skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original commenters point is that the OS does not need to send an exception to the process before reading content — any interrupt (software or hardware) hits the kernel first. The kernel can then happily pull the content of any registers before switching the context back to the target app.

Basically the threat model seems to be “malicious kernel”, but if the kernel is actually malicious then it can do whatever it wants before the target has an opportunity to “protect” itself
What brain-bending magic tricks can teach us about the mind
The escape from the paradox of thrift is to create things now that will be valuable in the future (durable goods, or education), or to lend money to people who need things now (aka investing). (Or give money away for that's but that's economically equivalent to lending, in a general sense.)
Author is trying to advocate that people think of themselves as victims in the world, where things simply happen to them. Wages are stagnant, inflation happens, etc. Some of this may be true. But regardless, I'll attempt to save money as I can, rather than throw my hands up and say none of this matters and piss it all away on coffee.
Yeah, we're ostensibly not big on that kind of surveillance here.
5G is still just hype for AT&T and Verizon
I'm seeing more discs from my subscription that are marked "Rental" ... with monochrome labeling (no graphics), fewer subtitle & foreign language options, and lower bit-rate.

So they definitely have agreements with the studios/distributors to get discs for the rental market, and it looks like that agreement is covering more and more titles. For the Marvel titles - it's about 50:50 (in perfect balance..)
Given how much content gets pasted here from /r/programming and other tech subreddits, and how much passion there is behind HN's distaste for the redesign, I would bet that many, if not most, HN users are redditors.
If 'delaying the catastrophy' equates to the longest expansionary period in US economic history I'd say we did a pretty good job.
Throwing money at a problem doesn’t guarantee a positive outcome.
Picking the best azure VM / premium disk for IO throughout
This Gizmodo post consists entirely of quotes and paraphrases from the original article (which they do at least link to):

https://qz.com/1587477/microsoft-investigating-sexual-harass...
It's saying focus on issues mostly out of your control (inflation). I'd prefer to focus on the things that are in my control.

I agree that some level of indulgence is okay, obviously this is a balance. Everyone has to figure out what they're comfortable with here, but some people we know may have become way too comfortable and complacent yet still want to complain about their financial situation. These are the people who need to figure out why and how to adjust their behavior.
I think a better analogy might be to computer security. Script kiddies exist. You don't necessarily need to do a lot of research if you can learn to use open source tools. It won't be state of the art, but that's not necessary to do damage.

These days there are a lot of high school kids messing around with machine learning. They might not have the theoretical understanding, but I don't think it will require a graduate degree to get there.

I'm not sure why there aren't more hacker tools that apply machine learning? Maybe we're not quite there yet.
You're not answering the question.

The world has changed somewhat since 1894.
Aha, missed that, thanks.
Was it a limited space store or something? The blockbusters down here in Texas, where property was cheap were huge.
I think there might be a cultural difference here. In the USA coffee is not a status symbol (as far as I have experienced), I've heard that it is elsewhere. In the US it's more like just a regular addiction. Coffee drinkers need to drink coffee or they feel miserable. They can make it themselves cheap, or get a nice cup at a store.
"GRBackPro is a Professional designed to easily back up your important...."

Hmm, professional indeed.
> I got a 4k UHD from Redbox and now will never watch a blockbuster movie any other way.

Oh shit didn't know Redbox did this. Wish Netflix did 4k Blu rays
Krugman has similar stuff to say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/running-on-mmt-wo...
>When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it's pretty normal for people to provide that help.

I can come to any bank, and politely ask them to help me out a bit by giving me some money. That's not an illegal (or wrong) thing to do.

Now if the bank does help me out by emptying out their customer's storage cells, someone's going into jail for that.

See, it's fine to help out. It's not OK to do so at someone else's expense. In this case, Motel 6 gave away something that's not theirs to give away, according to the law (namely: their customers' data).

Motel 6 did not break the law by helping out the feds. It broke the law by harming their customers (sharing their customer's data).

In the end, it's normal to ask for help. It's also pretty normal to politely decline to provide it.

Title nitpick: Motel 6 illegally gave away this information. They broke the state law, were sued for that, and lost $12M (and made further commitments on top of that). Why NPR chose to soften it to "improperly" is beyond me; the attorney general quoted in the article uses "illegally" in the same sentence.
Somewhat aside:

After discovering mitmproxy, I checked out various apps on my Macbook. Found plenty that at least phoned home to Google Analytics on boot. Some even phoned on every action/keypress.

