skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are one-way flights. Flights between SFO-LAX are sometimes cheaper if you book weeks in advance. The point of Jumpdrive is you still get a cheap fare without booking weeks in advance. We're working on redoing the site.
It's on iTunes, Amazon, and Vimeo. It's a pay-per-view documentary.
Data structure and algorithms problems in C++
However, users did not give any indication they had explicitly meant to be tracked either.

I think this just highlights the cynism of the ad industry and the whole compromise that was DNT.

If they were genuinely concerned about user preferences, opt-in vs opt-out shouldn't make a difference. But opt-out being so important is a hint to me that the ad industry was mostly agreeing because they assumed that most users wouldn't activate DNT because they didn't even know about it. (Which was probably correct)
I have a 6S+. I noticed a performance gain going from 11.2.1 to 11.2.2.

Before: 2384.

After: 2541.
That's kind of expected over time in a stable two-party system; the periods of declining polarization are actually the periods just before partisan realignments, where the divides underlying old coalitions are losing salience, so the major parties are less coherent.

After WWII (or, really, FDR's first campaign) the party system entered a long realignment along what became the modern American left/right axis which was basically completed in the early 1990s. Which is why polarization increased throughout the post-WWII period, but also why it was turbocharged from the Clinton era on.
Re: Seattle: 15 years for two rail lines is a joke. Assuming they actually build it.
Yeah, but we were mad when it sold to the Americans, like many other Canadian companies like Eatons (sold to Sears) and Stelco was sold to US Steel. CN Rail is majority (over 50%) US-owned.

This is an interesting article on the "pennies matter" franchise of Dunkin Donuts, which falls into a similar target market: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/09/17/the-secret-w...
I'm guessing more than 1/2 of all AWS instances are idle. Probably 10% are systems nobody knows anything about, whoever started them left the company..
Haven't seen much coverage on how this affects game consoles like the Xbox and Playstation (which use AMD CPUs). Does anyone know if they've talked about patching it and how this would affect game performance (which is a pretty big deal for gamers who expect a consistent experience)?
> most modern psychology seems to be, well, kind of bullshit

Based on what? What better source do we have that contradicts it?

Identifying, defining, and measuring psychological phenomena is much more difficult than doing the same with physical phenomena, for obvious reasons. That leads to lower accuracy. Should humanity not even try, leave these questions unanswered, and suffer the consequences?

While there are many failures and there are the flaws associated with every human endeavor (and that applies to other fields too - computer security comes to mind), modern psychology successfully treats many conditions and helps a very large number of people. Consider the world before it, when we didn't understand depression ('stop being lazy!' 'just buck up!'), schizophrenia (demonic possession), bi-polar disorder, anxiety, PTSD (General Patton assaulting a hospitalized soldier), etc. Is all that knowledge and treatment just "bullshit"?

It's sort of common on HN to toss off derisive remarks about psychology - or any field besides what HN readers personally know well, such as computers, math, and natural sciences - but let's hold ourselves to a higher standard: What do we really know?
When performing this kind of mass-scale planting, how do they ensure genetic diversity in the seeds? Or do they?
Best Sales Decks from Linkedin,HP,Asana,Cisco,Oracle,Bing, and More
I use it to show my circle of friends what projects I'm working on and to bug friends and family members.
When papers drop below the 50/50 threshold and are more likely to be false then true, the entire discipline becomes worthless.
In the future, the car will just circle the block while you shop.
So don't browse the web from your server. Why are we updating servers?
What it's always been - a messaging app with pictures / videos / fun tools like filters, lenses, bitmojis (honestly my favorite and most useful part of Snapchat) that has stories for when I want to share with everyone. I feel like this is media analysis grasping at straws, just like they did when Facebook made a huge deal out of copying stories and having more users. Fast forward a year, Snapchat is still here and as far as we know just as used by their user base, though growing less than before.
The dystopian Halo Ice Cream ad immediately comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8
I downloaded this microcode from the link and got the latest BIOS for my Asus motherboard. I found my CPU family/model/stepping using https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

I used a tool and instructions from https://www.delidded.com/how-to-update-cpu-microcode-in-ami-... to update my AMI BIOS. It recognized the microcode and added it to the list. Unfortunately, the tool showed my microcode as having a date of 2013 even if it was listed and included in the download. So I have to wait for updated microcode I assume. I flashed it anyway. Post boot tests showed I was not protected by microcode... I have a Bloomfield CPU.

This technique will probably work for someone else with a newer CPU.
Yeah that's another point. It's a category error to apply interpersonal social expectations to a "man vs media+internet mob" scenario.

