skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is possible to have a spec thats always contains all the latest functionality. But that is also not necessary. The better the spec, the more problems we can solve completely.

I don't think we can always support the newest latest advancement to solve the latest obscure problem, but I think it's no problem to wait a period, even if it were months or years, for it to be standardized and supported in browser. The delay is not a nuisance nor a cost without any benefit. We maintain the open trustable web by doing that.

We have already a pretty good idea of what functionality we need. For example, we can look at what common JavaScript frameworks solve, and think about what we should standardized from that. Nobody did that so far, but we totally could, and should.
Well, it has been a few years, and it's a very long interview, so I hope you understand I'm not going to be very specific.

These are the things that I came away with after watching it, to the best of my recollection:
- Cenks inability to be charitable towards his guest
- Cenks inability to let his guest make a point without challenging it repeatedly, and please note the that the word "repeatedly" is key
- Cenks way of deflecting analysis of an apple by saying "but what about this orange?!"
- Sams amazing patience and calm

Anyway, that's how I remember feeling after having watched it years ago. And I've never watched Cenk before or after that interview, so I have no other points of reference for his character or abilities as an interviewer.

I'm not going to go watch it again, so there's nothing to discuss here - it just amazes me that anyone would want to be interviewed by Cenk, considering how negatively I viewed his interaction with Sam.

So, I guess I should not have engaged you at all, because I have nothing to discuss, and no factual arguments to make.

I would delete my first comment if I could, but I can't.
There's an obvious strategy here to make an infinite amount of money!
Standard mathematical notation to indicate whether the endpoint is or is not included.

{ x : a < x && x < b } <=> (a,b)
{ x : a <=x && x < b } <=> [a,b)
{ x : a < x && x <=b } <=> (a,b]
{ x : a <=x && x <=b } <=> [a,b]

In the example above the questioner is asking about getting a number in the range 1 to X inclusive. That would be [1,X]. Random number generators can return numbers in the range 0 to 1, including 0, not including 1. You can write that as [0,1).

If you want an integer n in [1,X] and you get reals r [0,1), you can create a function:

f : [0,1) -> [1,X], f(r) = 1+floor(X*r)

Always check the endpoints, and the expected frequencies.
Except many hackers run on reputation, and the hacker that releases an amazing new exploit to the masses of script kiddies, is praised for it.

"Difficult" is just another word for "look how much greater I am than the competition when I pwn it."
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Mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown are also being added to the JavaScript VMs in Chrome [1], Firefox [2] and IE/Edge [3].

Are similar mitigations also needed in the VMs for other dynamic languages, such as CPython/PyPy, Ruby MRI and Lua/LuaJIT? What about the JVM and Microsoft's CLR?

Or are these other VMs not susceptible to this form of attack?

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/ssca

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-lan...

[3] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/01/03/speculative-e...
The reason why it was "life plus X years" was to provide a means for the family if the creator had an untimely death.

While that was the ostensible reason, corporations who have had rights assigned to them want to milk those rights after the author's death, indeed often the creator's death is a catalyst for higher sales, which will usually go mostly to the publisher/media conglomerate, not their family.
Delegating engineering work to non-engineers with Zapier
Or if it's the semi parental role the eldest often take regarding younger siblings
It’s also difficult to run true x64 bit workloads on azure functions as it invokes the x86 version of the dotnet executable, regardless if the application is set to x64
Still 100% I'm afraid
Unfortunately this is not true publishers still see this inter webby thing as the same as the print medium they are used to.

As my boss said when I worked to a division of RELEX - the main problem is that publishers is that they treat their technical experts with contempt.
Found the aggerate survey data:

https://goo.gl/forms/8bmb7dwWyBtS5nDM2

And it is pretty obvious the sample is bias, though take a look to see for yourself and comment if you notice anything too.
I thought only Apple II's were able to move stuff by half a pixel to the side... :-(
> If you accept that all people are not equal you are presented with a curious metaphysical problem when considered from a Western "Christian" perspective; why did God create both paupers and princes?--i.e., why are some born into ridiculous wealth and others crippling poverty?

When I was still a catholic I "solved" this by assuming God put souls with more capability to survive hardships in bodies that experience more hardships. Basically the world is a level-scaling MMORPG :)

When I stopped being a catholic I just assumed there's nothing fair about universe, it's just random, so there's nothing to explain.

