skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one thinks about it, a properly used social network also doesn't need proof-of-work, because it has social proof. If three people you trust have spent 2 years regularly liking posts from a fourth account you can be quite sure that fourth account is no fake.
Plain text version here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvdan/talks/master/2018/go....

Also, it is an issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27026. Marked as "help wanted".
To be fair, most people make the decision about where they go to school (and along with that, how much it costs) when they are barely adults and don't have a good grasp on finance. At least part of the blame falls on parents, and teachers who point them to expensive schools, and our culture which has praised expensive schools as a positive thing for a long time. I'm hoping the next generation will get better guidance.
Note that Guix is to Nix as GuixSD is to NixOS.

Guix and Nix are package/configuration managers; GuixSD and NixOS are operating systems based on those package managers.
"Both parties are at fault".

Or we can have a tuition-free public education system like we used to. But you know...
Same thing happens w8tg a bankrupt business...
As someone who worked his way through college almost 100%, I have very little sympathy for people who take on huge debts in order to pay for their so-called education. Be smart with taking on any debt, understand how it ties your hands! You only have yourself to blame. And I'm not saying don't do it necessarily, but at least try, try to understand how loans work, what you're getting yourself into, and if you can't articulate how it serves your long-term plans, then for the love of Jesus (or whoever) DON'T DO IT!!!!!
Because MPX is a terrible feature that no compiler vendor knows how to make use of. By contrast, ARM PAC is relatively simple and obvious in operation.

Killing MPX is the right decision.
Have database replicas that only listen to INSERT statements (easy to implement in My/Maria SQL with BEFORE triggers), and design the software that works with the DB as append-only.
The bar to entry for nukes is a bit higher than drones. There are already a myriad of drone hobbyists that do very impressive things at very impressive long ranges. RasPi's are getting cheaper and more powerful. I can imagine street gangs renting drones from geeks for all manor of news worthy events.

[Edit] Did I just create a DarkWeb business model?
I am so tired of the "Millennials are lazy and make bad decisions" narrative. You can't make blanket statements about an entire generation. Please stop.
The other open secret is that intelligence services in most countries have no where near the number of people they need to listen to all the taps they have, let alone comprehend it all. And because the people they're surveilling almost certainly know that they're being surveilled all the information has to be treated as potentially suspect because it could be manipulated.

Plus, the people being spied upon have their own misconceptions, agendas, and potentially warped ideologies that confound everything. Wrap this all in a bureaucratic malaise with much-too-small-to-compete salary caps and intelligence is way less effectually than people think.
Anyone else left wondering if the hand really was red in the photo?
Not necessarily. Think of git. Git is not a blockchain. If a rogue developer deletes code and/or rewrites history and forces a push, I will know and can undo that rather easily.
Also weird that in the very first picture they added a blue lake (next to Pyramid Lake) that is currently and has been dry for a while... I guess they're betting on rain?
I think a big part of the problem is an asymmetry of how good things and bad things tend to happen. A terrorist attack might take place in minutes; building a strong community takes years of small efforts, no one of which might be 'newsworthy.'

As a result, I find obituaries to be a great source of 'good news,' rounding up awesome work by an individual that perhaps played out over decades. It would be interesting to see some 'living obituaries' to capture some of this awesome work in a way which lets the perpetrators enjoy it a bit. (I guess major awards do this; but would be cool to see it on a weekly publication scale.)
Why should I bother with a red herring? We were discussing programming and not computer science.
Leave it to fanboys to see “relentless negativism” in legitimate criticism.
The Seneca Native in 1908 example seems the most absurd to me. I know the software has no notion of a "fabric" or "clothing" but it's very rare for brown or beige things to fade to blue (or vise versa). In real life things when transition from brown/beige to another color that other color tends to be a red orange or yellow. I know from the known issue that it likes blue but it still seems very odd that it chose to fade from brown to blue like that.
This is mentioned in "known issues" and near "Generator Loss"
One way to deal with them: if you have some software package you only want to build as quick as possible and don't want to bother with any nix stuff, spawn an Ubuntu (or any other distro if the package has instructions for a certain distro) docker container and build the app within that. (Or use steam-run from NixOS which is basically an Ubuntu container)

This also has the advantage that you can use the exact same distribution that the instructions for said package mention. (If the thing you want to compile has instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 no problem just use the docker image for that)

For anything that you want to use on a regular basis, creating a nix package is pretty easy most of the time. If you only want to build a newer version of a package directly from git, you can even copy the package for the stable version and just overwrite the src in many cases.

Regarding software that works on NixOS but not on other distros I think it's usually the other way around: by testing your software on NixOS you uncover issues that would have made your software less portable (hidden dependencies, hardcoded path assumptions, ...)
Student loans always did feel kind of predatory to me. We're asking 17 or 18 year olds whose brains haven't fully developed the ability to prioritize long term consequences to take on 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars in debt when in many cases, they don't even know their path through college (major etc).

