skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal guess is that adolescent male humans have basically evolved to fight for survival and mating opportunities in violent Stone Age tribal societies. And the prefrontal cortex - that part of the brain that enables rational thought - doesn't finish developing until ten or more years after the onset of puberty.

Convincing them to act rationally, and not emotionally, in a nonviolent, conflict-averse, gender-equitable society is working against the grain. It clearly must be done. A just civilization depends on it. But I expect doing so will be difficult and involve unpleasant tradeoffs; I don't expect it to be easy or simple.

I think that women and some men may make the typical mind fallacy about young men that are irrational, emotional assholes. I don't think such young men have been insufficiently exposed to basic morals and etiquette. I think puberty hits people differently and that it hits many young men very hard in a particular way. Nature says "alright, time to start dominating others to ascend the Hobbesian tribal hierarchy" in a big way. Imagine being a male member of a violent ape species drugged into a stupor with aggression-inducing hormones while the small part of your brain capable of rational thought is still in diapers. That's my image of male adolescence.

Of course I'm speaking from personal bias here. I'm socially well adjusted now in my 30s. I pay my taxes. I recycle. I'm nice to people. And I'm an intelligent person. But I was a horrible teen; I terrorized my family, nearly destroyed my own life, and had to be sent to a therapeutic boarding school at 15. I was an idiot back then.
Startup idea: How to start an event planning business
To be fair, it can well be that some sloppy OEM drivers take too many assumptions on reserved bits in registers (which the new microcode may be legitimately changing) or on undocumented timing side-effects related to some instructions (which the new microcode may affect, being that the root problem in the first place!).

These symptoms are also the classic ones you get when you install an OS on a new-generation, well-functioning CPU.
So the main problem for the author is the instruments cluster, it seems.
They keep mentioning other cars that they’d like to have at various price points, yet don’t offer any concrete models and don’t mention any pluses and minuses they might have.
It just seems like a random rant, that’s not that objective.
https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/soft-ice-cream/

https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/pile-of-poo/
I can foresee tracking issues with this if every link I hover over gets pre-fetched then a good dead of network traffic will be generated that otherwise wouldn't. In particular if I don't follow a number of links which I hover.
>>“When developing laws, regulations, policies, and programs, policymakers should worry about whether people feel excluded by their enactment,” Coman said. “Otherwise, we may create societies that are prone to spreading inaccurate and superstitious beliefs.”

I know, right! How many times do I have to keep hearing about the so-called "moon landing"!?
Not only did they ship the iOS ones on Android for the longest while, but they recently started testing a completely self-designed set of emojis on Android that looks unlike any other!

See http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/03/whatsapp-introduces-... and https://emojipedia.org/whatsapp/ for the full list.
I have a nice example on how people will always choose celebrities over good politicians.

In Belgium, there is this political party NVA, who used to say that politicians shouldn't appear in entertainment programs. This party also lived by it. They only appeared in political debates. Back then that party was small.

At the time, there was this popular politician Steve Stevaert, of an opposing (big) party. He always appeared at TV entertainment shows, and people loved him. They thought he was a very sympathetic. People voted for him because they probably felt close to him.

NVA saw that their (in my eyes politically correct) strategy wasn't working. So one of their major politicians, Bart De Wever, started to appear in entertainment shows. Now this guy had a hidden talent: he could make really funny dry jokes, and people loved him for that. Because of his entertainment value, all kinds of shows invited him.

Guess what, that political party became huge, one of the biggest in Belgium. People voted for him.

So unless there is a law that forbids politicians to appear in entertainment shows, I guess people will vote for the ones who appear in the popular media. Sad but true.
Is that because its not as bad as its made out to be?
from China
"Even if we just stick with type systems dealing with simple equalities, like ML, claiming that none of your bugs would have been caught by types means that you never mistakenly considered two values as equal when they were not."

