skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't underestimate the scope and possible ramifications, I still don't understand the immediate threat to the average person. The malicious hacker that is after secret personal information does not need to go to the trouble of writing a trojan that exploits Spectre or Meltdown when a simple keylogger and file scanner would be much simpler and probably more effective.

The article itself states:
"So far, Meltdown and Spectre probably pose less risk to the average person than, say, a simple phishing attack in which a hacker tries to send you to a malicious website. They won’t lead to the kind of widespread panic that resulted from the 2017 hack of Equifax’s customer database.

But that could change. Hackers who hadn’t tried to break into Intel’s hardware, believing there was no way it would leave a side door open, are now seeking ways in."

"But that could change" is a vague term that doesn't mean much to me. Again - not trivialising this nor saying Intel shouldn't do some soul searching, but I'd like to better understand the justification for the apparent hysteria - unless, of course some people more experienced in security would care to explain what it is I'm missing here.

P.S. One thing I wanted to check was whether Spectre/Meltdown breaches could somehow be caused by manipulating a web browser. Some searching revealed that this is indeed a possibility so at this point, everyone feel free to panic :-)
Indeed. The last time that I quit tobacco, I kept chewing nicotine gum for several months. To get the attention-focusing effect. But I really don't like chewing gum, and so gave it up. And modafinil is better, anyway.
> There are enough suckers that will buy it that Apple
will continue to charge an ultra premium.

and

> For example, BMW has better handling, style, etc...

Sounds like BMW is trying to extract maximum value for a brand and reputation it took them decades to garner. Where is the childish thinking again? If the fee is worth all these other things, people will pay. As well they should.
SoFi set to offer CEO job to top Twitter executive Anthony Noto
Most of the news industry is unionized. LA Times was an anomaly.
Easily, although maybe I should clarify.

I probably should have written "objectively positive". People's enjoyment is entirely subjective. What I enjoy and what you enjoy are probably different sets.
It seems to me that management is good at crafting the appearance that they hold power even in cases where they don't.

See also: VUCA
More profound than electricity? I didn't know that Google's AI requires no electricity! /s

But more seriously, what else do you expect CEO of the leading AI company to say? It's like asking the CEO of a coal company if they belive coal is the future of energy.
Ayn Rand was very much about following through with commitments. If Gevers has a long track record of failed ventures because he aimed higher than he was capable of achieving then he is indeed a self-made man who saw an opportunity and took it in the fine Randian style.

If he is a con-man who said he is going to do something then took the money and ran without putting in a serious effort, he isn't an example of her philosophy.

Rand accepted people being selfish because in practice selfishness has been proven no barrier to creating prosperity for everyone. She didn't accept dishonesty.
People obviously prefer SOVs to standing on trains. Why not give people what they want if we can develop technology to do it?

The entire conversation surrounding city planning, whether the specific topic is transportation, zoning, or utilities, has take on a weird ascetic moralizing tone, where the subtext is that the modes of existence people choose for themselves is somehow "bad", that we need to accept limits, and that the accommodations and compromises consequently made are good for us.

I don't share that mindset. To borrow an old phrase, better living through technology really is possible.
I wonder how long it will take before somebody figures out how to jailbreak BMW infotainment systems to enable CarPlay. This kind of stuff is not exactly without precedent: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1099782_bmw-i3-rex-elec...
IMHO serverless is a dangerous trend. It locks the developer to one of the large cloud vendors with a propietary API, a problem I thought would have been solved with orchestration software (like k8s) that abstracts away service providers. It may be useful for minor quick-and-dirty trigger functions - but no way for business-level logic!
I wouldn't call that encryption. It's a distinct primitive.
Normally the reason you write anything beyond trivial SQL is because you only have a small amount of code to run and lots of data to run it over. Pushing the code to the data is more efficient than pulling the data to the code.

The latter might be conceptually cleaner (though it's debatable, relational is a fairly nice programming model and a lot more consistent and well-founded than object orientation, for one), but it's seldom optimal.

Three orders of magnitude or more speedups are not unexpected by pushing the code to the data.
LA LÉGENDE DE CHICAGO FREDO SANTANA EST MORTE  RIP
The service center may have access to GPS location which offset any delay by a large margin.

911 can’t get that from an unconscious or disoriented driver.

Besides the service centers exist for other purposes such as breakdown recovery, not just for corralling 911 calls.
That's just evolution of terms over time. Those that published original work in INFOSEC called leaks through shared resources covert channels. Kemmerer and Wray devised methods for identifying storage and timing channels respectively. Since it fit the definition, those that discovered cache-based, timing channels called them covert, timing channels. Since it fit and it was their discovery, I call them what they called them. Only fair to let inventor decide esp if using same term as prior versions of a concept.

