skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I write this Intel stock is around $44, up from $41 last October, and that $41 is at an almost 18-year high, it hasn't been this high since the Dot-com bubble. Look at the longer term graph[1]. Similar story for AMD[2] except it's at an all time high since 2007-ish.

The reason people are saying Intel stock isn't down is because of that, when what HN considers the worst thing ever is indistinguishable from fluctuations for the last 3 months the market doesn't think it's a big deal.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+stock

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=amd+stock
> Side anecdote, but a number of people at my company were making fun of a candidate who used labels to break out of loops in JS. “Those don’t exist” they joked. I remember thinking, “I thought they did,” but didn’t say anything. The sad part is I really like the people I work with and they are generally smart engineers. There is just such an arrogance to the interview process in tech it is almost unreal. I haven’t noticed a lack of qualified candidates in tech, just a lack of humility in many of the gatekeepers. Whiteboard pissing contests.

And this is why if people mention a whiteboard as part of the interview process, I don't bother. I've seen similar arrogance related issues in regards to security/crypto questions. The ability to demonstrate the code actually runs and/or is actually broken from a security perspective is an invaluable part of the process.
Cool.

Can't wait for the day when we truly have modular VR.

It's going to take a few years and I know Oculus has the right idea with their eco system but it sort of bums me out that the Vive didn't end up being the hackers headset.

Today it feels like the Vive was built out of spite and HTC got lucky Valve went them first.
That's looks like a floating point error. Don't read into it too much.
Parts I and II of this EdX course by Seif Haridi are great:
https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-p...
I think AMD does some checks that Intel doesn't.
I worked full time, while living in an apartment (which I shared with 2 other people) since I was 18. From 19-25 I took classes, about half of them online and the other half on campus — since at the time it wasn’t possible to earn a true Bachelors degree fully online.

My company paid for a portion of my tuition, the rest I paid myself as I went. A semester of courses cost, by my recollection, about $10k. But that would be regardless of if you took 3, 4, or 5 classes. So naturally I went to the Dean and got special permission to take 6 classes per semester. Combined with transferring half my credits from dirt cheap online classes I graduated after only paying for 4 semesters, about $50k total, $20k of which was expensed on the corporate card, all spread over 5-6 years.

My job at the time was technically an “internship” at Cisco Systems, paid $14/hour. I would typically log about 80 a week though, and it was all time-and-a-half after 40 and double-time after 60 hours a week, so effective pay was higher.

My GPA was shit, but it didn’t matter. No one has ever asked, and I got the degree. The amount of learning from being in the labs at Cisco working with core routers and coding IOS dwarfed anything I learned at college anyway.

Everyone told me I needed the diploma. But since then I’ve never had to so much as write a resume, after that first fluff piece I wrote to get into Cisco. In my case the degree was a massive waste of time and money, but so it goes.

Obviously I was massively lucky and privlidged to get into Cisco at 18, but staying there full time for several years and having them pay part of my tuition was because I worked my ass off for that $14/hr and was one of the most productive members of my team. By the time I left they had all but shut down the internship program and HR was afraid I was going to sue them for misclassifying me, but I was very happy to have had the opportunity.
tbh I am more likely to have node installed than imagemagick nowadays
That is account of worked hours, not that everything except worked hours was same on 20th century - which is what I found suspicious.

I agree that Americans on average spend more time in work.

More conrroversially, I also think that the notion of work ethics should count in also what you do at work and crunch stories about people sleeping under table should not count as better work ethics. E.g. more hours less effectively is not better work ethics. (That is not to imply American companies are less effective per hour, I don't think that is the case.)
TL;DR: Google created an open source version of the internal Census library. We use Census to monitor/debug systems at scale.

It's a single distribution of vendor-neutral libraries that automatically collects traces and metrics from your app, displays them locally, and sends them to any analysis tool (we currently have exporters for Zipkin, Prometheus, Datadog, Stackdriver, and Azure App Insights).
Indeed. I would argue those examples are not protected "free speech", since their intent is to cause imminent harm.

But point taken. I did misspeak when I said "Calmly stated ideas". I meant, specifically, any idea that is not intended to cause imminent harm. Imminent being the operative word, there. So, to my mind, "I think minorities should be turned into lampshades." is reprehensible and worthy of social sanction, but should not be suppressed. "You should kill yourself!" to a suicidal person is dangerous and potentially criminal.

Let's turn it around:

Imagine someone expresses a racist idea, and then the universe splits in two.

In one universe, the person gets a punch in the nose and their books are burned.

