skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't know that I believe this. I'm a newly minted... well, not billionaire, but a "living comfortably"-onaire, with wealth created by a little software-as-a-service business that I built from scratch.

I had no connections, unless you count posting to this forum and the old Business Of Software one at joelonsoftware.com. I just read stuff online, taught myself the business part, and spent the seven dollars on the domain name.

I feel like the bit you wrote is what people tell themselves so that they can safely not try. It's not possible. Best not bother.

I'd recommend otherwise, personally.
If that's the case then I wonder how long it will be before the gamers start to resell to the miners at a profit?
Tree Style Tab on Firefox is a great way of managing links.
Also by consuming media preferences could/ should be changed, also new friends, change of life and political context... I don't think that jamming people in a bubble is a good plan
F# is nice, if only Microsoft would actually provide feature parity with C#, VB.NET and C++ tools.

I bet C# will sooner copy F# features than Blend, GUI designers or .NET Native will support F#.
It is patch from Amazon, not from hardware vendor.
I think it's a problem that too many people think this way. It seems like there's more not-ultra-rich people hoping for tax cuts for the ultra-rich than there are ultra-rich people. People are often holding political positions that would further benefit them if they were in the (already crazy wealthy) position they hoped to be in, rather than holding political positions that would provide protections for them where they are now. And then it's practically unbelievable to not think this type of thinking must be strongly encouraged by rich political groups.

I thought this comic was a neat satire by illustrating an extreme case: https://www.thenation.com/article/one-rich-guy-who-owns-ever...
Er, 2/3 of the first stages are reused, and the unusual thing about SpaceX is that they have a lot more non-government business than any US launch provider ever.
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I think that this kind of advice can be detrimental to people like me. It basically says force yourself to study 5 hours a day no exceptions. If you get a job or other extracurricular activities don't count it as work time.

Well, I lived that lifestyle in high school. I studied 4 hours a day, limited every extracurricular activities to not interfer with my study time. At the end I believe I have missed a great portion of my life and it was not worth it.

Studying everyday is a great goal to aspire for, but no way you need to study that much every day. Go to classes with the textbook, mark the areas the teacher lectures about. Take notes during class. Once in a while review the book and your notes. In the meantime make thought experiments, try to apply the information you learned on imagined cases you made up for fun.

There is only so much willpower you can tap into. Once that is over you basically drift not being able to do anything. It is much better to live a balanced life and never put yourself into impossible workloads for a prolonged time.

Another point is that these kind of study hacks work for people who can already study. If you are a procrastinator in soul (a deep procrastinator in Newport's terms), this advice won't help you. If you're procrastinating heavily your mind is trying to tell you that what you're doing is pointless.

One powerful weapon to fight it is to keep an agenda. Plan your day before (for example using org mode or a simple paper agenda). Set very small goals and always reschedule if you need to. For example 22 Jan Monday: place the notes taken during X class in a file. 23 Jan Monday: Buy the book required for Y class etc.

If you can keep your study material somewhat organized, you will find it much easier to begin studying. It is all about tooling like programming.

One last note: studying in a silent place does not always work. Especially when I'm bored, can't start studying or mentally overwhelmed, it helps a lot to put on headphones and blast some talkshow in the background. The change in the tone and volume of the host and occasional jokes and laughter feed my stimuli seeking brain. After 30-40 minutes I can continue without listening anything.

These reflect my hard-earned experience and intensive soul-searching :) YMMV
Static fire was planned for today. Date for an actual launch hasn't been set yet, because a successful static fire (or several) has to take place before that. SpaceX is taking their time to extensively ground test this one, because the Falcon Heavy has never flown before, and is a significantly more complex rocket than the proven Falcon 9 (27 engines need to ignite at launch vs. 9, plus the booster attachments have never been tested before).
Too bad the author did not mention Lightning Network. The issue covered in this article is one of the reasons LN was chosen as the scaling solution instead of the block size increase (i.e. bcash).
You'd have to look at niche languages like Coq, Idris, or Agda if you want mathematical proofs. There's a lot of research that needs to be done before proven programs can become the norm.
Microcode is a little more capable than that. See https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know...

Edit: s/Intel m/M/
The vast majority of the time though you need to let multiple processes use the same TCP/IP stack. As soon as you have to do that, moving the TCP/IP stack to userspace means you have to do context switches instead of syscalls.

That is not a good thing if you care about performance.
Sorry I meant to say median of the top 140 million.
Thanks for the comments. When I was writing the article I kept on thinking that really this is just the same old fundamental problem in a new guise, which is in many ways just how to manage component boundaries and dependencies, particularly when you are looking at a system which is being handled by more than one person.
Musk? Bezos? Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, Parker.

