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Like Slashdot and Reddit, once Hacker News became influential enough it was taken over by political actors.

It makes sense from a political actor's point of view to push their message on whatever platform reaches the most influential people, and Hacker News was that platform once, but it destroys the platform in the long-term, and I don't think they care about people wanting a platform for discussing news for hackers.

In this article, the message being pushed is one of social change, and although I agree with the agenda, I don't think it's appropriate in Hacker News either.
> some use Russian or transliterated Russian (mixing it with some English) liberally so it's not uncommon to see something like `log.Error("Дом не найден %s, %s: %s", ulica, nomerDoma, responseText) /* TODO: Добавить поиск лучшего совпадения */` in their code.

This gives me nightmares of dealing with an old patched Joomla install, where the developers had managed to bring in plugins etc. that used multiple inconsistent encodings in comments, so you could get all of the code to render correctly with any single terminal setting.
There are plenty of choices in life that are hard to assess until you're fully invested in them.

Choosing a life partner? Choosing a stock? Scoping a programming project??

Choices in the above can seem great at first - but maybe they turn out better over time, maybe worse, probably a roller-coaster mixture of elation, unknowns, and heartache.

But you'll never fully experience them until you've fully lived through them.
I have a couple question about Meltdown and the Intel chips. My understanding is that a key part of this is that upon speculative execution the page table permission checks only happen when the "transient"instruction is retired.

Was this simply a performance engineering trade off made by Intel? Would checking the PTE permissions on speculative execution result in giving up any performance gained by the speculative execution?
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sounds like cha-ye, or tea leaves in Mandarin
I'm probably being too harsh but...

Good on them for writing this, it's important to admit when you're wrong. However, I feel like this outlet has a larger responsibility to be actual data analysts as well as journalists (over say a more traditional journalist for a more traditional news outlet). As such, why was the analysis done in the postmortem article not done prior to publishing the original articles? A good analyst is one you can trust, and trust for an analyst is built by drawing conclusions from highly defensible data, and highly defensible data is data which has undergone sever scrutiny of the analyst before conclusions are drawn, not after. Also, they should probably update the now erroneous articles with a disclaimer indicating that much of the research is now invalid.
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The "Professional" moniker signals improved workload capabilities more than it does mobility/battery life. Essentially, Apple needs to change "MacBook Pro" to "MacBook On-The-Go" and just admit they don't have a Professional device.

When you think of a person with the title "computing professional", is your first thought, "Gee, I bet this guy spends very little time around power outlets"? No. While that may be true in some cases, that is not what the word "professional" means in the English language.
If you have plenty of time sitting around while they work in your stuff and potentially being denied entry for the next few years you should absolutely do this.
When asked for comment, a rep for Vikings' Local 12th denounced the move as "wreckless, even by our standards."
Like surf, it uses the entire webkit codebase underneath. I'd be intimidated to even audit the webkit codebase given the size, so personally it's not something I would feel comfortable working with, being unable to edit without concern for side-effects and secondary bugs.
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The problem is that some of the metaphor based explanations are wrong, and are decreasing understanding. When the originals are clearer than the attempted simplifications, then I do think it's helpful to send people to them.
Between about 1000 BC and 0 AD it seems as if humans worked out how to get along in life. I'm on your side in following Christian scripture but I think you can use any of the major texts that emerged during that time and get reasonable results.

In fact my main beef with self-help programs is that they tend to regurgitate a lot of basic lessons that already exist in ancient texts in cleaner and more direct forms, such as Matthew chapters 5-7 in the New Testament (aka the sermon on the mount). I certainly found this to be the case with the type of new age precepts that seems to be popular in training classes for corporate employees.
Same in Spanish. At my company we use only English for code, even comments. And are trying to push for jira tickets to be written in English only as well. At least among the developers. Can't keep managers from using Spanish.
> P2P transactions are accepted with almost anyone in the world

For a startling Exhibit A, consider that North Korea [1] and Iran [2] hold and transact with large quantities of U.S. dollars (in physical cash) despite American sanctions.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/asia/hong-kong-north-korea/ind...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tally-of-iran-sanctions-relie...
That is a good statement of the problem. It seems like I've read about some pretty effective tone analysis for English, at least, that might be helpful.
Just wait for Wall Street to start building complex derivative products that will be used as a vehicle for these cryptocurrencies and all of a sudden the bubble will reach epic proportions.
This seems like a defensive no brainer for youtube though. The classic cable business model is to get subscribers by financing top content that brings in viewers. If Disney opened a 'Mickey Tube' tomorrow with exlusive access to all the late show clips, several well-financed existing youtubers then how much of youtubes viewers would pack up and move over?

