skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assumption that the flaws arise from the complexity of contemporary CPU's rather than incompetence within the engineering teams at the world's leading CPU company is probably more useful. When problems come to light, those problems are latent bugs. The engineering was equally competent before and after the latent bugs became known bugs. Bugs with decades long latency are most likely to be non-obvious.

In engineering terms, the bugs are "errors and omissions" not carelessness or negligence. Errors and omissions arise because humans are fallible and engineering is a human process.

One of the features of Intel (and AMD) products is that their primary customers are data centers and that's where the core CPU design parameters come from (not consumers or developers). The consumer/developer SKU's are little more than repackaging and feature tweaking of the chips that Intel/AMD sells datacenters in high volume on 1-3 year cycles. That's what drives the roadmap five+ years out.
I'm not even thinking about poor vs. rich kids, or kids living in a ghetto vs. kids living in the suburbs. What about the man who gets laid off from work and has a family to support? When exactly is he supposed to pick up new skills, if nobody's hiring for his current ones in the area?

I got laid off last week, and I've been thanking my lucky stars that I'm a software engineer; I'm actively talking to three friends about going to work for their current employers, and I've got recruiters rattling off lists of companies looking to hire me - plus I get a severance, and my wife makes enough money that we have some bit of runway before I start having to sell clothes to feed our child.

If I were, I don't know, working at a coal mine that closed down? Or at a Toys'R'Us that got shuttered? Can't exactly hop back into a college curriculum for three years, kids don't eat lectures.
> frankly if the message can't handle at least a few hours delay then email probably isn't the right medium for it.

This may have been the case in the mid-90s, but it is certainly not the case today. I frequently receive emails that require immediate attention, whether from my employer, my bank, or any number of other notifications. Normal email users expect emails to be delivered in seconds, not hours.
> "If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men" — this can be read as all the white men at Google are bigots.

It really can't.
Get your resume together today, and start looking for jobs today if possible. Don't wait.

I don't see any problem with asking for more severance, as 3 weeks seems really really low. Contact the group that is handling your "transition".
I recently read a math paper: abelian groups, hilbert spaces, lebesgue measures. It felt like we're back in the 1900s.
I think everyone should be interested in politics, but that doesn't mean I want to talk politics every day for an hour during my lunch with coworkers. There's more happening in the world than politics. I think that's what the parent is getting at. That also doesn't mean I think there should be a law against it.
This news comes at a very peculiar time and thats why i dont trust it. Yes i believe they are capable of the hack but the news comes at the best time for the aivd and the best time for the Clinton camp with deep state under research. Have to see how this develops
I don't use Webpack but have looked into it, please explain (google lazy) how Webpack implements "lazy loading"?

My thought is that I would have to do specific work that I can't imagine Webpack could "guess" would work for me in every circumstance...
>but had made tweets like "kill all men".

Personally, I have no problem with people saying things like this, especially in their personal lives. I like banter. But part of banter is that both sides are allowed to play. If someone can express extreme ideas like "kill all men" I should be able to make equally extreme jokes, but in different ideological directions.

What bothers me is not the language, but the unfairness. I can understand not permitting banter at work or in organizations. It makes some people uncomfortable. But what I can't understand is just allowing banter of some ideological bent.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#GEO_MAP
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Then you should say, "I'm wasting company time in this meeting." And I'd make sure I'd gotten what I want from you and then let you go if I had it. And I'd appreciate it.

At programmer rates today, it's more than a $1 a minute. That's not petty.
> That essentially means that it was. If it wasn't they would have denied it and released data.

What kind of ridiculous, half-assed logic is that? There could be any number of reasons they can't confirm this yet.

I haven't officially confirmed I'm not an alien being from a far away planet -- so that must mean I am one!
That's probably where the real money is to be made...
It is solving a very real problem created by the existence of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley creates a perfect maelstrom of isolation and loneliness. You have thousands of new people move there every year to find work, and moving tears off a huge chunk of your social network. Even if you manage to keep in touch with some people, you lose the entire portion related to "casually hanging out with your friends and talking about your day". Meanwhile, Silicon Valley is a figurative desert of office parks and suburbs, making it difficult to do anything but work.

