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Funny how the website only highlights the advantages of wood as a material, and plays down its disadvantages. Namely, a stiffer, more rigid frame is more efficient. I personally loved how my aluminium road bike rode, more so than steel, particularly because I can feel the road, and my pedal strokes have a more direct feedback.

If a frame absorbs some of that vibration, it is naturally going to absorb some of your energy. So "harshest" ride quality isn't exactly the term I'd assign to aluminum.
Huh? I have a £2k bike. Had it years. Never leave it in public. Doesnt stop me commuting on it to work every day or taking it out for rides at the weekend.
It's worse on several levels. The first thing containers do is take away the tools needed (unshare, seccomp syscalls) for an application to secure itself or its children.

The pledge/unveil model is far more elegant.

> What does it do to memory usage, and disk usage?

You'd need a deduplicating filesystem, i.e. btrfs for the storage aspect.
For memory consumption you either have to rely on KSM or hope that they will implement page cache sharing it for btrfs. Overlayfs has it but it's less space-efficient.

But I agree that this shouldn't be needed because containers shouldn't each ship with their own OS disk image. That's not orthogonal to the security aspect.
Pricing in externalities is job 0.

I want to go from A to B.

Do you want option a) be alone, £100, b) share car, £60, c) most efficient, switch to bus and train, £30
Can't be any worse than carbon fiber...
> Yeah, deal with novel situations better than humans. In a world where we are approaching the physical limits of integrated circuit feature size? I like my chances.

Why do you think this is relevant?

Consider that a) human brain does intelligence within a small package made out of structures that are large compared to what silicon fabs deal with, and b) we've already beaten the brain in straight compute density by many orders of magnitude. The answer doesn't seem to be "more compute"; it seems to lie in what we're doing with that computing power.

> the fact we did not self-immolate goes against everything I believe about humanity and human nature. The fact that we made it through that gives me a lot of hope for the future.

Back then, we've learned something new about nature of human societies. I don't believe the concept of MAD was known before nuclear weapons. The individual human nature didn't change, nor did the social one; it's just that we already know a lot about the former, but we're still discovering the latter.
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”at the same time”
When I saw wealthy, I mean they have money to spend on the product they're buying. Money or access to credit or whatever. This is absolutely true as someone is buying stuff driven through marketing.

A huge percentage of the people who don't buy are doing so not because the ads aren't effective, but because they don't have money to purchase. With a micropayment model those people just won't look at the content, because they don't have money in their account to do so.
I doubt the risk is any worse than with carbon fiber. http://www.bustedcarbon.com/
Everything I know about isis, I got from the bbc and politicians.
Aluminum framed bikes do that, old heavy steel would bend but aluminum tends to break all at once.
Though it's worth pointing out that you really have to be doing something stupid to see this sort of rare effect.
Not sure if I understand this correctly, but the attacker's JS must load the pages in question to see if they are in cache, right?

Wouldn't that put also them in cache, which means that next time this technique is used it will not work? Even more, there is now plausible deniability: "I never saw these pages, I guess some JS must have been snooping around and put them to my cache..."

And the logical workaround is disabling cache, which helps fight against other tracking techniques too.

All in all, this doesn't sound so worrying. Unless I missing something?
They give 5 year warranty which seems like a lot, but one of the bigger bike manufacturers in the Netherlands gives 10 years[0] on (metal) bikes. So my guess is they are less durable.

[0] https://www.gazelle.nl/service/garantie
And if it's Japanese, it'll continue running for decades. Particularly the Toyota M and JZ series - just about indestructible.

Agreed, I would love to retrofit an electric power train in a mk2 Supra - attach the motor directly to the rear diff and fill it with batteries to the weight of the ICE/gearbox plus full fuel tank, and it could be a really potent sleeper.
I guess it depends on the kind of bike experience you want. I see people riding extraordinarily impractical bikes every single day.

Of course that would make wooden bikes a matter of taste, and not superior by any stretch of the imagination.
"we simply do not need high-resolution timers for the attack"

Not sure there's a lot they could do, short of apis that actively tell lies or introduce deliberate random pauses.
Yes, for not technical users this can be misleading. Protonmail could have been more up-front.
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That's the implication of the mentions of processor steppings, that almost everyone is ignoring in favour of discussing a more exciting subject. (-:
I think bikes will become a niche sports product, replaced by E-Scooters for basic transportation around town, and autonomous cars/minibuses for anything longer.
Or just disable Javascript.
If you like Blade Runner, you'll like the Swedish TV series "Äkta människor." There was also an English remake called "Real Humans", but it doesn't hold a candle to the original.
Maybe it is our destiny to create an entity that is better than we are. If humans die off or are pushed aside as a result, will that be so bad? Artificial superintelligence is only a dystopia from our current perspective.
Carbon bikes are made for stiffness and ride quality - you can make equally light bikes with Alu / Ti.
The best materials for damping vibration have low density and low stiffness. When coupled with the low vibration transfer speed, these properties determine how well a material damps vibration.

