skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. However, a train on fire usually can’t turn around, but there are several emergency stations in the tunnel with emergency evacuation for people (via the service tunnel) and automated high-pressure water droplet extinguishing systems. This was installed in response to a fire in 2008 iirc. It facilitated rescue and fire fighting (because the exact position of the fire is known) and the automated system also helps minimise damage to the tunnel infrastructure.
Well, we can't use "|".
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I have seen the way Intel takes care of its important customers first hand. They are as pro as it gets. You won't find anyone better.
Chrome Supervised User saga is a trainwreck
Make something people want. That's it.

If you spend money on anything else, you're wasting your money.
Im not a Boris fan but this was one of the options proposed when the channel tunnel was built, so I don't know why people think it's absurd
You can't build a wall on the border because 2/3 of the border is over the middle (more accurately, the thalweg[0]) of the Rio Grande and the Colorado River. So you'd have to build it on the American side, most of which is private property that would have to be taken by eminent domain, and its owners compensated, many of whom would sue to prevent that – notably, Cards Against Humanity[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalweg
[1] https://cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com
"Let them eat cake ?"
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What a sad story. I’ve been thinking about quitting amazon because of these people. However, it’s just so convenient that I find myself still ordering stuff there. Maybe, I should reconsider.
Because Rust lets you hire noobs that don't know what they're doing and contains their damage. C++ is fine if you know what you're doing. It's ridiculous to claim that memory safety is helped by the use of references.
It might only take a cycle to swab, but the big hit is probably the data dependency you introduce.
>Google were quite explicit about the distinction between the two

They weren't though. The technical publication by project zero [0] did distinct between the two, but Google's PR oriented article [1] didn't bother to do that. The PR oriented article packages the two exploits together saying "These vulnerabilities affect many CPUs, including those from AMD, ARM, and Intel, as well as the devices and operating systems running on them."

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerabi...
Reminds me of the BCHS-Stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite.

https://learnbchs.org/

I am still unsure if its satire or not.
Hmm..natural resources are a tiny part of total world GDP, so apart from the practicalities (actually mining the stuff, getting it here), I don't see how the world economy could be "disrupted" by changes here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_secto...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.TOTL.RT.ZS
> I understand he's sympathetic because he shares the same anti-US government bias that many HN users have,

There is something else here. The UK and the US have very different criminal justice systems, I have noticed a definite 'bias' as you put it against the US system on HN[0]. It has been noted, for instance in the far to long running Lauri Love case, that the UK is much more lenient to young computer hackers that the US. Perhaps it is not bias, but simply different cultures?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171239
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I'd say there's a competition problem in that there are too many very poorly made "me-too's" that aren't even worth the 30 bucks. The Yi's come pretty close quality-wise to GoPro, have excellent build quality -- and frankly I like the Yi optics better than GoPro's... but they ain't 30 bucks. Disclaimer: I used to design camera systems and used to work in Hollywood so I can tell the s* from the Shinola, so I consider myself fairly picky.
I respect anyone who has deeply thought out their life and personal philosophy enough to write up such an article. I don't agree with everything he says (some of it is absolute nonsense to me), but that is exactly what makes it so compelling -- So many people don't take the time to step back and make conscious decisions about how they live heir lives, so it is refreshing to hear from someone who does.
But he really doesn’t have to work there. He lives with his parents and doesn’t spend any of the money he earns anyway.
He explains it in the last paragraph...

>I applied for the job through the jobcentre. I’ve thought about quitting, but I can’t leave of my own accord. If I did, I’d be sanctioned by the jobcentre and lose my entitlement for benefits and support for six months. I don’t have much choice but to carry on working there. Unless I can find a new job, I’m locked into place.
That merely establishes a mixed and confused picture, in that one article directly contradicts itself. I suggest we let the jury do their job, since they hear all of the evidence
Boris Johnson has a knack for ideas that sound good and distract from bad news.

He would like to be inspiring, but he falls short with these pie-in-the-sky projects. This one will be forgotten in a few weeks, along with the bad news that would otherwise have been on the front pages.
We've been out of the Moore's Law window for a while. Processing power no longer really increases in a linear fashion. Instead, manufactures increase throughput by smaller improvements in the processor and by squeezing in more cores per chip. This also means our tasks/programs are changing to utilize more multi-threading capabilities.

The idea of what is high performance has really changed.
So was the Iron Curtain. Arguments like that don't necessarily keep governments from embarking on foolish projects.

Sustainability in this case also is a question of scale and the particular design and purpose. Both Hadrian's Wall and the Limes lasted for quite some time.

