skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the 90s. I don't think people were happy with that. I wasn't on internet then, so not 100% sure. In general, I see money as a representative of how effective certain company/technology/etc. is and there were no multi billion dollar companies in 90s (though the internet was young at that point).

I am pretty sure there are tons of things Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc. can improve but not having any data about user isn't definitely one of those approaches.
They're already among the slowest in PHP:

- https://github.com/kenjis/php-framework-benchmark#hello-worl...

- https://medium.com/@asked_io/php-mvc-framework-showdown-7-1-...
Macmillan's letter to employees about "Fire and Fury" and the First Amendment
Android Things and Google Assistant arrive in smart speakers, displays, and COMs
A secondhand market no relying on a centralized player is the goal, someone who cant control what can be sold and resold. That cannot be done without de-centealized network.
It's always fun to learn about the workings of small systems that have such disproportionate effects on larger systems -- the random articles and comments flowing through HN gave me a better education than what I got in public schooling and university.
Google owns a browser. They should be able to measure average load times for every page on this planet from almost any location

(Of course User permission must be granted, but shouldn’t that be feasible?)
Isn't Amazon in the news every month or so because it treats their workers like crap?
The young are not going to become homeowners or start families if they can’t afford it. It’s not a wait your turn, stages of life kind of thing. There is no path for someone who is in their 20s now to ever own a $2m home. Indeed, household formation and fertility are low and declining compared to previous generations at the same point in their lives.
C'mon man. This is like a kid asking their parents how the marriage is going.

You're not going to hear about the affair or addiction or whatever dirt you're looking for. But it'll still be educational just to know the time they spend on things and what perspectives people try to maintain.

Honestly, this area is such a crazy mystery to the working class (including most white collar workers like myself) that I'm grateful to the mystery guy for giving the interview.
Unlikely, but maybe intel has some fuses inside a chip as well?
I like the idea of a solar roof, but the incentives just don’t work out where I live. We have lots of sun, so I could plausibly produce quite a bit of excess power... but my electric company won’t buy it from me. The most they’ll do is let me offset my own consumption.

So my upside is capped at getting free electricity, which’ll save me $100-150 a month. That’s not nothing, but it’ll take a LONG time to recoup the cost.
Correct, hindsight is 20/20.
Facebook, similar to Google uses their pixel to cookie you. See here: https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-pixel. If you advertise on Facebook, the pixel is part of your site. The pixel does not have any visual representation. Its there tracking your behavior and aggregating it for advertising purposes. Not to mention, FB apps live on most smartphones. Seems to me they have the whole omnipresent thing covered.
And the world can blame Trump and America.

I know it's not true, but I don't think actions of the past ( eg. Obama) can save blame in the public eye from the present ( Trump ), I know it's shortsighted, but will the rest of the world realize
> I think the difference is that Ascribe doesn't have a token, so payment doesn't take place on the platform.

Who cares? More concretely, how many professional or semi-professional photographers care?

> Bottom line though, everyone knows Kodak and no one knows Ascribe

But Ascribe is building useful technology while Kodak throws around buzzwords.
I forget where I heard this joke.

In the future, little Johnny and grandpa are fishing on the lake, after being driven there by their self-driving car.

"You see that car there Johnny? When I was young, we had to drive these ourselves if we wanted to go fishing. It was great! You felt the wind in your hair, you could go wherever you want, whenever you want, you could make out with your sweetheart in the backseat, you would never feel so free!"

"Whoa, grandpa! Wasn't that dangerous, going so fast without the help of a computer?"

"Oh yeah, millions died".
> You know Jay, at this level – it’s the White House. Everything needs to be clearly documented and written down.

I understand from the Pod Save America people that taking notes is usually avoided at the White House, since they are required to be part of the permanent record and can be subpoenaed. Destroying notes is not allowed, so it's best to not take them in the first place.