So really this looks like Youtube maturing into a more traditional media business model. Of course they still have the risk that they suffer from the myspace phenomenom. Not sure they're really preparing or considering that.
Not the person you're replying to.

>At least, that's the only way I can imagine someone thinking to themselves "oh, this kid is being beaten up, his stuff is being destroyed or taken from him. The best strategy is clearly to be less upset about all that"

This is a straw man. No one has claimed anything like that at any point in this thread. You are exaggerating their point to make your own, and it lessens the impact of what you're trying to say.

>Telling people to not give a shit about the response to your work is missing the point of why people do it to begin with.

When I create things, I create them because there is something inside of me that needs to get out. I don't create it for other people. I create because there is no way for me to contain it otherwise. It feels very good when other people like what you create, but I wouldn't call it the reason I'm creating something.

If you constantly seek validation from others, you are going to be let down and discouraged, because people won't consistently provide that validation.

That is separate from whether or not people should ignore bullying. If you see bullying happening, you have a duty to put a stop to it, report it, or otherwise address it. If you're getting bullied, you shouldn't ignore it, but report it to whom you can. But the sad fact of this world is that you're unlikely to receive justice for it. The only thing you truly have control over is your own reaction. Exert your control.
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If I see a programmer saying he/she tried to read the original papers, but couldn't understand this and that, I'll do my best to help them. I don't have a problem with people using metaphors to explain specific points, but I do think people who replace trying to work through the originals with repeating a lazy metaphor or two from the popular press are doing themselves and others a huge disservice.

This isn't something unattainably complicated that you need years of education (on top of a typical CS education or its self-taught equivalent) to understand. I think it's worth pointing out to people that they shouldn't be afraid of reading the original material. And frankly, I've found many of the popular metaphors harder to understand than the papers.
Oh wow, it's built on lisp. I wasn't aware of this (Or I think I pooh-poohed it in an earlier stage because of it's 4chan (and therefore nazi) connections). This looks like something hackable, thanks.
> it is still minted and distributed through centralized silos owned by the government

Money can be created by privately-owned banks, which adds a significant decentralized element to the mix. Cash settlement is also, if done physically, a totally de-centralised transaction mode.
That would certainly be the case, but it's probably one of the more far-fetched of many possible explanations. As another commenter wrote, a two-day hunt seems the more likely scenario
Actually there's nothing really stopping you from using "bitcoin" directly is there

A thousand currencies, of all the same name
Worked at a Chinese company in Shanghai before. Everyone on my team could read/write but not speak English. It is most common that people would write code in English but use Chinese for comments and documentation (both internal and external). We all used Sogou which makes it easy to make a hotkey to easily change between Chinese pinyin input and English.

I am lead to believe this usage of English for code and Chinese for comments is quite common given the code I've read from public repositories and other companies we worked with.
The main problem there, the elephant in the room, is that we live till 85 but the decision about having each and every child has to be carried before 45, and 'soft limit' is a decade lower. Subtract your own childhood, education and getting some money and experiences, and you can see it becomes very very narrow.

Demographics will shift dramatically if we are to prolong youth instead of prolonging old age.
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I understand your desire to push back. Having "opted out" at TSA checkpoints for a year, I can tell you that the righteous feeling does little to counteract annoyance from fellow travelers (especially those in my own party). Yes, en masse it would be effective, but until then it's not worth the individual effort IMO. Anyway, governments can't tolerate explicit affronts to their authority.

The better course of action is for us to work together toto make it

1. trivial for everyone to hide their data, and

2. trivial for everyone to maintain vanilla data for plausible deniability.

The end result is still a victory for privacy, but with far less friction with government at the individual level.
I think the idea is that we all make mistakes. The best we can do is admit them and learn from them, just like any other postmortem.

Also, they did update the erroneous articles:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lots-of-people-in-citie...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-worst-internet-in-a...
Defining “Serverless”

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Serverless is the next evolution of application and system design and deployment. Serverless applications are built upon functions—small code artifacts, which are compact and specific to a discrete task.

Functions are stateless and must rely on additional services, such as databases and object stores, to provide state. Functions are generally event-driven, meaning there is an event bus which provides the interface to and from a function execution. Because of these properties, functions are easily scalable on demand by definition.

Options are always welcome, but this sounds like what was called "enterprise service bus" a couple years ago, until the term fell out of fashion such that even the original inventor of the term "ESB" in their product name (Sonic) dumped it years ago.

