skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but everybody can decrypt it. It's a public key cryptosystem, but it's not going to help fighting against backdoors because it doesn't need one in the first place.
Let's build Zork using Rust
So not an architectural paradigm shift, then - a mostly "invisible" incremental CPU improvement instead?
When I last looked at this, most online offerings failed at least one of our test addresses. Most online stores seemed to fail it too. And this was only for California, ignoring the other 49 states.
Their data still says that more than 1 in 4 Greeks smoke, so it's not surprising that you see it everywhere. It's just that it's no longer more than 1 in 3.
You would miss out on guys like warren buffet with that kind of reasoning.
MIT and UC Berkeley announced some work on vision-correcting displays in 2014, but nothing since.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/529191/prototype-display-...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2490626/emerging-techn...
What I expected "by hand" to mean was something like a handmade analog computer. E.g. print your scatterplot, tape a penny over each data point, push a tack through the origin and let the printout swing around it under gravity until it comes to rest (while keeping it flat -- I guess I should've first stuck the printout onto some cardboard). Is there some generalization of this idea that lets the intercept vary too?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares impact of AI to electricity and fire
The Case for Never-Ending Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Spreads
Silly play is what I heard as most likely.

Yeah, handling of mitigations for Spectre has been awful during the embargo period, but I am very happy with the result we're getting now. It's taking less than three weeks to get everything sorted out.
The Carillion whitewash: insolvent, not illiquid
These Are Not Your Father’s GMOs
The findings are not based on economic statistics, such as tax revenue. Rather, it's based on a health survey conducted by eurostat, as indicated by this link from the article:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
Tangentially related, look into rt-tests (from linux-rt) for scheduler latency tests.

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Realtime_kernel

The effect of the linux-rt patchset is dramatic.
>I'm actually surprised his job has not been replaced by robots yet.

Meat robots are still cheaper.
How is switching from a one-time fee to an annual fee in any way similar to charging extra for a specific website other than that they both involving charging money?
That's the point. Ads harm the visitors of your website, so you should tell them they're being harmed.
maybe i’m just being nostalgic, but: good! maybe it should be dumpy. If it gets too shiny it’s time to be truly worried.

in my experience, hackers and researchers do our best work in settings that are less than ideal.

From Hamming’s “you and your research”:

This brings up the subject, out of order perhaps, of working conditions. What most people think are the best working conditions, are not. Very clearly they are not because people are often most productive when working conditions are bad. One of the better times of the Cambridge Physical Laboratories was when they had practically shacks - they did some of the best physics ever.

I give you a story from my own private life. Early on it became evident to me that Bell Laboratories was not going to give me the conventional acre of programming people to program computing machines in absolute binary. It was clear they weren't going to. But that was the way everybody did it. I could go to the West Coast and get a job with the airplane companies without any trouble, but the exciting people were at Bell Labs and the fellows out there in the airplane companies were not. I thought for a long while about, ``Did I want to go or not?'' and I wondered how I could get the best of two possible worlds. I finally said to myself, ``Hamming, you think the machines can do practically everything. Why can't you make them write programs?'' What appeared at first to me as a defect forced me into automatic programming very early. What appears to be a fault, often, by a change of viewpoint, turns out to be one of the greatest assets you can have. But you are not likely to think that when you first look the thing and say, ``Gee, I'm never going to get enough programmers, so how can I ever do any great programming?''
Soy based insulators being eaten by animals
The Relation of Version Control to Concurrent Programming (2008) [pdf]
> we were now able to optimize HVAC settings in our office (Well, we mainly complained to our facility management).

Time to go shop some plants?
That's a bad habit you have there, I bet you thinking extends to more than just people who smoke, I would distance myself from people with this line of thinking when looking for a business partner.
Well, you know, you don't go bankrupt without spending money.
Did you miss that Intel's stopped developing the Xeon Phi's?
I just noticed my argument has analogies to Eric S. Raymond's argument about the cathedral and the bazaar.

