skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel, AMD and Via microcode is being archived by CPUID, by the user community: https://www.win-raid.com/t3355f47-Intel-AMD-amp-VIA-CPU-Micr...

"Collecting all available Production CPU microcodes is important for upgrading/downgrading purposes, for creating universal tools that can help people understand what microcode they use, for research on how the general technology works, for developers with no vendor representative who want to experiment on a given platform etc.

Disclaimer: All the microcodes below come only from official BIOS/UEFI updates, Intel Linux Microcode Updates, Linux Distributions, Windows Updates etc which were provided and made public by various manufacturers! It is always advised to request and/or wait for your OEM/OS to release newer fixes. The microcodes are gathered and provided with the sole purpose of helping people who are out of other viable solutions. Thus, they can be extremely helpful to those who have major problems with their systems for which their manufacturer refuses to assist due to indifference and/or system age."
#3. This is so truth. People have no idea what they talking about when they say "we are a family". Forget this whole family crap! Hire skilled and talented people. Let them do their job. Give them freedom and don't stand in their way. Employees barely know what a friendship is, let alone a family.
There's a substantive difference between being given money vs keeping your own money: one is theft, the other isn't.

If we can't get tax cuts across the board, then I'm all for reducing taxes on whoever we can, however we can.
Panasonic has released some data on how theirs compared to others for Hurricane Irma last year. Here's an article about that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

It says that Panasonic posted the data from this online so scholars could evaluate it, and gives a Google drive link, but that's 404 now.
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It's sad that only Google is getting punished when Amazon owns a major portion of sales. Facebook is increasingly becoming the "home page" of small businesses all over the world. Etsy is now the ONLY place people can sell small hand-made art pieces. Ebay is the only marketplace to sell wholesale items on.

None of these platforms value add much that can't be built into whatever the next web becomes... But no organization is as powerful as a single one of them.

So Google is allowed to do this as long as all these other companies do what they are doing. I think what happened is that all the other disruptions were done to companies that don't know something could be better - they were not technologists, programmers, etc..

This letter is written by technologists, developers, so they know what google has done to steal the market. But no one here wants to apply the same logic to the other ones.
Uh, there definitely isn’t any fixation with load speeds amongst web devs. If there were, the web wouldn’t be a complete disaster and there wouldn’t be any need for AMP. Users care about load speeds. Web devs care about getting their sites to work when their core i7 workstations are connected to the corporate intranet, and getting paid.
He typed on Hacker News...
I agree with you. I tried to be deliberate about this by saying VC is a great option to consider for venture scale company -- but it's definitely not the only option.
Pretending to be a family is bad news. Especially if you tell prospective employees that and then remind them that employment is "at will".
Does High Sierra update the microcode of the CPU?

For Sierra, a patch is likely coming; there is "Security Update Developer Beta 2018-001" which you can get using their beta program.
> I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up.

Google and Amazon are hardly the classic 100x-hypergrowth model.

Facebook and Twitter DID really mess up, have you seen how much utterly vile stuff you can report to them and it will still be around months later? Have you been at the receiving end of a shitstorm or Nazi trolls? People order SWATs over Twitter, leading to deaths. The president of the US leaves the rest of the world in panic when someone will finally declare war with him after yet another tweet. The reports from former "moderators" all have one thing in common, they're exploited worse than cannon fodder in wars (the soldiers at least were dead, the moderators will have to live with the videos of beheadings and CP the rest of their lives). Airbnb screwed up entire city rental markets and squeezed out thousands of poor people, hardly call that a success. Pinterest? Wtf how on earth is this worth 12 billion dollars? Or Snapchat with 25B $? Where is the actual worth represented in positive effects for society by this?!

In the end all that creates this "wealth" is data. Data is volatile, it's intangible - and once it is too much, the noise ratio gets too high to be useful, and then most of the companies you mentioned will have a massive problem with finances because they're only worth as much as the data and eyeballs of their customers is worth.

> Attract employees that agree with you

and end up like Uber with a reputation of "every one is welcome here, as long he's a white male with tolerance for extremely high alcohol consumption"?

> The market will decide if you are right or not.

The market is so oversaturated with cash that an app that could literally do nothing more than distribute "Yo" could get 1.5M$ cash at 10M$ valuation. The corrective forces of the market have vanished long since, otherwise the business model of many VCs would have broken years ago. To make stuff worse, the employees are often enough paid with options that may or may not become entirely worthless (and some options even are until an IPO or after years of working for the company!). That's gambling with the future in a really toxic way.

