skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>>> We are having to do research by reading other operating systems.

Si Intel cooperates with business partners like apple/windows and not with open source. Does it mean that Apple and Windows can claim to be more secure because they have access to the information needed to fix Intel's issues ?
Because for the vast majority of software, fast to build is far more important than provably correct.

Because there aren’t any batteries-included RAD frameworks in functional languages yet.

Because most undergrad degrees, if they touch on functional programming at all, do so in only a cursory manner.

Because for most purposes a smart CTO will choose to develop a project in a language/framework that’s good enough and for which it’s relatively easy to hire skilled developers over a language/framework that offers some minor technical advantages but will make hiring even more excruciating than it is for widely-used tools.
Intel Clears Up Microcode Licensing Controversy
This would incentivize people to dish out private information on insecure platforms for the sole purpose of baiting compensation.
That's one of the many techniques journalists use to create false perspective without out right lying.
> If ant colonies depend on MAD for continued existence, it means nothing to us.

But we're not an ant colony to them, we're already using technology that can be used for MAD (sending signals through the sun), and they know it from the start.

> Earth was an un-imaginable eden to Tri-Solaris, it's made clear that they wanted the planet intact.

As far as I understand every planet in the system was heaven for them, the orbit was important. Which is stupid, because you can make anything follow a circular orbit around some star.

> This [flu] requires a much longer timeline as multiple trips are required to carry out the plan.

Why? They have their stealth probe (don't remember how it was called), they can take a look at a spanish influenza or something and pimp it up a little. At worst they then need to send like 1 gram at almost light speed the conventional way - still much easier and faster than sending the armada.

> Given that you are saying they were stupid for not building space habitats, you must not be aware of what actually happened to the Tri-Solarans :).

They were destroyed because their coordinates were broadcasted. As they should expect from the start messing with civilization that broadcasted "hello".

> those space habitats present their own form of danger to their inhabitants. Actually, the danger they pose is worse than existing on a planet.

How? They aren't any less stealthy than sattelites, tv, or radio.
i agree with everything you said except he is a currently supposedly worth 3B which is more than he would have gotten if he sold to facebook -- no?
I read and occasionally translate poetry.

I find that, as a programmer, reading poetry strikes some of the same chords within me as reasoning about code: expressiveness, attention to detail, finding the perfect way to convey complex ideas.

As Norwid puts the latter:

Beyond, above all your charms,
You! poetry, and you, speech! Behold,
Ever the highest will be – this aim:
*To name each matter by its rightful – word!*

(Translated by Danuta Borchardt)
You forgot step zero, which is "find terrible example code on SO and copy it"... then 3 goes back to step 0.
> IMO Lambda calculus should be taught wider in CS programs. It brings useful models, builds (if one likes theory) good background to functional programming paradigms, etc.

I'm surprised than anyone thinks this. Unless you're in a very specialized area, it's about as useful as getting practice with writing algorithms using Turing Machines.

(Yes, it offers a very different perspective to the usual Von Neumann machine, but learning graph reduction as evalation is just as valuable, if not more.)
Exactly. That's what grownups do.
I just tried to recycle my old i7-4770k from my gaming CPU to a home server. Only guess what? The 4770k doesn't have VT-d. The cheaper 4770 does have VT-d, so why did the more expensive, "upgraded" 4770k not have VT-d? Because Intel's product line is a disaster.

We're not talking minor performance differences in features, we're talking features randomly added and removed for no logical reason from the same generation & tier of CPU model.
Here is the paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.01740.pdf

It's fairly short. But it proposes a really interesting question. What happens at the heat death of the universe? If it ends up as a bunch of black holes slowly evaporating from Hawking radiation you're left with just photons and gravitons.

And then if that is what happen, did it happen before the big bang and so could we see evidence of it in the cosmic background radiation. (Sort of a peek at the initial conditions for a very complex differential equation).

