to politics, the answer to this question is, without a doubt, regardless of the content, always "Yes it will."
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Rather than pay someone else to rent their user-tracking advertising system, YC built a platform where their target audience comes to them--sometimes compulsively. The influencers and evangelists among us can then multiply awareness to different audiences on their own platforms.

Whenever they want to advertise a YC business, they can just pin a story to the front page for a few hours. It's smart, subtle, seamlessly non-intrusive, and one of the better advertising experiences (relative to other ad-delivery systems), in my opinion.

If you haven't noticed, you need to tune your detector a bit closer to the noise floor.
not to mention CGI
"as it would have attracted crime."

Source?
A lot of times they do. What you have to remember is that board members serve multiple functions. They are partially there to help inroads into other companies. They are their to provide insight into how the organization is to do business and what direction it should take. A lot of times this means that the people on the board need an inside perspective of what's going on in the industry.

Other functions they serve is to protect the organization from unwanted influence. The board ultimately votes on things like, when and who to sell the company to. By weighting the board with people you know will vote a certain way, you protect against things like hostile takeovers. (This along with other rules that many companies have, like only being able to replace 2 board members per term).

In large companies, if you say own 10% of the shares, you really have a massive amount of voting power with a fraction of the shares, because all the with say 5 shares of a stock, aren't going to bother to send in their ballot when voting on board members etc. By weighting the board with insiders etc., you are helping to ensure that a rival or some other organization isn't buying shares through subsidiaries and then making a play before anyone notices.
bezos has the worlds information on a device in his pocket. he can go to the grocery store and buy 1000s of different affordable items. yeah, hes the richest.
The problem that they use Googles services and are upset by what Google provides? What problem is AMP creating that NEEDS to be solved?
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But all your examples are possible (and have been successfully implemented) without a blockchain. So what does the chain add?

Besides which, when is turning abundance into scarcity a good thing?
[Question] What technology, based or not on blockchain, would enable an entity to write relatively large amounts of data in a "sustainable" way -- sustainable meaning, that the data is independent from whoever wrote it (can survive it)?

Writing data to the blockchain solves this problem, but the cost is large and performance is dismal.

Writing hashes to the blockchain at specified intervals, delivers proof of existence, at an acceptable cost and performance, but does not really make sure the data itself will survive its original author.

Is there another way? Can chronicle help?
If I were taking this approach I might not even tell you the instruction set of the machine, so your compiler wouldn’t be useful.
Only if the community does not decide to fork and everyone jumps to the fork like with The DAO. Then maybe you can look up everything in the old branch of your chain but nobody cares...
Maybe I don't get the joke then. To me, it just seems to be purposefully inflammatory and edgy. As it turns out, it's really off-base, too.
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A lot of property owners never want to leave. Ever. They want this to be their home (or 2nd home) forever, and want it to never change from what they remember it being for the past 20 years.

They have no interest in "property value". Especially if they already have too much money.

NIMBYism is less "I don't want my property value affected" and more "I don't want anything affected"
> “We also want to work across the industry (ideally including Apple) longer-term to address more robust, cross-device advertising targeting and measurement capabilities that are also consumer friendly.”

Just to be clear: you want that. Whatever lies you tell yourself to get to sleep at night, no one outside your parasitic industry wants this. I, for one, absolutely 100% do not want you to target and measure me robustly across devices.
No-one’s saying you can’t advertise. There was advertising in the world long before persistent stalking of users was a thing. They advertised based on the content, rather than the user.
Yes it does because the intended effects (lower consumption of sugary drinks leading to lower disease and lower health care costs) have an outsized effect on them.

Nobody is disputing sugar taxes are regressive, they’re disputing that’s actually a bad thing.
rel="preload" is intelligent on mobile so as to not waste data. The browser is still in charge - it's only a suggestion from the site.
Kubernetes, Kontainers and Kubernetes-native in 2018
The Lawyer Behind the Google Memo Guy's Lawsuit Isn't Who You'd Expect
It's inspired from nevow and use aiohttp.
> As long as anyone can setup their own AMP-like cache and build a search engine similar to Google, that also supports preloading... then I'm not sure it so bad.

Yes, anyone could build a cache. But can anyone build a cache that can compete with Google's absolutely massive infrastructure and pile of money, not to mention the reach they already have with search?

I'd say this is not a discussion on the level of ‘can you build a better product and win from a giant company?’, more like ‘can you build a planet and get everyone to move there?’
> maybe, just maybe, middle-schoolers are not ready to appreciate the complex interplay between overlapping Gauss curves, path dependence, self-fulfilling prophecies

I'd say that only applies if you want it to. Otherwise, are you suggesting that there's a specific age which one needs to reach in order to grok basics of statistics?
Apparently it's a bug with the markdown editor they are using:

https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/7954/
Use whatever app or medium you choose, my advice was simply that sending directly to specific people is a better than flooding your IG or FB with photos of junior every day.
Now you have lots of extra complexity and multiple points of failure instead of just one.
The bane of open software: users can install any trash they want to.
Clamav (clamWin) will happily false positive and quarantine all sorts of files on a windows box, occasionally including required system files. I've tried it on 3 different boxes at different times over the past ~5 years and the amount of false positives was insane every time.