Now don't get me wrong, I don't have some sort of magic plan to fix this (maybe allow them to declare bankruptcy would be a start?) but the whole industry just felt a little predatory to me.
Bad experience in the past probably.
Also this probably just leads to the official recommendation to disable Hyper-Threading "for security critical applications" or some PR blurb.
The problem is that the market is not great at solving "Tragedy of the Commons" situations. The ideal solution, IMO, is to agree a cap on CO2 emmissions, but make them tradable, so that the market can be used to figure out the most efficient way to limit the emissions.
If Clinton got in we were basically 100% going to war with Russia since she promised to create a no fly zone in Syria. I consider that a win. Not getting into a nuclear exchange with NK is also a plus.

Trump is actually punishing China for the first time in decades. With Bolsonaro in office in Brazil we now control 80%+ of world soybean and corn production, meaning we can effectively starve China into compliance if necessary

Economy is doing well, wage growth is above inflation for the first time in decades, 3.1% as of today's jobs report.
As a foreigner I don't get it. Why are students allowed to get a debt that they can't pay. Why they take it?
It's a time-honered tradition.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-17/how-britain-tried-inf...
You're 100% right but the problem is that society will ultimately collapse because of those indoctrinated students. It's probably too late to reverse course. We should've paid more attention 30 years ago.
So basically Lambda?
It's worth noting this isn't the best method of doing it. Some people like to make personal YouTube playlists, and they like to include, or sometimes specifically add Patreon reward unlisted videos to their playlists. They then forget to list their playlist as private, meaning it's discoverable via a youtube search.
Basically timing attacks are completely unavoidable on SMT because SMT fundamentally depends on what the other thread is doing on the core, if the thread is using few core resources the attack thread gets more, or vice versa. This gives you a very fine grained view into what the other thread is doing timing wise, and is inherent to the concept of SMT (two threads running on a core at once, using resources not utilized by the other).

I suspect this issue is completely impossible to resolve in anything except very constrained situations that negate the benefit of SMT entirely.

Its different than say, a timing attack on the OS scheduler for two reasons

1. OS scheduling is very coarse (A process gets exclusive use of a core for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cycles), with SMT you get a very fine grained near cycle-by-cycle view of core utilization by the other process.

2. you don't get much of a view into what precisely the other thread is doing such as is it doing lots of integer operations, floating point, memory fetches etc, which can be derived in SMT attacks based on how fast such things occur for the evil monitoring thread.
> Plus boosting the standard deduction is giving middle class people a few extra thousand a year

No, it isn't, if you use the common sense of “middle class” to mean “middle income”, rather than the classical “petit bourgeoisie”. The change is less than $6000 in the standard deduction, so even if “a few” means only 2, you'd need over a 33% federal marginal tax rate to get a few thousand from it, which requires an income after the standard deduction of $200,000+.
Everyone who has a job directly benefits from the tax cuts.
That is a logical solution for Bitcoin. Doesn't Etherium track transactions back to the beginning of time though? That sounds like a Shlemiel The Painter problem.
Everytime I see Tailwind/Tachyons/Functional CSS at the top of HN I die a little inside. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you actually like this kind of CSS, you probably don't work on large websites. And when you do, the reason people hate it so much will become abundantly clear to you.

Functional CSS makes for an unscaleable, inconsistent, unmaintainable dumpster fire of styles that is objectively worse than just writing regular CSS.

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But it's convenient, right? So who cares! AirBnB, Facebook, Walmart, Github, and Twitter are all probably wrong anyway.
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I was trying to determine if this article was a joke or not.
Ability to create tokens and make money out of it has created a lot of unnecessary hype. Blockchain has its use-cases, but not as many as some want it to have.
This basically sounds like "the more I let the machine memorize, the better it did." Not necessarily bad, mind you, just amusing.
Sounds more like it.

I’m not really in tech, and took about a 20% pay decrease (on-paper) for public sector pay.

But they pay 12% on top of my salary to a real pension plan, I get 1-2 extra holidays that most others don’t get. I get paid to be on-call. Better disability insurance. Education fund. Benefits package includes RMT massage therapy without a prescription. Better parental leave coverage.

When you add it up, the “lower-pay” in public sector ignores total compensation, but probably is true in tech.

I’ll take a good paycheque over a games room and free snacks.
Fortunately most of the debt is held by the US department of Education, and could easily be written off. (Minor inflationary effects asside).
Interesting - not quite going for the normal Arduino market. $60 is a pretty high price tag, but it has a quite high clock rate and should get better performance.