I don't think any of those had particularly wealthy head starts.

For a more recent example look at Jan Koum and Brian Acton.
> Low-resource embedded systems are a no-go.

Only if talking about microcontrolers with few hundred KB, where even C is a challenge.

There are Java and Oberon implementations for single digit MB, like Cortex-M4.
I've never experienced with Cython. But if Cython is to compile anPython file into a C file then probably.
Definitely a good approach, I'd like to update the article to mention this as a recipe for success. The only challenge I've seen is when the old app is still doing work behind the scenes, such as running crons or dequeuing messages or whatever.
I also have zero criticism of Linus for his style. However to be fair, the point being made by GP is I think that if the frequency of severe patch criticism by Linus is high enough ("not newsworthy"), then the information content of all his criticisms is reduced accordingly.
It's upsetting that the media and some of the mainstream audience see Linus as a "crank" that only exists to complain and tear people down. Examples like this show how valuable his experience is. I would NEVER ask him to water himself down knowing it would likely make his technical analysis worse.
That may be a bad analogy, considering painting your own apartment is something a great deal of people do, and often with good success.

My parents (not in any way experts on that field) painted their entire house themselves, except for two rooms that were painted by a professional painter, and the professional painter left much worse corners than my parents. This was the paid-for result (ignore the dark corner at the bottom, that’s caused by the flash): https://i.imgur.com/s1VHV2W.jpg
Maybe I wasn't clear. Your explanation and the linked article is very informative, but I wanted to understand what's the "garbage" Linus is talking about. As I said, I do understand retpolines from a high level.
The same author in a 2015 article I linked to elsewhere in this discussion:

“In 1970, some 45 years ago, I wrote an essay in -Harper’s on the subject of homosexuality. The chief points of my essay were that no one had a true understanding of the origins of human homosexuality, that there was much false tolerance on the part of some people toward homosexuals; that for many reasons homosexuality could be a tough card to have drawn in life; and that given a choice, owing to the complications of homosexual life, most people would prefer their children to be heterosexual. Quotations from that essay today occupy the center of my Wikipedia entry. In every history of gay life in America the essay has a prominent place. When I write something controversial, this essay is brought up, usually by the same professional gay liberationists, to be used against me. That I am pleased the tolerance for homosexuality has widened in America and elsewhere, that in some respects my own aesthetic sensibility favors much homosexual artistic production (Cavafy, Proust, Auden), cuts neither ice nor slack. My only hope now is that, on my gravestone, the words Noted Homophobe aren’t carved.”
Still better than the previous situation where they would (and did for years) have paid $0 for that money.

So, the current scheme might be a ripoff (of course it is, most laws are passed to benefit corporatism) but the previous one was worse.
Not sure how you got to "hoping for tax cuts" from what I wrote. I'm personally in favor of cutting taxes to zero for anybody earning less than, say, $30k/year, and taxing the rest of us a flat rate to balance the budget. Two tax brackets: first $30k: 0%, the rest of your income: 30%. QED.

I got a little windfall that I didn't want this year, and would much prefer to have had the same amount added to my tax bill so that people who could actually appreciate a few thousand extra dollars got it instead.

But that doesn't have anything to do with this article, with its silly pie fallacy emotional appeal.
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Hi. This project was presented one year ago. But today it is a complete new tool for work with data. Using visual interface you can use R features without coding. Useful for beginners in areas such as data wrangling and data visualizations. Program transforms your actions in interface into R scripts. Now with freemium licensing.
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At the very beginning it was the original sister one, not a replica:

> The French Statue of Liberty from the Île aux Cygnes came to Odaiba, Tokyo, from April 1998 to May 1999 in commemoration of "The French year in Japan". Because of its popularity, in 2000 a replica of the French Statue of Liberty was erected at the same place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Libe...
This is fantastic! Hope to see updates, I expect this will remain in my bookmarks for a long time to come.
Sure but the effects aren't all that different.
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I just want to commend you for very clean code. It is a pleasure to look at something written this clean, even if it is a smaller app.
Callbacks by definition create multiple paths to the data.

(You can also often get away with Cell rather than RefCell.)
As far as we know, there has never been a single attack using either of specter or meltdown issues. No code had been found, nothing.

It appears to be very difficult to take advantage of, and the initial idea of a JavaScript exploit seems to not be possible.