Only that ESBs also were expected to have options for distributed transactions, auth, and standardised APIs for service implementations such as SCA (which "serverless" platforms don't seem to have).
Study: Exposure to rodenticides in Northern Spotted and Barred Owls on remote forest lands in northwestern California: evidence of food web contamination

Citation: Gabriel, M. W., L. V. Diller, J. P. Dumbacher, G. M. Wengert, J. M. Higley, R. H. Poppenga, and S. Mendia. 2018. Avian Conservation and Ecology 13(1):2.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01134-130102

DOI: 10.5751/ACE-01134-130102

Abstract: The documentation of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR) in nontarget species has centered around wildlife that inhabit urban or agricultural settings. However, recent studies in California have shown that AR use in remote forest settings has escalated and has exposed and killed forest carnivores. Anticoagulant rodenticides have been documented as physiological stressors for avian species. Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) critical and occupied habitat overlaps the areas where these studies occurred, yet no data were previously available to demonstrate whether this species was similarly affected. We investigated whether avian predators are also exposed to these specific pesticides and whether Barred Owls (Strix varia) may be a surrogate to indicate exposure rates in Northern Spotted Owls. We documented that 70% of Northern Spotted Owls and 40% of Barred Owls were exposed to one or more anticoagulant rodenticides. None of the rodent prey species sampled within the study area were positive for ARs. There were no spatial clusters for either low or high rates of exposure, though we detected low temporal trend early on throughout the study area. We hypothesize a recent change in land-use toward marijuana cultivation may have led to the increased use of AR in this area. This study demonstrates environmental contamination within occupied Northern Spotted Owl habitat and that Barred Owls can be used as adequate surrogates for detecting these pollutants in a rare species such as the Northern Spotted Owl. Furthermore, additional studies should focus on whether these pesticides are also affecting prey availability for these forest avian species.
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Going to have to downvote you here since I've found that calling my representatives has been extremely effective.

Calling your rep, or meeting them in person, are the two most effective ways to communicate your concerns. Because people who take the time to call or meet in person are also the type of people who take the time to vote, and in the end that's what really matters.
Cache line is 64 bytes on x86-64 if I am not mistaken, not 4096 :)

Nice read anyway.
I think it's important to note that while you can divide the volume of blue and grey water used to make a ton of almonds by the mass of one shelled almond, and get 1.1 gallons, you're ignoring kind of a lot of outputs of almond growing.
>”The sort of activity which led to the financial crisis would not be mitigated by the establishment of a decentralized currency.”

Indeed, the ‘sort of activity’ which led to crisi is simply called greed. As far as I can tell, crypto currencies have simply become new fuel for greed thus far, and the result will likely be the same.

A cure for centralized currency != a cure for greed.
Well where would you wire the extra controller to if not to a PCIe port? (it's in the name, Peripheral Component Interconnect ;)
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This may be good advice in general, but I don't see how it is on-topic here. Which part of the original comment made it seem like "ego issues"? I did not get that sense from the comment at all, and I think reaching out for advice actually demonstrates the opposite. Trying to figure out the right thing to do in a tricky situation is not "ego".
This person has made their choice. They didn't ask to be offered an alternative perspective, and they've evidently thought it through. What do you gain by trying to convince them they're wrong or to change their mind?

And this goes both ways! I often see parents talk about how rewarding parenthood is, only to be replied to by folks who insist on pointing out how difficult it can be, even if those comments were entirely unsolicited.

I often wonder if comments like this are borne of defensiveness. The GP, in their comment, made mention of all the things they can do absent children, and that could be seen as an indictment of parenthood.

Unfortunately, this makes it impossible for folks with and without children to have a rational conversation, since it's all but impossible for each to speak of the advantages of their lifestyle without implicitly criticising the lifestyle of the other person.
Post YouTube URL here as a bookmark for myself

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It seems to me that the involuntary aspect of this encompasses more that the physical presence of a tiny human but the ability to raise this tiny human in a responsible manner. Wage slavery, broken families or unsupportive spouses are just a few of many possible causes of this involuntary aspect.
"I can honestly say that US border control and TSA have the most unprofessional and disrespectful employees I've encountered in my travels"