When you mislead an individual in real life and that person suffers actual consequences from that mistake, apology and forgiveness help repair the relationship.

A media hack writing about this has not suffered a real interpersonal offense over the issue, nor have any of the self-righteous audience passing judgment. As these people have not suffered any actual harm they are not owed an apology, nor would an apology given under such circumstances function as it is supposed to. There is no interpersonal relationship to repair in the first place.
Okay, but unless I can get every single person to wear earbuds than it will still make me self-conscious to grunt in front of the ones that aren't. Also the gym staff. Etc.

If you have your own earbuds in, why does it matter if the gym is playing music?
You can't even (and probably don't want) do that with a real human. Why do we think it'll one day become a possibility/desirable with a computer?
When it releases the magic smoke, it means it's burnt through its supply of GPU fluid.
Doesn't matrix do everything through federated servers?
You would need to pay Muzak or SiriusXM or another vetted provider of public music. Businesses (bars, hair salons, gyms, etc) cannot simply play Spotify or Pandora in their business, unless they plan on getting sued by BMI and/or ASCAP.

Muzak and SiriusXM have ready-made solutions for exactly what these sorts of businesses are looking for.
I think a lot of commuter workers tend to fly Thursdays and work remote on Fridays. I'm surprised that's not a higher value day than one of the weekend days for your target.
Note that you were going east and didn't have to go through the North River Tunnels, and I'm guessing, not at rush hour.

PATH uses a different set of tunnels, and actually has four of them instead of just two.
He also made this 2D light renderer http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/tunabrain/t...
My ideal language would consist of a single word: "do"

When this program is run, it automatically knows exactly what the user is trying to do, and re-arranges reality to achieve that goal.
There already is a TrumpCoin.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/trumpcoin/

The announcement link is hilarious, complete with "Leadership changes" and more...
I think the article overreaches in conflating the problems with chatbots -- which typically don't do the kind of things M promised -- with the cost/scope overrun of M. But I think it's too simplistic to say that Facebook should have just optimized their chatbots. The Facebook service has a much broader and diverse userbase and functionality -- think of the criticism that FB gets for seemingly taking over every aspect of our lives (everything from messaging friends, photo management, video broadcasting, news publishing, gaming, financial transactions).

What purpose would an optimized, limited-scope chatbot for Facebook even look like? Though come to think of it, I can think of a few usecases if Facebook wasn't out to dominate everything about real life. For example:

- When traveling to a new city: "Do I know anyone who lives here or is currently visiting?"

- When wanting to read about or discuss news topics, but only from my current network: "Are any of my friends talking about the election?"

- When bored: "What games are my friends playing?" (I'm thinking back to the time when FB was a games platform for things like Words with Friends)

All of these may be findable through a combination of searches, but I'm not a power user, and I bet most people aren't. I think if I go to the "New York, NY" location page, there's a section that lists friend connections, but a bot that processed a natural language query would be so much smoother.

And what about queries like: "What are my friends doing this weekend?". Searching that exact question brings up nothing of relevance. When I do a search for "weekend", the top results are for things like "Vampire Weekend". I have to scroll down to find a section for "Posts from Friends", and that only contains posts (even from months ago) that contain the literal word, "weekend".

I don't really know how to improve those results, without hurting some other kind of expected functionality. But a chatbot that purports to deal with everyday human questions might be the right interface for everyday quality-of-life questions
> You're assuming you can scour the internet and find every shared hosting provider affected, and add them to a list. And then you're also going to keep that list updated. That's crazy.. an impossible task.

I think you underestimate the capabilities of modern infosec tooling. Essentially the whole of the internet can be scanned in some ways in durations measured in hours. What is more, some systems are being constantly updated (such a certificate transparency), and there are relatively easy ways to identify bad actors via whitelists and behavioral monitoring. All that being said, if you have a legitimately better idea, voice it in a meaningful way, and I am sure they will at least listen. That was the part _in_their_post_ about "taking community feedback" you must have missed.
I can't speak about these benchmarks (the site is down). But Meltdown is not about speculative execution, it's about out-of-order execution. The fixes for Meltdown involve getting kernel data out of user virtual memory, and flushing the TLB if the processor does not have the pcid instruction. So context switches - including system calls - will tend to be more expensive, and if the processor does not implement pcid, way more expensive.

See https://meltdownattack.com/. I haven't yet read the Spectre paper, but I can say that the Meltdown paper is very readable and walks readers through everything. I anticipate the Spectre paper is as well.
Yeah, this is the first time I've ever seen the "you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site" message along with the 502 though. Or maybe I've just never looked that closely.
We have zero production self driving cars today or in the next 3 years and will not be on 90% of new cars for at least a decade after they show up. Hyundai for example is targeting 2030 for urban driving as an option.