The result through a bit of hand waving seems to be perhaps. Clearly more work to be done to follow up but a really interesting approach to the question. I just assume/accepted that anything that happened before the big bang could not possibly have impacted our current universe.
AV1 decoder in WebAssembly
I don't think AMD is impacted by Foreshadow
California would become first state to restrict plastic straws at restaurants
A GraphQL Server Tutorial for Node.js
When Archaeologists Talk Trash (2014)
Offscreen Canvas – Speed Up Canvas with Web Workers
I was surprised. Completely on a different topic though.

I noticed that emoticons were used in git commit message titles as a prefix. I did not know that github rendered those. And using CLI it is still readable:

:wrench: One more Forge fix

EDIT: formatting
I think Google Maps is in a different league when we're talking about actual spyware that means to do you harm. Google just wants to track your location, while this other crap will spam you phone calls and try to brick your phone for money.

I'm all for more freedoms when installing apps, but Google Maps isn't the same as this other shit.
These are great, thanks, I hadn't seen them before.
> Does it mean that Apple and Windows can claim to be more secure because they have access to the information needed to fix Intel's issues ?

They can claim it, but I would trust a Linux or FreeBSD box over MacOS or Windows anytime even if they get some security info before the open source operating systems.
Already the second stuck as either misunderstood or off my experience:
> Moral: Structure data late in the programming process

I value Fred Brooks statement "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."

Defining your data structures well upfront can avoid a lot of mess downstream the project.
> the owner should be allowed (morally) to install software outside the app store

The inability to do this is a feature. I don’t want my phone to run random garbage like Android does. The curated app store is the main reason I keep buying iPhones.
I went 6 years in a row, and I haven't been since they screwed up the ticket system with a lottery, introducing scarcity that wasn't there before and encouraging people to over-buy tickets out of fear and game the lottery website.

In my mind it's turned into a side gag from HBO's Silicon Valley, where entitled tech bros throw money at plug-and-play camps in the hopes of seeing world famous DJs play unannounced sets, so they can post selfies on Instagram.

It's all of that and also none of that. It's the most exhausting vacation.
> The 30% cut they ask of developers is more than reasonable.

If only we could prove this. Ie, is Apple honestly selling $1,200 phones for a loss such that they need to recoup money from the App Store to turn a profit? If they didn't take the %30 cut, would they still be profitable?

I'm not proving a point, simply asking questions I'm curious about. Would be neat if we knew these answers.
Still, you shouldn't be looking down. In addition to taking your eyes off the screen, it also builds a dependence on seeing your finger positions instead of building muscle memory. The recommended method (if you aren't willing to go cold-turkey trial-and-error) is to print out a map of the layout and tape it on the _top_ of your monitor for a few days.
I really think we should ask more of technology rather than to just accept Locked-Thing vs Spy-Thing. It's practically an imposed dichotomy, and people deserve better.
Intel is updating the microcode license to remove questionable restrictions
Other things require sandboxed multitenancy than just full-on VMs. Database queries against a "scale-free" database like BigQuery/Dynamo, for example, where two queries from different tenants might actually be touching the same data, with much the same operations, and therefore you'd (naively) want to schedule them onto the same CPU for cache-locality benefits.
that was Ryan smith. chief editor of anandtech.

https://twitter.com/RyanSmithAT/status/1032546813176307712

and if it was true they would have said so in their reply.
I remember phone numbers only my family members and close friends. I still need to check phone code here https://areaphonecodes.com/india/ to deal the correct number. You will be surprised at how many people don't know their area code.
IoT Messaging with MQTT, CoAP – Experfy
I remembered the term prohibiting adding restrictive terms, but forgot the “if you got an additional restrictive term, you can release it.”

That strictly doesn't prohibit GPLv3 + Commons Clause as an original license, but would seem to make it functionally equivalent to bare GPLv3.
I've worked for multinational multi billion dollar corporations - a certain level of institutional incompetence is honestly the norm.
The specific use case for equal temperament is more or less how do make a fixed tuning instrument sound "good enough", without resorting to a very large amount of keys or buttons to adjust the tuning so the chords sound right. Although it was developed around Western music, I don't think that Western scales per se are necessarily the constraining factor.