I'd actually love to see a bazaar on the cpu side of things, be it just for the sake of what community efforts can achieve as opposed to the current mostly proprietary ecosystem.
This is great, do you have any more resources where one can learn about this?
Would that work in one those "secret courts" like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

These seem to be kind of outside of the regular legal system.
> which almost everyone already has installed, and

Nope. Sorry to disappoint but I refuse to touch node with a barge-pole. Also 90% of the systems I deal with also don't have it installed.

> whose dependencies aren’t a pain in the ass to get installed and running.

pacman -S imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Wow, you're right that was an utter nightmare.
AMD may be shipping server CPUs as MCMs while Intel isn't, but that doesn't mean AMD has a meaningful lead. Intel's Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) [0] technology is far more advanced than any MCM tech AMD has available, to the point that AMD is using Intel's EMIB to connect an AMD GPU to its DRAM in an upcoming Intel product [1].

When Intel gets around to making a multi-die CPU using EMIB, it'll blow away AMD's EPYC in terms of bandwidth between dies.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12003/intel-to-create-new-8th...
RESTful Web Services: A Tutorial
> There’s just so much less contention underground.

Except for all the utility conduits (only half of which are actually marked), gas pipes, steam pipes, water pipes, sewage pipes, forgotten tunnels (remember the Chicago flood?), subway tunnels, basements, foundations, and pilings. Sure, you could avoid a lot of that by going very deep, but you still have problems with ventilation and access shafts to deep tunnels.

> “Without tunnels we’ll be in traffic hell forever” -Elon

The way to fix traffic hell is to accept that, if you live in a large city, space is at a premium, and your single-occupancy vehicle takes up 20 times the space as standing on a train.
Are there people who don't think Palo Alto is dumpy?
This kind of article is worthy of techcrunch front page? Maybe someone's personal blog at best. The only value in this post is from the links to Bloomberg and WSJ
I think the intention is something like:

A service which is free from the creator's perspective (YouTube / CarPlay) will now carry a new fee imposed by the company which delivers the service (ISP / BMW) despite the intention of the creator.
I had to wait the third paragraph to read "blockchain", and the fifth to read "cryptocurrency".

And here I thought it was about the uses of cryptography, with possible mentions of ProtonMail (which is based in Switzerland).
Who cares what these group of Chinese people think about Silicon Valley and our tech sectors or the work ethic. Are we effective in creating technology? Yes. Something is working. (There are a lot of criticism that I would have for it, but being worried about some group of tourists having an opinion isn't one of those )
her publisher, Harcourt, Brace, had requested a picture for the back of the book jacket. “They were all bad,” O’Connor wrote to the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald and his wife, Sally. “The one I sent looked as if I had just bitten my grandmother and that this was one of my few pleasures, but the rest were worse.”

It is a good read. I can identify with a lot of it.
I stumbled on this article while hanging with my 94-year-old Grandparents today. It popped up on their new Amazon Echo Show and my Grandpa pointed at it, wondering what a "minister of loneliness" was all about while enjoying a 5-Guys burger and chocolate shake I picked up on the way to his house.

I've been studying at the problem of elderly loneliness and loneliness in general (I WFH). A little over a year ago when my Grandpa stopped driving at age 93 I started making more of an effort to hang with him. I noticed that in the beginning his memory wasn't as I remembering it being 10 years before that. But over the months as we started getting together more consistently it was as if we'd gone back in time. His memory is astonishing, better than most of my friends in their 30s. He remembers everything I tell him and is always checking in on whatever life problems I share with him. Ok, well maybe he's my Grandpa and just cares more about the little details of my life than most of my friends! :) Even so, getting together with him on a regular basis definitely had a profound impact on his mind and mobility. And on me too.

