skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the context of the whole article. It's hilarious
The laser thing has been around for a while and is quite well known. The innovation here is that they found a way to do it without any lasers and possibly even with consumer cameras.
For more details, full paper can be found at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/100023
> Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name.

This made me so nervous on his behalf
Anyone remember Susan Powder in the 90s screaming about how fat was making you fat? Go checkout the documentary Fed Up, it discusses the massive shift to low-fat-high-sugar foods being the norm in our grocery stores.

And we wonder why we have such massive preventable disease problems in the US. (and we are exporting obesity and diabetes around the world now)

Next time you are at the store, check your labels. Almost everything has sugar in it. There are a dozen names for white sugar now, so check them out.
It’s not unreasonable to imagine that any of the examples provided in the source post could require a team larger than 10 people.
~4% of people are on 1440p or high monitors according to the Steam hardware survey - http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

It's high-end, but not exactly what I'd call bleeding-edge / 0.0001% of gamers.
This article seems to by trying to make us angry. As though those mean rich people came in and grabbed all the wealth before the rest of us got our share. It doesn't make much sense to worry about that.

I don't personally have any less wealth than I would have if those meanies hadn't made their money. It's kinda cool, in my mind, that crazy rich people exist, since that means that being crazy rich is the sort of thing that can happen to people. I'm people, so if I work at it, maybe I'll be one of those terrible folk one o' these days, with too much of the pie.

But nobody else seems to think that way. We just keep getting this same article written about how there's only so much wealth to be had, and this little group keep taking it all.
A brief tour of Python 3.7 data classes
> I feel like the compiler was my teacher, and it kept on teaching me new concepts to look up in the docs.

I work primarily in F#, a functional .Net language, which also enforces strict rules at compile time to ensure correctness... With the benefit of experience it's amazing and comforting and lets you reason happily about applications at a higher level. It's on of my favorite parts of the language, TBH.

And while I see its strength over time, and see the benefit it gives to code bases, I also know that for your average C# dev used to firing up their app and debugging at run-time, or working in certain ways with their code, it feels like putting on a straight-jacket. It hurts the "first week" story to the benefit of long term concerns.

I totally agree: it's forced learning, which makes it a bit of a grind. But damned if I'm not a much better programmer for the effort :)
Sure, but those are STUPID jobs. They only innovate for the 1%. It's a redirection of global resources into something that only serves the rich.

If we had a consumption tax that redirected all spending into things that help everyone, than all of these things we fret about will go away.

The great capital allocators of the world will still be able to be the great, rich capital allocators of the world, but minus all the wasteful toys.

They'll serve mankind doing what they do best without siphoning off important innovation and resources.
What size house do you recommend?
If you are slightly careful and put this service behind a load-balancer/reverse-proxy you can take any given set of end points and turn them into a micro-service when you need to. Sounds perfect for a small team.
> Eighty-two per cent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one per cent of the global population

It's worth noting that in order to be in the global top 1% you need an income of $32,000

http://www.globalrichlist.com/#na
Why should they ask politely? It is not like the Linux mailing list would be polite environment.

Nothing against impolite environment, people make case for it daily here and I don't care. But it combined with the standard expectation that when someone else talks to them he should be always polite is getting funny in that context.
That was kind of by design to illustrate the evils of capitalism and advocate for a land value tax. Bit of a pity it didn't work. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie)
Tens thousands of compromised sites involved in a massive malvertising campaign
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright
The root question is what else is Intel trying to cover up with these garbage patches? Are they afraid of power leakage across gates allowing an attacker to gain a higher level of privilege in certain generations of silicon, and trying to cover it up with these patches (hence some of the seemingly crazy things they do)?
Linus Torvalds again uses abusive wording when he could've made his point just as clearly without it. As the leader of a project he should avoid that - it's massively detrimental that contributors fear being the target of his next rant.
To be more precise, 82/18=4.5 times as hard as the combined remaining 99% of the population.
So you take pretty much the single benefit of serverless ie low cost of ownership at low volume and then ditch that and have to run your own cluster? I guess if it was a zero redevelopment migration path from lambda it makes sense.
Isn't the idea to decide the architecture then update the org-chart to reflect this?

Not that this actually happens-or would be a particularly good idea if it did for other reasons (like breaking up teams etc).
I've worked in both, I find bureaucracy is roughly proportional to the seriousness of the work. Serious work - Law, Healthcare, Finance etc are very bureaucratic regardless of whether it's the private or public sector.

Public sector can sometimes seem worse because there's less money sloshing round and people demand it isn't wasted, which effects a lot of bean counting.
Why I changed the way I think about Code Quality
Yes, this particular religious belief is widespread in both parties, but definitely considerably more prominent in one.