Later, people re-discovering these things wanted a new term for the passive ones. They're still covert channels if we use already-established definitions since they're unintentional leakage through shared resources between a secret container and an observer. At least, that's what some and I argued with some others disagreeing. The other side won with the majority of the field started using side channels. So, it wins out just because it's popular. It's kind of how "programmer is in control" is called the "C philosophy" even though Thompson got it from BCPL. C and UNIX momentum are what people remember until I tell them about Richards actually inventing the key concepts.

No slander, misrepresentation, or anything there. Just people missing or trying to change definitions in a field. That's an annoying, normal part of human language. It would be different if they said prior researchers didn't find leaks in caches, didn't improve security with their certification standards, and other provably-false claims. Those would be ignorance or slander. See the difference?
Individual cities can and do charge sales tax.
Ah. I’m from across the ditch (Aussie for those unfamiliar with the term).
It matters because to make the inference that he was connected to the police and misused police resources to find her information, that information has to not be readily available to the general public.

If she had been an owner, the information would be available to the public, and not even all that odd for a neighbor to look up (I look up sales records for houses that sell in my neighborhood to see what they sold for, for example, to get an idea of how the market is).
Man, these articles nowadays...
That is a great point, haven't considered that part of it. This is exactly the reason why I wanted to solicit opinions and critiques. Thank you for raking the time to comment.

I am in the position that I will almost certainly never wield any political power, so starting discussions to help me understand all the dynamics helps me come to terms with the way things are.

I want to think this part over before I really formulate a response. I thought that having both the buyer and seller pay 10% would mediate these kinds of issues and I was ready to respond with that, but in the end it's really the buyer that is paying all the tax since the seller would simply add the tax to the sales price.

In the end, I want to come up with a system (even if it's never implemented) which is fair, balanced and actually helps people. I don't think we have a fair tax system at the moment but if we can come up with a system which is understandable, justified and fair then we can use those ideas as a basis for a future generation to create a good system.

Just to be clear though, I am looking for fair and justifiable mainly, I don't necessarily need the system to create a redistribution of wealth or even to target higher income people.
The basic idea is that cryptographic functions rather than state-sanctioned violence are used to secure the funds.
For some reason it's just black on black in Vivaldi. I had to change the background-color to something else to see the emoji.
Real World Crypto was there last week! Which is one if not the most important crypto conference of the year. So they have that going for them already.
cigarette snuggling sounds like an RJ Reynolds plan to get more kids smoking
I suppose I should say when talking about starting a business from scratch, less so operating one :)
I think you'd be surprised. You probably have imagemagick installed if you're on a Linux system or use brew. A surprisingly amount of tools depend on it. It's like saying "I probably don't have ffmpeg/libav installed." You probably have like 5 copies of it installed.
Do you have a source you can provide for this?
TL;DR If you spent time in Los Angeles in the 80's or 90's, Joe Frank was a fixture on KCRW, the local NPR station. His work could be loosely classified as the aural equivalent of a David Lynch movie.

I have distinct memories of being out on dates, turning the car radio to KCRW and hoping for "Joe Frank: Work in Progress" to be on, to see if my date had a basic understanding and appreciation of surrealism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9YwALw73gY
Nissan's Brain-To-Vehicle Interface Could Make Driving Safer by Scanning Brain
Twitter and Facebook have very different ideas about fake news, one is very wrong
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176216
More interestingly, real world crypto one of the most important crypto conference in the world was held there a week ago. It's not always there, I believe they rotate between palo alto and new york. All the talks are available on youtube.
Considering that this text causes issues on other platforms than just Apple (with differing levels of severity), I would posit that it's unfair to characterize this as an "Apple bug".
True, but some evidence is harder to fake than others, especially when there are multiple independent items that corroborate some fact or another.

Granted, there are definitely things that aren't amenable to this, but it's not exactly hopeless, either.
>"If your car is flagging, you repair the engine by replacing a damaged part, not by pressing the accelerator harder. Removing senescent cells is replacing a damaged part."

Removing != replacing. What are you replacing the senescent cells with?
A bunch of us were hacking on Mazda infotainment systems a while back trying to get some more features.

The biggest limitation was that it looked like it used an older version of presto (operas old engine) as the main UI engine, and it was pretty locked down.

But even then we got some cool features worked into it and disabled some annoying ones (like the "hit okay to agree to be safe" on every start of the car).

I actually wonder if they every got Android screen mirroring working, which was the "holy grail" of what most of us wanted.
Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities

http://www.valuewalk.com/2018/01/iphone-11-release-date-kgi/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iphone-x-may-discontinued-next-fa...
Interesting. I wonder, what was the procedure when some random telemarketer dialed one of those Queen's unlisted numbers? Or, whatever unlisted numbers.