Based on the table below by "stiffness" they mean Young-modulus. None of these quantities describe damping of vibrations in a material. Also Young-modulus and density determine the longitudinal vibration transfer speed (this is what they list in the table). So saying "coupled with low vibration transfer speed" is a bit misleading.
> The problem was that they got attention. I still dispute any relevant impact besides the talking points for political campaigns. Which rivals and probably exceeds the dishonesty of some trolls.

Can't judge the impact, but there is no question of their ubiquity. The bulk of these laura freedoms, vets for tumps, deplorable sandys and similar accounts with hundreds of thousands tweets are Russian operators. Often you'd look at their likes, and their full of Cyrillc tweets they had to amplify for the Motherland due to some minute home front need. Sometimes, I'd tweet them a humiliating comment in Russian that Bing would never be able to translate, and get blocked within seconds.

Twitter today is likely close to 50% accounts being bots, and 80% content generated/circulated by bots. They also have everything they need to shut the bots down, but it will halve their user base and likely reduce engagement metrics to 1/10th.
I'm working on automatic machine learning platform. It is already working as a SaaS (https://mljar.com). I would like to go open source with it and add ability to read data from different sources.
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I think you're right for many people, especially those who haven't done much programming and aren't sure they really want to.

But whenever I learn a new language (many times over many decades), I want to build lots of small projects of many different sorts in order to habituate myself to the new tools and patterns (using the tools in various combinations) as quickly as possible. My ideal is when I find a set of these small but diverse projects implemented by an expert in the language, so I can try it my way, see how a "native speaker" does it, get some explanation from him (again, ideally), adjust my approach to be more "native", and repeat, again, and again, and again. I can usually find the problems, but finding the "native" solutions is harder.

I don't need the exercises to be "useful" in any way other than delivering the desired fluency efficiently, and I don't need them to be "motivational". If I want the skill, I'm motivated by anything that can help me get it, and if I don't want it, the problems don't matter. I have other things to do.
There are so many criticism/debunk of the Singularity theory that there's not even a debate anymore.

I would say that debating the scientific likelihood of a singularity is sterile because they don't provide any argument on that plane. The debate is mostly philosophical and/or theological nowadays.

One good paper I like on the subject is this one: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction

but quickly googling "singularity criticism/debunk" will bring you so many sources.
I always thought timing in JS was very imprecise, so "timing attacks" wouldn't work!?
Not only that: take a look at Emacs: essentially no one Emacs is equal to another. It's so flexible that any users bend it (easily) to their needs and desire. Sharing their configs is a mean for any users to evolve, acquire knowledge easily; you have a problem or need something? Ok go look for others chances that they already see and solved that problem are really high. With "black boxes" you can only customize what black box dev's have leaved to their users, real changes are hard, you have to checkout code, study it, modify it, rebuilt, ... in the end you're became as "standard" as possible without freedom and personal experimentation even if you have the open code.

That's easy for companies since they deal with "standard" "Ford model like" people, but that's a killer for evolution especially evolution driven by people/users, not upstream/companies.

If you can tailor software to fit your needs as you like you get a friendly personal environment and you have "a bit of power" on society, you still need upstream work but you are also a bit independent, and the same is for upstream to have help from the community they need to comply with an heterogeneous community with users, not consumers. We are in the end interdependent so forced to cooperate in a relative peace. On the over side we totally depend on upstream being effectively powerless. Oh yeah, you can choose different software, at least for now, but that need to exists, that's no more a community.

A simple example a proprietary software, Master pdf editor, gain a bit of success in GNU/Linux world and decide to insert watermark on modify pdfs by free version. If it's distributed by single distro, single distros can keep old version for long time. Leaving all needed time to their user to switch. If you relay direct on upstream you discover the new "feature" a day perhaps without warning because it's auto-updated for instance, and you may have no time, no choice. This also happen recently with the "tweaked" Android settings by Google and I think many many other cases.

Freedom it's not only "being free of doing something" it's also can do something easily, have a system that let you be as free as you like.
"prodigal" - extravagant - derives from Latin: prodigus.

"prodigy" - extraordinary - derives from Latin: prodigium.
Ride comfort (on a rigid bike) is primarily a function of the tyres (size/inflation/construction).

A bike with cheap 23c tyres at 150psi will rattle the fillings out of your teeth.