In the other universe, a centrist says, "that idea is reprehensible, and here's where you have failed..." and then outlines ethical, philosophical and scientific objections to the racist idea. There is a calm discussion.

In which universe is the racist more likely to consume an underground press of unchallenged racist ideas? In which universe is the racist more likely to change their mind? Which universe is more dangerous, more likely to lead to violence?

From a centrist point of view, the suppression of stupid ideas is more likely to be dangerous, than having them out in the open.
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Crash? Or notice and signal an error? I use it all the time and cannot remember it crashing in a bad way (because otherwise I would remember creating a bug report).
The definition of a shit job is relative to the perceived average. What is paradoxical about that?
Not if your are exhausted after work or if your working hours prevent you from attending courses, for example night shifts leaving you tired at the morning. Try doing warehouse job for a week, see how much willpower you will have left.

Also time is sometimes convertible to money, esp. if you have children. You don't have much time left if you have to work long hours, but if you can pay someone to do cleaning, etc.for you, then you are directly buying time.
Hyperloop costs and challenges undermine pinned hopes
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I think the Overton window might very well be expanding on a society scale, but that doesn't preclude it from narrowing on 'community scale'.

Anecdotally I do get the impression that engaging with others about politics ('community scale') is much more explosive these days, on both 'sides' of various issues. I get the same impression when I think about the publications that often come up in conversations. It's like two parallel universes while I know for a fact that not too long ago reading habits included much more 'mixed' publications (also generally of lower quality, but I'd say that's not entirely relevant to the overton window 'issue')
>But if you've ever read a novel that at the end you feel a bit lonely, like you've lost a friend, or been moved by a beautiful piece of music, then you'll perhaps see what I'm getting at.

If you don't mind, here's an anecdote. I used to work in the consulting arm of a typical enterprise software company. The company sold consulting software+consulting hours, and definitely preferred to sell long term consulting projects that typically embedded us in big changes at large non-tech companies. Lots of people, lots of management/stakeholders, etc.

For some customers they also sold smaller blocks (e.g. 160 hours) of undefined consulting hours. The customer typically used these when they needed a bit of help. A typical project would be something like "3 Analysts have something that is being done in Excel and is a total mess as a business process. Can you streamline this?"

Can you guess which projects I found more rewarding? When I worked on the small projects it was typically me and someone else working directly with the Analysts and I knew exactly what they needed. At the end of the short project they were extremely happy that some small thing we built made their day to much easier. I felt like I had built a relationship with the people I worked with and could directly see how valuable (or not) what I built was. I felt like I mattered to those people. Note that this was not the type of work that made my resume shine or made people envious when I talked about it.

Compare that to the big projects where I basically was 1 of 20 bolt tighteners working on a new bridge. Great stuff for resumes and for some press release in a newspaper. But anybody else could have tightened that bolt and I knew it. So the success of the project barely made me feel anything about what I had done.

Note that I did work on pointless small projects as well. When a company has consulting hours they have to burn by Dec 31st they can imagine all sorts of pointless ways to burn them. So my point isn't about small vs big, but how connected you are to the impact of what you are doing. Big projects can have big impact, but it's harder to feel that if you are just a cog in it.
On the ycombinator thought exchange, it makes sense that satirical posts like these in general are frowned/flagged/weighted down upon (ignoring anecdotes of subjective good and bad discourse on such) like how during the the heat of the GFC some exchanges rolled back unprofitable trades of those who did the most volume on their exchanges.

When the topic of such posts probably have a > 0 percent stake in YC companies, such actions from mods is only to be expected to some degree.
I think the less cynical answer is that HTC often has good ideas for physical devices but then often fails to follow through and iterate well. They're also just struggling as a company in general.

But damn, so I 1000% agree with being bummed about it not being the hackers headset. I preordered the Vive because of a VR video of a guy programming the environment he was in at the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

I would love to use a VR IDE some day.
Yes!

Unfortunately, the default for the compiler we used[1] to align struct members on DWORD (32-bit) boundaries, for some technical reason I am sure was totally reasonable. And these guys all built their code with a special make-variable that appended the "don't-pad-structs-I-really-know-what-I-am-doing" flag to the compiler's command line.

I did read somewhere, that x86 (at least Pentium III and later) like to make memory reads from addresses that are a multiple of four. But the profiling data I was able to gather showed that that part of the application had a negligible impact on overall performance. Since the vague job description I had gotten said my job was to "make things faster", I decided not to look into this any further.

[1] OpenWatcom (http://www.openwatcom.org/)
I’ve noticed a pattern, you know gentrification is in full swing once the neighborhood gets a new name.

For example my last apartment was in Downtown Hartford, CT. But Hartford gets a bad rap for some violent hotspots in the north end of the city.