Tech can be useful for combatting loneliness. Nothing beats in-person interaction but products like Amazon Show can help fight loneliness. I blogged a bit more about my experience with it so far here: http://blog.nanagram.co/echo-show-unboxing. I've also been experimenting with a product in this space, https://nanagram.co, and it brings me a ton of joy to hear about how it brings families closer together. Reddit put forth an awesome idea to allow strangers to "adopt" grandparents (https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney/comments/7fg6q...) which the product, which I love in theory and still need to figure out in practice.
Two or three decades back Canada tried high cigarette taxes to reduce smoking. A black market promptly appeared, complete with smuggling across the border and drive by shootings, until the tax was lowered back.

(During WW2 which had extensive gas rationing, a black market for that appeared as well, and (you guessed it) drive by shootings.)

Of course, today we have the failed war on drugs, with drive by shootings.

There are limits to government power attempting to force morality on people.
I mean PG called SV one big giant parking lot, and as a native who's lived here my whole life, I absolutely agree, and I love my big ol' parking lot.

If they truly thing PA is dumpy, then they wouldn't be buying so many houses in all cash deals you know. ;)
What Is the Resolution of the Eye?
"10nm" and "7nm" are marketing terms that are not directly comparable across foundries.
Is there any reason why you're not using Firefox as you obviously should?

When the same question marks that you mention started appearing in my mind, I not only went back to Firefox but started de-googlifying my life. Re-installed my OS to make sure no traces of Chrome remained.

And man, keeping track of changes in Chrome folder, talk about a losing battle.
Not to mention the fact that npm is inherently insecure.

https://ponyfoo.com/articles/npm-meltdown-security-concerns

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of...

https://github.com/joaojeronimo/rimrafall

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10999

https://twitter.com/o_cee/status/892306836199800836
Multi-Chip-Module (Epyc) is just 4 separate dies wired together. (As Intel would derisively point out if is basically 4 Ryzen desktop chips glued together).

The advantage of this architecture is that smaller chips are easier to manufacture because the probability of a random defect rendering the chip useless is lower and when a chip is bad it is not as great of a loss.

Epyc chips run all existing software. There is extra work involved with Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) where if you want software to actually use 32 or 64 cores simultaneously it has to be purposefully designed to take into account the architecture but that is not really any different than developing for multi-processor systems in the past.

The point is that we have hit the ceiling on frequency scaling, which means more cores, and now we have hit the ceiling on core count scaling, so now it is going to be more CPUs, and the best way to do more CPUs is with MCMs.
About 10 years ago I wrote a video encoding app with libavcodec/libavformat. Beyond very simple examples with everything set to default, there was almost zero material on how to use it. There was maybe one trivial example of decoding a file where all the parameters are guessed automatically. But I needed to encode a live video stream from a webcam. I spent a couple of weeks reading the code and hacking away until I got it right. I wish there was stuff like that back then.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau includes a section of tunnel, so it doesn't need the height above the water that a pure bridge crossing would require.
I don’t see how this is any worse than the standard practice of charging an annual fee to automatically call emergency services if the airbags deploy. (Especially since it is illegal in the US for cell phone providers to deny access to 911 due to non-payment)
The high cigarette tax works in Australia. Smuggling across the border is a bit difficult being an island and guns are relatively rare.
I don't think so. In Turkey it first seemed working. High taxation caused decline in consumption . Then, inevitably smuggling and tobacco shops that sell open tobacco bloomed. Besides, smokers with lower income got a hit. They cannot quit and smoke anyway. Now there are even more smokers than before.
I work as a sales tax auditor and the original comment is flat out wrong if you think about it. I'm assuming he is talking about the department of revenue or similar agency responsible for enforcement of sales tax. If you think about a state that has a 7% sales tax rate, do you think that state is spending HALF of the sales tax revenue on the operating budget for the department of revenue?
> UBS and Credit Suisse are also, while not traditional Swiss private banks, international economic titans.

