skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most if not all research that are widely pitched to the media have some sort of agenda driving them.

In this case we have invasive surveillance from Chrome and Android which is not a secret and cause of growing concern.
As is deceptive communication about 'improving user experience' which is meaningless without specifics and is intentionally used to mislead, and downright fraud with 'location buttons' that do not turn off location.

The fact that you didn't seek to engage these points and immediately sought to question motives betrays an agenda.

Unfortunately these are unethical actions whoever does the research and this kind apologism seeks to derail discussion and distract from the creepy behavior of bad actors.
Even more Chinese crypto regulations on the way?
I would go a bit further and say that this is a terrible job description. The fact that it is so broad about the product let alone the position is a big red flag.

1) Either they can't describe what they are doing (bad, how do you find customers then?)
2) Or they do anything and everything (worse, if there is no goal, there can be no drive)

I want my work to mean something. I want to be able to say things like: "I help people to book taxis in an accountable way" (Uber)
I would argue that mod is more intuitive. I imagine the integers being partitioned into contiguous bins of size b, and computing a % b means counting which index in the bin it is. This can be done visually too!
I'd say that it is related to L1TF, but not to keep it secret. It's additional ammunition to use in court when they get sued for performance loss.

> Cloud Company: Your honor, the security flaws in the hardware and microcode provided by the defendant necessitated the installation of updates, also provided by defendant, which resulted in a 30% loss of overall performance. Since our business model is predicated on selling the processing power of computers that have CPUs manufactured by defendant installed, they are liable for this loss in productivity.

> Intel: Your honor, plaintiff could not possibly prove any loss in productivity. If you'll examine Exhibit A, the Intel microcode EULA, you will see that it expressly prohibits benchmarking. Whether plaintiff is claiming they did these benchmarks themselves or a third party did them is immaterial because our license expressly forbids doing so. Plaintiffs need to show a loss of productivity without relying on performance benchmarks and therefore need to show that the workloads prior to and after the microcode has been installed are equivalent and that the results are detrimental.

Now, I don't expect most judges would go for it since EULAs are notoriously weak, but it does give them ammunition to impugn the evidence. It's always possible a judge or jury would listen to that.
That is completely different from formal verification. Simple testing is something all researchers that I know do, quite extensively actually.
Yup, I work 35-40 hours a week, outside of emergencies and legislative deadlines.
I assume that the robots are god-level last-hitters and farmers. perfect farming efficiency is enough to beat 99% of human teams. most players struggle to get 50 last hits in the first phase of the game, nevermind actually get every single piece of eligible farm.

edit: i would also expect that the robots are deny nazis, who severely crimp the farming of anyone who opposes them in the lane.
When i finished high school and had no money, I actually volunteered specifically because my needs were not met and I had no resources, so I needed to get my foot in the door. It actually tends to work the opposite of how you think. There's no way in hell I will volunteer if I can just laze around with my money all day.
Saying 200ms flat reaction time is "human level" is really unfair. That is raw reaction time when a is human paying attention for a stimulus, like in a reaction time test.

Lets look at casting a spell in a Dota. First I need to perceive my target. Then I need to move my mouse to the target, which is error prone. Then I need to press a button and click. Even for a human with extremely fast reaction time, this targeting phase will put you above 200ms easily, even if your perceptual reaction time was only 200ms.

The OpenAI bots don't have to target. They process their input, and take an action in just 200ms.

There may be situations where a human can make predictions, pretarget something and get a true 200ms reaction time, but in the general case 200ms is super human by a significant margin.
Usually photocopies/print outs aren't admissible as proof of address. At least that has been my experience with credit cards and opening investment accounts.
I think the point is that there is more to 'class' than money. If you're a single income family in a low cost part of the country where the working person is pulling in $100k working 40 hours a week in a stable and secure job, then you're definitely upper middle class.

If on the other hand you're a dual income family in one of the more expensive parts of the country and both of you work 60 hour weeks in a very insecure job market to clear a combined $100k then you're probably not upper middle class.
I generally agree with this. And maybe WASM will offer some new options here, such that native code can now target the browser. That will give us different options for targeting all platforms, possibly allowing for a world where cross platform development doesn’t come at the cost of memory and performance.

We’ll see.
Black Sheep – Kara Koyun (2006) Filmi Izle HD
Bare with me before downvoting (or at least write why).

At the beginning, patents were very similar to FLOSS.

Before patents, blueprints were kept secret, mechanical design was sometimes unnecessarily complex as a form of obfuscation and if someone was able to reverse engineer a product they could copy it without giving attribution.

After patents, blueprints were publicly accessible for a reasonable fee, obfuscation was less common, attribution was given and both derivative and new designs were patented as well and therefore accessible. (Sounds like GPL?)