Companies like Google (and many before, and many after) solved this problem by creating campuses where their employees could eat, hang out, exercise, play games, and socialize. Their otherwise isolated employees formed new social networks, were happier, more productive, and less likely to leave. It solved many problems, but it also created the other problems that stem from "our employees' work and social lives are too entangled".
Not really. It would be statement of fact if Zunger were some random, no consequence person. Since he himself and others mention that he is/was fairly senior engineer, his words take rather ominous meaning. Also refer to his other article 'Tolerance is not moral precept'.

A famous Indian political leader quoted Newton's third law "Every action has a reaction" in regards to an incident which further lead to unprecedented violence. All leader did was to quote a scientific law but he was widely criticized in media, it also lead to death of many more people.

I have no problem with what he says including veiled violence threats. It is his political positioning not some ethical advice.
> Or do dudes the same thing.

I don't know about you, but I binge read something like fifty Star Trek novels when I was a kid because that's what the library had. That was once I ran out of the other shitty sci-fi on offer, because I'd already read all the Asimov three times over.

I think we think of women as doing this more because men tend to be employed more often than women, and once the kids are old enough to become self-sufficient - and/or shipped off to school - homemakers of both genders get more downtime to sit down and read.
I would have to guess that those attitudes are driven somewhat by increased crime rates and high unemployment amongst not only muslim, but African migrants as well. As a muslim I think it is important to address the reality of the situation, not to ignore statistics because they are inconvenient to complete tolerance and inclusivity in western society.
Yes, all that as well. Good luck in your search.
There's videos of him making it. It was a publicity stunt for Amiga at the time.
> Do you want to live in a society where that's a thing that people can do?

We already do. C.f. laws, courts.
> The field is weakening over South America, and the red area over North America is losing strength.

This nonsensical caption, saying the exact same thing twice while using different words, wins the award for the worst writing I've read today. And I read a lot today.

Sigh, another garbage clickbait headline pointing to a scaremongering article with nothing new to say.

Nice website design, though. Pretty!!

:-(
Also consider under new religious protection rules, one may discriminate against gays and transsexuals in business if it is important to their religious views. This is considered a conservative victory.

When people think of mainstream American conservative views, do they mean like those on the Texas GOP platform? People should go take a look. Or on Reddit's /r/conservative?

https://www.texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PERM-PLA...

What do people here think about the fact that for the past 2 decades, the only issues worthy of national Christian consensus have been sexual issues? And now there's this transgender business? For example, do people remember the push for a Constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage? Was that used to rally the base?
I realize it's not the same thing, but just FYI, Safari 11.1 is apparently adding ServiceWorker support. [1]

One year ago it didn't seem very likely this would land.
Maybe the future holds some promise for SharedWorkers on Safari too.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
I miss webrings.
Would you be able to share some stats, like how much disk space these accounts take up and such?

For larger scale e-mail sending I built my own MTA (https://github.com/zone-eu/zone-mta), our main instance sends about 750k emails a day (mostly normal ISP traffic, maybe 25% marketing emails) and its most valuable feature is juggling with IP addresses and blacklist detection, so if some mailbox gets hacked, starts sending out spam and the IP ends up in Spamhaus et al then this IP is removed from the list for other users automatically. Has saved us a ton of time.
China?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855571
Interestingly, James Webb's sunshield is so ridiculously big, that it could actually be used as a solar sail.

JWST is 6200kg roughly. The sunshield is about 150 square meters. Sunlight is roughly 1360W/m^2, so given Einsteins relation between momentum and energy for light: P = E/c, and increase that by a factor of 2 due to reflection (as opposed to full absorption, which would be 1), then we have 9e-6 Newtons per square meter in sunshine near 1AU, for a total of 0.00135 Newtons over the whole thing. Over 5 years, that's 36 m/s of delta-v.

That could be enough to rescue the mission due to a small performance shortfall, if you can point this carefully in the right direction.

(And 5 years is a long time, but not unheard of if you're trying to recover from a major mission failure, for instance the Japanese Venus probe which failed its 2010 Venus orbit insertion and so had to go around the sun a bunch of times and successfully inserted on the next try in 2015 using the attitude control thrusters.)
Did Soros inform you to short MGM stocks before the Las Vegas shooting?
Bagged ETS Forecast of Bitcoin Price
The leaves of the flower are to thin. They swell up if you drill holes into.