How could I mistake two values as equal when they were not? If I'm doing a cmp.b d0, #$31, either d0 will contain #$31 and it will be a byte or it won't. It can't be any other way (unless your central processing unit is designed by intel corporation)!

In the line of work I do I don't normally design systems with locking, but I have designed them in the past and they worked fine by the way of empirical testing (purposely trying to cause a deadlock). I didn't need a formal system to prove it, nor would I ever trust such a system to ensure that my code or logic were correct.

The rest is pure philosophy about provable code, and I've little appreciation for that: even Donald Knuth famously wrote

beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

That's very instructive for one seeking insight, and I urge you to rethink your position on strong typing, because it's not the panacea you appear to believe it is. It doesn't make a difference if one is not a good programmer: in that case, nothing will save one. Not even being able to formally prove one's program logic is correct.

Finally, I leave you with a theme from my childhood when I was learning to program:

natural born coders

I recommend meditating on it if you intend to continue working in the computer industry, because it's a real thing. They are few, but they do exist, and their work is unbelievable to behold. Even without them having used a strongly typed system to formally prove their code correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvX6Y2bW4Z0
I think your viewpoint invites wider questions on how the problems in such environments ought to be solved and what such environments ought to look like.

In a word, what's lacking from these communities is, in a couple of words, stability and security. Some children have parents who are either homeless or constantly on the verge of homelessness; some children have parents who have difficulty putting food on the table; some children come from households with absent or abusive parents.

How, exactly, would hiring more social workers for schools solve this problem? Ought social workers be able to go into childrens' homes and intervene in some way? Put food on the table, pay the parents' past-due bills, catch abusers red-handed and put a stop to them? I'm not so sure this is the answer, because apart from the fact that doing so falls somewhere on the spectrum between absurd and enablement, in extreme cases, society already removes children from abusive homes to put them in foster care. And it doesn't seem to me like the numbers and research bear out about outcomes for fostered children being on par with children from more privileged backgrounds.

Instead, funding needs to be directed towards stabilizing the parents' environment. That means more public works projects (for stable employment), more affordable apartments (for stable housing), longer school days with funding for post-schoolday extracurriculars and funding for free daycare for younger children (so that parents can stay at work while their children are looked after), exchanging prosecution for funded treatment for drug addicts. When the parents have a stable environment, then the child has a stable environment.
In spanish, té. I presume yerba mate falls in a different hot steeped beverage category.
What I mean is that there is a choice to buy certain things. You have free will don't you?
probably related news from Dell: "NOTE 1: 13G, select 12G, and select DSS server BIOS files have been pulled from http://dell.com/support. This note and article will be updated as soon as more information is available" [1]

the pulled out BIOS update files for 13th gen were released on 5th of Jan.

[1] http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln308588/micro...
Overview of Nevercode platform for BuddyBuild users for easy migration: https://nevercode.io/welcome-home-android-developer/
Tech bosses limit their kids’ time on smartphones: why shouldn’t we?
It can also refer to food like lunch or dinner which the danish school system did not prepare me for in their english lessons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)#Tea_as_the_evening_...
> At least that is the case for Swype on iOS

The stock iOS keyboard also does this.
I took my 9 month old 13" Touchbar Pro into Apple last night for the third time. This time it was a display fault (bottom of screen had horizontal lines and pink hue when cold) and all 4 USB-C ports were soggy with no hold.

Previously I've had a new logic board after a power fault that took a authorized repairer to fix as they were the only ones that believed me.

FINALLY I got a full refund. I bought the previous 15" model (which I should never had sold) with the proceeds in store.

I've never had such an unreliable piece of hardware. Some guy was in store with a key that was stuck and he was told it would take 5 days to repair.

The relief I felt when the genius said refund said it all.
I think that's mainly out of luck. If the exploit had been discovered two years later, the story would likely be different. Apple has been much more ambitious with their ARM processor designs and has shipping iOS and AppleTV products affected by Meltdown.