The fact we don't have equal chances is obvious, even people saying otherways usually know this deep down, they just won't admit it because ideology, so they might say "people are equal, but society is keeping some of us down" (clearly not the only factor - see psychological development problems), or "people are equally talented at different things, some of us don't get to realize these talents" - which might be true, for general enough definition of talent, but is quite unlikely (if nobody's supervising the distribution of talents - how do you ensure everybody's got the same amount?). And even if it's true - the definition has to be so general that in practice it doesn't matter.
Sherlock Holmes appears in unauthorized works even though some of the original Doyle works are not public domain, but I'm not sure how trademark complicates things.
For me, when the service works, it works well, but there are 3 things that really bug me about VM:-

1. No IPv6 support. Still. In 2018.

2. Upgrading is harder than it needs to be. They seem to show different customers different things on the self service site so they make you call up.

3. It is cheaper to get a bundle with a phone line than one without. Why?
Are twins inherently more efficient per pax than quads? Wouldn't a quad plane just run at a lower thrust level per engine? Given that fan sizes and core temperatures are rammed up against difficult limits, I would've thought that quads could give a better bypass ratio (and hence efficiency) by reducing the core engine size and thrust requirement.

Or do you mean operational efficiency...fewer parts to maintain, engineers, simpler plumbing etc? Probably less disturbance on the wing flow with 2 engines as well.
Trump's Executive Orders on Rural Broadband Don't Really Do Anything
Sure, and nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM either.
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Iosevka reminds me of the Dec VT terminals.
There is no active mechanism to enforce gun laws when crossing state lines (and there are often safe passage laws if you are just driving through without stopping), but you can be charged if you are pulled over for another reason and the police see an illegal gun in your car.

I imagine sugar tax enforcement would work similarly to the gun enforcement, not dedicated checkpoints for private cars (commercial trucks which already have checkpoints). You get pulled over for speeding, the police officer sees you have 18 cases of soda, and all of a sudden you get two fines.
Same here @300.

My problem with VM is their constant bumping of prices. Until recently I was paying MORE than a new customer (by quite a margin).

You have to keep an eye on your bills
Your comment made me curious so I redid the plots with three different axes.

The first one starts from 5.5 which makes it look nearly identical to that in the blog post

https://i.imgur.com/n0LZJd8.png

The second one is where I let the y-axis run from 0 to 10 instead of from 5.5 to 10. In my opinion, this changes very little

https://i.imgur.com/cmrnbDp.png

The third one is with the y-axis from 0 to 100 which makes the effect significantly less pronounceable

https://i.imgur.com/pk9Bs9n.png

Matlab code:

m = 1:12;
tasks = [7.2 7.6 8.3 8.1 8.2 8.4 8.6 8.4 8.8 9.5 9.0 8.0];
bar(m,tasks);

% axis([0 12.5 0 100]);
% axis([0 12.5 0 10]);
axis([0 12.5 5.5 10]);

title('In which month do people complete most tasks');
xlabel('Month');
ylabel('Percentage people reporting completing most tasks');
Two excellent points regarding the js community
Isn't it better staying out? It seems like it shares similar properties to pytz - new codecs need to be added semi-regularly.

What was it Kenneth Reitz said? Something like standard library is where packages go to die.
I've referenced in the last HN Disney discussion an article by Priceonomics that explain a strategy Disney can use to enforce the treadmark (https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...):

> Even if Mickey’s copyright does expire in 2023, Disney has no less than 19 trademarks on the words “Mickey Mouse” [...]

> According a precedent set in a 1979 court case, a trademark can protect a character in the public domain as long as that character has obtained what is called “secondary meaning.” This means that the character and the company are virtually inseparable: upon seeing it, one will immediately identify it with a brand. [...]

> In other words, Disney has ingrained Mickey Mouse so deeply in its corporate identity that the character is essentially afforded legal protection for eternity, so long as Disney protects him (trademarks last indefinitely, so long as they are renewed).
The "Mickey Mouse" copyright extensions affect all creative works.
I think the copyright is slowly becoming irrelevant, I have a feeling that the real push is to treat copyrights the same way as patents (intelectual property), so for instance, you cannot make a cartoon with Mickey Mouse even if you make character a bit different or call it differently, or you cannot take a Disney story with slightly different characters. Basically, it won't be any more about protecting own creative work but about creating an artificial scarcity.
If that - just that - is your scope, then count me in.

I'd love to have a "standard web" that's entirely focused on providing visitors information in an efficient manner. And by efficient I mean not fighting attempts at providing better UIs or aggregating information through machine methods.
Kubernetes is optional - Docker Swarm (which some people prefer for its simplicity is also available) - basically yes binaries get wrapped in containers now for build/ship/run.