And while I'm at gambling: that more and more cash, both from the VC, the institutional financial and the private sector is flowing into ever more "coins" is also something that is dangerous and set up to explode. Yet another consequence of the current cash saturation.

Don't get me wrong: VCs as an institution, startups and coins serve an useful purpose. But in current conditions (both political and financial) they and the business model they run have grown extremely toxic on society.
Counterpoint: Blog posts like this one are useful, because the VC-funded companies you named are so successful at dominating our thoughts, conversations, and news feeds (HN included) that many founders never see any examples of people following an alternative path.

It can be inspiring to a lot of people to simply hear about the possibility of building a small, revenue-generating business or side project.

I've been running Indie Hackers for the past year and a half, interviewing hundreds of developers about their small businesses[0], and it feels like every day I talk to someone who's never even considered bootstrapping to be an option. Spreading awareness is valuable, especially considering that venture capital is only a viable option for a small minority of companies, and the ways in which it can cause an otherwise healthy business to fail are rarely discussed by VCs themselves.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
Yeah, it is "whales" that support those games. The business model is to attract and retain people who pour money into the game for whatever reason.
Holy shit. Mentioning the demo scene in an article about game engines made me remember the "Into the Shadows" demo by Triton from 1995 (one year before quake was released): https://youtu.be/MViZocLJVcM?t=28s. That was really impressive back then. Thanks for the throwback!
> The OP believes that there exists an idea of goodness extending beyond oneself, relating to joining society and acting. Perhaps what we, as members of society, want is not a happy life, but a meaningful life[1].

> (...) in order to ever be in a position where they can join society and use them for good

But you are still judging the person as NT, which seems strange to me especially as you mentioned in previous comment you are autistic as well (unless I've read that incorrectly.) You should know in the first place that it is not up to you or me to judge the meaning of someones life, and especially autistic life. I said before that autistic brain works differently and this still applies. It works so differently that NT/ND comparison doesn't make any sense.

What if they don't want to be a member of the society? What if many of them care about society no more than about weather the other day? [1] You might be unaware, but lot of autistic people feel pride in how different they are, how autism shaped their lives and they wouldn't switch back to be NT if you gave them such option.

That being said I am not stating that low autistic people never seek for an interaction, understanding or just thoughts sharing. I am just stating that there is such a possibility. Even if they do, there is not much NT society can do fulfill their needs.

> He is the one we pity, though of course he does not mind his condition. (...) If we did not pity him then, why pity him now; in any case, who is there to pity? The intelligent adult has disappeared and for a creature like the one before us (...)

This. Exactly this. "We", "pity" and "creature." Author is happily measuring above mentioned person by his own ruler, his and the society he lives in (and stays in this manner throughout the essay.) It didn't occurred to him, or he decided to ignore the fact, that the subject is completely different person, now. It would be impossible to perceive the world as the subject so we have to extrapolate. But by doing so we must be aware that our own judgements does not apply anymore. We must throw away our pity. Do not try to be emphatic because you have no slightest idea how the subject feels.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/aspergers/comments/7jw22y/i_dont_mi...

Edit: Changed "normal" to "NT" in one place. Overall point stays the same.
Never mind: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Gambling and investing both involve risk, but they're not the same thing, and there's important differences. In particular, in most gambling, the sum of returns to participants is less than the amount wagered by all parties, whereas in equity investment it's generally / historically the opposite. Additionally, whereas gambling is generally fairly time-bounded, investing isn't, and in fact often rewards longer holds via dividend and coupon yields in addition to the potential difference between purchase and sale.

More to point: most studies show that you do best in investing simply by having money invested for long periods, and being diversified to mitigate secular risk. That wouldn't work in gambling.
> Then I realized that most of the startups were indistinguishable from one another: nearly everyone was following the same destructive trends which are bad for employees and bad for products

This is rich coming from the founder of a startup that's indistinguishable from all the other coding bootcamp, MooC startups out there with a dash Deep Learning thrown in to make it extra trendy.

As for the actual advice, I think it's pretty hit or miss.

> 1. Venture Capital
Nothing in her description of VC is wrong here. But the lesson: "VC is to be avoided" is an oversimplification. VC money is a tool. It's not always the right tool, and it certainly has its downsides. But it has its upsides too. In many cases it's the only way to get a business off the ground.

> 2. Hypergrowth
I don't really know where the author puts the line between hypergrowth and just growth, as PG has said: starts are growth. They must always be growing, is there such thing as too much growth? Maybe, if really bad things are happening in the company because of the growth like people are burning out and quitting... but really that's only bad because eventually it will hurt growth. So I think the simple lesson is grow as fast as possible, don't be short sighted.