Patents would expire in an amount of time that, at the time, was deemed reasonable. This increased competition, knowledge sharing and helped innovation.

Today's patents (especially software ones) and copyright have the opposite effect due to high costs, legal risk, absurdly long expiration times and the ability to patent obvious or old ideas.
This is nifty. I'm kind of surprised Google hasn't flagged you for being a bot, doing all these queries.

There's a typo while querying: "quering"
I'm not aware of one, but the Lobsters codebase with very similar functionality is available if you'd like to start one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

You can get help in #lobsters on Freenode. If you know Rails, deploying to Heroku is an afternoon job; using the provided ansible scripts on a bare VPS is a day or two.

I'd strongly recommend checking out the moderation at https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview. They deal with difficult political topics on a daily basis and generally have very high-quality discussion.
Upon reading that, my idea is that that person had too high a workload to do it all the “right” way, was learning on the job, or both. They might realize it all could be more clean and proper, but not have the ability to make that investment in fixing their technical debt.

On my own code, every time I have gone in and thought I was going to fix it by refactoring or rewrites, I slowly and sometimes tragically re-learn all of the edge cases I was writing around and frustrating things I discovered when I was writing it in the first place. There may be non-obvious problems regarding other peoples’ APIs, for instance, that necessitate methods which appear to be poor practice from the outside.
Google set to expand South Carolina data centre with $600mn investment
Voting is an area where we don't need automation or fast results. Typically a newly elected person doesn't take office for days or months after an election, right?

Paper ballots cannot be hacked at scale.

Properly designed paper ballots and a national design and education rolled out about them would propel us forwards as a nation.
I wouldn't move to Berlin, so that's an issue. For such locations only option is to have occasional travel like once a month or two and work remotely.
The same can be said about the opposite: allow immigrants to take up the lowest jobs thinking it'll provide a decent life. That is a lie, and steals that opportunity of a decent life from others too.
13xx, 15xx, 17xx, ThreadRipper.

For gen 2, that'd be:

23xx, 25xx, 27xx, ThreadRipper.

I think they picked the names/numbers to show some kind of equivalence with i3/5/7, but that's not quite it.
You're not easy to replace if you follow this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781475
Nice AGI
Hm. I used to run an experiment at an Engineering Fair at school. Oscilloscope, random pulse, trigger button, time the reaction time. Some fast kids could get it down to the double-digits, even 20-30 ms, pressing that button after seeing the pulse. If I remember right.
There had been many times I've started in the morning, expecting to work on the results of whatever process I left to run, only to be greeted with an empty desktop.

When I review the update settings, they're as negative as I can make them.

I shouldn't complain too much, sometimes it kindly starts Visual Studio for me, saving me 20 seconds.

It could have asked, or even warned that I'd be wasting my time setting up the nightly job, only for it to be cancelled midway through for little reason.

Basically, it's just a consumer OS, and shouldn't be used for actual work.
Who exactly would continue the development in this case? Weren't Redis Labs the biggest contributor here?
[StackExchange] How many iterations of Rabin-Miller?
Everyone Googles and SOs. The work is too vast and varied, and the timelines have the baked in assumption that you're not reinventing the wheel. You are expected to accelerate through reusd and acquired knowledge.

I need someone who knows PHP syntax and knows what to Google for when they're staring at a problem they don't know off the top of their head.
Growing number of professionals face job insecurity, study finds
Exactly right! Prosperity doesn't mean anything without security. It does't mean anything if you know that you can lose it all the moment you exhale, or you could lose it all by getting sick. DH Lawrence wrote about this the last time inequality was this high (1928).

https://kalliope.org/en/text/lawrence2001061123
Here's a famous TED talk by Hans Rosling that shows a lot of the trends continuing into the last few decades: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_...
Top 5 Instagram marketing tips for business
As far as know there are zero applications on the client or desktop side that can take advantage of FPGA.
UK Labour Leader proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook
Electron allows small teams to focus their most costly investment on developing toward one product being developed across many platforms.

At the cost of battery life and memory usage for the users....
I would be most interested in how much they pay. For right money I could develop most boring apps that other coders would die of boredom reading specs.
Where is this definition coming from?

Merriam-Webster says "software designed to interfere with a computer's normal functioning". Wiktionary: "Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner". Etymologically, it means software that is malevolent.

This app collects data in a malevolent/undesirable way. It clearly tries to interfere with the personal data of the user and hence the intended functioning of the computer. Hence a malware.
Its a fact of life in this country that your opinion about the ACA depends a lot on where you get your news and your own interactions with the health care system.

I'm fortunate to live in a populous area of a state that wholeheartedly adopted its own exchange. There are plenty of good choices available. When my employer ran out of money and went out of business a few years ago, I could afford a plan for my family that was far cheaper than COBRA. We got affordable health care through the exchange until I could land a regular job.