Naturally the current crowd have their own ways.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/sean-spicer-donald-tr...
(In the Rust code, the Path import is unnecessary, and rustc will warn you that you should remove it, so it ends up having three.)
Wendover is truly fantastic. Also a very soothing voice, which I'm sure helps
Interaction Networks for Learning about Objects, Relations and Physics. Pytorch
Making the Move from Freelancer to Business Owner
I still have to read that book. Thanks for reminding me.

About rigid dichotomies though, including the page I linked, I think it's a cognitive bias in and out of itself.

I take these observations as "food for thought", literally, not ready-made conclusions to swallow. A good basis to reflect upon things, but it's just that, the initial spark.
Ask HN: GDAX Documentation Tool?
Does anybody know what tool may have been used to build this documentation: https://docs.gdax.com/
Catherine Deneuve Signs Open Letter Denouncing 'Me Too' Movement as 'Witch-Hunt'
What are you talking about? What exactly can Ripple do on its own network that you have to trust t not to do?

And anyway it's open source software! Why don't you go download the XRP consensus protocol from their github repo and try it. Ripple's servers won't even be part of the network.
He bought the dip after spreading FUD.
PBR Guide
I think it's more accurate to say that they believe they can fix this with a combination of SW + microcode. The microcode is a sort of HW assist for the new defensive measures. If you don't also update kernels, the new microcode is useless.
Since I've started paying attention, I've noticed that most of the code I write doesn't need anything more powerful than formal regular expressions, and vanishingly rarely needs to go beyond deterministic context-free.
This is the site that shows some of what the program looks like: http://scripto.computer/
This is why you write plans; you find the pain points that will occur and figure those out before committing yourself to an idea. Often I find any wild ideas I have are mostly killed off in the planning stage, but this generally also leads to new more solid ideas too.
Effective Testing with RSpec 3, Getting Started
There's a partial update package debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886367#22

Seems to be taken from redhat updates. It's floating around unseriously in debian unstable instead of being a security update, I guess Debian's FOSS imperative doesn't mix so well with non-free (intel-microcode) updates.

> Anyway, uploading a partial, unofficial set of updates to unstable to
close the bug. Several processors are still missing. I expect an
official release from Intel soon, hopefully with updates for everything.

> Implements IBRS and IBPB support via new MSR (Spectre variant 2
mitigation, indirect branches). Support is exposed through cpuid(7).EDX.

> LFENCE terminates all previous instructions (Spectre variant 2
mitigation, conditional branches).
Gaea is still up and running. The C? names are sub-components, so currently Gaea is C3.

https://rdhpcs.noaa.gov/

https://www.ncrc.gov/
Although I'm not a power user, I believe mercurial can do pretty much most things that git does - including editing history. They just make the easy stuff easy and make the advanced stuff harder - as opposed to git which puts them all on an equal footing.

For history editing, people use the evolve extension in mercurial. It'll likely never become part of the default mercurial because there is a small chance of breaking backward compatibility.

Even before the evolve extension, there were ways to modify mercurial history.

Yes, mercurial docs leave something to be desired. But the actual interface is much cleaner than git's, and is much more newbie friendly, without really losing anything sophisticated.

As another user said in another comment:

>It's easier to transition to Mercurial but once you find you need to dive deep, it's just about as complex as git. Git seems to throw you in the deep end immediately which I do think is more of a blessing than a curse but there are times when it doesn't quite feel that way.
"I offered a simple premise (that Rogan is vocally more anti-SJW than in favor of an alternative path to social justice)"

Why are you re-explaining your premise to me after I already made a point by point post about why it's nonsense?

"You seem to disagree with either the premise or the conclusion, but rather than making an argument to that effect you have made 3 (three!) meta-posts about it, all while waxing on about the virtues effective debate."

I'm shocked that youre sitting there with a "you seem to disagree with..." type attitude. I told you exactly what i disagree with and why. Point by point. I did this while explaining that lying to further your point wasnt a great debate tactic and you seem to have latched onto this and continue acting like I've given you some long lecture on the "virtues of effective debate" when literally all i did was tell you why your point was wrong...which somehow leads you to conclude that I'm making a "small amount of argumentation" versus you, who simply said some thing that was wrong.