Not sure why HN has such a hard-on for native/mobile apps. You get performance at the expense of basically everything else. There's no dev toolbar. No extension system. No customization. No uBlock. You take it all or nothing. And you need intrusive tools like mitmproxy or Little Snitch just to get insight into their network traffic.
IMO, the constant stream of stimulation happens one way or another. If you were born 50 years before , you could get overstimulated by TV. 50 years before that, and you could be overstimulated by books. Maybe my life would be better if I’d never read a book or seen a cell phone — but I doubt it: I’d probably have just sought out whatever the next-most-stimulating thing was and become addicted to that.

Fully agree with your second paragraph.
Some read this quote as a harbinger of WW2. I think it fits the current zeitgeist much better and is part of what Nietzsche called the age of the last man: The destruction of religion and the complete lack of meaning in modern western societies, leading to consumerism, surrogate activities and finally nihilism [1]. Before the cyberpunk dystopias described by William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, before Aldous Huxley, before George Orwell, there was Nietzsche.

A true genius and like Schopenhauer before him, a powerful initiator in the human condition.

[1]
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/nietzsches-...
This really makes me feel for the employees and extremely distrustful of stock-option focused payouts.
they told me if Trump were elected we'd see open racism and they were right!
Yep, everyone still running IE6 with security holes you can drive a bus through... that'll be great for everyone concerned.
The miscommunication here is I was on the same page as OP because I've seen the study he was alluding to (and actually got one of the points wrong). I incorrectly assumed that it was common knowledge. It's referenced here, and yes I am aware that this article is attempting to "debunk" it, but I think the counterpoints it makes are quite weak: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/9027195/haskins-sawhill-norms-...
I wonder if that's the person who "disabled group emailing and prohibited employees from sending out goodbye emails to say they were leaving."
> I'm not sure any analysis is worthwhile unless it includes the time-of-day, as well as the number of hours that the batteries can load-shift power. 5:00pm to 8:00pm power is going to cost more in the future than 12:00pm power, simply due to this whole solar energy thing going on.

A big part of the problem talking about these things is that people conflate photo-voltaic with solar thermal (CSP).

What you're talking about when you say 'solar' is just the first one.

Solar thermal plants provide power into the night.

Arguments that it's just solar + storage are perhaps valid, but a) it's still solar, and b) nuclear MSR's aren't called 'nuclear + storage' (ditto anything else using latent heat in fluids, flywheels, etc).
A database in 200 lines of code is incredible. I'd love to see that, even better if it was annotated.
Reverse googling shows a lot of progressive news sites pillaring people for being upset at this.

I wonder what their reaction would have been if the course was titled "Angry Black Male Studies."

Or "Hysterical Women Studies."
I really liked this article, but I also notice that I seem to be suffering from a severe case of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[1]. Not sure if it's related.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Her retention was necessary because she was the one who processed out all of the other employees.
No, no, no, no, no. Tesla is going to make about half a million cars this year. Its goal for later in the 2020's is to be selling 10 million. And soon it is going to be facing huge competition as the mainstream companies start building EV's in large numbers. And the whole market is going to start swinging to EV's in about 4 or 5 years when plunging battery costs lead to EV's having sales prices equal to ICE's.

When there is a huge technological revolution like that, many if not all of the incumbents fail to make the transition and go out of business, and the market is taken over at least partly by new firms. Tesla is well-positioned to be one of the ones that succeeds. So rather than settling down, it needs to scramble and grow as fast as possible, which is just what it is doing.
I want you to know, that...know this, what you're doing is totally fine :)
>Does it bother anyone else that the author was teaching something they weren't proficient in? Is this normal for colleges?

Yes, it concerns me - but it doesn't really surprise me (my own UG CS experiences have really disillusioned me with regard to how much of a priority teaching quality really is, particularly in research-intensive institutions). It doesn't sound like the author had much say in the situation "I also had to teach it", so unsure if the department is the root problem here.

But it's doing a disservice to students - particularly given in the US they'll be paying much, much more than the tuition fees here in the UK (which I think are excessive as it is). It's not good enough. If you're going to offer a class that's more practical, covering real web technologies, do it properly or don't offer it at all. We risk teaching poor practices otherwise and I've seen these lead to real security issues when students enter industry and want to put these skills to use.
You still have a border, just like the 50 US states have internal borders with each other. Why haven't they ceased to exist as discrete entities?

Permeable borders abound in nature. Trying to obstruct the natural behavior of migration is as foolish as trying to halt the tides and arguably causes worse economic distortions than it solves.
“Sick of reading really terrible barely literate listicles on Medium? Wish that content marketers would up their game? Guess what! We’ve made it even easier for people to write mindless clickbait! And we’ll try to sell it to you too!”
He was a stark individualist

Nietzsche is by no means an individualist. He had no interest in any current of thought talking of "individualism". Moreover, while he was no doubt interested in certain individuals, he made it clear that the individuals he was interested were the product of entire cultures - the most refined possible people.