Misguided and malevolent as the intent behind that wall may be if completed it quite likely will contribute to keeping people out of the US just as much as the Iron Curtain for some time was a mostly effective tool for keeping people inside certain countries.

So, is that wall desirable? No. Is it sustainable? That depends entirely on what resources the American people are willing to commit on its long-term upkeep.

Either way, building and maintaining such a wall is a colossal folly because the funds required to do so will of course be lacking for other, probably more beneficial projects.

Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't happening.
I really hate that crypto currency enthusiasts are tring to hijack the word "crypto" for their ventures when they are actually only operating in a very narrow field of cryptography.

Don't let this speak infest HN, please.
The tunnel is over 30 miles long, 31.4 miles or 50.5 km. The tunnel must first go deep enough to go under the sea on either side, adding to its length.
Personally, I'd prefer to see empty places where a product is sold out, than have to spend extra time coming to that conclusion by examining everything else nearby.
Yay. Now that the bank money laundering game is drying up due to international regulation, Switzerland can find a new parasitic way to earn money helping corrupt oligarchs hide their stash.
In other words, if you do a job that requires no education, training or experience, you get paid a low wage.

This guys comes across as really entitled, he’s 24 years old, lives at home and doesn’t spend any of his money anyway. He even claims he’s “stuck” because he’ll lose his benefits if he quits.

Why am I supposed to feel sorry for him? His life is pretty sweet.
But you can't trust the data if the systems providing - creating - that data are tampered with, by definition!
You all really need to learn to read the article before spewing your shite eveywhere, there is literally an entire paragraph dedicated to why.
I wouldn't consider options other than constant bit rate (variable bit rate) as corner cases, but your other points stand.
The only bridge on that list even remotely comparable is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The rest are essentially elevated highways which are almost entirely over land.

I am not a civil engineer so this is just some uninformed speculation:

- The channel goes to about 45m deep between Dover and Calais, while the path of the HK bridge only goes to about 20m depth.

- The bay formed by the Pearl River is more enclosed and protected from weather than any part of the channel.

- The bridge would need sections elevated high enough for future mega container ships.

- The HK bridge cost $15.9b. I'd expect the channel bridge to cost much more. It might be cheaper to just build another tunnel.

Edit: and, of course, by the time I finish this comment there are 10 more saying basically the same thing.
Hi, while the file upload functionality is the same, uploader window comes with ready made integration for uploading via link, image search, paste from link, facebook, dropbox, mic, camera, youtube, and many more.

It can also save the files directly to S3 or Digitalocean spaces. Plus it's hosted with a wysiwyg editor so all you need to do is copy paste a single line of javascript and you're ready to go!

Appreciate more feedback
because all asteroids are simply clumps of gold and platinum. -eye-roll-
Aldi's business model is "few things that you need, cheap".

Whole Foods business models is "Look at the stuff we have that you never knew about so you have no idea of what the price on it should be or what to use it for. Buy it!" The entire thing was based on a blow job with a smile level customer service. Do you know that employees of Whole Foods carried sharpies so if a customer looked lost trying to figure out if the customer wanted to try this or that item, the sharpie came out to wipe off the UPC code of the item and that item went into customer's bag for free because Whole Foods determined that losing $3-10 on the item is perfectly fine as they made $300 on a basket that this person was likely to buy on average a month? Or how about a knife that everyone in produce carried? So if a customer was not quite sure about that apple, the knife came out the apple was cut right in front of him or her, a piece was given to them and the rest became sample?

That's why Whole Foods had insane revenue. It was the level of service one only got at specialty stores delivered to the masses.

Drop that and Wegmans would destroy it.

Source: Wife used to work at Whole Foods.
It was a bug right from the original design, because it sidestepped the privilege level separation guarantees of the CPU. That the bug could not be exploited for other reasons does not make it not-a-bug.
It can run using a number of solvers, you can find a list here: http://www.minizinc.org/software.html
I am not sure if a 'pro' version of Windows is required, but I've found adding a 'Deny: Everyone' to NTFS permissions on required files comes in handy in situations like this.
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this guy and the shut-ins on this site think he has it hard? LOOOOL.
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I'm pumped to see the whac-a-mole govt's will try to do with crypto.
This comment is almost completely wrong. It muddles together classical and quantum reasoning in any incoherent way.

Gravitons are best understood as the quanta of the effective qft governed by the Einstein Hilbert action. This mathematical model is the universal low energy approximation to any quantum theory that reduces to general relativity.