Tempted to buy one just for making some toy cryptographic applications as the open architecture makes an appealing feature for those applications.

Ultimately though I think it'd be best if they can get China sold on this architecture. $2 Arudino compatible boards or $7 espressif boards with wifi are hard to argue with for most people messing around in the microcontroller space.
I've stayed a Pro user even though there probably wasn't a lot of reason for me to do. (It's not like we're talking a lot of money.) But it's almost like Yahoo made Flickr free for most on the theory that, if you make it free, they will come. They ended up diluting Flickr for its core user base at the same time that they largely stopped enhancing the site.

I'm honestly not sure how big a market there is for a prosumer community-oriented photography site. The fact that another one hasn't really popped up is suggestive. But the ship has also sailed on competing with Facebook and Instagram on their own terms. So refocusing on their original audience probably makes sense.
Didn't have a computer till I went to university(grew up poor in a developing world). I am pretty fast without touch typing and I move my hand all around the keyboard. I also feel it when I happen to strike an incorrect key. Currently I look at keyboard occasionally when I make a mistake, but I think I have got an idea as to which keys are where. Its almost touch typing except I never start with the "home" position and yet manage to almost touch type. I believe as we type more and more we will eventually develop the touch typing pattern. The pattern might be different than the standard recommendation of "home" positioning.
Whenever I look for airline tickets, I always use several different browsers (and VPNs when needed) for this exact reason.

I don't have proof that any airlines were tracking how many times i refreshed or went to a competitors web site, but this has happened each time I went to look up airline tickets. So I'm not surprised that they track the number of calls, or anything anymore.

There's been a few different times that I saved $150+ just by using a different browser to order the tickets. Even if I never logged in, or even had an account to begin with.

One of the more recent examples is a few years ago, I was looking at tickets for a trip overseas. I would go to the first site, look at flights, then go to a competitors site, do same thing, go back and see my price went up $25 in a few minutes. Then I would check the competitors, and see their price went up some. I then changed to a different web browser, and it drops back down to the original price. That was 6+ years ago though, so maybe it's changed....? Probably not as much as I would like.

The tracking stuff is beyond ridiculous for those types of purchases.
Nothing unethical about that experiment...
Yea that's a crazy sentiment considering who encourages these young people to go to college (their parents, primarily) and without considering the absolutely unbelieavable increases in college tuition costs with no discernible benefit to the attendees (while Professors become adjunct and paid less).
As a next challenge, can you ensure the board is solvable without guessing? You have to delay generating it until the user has done that first click, but there are some other constraints as well.

Also, you probably want to stop clicks on marked squares from exploding the mine.
Only in a log-structured environment that means that once you deploy, you probably never have a chance to patch the bugs.
Making a Nix package is usually quite fun, but if the software has a really gnarly setup (various forked dependencies, strange configuration scripts that involve the internet, npm modules with native library dependencies, etc) it can be bad.

For such cases I like Docker because it lets you easily create little mini-Ubuntus and do whatever you want there.
The normalisation of lending is a huge issue in general.

There's a pervasive idea that being able to actually afford things is abnormal. That everyone should just take a loan out for education. For a car. For a house. For a cellphone.

Yes, there are benefits to being able to get things 'earlier' than otherwise would be possible. And if everything goes right, the situation a borrower is in at the end of a loan may be better than had they not taken it.

But the actual result of this seems to be that, for example, ~everyone in Britain is tied into full-time employment to pay off various creditors.

It's commonly posted on here that the average American has savings amounting to effectively a bag of crisps.

That's the obvious result if you use every available bit of income, even if it's "investing" for a future that never comes.
OS could make Hyper threading opt-in per application thread.
So chrome could mark its render threads as HT-groupable and they can share a core between them, but otherwise cores are not shared.

There might be different levels of thread opt-in, prime95 might not care about other threads finding out what the 338134th digit of prime is and mark its threads as unrestricted sharable.
There an interesting argument to be made around non-guaranteed loans with rates dependent on course of study. Want a degree in medicine? Enjoy your 3% loan since you'll probably be able to pay it back. Social Sciences? Get ready for 20% interest to compensate for a high default rate. Interest rates are an important signalling mechanism and could help stear students into educational fields with greater economic demand.
Wouldn’t you know that if the Sass is indented?

I treat my name spacing the way I do in most source code. All the code for a unit is in the same file or in files called out from that file.

If you’re not nesting in Sass you’re missing out on some of the better parts.
The only part I disagree with is that it is ALL the parents’ fault.