I believe there is a name for this belief, Mammonism comes to mind.
Are state actors or others trying to take advantage of meltdown needing fixes & patches to insert their own version of fixes & patches that end up benefiting them?
There may be a bitcoin parallel here.
I doubt you'll have many capital allocators in that world.
Keep in mind that the hardware survey may be skewed by Steam being used on machines aren't primarily for gaming, so I'd be somewhat cautious about drawing firm conclusions (e.g. I have Steam on an old Surface Pro 3 that is basically just for chat/non-real time games).

I'd also wonder if the small percentage of people on top-end gear drive the market forward (e.g. purchasing significantly more games even if the users are smaller in number).
I can't speak to your finances, but the average worker absolutely has less as a direct result of the wealth flow shifting ever more to the rich. Wages have been stagnant for decades, despite steadily increasing productivity.
I often heard it attributed to Steinbeck, though I've also read he never said this verbatim.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed
Actually, if wealth were distributed more evenly, you would have more money.

As to being one of those folk: no. It’s a closed club, members only. Every newly minted billionaire you see made it there not through hard work, but connections - if you can point me at anyone who, in the last decade, has become a billionaire without an “in”, i’ll be happy to tell you where their “in” was. These are dynasties - nepotistic, closed circle, dynasties.

As for you, unless you are already a billionaire, you will never be one. Sorry. It’s like a peasant farmer thinking one day maybe he’ll be duke, even though it’s a hereditary position, so the beatings are worth tolerating.
text.npr.org is a good example.
When the economy grows at 3% (if that) and the stock market grows at 15%, yes the stock market is eating everyone else's lunch. A growing pie doesn't matter if all the pieces go to a single person.

Of course the true crisis comes when the stock market becomes an even larger chunk of the economy and can no longer be supported. At that point you get depressions, with the only cure we have ever found being wars. A rather unfortunate one in an age of nuclear weapons.
There are fewer people trying to attack AMD's chips, they comprise such a small chunk of the installed CPU base out there that most attacker's won't be going after a system containing a CPU from AMD. This may change in the next year or two though, at which point the vulns that are likely in their Platform Security Processor may bite them in the ass.

Qualcomm on the other hand has taken the "fuck security" approach and failed to clean up their code and get it mainlined for nearly all of their common SoCs. Hence why Android phones are often trapped on old versions of Android when launched or shortly thereafter, long term security through the device lifecycle is a bad joke when Qualcomm and most other ARM vendors are involved.
Norway recently legislated for Portuguese style decriminalisation of drug use. Dealing hard drugs will still be illegal and dealers will still be pursued, but drug use and the behaviours typical of addicts will no longer be treated as criminal matters but as public health issues. This approach has had a massive effect in Portugal, dramatically reducing use rates, medical complications from drug use and related crime.

Obviously Norway is a different country from Sweden, but do you know what made them go down that route? Do they have a significantly bigger drugs problem there?
Warren Buffet seems to like that world and he's pretty good at it.
The question is whether Windows will die sooner than UWP will be fixed to become an acceptable replacement for Win32. The main reason why Windows is still relevant (even despite Microsoft's desperate attempts to kill it) is Steam games and some legacy software that hasn't been ported to Electron yet. Forcing new apps to use UWP in its current broken state can only accelerate the death of desktop Windows.
Ah, you're right. I didn't recall whether they had been paid for that.

Either way, it's fairly inefficient; either they were paid for doing no work, or they were not paid and may leave for better jobs or morale destroyed due to that.
It will be illegal to boil lobsters alive in Switzerland
They are all European brands, but they don't produce in Europe, at most there's some assembly or they outright buy from Chinese companies and rebrand.
> Not only spot, but also invests the energy in calling it out and explaining it.

Which is why FOSS is so important. Can you imagine a world where Linux was closed source? You’d never have any insight into security patches, or these discussions.
Top Raspberry Pi Projects 2018
>It is not the tyranny of the 1% that creates their wealth, it is their sacrifice.

http://digg.com/2017/wyatt-ingraham-koch-shirts
> I would normally define 'correctness' to include rigorous mathematical proofs.

Do you have an example of a language that does what you're looking for?

On the proof side, Rust's built in unit testing is great, and allows for quick validation of code (proofs). But I think you mean something different.

> Go works wonderfully

Go does work wonderfully, you should definitely use what you like. For me personally, though, Go never excited me. Rust on the other hand continues to be exciting, I always feel like I'm learning something new (and I've been using it for the past 3 years).

> For example, you could always just clone memory at every occasion, return the input instead of borrowing, etc. In fact, these things might be easier for a beginner to do.

I think most Rust beginners (I know it was true of me anyway) do often just clone everywhere. Eventually, you then replace that with Rc or Arc... And then one day you decide you want the fastest thing on the block, and now you know the in's and out's of Rust, so you decide to up the ante and put lifetimes on everything.