Cars last for ~25 years in normal use (average car in US is 11.5 years old and accidents take many out before reaching their lifespan). So, at a minimum we are talking 50 years before essentially every car is even capable of being self driven. Laws are unlikely to change before self driving goes from a novelty to assumed behavior call it another 25 years at a minimum. Now, add a few more years for phasing in the law, and then a few more for statistics to validate reducing safty equipment.

So, 100+ seems fairly optimistic as that's the happy path assuming zero major issues show up.
There's still always going to be some "opt-out" sounds at the gym. I'd prefer it be any kind of music rather than "Hnnnggg, urrgghh" and clink-clanks.
Show HN: Flexbox Cheatsheet
Thanks, that is a delightful read.
Well, for one thing it doesn't carry that subconscious bias of interpreting something below 0.05 as guaranteed significant as people tend to do with p-values, but is a softer metric that reflects your belief in one or the other hypothesis, given the data. I think that in itself makes it easier to evaluate and reason about.

The fact that you can incorporate (and reflect on) a priori assumptions about the likelihood of one or the other model is another advantage imho.
The US spends far too much on the military, in fact it has the world's largest military, and in some measures larger than the rest of the world combined. But it's only 22% of US government spending, and if you include state and local government spending military spending is less than 20% of total governmental spending.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2018USbf_...

The article talked about a totally inadequate UK proposal that would cost over 6% of GDP to implement. The US spends more on the military as a percentage of GDP than virtually any other first world nation, but even it only spends 4.5%. If the US eliminated all it's military spending completely, it would still be many hundreds of billions short of the amount needed for the most barebones basic income plan.
Don't Pass Surveillance Legislation in the Dark
No, it's both sides for the last three or four decades.

The Democrats were unhappy with Reagan and Bush Sr. The Republicans were deeply unhappy with Clinton. The Democrats were on the border of being deranged by Bush Jr. The Republicans were deranged with Obama. Now the Democrats are absolutely insane about Trump.

(I'll give you that Trump makes it easier than any of his predecessors. Still, this has been growing since 1980, on both sides.)
> Active election fraud is almost exclusively in the favor of the Democratic party. I can't remember the last time someone on the right was arrested for fraudulently filling out registrations forms

How about for actually fraudulently voting someone else's ballot. (Ironically, after publicly making your exact argument about voter fraud being exclusively a Democratic thing.) [0]

Or voting twice because of Republican voter fraud claims. [1]

Or ballot-box stuffing. [2]

All from the 2016 election.

[0] https://www.salon.com/2017/03/22/former-colorado-gop-chairma...

[1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...

[2] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gydkk3/the-face-of-voter...
This would have to fall into the ultralight classification for someone to fly this without training. The FAA could easily classify this otherwise if they perceived any problem.

Also, getting your pilots license is nothing like getting a car license, the training is much harder and requires a certain amount of hours in the car with a licensed flight instructor before they can fly on their own (I believe it's 50 hours in the cockpit). It's also prohibitively expensive as you have to pay for fuel and time. You won't see a bunch of unmotivated teens flying these things any time soon. Having worked at the FAA on the regulation side of things, I can also tell you if that did become a problem airspace and licensing would change.
It doesn’t matter, the best quality is firmly in the hands of the LG oled TVs.
And if I buy a tv I buy it for the image quality, certainly not for the remote.
Sample size of 1, but I Geekbench'd my iPhone X before and after upgrade.

11.2.1:
Single-Core 4137,
Multi-Core 9315

11.2.2:
Single-Core 4039,
Multi-Core 9876

Anecdotally as well, I haven't seen a noticeable difference in performance. So your mileage may vary substantially based on what device you have.
Mixed use retail/residential is popping up all over the suburbs, at least in MD/VA. There are 10+ story apartment buildings around Annapolis Town Center, Reston Town Center, Columbia Mall, Tyson’s Corner, Dunn Loring, etc. They don’t eliminate your car commute, but at least you don’t have to get in the freeway to get a hair cut.
> As a NYer I'm deeply embarrassed by having seen first hand over 20 years

NYer as well, for long time, and while it's (public transport) in decline for sure, I think your timeline is off. I'd say it's only been in aggressive decline for the past few years, and gradual decline for last 10. Before that was getting better every year. Unlimited Metrocard made riding the subway safe at all hours as marginal cost for riders became zero, more riders = more safety.
It isn't there choice! Apple isn't a person, you have to understand that. Apple is your retirement fund or whatever investment, its a public company. Tim Cook can either say "I want us to be in China" or he can leave, because no sane board is going to let him stay and say otherwise. Blame capitalism, blame human desire for money, whatever, but don't blame the company for choosing the only option it had.