Gravitons need to be massless. They need not be zero energy. They can indeed be associated with frequency. They do couple to gravitational backgrounds and to other gravitons. You can crate them just like any other field quanta. The barrier to studying gravitons the way we do photons is that they couple very weakly to other systems.
True point. But then again, we as consumers demand everything to become cheaper and cheaper so that we can buy more stuff we probably don’t need. You could argue that he’s just fulfilling our desire within current labor laws.
Silicon Valley is more like the Gilded Age capitalists than they tell themselves.
UTF-8 handling is a big reason I prefer a language like Python 3 or Go over C++ for the web.
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“Why doesn’t he learn to code?”
That answers the question of how many bits of pi we know. If you want to be able to take an arbitrary n-bit string and find its position in a set of n-bit strings, you need to have something like 2^n strings in your set.

So to find the number of bits you can support for an algorithm like this, taking the log of the number of digits of pi we know gives you a rough estimate.
GraphQL for RPC is an interesting approach. What do you see as the disadvantages? It'd seem to me that not all services can be neatly represented as a 'graph', which gRPC works well for. Have you run into this?
> The last line of the picture contains some 'noise'

Note that if the picture is prime, then the last line must always contain noise... the last digit must be a 1!

I also feel like it's slightly cheating that the first line doesn't contain noise, or a leading 1 digit... the number doesn't naturally fit into 64x64 bits because of all the leading zeroes.
Guess what - that's the advice. There is no epiphany to stumble upon here or anywhere else, no secret that you're going to find on a Saturday. Make something people want. Control spending. Focus on the people you sell to and the people you work with. The end
Client certificates are a mandatory feature of TLS that any TLS server could request and the proxy would be unable to handle the request, as it (and ideally the client) has no access to the private key. Therefore, these types of proxies break TLS by being unable to support mandatory features.

Separate from that, client certificates are certainly common, being used for authentication, in the US Federal Government, which issues tens of millions of certificates for this purpose as well as smartcards, since George W. Bush banned passwords with HSPD-12.
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I read the article, he’s claiming he’s stuck because he won’t get JSA if he leaves. But he has no outgoings, no costs or anything. He’s saving 1k every month! So he can quit anytime he likes, and do anything he wants
(i) I think as pointed out in the last paragraph, the state is as guilty as Amazon in letting something like this happen. If Amazon would not bring workers to the legal/market limit. There would be another company to pick at here.
(ii) No corporation cares about being ethical correct. Companies only purpose is to generate (more) profits and this can be even more easily (without moral burdens) achieved if (like in big corporations) there are a lot of layers of abstraction between the decision makers view and the workers view.
(iii) I think if Amazon would be a nice company something like this would not happen.
Thank you for writing out that extremely clear sequence of inequalities. I love a good Unicode style debate, but regardless you absolutely nailed it with conceptual clarity.
Actually, our compiler has never changed speed. The true compiler is our brain. A programmer in the 80's and a programmer today have the same brain compiler speed.

Before you can write any program, you have to build, run and execute it in your head. That's the challenge most of us face today. Hardware/Software doesn't matter much. The average indie developer is writing games in about 20k-50k line of code. Doesn't matter if it's 6502/z80 asm code in 80's or Unity/C# or Java code in 2018.
> Amazon could easily afford to hire more people for the workload but instead they choose to squeeze everything out of existing employees.

That’s just not the Titan of Industry mentality. And the Titan of Industry mentality is required to build a company like Amazon. And everyone buys from Amazon because they offer the lowest price and the greatest convenience.

It’s got nothing to do with whether he could hire more people. It’s that whether it’s the Pyramids or Versailles or Amazon, humans are largely drawn to these things that represent or require the toil and suffering of invisible anonymous masses. It’s weird, but it seems fundamental to humanity. It’s always made me question the compatibility of humans with “human rights.” We fundamentally don’t value these things. At least we prioritize symbols of collective greatness to individual human experience.
Switzerland Cryptostory worth remembering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Compromised_machines
Easier to read in PDF form: http://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/course_papers/PtacekNewsham98.pdf.
Classic CGI is not the best performing interface, yes. But there's a big difference in launching a complete interpreter for every request, and running a small purpose-built native program. And remember that people did manage the former 20 years ago, sites like Slashdot were running CGI Perl scripts back then.

I'm not sure about the "chock full of potential security issues". You have to be careful with trusting environment variables as the Bash guys learned, but I don't know what else there is that is specific to CGI.
> but the content just isn’t there.

Sure it is. There are 10 paragraphs of content. You just didn't like it that much because it seems like you went in with expectations.

I didn't. I liked it and I'm glad it got to the point right away without a bunch of flowery speech.