They really seem to be selecting for the biggest assholes they can find. I have had many weird or disrespectful encounters with them. Example: asking my American wife (I am German) " why did you not marry an American, but a foreigner". Who would ask such a question as the first thing?
The traffic isn't as bad as NY except for certain times of the day and once you become a regular it's not difficult. The weather in the winter really only means the snow. The cold isn't terrible, but the snow just mucks everything up. It makes sense that you'd have the best seafood since Massachusetts has the largest fishing port in the entire United States.
I'd trust Doge more than most cryptocurrencies, honestly. It's relatively established, the community doesn't or at least didn't take itself too seriously (sounds like that may now have changed), and it took the (admittedly mostly symbolic) decision to allow "mining" to continue indefinitely, ensuring there will always be a Doge supply rather than passing all gains to the early adopters. In a sense it's a lot more functional than Bitcoin - people use it for "microtransactions" and "tipping" that would be impossible with Bitcoin's transaction fees.
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I'm not sure about that. USA has a lot of nature preserves and strict environment laws. 3rd world countries may experience runaway population growth where no land left undisturbed and nothing is preserved.

If we take CO2 it's another thing, but low emissions won't save you once all the biosphere is literally eaten.
If you want to succeed working remotely, this helped me:

1. Focus - learn how to 100% focus on your work, filter out any distractions

2. Socialize - find some nice hobbies involving other people with completely different backgrounds for the time you saved by e.g. not commuting

3. Pause - don't overwork yourself; having computer in front of you is enticing to cram more algorithms, experiments etc. into it - just put a firm boundary on the amount of work you do in a given day or you risk long-term overworking issues

I was following this for over 5 years and had the best time of my life working remotely with 0% office time.
on the other hand i have friends who have made 6 or even 7 figures from this and can now afford to drastically change their life and quit their jobs etc.
An obvious solution is to upload your data to a cloud service before passing the border and download them later.

Will that be declared a contraband soon?
The problem is the use of market cap as a valuation metric. It is absurd to think that your joke cryptocurrency is actually worth $2B just because one person was willing to trade at a price that implies $2B.

To show the absurdity, consider the people who buy used cooking oil from restaurants to turn into biodiesel for their modified 1975 mercedes 300D. They might pay $2/gallon for that used cooking oil. Would it be reasonable to assume that the market size of used cooking oil is now $2 * (Gallons of used cooking oil produced yearly)? No, that's absurd. Someone paid a high price for it, that doesn't mean everybody did or will.
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Every single one of those "contacts" was people emailing their representative. Emailing your representative isn't an effective means of communication. It takes no effort to write an email. Most political offices assume an email is a form letter drafted by some special interest.

Call your representative, or meet them in person when they're back in the district. If they know you're a real person, they will respond to you directly with something more than a scripted response.
Is this fixable in the next generation in hardware, or is this a permanent tax on performance going forward?

What I mean is (using a hypothetical): Suppose there's a flaw in the arithmetic unit (e.g. integer division). There's a microcode update, all integer divisions are correct, but run at 86% of previous performance. In next generation, the hardware is fixed and performance will be back up to 100% of designed performance.

Does the same type of handwaving apply to these types of security exploits?
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In my experience most people that claim to be "Christians" don't follow Jesus' basic teachings. Even the most staunch and dedicated will often fumble through an excuse as to why they don't do what he said to do.

Paul wrote about people that did not follow Jesus or the bible as following God naturally. (in Romans) One of my neighbors is a Buddist and he's a great to have next door. (cleared the snow from my driveway a few times without even me asking)

I have been personally shamed by the good behavior of other people outside my own "faith" group, including atheists. The Jordan Peterson video linked in a near comment pointed out the need to be challenged and take on responsibility, and have difficulties. I think the only way I was able to change some things about my religious beliefs was to hear the criticisms of my "sect" openly and face them.

My big religious change came when I was publicly confronted and shamed by a member that had left the group I was in. I started to fear disobeying true leadership in Jesus more than a man with authority. (being shamed, and wrong at the same time sucks) Proverbs says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

Well, I no longer follow men blindly, and it's funny what you see in Jesus when you have no religious baggage telling you what he meant...
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Hey. I feel that I should say that a lot of your recent comments were dead. I read them and I couldn't see any obvious reason why. I vouched for a few and I hope that might make the HN system reconsider, but you might want to test any new posts in a private browser window for a while just to check that they're actually getting posted.

I feel that I should say to people who are downvoting this comment: You're using the downvote as a disagreement, rather than to filter the content you would like to see on Hacker News.

Content on Hacker News should be: relevant, considered, well-written. I don't see anything above that isn't any of those points. Just because you disagree with something, doesn't mean you should downvote it.
Right, it wouldn't exactly turn on a dime. :D
Still, being able to turn at all dramatically increases the usefulness of the drive.