Google didn't miss out on much at all, it was clear way before they pulled out that they wouldn't be allowed to go very far in search. Also, Google only pulled out of search in China, they actually still do plenty of business in China.
Never understood why universal basic income required Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to get free money every month. It's like no one every learned from the biggest economic flaw in the US social security program.
I believe that Node has been treating v8 upgrades as semver major breaking changes as it changes the ABI for native extensions, even though there are enough mitigating tools these days that most native extensions don't break on v8 upgrades.
It has existed in beta for a while.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/09/apple-seeds-ios-11-2-5-...
Why no S-Corp? Couldn't find an answer myself.
The Marriott Family's Civil War
"Most users didn't want Flash". That's a lot of revisionist history. Apple was being knocked for not supporting Flash from the time the first iPhone was released in 2007 until a year or two after the iPad was released in 2010.
There's a fine line between being outspoken [1] about one's concerns, and hammering the same points that every opportunity. Telegram's marketing is heavy with weasel words that multiple people -- journalists, tech experts, crypto experts -- have called on probably being empty posturing, and their implementation shrouded in opacity in the exact ways it shouldn't. No one except laypeople believe Telegram clears the bar set by Signal, Matrix, or any of the systems OWS consulted on, but there are lots of laypeople: millions of them.

When you're in the industry, especially a leading innovator in the industry, it's infuriating to see an inferior product being recommended, one that you can credibly suspect doesn't even deliver on the promises, but in your attempts to discredit that product you'll sometimes come off as a crusading zealot, to the detriment of other content you've packaged with your commentary.

There was little need to call out Telegram in the post by name, because it does instantly re-frame the conversation, and in a forum some of the conversation will continue down the new path, as it does now. That's a mistake in this format, and it does come off as a defensive misdirect made in the heat of argument. A place to reinvigorate this criticism in light of the new revelations is one's own personal -- or even professional -- blog, where you can start off on the high ground.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:moxie%20telegram&sort=byDat...
This is...highly questionable. 11.2.2 only updates WebKit, which shouldn't affect GeekBench.
> Instagram has caught way up to Snapchat with kids IMO. Millennials aren't looking down on Instagram the same way they look down on Facebook

I'd hesitate to call Millennials 'kids' at this point. Hell, Millennial poster-person extraordinaire Lena Dunham is in her 30s.
Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
I meant weird in the sense of unpleasant/unsettling, not unusual or surprising.
I came here to say this. What's more, the spec was agreed upon, in relatively public forums, with a voice from the community.
Crappy shared hosting providers are going to mostly ignore their customers and perpetuate insecure scenarios while they continue to bill exorbitant rates that exploit the customers' ignorance or inertia. That has been the case for some time, and will continue to be the case, this is just another symptom.
Seconding YouTube -- better than losing video.
README is pretty vague and says it "analyzes" text messages. In what way? There's no examples of the analysis it outputs.
Interesting. I might well pursue it. I never even considered it because it just seemed like an insanely expensive hobby that I could never hope to afford (even more so than boating).
Now that I work across the street from KPAO (Palo Alto) (and yes, I'm sure it's more than the $130/hr here!) I'm more and more interested. Hell, even 10 or 15 years ago I assumed it was a minimum $10k endeavor. It might actually be cheaper than I expected to check that first box.
> I still remember the VS Code bug that caused a huge battery consumption because the gif they used to display the blinking cursor was in a high resolution.

I believe that was actually due to a quirk in the way CSS animations worked in Chrome. It was fixed by changing to setInterval which is what was used before. GIF animations were proposed, but AFAIK never actually used.

Here's the GH issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
Yea, neither blockchain or texting or verbal consent can solve that problem.
I use it in prod since 1 year yes.

Angular is totally ready to be use in prod since a long time now.

Very easy to update:

2-> 4 no gap but my project was starting

4-> 5, very few things on a already big project. In my case the HttpModule, and some internationalization adjustment.
I ran across this in Georgia once. A forest where there was once a rice field (during slavery days). I thought the terrain seemed a little different than surrounding areas and started researching. If you leave an area idle for long enough nature will take over.
Then only one single crazy national-leader has to not actually demilitarize, and he can then conquer anyone who truly did demilitarize. Which means that the logical thing for anyone is not to demilitarize. Which means that the overall result is we don't demilitarize.

Breaking that equilibrium would require a militarized worldwide government, which also would likely e.g. lack the ability to respect current nations' differing cultures (to summarize the vast body of ways the very concept is ... unnerving at best).