The same bike with decent 25c or 28c tyres at e.g. 50-70psi (depending on rider weight) can float along with a magic carpet like ride.
> There's an obvious possibility that people ignore because it's not very sexy: maybe life is common, but sending messages clearly over interstellar distances is pointless and extremely expensive.

That's the simplest solution to the Fermi paradox. Perhaps interstellar communication and travel are simply too challenging and uneconomic to be feasible.
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Yup. No more contracts to provide services. France is idiotic.
Yea but they could afford it, ethically that sucks but they still had the money to spend.

Have you ever wanted to buy something small and literally didn't have the money in your account? This is how a huge number of people live, every day, day to day. Those people will never have access to micropayment content, because they can't afford it.
> The takeaway, they contend, is that anything short of running a single browser tab at any one point in time poses a privacy risk: if you open a second tab, JavaScript in it can snoop on the other tab. Disabling JavaScript completely will kill off the attack, but also kill off a lot of websites, which rely on JS functionality to work.

Firefox Focus [1], my most used browser (single tab only), seems to be safe from this attack.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus
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> And the logical workaround is disabling cache,...

The attack uses the CPU cache, not the browser cache.
"ProtonMail only claims that your email are unencryptable while you don't access the service."

Why would they be unencryptable when ProtonMail controls the javascript that "encrypts" the message in the first place?

The main point of Kobeissi's analysis is that ProtonMail could, at their whim, serve whatever javascript they want to the client, including javascript that compromises the encryption or hands over the keys to ProtonMail. If they do this, then it's pretty obvious that the message on ProtonMail's servers would be decryptable by them, no?
I've always had tons of bikes stolen, until I got a light cargo bike. I often only use the ring lock, yet somehow nobody seems to want to steal it. My son's bike got stolen twice over the past year right in front of our house (we park it indoors now), but nobody ever touches my cargo bike. It's the most expensive bike I've ever had.
A good example of this is
ML Kit from google [0] vs MLKit a ML compiler [1]

[0]: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/

[1]: http://www.elsman.com/mlkit/
Batteries are still too inconvenient and costly. I still regularly ride a wonderful steel bike that's older than myself (a top of the line koga miyata). So with a battery lifetime of the order of ~1000 charge cycles, if you take into considerations the costs of regularly replacing the battery, then ebikes (and e-scooters) are in a different price segment altogether.
True on all counts. For the most part, coal power is being phased out (the UK has closed many plants in the last couple of decades), although China is opening new ones about as fast as the rest of the world is closing theirs! No doubt, it's very difficult to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, but cars are a great start - even if they're ultimately powered by a coal plant, the energy efficiency of such a power station is drastically higher than individual engines (many go to great lengths to recover or make use of waste heat) and the potential for controlling emissions from one source is a lot easier than millions of tailpipes.

No doubt, however, the move to EVs will coincide with greater use of renewables or nuclear.

Hopefully there will be a breakthrough in battery technology in the next decade; if we can improve on the power density of lithium, we might finally be able to rival the energy stored in a tank of fuel.
>We just situated ourselves near a river of (other people's) money and tried to siphon off a bit of the flow

Are you quoting God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater there?
I thought D was proud of compilation times and claimed to be useful as a scripting language?
To be fair, he works for Microsoft, its entirely possible he maintains one of their OS repos.
It should come from adding value and thereby growing the economy, which is then reflected in an increase in the money supply.
I live in the Netherlands and have not had my bike stolen in 25 years. Just use a good lock and only park in secured parking locations with gated access and cameras.

And don't buy a bike without knowing the full history and paperwork, otherwise you are shooting yourself in the foot by supporting criminals and raising your chance of having your bike stolen in the future.
Well, the anti-world actions coming out of facebook over the last few years have been way more excessive, with disastrous consequences.
My Firefox Klar (Focus in German market) does have multiple tabs. But since the entire application is shorter-lived, I never tend to have many tabs open.
Show HN: A gift list app without ads or tracking
I made www.thoughtfulgiftlist.com, a gift list, like the kind you'd use for shopping for the holidays. Not too much different than a todo list. I built it out of frustration. Everything else tracked the gifts I bought or made money through affiliate links or fed into advertising.

+ Biggest competitor is a notepad: reliable, cheap, secure but easily lost and not shareable

+ Decided Google Analytics would need to go

+ Not for free, Not an installed app

+ Can be trialed WITHOUT giving your email address away

I'd love any feedback or suggestions, thanks in advance
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How did you think the EU would end? I mean, really. It always ends the same way, no exceptions.
> to create sentience

The goal is to create AI that can solve any problem a human can solve. Whether sentience is a necessary side effect to that is an open question.
> So far we anchor the companies to humans that have to carry the risk of the consequences of the company's actions.