My point wasn’t necessarily that millennials are uniquely stupid, rather that the voting age should be at least 25.
When I hear style I think, e.g., "Object-Oriented" vs "Functional" – not something you can easily automate.
Sure, the flat delivery charges can be 100% on a minimal order, but I don't think that that is the majority of the business of a food delivery service.
The world does :(
American exceptionalism overload
Then I guess I have a "fully developed adult brain" (whatever that is) and certainly couldn't fully understand all the effects of taking out a $120k loan to take a risk on a degree in a subject I don't know (by definition, otherwise why am I going to school for it?) - let alone long term risks and opportunity cost assessments.

I think it puts anyone looking to go to college and 'move up the ladder' in a very difficult position.
You can wipe out medical loans, which also have no assets to claim, with bankruptcy. Or do you think we need to make Repo Men a reality?
Yeah some of the details are absurdly good, especially the picture of the "Texas Woman", how it gets the dogs ears perfect, perfect colors on the apples, and renders the copper pot a perfect copper hue.
So it sounds like Ubuntu with different default GUI apps. I would almost consider recommending something like that for brand new users but it would have to be rather established. If you have the slightest experience installing packages and editing the occasional config file you can switch your experience to match this fairly easily.

Vanilla Ubuntu tends to include the mid range GUI, the one that performs OK and doesn't look too bad. Plasma should likely be the default unless you know you want a lighter weight GUI. Unity and GNOME just don't cut it for serious multiple monitor usage. I always find myself on Plasma or xfce4. One example is in Ubuntu 18.04 it is impossible to move the top taskbar off your 'primary' monitor. That is so ridiculous.
Your brain is applying far more interpretation to color than people are consciously aware of.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jantic/DeOldify/master/res...

His face is arguably too red. But on average it’s fine. (Amusing: is this comment correct, or unconsciously biased by the lack of knowledge of what native Americans actually look like? I admit the latter is possible.)

Humans interpret colors thanks to context. When you strip away context, it’s easy to come up with things that fool you. (Optical illusions are the limit case of this.)

See DaVinci’s journals on color. They are worth studying, and most entries are so short they may as well be tweets. http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/dvs005.htm
Heavy lifting is done on the cloud. I develop web and ML stuff on a tMBP. Prototyping is done offline and the large-scale training of models is done on the cloud. My laptop is lightweight enough to put in my backpack and still leave space for groceries bought on the way home. Have a 4K display and Windows US desktop keyboard (as UK Mac keyboards are close enough to a US keyboard) and mouse. I never use split-screen as I am used to window-switching on a 13" screen.
Is the idea to use this just for 2FA using SMS? Or would it as your daily messaging number? (If your supposed to use it daily, is there an Android or iPhone app?)
What's absurd is they don't have to take into account the ability of the student to pay back the loan, instead taking on an indentured servant for life. This distorts the market leading to higher tuition for everyone.
Sure, but OpenBSD has a very specific project goal and use cases (which is absolutely as it should be!) and their stance thus makes sense in context. But it doesn't mean their stance is universally applicable either, anymore then best practices for IaaS all apply everywhere. For an alternate feature example: some OpenBSD committers for years have reasonably rejected OpenZFS [1] requests because it was considered to be just plain too big, and in turn presented more threat surface and higher system resource consumption (big issue for embedded/firewall appliance applications) then was desirable for them. All of which is true and makes total sense there. But not for a lot of big servers and end user systems where I think automatic full data consistency/checks/regeneration, easy full replication, trivial cheap atomic snapshots, portability between many OS, and so on, address much more important threats then the extra load or any unknown potential vulns. No need for a monoculture ecosystem here rather then using the right specific tool for the job right?

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1: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD
The actual problem is high tuition.
Whoa, after my linking, that old comment went from -2 to -1! I thought it was way past the point that you could vote on it! (It's ~15 months old.)
Do you reccomened Clojure over Haskell to learn ?
They can't claim assets for credit card debt either, and yet you can discharge those in bankruptcy.
Bury it a few feet and it'll work fine on the moon. With off-the-shelf rad-unhardened tech, too.
If you’re going to specifically invoke the 1st amendment, at least know what it guarantees and doesn’t. It also helps not to bring up the likes of Egypt (which didn’t pan out well along with most of the rest of the ‘Arab Spring’). Definitely don’t claim that Tunisia’s revolution was driven by social media when it began with a very “irl” act of suicide. Especially try to avoid acting like EU member states do or should give a monkey about the US 1st amendment.

What a rag.
Agreed, although student loans are a little different in this regard, as repayment us only due while earning.
No justice, no peace
Gros Michel was the main banana variety that accounted for some very large proportion of commercial production several decades ago. Disease wiped out most of them and made it uneconomical to produce so everybody switched to Cavendish variety, and there's a disease for that one now too.

Except people write this exact article about these two banana varieties about 10 times a year and it's just sensationalism.

TL;DR your grandchildren might eat a different variety of banana you don't recognize. Move along
Solution: lower tuition.