I don't think its ready to be run on Windows boxes unless you are a power user willing to manually verify ~100 files are not actually malware.
What productive use? It would just go to another bet to try and make money.

The stock market is not about giving companies capital anymore, it's about concentrating funds to the back accounts of the right people.
Great idea. Therefore, it'll never happen. Too many entrenched interests will be hurt by solving the problem, I fear.
Half of those appear to be twitter handles. So yeah, you are probably being too cynical ;)
With respect, your opinion is anecdotal. These things aren't always obvious, or even visible to respondants at all.

I'm not saying there's no effect, just that right now this claimed finding seems contrary to the existing body of evidence.

This finding may well be accurate (and the existing studies in error). Alternatively it may be a mistake. Alternatively both could be true and this survey represents a special case, some kind of selection bias.

Given that this survey is yet to be peer reviewed or replicated I think the most likely explanation is a mistake, but that's just my perception of the balance of probabilities.
They didn't mention customer satisfaction because it's not always a priority, shareholder value is.

A fantastic example of this is Comcast. It is regularly voted America's most hated corporation in the country, yet because of its unique leverage in the areas that it operates, this poor customer satisfaction rating just doesn't matter. They're still able to satisfy the shareholders.
Microsoft Pauses Rollout of Windows Meltdown and Spectre Patches for AMD Devices
> Apple wants to kill the open web

Such a nonsense saying. Apple doesn't want to "kill the open web"—indeed they have large investments in it—they are just unwilling to prioritize it over the better experience of the OS or to forgo privacy.

Enough with this FUD nonsense.
I am running a razer blade 2017 with ubuntu 16.04 and so far all of the PoCs have worked. I currently have my kaslr offset and I am now testing the reliability. So far it doesn't seem very good with a 0.00% success rate at 60 reads. It did take a while to find my kaslr offset with multiple passes through the entire randomization space so I need to stress my CPU more in order to improve the success rate of having successful branch speculations.
You're not fine if you've disabled Windows Defender.
It's not even really that quantifiable, since a framework can be faster at some tests and slower at others.
Then what is the article about? Or was it to serve as propaganda for Docker and Kubernetes... again?
Yes, and like I said, I still use Google Maps. But I usually use maps to get an overview over an area and to orient myself, not to navigate to a business in an unknown city. And my point still stands, around here Google have the oldest data and most outdated data.
Pre-monetized YT was even noticeably better. The my-first-VFX videos aren't even the problem, it's the mountain of outright clickbait burying everything else, and rampant padding of what ought to be 20-30s videos to several minutes for what I assume are monetization reasons, usually starting with a minute of updates about the person's other videos and how much they loved the comments on their last video and blah blah blah, then some recap of stuff you definitely already know if you've sought out this video, and so on.

My wife sometimes watches a video then leaves the "next video" running in the background while she does other stuff. Often it's people talking about movies in clickbait-titled videos. Their primary skill seems to be talking for several minutes without actually saying anything, and avoiding the video title's topic for as long as possible. It's kind of impressive, but does nothing to enrich anyone's life and drowns out better content with worse SEO.
> If you need time to mourn, then take it. But do not denigrate those who would honor those fighting for all of us by making sure that there isn't more to the story.

I would think people who care so much about online privacy would be capable of shutting their mouths for a short bit of time to give the friends and family of the deceased a chance to mourn. But what do I know?
I mean, transistor-based microelectronics are basically just special rocks that we have inscribed with very precise geometrical patterns and feed lightning into in order to make them behave how we want.
So, it sounds like their would be no visual or noise restrictions or barriers? Haven't studies shown those are real problems (or at least, we need X hours of sleep)
Market cap is just one way of determining the value. You should consider others when making any investment/gamble. Many of the traditional ways of valuing a company can be applied to value a crypto currency. If the market cap is much higher than the net present value or discounted cash flow that is a sign of an overvaluation or bubble.
I'm not sure what's left after Chrome and FF. Safari if you are on a Mac and IE on Windows (though IE seems imperfect). I suppose you can use a FF derivative like Ice Weasel. For my money, Mozilla is still the best option and with so many free options out there, it's hard to keep up unless you play the game somewhat. Mozilla's most important role is a seat at the web standards table and if they wither on the vine because users jump to Chrome because it "just works", they will lose that seat.
http://zenledger.io

My friends and I have been building out tech in this space. (no we're not doing an ICO= we've been asked if we are by so many people, jesus)

The 1031 laws change things for people, feel free to ping me if you have deeper questions.
I don't disagree with anything you said.

But, separately, if you asked me if I wanted to use something to store/transmit value that was only reliable 99.9999999% of the time, I would immediately say no. At Visa scale, that means 15 transactions a day are incorrect - not delayed, just straight up incorrect. Maybe that already happens and we just don't hear about it because they can fix it without any one noticing or it's just small enough to not be noticed. But it is still unnerving.
> Technically, decentralized system will be
> always slower than centralized one.

This is not a reasonable response to the parent: bitcoin is significantly slower than other systems of its class. Ethereum is an equivalent system and faster. (Others are much faster still)

There are application where speed matters. For example, to sort things out while all the lawyers are in a room.
In fact your kernel does become "tainted" if you install unsupported kernel drivers (the closest equivalent to what the problematic Windows AVs do). If your support comes from RH, SuSE or similar vendors it usually becomes limited, depending on the kind of taint.