Certainly just intonation sounds more pure on a fixed tuning instrument if you play within the constraints of the tuning ratios chosen. Step outside those constraints, and the sound is usually pretty awful.

12TET also has some "musical usefulness" on its own. The system introduced a sort of tonal ambiguity in modulation -- the commas that normally result in a more just / Pythagorean type style (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_(music)) get "blurred", and this is a characteristic musicians can exploit. Furthermore, in my experience, for sounds with lots of overtones (sawtooth synth waves, distorted guitars, etc.), that slightly detuned third in a 12TET trichord ends up sounding "thicker" for a lack of a better word, with the detuned beating more adding to the texture. This is best heard on a synthesizer where it's easy to flip between two tunings: to me, that, say, 1980s "power chord sawtooth stab" type of sound just doesn't sound as "thick" in just tuning, in my opinion. (In fact, when programming a synthesizer, people often slightly detune oscillators for this exact same reason!)

Nonetheless, it would be interesting if more "adaptive" type just intonation type systems came out that more approximate what non-fixed pitch instruments do (adjusting the notes to a "correct" your tuning during any modulation). Pure sounding triads also are useful, and you really can't do it super exact with 12TET, it's always "good enough". :) Hermode tuning is the only major one I know of, it is implemented in some synthesizers and DAWs. I haven't tried it yet -- my bet is you still would be a bit constrained (no dramatic 20th century classical type of chromatic modulation or the like), but you'll gain some freedom to modulate compared to a fixed just tuning setting.
I am excited for there to be competition in this area, but articles like this continue to remind me how far ahead Waymo appears to be. I can only imagine that driverless taxis as a service is going to be a winner-take-all industry, and Waymo's lead seems to only be increasing, at least measured by number of miles driven.
I guess one of the main gotchas with this is you can't have interactivity due to no access to DOM events, like mouse clicks, taps?
1) My ISP got a hefty chunk of my tax dollars to run those lines.

2) They have a monopoly. Rules are different for monopolies.
Everybody Dance Now - Transfer Motion from One Person to Another Using AI
Imad Sousou - "We have simplified the Intel license to make it easier to distribute CPU microcode updates and posted the new version here: http://bit.ly/2w9RjtM . As an active member of the open source community, we continue to welcome all feedback and thank the community. #IAmIntel"

https://twitter.com/imadsousou/status/1032680311753072640
> To me, the fundamental idea of the event is that we’ve become divorced from the act of creation and civic participation due to being enmeshed in a highly commodified, transactional society and that it’s worth trying to address that. Most people can’t use a torque-driver or recognize a turnbuckle.

Why is a physical space needed for this? Wouldn't it be immensely more efficient to have a forum where you teach everyone how to type <ctrl-shift-c> in their browser to inflate the work shed hidden there?

Throwing a web animation to slowly rotate Google's search page around for eternity seems a way more practical expression of the reach of the power of human creativity than giving random people torque-drivers and turnbuckles.

It's also less of a risk if those people happen to be high at the time.

Also, there's no practical attack where highway patrol can show up and throttle the forum traffic to generate quick cash by arresting all the stoners.
> Your mileage may vary

Not anymore, thanks to your report :)
They are complaining because that works: they are granted more visas for foreign workers.

The success of complaining means that there is no shortage and thus no need to raise the pay.
One of the big things was simply the touch screen. No-one else was using that tech at the time and it was light-years better than the existing tech. Turned it from nice in theory to actually usable.
Yes, also this one, which is for microtonal piano (also in JI):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkaGm8B8CZI
Final Report – Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian
They made a bet that the platform was worth more than any individual app. Seems to be working out so far. Prove 'em wrong.
[ marc.info not responding for me, found post linked elsewhere. Edited due to markdown.