Not really. Companies are typically limited liability, and even criminal law in countries such as the US and England acknowledges that there are cases when no particular human is culpable for a company's criminal actions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_liability). Of course, people are still liable when they are simply using a company to carry out a criminal enterprise, or wilfully committing crimes on behalf of the company.

In this regard, a machine-led company would not be legally significantly different from a human analyst-led company.
> Transhumanism, mind uploading. We're fucking hypnotized.

Almost. If this is what the AI wants, then it's doing a really bad job.

The way current tech culture is, any other concern than making money will get you labeled as crazy. This applies even to Maciej's writing. For trying to make a short-term profit, you'll be judged as good, serious person or bad, evil monster, depending on the way you approach it. But try to advocate for any tech for reasons other than short-term monetary gains, and you get labeled crazy. This very article is implicitly doing it as well.
The thought was to do it prior to seasoning to provide better coverage (after drying). Recipes switched to having you just pat the meat dry with paper towels to avoid the cross contamination vector.
You can read the title as "ways in which wooden bikes are superior" - a reasonable topic for a company selling wooden bikes - rather than "wooden bikes are superior in every way, and here's why". The former is also more consistent with the actual title of the article, "Why wood".
How impractical can a bike be if it gets the job done? Or did you mean in some not utilitarian context?
The EU has never had freedom of expression, so these regulations are anything but surprising. They just extend what already existed to the digital era.
This response does not directly address Kobeissi's points.

It rephrases and generalizes his points rather than tackling them head-on.

Kobeissi's main point is that ProtonMail could serve up any javascript they want to the client, including javascript that compromises the encryption or which hands over the encryption keys to ProtonMail.

Nowhere in ProtonMail's response is this point ever directly addressed or even acknowledged.
I think micropayments are a classic example of a solution that seems sensible to engineering under the assumption that humans are rational beings, but in the real world it falls apart because they aren't.

The hardest part of making a sale isn't the price--it's getting the customer to say yes. With micropayments you ask the customer to say yes every time they click a link. This imposes a cognitive/mood/whatever penalty every time they consider viewing your content. No wonder it hasn't taken off.

A better solution from a market psychology standpoint would be to sell an all access pass to the content on 10, 100, or 1000 websites. Monthly auto rebill. Just one purchase decision for life and with enough sites the perceived value is high. Not sure why we aren't seeing more of this -- if anyone works at a media conglomerate feel free to reply :)
Reading the paper it seems that this effectively messes with the cache to see how much it's being accessed generally, and based on that access pattern creates a fingerprint that can be matched against the way another website uses the cache generally.

Presumably, having several tabs open makes it pretty hard to distinguish one site through the noise. Unless it's Slack, then the fingerprint looks like a giant blob of constant data access...I jest I jest.

From the paper:

The main difference is that the Prime+Probe attack measures contentions in specific cache sets, whereas our attack measures contention over the whole cache. Specifically, our JavaScript attack allocates an LLCsized buffer and measures the time to access the entire buffer.

The victim’s access to memory evicts the contents of our buffer from the cache, introducing delays for our access. Thus, the time to access our buffer is roughly proportional to the number of cache lines that the victim uses.
For someone like Warren Buffet, the money comes from enabling corporations that serve consumer interests — that’s going to be the case for anyone doing value investing or similar.

Other kinds of “finance” are more like playing poker where everyone is betting the public’s money.

I can believe someone new to finance didn’t think very hard about which kind of firm they were at.
I use mostly TP-Link stuff. The Archer C7 has been a good work horse lately. You will need something with more CPU power if you have Gigabit internet service. For everything else it seems more than capable.
The law even mentioned "amp"? How specific!
In apparent contravention of the GDPR, various parts of the page say that I must agree to their use of my data for third party advertising or I cannot access the site.

They can say that they have a legitimate interest exemption - and they do. Sites must be able to earn money from their content, or they cannot operate. Therefore, they have a "legitimate interest" exemption for this practice (allowed under GDPR) - they cannot provide you with the service you requested because you are unwilling to help pay for it by allowing third party ads.

Edit: By the way, none of this addresses the other elephant in the room. TechCrunch is US based, and to my knowledge they do not offer foreign language translations of their site, at least on the .com version of the site. This meets the test under Recital 23, which says that if it doesn’t “envisage” serving EU users, it isn’t even subject to the GDPR. Any privacy notices on TechCrunch.com are essentially a courtesy.
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I am indeed mostly talking about the UK versions. The US versions had much more drama and much less cooking, but underlying it had the same theme.