> 3. Trying to be “like a family”
This one I agree with. Trying to be like a family in a professional setting is dishonest, and eventually the truth of the situation becomes clear. It's better to be honest from the start.

> 4. Attempting to productionize a PhD thesis
We'll have to tell Larry Page he's wasting his time trying to turn that dumb Page Rank thesis into a company. There are a lot of companies that fail this way and there are a lot of PhD theses that shouldn't be commercialized but people try none the less. As with all things startups, there's a thousand failures for every success and the only way to tell the difference is to actually found the company.

> 5. Hiring a bunch of academic researchers
The only company I've really observed doing this is Google and it seems to have worked out for them. I can easily believe that their are companies out there that higher a bunch of researchers to do a job they're not really capable of doing. I've also known academic researchers who were able to have a huge impact in the role they were hired for even though it wasn't really research. The general statement of this is that you needed to hire people for roles they want to and can perform. Researchers might be a particular anti-pattern in this but it's far from the only one.
But there's an attack there. 'Just to be clear'. They were crystal clear. The GP's attack is unfair.
And no reverse engineering possible?

I'm a bit surprised there is no enthusiast blog that tries to document intel microcode changes, but maybe I just haven't found it yet.
And MS Office for Android.
Is doubling in a year even "hypergrowth"? Doubling revenue every a month or two? Sure. Doubling revenue in a year is a very strong growth rate for an established company, but it doesn't strike me as particularly hypergrowth.

Doubling headcount in a year seems also fairly routine for early-stage companies (assuming funding and cachet is in place).
The UI menu really annoys me, the top level reads the following:

|Browse|Blog|Deals|Help|Create|Join|Login|

Deals? Separate Join and Login? ... Confusing

Then when you scroll down, the top menu changes to:

| Articles | Internet Speed Test | Menu |
| |
| BIG AD BANNER |
| |

Articles? This is a hosting site, and they have a Blog item already! INTERNET SPEED TEST??!

I appreciated Sourceforge and it was a big part of my gateway experience into opensource, but now it just looks like an amateur startup :(
good point! i'm not against a DSL. as I was working on plait.py, one thought going through my head was: "am i re-writing haskell or lisp but worse"? my experience with python and DSL is that I need to use YACC / PLY to create a grammar and so on. maybe a lot of work. i take it that its easier in ruby?

yaml was a format I chose because it is easy to write (close to human), but can not express full programming concepts (but yes to some metaprogramming). i did not want the templates to be full powered as they are meant to be able to express relationships between variables, but not much more (especially not side effects). they also support lazy evaluation - statements do not need to be in order. this is closer to a "mathematical language" for me.

the choice for yaml was also based on the premise that if performance becomes an issue, can hopefully move to another language but retain templates (will have to re-implement python's "random" compat, though)
The more people you tell, the higher the chance of a leak. "Loose lips sink ships."
You've got the right idea, but picked the absolute wrong stock for your illustration. Apple's current market cap, i.e. shares outstanding times share price, is approximately $866 billion dollars.

Apple traded 21,583,997 shares today. Aggressively selling 500,000 shares (less than $100 million dollars worth) might move the market in this stock by perhaps 1%, certainly not anywhere near 10%.
Your comment reminds me of the first half of this essay on Slate Star Codex, up to the comment about Las Vegas:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
May I ask why you don't use any of the alternatives? GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.?
How many people really care? Seriously? I love my kids as much as the next guy, but unless you are talking about a small group of people, yeah, in my opinion that amounts to narcissistic oversharing. I mean if you catch something hilarious, sure, share it. But it seems to me that those kind of posts should be few and far between. We've entered an age where voyuerism == friendship. No one really cares. Do you care about some high school pal's post of their kids activities?
Despite the name, this is not Linux-specific microcode. If you're running SmartOS or another illumos derivative, run ucodeadm(1) on the microcode.dat file (which will need to be renamed to have an "intel" prefix per the man page -- e.g., "intel-code.txt"). You can then run "ucodeadm -v" to validate that the new microcode has been loaded. (Note that this does not persist across a reboot, but we at Joyent are currently in the process of upstreaming the microcode into illumos, at which point it will.)
Yikes. So they refuse to vMotion to a host that's on the new microcode? I'm not even clear on how that would be supported -- it should Just Work if the host is in the cluster. Are hosts unable to rejoin a cluster after rebootign with this new microcode because they're effectively part of a different processor compatibility now? Does EVC affect how this impacts the ability to vMotion?
If you choose a broad enough definition of betting, everything is gambling. But to be more specific, the post I replied to stated that everyone who invests in stocks is betting that their price will go up, which isn't true. There's good stock investments where you know the price of the stock is going to go down to zero, because you have high enough certainty that it will pay out dividends of sufficient value to justify the purchase price. (This would be typical of a "late stage" or "liquidation stage" enterprise.)
Clearly the man takes his orders from Vladimir Putin so bagging him and executing him is a-okay
Fuck. That. Noise.

