skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When U.S. corporate profits are unusually high, it’s typically an indication that households and the government are cutting their savings and going into debt." Pretty much one of the reasons why I dislike the current economy and what I mean by treating people as "consumers" to be extracted from. This has been a problem since the 1970s.
I came from a "real" programming background. This was pre-Tidyverse. Learning R thoroughly was the best thing I could have ever done for my proglang understanding as all the weird things R had meant that every time I learned something new I could say "Oh, it's like X in R".
The profit margin quoted is likely just based on what they pay vs what they charge (per sq foot). Doesn’t include staff, marketing, etc.
Disagree, in this case. OpenBSD is routinely excluded from embargoes. There's a perception that OpenBSD is hostile to them, or won't honor them. The accusation that OpenBSD purposefully subverted this most recent one has teeth. If it's a bogus accusation, it should be retracted, with an apology. It's not meaningless drama in this case.
Some of us are concerned about burying more money underneath Block 37 ( https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/How-Chicago-Spent-... )
The biggest Julia cheerleaders gave up years ago. That doesn't mean the language is dead but it's not a great sign for a niche lang
I was referring to WebGL and Canvas fingerprinting there, which the document seems to be in favor of, although they return a single value instead of a randomized value--presumably so all TOR browsers will look the same and muddy the data.

At any rate, a randomized canvas or WebGL fingerprint shouldn't be very useful for tracking a particular browser.
Really great article from Stratechery that informs a lot of my thinking on the subject: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/
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Context: https://lobste.rs/s/zwkuza/intel_cpus_might_leak_information...

> That discussion was ongoing when OpenBSD caught wind of this – presumably because someone who was embargoed felt that OpenBSD deserved to know – and then fixed it in the worst possible way. (Namely, by snarkily indicating that it was to address a CPU vulnerability.) This was then compounded by Theo’s caustic presentation at BSDCan, which was honestly irresponsible: he clearly didn’t pull eager FPU out of thin air (“post-Spectre rumors”), and should have considered himself part of the embargo in spirit if not in letter.
To be fair, if it turned out all hunky dory then the novel wouldn't be very exciting. Sometimes the downsides are rather contrived.
For what it's worth, I don't know what YouTube's actual constraints look like, but it doesn't seem implausible that they might still be open to reencoding their top 10k video. After a billion views, you might get some substantial savings.

EDIT: After all, they did implement VP8/9 ;)
I had always considered this the most likely explanation.

The tendency for humans to implement elaborate but ineffective security theaters in an attempt to convince people they're protected from fundamentally unprotectable threats is as old as society itself.

As a consequence, chrome can't watch netflix videos at full quality, anybody who flys in the US has to remove their shoes, and my child has to wear a clear backpack to school. I wish we'd stop playing these silly games of pretend which degrade the quality of life of everyone.
It is my understanding that you can make that window very long by having the mis-speculated branch depend on a value that has to be loaded from main memory.
https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
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How valuable is the Boring machine and how valuable are the tunnels? What's the quantitative measure you're using?
Given that it retransmits and TCP will also be suffering (slightly less?) during such periods, it doesn't seem like a show stopper.
Oh come on, Vonnegut is one of the most obvious examples of well respected American writers and you could hardly call his work boring. One of the 2016 Pulitzer prize winners (The Sympathizer - not cherry picking, just a recent book that comes to mind) was an extremely gripping/exciting story about escaping the end of the Vietnam war to America but it still managed to receive nearly unanimous praise.