"Maybe you disagree with my premise, or maybe you disagree with my conclusion"

This is exactly how you started the paragraph before. Do you know any debate tactics beside saying "you seem to disagree with..." about the things I very clearly have explained why they are incorrect. Either way, are you under the impression that making the same awkward "I'm not seeing what you disagree with here..." When i told you point by point exactly what I disagreed with will somehow make others stop downvoting your posts?

"your posts so far amount to a whole lot of grandstanding and a vanishingly small amount of argumentation."

You said this exact same thing in your last post as well. Right before I reminded you that it was pretty strange to say that I'm adding a "small amount of argumentation" when I responded point by point to your original post, which you're lamenting not being able to discuss further. (which is weird, because the only reason the subject changed was because you decided that making insane, made up points wasnt enough, but that you needed to pair them with the worst analogy I could possibly imagine. Are you going to add some original content soon or just repeat the stuff I've already made it clear you're wrong about?

"I still stand by the argument (both premise and conclusions) I made in my original post"

Breaking news, person who made a bad point is STICKING TO IT, EVIDENCE BE DAMNED.

"I wish our conversation could have been about that, as I think it would have been much more interesting."

You had every opportunity to do this, but you chose to feign outrage at the fact that after explaining why your first post was bad, I didn't bother to explain why the second was bad.
Basically, the first test (kaslr.c) did not even work for me, and it scanned all addresses and wrapped around and started again.

You probably know this (saw you're the person I replied to initially), but for others reading this to check that it's on, "dmesg | grep isolation" should be able to tell you whether the page table isolation is on after you enable it in the kernel.

Given the other tests require the offset, I think I'm safe? I'm going to run it again just to be sure.
I like ads that are targeted to my interests. Far, far better to see ads for SaaS tools on Facebook than the standard generic or offensive crap. I help Facebook every chance I get, via the UI to signal when I like an ad vs. when I don't.

Same with Carbon ads. If all Internet advertising looked like that I wouldn't care at all.
Are you careful to only run e.g only run javascript it's one of those special cases? How often do you use the one-state program that unconditionally halts?
that should be enabled by a boot flag
as far as conspiracy theories go (i read that some days ago on reddit), he's wont be persecuted because he cooperates with the NSA. refuse to cooperate with them and join Nacchio and Qwest.
I would rather have 1 quality movie made for $10,000,000 than 10 crappy movies made for a million. Movies are more expensive to make than people realize. For $10,000,000, you're not paying for much, if anything, for VFX. Case study: Get Out's budget was $6 million, not including marketing. That includes a single non-practical special effect (the sinking scene). All the actors worked for minimum wages [edit: movie wages]. The movie was limited to 3-4 physical locations. Split had a budget of between $6-9 million, and that movie takes place in two locations.
No, dogecoin theoretically caps out at ~30 transactions a second. Bitcoin caps out at ~7 tx/s. This bottleneck increases demand for tx completion and raises tx fees for bitcoin.

The Dogecoin network can handle 4.5x more traffic than the Bitcoin network, meaning the satire cryptocurrency is a better technology at being a currency than bitcoin is.
According to last weeks press release, they mean 90% of recent chips, which is far less than 90% of intel CPU's out in the wild: https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-update...

> Intel has already issued updates for the majority of processor products introduced within the past five years. By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor products introduced within the past five years

It's also unclear what they mean by "introduced within" Does it mean when the product was first developed? First on sale? If I bought a new computer 3 years ago what is the likely-hood that it's CPU was "introduced" much earlier?
When you leave me the fuck alone.
Agreed. There definitely should be a transparent explanation behind the move. In business money speaks.
I don't need to get ready; most content on the WWW is trash, anyway.
A lot of people don’t know this but there’s a one person startup called Rundown Creator that a lot of big companies use to plan shows.
> In theory better targeted ads allow a company to spend it's advertising budget more effectively.