But many people don't. There are a growing number of markets that aren't offering ACA plans at all. Other markets are seeing 20% y/y growth in their prices. In short, the ACA is failing. You can be mad about that all you want to, but it doesn't change the fact that being afraid of the ACA is totally rational.
Finding Records That Don't Exist in PostgreSQL
Eating chinese with a large group is done at the restaurant. Food is at the utmost importance. If you are willing to go eat worse food for better service then you should not be rating restaurants.
I thought some female mules were fertile.

eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3378453/
I wonder what the folks over at top500.org will think of that?
That was fast!
Yes, but a tiny percentage. A lot of spam. (_A lot of spam._) Tons of recruiting services. 80% of people obviously didn't read the post.

That said, I have hired a few amazing people, including some great technical leaders, that would have cost 15-20% salary to use a recruiter to find & snipe (this was before I had internal recruiters to help).

I use a separate email alias for it, and have a few canned responses (1/ you didn't read the job post 2/ I said we cannot do visas or major relocations, but you're in Greenland 3/ too junior, but please keep an eye on future posts) to keep things efficient.
oh yeah i forgot laptops.
Hm interesting, I read that he had some quirks regarding his writing and some crypted texts, I glanced over the papers and didn't see that particular sentence.
Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers
My apologies, you're right about laptops.
Bell Labs invented Google, Facebook, etc? Wow, did not know that.

But as you say, the labs were a very small, independent part of a very big corporation, which is likely why they did interesting things. The other thing is that they were forced by the government to license transistor patents to others, who actually created almost everything else.

By your theory the military invented the internet, so they invented the modern world. A huge and wasteful military is the key!
This might be a good fit for the monthly Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?. It shows up on the first business day of each month.

This (August, 2018) month's, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663078
> I'm seriously considering AMD for the graphics card too (currently running a GTX 970)

Me too. I was running Intel+Nvidia rigs for about ten years, up until last year, when I got a Ryzen 1800X and (this year) a Radeon 7970. Nvidia hasn't been the most ethically behaved as of late (whether it's more or less than Intel, I haven't figured out). Intel will be releasing a discrete GPU in a year or two; who knows how fast it will be, or if they will allow people to benchmark it.
That must surely be a parody account?
My Journey to TDD: Red Red Green
> OK, but I don't know what WeWork is

I agree with the rest of what you say, but WeWork is famous enough that they should be able to use it in a job posting, for example this article over WeWork [0] was on the front page 13 days ago

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732332
Because international waters aren't a free-for-all zone, and subject to various treaties/UN conventions. The International Seabed Authority.
Thank you very much, this is some fantastic content!
The last image in the post, which is in section 1.3.2.2, has an image formed from random numbers. For some definition of random. I imagine you would get different results by choosing how the randomness is applied.
While I don't use FB, I absolutely, 100% would not use any government social networks, out of both principal and pragmatism, period.

Money would be better spent on building statues of Ed Miliband. And that's saying something.
New Web Security Scanner Completely FREE OF CHARGE
This might be a good fit for the monthly Ask HN: Who Wants to be Hired?. It shows up on the first business day of each month.

This (August, 2018) month's, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663079
Show HN: CoinBoard – realtime cryptocurrency prices across exchanges
I hope this means you did not end up on all the crackpot sites that runs counter to any sane scientific approach and runs their arguments based on refuting existing research based on incompleteness and plain disbelief ? Do you have some credible information, or are they secret ?
So... anyone want to link to some benchmarks hosted somewhere Intel can't mess with? I have Tor Browser.
The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains
Home Office immigration and some other processes can insist on "originals", even when no originals exist because they were sent electronically.
> you think it’s legal and no problem as long as they don’t take anything

Not only that, they can move in!

Here in Belgium a young couple left the country to do volunteering work only to hear from friends back home that gypsies had squatted their house. Official reaction of the mayor of Ghent was "I can't do anything about it ... it's complicated"

Obviously breaking & entering is a crime but if you're "living" there, only the courts can kick you out after following all the necessary legal steps.

UK has (had) similar squatting laws but afaik those were mainly (ab)used in the 90s to throw parties in abandoned warehouses.
I'm willing to believe this was a typo.
This would depend heavily on weather. Not everybody is living in California. There are places when you need five different pairs of footwear just to survive a year. Some might last, some won't. Throw someting in to wear indoors.
Yes, survey data. And to be clear, the world value survey has asked questions covering racism. In particular:

"Would you accept someone of a different race as a neighbour?"

and

"How often do you see racist behaviour in your neighbourhood?"

You could also look at mobility of foreign workers of as opposed to native workers of a similar background. Unfortunately the world value survey results don't really support your case. You'd want the racism broken down by ethnicity I guess if you believe that the Japanese are particularly racist against other Asians.