I recommend this pattern to all Rust beginners.
61 Names for Sugar

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Agave nectar

Barbados sugar

Barley malt

Barley malt syrup

Beet sugar

Brown sugar

Buttered syrup

Cane juice

Cane juice crystals

Cane sugar

Caramel

Carob syrup

Castor sugar

Coconut palm sugar

Coconut sugar

Confectioner's sugar

Corn sweetener

Corn syrup

Corn syrup solids

Date sugar

Dehydrated cane juice

Demerara sugar

Dextrin

Dextrose

Evaporated cane juice

Free-flowing brown sugars

Fructose

Fruit juice

Fruit juice concentrate

Glucose

Glucose solids

Golden sugar

Golden syrup

Grape sugar

HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup)

Honey

Icing sugar

Invert sugar

Malt syrup

Maltodextrin

Maltol

Maltose

Mannose

Maple syrup

Molasses

Muscovado

Palm sugar

Panocha

Powdered sugar

Raw sugar

Refiner's syrup

Rice syrup

Saccharose

Sorghum Syrup

Sucrose

Sugar (granulated)

Sweet Sorghum

Syrup

Treacle

Turbinado sugar

Yellow sugar

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http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/hidden-in-plain-sight/
We are all grown adults here and there is no need to point out that those earnings are not justified by a relatively higher 'sacrifice' or work. Being poor is a high sacrifice enough.
Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web (2017)
You need to refute the central point of my argument, not provide a counterexample as you have done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201193
What Are the Privacy Rights of Children Related to GPS Tracking Devices?
The problem with corruption is the attempt to prevent it, instead of managing it. Sell a % of power but not at a fixed price- sell it in a hidden auction, call that one taxes, he who invests the most cash into it has the most of the fixed power percentage. Remove lobbyism to end corruption in the classic sence - and voila, democracy 2.0.

"If we must have crime, we may as well organize it."
It is something that Walmart is working on. They're currently piloting it in a handful of stores and it's available at all Sam's Club locations.

Both are by phone, but WM will have dedicated had scanners for those who don't have/want a smartphone.
Particularly interesting; the opt-in creates an incentive for OS vendors to comply, as being the only platform to go all-in would create an impression to the end user of poorer performance using your product.
This is one of the best comments I have ever read. Thanks for writing this.

Mostly because of how succinct it is. How can anyone argue with this? This is the central problem, in three paragraphs.

The only people who could argue "Well, but it's fair because..." are those who benefit from the status quo. But my mind is open to being persuaded otherwise.

What can be done? Throughout history, revolution seems to be the only way to shake up the system, and those don't even work. (It worked for the US because an ocean separated it from its enemies.)

And once the revolution settles, the system simply converges back on capitalism, e.g. China.

Or Russia's feudal "maybe you can make a business, but if it becomes successful, the government will take it" model. (Also China.)

I think the uncomfortable truth is that life just sucks, and the big will hold down the small and fuck them for eternity. I don't like phrasing it like that, but if it's the truth then we should face it.

EDIT: Damn, this thread was marked as a dupe, so there's no chance of discussing this here. But we should revisit this topic by pointing out this exact comment next thread.
"a worse browser" is an interesting way to put it. It seems you're trying to convey a sense of objectivity to your choice. A lot of people will point out privacy concerns from chrome to justify their choice of Firefox, and that seems to cause a bit of polorization between the two groups of users.

You did not elaborate on what makes chrome a better browser, but it's safe to say a large portion see performance/speed as what makes Chrome better. However, if my assumption on your reasoning is wrong please share.

So assuming that a possible increase in privacy does not have weight on what makes a better browser, what else than performance. 2 reasons why Firefox could be better, for certain users, are: safer add-ons, and less Network use.

1) Somewhat recently it was posted to hacker news that chrome add-ons had been taken over with malware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14888010

To me, the idea that malware (adware) could be in an "app" store so obviously for such an amount of time is wholly unacceptable. The Chrome addon still contained malicious code long after that post. Forgive me, I am on mobile, so I have not researched when/if it was fixed

2) ad blockers on Firefox are simply more effective. They block the download of ads to the browser, where ad blocking on chrome uses JavaScript. This means, which is especially important on mobile, a decrease in data usage

Disclaimer: Firefox has switched a lot of things in the newest update, this may very well have changed I know they are becoming more and more like Chrome. However, that would not change the meaning of my post. I am not trying to say Firefox is a better browser, that is entirely opposite my opinion. My point is different users have different use cases, and to categorize one as objectively better is difficult to do (for such a hotly debated topic for two products of such similar quality)
> I think that we could find ways to make equally memory-safe languages that go about enforcing safety in entirely different manners than with ownership and lifetime semantics.

Of course, but at the cost of requiring a garbage collector. Mandatory GC has three main drawbacks:

* It makes it harder and much less convenient to call libraries in this language from other languages.

