skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next step- please, someone figure out how to block ads on the radio when I'm in Uber/Lyft. I find pure audio ads really obnoxious, and I really resent paying for the ride and also being subjected to some guy screaming about low low APR at his car dealership if you act now. If I'm paying for something- no ads, please
That is basically what AdultFriendFinder started as. I realize your comment was for humor but it has been tried several times and seems to always move in the direction of a hookup app.
Depends on how experienced you are in the field? I started on 21k also but I'm happy with my progression - My years pay went something like this

20,
30,
45 - 50 ( with bonus ),
60 - 80 ( with bonus )

The JS field is booming if you are passionate there are many desperate companies I think I may even be getting underpaid in my new role But I have WFH and perks :)

Also I've had 3 months notice on both my jobs it sucks but many companies will wait ( especially larger ones ). Although my new one is 1 month luckily
The searches that even a U.S. Citizen could be subject to (without a warrant) are extremely broad[1].

> Legal precedents grant federal officers at ports of entry the power, without warrants, to require people to strip for a “visual inspection” of genitals and rectums, and to submit to a “monitored bowel movement” to check for secreted drugs.[1]

We did a deep-dive on court settlements by CBP for invasive searches and found quite a few extremely disturbing cases.[1]

> Some women were also handcuffed and transported to hospitals where, against their will, they underwent pelvic exams, X-rays and in one case, drugging via IV, according to suits. Invasive medical procedures require a detainee’s consent or a warrant. In two cases, women were billed for procedures

[1] "‘Shocked & Humiliated’: Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border Officers of invasive searches of minors, women." ( https://publicintegrity.org/immigration/shocked-and-humiliat... )
What do you think is a good performance improvement then?
XJ cherokees here. Love em. Room for elbows whereever you need to wrench, and highly reliable heavy parts. The electronics are meh, and rubber degrades with time, but you can replace all that stuff with a simple screwdriver.
> macOS performance: Testing conducted by Apple in May 2019 showed as much as a 40% reduction in performance with tests that include multithreaded workloads and public benchmarks. Performance tests are conducted using specific Mac computers. Actual results will vary based on model, configuration, usage, and other factors.

from here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210107
Yes you are correct. Check out smalltalk, it fits the paradigm you describe. It was actually rated the most productive programming language in the world according to namcook. Ironically, it's Definitely one of the least popular languages as well.
have fun with that. enjoy your breakdowns.
Frequent Risks Performing Day Trading
Only until it comes true, at which point it will be considered prophecy.
This is not true. There’s no need to distinguish permanent residents from citizens because both have the exact same rights concerning domestic flights.
> Companies do not have the resources to make that happen as it would require decades of training, education, therapy, life adjustments... just to get to the same level as some people have coming through the door (including some poor people who were self driven).

Well, then perhaps they'll be missing out on some of the advantages that you've listed as your own selling points - perhaps a stronger sense of entrepreneurship, problem solving, and hardiness?

In any case, I disagree that the burden on businesses would be that significant. I've seen coding bootcamps churn out pretty decent frontend engineers in 3 months. Make it 6 and who knows what a company could do.

Furthermore, I don't believe it is necessarily a company's job to solve, like, illiteracy. That would be the governments' job, and considering a higher literacy would drive a greater GDP (and make a better society), that should be an objective everyone strives for. To do that, we need people that have lived through those situations to find the best way to lift people out of bad situations. To do that, we need their perspective. To get their perspective, we need them working for us... which means we need diversity.
That's really not the case. Once you know of an attack of this sort it's pretty easy to test everyone's chips for it. Bascially every Intel chip since Nehalem is vulnerable to Meltdown, as are IBM's POWER chips, as is one out-of-order ARM core but not any of the others. And we know that AMD chips are safe from that vulnerability.