Shipping or not, it illustrates, that Intel was not unique.
Page loads < 600ms on mobile are a non-issue. All of the RTT talk and TTFB is not worth the tradeoff. If we can have this paradise where all content is prefetched and served/encrypted from Google to only save a fraction of a second, it isn't worth the sacrifice of freedom.

I'll take 500ms page loads any day when the content comes from the true origin. I don't want 60ms responses from a Google server when I'm trying to use the internet.

Why not just make google the internet?? There's power and freedom to be had when publishers aren't tied to a tech behemoth.
Well, try to publish an academic paper, and prepare for abuse in the form of reviews. At some point you need to learn to just shrug it off and focus on your work. Same is true for making games, I guess.
iOS kernel exploitation archaeology
NYT requires a digital subscription.
I don't know if it depends on where you come from, but I went to Canada a couple years ago, by plane. No hassle at all, they just asked me if I had Malaria or knew anyone with Malaria, asked me what I was there for (Mozilla workweek, but not for work!), and they sent me on my merry way. Not even a baggage inspection, let alone a computer/cellphone inspection.
When seeing the name, my first thought was "pray to authenticate" de clicked on to check this out.
Which would work if there were one or two players trading an incredibly high volume, but that neglects to consider a little thing called competition which annihilated those margins.

Now that doesn't matter so much if you're essentially using those high volume trades as an alibi. Zero profit is fine.

All of this is an open secret. Hell, it's why dark pools exist. Those mean ungrateful dark pool customer fucks apparently decided that they didn't want all of that liquidity that HFTs were generously providing when they bought and sold. So rude.
Moroccan arabic actually uses both word: the classical "shay" and "atay", which is more common.
It's a very interesting trade off one faces. On the one hand I'm very concerned with hosting anything in the cloud, especially with U.S. based companies because +3-letter agency here+ (especially for ERP software). But on the other hand the realistic view has to be that my self hosted stack is likely way more insecure than any cloud stack even if I made a conscious afford to keep everything secure (and that's probably also true for companies with a decent number of dedicated IT security experts) so 3-letter agancy would have an easier time getting to the data if they wanted.
Right, but just as SiVal pointed out, the article still issued an imbalanced and not-so-subtly biased "analysis" of the conflict.

The first sentence introduces the "memo" (which--face it--is really just a curated list of emails copied-and-pasted into a Word doc, interspersed with a series accusations, posturing and name-calling).

Two sentences later, the "memo" is promoted to a decidedly more substantive "new document, which illustrates that employees who spoke out in favor of diversity initiatives were reprimanded as well, and that senior leaders in the company discouraged discussion of diversity altogether."

Further on, the article's author is blatantly dishonest in his "assessment" of Google's response to Altheide's self-serving account of the conflict.

What the article's author purports is Altheide's reprimand by Google leadership for "[speaking] out in favor of diversity initiatives," as if Altheide is some whistleblower who suffered retaliation from Google leaders for some ground he stood against malevolent oppressors--is absolute rubbish.

If you've read Altheide's retelling of his "reprimand" in his memo, it's clear his manager was forced to intercede––not in some nefarious effort to suppress diversity supporters at Google, but to defuse a totally inappropriate, tense and escalating feud between coworkers.

Granted, the coworker by whom Altheide was so outraged appears to have been a bigot at the least, and possibly somewhat unstable, assuming he said what he's reported to have said.

Still, no reasonable or rational person I've ever met would have responded in the way Altheide did.

As Google's VP Sridhar Ramaswamy pointed out, it's about respecting other people's feelings. Altheide should have "stepped back," as Ramaswamy advised in the memo, and reported the colleague's bigoted mantra to the appropriate HR person. He definitely should not have escalated the tension by calling the guy out publicly in what I assume is a department-wide or company-wide forum. That sort of escalation, if his coworker had been imbalanced, could potentially have lead to a violent incident, as has happened elsewhere countless times.