On the other hand, one could argue that if your works require elaborate setpieces and a fantastical setting then you're drawing attention away from an inability to write captivating stories. A plot summary of a Jonathan Franzen novel for example sounds incredibly boring but his writing is nearly impossible to tear yourself away from and will have your mind going for days or even weeks after you finish. It's perfectly fine to enjoy sci-fi/fantasy etc but there's no need to develop a victim complex about its position in the literary world.
Note that this seems to be gQUIC (the Google-internal variant of QUIC that it has been using for a few years), and is thus not interoperable with most non-Google QUIC implementations, which follow the IETF drafts.
Maintenance might be simpler with modified Model X's than an electrified rail with contacts.
That's essentially what conventional TBMs use - high voltage extension cables to power electric VFD-driven motors. If you use batteries, you can drive them out of the tunnel and recharge anywhere.
How on earth am I the one who needs to "[s]how some initiative" when some guy literally just says "JS is a flaming pile of trash" and gives no justification?

It was an ad hominem and I asked him to expound on it.
You hear about Android security problems all the time. There just isn't a single open (now fixed) flaw like this on Android to write about. There are surely specific hacks for individual devices, and those probably get covered, but not as "Android" things.
Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting
Yes. And when a program's benefits outweigh its costs, it seems weird to say that the program is a damper on economic activity.

In other words, if Option A is "get zero dollars", and Option B is "spend $1 to get $2", it is unfair to complain about B's "cost" (spending $1) in isolation.
> making them less safe

That's a very spun definition for "safe". Any individual gun is far, far, FAR more likely to be used to commit a crime than deter one.
> If the Boring company could produce a reliable boring machine that dug at 10x speed, the boring machine would far far more valuable than these tunnels.

My understanding is that the way he gets most of the way to 10x is to dramatically decrease tunnel size and to have the machine dig and create the tunnel simultaneously. The second part may be valuable to other tunnel boring companies, but most municipal projects tend to use quite large tunnels, where Musk's machines wouldn't be a viable solution.
This review is interesting if only for the fact that, after calling the book "less polished", "hokey" and "flaw(ed)" the reviewer admits that it persuaded him to delete his Facebook account. Sounds like an endorsement to me!
When my father was a child, there was a craze in town (India) that tonsils are bad and removing them will only do good. My grandma fell for it, among hordes of other mothers, and got my fathers tonsils removed. My father is a Gen X cohort, and now whenever the pollen season arrives (he is in USA now), he is totally helpless.
I'm amazed the guy didn't bother to put the stop sign back up. http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/20/stop.sign/index.html
According to boring company: Many of the speed improvements come from the design of the system. Smaller tunnels, automatic stone placement, removal of dirt.
Not sure if this is what grandparent is referring to, but DNS rebinding[0] is what springs to mind.

It's simultaneously kind of smart and also really stupid. Basically, you give a valid 3rd-party domain multiple IPs, one of them normal and one of them resolving to a local IP. Then you cut off the normal one and the browser just allows you to make calls to whatever local interface you want.

There was a good defcon video about this a while back[1]. It's a much bigger problem than most people realize. This is why it's good practice to have at least some security around devices even if they're only connected to your LAN.

[0]: https://www.twistlock.com/2018/02/28/dear-developers-beware-...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stnJiPBIM6o
R is fundamentally flawed. It tries to merge two highly conflicting goals: a productive analytics environment and a programming language.

To do the first really well means automating away many of the issues that would crop up in the second allowing R to 'just work'. Because of that nothing beats R for getting to an answer as fast as possible (not even Python) at the cost of making it more difficult to productionise a solution in pure R.

Given its huge popularity and free-nature the benefits clearly outweigh the costs by a large factor.
de Raadt has been one of the conspicuously few unvarnished voices wrt Meltdown et al. Also, if he is to be believed as to OpenBSD's methods, something approaching actual hacking appears to have occurred. Can't help but think that might have a place at hacker news...
I wonder if what they're truly feeling is worried. Would that change the way you thought about them?

I want to see the evidence that forms the basis for their worry, if they're feeling worried. Sincere feeling is better than pretending, but sincere feeling isn't enough.

The most compelling evidence would show:

- A statistically significant decline in solving violent crimes or serious property crimes now over the 1990s.

- A statistically significant increase in solving these serious crimes among police departments with access to phone-unlocking (e.g. GrayKey devices) vs. otherwise-comparable police departments without access to such devices.