Part of the reason for all of this might be that the attacker needs to run code on the target machine, and one the attacker can do that, there are far easier ways to read memory.
Government shutdown fatigue
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I love LWN's content. It includes soooo much detailed technical coverage on many interesting conferences. It's a great way to stay vaguely aware of what's happening in various subindustries.

It's extremely frustrating how many steps it takes to subscribe.

There are so many places to drop out of the signup process (especially when you don't already have an account).

The first time I meant to subscribe, I got distracted by something halfway through and ended up not subscribing for 3 months.

After clicking the call to action , it should basically immediately present a "sign up and subscribe" form, complete with credit card collection.

It would be a massive shame to be at the limit of sustainability because of something like this
To anyone interested in AI, give Mycroft.ai a try.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft
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you can work out its popularity just by the number of comments

Popularity, yes. Accuracy, no.
But are we talking about fixing it on current chips or future chips? If the former I understand Linus’ position only if there is a better solution. But if it is a hardware problem it may not. If we are talking about future chips, I thought that the fix even on 7th and 8th generations had a low overhead. Why would it have a bigger overhead in future designs?
Your bullshit meter is too sensitive.
I wasted tons of time while I was in high school, so kudos to you for aspiring for more and trying to be productive. Respect.

On the other hand, don't forget to have fun! You have your whole life to be "grown up", but only a few years to be young and reckless, don't squander em. I feel old for writing that, but whatever.

Don't overwork yourself, and don't let others take advantage of your enthusiasm. Burnout is real, so make sure none of your habits put you on the path towards self-destruction. Avoid the temptation of staying up 1 or n-more hours just to finish some thing; it'll always be there for you the next day, so it's usually better for you to get a full night of rest instead.

In my experience, some aspects of school are overrated. It's easy to get fixated on grades, but they're not always representative of someone's true skills. Of course, you shouldn't lie to yourself either, so strive to actually understand whatever subject you're focused on.
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I like that the article correctly points out that the problems with big blocks is bandwidth and validation time, not hard drive space as many others seem to focus on.
I meant org-mode or a subset thereof as a supported working file format.
https://boardgamegeek.com/ has an active second hand market where you can find less mainstream games. I've personally bought a couple of games on there.
> Self-hosted isn't free either. You're still paying for resources when they're idle.

I still have these resources idle, when I use Riff.
I'm assuming it would need to be extremely high frame rate video to extreact decipherable voice data. Because even at 60 frames per second, which I understand is at the high end for normal video, that gives you a maximum frequency of only 30Hz, which is nearing the low end of human perception.

So it's interesting and a definite risk if an attacker is supplying their own camera, but definitely does NOT mean you can pull voice data from the vibrating tablecloth in a YouTube video, right?
Regarding your first point, I have never seen anyone on the Rust side of things claim that Rust can solve most correctness bugs. The attitude has always been to take things one step at a time, and to slowly strengthen the type system to make it expressive enough to write more statically enforceable constraints.
>On the contrary, if you're going to hold someone up as a sage of the time, compare them to other sages.

Well, pointing the fact they followed the general racist etc feeling might be informational, but the sage part refers to the many issues he wrote about where he was indeed very prescient and competent -- not some total omniscient figure that couldn't go wrong.

>Quite a few of the socialist, social democratic and communist writers of the period had a public record of deep thorough social and political criticism that rivaled menckens sans racism.

Yes, but few were as popular and influential while doing so. This was a major newsperson, most of the others were fringe voices. Plus their anti-racism went hand in hand with the political ideology that they had adopted -- whereas for Mencken it was not so.
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Not when they’re invalidating other people’s experiences.
Agreed. Frankly I'm amazed that the linux kernel has been such a hit with leadership like that. Torvald seems brilliant, but he also seems like a royal asshole. Why anybody would want to work with him is confusing to me.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205
My pet theory for this is that some important parts of your brain are getting co-opted into the code reading/writing process.

Hearing other people talking (musically or otherwise) competes for some of the same neurons.
Surely the trend left unchecked is disturbing. On this course, what do we expect the headlines to look like in the following decades?
Tumor suppressor is a synonym for anti-oncogene. The systems present in each species is not the same and the large long lived animals of more and better systems. Unfortunately, we don't know too much about them.
Very different; glucose is metabolized by all cells in the body; fructose only by the liver.

Fructose isn't good for you (or sucrose 50% fructose, high fructose corn syrup 42%-65% fructose etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

But its sweeter than glucose; and has side-effects like switching of appetite suppression and prolonged exposure does similar damage to the liver as alcohol. Glucose doesn't do that.
Much faster time to launch is the value proposition. It can take years waiting to piggyback on a larger launch, especially given how often the large launches are delayed.