The refugee figures help support the idea that Japan is more racist (Japan accept far fewer refugees than other countries), but as this is a political issue, rather than based on the reaction of individual Japanese people, it's harder to draw conclusions from this.

But yes, I don't really find a comment by an individual, or unquantified data from wikipedia very compelling.
If we’re sharing then:

* jiaba: for taiwanese food

* orient: best dimsum

* joyluck: good hotpot
Read "The Clean Coder." Robert Martin addresses this very issue directly. He mentions some modem code that was hideous, but worked very effectively. Knowing that code doesn't last very long before having to be replaced, he realized that it wasn't worth the confusion. Look just a bit longer term than your first year or two: will this code end up being overcome by events within that timeframe? If so, don't mess with it.
I don't think setting up and configuring Jamstack is within the realm of understanding of the majority of Medium users. Most indie publishers are "non-technical".
^ This

DoTA is incredibly complicated, and has more compounding interest towards tactical strategy + gameplay + teamwork + skill execution, more so than battle royale.

In battle royale, if you played awful you just die. Then you start a new game. With DoTA that death impacts your game in the long run, putting your team at a disadvantage, since you just fed their carry. But comebacks do happen though

Going to DoTA TI:2 internationals, where all the major esports teams compete is different than anything else you've ever experienced.

Its like going to the superbowl. Except, everyone knows how to play football, usually on an average / above-average level. But, instead of a few hours, its 8+ hours, for 7+ days. It gets EXTREMELY intense, just because you because you can relate to how difficult manuveurs are, and it isn't dictated by things like how much weight you can squat in football (For faster sprinting / agility, etc). There's many little minor mental and physical gymnastics that DoTA2 pro players do 100xs better than your average player.

Comparing this to Fortnite competitive mode, its not the same. Its more closely tied to watching something with less strategical depth, such as tennis. Tennis is still exciting for its own reasons, but its mostly skill based execution, and mostly a solo game. Even if you played 2v2.

I watch both fortnite and dota2 competitive every so often
Same here in the UK. There's only been one or two times when they've messed up and a next day prime delivery has taken an extra day.
There are also high taxes in Europe so you must account for that. Then Europe salaries look even less attractive...
I don't have much interest in clothes or shoes but I do have too many DIY gadgets and an 18 month old Rasberry Pi still in its wrapping :-).
My favorite story about that: I worked in furnace optimization, giant electric arc furnaces that use half the electrical capacity of a small town generation plant. These things use 'pencil leads' the width of a child, meters long, that strike an electric spark an inch or two in diameter and 12 inches long, from the probe to the pile of recycled steel in the crucible. Melt it for new steel.

Anyway we had a PC running an optimization on the arc length, probe distance etc to get the best instantaneous coupling, trying to save electricity by putting the energy into the steel (to melt it) instead of burning up the probe, creating heat etc.

One morning the plant called, had run overnight but sometime in the late night the thing stopped adjusting, ran 20 minutes before they noticed without moving the probe or adjusting the current. Just sat there burning up carbon and making heat.

You can see where this was going. Investigated, and the PC had gone into 'power save' mode, suspended the app, gone dark. Leaving the probe at whatever setting it was at.

I estimated at the time, that the power wasted during those 20 minutes was more than all the electricity ever saved worldwide by Windows 'power save' feature. Yes, it would have been better had Microsoft Never Invented Power Save, than to have had that incident.

You can say it was our fault, guy installing didn't remember to disable power save. But still, people do things like that. I prefer to blame the computer.
Wow...can easily call out @dhh for "unsuccessful" attempts at various endeavors, but fails to recognize his impact on the very industry this guy works in? Basecamp, being around since 1999 with 50 ish employees and contributed heavily to the remote work culture. 17 years profitable is nothing to sneeze at either.

I'd call a guy who can even try to be a race car driver in his spare time immensely successful.
Certain types of athletic shoes wear out long before they start to fall apart. Some people might replace their shoes to avoid injury or for performance reasons.
Needs gender breakdown and controlling for outliers: Imelda Marcos' 1000 pairs of shoes should not be counted, but most of the fancier ladies' formal shoes have very short lifetimes.
Consumer Mistrust in IOT Devices Grows as Failures Increase
read through it. that is nice. thank you for sharing that! do believe am going to implement that for my team.
Remote work will someday change this but boy is that change slow to occur!!
It's shocking how far the overton window on privacy has shifted in just 10 years. Bonzi Buddy and it's ilk were generally considered malware and frequently chided on the internet at the time.

Now people defend almost the same practices (in a nicer package) on Hacker News.

We are truly fucked.
I'm sick of this kind of restrictions from anybody. They are obviously blind to the reputation damage they inflict on themselves.

Regardless, what would be a compelling reason for which I should buy from Intel again? What kind of credibility do they build for themselves?