If nothing regarding smartphones shows a statistically significant correlation to serious crime solution rate, then everyone will just go with their gut feelings. The gut feeling of police is, apparently, that they need to be able to look at the contents of phones. My gut feeling is that they don't. It's an impasse.

If serious crimes are solved at a higher rate in departments with phone-unlocking capabilities, but the rate in the departments without unlocking tech is still no worse than in the 1990s, I still would resist weakening phone protections. It would make me think that maybe things have become harder since 2008, when phones were widespread and insecure, but that secure phones aren't a notable hazard to public safety.

If it turns out that departments with phone-unlocking tech are doing significantly better than departments without it, and that departments without it are now solving crimes of violence and serious property crimes at a lower rate than in the late 20th century, I'd have to have a long, hard think about my personal stance on this issue. There would still be gnarly technical issues even if I decided that less secure phones were a net benefit to society.

But I have changed my stance on security issues before. For example, I changed my mind about video surveillance of public streets. I find it more reassuring than dystopian. I'm more worried about hit-and-run drivers than about the cameras being used by a future dictatorship against the resistance. I've yet to be convinced that monitoring should extend to private spaces like my domicile or phone.
Is browser fingerprinting without IP address really feasible, given that 80% of users use a smartphone, which is always fullsize and usually hasn’t any plugins?
If you are so sure about your prediction then you should invest a substantial amount of money in AMZN.
> If it doesn't it's probably mostly due to technical debt and engineering inertia

You jumped straight from "absence of proof must be proof of the opposite" into as bald a no true scotsmanism as I've seen recently. It's like fallacy central here.
Looking at that article, they are comparing same-for-same tv sizes, and essentially saying that the 40" TVs are really cheap now.

I'm saying the biggest TVs (the ones that everybody seems to buy, like 100" and up) are far more expensive than the biggest TVs used to be 20 years back.

Also that article argues for competitive private healthcare. We've tried that. We know where that leads. Trust me, you don't want that.

It also comes with such insightful statements as this one: "Consider each product or service shown. College is heavily subsidized, regulated, and exclusionary, and the costs are soaring."

Yes this whole student loan thing we keep hearing about ... nothing to do with anything, right ?
"Available for me". Are you assuming we know who you are? What's available for you might be very out of reach to others. Farady cages are not some wallpaper you put on your house.
No reason why not. I see prams on public transit in Sydney all the time.

Depending on the age of the children they can also take public transport on their own, so can the drunk, elderly, and disabled.

(Kids are so overprotected in this age - freedom to travel on their own on bicycles or public transport is great!)

These people may not be able to drive cars. No, they can't get a self-driving car trip for $1.50 yet. When they can, we won't have enough road space anyway (one 8-carriage Sydney train carries 1200 people, that's a long line of cars!)

I really like what Citymapper is doing - augmenting buses with modern tech, similar to Uber Pool but coming from the other direction:
https://medium.com/citymapper/good-bus-part-1-3-77d65e6f8ce3
While I like what The Boring Company is doing, and I personally aspire to one day found a multimillion dollar company based on a joke, I've always found this claim to be a bit disingenuous.

E.g. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Elon-Musk-think-he-can-bore-5...

A large part of the "10x faster" claim is from a 4x speedup from drilling a 4x smaller hole. That's not a boring machine improvement, anyone could drill such a hole with an existing machine. (I've heard the claim "10x cheaper" too). If you make a smaller tunnel with lower throughput than a subway, then you need more of them, so it's not clear to me that you can claim a speed improvement just because you can do one of your tunnels faster. Indeed if you more than halve the throughput by halving the tunnel cross-sectional area, and halving the boring time, then you've made the whole system more time consuming to create.