How long are our careers, really? Random years-long delays are a real problem. It's easier to make a satellite really light than to wait for the cheapest price per kg.
everybody's always in a bubble, since there is a finite number of hours in the day and far more media than anyone can consume. The best we could hope for is to personalize the bubble while minimizing the influence of outside interests with divergent goals - e.g. advertisers and spammers.

I imagine the change of preferences can be tracked over time by periodically rating new works I consume and having critics fall in and out of the personal overton window.
The point is that the idea itself isn't new, but space tech has been stagnant for decades before a company like SpaceX appeared on the scene
I read it like:

Intel will make a fix but the fix will be disabled by default as that results in the best performance numbers, those that will be reported in the media.

When you want to use the CPU in the cloud, you have to enable the fix and get much lower performance. But nobody in the media will care about that as they have the nice performance numbers and therefore Intel don't care to implement a fix with high performance.
The previous one and the current one aren't the only 2 choices.

A third one would be to pass a law saying US companies and US subsidiaries need to repatriate 80% of foreign cash at 35% else the executives will be jailed. Guess how much cash will come back and at what rate.

Ever seen such amazing tax breaks for the poor?
I think the language makes his point far clearer, in a way that would be nigh impossible to do otherwise given the deeply technical nature of the topic.

Not commenting on the larger point, just this part:

> when he could've made his point just as clearly without it
Compared to the public discourse, or to the equally private writings and discussions of the majority in the 20s and 30s?

Give me access to their private discussions and writings, and I can get you quotes that point as 100% sexist, racist etc, any number of "liberal", "progressive" icons of today.
man, its been ages since I've read his rants... he can be such a fun keyboard warrior
These same issues came up in the early 20th century as well with the same kind of discourse on it. When markets get mature, all additional wealth generated goes to a select few due to how difficult it is to generate that wealth in the first place (often requiring dominant competitive advantages, like... extreme innovation or execution that the average population is unable to do... or ownership of capital).

We have a 40-60 year gap in our collective memories of the discourse, in part due to the scare of communism, massive resets of industries/markets from war (meaning market growth opportunities where everyone involved can benefit from the lowest to the highest), and globalization keeping those opportunities alive without squeezing the labor class in the US.

The simple fact is that mature industries don't have room for paying average joes more than what they get paid right now, and average joes can't really do anything about it.

It's similar to scientific discovery, where the main bulk of low hanging fruit has been picked and only the smartest people tackle the most esoteric challenges - mature industries are optimized to hell and only the strong players can make any gains in them.

There just aren't many non-mature markets anymore.
>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.

Like selling addictive opioids, scam affiliate marketing subscriptions, atmosphere-ruining fossil fuels, attention-destroying social media sites (often targeted at children!), society-destroying social media bots, arcane financial products whose only purpose is to shield immense wealth from taxes or regulation, etc. etc.

Yeah, capitalism sure is great, ain't it.
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I'm in Bangalore and live with my wife. Compared to what our parents, we always complain about how small our living space is. They have lived their lives in small towns/villages in houses with nice large rooms and huge backyards, all of which is only a pipe dream for us now in our 21st storey pigeon-hole.

I always assumed European countries with their lower population densities would be inclined towards larger living spaces than us. Seems like that may not be generally true.
Linus seems to have two complaints:

1) Recent patch submissions imply that Intel has no good hardware or microcode mitigation for spectre-like attacks. There is a sub-complaint that Intel has a bad (i.e. kills performance) fix, but will not enable it by default because benchmarks matter.

2) This series of patches in particular appears to be doing either something different, or more than what their descriptions imply

These patches do various things, presumably to manipulate the opaque internal state of the CPU, but only Intel knows for sure precisely what they do.
So, it’s safe to say that from birth to death, it’s possible to take a phone, from point of sale, all the way through the rest of it’s usage history, watch it float around, and then tie it presumptively to an individual, whenever the phone’s various identifiers appear on the network, and that might turn out to be pretty accurate most of the time?

I mean we’ve known about the identifiable aspects of cellular phones for a long time, but I’m not sure I’ve heard of a store claiming a number of unsold phones as stolen goods, handed off a list of targets to police, who then utilize technical resources, attempt to passively triangulate on anything in their jurisdiction, and then hunt them down.

In this case, it was point of theft to doorstep, and the accuracy was sacrificed for a rush job to “catch a bad guy” or “save lives” as is so often said, but consider the operations of a slower, more patient, even cautious operation.
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That's what tmux and screen are for. Windows 10's infuriating restart requirements don't affect my ssh sessions.