So the Downtown “neighborhood” became “Riverfront”, because downtown bordered the Connecticut River.

Events were held at “the Riverfront”.

The municipal efforts to draw new business were “Riverfront Recapture”.

They bought the domain Riverfront.org and go out of their way not to use the term Hartford too much.

My new apartment is in Downtown New Haven, and there’s a similar story. Historic Yale is surrounded by some very violent areas.

So my neighborhood isn’t “New Haven”. It’s “Chapel West”.

They bought the domain chapelwest.com. It also avoids referring to New Haven, instead framing the location by street names and intentionally leaving out the city until much further down.

Any projects in the area are referring to Chapel sweat.

I think when your neighborhood gets it’s trendy new name to avoid associating it with the heritage of the surrounding area, gentrification is in full swing.
At this point it's hard to tell if these posts are auto-generated or not. On this one, I'm leaning towards yes.
People were dying before being people
There are presbyopia convergence exercises, no app required, the PDF can be printed or stored on your phone. Once you can fuse the images at a given distance, move the image closer to your nose and repeat: http://www.robert-silverman.net/presbeninst.htm

You can also use a "Brock String" (available on Amazon and elsewhere): http://www.yourfamilyclinic.com/ND/vision/brock.html, "One of the most important pieces of equipment for vision exercises when working on convergence is the Brock String. It offers instant feedback to the participant if their eyes are working together to focus on an object at various distances. Children with reading problems or who are slow readers often have problems with convergence." Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=71o20wyPsR0
I may be biased because I studied crypto for about 9 years. My focus was using geometric properties of elliptic curves to speed up the computation, and I was writing hand-optimized code to prove my results.

I can certainly tell you that you can do tons of mistakes at every layer. Protocol, primitives, composition of primitive, how do you implement them in sw or hw, how do you optimize them.

As an example you can see what happened to TLS1.2, looking after the fact basically everything was wrong with it.

Today I work for a large Internet company. I would be absolutely terrified if I had to see custom crypto implementations. There simply isn’t enough time to validate all that needs to be validated.

Back to your point, though, I’m not against the “build your own crypto”, provided that you have proven expertise. Typically, if you are really an expert, you want to consult with other experts and create a solid team that can verify your implementation.
I think there's a lot more going on with recovering gold from shipwrecks than just how much it costs for recovery, governments take most of the loot and it's really hard to find the wrecks in the first place.

I was reading about WWII shipwrecks mysteriously disappearing (they think) for the un-irradiated steel and that's worth a lot less than than a bunch of gold bullion that just has to be scooped up.
As I said before, monopoly companies grow more arrogant over time and Google was particularly arrogant, patronizing, and dismissive of user concerns from the start. What began as a technical innovation, the auto update, quickly became a means of user control and has since spread industry-wide. You can tell when it became user control when you could no longer turn it off.
It is fascinating seeing words' interpretation change and shift. For crypto this process seems almost already over.
> Microsoft has a cross-platform offering of some sort in the works using C++11

Casablanca, but I'm not sure how active is the project nowadays.
One solution for unique primary keys is to use a system like Snowflake [0]

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
I don't think it would be a kind of work that can earn a living in urban setting.

However, it's something that can be used to earn supplemental income in cheap locale.

Teach spoken English using Skype, for example. There's 2B potential customers. Or maybe 4B. All you have to be is native speaker.
It's not a hijack, it's just how trends and language work.

If you want "crypto" to be used for something else, you have to make that something else. Crypto communication, crypto news, etc. If "crypto currency" is the only common term to start with "crypto" that most people know about, it's going to be shortened, and represent that one thing.

Crypto currency is more top-of-mind to the population at large, than cryptography as a general category. If there are more specific implementations of useful crypto that average people use as a product (like currency, not, say, SSL), then crypto will be detached from the concepts and come to represent all of them (cryptography) again.
I agree. ffmpeg can be inscrutable sometimes. Understanding the internal concepts is a big boost when using it. For example I've used "-avcodec" hundreds of times in the command line but I just now understood where that fit in.
Doesn't Venezuela have strict gun laws as well. I don't think private gun ownership is even allowed.

So how effective is that alone? It seems per capita income would be the prevalent factor.
Whether single payer or other universal systems are “cheaper” is one question. The US system isn’t the only way of having a private system, and there are reasons for it being expensive other than it being market based (monopolies, legal reasons etc). While it’s hard to say why US healthcare is more expensive, it’s at least pretty easy to say that other systems aren’t like the US, and are cheaper. They are paid for in different ways (e.g taxes, fees,...), correct. And those costs are lower. Naturally countries with tax funded healthcare have higher taxes. An apples-to-apples comparison is of course between tax+healthcare in both countries.