URL: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Disable-SMT-Hypert...

Here it is: ]

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Title: Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes

Posted by Theo de Raadt-2 on Aug 23, 2018; 11:35am

Two recently disclosed hardware bugs affected Intel cpus:

- TLBleed

- T1TF (the name "Foreshadow" refers to 1 of 3 aspects of this bug, more aspects are surely on the way)

Solving these bugs requires new cpu microcode, a coding workaround, AND the disabling of SMT / Hyperthreading.

SMT is fundamentally broken because it shares resources between the two cpu instances and those shared resources lack security differentiators. Some of these side channel attacks aren't trivial, but we can expect most of them to eventually work and leak kernel or cross-VM memory in common usage circumstances, even such as javascript directly in a browser.

There will be more hardware bugs and artifacts disclosed. Due to the way SMT interacts with speculative execution on Intel cpus, I expect SMT to exacerbate most of the future problems.

A few months back, I urged people to disable hyperthreading on all Intel cpus. I need to repeat that:

DISABLE HYPERTHREADING ON ALL YOUR INTEL MACHINES IN THE BIOS.

Also, update your BIOS firmware, if you can.

OpenBSD -current (and therefore 6.4) will not use hyperthreading if it is enabled, and will update the cpu microcode if possible.

But what about 6.2 and 6.3?

The situation is very complex, continually evolving, and is taking too much manpower away from other tasks. Furthermore, Intel isn't telling us what is coming next, and are doing a terrible job by not publically
documenting what operating systems must do to resolve the problems. We are having to do research by reading other operating systems. There is no time left to backport the changes -- we will not be issuing a complete set of errata and syspatches against 6.2 and 6.3 because it is turning into a distraction.

Rather than working on every required patch for 6.2/6.3, we will re-focus manpower and make sure 6.4 contains the best solutions possible.

So please try take responsibility for your own machines: Disable SMT in the BIOS menu, and upgrade your BIOS if you can.

I'm going to spend my money at a more trustworthy vendor in the future.
I do both. I have about 20% of my net worth in individual stocks, the rest in low cost index funds/ETFs.

The biggest gains and losses, of course, obviously come from individual stocks (and options, if you're feeling brave.) You're not going to see triple digit yearly returns with a mutual fund. You might find it on the next SaaS growth stock.

When you're young, you should absolutely take on some risk. (That includes working at startups!)
correct, you wouldn't want to get caught.

either way, the US federal criminal charge of money laundering is heavily misunderstood by the public. people are uneasy at merely moving their own money, let alone watching someone else potentially obfuscate the origin of the money.

obfuscating the origin isn't illegal

the US federal money laundering requires the origin itself to be illicit AND THEN for it to be obfuscated

so the government would already have to weigh what happened at the origin, they'd also have to know about the origin, and yeah in this one case it would have implications on the how smart contract intent is formed

sure, you don't want to be the experiment, but its already a tall order to get there. save some money for appeals court.
One word, laziness.
> I'd like to provide my anecdotal evidence from a 26 year old American white male making $37,000 per year in NYC:

Man. My starting salary after college was $75K and I felt like a peasant. I don't know how you survive on $37K. But NYC is a big place. A dollar goes a lot further in Jamaica or Yonkers than in Manhattan.

> Parking tickets, identity thieves, regulations that hurt small businesses, crowding in cities, crazy drivers on the road, being taken to court for nearly anything...

The worst is dog feces everywhere. Nothing ruins my day more than a large pile of dog feces and a trail of dog feces shoeprints.
They would have to have a monopoly first, yes? Otherwise you're just asking for tighter regulations across the board.
I agree with the English Lit major. No education is complete without a healthy lack of respect for the same. "Healthy" being the key word.
"Women laughing alone with salad" is a meme. If you look through magazines targeted at women, they're full of images of a woman holding a salad in one hand and a fork in the other and laughing at something the viewer has to guess at. There's an entire blog devoted to it[0].