Ultimately, Altheide appears to have been on some sort of overzealous crusade. And while diversity and social justice are certainly honorable causes to defend, it's the context and manner in which Altheide did so, in his work environment, that resulted in his objectively necessary reprimand from his Google managers.

So, I call bullshit on this tech blogger's attempt to exploit the sad affair for his own idealogical agenda, by portraying Altheide as some sort of "martyr of the cause" of diversity.

I think you and I, and rational people everywhere can see that's just not what happened here.
New Phrack Paper: .NET Instrumentation via MSIL Bytecode Injection
Yeah although ipfs looks cool until we have a p2p based web you really need a cdn service for static sites that take a lot of hits. I wonder if Amazon is worried about ipfs because if that gets big there won't be a need for the S3 service.
Ripple (XRP) partners with Moneygram to speed up money transfers
Over the past few releases of iOS, Apple has redesigned them all to give them a new feel and make them more consistent.
Of course you don't, because you only know the term from reading the Wikipedia article.
Facebook can affect your life by being a rumor mill and bullying platform. Yes, it is easy to stop using Facebook, but the consequences of rumors can greatly affect a person offline.
Advice on how to build and quantify buyer personas
I was quite confused for a while because when I entered [e] (which the emoji keyboard and the input field showed as [−7]) I got [2½] from WhatsApp which looks completely different in tone.

[−7] https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10-fall-creators-up...

[2½] https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smil...

[e] https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/
This is exactly what is listed under the US section of the wikipedia article:

"he country as a whole does not experience large-scale human capital flight as compared with other countries, with an emigration rate of only 0.7 per 1,000 educated people,[199] but it is often the destination of skilled workers migrating from elsewhere in the world.[200]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight#United_St...
Encountered such situation couple of times. Pokerface interviewers asking in-depth questions (e.g. domain knowledge, not necessarily data structures or algorithm smartassery), with minimal feedback. Learning basically. Quite cynical because it's good to talk basically, exchange knowledge and experience - I've always taken it as a common sense. Once I detect pokerface jokers I answer "no clue" for the simplest questions.
Why You Should Be Proud to Be an American
A very good reason why people are going to start moving to GCP over AWS.... Project Zero is a big win here.
Kind of strange that this refers to "Sinitic" contrasting to "Min Nan" when Min Nan is a Sinitic language.
Finnish bank opens extensive Public APIs
Getting familiar food regularly, having someone who genuinely cares about you, and having control of your environment are all medically recognized (with peer reviewed research to support it) methods to reduce stress and stress hormones.

And stress is a significant factor in mortality rates. Its a major predictor for long life and health. It impacts metabolism, pain reception and recovery rates, and reduced stress in surgical patients is a universal good regardless of diagnosis. Its not a cure. It won't stop an infection or cure cancer, but the benefits are very real and has a good bit of research behind it.
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> Was this really written by someone who works for Google?

Yes: https://wasarchived.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/brief-introduct... The other posts on the blog makes it clear that the person authoring the post worked at Google.
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Diversity means quotes must be filled on colored and women, if a white guy is better, he can go fuсk himself because a colored or a women is required to fill quotes. What a world...
As a liberal that subscribe to The NY Times I wonder why they always have to make these issues so politicized, even when they are making a good observation. The problem they describe, violent reaction to opposing views, seem present amongst all sides of the political spectrum and it does not seem limited to extreme opinions.

The article seems in a very indirect way to make argument that violent reaction to and ostracizing of people that hold opposing opinions is ok when you hold the correct opinions and not when you don’t, and I strongly believe all sides should be held to the same standard of discourse.
Not the same thing. Your browser does a necessary computation and nothing more; if computers get twice as fast, your browser will spend half as much electricity, but bitcoin "miners" will be burning as much as ever.
Nietzsche’s Concept of Superman Explained with Monty Python-Style Animation
This also works on FreeBSD. I haven't found any DropBox equivalent for BSD.
A steeped beverage from non-tea herbs isn't tea.
Exam ka falooda
I am saddens to see a lot people are saying most of these are minor annoyances.