You're right though it is just an example - one of many in the function store. OpenFaaS can run any binary as a function - that means that we can strip back all the complexity needed to utilise ImageMagick for instance as a function by making it a function that works over stdin/stdout. Normally that would have involved a Node.js runtime and native compilation packages.

Here's the example: https://blog.alexellis.io/serverless-imagemagick/
That's actually an interesting accidental point.

How many embedded CPU's with speculation might be affected? You may say "none" but there are Cortex CPUs embedded into FPGAs (either directly or form of IP cores). What if enterprise routers have them? What if TVs have them?

I know many Cortex's aren't affected. The point is, anything that needs a "fast enough" CPU to benefit from OoO scheduling is possibly at risk, right? So while most embedded devices use cheaper, less complex CPUs, there are plenty that don't--as more powerful CPUs (which offer speculation) are becoming cheaper and cheaper.

A Raspberry Pi 3 has a Cortex-A53 (because they're cheap). They're luckily not affected, but those CPUs and faster are cheap enough to throw onto a $35 retail price computer. What's running in your $800 internet-connected 4K TV?

Per the Pi 3 explaination page:

>Examples of out-of-order processors include the Intel Pentium 2 (and most subsequent Intel and AMD x86 processors with the exception of some Atom and Quark devices), and many recent ARM cores, including Cortex-A9, -A15, -A17, and -A57.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulne...

The A9, 15, 17, and A57 are all affected and used across TONS of devices in the world. They're very popular not just in chip form (as the primary CPU), but also in IP cores (inside an FPGA), as well as "secondary CPU" systems attached to FPGAs or other CPU's.

And that's just one brand of one type of CPU. Who knows what else is out there. PowerPCs are in everything. Even your dust-covered Gamecube has out-of-order speculation!

Here's a link mentioning that PowerPC CPUs are affected:

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-powerpc-susceptibl...

So there goes all your PowerMacs. (And likely the Gamecube
and Wii too!)
Not everyone who uses javascript does so to monetize visitors. It's just a scripting language, it can be used for anything - and any user or publisher who doesn't want to use it already has the freedom not to.
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> If it were a much smaller effect, it would be much more believable.

Why do you think that?

We know that the SSC readership is in many ways quite distinct from the general population, so why do you find it surprising that it has correlations with birth order? Is it because you find it surprising that anything has correlations with birth order?
His mental condition and personal situation is also beyond what you see anywhere else.
Speak to an optho about blepharitis and/or dry eye disease (dont google it; the results are always about the far end of the bell curve.) Warm compresses, eye drops during the day, eye gel at night, and daily warm compresses. Did I say that twice? Daily warm compresses.

Odds are good you’ll feel notably better in six weeks.

This isn’t personal medical advice, just an observation about an extremely common condition.
Sony’s new Aibo robot just melted the hearts of a room of jaded tech bloggers
There is another one recently about intel reverse eng. he use crackme ...
I understand that it's corporate etiquette to be a smiling doormat when faced with free riders abusing your services, to politely apologise for not being able to take the pain, but it doesn't mean you're an asshole if you don't act that way.

The vast majority of these users were looking for a shady freebie at his expense, gleefully ripping him off and doing so en masse in a way that would destroy his livelihood. They were being more than cheeky and he has a right to treat them the same way. If it were me I'd have had my fun too.
Maybe more Outsider Art
Trolling via PR, or is this just trolling trovalds?
Homes that resell within 90 days are fix & flips. Yes, they sell for a higher price, but there is also more investment put into them than just the purchase price.
They gathered data of office robots that start to work between 8 and 9. Also it's only data of robots forced to use a particular tracking tool. Yes, a work cycle is 2-3-4 hours after having started fresh. Start at 11 and mark something as done at 14.

That sponsored article should be categorized using their book titles advertised at the bottom: "The Content Marketing Handbook", "Hipster Business Models" and "Everything is Bullshit".
> no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages

No we should definitely not, but we should encourage using something like rust or whatever comes after rust.
Those were a few that were lucky enough to earn a living / have people take care of them; that's only a small percentage, the rest ends up homeless, dead, interned, jailed. Terry is headed that way too now.
27-Year-Old Dying of Cancer’s Final Letter Sums Up What Matters in Life
I honestly can't tell the difference between 80/20 FTTN and 1gig FTTH for 99% of use cases. Both support HD conferencing and 4K video with ease. WiFi tends to struggle to deliver above 100meg reliably regardless (especially in dense urban environments, or conversely old rural homes with very thick walls).