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/women-laughing-alone-with-sal...
Google Answers
What would you call it? Imagine it's not just a publisher to Google, but you could land on the directory through a domain. Something about being a planetary directory.
Yeah, agreed.

A lot of computer knowledge comes from trying something, failing, and then learning how to recover.

I learned a lot from bricking my laptop in my early teens downloading roms and warez, and then understanding whats safe and what's not, and with little long term consequences.
She is luckily okay with it, and supports me :) our relationship is currently better than ever!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07371.pdf
They could sue Github's parent company for hosting it.
Is Fake News Website YourNewsWire Being Throttled to Death by Facebook?
They will enforce on anyone that won't make international headlines by punting from app store, which is to say 99.99% of developers.
Building a Search-Engine Optimized PWA with Angular – Part 1
The Fahrenheit 451 analogy sort of falls apart though when they give open access to the internet via Safari. What Apple does with the App Store is maintain a safe & friendly environment for users, where they can trust they won't run into things like viruses or pornography. This creates a healthy market for developers who don't necessarily have the notoriety of a Netflix / Spotify / Amazon to push their product, and instead rely at least somewhat on organic App Store searches to be discovered.

So if these larger companies want to bypass that sales funnel, and they can afford to do so, it's not a huge deal. They're still providing value to the platform in making iOS a better experience. The 30% cut is something along the lines of "Hey, we spend a lot of time maintaining this market place so that users will trust the download button, and we're giving you this opportunity to benefit from that by paying us a cut so you too can benefit from being found organically via our curated market place."

From the standpoint of a fledgling app company, I'd rather pay them to maintain that sales funnel for me. Whereas a Netflix / Amazon already has the brand strength to where they don't need it, so the 30% is very expensive for them (because they can generate plenty of sales on their own, and aren't reliant on organic searches for users to discover their product).

On Google Play, the market is very different and since it's not curated, there is so much more fluff to sift through for users, and it makes it much harder for a brand to gain notoriety through Google Play alone -- hence why so many new app products start on iOS and then grow into Android. The sales funnel created by any non-curated market place will never be as strong as a curated one (assuming the curation is carried out in the interest of promoting welfare of the customers/users on the platform, their privacy, safety, satisfaction, etc.).
I solve my vendor lock in problem by ask having SmartThings. In fact, I have a zwave Schlage lock. My point wasn’t to go with Lutron for everything, but that when it comes to dimmers I haven’t found anything better.
I am surprised it has only doubled in 3 years. I feel like every company thinks they need a data scientist, and AI/ML is listed on every one of those postings. Plus almost every startup job listing I see has ML as one of their "differentiators"...
Makes you wonder what WordPress itself would look like if it went this 'freemium' route. Probably something like:

Free core
$10 for comments
$10 for user accounts
$10 for post types
$10 for the theme customiser... well maybe that's one less of an issue

Etc

Plus god knows how many banners and ads stuck all around the dashboard. Yeah, it's not a great situation, and it definitely feels like a lot of major plugin creators are either spamming the hell out of their uses or nickle and diming them for every little 'feature' they can think of.

Still, I guess it could be worse. Some open source scripts (looks at OpenCart) and many paid ones (looks at IPB and XenForo) seem to have communities where every little thing in the plugin directory has a price attached to it. Definitely feels like the community spirit has mostly died out and been replaced by a bunch of agencies pumping out plugins like they're in some of gold rush.
He or she is probably just young. No one who was there would ask a question like that, even rhetorically.

Sadly, people have forgotten how much life sucked for mobile developers before the iPhone. Apple's contribution is reflected in various peoples' prejudices and agendas, but not in history books. Only Nixon could go to China, and only Jobs could have stared down AT&T from a position of weakness.

I'm not an Apple partisan, and I'm definitely not going to defend the concept of locking a general-purpose computing platform away from its own users, but I'll always give him credit for that.