I still don't see why customers want this. I would rather a company struggle to spend its ad budget effectively, and then conclude that it could better spend its resources investing in making a better product (or its employees, or its infrastructure, ..).

I don't have an econ background, so feel free to clear up what's wrong here.
> I know I've had ideas that were ahead of their time, but was held back by that damn voice saying it can't be done or I don't have the resources.

I think a good method would be to share that idea with others, and work on it with help.

Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find other interested people.
My understanding is the hat they are only patching the indirect branch issue, so you’re still vulnerable to Spectre if you install the patches. They aren’t patching the (not indirect) conditional branch issue. That requires software changes or disabling speculative execution (which would have catastrophic perf cost).
DuckDuckGo isn't public right? So, this question doesn't apply to them.
What happens when your trusted code gets exploited? That's also the reason why we have overhead in the form of ACLs, memory protection, ASLR, packet filtering, deprivileged processes, seccomp sandboxes, etc. even though in principle we're all running "trusted code".

Not saying that there isn't a scenario where it would be ok to turn that off, but it's the exception.
Google already measures a bunch of site speed parameters (time to render start, time to render the content text the user is trying to read/search for, etc.)

They factor in all that stuff to a user happyness metric which impacts rankings, probably via a bunch of machine learned models.

The AMP logos and stuff are to try and force webmasters to take speed seriously. For years people have said it's important, yet big sites like eBay and Amazon, who certainly have the financial means and motivation to, still take 10x longer to load than what would maximize both revenue and user happyness.
Just the indirect branch bug. That’s “half” of Spectre. IMO the harder to exploit half.
Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 specs, features, price, and release date
> So you have someone standing there saying "Hey, want to buy these stock? They're great!"

No, you have someone sending an order to sell stock to their broker. The other party had already sent a buy order and was already going to buy stock, so is not made worse off by this.
Small edit: "and negotation" should be "and collective negotation"
It definitely isn't going 20mph in that video.
At least for me Google search is quite helpful. I get into new hobbies every once in a while, travel to new third-world countries. There doesn't exist one or ten places to get this info. I also couldn't imagine living without Google as a college student when the internet was way way younger and immature.
That's when you start using your excess power to mine crypto and get $0.50/kWh instead of the $0.03/kWh that your utility would give you.
There was a HN article a while ago that discussed making use of an existing cpu isa extension to solve the problem in a performant manner: PCID. More here: http://archive.is/ma8Iw
It's very difficult to compare wealth across different times in human history, but even in modern(ish) times, Rockefeller was much wealthier by many reasonable measures - his assets equaled 1.5% of America's economic output, and had an estimated net worth of more than $300 billion in modern dollars.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlodonnell/2014/07/11/the-roc...
Internet-connected computers are more secure now than they ever have been. Just take the standard precautions: update your OS and don't install untrusted apps.
I agree, doing it is a different thing.

cloudflare is already doing an AMP-cache. If the specs works out I'm sure other big players might join.

But yes, taking on Google search is hard.
Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake Comparison
Meet the 3 Types of Venture Studios Eating the Startup World
Because I can create a cryptocoin with 2B tokens, sell one coin to friend for $100 and have a $200B market cap. It's got nothing to do with reality. Anyone (literally) can create a $200B market cap coin by forking a github repo.
I agree. But I think the value these biases actually provide in helping to understand what is going are more limited than people make them out to be. It's much more powerful to simply internalize the worldview of somebody who knew what they were doing, or several of them -- you're not starting from scratch and you're not using models like a dictionary without knowing how to write.
> Thing is, those awful, intrusive ads pay more money than AMP pages do. So I wouldn't assume that other publishers will appear, or that authors will be able to make enough to continue writing.