The results are calculated on spot. But there is no randomness. Two identical objects will result in the same voronoi structure. But under advanced in the upload form you can change some parameter.

If you want to test a few examples you can find various .ply files on http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/ply/ply.html
Surveillance is too broad of a term. For example, at what level do you consider user tracking NOT surveillance, and why? Are cookies surveillance? IP Logging? Is UserAgent surveillance?
You ignored my other indication: they are not in the middle of the street, at the same level as your car...
You can always ask.

But they don't have to give it to you.
> How anyone who works at Google can feel oppressed is honestly beyond me.

So that applies to both sides? Or just the white males?
Musical harmony explained in 5 levels of difficulty [video]
Full Interview: President of Iraq Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani
Ask HN: Part time project ideas
For some personal medical reason I won't be able to join any job for next 4 months. But I would be able to manage to spend 4 hours a day for something I love which is building usable software.
Can someone give me an idea ?
I am not expecting any sort of income out of this. It would be good if I spent this time building something from scratch which can be usable and cannbe open sourced to community. I have around 11 years of experience in IT industry. Thanks in advance.
Airbnb, Edging Toward Possible I.P.O, Names Ken Chenault to Board
Server-side rendering can be challenging to implement.
Yeah, it's learnable, it's doable, it really doesn't need to be all that hard.

And then ... after you've done every damned thing exactly by the book, and DKIM'ed the dickens out of your headers, killed the spam, policed yourself off the blacklists, etc. etc. - turns out you might as well not have bothered. The googles and the microsofts (the microsofts especially!) will one day drop your outgoing mail without the slightest notification, because the ip range, or because the full Moon, or just because they can.

I ran that show for nearly fifteen years, but threw in the towel last year, and handed over to Fastmail. With regret, although their service is first rate.

Email is not a succesful federated protocol these days. The monoliths effectively killed it off.
More than just books about us, we leave the world with all we left behind. Warren Miller is with us in his films, and others stay with us too even after their bodies have decayed.

I’ve realized in recent years that while I don’t think there is a physical soul of any kind, the soul of an individual is the collective influence they had. Much of that lives on long after the person’s light leaves this world. That lasting influence is now, to me, the soul of the individual.
All you need to do is have atleast 2 physically separate servers and DNS by design does the distributed/redundancy part - as long as the records are setup correctly, any resolver will find you, and public ones like Google DNS will cache the result for most people.
The worst part is that it’s typically navel-gazing about national politics. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with my coworkers’ views a lot, but good god, does anyone know what the state legislature is doing? How about the governor? Which of our coworkers could name their state rep? Probably very few. Meanwhile, we have a primary coming up in six months and our district has two lackluster candidates, but nobody’s concerned about that (we’re losing our awesome incumbent who’s running for state senate).
Those signs are 4 meters above ground level. You're saying that that can't/shouldn't be taken into consideration?

They're not at all in front of any car...
Macro-level observation, kind of related to Yegge's memo:

Google is big and kind of not really busy with building products anymore. Anytime a company starts losing its busy-ness, its focus, you see "politics" come to the forefront. Once HR and Legal run the show, stick a fork in it.

GE and Six Sigma was the same shit, different angle. Products and their success rule, everything else is distractions and blockers.

Note how Amazon is kept focused and on track. Note how Apple is able to do this, but only after SJ came back and turned it into a busy product place again.

Facebook has Sandberg and others coming to the forefront, Twitter had all kind of drama - jury still out on those. Uber ditto.

Understaffed/lean teams working on winning, running for their lives - and drama is less likely. Breeds camaraderie and cuts the crap. Hard work is the best equalizer.

Bored people look for trouble, distraction.
Ah, I was wondering where the Busy Beaver idea came into this. The computability thing makes sense, ie. we can define a number using Busy Beavers but we can't ever really even reason about how big it is.
> There's no free lunch

In the United States of 2018, that's a matter of explicit political choice, rather than harsh base reality.