Keep in mind BT is starting an aggressive Gfast rollout and has a slow and steady FTTH program also running. Personally I don't think it's worth the UK govt spending £30bn+ on FTTH as I believe the commercial sector will get there, especially when FTTC is so widespread.
Not spend $500=$500 after taxes.
If that's the worst that happens I'll take it.
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Salt is not a spice, it's a salt. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice
I live in Zone 1 (less than 1/2 mile from an exchange) and still don't have fibre, and get less than 300kbps in the evenings with BT some days (max quoted, 16Mb). Fibre isn't even planned for our cabinet yet, so it strikes me as surprising we're at 95% coverage.
Reminds me of the Universal Cyrillic decoder [1]

And old MySQL db dump I have has some values such as:
!Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¡!HONDA POW

Does anyone here have an idea if/how I can recover the mangled text?

[1] https://2cyr.com/decode/?lang=en
Depending on where you live, that extra 5 hundred means that the streets are safe, you have clean drinking water on tap and if you get hit by a car crossing the stree you'll probably make it. And defence and welfare and such and such. suck it up. Taxes have a point.
I don't know what you think a Disney story is, but all of Disney's major works are based on existing folk stories and other works already in the public domain.
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Yes, one principle of Go design is try to use as few syntaxes/concepts as possible to support as many use cases/features as possible.
I have the exact opposite. I'm a productivity monster from the moment I wake up to roughly 1pm, then after that my productivity slowly declines and after 6pm I'm utterly useless.
Could be one factor. I read a thing the other day that said something about child birth triggering some sort of immune reaction in the mother's body. That could mean that the second child is born under slightly less ideal conditions or something like that.
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don't work two jobs, be happier
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I tried BT's "fibre" for a year, and I probably never will again. When it was connected, the speed was as advertised. But it disconnected several times a day, sometimes for half an hour at a time, and they didn't seem able to fix it. Relying on decades old copper wire seems like it will never work.
Damn this is good. I had faced a similar issue where the CSV had mixed encodings. That time I never looked for a library, I read a few SO answers and created an adhoc python script to make the file encoding uniform. Ftfy would have made my work simpler.
You should read it as: "some programmer was fired instead of management", just a message to cover their asses.
I have been thinking about creating a reference group in Europe to lobby against googles abuse of monopoly.
EU has shown time after time that it cares more about its citizens than about how much money countries can make.

If anyone is interested PM me.
there should be extensions to protect from gross misuse but only that, so mickey mouse in an advert could be ok but in a porno wouldn't
so let me get this staright:
when Damore is being rated politics have an effect on ratings and promotions

when Damore speaks out against politics affecting hiring and promotion, he is wrong

I'm fascinated how one can reconcile both beliefs
I'll go against the grain. I like amp. The less 50MB pages drain my 250MB data plan, the better.
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What about Pixar?
don't regular headphones not work well in the water? I thought you absolutely needed bone conduction headphones for swimming with music to be a pleasant experience
Why? It's likely to be tens of billions of £ to move from FTTC to FTTH, which very few people would even notice.
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Funny their response graph has been literally off the chart for a while before they updated the status.
Can they track mining operations down by looking for abnormally high power consumption?
Someone should add this as an automatic preprocessing filter for Slashdot comments.
Google announces solution to longstanding AMP cache URL display problem
> You could make derivative works of the original Mickey Mouse free from copyright infringement?

Yes, though be careful not to infringe on Disney's trademarks while doing so.

> Would copyright still be in place for subsequent Mickey Mouse productions?

Yes.
Scrolling performance is also a lot worse.
Does that imply that WebKit always allocate by power of two and a script cannot read the memory for unrelated allocation between the array length and the nearest 2n?
Random, unexpected, untrusted c/c++ written code doesn't execute on my machine every time I browse a website. The only c/c++ code is code I downloaded and installed or that my OS vendor trusted to include in the OS. It's quite different from javascript where the code is literally executing uninvited, often by 3rd or 4th or 5th parties of the website I visit.
A Game of Civilization May Help People Understand AI’s Existential Threat
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Yea, but make another Snow White and if she LOOKS like the Disney version, you're going to have a bad time.
Fake news 2.0: AI will soon be able to mimic any human voice UK
This kind of service is great and technically well done. Of course it "should not be neccessary" if people exposed well-structured information in (X)HTML. However, many actors work hard to publish their valuable data only in a way they can control (for instance human-readable). Such API efforts are helpful to demonstrate that it is impossible to publish data and keep them fenced at the same time.
TransferWise begins private launch of debit card for borderless accounts
Sad. I wonder if the drum kit was a factor.