I liked the short story of a criminal become writer. I did not know that Montreal was once the bank robbery capital of the world at one time. Now I'm interested in finding out more about this Kant fellow.
Guatemala numbers are less because they only count it as homicide if someone dies at the scene. If you manage to get into a hospital then die, it's not in the stats.

There's no "fine tuning" of police operations in Guatemala. Everyone is incompetent, and the UN and other "human rights" groups fuck it up even more. Average citizens are afraid to even kill thieves and extortionists due to court prosecution. Said criminals continue to run gangs from inside prisons. Most "good" people just leave as soon as they can. My ex finally called it quits when Telefonica, the multinational phone company, got extorted. Someone calls them up, tells them they owe $X/week, and then just starts shooting employees. It's getting worse, not better.

The only hope I've had here in recent times was several people, including young women, talking fondly about Rios Montt and how they wish a leader would come clean stuff up. Even a semi-indigenous person told me that (despite him supposedly being genocidal). Unfortunately GT has a preference for electing nitwits that can't even steal without getting caught. That's how incompetent they are. So it's unsure if we'll ever see a strong ruler come back in. But now more than ever are people ready for that.

Turns out, when you can't safely walk around, when you can't start a business because any day you'll get a phone call that means either bankruptcy, death, or exile, yeah damn right you start preferring a military rule. As one woman told me, "at least I could walk anywhere, anytime with my purse and no one ever troubled me".
EPYC is already economically viable. If it's not seen as viable, that's for business rather than technical reasons. It has more cores, better IO, and after these patches it's no longer clear that Intel has simply better performance per core.
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All advanced architectures with chips in use have chips that use some form of OOE, but not necessarily all chips of all advanced architectures. Quite a lot of smartphone ARM chips do not use OOE.
Possibly a simplex solve for a large linear problem.
Plus when we buy a book from Amazon for £10 when in (e.g. Waterstones is £20, there is a reason (and it's not only the rent for the brick & mortar store).

Every penny counts dear Maxxxxxx!
No, the index of the 22-trillionth digit only needs 45 bits.
PyPy is written in RPython, which can be compiled to C. PyPy itself emits machine instructions like a regular JIT interpreter.
> "Krzanich sold $24 million in company shares. Intel says the stock sale was part of a plan that had been in place before anyone there knew about Meltdown or Spectre..."

Certainly, if there's proof, they would, under the circumstance, provide it. Without out that proof the sale of this many shares in that time window tells us all we need to know.

Off topic: How has Intel become so dominate, and not been pursued as a monopoly? Legal issues aside, how did so many big customer allow all their collective eggs to be in a single basket? It seems to me, at some point, some of the responsibility needs to be shared by other industry titans.
I have a bit over $10k a year in alimony. To get off the street, I spent 2 years researching where in the western half of the US I could a) travel inexpensively without a car and b) afford to buy a house. I am in a cheap rental trying to figure out how to buy a house with no money down.

There are places in the US where you can rent for $500/mo or less, but they are pretty hard to find. If it is just you, you may be able to make it, especially if you are willing and able to get a roommate.

If you have dependents, high health costs or any complications whatsoever, it rapidly falls apart. If we don't give UBI from birth, poor families with children won't be lifted out of poverty like we imagine. If we do, you can guarantee that some women will crank out babies as a means to raise their income and be lousy, abusive mothers who don't actually care about the kids.

For the vast majority of people, cutting their income 50 to 80 percent in exchange for going jobless will be a hardship. Most lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years. I suspect part of the reason for this is that most people divide their time between working to make money and consuming in their off hours. When you remove the job from the equation, they suddenly have about 50 hours more a week that they need to entertain themselves. If you are used to spending money in your leisure time, it can be incredibly hard to shift gears and find cheap or free means to do so.

It can be done. I have lived on damn little for a long time and I do a lot for free because my income supports three people, not one. So the budget is quite tight. But a lot of people fail at it.

Currently, people failing to make ends meet can turn to food stamps, section 8 housing, etc. Many people feel that the way to finance UBI is to eliminate all that stuff. So if you get UBI and fail to make it work, it is possible there won't be a safety net to catch you when you fall. It may be one huge fuck you.
Every time some OR or constraint programming language comes up, Håkan Kjellerstrand is an obligatory mention. He has a whole page dedicated to problems and examples for those, including MiniZinc: http://www.hakank.org/minizinc/index.html
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It’s also a cop out as they were leaning on the assessments of the vulnerability as a medium risk information disclosure by many security analysts. That is accurate in many respects, but not in the context of a multi tenant environment or in places where different compliance standards are in play.

It’s particularly obnoxious when you read about the heroic efforts that were put in place to put AWS, Azure and GCP right. If it was no big deal, why go through that?