Is that something that BT would intercept?
> whose dependencies aren’t a pain in the ass to get installed and running

Well, now maybe. I have been able to reliably install stuff with yarn or even npm lately. A year ago though, whenever I saw a node project, I'd try to npm install it and it'd fail 60% of the time.

When you do install something, dear god all the dependencies! So many dependencies! What do all of them do? I have no idea, but they're needed in this boilerplate to get this electron app running.

I've found support in the node community to be pretty non-existent as well. It's easier to find elixir documentation than to get help with node apps. I've been stuck on this electron/vue.js issue forever and have gotten no help, and I've tried Gitter, Stackoverflow, Atom's issue tracker and IRC:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/11388

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48337401/unable-to-test-...
Do you have a source on the stereo cameras of the Vive Pro being used for inside out tracking?
You read the word WebAssembly somewhere didn't you.
Odd. I notice the difference clearly in both Chrome and Firefox. Intel Core i7 4790k, Nvidia GTX 1050Ti, Windows.

jsheard mentioned that the WebGL code is using single-precision floating point and some rough optimizations, while the JS and WASM are using double-precision floats and no such optimization. I wonder why you wouldn't see a difference if that's the case, since the result should be worse.
Brushing up on operating systems and C programming
I think they're referencing this analyst-claim: https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/19/kgi-lowers-iphone-x-sales-est...

I tend to be skeptical of such analysts, though. Not that the ultimate claim of "the iPhone X's advances and form-factor are going to be moved into all the other models" is terribly controversial -- that's pretty literally what Apple said would happen. Just that it's a person guessing, and such things have been fairly spectacularly wrong in the past.
Her Majesty's Revenue Collector ?
I don't have a horse in this race, but fyi, I found some fishing-related deaths here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-accident-i...
In other words he's not improving his vision, but getting better at reading out of focus text.
It can be a bit confusing when the context hasn't first been set-- such as in the titles of links on hn
> While Murray said new plants using “clean coal” technologies could soon be built, he doesn’t expect that coal’s share of the market will rise significantly in the future.

Robert Murray, founder and chief executive of Murray Energy, the largest privately held coalminer in the US [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/27/us-coal-...]
There have been ImageMagick security bugs in the past, but it is an active project/community and they do get patched.

I'd prefer using ImageMagick for something like this, but it's all about tradeoffs and what you're looking to do. There could be memory/security bugs in the future. There are also performance trade-offs if you created a microservice for this function in rmagic/ruby vs node (and you should do both and test them, because you might be surprised which one is actually faster).

I agree it's best to use the right tool for the task, and there are valid reasons for using both in this case. I'd personally probably take the ruby/rmagick/ImageMagick approach myself in a container, but that's not to say that's the best approach.
The B4* family of development tools are really really interesting to use and make so easy to develop android and ios apps (This version is not free).

But exist also free versions for desktop and web development and also for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, etc.

Check this awesome video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgxWP4Wu77s
It's so bizarre. There's no reasonable fiscal reason for BMW to require this. The only reason to implement something like this would be just to establish the precedent of paying a subscription to the carmaker so they can add on easy-to-pay-for additional features and one-time expenses later. Micropayments and loot boxes for your car.
I always sit down, set a 15 minutes timer and read before doing anything else. Then prep for the next day, shower, cook, read more and sleep.
I'll tell you what I'd do if a car dealer pulled this on me. After all the normal haggling was done: "$80 a year? Fine. I plan to hang on to this car for 10 years. If you don't take an additional $800 off the price, no deal. Period"
I can confirm it seems to work as designed.

You get full root access on a VM connected to Colab and to the internet.

I worry that evildoers might soon start to create thousands of google accounts and thousands of colab sessions to get free GPU's for crypto mining.

Hopefully google can find a good way to keep abusers out while still keeping it free for those of us who have a more legit use for this stuff.
sure they are, they're very much applications of cryptography, or "crypto". I think this article really means to say that "crypto" isn't just "cryptocurrencies".

btw, a lot of what's called "cryptocurrency" is actually more interesting and complex than just money/currency. some of these applications are focused on gathering and safely encoding consensus from groups of people, using cryptography. that's very crypto if you ask me!
Yes it uses both, relative and absolute measurements (each with its own drawbacks) into what's usually called sensor fusion. It's very well explained here: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1478

The headset is not wireless and the controllers have 1-2 ms of latency. They compress the controller data a lot in a very smart way. More info: https://hackaday.com/2016/12/12/cnlohr-reverses-vive-valve-e...
If only some of the money for HSR were going to be used to improve existing transit systems as well as building a new line.

(hint: some of the money is going to be used to improve existing transit systems!)
I'm your age now. When I had LASIK performed some 6 or 7 years ago, the doctor mentioned that the risk of degradation of my short range vision might actually increase due to the procedure (it hasn't happened yet, though).