Another claim is that current tunnel boring machines (TBMs) stop for 50% of the time, to allow the supports to be put in; this will give them another 2x speedup. However a cursory Google search (I'm not an expert in this field) shows that the technology for continuous TBMs already exists [1]. That reference contains a very in-depth video if you want to see exactly how these things work, it's very cool. This machine can apparently do 2.8-12.5m diameter holes, which covers the diameter that TBC is targeting. (As I've fact-checked this point further, the Boring Company's website makes the more restricted claim [2] that "current soft-soil machines tunnel for 50% of the time"; maybe the overly broad claim came from misquotes in the press and not from TBC themselves. I haven't found any soft-soil continuous TBMs yet).

Finally Musk claims that current TBMs are operating well below the thermodynamic maximum, and so he can get another 3x speed boost. On this point I'm not qualified to debate; it seems unlikely that there's that much gain left on the table (surely the TBM companies that currently exist have spent a lot of money plucking the low-hanging fruit of efficiency gains?) but Musk has sent rockets into space so perhaps he knows what he's talking about here.

[1]: https://www.herrenknecht.com/en/products/core-products/tunne...
[2]: https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
I had my tonsils and adenoids removed due to recurring severe infection. Well, actually, the tonsils were removed due to infection, and my adenoids were an "afterthought" because my dad has a history of sleep apnea. I don't have any allergies, and I definitely don't get sick as often as when I was younger-- during which time I was getting all sorts of infections (ear, kidney, eyes, etc.) recurrently.

Anyways. Just another anecdote on the pile.
This is pretty much what Firebase is.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/
Theo is the project leader for OpenBSD.

Last I heard, Cantrill was at Joyent, and worked on IllumOS.

For at least the last few multi-platform bug embargo cycles, people have been chattering about OpenBSD's unwillingness to participate in, or possibly even honor, embargoes.

Theo recently gave a presentation (at BSDCAN, I think?) that he opened by accusing the community at large of defaming OpenBSD's behavior around embargoes, despite OpenBSD project members helping other projects with previous embargoed bugs, then carefully pointed out that OpenBSD wasn't a party to any current embargoes despite reaching out and asking Intel to participate in this current FP bug.

Then he basically "guessed", based on what he says was a very vague rumor, what the FP bug was about.

Now he says Cantrill is, on some forums, accusing Theo or OpenBSD of getting a leak about the actual FP bug, and then helping break the embargo.

I think that about covers it?
A boring machine that could dig 10x as quickly (and hold all other desirable characteristics equal) would save tens of billion of dollars in infrastructure projects around the world and substantially increase the financial viability of tunneling globally. It would totally transform the sector, much more profitability and meaningfully than these tunnels will change transportation.
> I wonder if the chickenwire mesh that holds exterior stucco in place could serve as an effective Faraday cage?

I can confirm that. I've had a shed in the past where I've used chicken wire to secure insulation and it seems to work well, albeit unintentionally at the time.
SpaceX was completely unrealistic. Like we in the aerospace industry thought it was a joke and sat smugly with their string of spectacular failures in the mid '00s. My friend at NASA JSC launch operations especially. Now, he does launch ops at SpaceX.
With the number of preorders, can Tesla claim they are sold as soon as they are manufactured?
2/5. Next time link to http://wgntv.com/2018/02/09/cta-releases-video-of-man-settin... when attempting L scaremongering.
So, basically, roads, except that every lane costs as much as a tunnel of the same length, because, well, it is a tunnel.

(Sorry for the excessive commas.)
At 1000 karma you unlock the ability to post an occasional /.-worthy +2 Funny comment without worrying about the inevitable downvotes.

But really, I do look at people's karma to see if I should take a comment seriously if I'm feeling uncertain about it. People with 2000+ karma are usually worth listening to, even if you don't agree with them.
It’s a shame JFK Jr. didn’t read this.
Sure. That’s impressive work.

The cynic in me though worries that if a TV show can afford to execute like this, what should we expect/fear from state-run psy-ops?
Less then 2 years ago: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
try

pip install --user

or virtualenvs
Here is an example. Start at https://mycloud.com/setup.