More like giant Golems using mud-made feet for walking. As far as I know UBS was in a very difficult position around 2012-2013 (I wouldn't call it one step away from folding, but it was close to that nonetheless), and it managed only recently to re-put itself in a more stable position (thanks to a new management team). Credit Suisse has also lost most of its allure, they're not in any way swimming with the big boys anymore. So I wouldn't call these two banks "titans" anymore.
Canadian startup builds exoskeleton that lets disabled kids walk again
Given how the startup center of mass moved from SV to SF, I think the bay area secret sauce was not tied to Silicon Valley's suburban form.
I heard the british counterpart (GCHQ) had better voice matching in those days.
Vaping comes to mind as a recent factor , but other than that i don't see any drastic change. Yes people are very gradually abandoning it, young people don't smoke, but people are not quitting smoking. Everyone i know under 50 who has quit at some point is back at it again 1-2 years later. There was an attempt to ban smoking in public spaces years ago, but it didnt last long and if anything the situation is worse now. I'm not sure if they 've controlled correctly in their study.
Same in Washington.
thunderfoot's analysis forgets, among other things, that the force of pressure scales with r^2 and mass with r^3
ManuetOS – 64bit and 32bit Assembly OS
> If there are more specific implementations of useful crypto that average people use as a product

Except that encryption is rarely used explicitly. We see this greed padlock, maybe. But encryption is rarely a product. It's part of other products (web browsers, messengers…).

I doubt cryptography will become more visible through that venue. People need some level of education to even notice they're using encryption, signatures, and certificates pretty much all the time.
"Building a Website with C++" "Is This Even Possible?"

We can just "flag" articles like this one.
If you believe that how you communicate is irrelevant, then I don't think we're going to have a productive discussion here. Because it does matter, as much as you or anyone (or even I) think it shouldn't.
> multi-day battery life would be awesome. I don't need super performance on my Macbook.

I think the smartphone market shows that multi-day battery life is not something the average person will trade a decrease in device performance for. And that's on phones, where you also don't have much practical opportunity to use the device plugged in, unlike a macbook. I'd be really surprised to see this tradeoff made on macbooks.
Plants did not get approved ;)
It's all a matter of how high the taxes are. The higher they are, the more profit there is in smuggling.
Young amateur bloggers sued for stock market manipulation in Sweden
No, it's completely not designed for me. My local supermarket has kept the same items in the same places for 5+ years. They keep things in stock by going to the store room and filling shelves up when they get low. Just In Time Delivery works when you are building cars, but it falls flat on its face in a grocery store. If I see an empty shelf, I assume the business isn't being run properly. If I can't get all my shopping done in one place, I go to a store that gives me that option.

Trying to get consumers to change their grocery shopping habits never works.
I throw out any articles with an opinion as a premise that is based on a nation as a singular entity.

"The Chinese say.." , "The Albanians do..", "The Americans think.."

Unless we're talking about nation-affecting issues or cataclysms here, let's keep the national entity out of journalism, please. It's fine to say things like "The people of Thailand are struggling with seasonal floods."

The WSJ[0] article that is linked in the techcrunch article even uses the phrase 'Chinese entrepreneurs'. That makes more sense.

The Chinese did not form a nation-wide opinion about the quality of Palo Alto.

/rantover

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-these-entrepreneurs-silicon...
I think you think you think you might have been thinking of eastern pomo language was what you might have been thinking of
The Spartans Were Morons
>>>> If there's a positive to this system, and I'm admittedly stretching here, it's that you can get a car configured exactly to your needs, a car uniquely constructed to your exact specification. I imagine that's a very nice feeling indeed, though I confess I've never had the wherewithal to enjoy such a luxury myself.