If my only two options are awful intrusive ads or no content, then I'd choose no content.
I just shovel a path up my driveway to my house so no one slips. I don't think there was a fine for driveways.
What's the story for Illumos as to Meltdown and Spectre? I expect KPTI for Meltdown and then the same disable-speculation-for-indirect-call-in-kernel fix that everyone else is applying. With KVM the Illumos hypervisor should be free of attack, so maybe Joyent needs nothing more.

EDIT: thanks for the update (or did I misread earlier?).
This is not constructive. The meaning of emphasizing 'you' and then providing a contrasting viewpoint is not lost on anybody.
Diversity in Silicon Valley
Though it may seem challenging to build a team that fulfills the full diversity spectrum in Silicon Valley, Tangelo is proof that this challenge is not only surmountable but also shows that empowering diverse employees can be a magnificent business advantage.
REVIEW: Tesla's Autopilot v1 vs. v2
Do you trust all of the userland?

Is your machine internet connected?

Do you have any open ports?

Do you run everything as root?

If your answers are yes, no, no, and yes than it likely will make no difference. Otherwise (and the last one is just for fun to attempt to show you this is probably not a wise decision) you probably would do better to take this serious.
It seems like in most cases, the tokens are being used as a way for the developers to get funding to implement their project without the bureaucracy and costs of doing a real IPO.

That would be fine on its own, but they're almost all pretending this is not the reason for it, and that the token is necessary. This is an obvious lie in nearly every case when you dig into the details. Nearly every dapp that has its own token can be cloned to use Ether without any detriment to the product.
I’m in the midst of writing a script with a few other people, and we’ve been using Writer Duet: https://writerduet.com
There are some articles on HN about boredom and creativity. Perhaps its just that firstborn have more time alone. It'd be interesting to see age differences vs creativity.
On Linux, pass "pti=off" on kernel command line.
And do not visit untrusted webpages with javascript enabled? And how do you know which pages you can trust?
That’s... crazy talk. I like it.
Eh, bad typo there, it was supposed to be...: I'm not sure I've seen any yet [etc.]

(I'm sure most a'y'all got ma drift, but ya know. 'plogies, m'am)
Fifth element. That’s a Deep cut.
I'm giving it one to two generations of CPUs before I do a new build.
I'd like to know as well.
Have there been any reports of exploits using Meltdown/Spectre in the wild yet?
CES 2018: Kodak soars on KodakCoin and Bitcoin mining plans
> In any other context in technology, "fat" anything is considered bad. Technologies are supposed to be "thin", simple, efficient, and composable.

I'd rather use a fat client than a thin one:

Thin client: Primarily just a display. No local processing, or effectively none. Controlled from outside.

Fat client: A processor with a display attached. Nontrivial local processing. Controlled by me.

Maybe fat clients are inefficient. Maybe I'm not thinking right. I still want control.
On Windows machines, I usually have IrfanView installed as an image viewer, which can do this batch-rename with a GUI.

But I have also used scripts for this in the past.
If any blockchain could be regarded as the truth at any time, why bother with a blockchain at all? Just let a trusted third party run a database. Or vote on its integrity if you wish to distribute trust.
> AMD did a much better job at context isolation, but they have always been behind intel in performance, possibly because of this exact issue.

Do we need to re-evaluate historical processor metrics? I wonder how Ryzen compares now to equivalent Intel processors. I'm aware that both are vulnerable to Spectre, but it doesn't look like a fix for that is coming any time soon if I have understood things correctly, and it's the lesser of the two evils.
Nitpick: The blockers work in SFSafariBrowserViewController, but they're not installed in WKWebView (you can of course install your own blockers into your WKWebView, but you don't get the ones from the app store; this makes sense because otherwise there's too much potential for screwing with webviews that show content curated by the containing app).
Well, they may have been more honest than they intended to be when they said that the CPUs were operating ´as designed´. Tinfoil hat stuff.
Fresh take on PDA, I would buy it. Would you?
If we could get our whole culture to understand this the world would be a much better place