> or get rich easy schemes

Gig workers aren't asking to get rich, they're asking to literally not starve to death.
Agh, yes. I already regret putting Java in that list with its wonky implementation. :)

But it certainly works with others, e.g. something like this:

public class SortedList<T> : ICollection<T>,IEnumerable<T> where T : IComparable<T>
Coincheck Confirms Crypto Hack Loss Larger Than Mt. Gox
Sure it can, if a vegetarian friend of yours said "If you want to increase your health remove all the disgusting meat from your diet", would you read that as them saying that all meat is disgusting or just the occasional piece?
start using keyboards that allow you to use left ctrl with your palm instead of your pinky, it's a life saver.
I keep thinking of starting a blog under a false name. My current blog: https://jamesadam.me, is full of mostly vanilla tech articles, conveying nothing particularly unique in perspective nor noteworthy in content.

I have ideas for more "interesting" articles I'd like to write (still mostly about software development, my industry, etc), but I fear they would either cause offense (and we all know there is no greater sin) or at the very least be off-putting to potential employers. Thus, I keep thinking about adopting a 'pen' name and throwing up a second blog to serve as an outlet for some of the more insane ramblings I'd like to inflict on the world.
Thanks. If you're looking for a software engineer in NYC, ping me :P
The general tone of your two comments is that I've been disingenuous, when the real disservice to the conversation is the zero-effort, thread-derailing snark.

Here's a more verbose way to say exactly the same point I was making, but possibly (hopefully) less susceptible to zero-effort dismissals from the kinds of people who like scoring easy points by taking potshots against auxiliary details instead of taking the main thrust of the argument into consideration:

"Mozilla in 2018 brings in 10 times as much revenue as it did in 2008. Is it 10 times as effective and doing 10 times as much good work? The same as before? Or is it closer to 1/10 for both?"
Interesting. After I posted my comment I saw elsewhere that you can simply hit ^z twice to suspend so I guess that's not a big deal after all.
Warren Miller was an innovative content creator that has inspired a generation, albeit in a specific niche. I admit I was surprised (and delighted!) to see Warren mentioned on HN, and sad to hear of his passing. If you don't like it, don't click thru; No need to poo poo on it.
Agree- this is a "pain." When I want to select text I make all panes horizontal. Not elegant, but it works. Then I put them back.
A good example of mathematical representation as compression.
A signal for the current state of readership on HN. Article stands at +23 as of this comment.
I gave up after it wouldn't let me create something without giving it a title.
I've been thinking about reblogging articles on my blog. I want to set up separate article listings with and without reblogs, and separate RSS feeds. I wouldn't rehost the content, just put a link to the article in my feed.
Radiation Therapy Gone Wrong
I've been dreading version updates ever since they dropped Mac binary support. There are always obscure things to patch I have to find out by myself, the build easily wastes a whole day.

I think I'm either going to change my workflow and use another OS or switch fully to PyTorch.
Truly, this is the modern-day equivalent of setting up UUCP.
3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
OK, have to say this is pretty cool. Reading about how to do something is good, but ephemeral. Applying what you are learning (and making mistakes and figure out what went wrong) is a far better way to learn. Kudos to the author of this tutorial.
The car in front needs to react earlier. He/she should have seen it early enough to make it safe, no?
Oh, btw, the easiest way to test ZoneMTA would probably be to install the WildDuck mail server to some empty VPS. The install script, amongst other things, installs and configures ZoneMTA https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck/tree/master/setup
Actually, that's the most likely interpretation. To say otherwise seems disingenuous.
>you probably need a better WiFi router. That's the right answer. Last time I rebooted a router or AP: never. Unless there's a power failure they run years on end without intervention (DD-WRT on a Buffalo AP, DD-WRT on Netgear WNR3500's, and a number of managed HP MSM422 & Ubiquiti APs if you are curious).
Russian companies taking a leap of faith into crypto. Why am I not surprised ...
It could be intended as a joke or hyperbole so those two statements aren't mutually exclusive
You need to use dynamic imports

var myComponent = import('./myComponent')

instead of classic imports

import myComponent from './myComponent'

Then Webpack automatically generates separate js files and these files are loaded by the browser only when the dynamic imports are called.

Reference: https://webpack.js.org/guides/lazy-loading
I really like your blog and I noticed you have the source code here - https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog

But I noticed it doesn't have a license. Are you okay with people adopting the backend for their own blog?
No, poops will be confused about what direction is north if the magnetic field flips, resulting in them migrating up and out of the toilet, instead of down into the sewers.
Don’t know about you, but 80% of the people on line at 4 am for an iPhone 5 (last time I did it) were dudes.

Also, Star Wars.