People forget, the reason most buy an Apple is attention to details. Quality, in places where you dont't expect it. We dont expect Apple to be just "good", we expect "better" or "best". It is a reason why people pay a premium over others.

Lets skip the discussion of whether the MBP is Pro or not, it is certainly a top price range premium notebook on the market, you expect these pieces of equipment to last, not the old golden standard where your 484 could still turn on, but at least within its warranty period. 2 Years, with AppleCare+.
Even having 1% of your customer coming in within the first 2 year of its usage because of a faulty keyboard is a design failure. That is 200K Macbook Pro. And Apple spoke about this, which has less then 5% return rate. 5%? Serious? Even 0.5% within first year on a Keyboard is wrong.

I know most people love the new Keyboard spacing, and its key stability. But we have a polarise group of people on Key Depth. Not every body likes to type on shallow keys, and not everyone can get used to it. I haven't seen anyone who could type of these new keys would mind if they had more depth, they wouldn't be bothered. But not vice versa.

Given Intel's new released KabyLake-G, It is likely the new Macbook Pro will use it, you get similar CPU performance, but 50% better Graphics, along with support of 64GB Memory ( if Apple Choose to, but my guess they will limit it to 32GB ).

I really care about any of that. But the keyboard definitely needs some rethink. Some have suggested Apple regress to old Keyboard. But I disagree, since we are talking about Apple, I expect them to have a new Keyboard that is just as thin, gives more depth then even the old keyboard, have ultra high reliability, and even better key stability. I.e It needs to be better in every way then this and its previous keyboard design. A Tall order, but that is what we expect of Apple.

Note: Dell is a maglev keyboard shown with their new XPS 15. Which is suppose to be everything i described above. Will be waiting to see it it is any good.
> My broadwell (i5-2500k)

That's Sandy Bridge, 3 generations older than Broadwell.
Why has Apple not added Pencil support to the extra-large trackpad? Perfect lateral move and great for so-called professionals. Was eagerly anticipating cool new hardware features in that vein to justify buying a new laptop; ended up getting an eGPU for my 2013 MBP instead. And in the meantime, the widely-acclaimed and perfectly precise Pencil continues to languish. Sigh!
There is not enough wood to switch over from fossil fuels anyway. We burn incredible amounts of coal and oil.
I thought that too, but when I looked at the numbers they're far from having the highest level of emigration [0] in Europe either, at 11.5% ...

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSts9UUW0AAKmXd.jpg:large
The Psychology of Inequality
If your computer can boot from it, I can recommend using an SD card with a bootable partiion.
Firstly, people can write about whatever they want. Also, I understand that people might feel the same way here, but the issue I am raising is that we as tech interested readers should not idolize the subjective ramblings of people who are dissatisfied with the products they buy.

Issues raised in the article:

- 'The arrow keys are squished together' - Usually when I buy things I do research about what I am buying, especially when those things cost $2000+. I don't even have to go to Apple's website to know that there are pictures of the macbook pro with its arrow keys close together.

- 'Track pad is too big" - I like that it is so big

etc

You say "...Apple to get their shit together". So what should they do? Offer models with big and small track pads? Create models with different positions of arrow keys? Not have the touch bar because some people use VIM?

A few days ago I bought a new baby chair and I wanted to have one that I could adjust so that as my daughter grows I can still have her sit in it. There are chairs that have this features and others that don't. What happens with these blog posts is as if I bought a chair of a hip brand that doesn't offer adjustments and then complain about it online and tell them to get their shit together.
Apathy is not a healthy approach to life in general. Forcing yourself to feel "meh" about things you really did enjoy once is soul-crushing in itself.