* Low-resource embedded systems are a no-go.

* GC is typically a tradeoff between speed and memory usage. Manual memory management can be very fast and very lean.
Phoenix: Introduction to Controllers, Views, and Templates for Beginners
It's not that long ago I used to think of RAM as _almost_ disposable - you could max out your capacity pretty cheaply, and it wasn't really worth reselling a lot of the time. Over the past few years it seems to just been getting increasingly expensive though.
Being poor is not a sacrifice. Being poor is a condition in the terms of your life. A sacrifice is being frugal, being diligent, and working hard at self-improvement - Do all poor people do that consistently, as a quality of being poor?

Of course not; being poor is a condition, it is not a sacrifice. It holds no merit as a condition. You cannot use your lack of capital as a bargaining chip at the table. It is not a sign of your deserving more money. If you work hard and do something good for me, that I am willing to pay for, then you deserve money.

Capitalism is altruistic. It functions when people do good, valuable things for each other and establish trust that payment will be provided for that value. It has nothing to do with your status as poor.
Correct, and in many countries with less income the cost of living is also scaled to this. So to get a perfect average the cost of living and income balances need to kind of be adjusted to reflect this...?

But then again the top few people who have a lot will earn so much more that they can barely even get rid of their fortunes. And that $32,000 isn't even enough in certain area's to have a house to live in and food security...
I think they mean something like what proof assistants like Cog and Irdis do. ATS is another language that enables proofs, and it's more geared to the systems programming use case, as it's similar to C.

Note that unit tests prove only that the code works for those inputs and those code paths tested. Mathematical proofs are supposed to be exhaustive.
Emirates SkyCargo to safely temperature sensitive pharma shipments – Air Cargo
It’s just occurred to me I have been ambiguous. I am talking about sets and classes, but you are responding as if I meant individual crimes (for which the 300,000 transactions per day limit provides a plausible upper ceiling, iff they only used bitcoin).

Let me rephrase: how many categories of crime occurred on Silk Road et al, and how many are not — based on current law enforcement — plausible to get away with when involving cash?
SpaceX had activities planned for Sunday and Monday which have been canceled. New rockets and new launch pads (2/3 of the booster fueling equipment is new) are always like this; the first shuttle flight sat on the pad from December through April. It's very tedious for the range people because both fueling the rocket (wet dress rehearsal) and fueling and static firing it are dangerous events that require exclusion zones.
That's actually not known. It's expected to be 2 weeks after a successful static fire, and no one knows how many more tries a static fire will need.
The upside here is that you can visit national parks for free while the shutdown is ongoing, without the threat of a ranger fining or detaining you! While I don't roll with the A team, I do appreciate some of the philosophy.
Happens where I work quite frequently, and yes it does have the effects you describe
A related anecdote: when I was a child I visited Italy with my family, and I was astonished at how differently pasta sauce tasted in Italy.

I found out much later that the reason was due to the insane amounts of sugar that are in store bought pasta sauces in the US. The sugar is meant to compensate for the low quality, unripened tomatoes that go into cheap pasta sauce brands. To this day, I refuse to use canned pasta sauce. I’d rather make my own.
> Do you have an example of a language that does what you're looking for?

Dependently typed programming languages such as Coq and Idris let you write proofs about your programs. These languages are fairly academic, and most engineers probably won't find it worthwhile to use these tools. Personally, I love them. I wrote a short article about my experience with Coq: https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/134/my-unusual-hobby
“Sugar”, like “drugs”, is too general a term to use in a discussion on health. Glucose and fructose, both forms of sugar, are metabolized differently and have different health effects.
How to become a software engineer without a degree?
just like you can grant a site permission to use your microphone, get your location, run flash plugins, or any of various other things, the ability to auto-play video should be a permission that sites have to ask for, not something they can do implicitly.
As much as I think it's bad for gaming (right now at least), I think hardware manufacturers artificially limiting what it can be used for is a bad route to go down.
I can't use Safari until I reboot to install a critical security update. Yeah, no, I have a lot of ssh sessions open. And how is it possible that a browser on Unix requires a reboot to update?
EU considers your personal data still partially yours even though some company is hosting them. So the analogy is broken.

Also intent is important in law. If data is kept outside US so that they are the closest to the customer it's different from doing it to keep them secret from government
Exactly, I’d love to see the state and flux of the Meltdown and Spectre patches for the various Windows kernels.
Here's an explanation of retpoline:

https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886

“Retpoline” sequences are a software construct which allow indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution. This may be applied to protect sensitive binaries (such as operating system or hypervisor implementations) from branch target injection attacks against their indirect branches.

The name “retpoline” is a portmanteau of “return” and “trampoline.” It is a trampoline construct constructed using return operations which also figuratively ensures that any associated speculative execution will “bounce” endlessly.