Nietzsche also essentially produced a position that was impossible to realize. Indeed, no one can practically agree with Nietzsche on everything. He wanted an elite but wanted that elite to be aesthetic and removed from ugly character of politics as usual. He hated antisemites and militarists yet these were the most common type to take up his name.

Still, I'd certainly agree Nietzsche is interesting and worth reading.

Edit: Also important is the way Nietzsche refuted the certainties of philosophy yet did not consider himself a philosopher. He called himself a "psychologist" early on and his discussion of philosophy was often "what character would cause a person to believe such a thing".
SGI was good for stuff it was made for, which was visualization and CAD. Which, in that time, meant no texturing - that one meant either an expensive hardware option, or software fallback.
Feel free to drop me an email if needed. Contact information is in my profile.

As a brief summary, I think keeping research groups small and most funding internal does solve lots of problems. I think you want to avoid at all costs having a principal investigator that publishes 50 papers per year and supervises 20 students simultaneously. Which means he is actually doing none of these things. Just stamping his signature everywhere, and doing a bit of politics to raise funds.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute conducted a long investigation on how to do good research prior to starting Janelia Campus. They looked into very successful institutions (AT&T Labs, LMB, CSHL, etc) and drew some equivalent conclusions to what I stated above [1].

[1] https://www.janelia.org/sites/default/files/About%20Us/JFRC....
What you don't care about doesn't have any power over you, period.

I can help spending money on what I don't need, but I just don't care most of the time.

If I don't get coffee, that's also not a major problem.

I think the point is that no one ever got rich by saving $5 a day, never happened and probably never will.
Life can throw you a turn and you might be hit by a car tomorrow but... chances are that won't happen.

There are people who devote themselves to living in the moment, push all their money into the now and whatever instant gratification they can get. In no specific case can you prove that's a terrible idea without knowledge of the future, but I think we can all say that quitting your job to shoot up heroin is a choice that deprives you of many of the joys of life.

AND YET, while I stand by everything above, buying into a system that deprives you of your life in the hope that you might be able to scratch out a living in your sunset years is awful and modern societies push toward "Be prudent toward your retirement" is one we need to balance with the joy of letting ourselves step out of the rat-race on occasion to enjoy stuff.

Either way, I think the OP is demonstrating the worst choice of both worlds, no where in his statement is it implied he's actually buying a coffee to gain enjoyment, just to reject the necessity of money - that's just a terrible reason... enjoy things, treat yourself, be conservative with constant spending and live life.

And lastly, coffee is complicated. The article and OP might be referring to the occasional splurge on a nice latte to relax with, but it could easily be read as the activity that turns into a fixed cost - buying coffee because your daily life has sapped you of everything you are to the point where Caffeine is the only place you think you can find the energy to carry on. I have OSA (sleep apnea) and feel into this sort of trap for a little while before I got a CPAP, it was dark depressing time that I wish on no one.
Interested parties should really watch this short talk by Richard Wolff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGZ7nJCzlW4 If you are really impatient (really, spare five minutes and watch it in full) skip to 4:20 for his conclusions. Wolff is a Professor Emeritus of Economy in Massachusetts. No wonder MMT is shunned by so called "legitimate" economists!
It's almost never a good idea to start by charging less. The people who don't want to pay your rates are just looking for the easiest excuse and weren't going to become customers anyway.

The bulk of commercial photographers' work are weddings. A run-of-the-mill wedding probably costs about 50k, so to have nice pictures from it you'll spend maybe 10% (?) on a photographer. So 5k for a day and a half of work? This puts a lower bound on other photo shoots as well, since there is never going to be a shortage of weddings.
The impression I've gotten is the exact opposite. Game development has never been a good career, at any point between the Atari and today. No matter what year the story is set, stories of game development always seem to have the same stressful backdrop. No game developers are reminiscing about the good old days, before the supply of programmers increased.
>Consider if instead of anti-LGBT bias, it were racism instead.

Yeah, umm... plenty of "racial realists" and ethno-nationalists here too, and incels, and anti-semites. Unfortunately, alt-right, anti-progressive and and neoreactionary politics seem to have taken root in the tech community, and that's becoming as much a part of tech culture as anarchism was for a previous generation of hackers.

That said, I think this was actually one of the better threads HN has had on this subject in a while.

>HN has a very strict commenting policy, with arguments needing to be substantiated, etc.

It doesn't. All HN requires is that comments be civil, and not assume bad faith. It's up to the community to call people out on their BS, but it's not policy.
Netflix streaming service has ironically replicated the Blockbuster experience, a few big new releases in front, along with aisles and aisles of stuff I've never heard of and have no interest in watching.
I feel like the course title is somewhat tongue in cheek, the offering looks perfectly reasonable for a humanities course. It’s not like someone is going to devote an entire department to angry white male studies...