There is no such thing as a "compromise" on an issue of individual rights. Every "proposal" on this topic can only be another tooth on the ratchet of [democratic] totalitarianism.

Computers exist, and form a natural extension of the mind. To constrain what individuals may compute is to deny the inalienable right to think. If every computer is mandated to be an agent of the state (as such "proposals" inherently imply), then the Individual is left completely computationless (ie nearly powerless) against the state-computer.

This rekindled expectation of prying into individuals' private data is entirely due to the past decade of naive adoption of "web 2.0" untrustworthy computing, fueled by the profits from commercial surveillance. As technologists, we need to move off and repudiate this broken centralizing model (for us and the plebs), not be looking for ways to further enshrine it.
Context?

Its a bit ironic to open with "You deserve to know what's going on.", and not explain the background prompting the message.
It's being reverse engineered as we speak. Great CCC talk from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5kucyhKFc
Great points. Strongly agree with #3 in particular ("like a family") because I've made this exact mistake with companies I've led in the past.

To elaborate on what the piece touches on but doesn't specifically say:

> You will need to make hard decisions for the sake of
> the business. You can’t actually offer people anything
> remotely close to lifelong loyalty or security, and it’s
> dishonest to implicitly do so.

To be clear(er): You will have to fire people, and firing someone who thinks of themselves as a family member or who you think of as similar makes the whole thing much more painful. Further, it can make you, as a leader, hesitate when it's an action you really need to take ("but this person is like my brother - we'll make it work!").

At my most recent company, we took the opposite approach -- we all liked each other a lot, we worked well together, and we ate lunch together as a team, but at 6pm everyone went home to their own lives and families. The lines were clear, the understandings were there, and I think it was a much better way to run things.
2 face moralism from youtube. Some people show murders and they trending!!

Some other people just talk and they loose youtube ang google accounts?? Wtf??

Sorry youtube, you become evil and I don't want to associate with the service anymore.

I read how people with different political views have hard time in your company.. no thanks!
Not sure how much of an issue it is since you can legitimately download iPhone only apps to iPad through App Store, but the fact that auto download does it for apps that aren’t supported on iPad is curious. Such as WhatsApp for example, that does not work on my iPad, yet it was auto-downloaded.
Er, if having a public petition about you is "being punished," those other companies have definitely been punished too.
How often do you call or visit your sister? Or your nephews? Just saying that I think we lost something when we could just become low-effort voyeurs.
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I think it is incredibly naive to not believe this.
On average it’s likely they don’t given they are using his product.
Ostensibly it's about a cat that has an appetite for sloppy letters — "written too large or too small, or if the letter is missing a stroke,"

But the underlying point is clear: "This is really instilling the idea of effort — that children have to learn to consistently practice in order to achieve a certain level,"

My take on the underlying point of that story is quite different: conform or be exterminated.
> I don't see why that would have to add latency to all (or any) memory access. The addresses generated by programs (except in real mode, when everything has access to everything anyway so we don't care about these issues then) are virtual addresses, so they have to be translated to get the actual memory address.

L1 caches are generally virtually indexed for exactly this reason: to allow a L1 cache read to happen in parallel with the TLB lookup. (They're also usually, I believe, physically tagged, so we have to check for collisions at some point, but making sure there's no side channel information at that point is, obviously given recent events, hard.)
By leaking do you mean censoring emails showing Russian bank transfers to Syrian banks, then treatening reporters who actually report on it?[0] Or his tv deal with RT?[1] Or his tacit admission to Pussy Riot he works for Putin?[2] Or his failure to deliver on promised Russian leaks?[3] Or how he turned down Russia related leaks? [4] Or, my favorite, the time that he tried to discredit the panama papers showing Putin's hiding of wealth , decrying it as a CIA plot.

Or are we just talking about the clearly timed leaks of Clinton emails every time Trumps campaign seemed in jeopardy? I can probably be convinced that Assange isn't just a Russian operative, but to just act like he believes in 'radical transparency' or doesn't have shady connections is laughable at this point.

[0]https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12864328/wikileaks-threat-...
[1]http://bigthink.com/think-tank/julian-assange-to-host-talk-s...
[2]https://www.thedailybeast.com/pussy-riots-nadya-tolokno-juli...
[3]https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/1026/WikiLeaks-r...
[4]http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-le...