Third: unemployment rate. This is also locally dependent on what full employment is, which depends on, for example, unemployment benefits etc. 6% unemployment in Sweden is pretty good, but would be terrible in the US. So percentages are not directly comparable. (For example 6% in Ireland is comparably lower unemployment than the current 4% in the US in a fair comparison as Ireland’s full employment rate is 5% - They are at full+1%)

As such, finding countries which have lower taxes despite including healthcare and lower unemployment despite perhaps having 80% unemployment benefits isn’t just impossible it’s a pretty useless comparison to begin with.

To make a fair comparison you have to correct for local factors: taxes excluding healthcare, and unemployment as difference from full employment (to begin with).
> This guy thinks that standing on his feet is unhealthy, yet the new trend is for people working 9-5s to use standing desks since sitting down can affect blood circulation and lead to heart disease or vascular disease.

This is the kind of binary thinking that's problematic with a lot of people i talk to nowadays. How about this:

Instead of it being a question of which one is wrong or right, what if both are right to some degree?

What if standing for a full 8 hour work day is unhealthy, just in a different way than sitting for an 8 hour work day is unhealthy?

What if the real answer is: Both is necessary, in moderation?
At what cost?

If he didn't follow these artificial principles he would be much more widely known, spreading his message further and possibly making a difference in the fields he believes in most outside the tiny world of his closest research peers.

Instead, he's the equivalent of a digital hermit with a window due to his "no touch" views on privacy.

Everything he's done hints at a predilection towards severe risk aversion. And, in my opinion, it has hurt the world when we needed him the most.
The London Time Machine
Walking around in public does not make it reasonable for someone to track where you are at every moment.
This was a big thing in Soviet Russia. The thing is, to show good results required 1 - 2 hours of work per day. The author of this article notes that he, too, put in 1.5 hours a Day.

No credible study I have found has supported meaningful benefits when used the way real people are likely to: for 10-15m/d a few times a week, at best.
They had an ace up their sleeve to fix those security issues? If that is true, they should get ready for the lawsuits I guess...
I can't find a single source to back up insufficient UV exposure leading to eye damage. Do you have any for further reading?

From what I can tell, the sunseekers claim is based on a study[1] where people were surveyed about their sun exposure, and then mortality was examined years later. The most likely causes identified for the longer lives of those with more sun exposure was vitamin D preventing heart disease. I feel like there's more to the story, since vitamin D is also available in other forms that don't involve UV exposure.

[1] https://bottomlineinc.com/health/longevity/more-sun-longer-l...
Goldmont is the atom line and not related to skylake. Apple has been building cpus for years now and it's unfair to claim that the apple chips blow the intel ones out of the water based on some simple int/fp benchmarks. I agree that they will lose apple in time, but "in time" could be on the order of 10 years.
SGX was introduced in ~2014, AFAIK.
It is when you get caught with (2017 USD$ adjusted) around $6B in stolen Nazi gold.
I remember the selling on insider information claims, and was skeptical that it would matter that much.
I'll bite, what's the big difference? Are you asking whether Iceland's foreign-born population is mainly seasonal workers? No, they're not.

There's been a consistent increase in immigration since the mid-90s when Iceland joined the EU's free movement program. This pattern continued even though the 2008 crash (accelerated if anything).

Iceland's the 6th richest country in the EEA by GDP PPP. There's a general trend in the EEA of people moving from east to west for better pastures, Iceland's biggest foreign-born population is Poland, followed by Lithuania.

1. https://hagstofa.is/utgafur/frettasafn/mannfjoldi/innflytjen...
Google exists to be the world's perfect example of the dangers of conflating knowledge with wisdom.
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Well, unless you're doing original research, everything you write will be trivial to somebody.
This is really cool -- also great to see a teacher having an impact in this manner. Awesome!
> purpose of the communication was to have people like me message up the chain that this was no big deal. That misdirection is inexcusable

But perhaps this was no big deal. We've seen years of research suggesting that modern CPUs are full of issues like this. There's probably a good decade worth of papers on cache side channel attacks. See https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448.pdf for example

Perhaps the big deal is that there are still people who think they can safely run multiple different things on a single machine?
I think you missed the "all of physical memory is mapped into the kernel's address space"

For a typical kernel without Meltdown mitigations, the entire kernel, including that window into all of physical memory, is in the page tables of every 64 bit process at all times.
Can anyone offer a really basic summary of what problems can be solved with PostgreSQL partitions?