...unless someone thinks there is not any difference between “<pejorative> <disenfranchised_class> studies” and “angry white male?”
Dark mode seems to be supported in 67 beta
Blind faith in anything is wrong. The difference is scientific process invites peer review, reproduction, and alternative theories.

> At least you can hold your local shaman responsible when you learn that he took money to feed you lies.

Gods work in mysterious ways. The good shaman give advice that is always right no matter what happens, and fault you for misinterpreting the good word.
NASA First Air-to-Air Images of Supersonic Shockwave Interaction in Flight
Google's comically bad at hiring for it though so I wouldn't count on them. When I interviewed there after having worked on graphics extensively at Apple and other places, they asked me how to load balance real time search suggestions and I failed, obviously.
Majority of open source developers are paid or work jobs that gives them a lot of free time. Foss runs yearly polls to determine that.
Can you run `nc -l localhost 1234`?
I thought they did a good job of acknowledging that with the section called "Correctness does not mean perfection". They're trying to treat that as an issue which is also valid but is separate, which made sense to me.
Which one does an individual have control over?
In this case, he should have recruited students who are well versed in these things to help conducting the course as TAs. He could have only taught about the principal/design, and let the TAs teach the real coding part.

I found this approach is very effective for students because they basically learn the skills from their peers or even roommates, and if they are friends on campus, they can ask questions any time outside of TA hours. My alma mater has an excellent undergrad TA program where students who performed well in the course are recruited to be TAs when the course is offered later again.
This.

Here's an anecdote: one my friends worked for a startup that at the height of NoSQL hype (circa 2012) decided to build their product on Cassandra. The data they dealt with was highly relational with hard requirements on consistency. He told me working on a NoSQL database taught him a lot about relational databases, because he scoured the Postgres source code to learn how to implement consistent and durable commits across distributed/sharded nodes.
> Eero may have been first to mesh WiFi, but competition came fast. Multiple companies including Luma and NetGear launched similar products in the next year.

Huh? Meraki had a mesh WiFi product out at least five years before this. How am I supposed to trust the rest of the article if the author can’t do basic fact checking?
It's not going to make me storm out of the room but juggling multiple browser windows (and really, multiple windows of any app) has never been palatable to me.

The annoying dance of alt-tab alt-tilde over and over, god forbid you have more than one dev tool window open or another browser window like Postman open.

You should simply be able to scale a viewport independently of the chrome.
Crystal Meth Is Spreading
I don't think that's the right way to think about it. Everyone got "screwed" on equity, including the founders. Separately Amazon decided to set up packages for employees they thought were to valuable to lose. If an early employee was valuable enough they were probably included in the 10 who received it.
This article is terribly misleading and, honestly, makes me wonder if it's just some BS starbucks guerilla marketing. I agree that having an occasional treat is great - the latte a day habit is an addiction it stops being a treat.

The article fails because it uses terminology to positively frame it as a treat while using terminology to include the negative framing when describing what you can do... it is terribly written.
This happened to a former schoolmate of mine with a pacemaker when strong EM equipment was turned on near them.

The people on site had no idea he had one and attempted to administer CPR, but they wouldn't have been able to detect his pulse, regardless.

Imagine how it looked to the people who never found out and the version of the story they might still be telling others.
Having grown up in similar circumstances I've turned out to be a big saver. Not in hopes of a lavish retirement but to not think twice when one of our cars needs new tires or one of my kids needs braces.

To me those types of things would be the motivator for most middle class folks to avoid Starbucks every day.
Esteban Sosnik (Reach Capital) - Why it's hard to make educational games [audio]
> What? I'm pretty sure ICE's actions were what tore those families apart. Why aren't they being punished for illegally requesting the data without a warrant?

Motel 6 violated Washington law by giving information away without a warrant. ICE can ask nicely for data from anyone, but you only have to comply if they have a warrant or subpoena.
This is an excellent analogy.
The Upper West Side was once a place for middle class intellectuals and artists. These neighbors are not necessarily rich and you need a legal violation to sue. Nothing in this article alleges that the construction is illegal - just very annoying.
> The Payment Request API has been updated with granular errors, support for default addresses and contacts configured in Wallet and Apple Pay settings, and special field support for Japan.

What is "special field support for Japan"? I cannot find any reference to this in the specification or on Google.
Me too. I distinctly remember sitting for 30 minutes trying to pick something and then just browsing the web and not finding anything. There were movies I'd want to watch, it's just that Netflix didn't have them.

I plan on joining again for a bit, watch a few shows they made in the years since I left, then probably dropping them again.
It's the official SI standard for data measurement. I don't know how using the standard is obtuse marketing spin.
For grid scale batteries, capacity/density are much less important than cost, which went down 35% in less than a year.