I've enjoyed that luxury on the two cars that my family owns. Both were purchased with zero options. Granted, they aren't BMW's. ;-)
Not in the top 10 (well the list only goes to 8 but number 8 is already only 1 deaths per year) in the UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/08/07/deadliest-job...
The Future of FinFETs
You can also replace all `a |> b` with a fixed arity `pipe2(a, b)` in your code and again, no new operator needed. Anwyay, I don't think such optimization issues are enough to justify adding this operator to JavaScript. In other functional languages it may make sense, because operators work differently there (e.g. they are interchangeable with functions, there is support for overloading, etc.).

> I'd love to see the addition of well-known symbols for all the operators to allow custom overloading.

Sure, if we had support for first-class overloadable operators then a proposal to add a standard operator like `|>` would make sense. But we don't, so a better one would be to add `Function.pipe` (simple, fits into the language better) or allow operator overloading, etc. (also may be reasonable, but it's a major change in the language).
Sounds like an other instance of corporate greed. And for this, corporations just got a giant tax break! Thanks, GOP.

I expect that in the current political climate, there's not much hope that things will improve. Let's hope someone out there actually cares about workers.

Thank you for sharing this enlightening (and depressing) article.
Interesting thought. A low tax rate should result in a small markup, though, and I wouldn't think the extra administration laid upon businesses by sales tax would offset a 3.5% sales tax, would you?
I would be curious to know if anyone here who suffers from these issues finds my startup's software [1] to be helpful. We launched (on HN, as it happens) as a speed-reading tool, but we've heard from many people with binocular vision difficulties, including convergence insufficiency, amblyopia and presbyopia, that our approach makes reading easier.

Obviously this isn't a training tool like the ones mentioned in the article, but I'd be curious if it eases reading for folks who are affected by these issues. Also, if there are any vision professionals here, I'd love to hear expert opinions too.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
1. It carries a cost before, just the way it's charged had changed
2. It's not free
And more businesses serving those local shops, including restaurants, dentists, drug stores, etc.

I've never seen a great diversity of businesses that surround a warehouse, say.
Agree.

Intel has as much of a problem as VW had after diesel-gate: none. Same will be valid for Apple's throttling scandal.

Big corps like this may experience some little storms here and there, but there is no iceberg big enough for them.

Articles like this exist just for the sake of writing something and making some money.
I used to smoke, and it was around 4 a day. Hardly all day, but I was still considered a smoker.
I'd use fd if it didn't require a blackbelt in regex, maybe by adding more comprehensive examples?

How could you do something like:

find . -iname "<asterisk>any<asterisk>thing<asterisk>"

HN won't let me use * so I had to tag them accordingly.
Faces of the March on Washington 2018
Fair enough, but I'd suggest that for everyone who insists he should be let off the hook and given a parade as well.
No. That’s not what I’m talking about. If you think thats what people mean when they say “healthcare is cheaper in countries with single payer” then no wonder you don’t seem to find it attractive.

The cost of providing healthcare (total) is lower in all those countries. That is, a country might use $10k per individual per year for healthcare, financed by taxes. Meanwhile the average for a US individual (paid with insurance) is twice that (those numbers were made up but you get the point).

As you are saying, there is nothing magic about this. Having a single insurance pool and putting the premium on the tax bill doesn’t change much - it’s just accounting. And obviously it will make taxes look higher. But if you pay $1000 per month in taxes and $1000 to healthcare, or $2000 in taxes, it’s just the same thing with a different name.

The difference is this: you could pay $1500 in taxes (with healthcare costing 500 when single payer instead of 1000 via private insurance) And then it’s a very real difference. Again, numbers made up for illustrative purposes. A new US system would likely look like Canadas, so should have similar costs.

Oh - a fun fact: the US spends more public money on healthcare than some OECD countries with universal healthcare (e.g Sweden)!
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-heal...
Amazon employs people in SF too, so it's not entirely possible they didn't drink the kool-aid.
This is very dangerous and an awful way to compute the least squares fit due to potential numerical issues with calculating the inverse of the matrix. I wish he would put a warning in a huge bold header to never do this for actual production work.
I too dislike rap music. Why so aggressive? Why so angry? I'll pass on that.