Load the web inspector, find and read scanner.js. The Javascript isn't minimized and there are some comments.
I don't but I'm a full-time CFI. It's a good time to be in aviation. There's a shortage of airline pilots, which leads to a shortage of instructors and other commercial pilots (banner towers, skydiving, etc.). Just don't do it for the money. :)
What have AWS dropped RE Amazon Linux 2? (I thought python 3 was supported there via Amazon Linux Extras.)
Parents should simply talk to their kids about things like this. It's called parenting.
As it turns out, tunnel boring isn't rate limited by boring speed, but by the relocation of shit that needs to be bored through like underground utility conduits.

Has Elon's company figured that problem out?
That's insanity. I love Calibre, but under-the-hood it's spaghetti.
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I have one as well, it sits on the desk. Tho I take it if traveling so I can have something powerful nearby and then lug around the chromebook with me. I have a W520 which is the same. I think I carried it less than 5 times before it took it's permanent position at my desk.
The fortunate fact of QUIC is that it's based on encrypted UDP packets, so ISPs will have to adapt to the fact that not randomly dropping encrypted UDP packets is essential to their users' experience.
He's referring to comments I made on lobste.rs.[1]

Those comments speak for themselves; I did not accuse Theo of breaking the embargo -- and to the contrary, I was advocating that OpenBSD be included. But, as I commented on lobste.rs, that Theo has acted irresponsibly has made achieving that inclusion quite a bit more difficult.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/zwkuza/intel_cpus_might_leak_information...
You really really want to believe harassment is not real, but as TFA shows it is a very real problem. I don't know what survey you are referring to which apparently proves harassment is not real?
Tonsils can cause miserable life to suferrers and while they might have negative long term effect, the research does not include the mental issues that recurring tonsils cause.
Haha. "IQ". A numbered score given after answering a few short problems administered in a high-pressure situation. Oh, IQ; woe.

If I take a second to sit down with my peers (20's) and really talk, all sorts of funny things come out of their mouths which really invite me to think about intelligence in a different way. You wouldn't believe the insights-- from every angle possible.

Who gives a damn about IQ anymore? Who is anybody to equate it with intelligence? What is intelligence? I say: you don't know and I don't know, and who cares!
Doesn’t it make it harder? Look at recent Stanford scandals.
I mean if you asked them, they might prefer a helicopter ride or a flying car, but they certainly do use buses and trains. Subway stations without elevators or escalators are not ideal for strollers though.
It lasted as long as Soviet troops were stationed nearby and ready to roll in at a moment's notice. As soon as it became clear that they wouldn't, the Wall fell, and the rest followed. In most places even relatively bloodlessly.

And because you didn't have the Big Terror to the same extent, life in Eastern Europe was quite a bit better than in the USSR. When we visited a friend in Prague in 1985, he had a collection of "anti-soviet" literature (including Kolyma Stories that would be enough to send anyone in USSR reliving Shalamov's experience. And he didn't even hide it...
The code in question unconditionally zeroes the architecturally-visible registers on entry to the syscall path.

If any mis-speculation happens, it has to happen after this point, at which point any user-supplied data left over in the register file isn't accessible to speculated code, because even speculated code can only use architectural names to address registers.
It may not be his goal but he has certainly spoken of his dislike of public transit.
Absolutely agree with #3. R is by far the most accepted and expected implementation language for statisticians. I remember reading a blog post where the author had submitted a manuscript to a statistics journal that ended up being rejected, in part, because he had implemented the code in julia instead of R.

I use python for most things, but there are so many packages that can only be found in R (especially in the bioinformatics world), so it becomes a necessity.
BTW, the way the current economy works is also why revenue of for example Sun and Novell declined quickly. I have an entire paragraph about that in the essay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17308935
You used the word "espionage".

If the LazyFP team wanted to keep Theo quiet, they should have included OpenBSD in the first place. You can't retroactively include them once they figure it out; that's not an embargo, that's omerta.