To my recollection, the doctor said it is currently possible to correct for near vision loss due to presbyopia via LASIK - but it's an all or nothing thing. An eye is either corrected for near vision, or it is corrected for far vision, which means that both eyes will not be able to acheive focus at the same distances; basically, only one will provide sharp focus for near objects, and the other for far objects. Supposedly some patients adapt to this situation, and others do not.

Having had LASIK already I was fully prepared to simply get reading glasses when the problem manifests, but these exercises sound promising and I would love that as an alternative. I was so glad to get rid of the glasses, and it would be wonderful to avoid them in the future.
On Stuart Russell's “Safer Rules of Robotics,” and Beyond
Anyone who uses a smartphone is doing convergence exercises whenever they use their phone. Some of us are so well practiced that we have created myopia (inability to diverge) in ourselves.
> Except for all the utility conduits (only half of which are actually marked)

You dont have these in Arabia. All you have at 30m depth is desert.
A Wall Street Giant Makes a $75M Bet on Academic Philosophy
I think this is less of a thing that is specifically endemic to Intel as much as it's just a "big, old company" thing. Companies become massive, they eventually lose their visionary leadership, and then they spend the proceeding few decades lumbering along just based on inertia.

These companies continue to employ a lot of smart people and have exciting things going on in some components, but the corporate culture makes it hard to get a consistent positive execution.

Intel has been sitting pretty for the last 20 years because chip design is not something that lends itself to modern patterns of disruption. I'm sure it will happen some day, but for now, Intel has kept its position mostly due to the difficulty of the niche than any intrinsic competitive edge.

The point being that Intel itself is not uniquely terrible; they're routinely terrible. They're just positioned in a space that's much more hostile to less-terrible entrants, so capable people do something that is less hard.
I would guess the human in the loop helps to confirm first responders are dispatched. There was recently some trouble with 911 in Dallas. I would expect the human to have resources to call alternate numbers or nearby agencies in case the normal public service answering point doesn't work.
They amount to a few percent of tissues in most cases. In mitotic tissues they will be replaced in the same way as any cell is replaced when it dies, by replication. In post-mitotic tissue cell therapy might be needed, but that hasn't so far been an issue in mice. It might be an issue for the human brain. Remains to be seen.
Thanks for that source, not sure why HSE doesn't list those maybe because they are still under investigation.
In Texas at least, cities, counties, transit systems and ‘special districts’ that mostly represent local public services can impose sales taxes.

6000+ nationwide is lower than I imagined honestly
Reading glasses are for lens focusing, not for convergence.
Prism glasses are for convergence issues, but are rarelt prescribed.
No conspiracy theory needed.
Or much simpler: make it OpenVR or OSVR compatible. With any of the two it will work with the vast majority of games available.
> I've spoken to over the last few years have given me conflicting opinions.

Some of the confliction will be raised by the strength (minus figures for left and right eyes) of your prescription. Some will be due to a lack of / more knowledge of the technique depending on the practicioner.

I think it's fair to say that no one who has had lasik, has to date lived beyond 100, so it is impossible to tell the final outcome.

I was under the impression that lasik can be used to treat glaucoma, and that glaucoma is more common if you have a -9 (or higher) myopia prescription (please correct if I am misled). If this is true, it may be worth holding off on the lasik until (God forbid) you really need it.

I am not an expert. :-)

Out of curiosity, what is your prescription?
Not quite. 64 bit ran behind 32 bit for a long time after introduction. The rule of thumb was to ask whether more ram or more speed was important. 64bit felt slower to people for a long time. (I swear I can still see the difference 10 years later.) 64 bit didn’t really pull away until 8 gig became common. Something similar may hold for MCM, I don’t know about mcm to speak to that.
All the "useful" stuff you're thinking of very likely started out much less polished / refined than this project. It seems to have struck a chord with this audience, and it will only get better from here.
Where good public transport systems exist, people use the hell out of them. It is so much nicer to travel by train from point-to-point and not have to worry about parking.
Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
Well, I don't think that's clarifying so much as saying something different. So you don't include pleasure in your list of positive things? That's..odd. "Apart from it feeling good, there's nothing good about experience X" can probably be applied to most things in life. Sex. Music. Art. Ice cream. etc. The question is, why would you want to exclude pleasure?

"What I enjoy and what you enjoy are probably different sets." Well, of course people each enjoy different things, but how that's relevant to your point I'm not sure.

I recently heard Doug Crockford saying a similar thing, that smoking has nothing positive about it, with evident pleasure, in his talk on programming, the brain and the gut; "Programming Style and Your Brain", I think it was. It was startling - an obviously intelligent guy suddenly saying something entirely baseless and evidently false.

edit: Downvoters, could you explain why? Thanks.