Whether you run security checks in sequence or in parallel with a data access is pretty fundamental to the design of a core. Doing the later is has performance advantages but it's really hard to verify that won't be any architectural leaks as a result, let alone these micro-architectural leaks that nobody was thinking about.
Genuinely curious, how are you planning to handle the future in which your kids go to college and move out of your house? Do you feel like they will be adequately prepared to deal with the world that has internet, Netflix, smartphones, etc.? To me, this situation reminds of all those sheltered kids with overprotective parents, who went off the rails once they got to college, because they were not prepared to handle well all those new options they were "protected" from by their parents.
Something may look useless now, but turn out not to be useless.

Something might be useless now, but further mathematics based on it might be worth billions.
Employment rate is a false statistic if anything. The population is aging since childbirth rates have gone way down over the last few decades. A larger percent of adults are retired now and are included in that employment rate statistic.

If you just want to include people “kicked” off the lists, U-6 may be what you’re looking for. https://unemploymentdata.com/current-u6-unemployment-rate/

It’s as low as it’s been in almost two decades. Not quite as record breaking as the U-3 but still pretty good...
How’s that any different than tech workers inflating story points 2x and indulging a work from home day or kicking off early. I mean other than no job security, pension, gold watch and forced obsolescence at 51.
Kanopy is not available for Linux.
More specifically, to the republican party, climate change does not exist. Therefore, any climate change research is politically anti-republican (why would you research something that doesn't even exist?)

In the words of the leader of the republican party: "Climate Change is a Chinese hoax."

This isn't the fault of scientists in any way, shape, or form. This is a direct result of society, for some reason, organizing its political parties along "pro-intellectualism" vs "anti-intellectualism" lines. How can scientists fight back against this without being political? Should they just "deal with it?"
The exploit is so severe they are releasing patches for xp and server 2003
SSH Honey Keys
I've been eyeing more release details on the ThinkPad X395 which was recently announced. "Coming Soon" is probably means early June for some select configurations. I think these will fit in the premium/professional laptop space better than some of the bargain laptops that carried AMD chips in the past.

I believe others OEMs are developing similar offerings as well but I can't find any quick links for newer SKUs like the Ryzen 7 3700U which offers the improved Zen+ revisions which will specifically improve battery life and heat issues.
That world exists with ad blockers. Was viewing a friend's computer who didn't have an ad blocker installed and almost forgot what it had been like to see ads plastered everywhere online.
1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making
Could you please review the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note how they include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

The author of an article is someone, and we're far away from strongest plausible territory here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/bls54g/ssh_honey_ke...
> "Minimizing hours worked" is a great positive sign. You hire a programmer to solve problems (or better yet, identify and solve problems), not to sit on their butt for the maximum number of hours.

That assumes the client is paying by the problem and not by the other. Sadly, while there is project work, every place I've worked has also had a huge emphasis on billable hours.
Old GPUs did that. It wasn't very pleasant to program with. :)
That's not exactly true. Broadly speaking, there have been two very different kinds of speculative execution vulnerabilities with different security implications and workarounds. Spectre and its relatives are an attack on trusted code that process untrusted data using certain code patterns guarded by conditionals that can be speculatively executed; they're inherent to speculative execution past branches, but they require specific code patterns that can be avoided to work around the issue.

These vulnerabilites and Meltdown allow untrusted code to speculatively access data that it shouldn't be allowed to access at all, and use that speculative access to leak data itself. Unlike Spectre this can be (and to some extent has to be) fixed at the hardware level, because the hardware itself is failing to protect sensitive data. This class of vulnerability seems to have been mostly Intel-exclusive so far (with the main exception being one unreleased ARM chip that was vulnerable to Meltdown). There's nothing inherent about modern high-performance CPUs that requires them to be designed this way.

Edit: This slipped my mind, but Foreshadow / Level 1 Terminal Fault was yet another similar Intel-only processor vulnerability that allowed speculative access to data the current process should not be able to access. It's definitely a pattern.
Well, practice makes perfect... by 2020 the process of disclosing CPU vulnerabilities should be pretty streamlined, if the pace doesn’t slow down.
The Dems are talking about a Green New Deal for exactly this type of public works while the GOP has passed tax cuts and tariffs. Even if you assume the Democrats are all talk, the equivalency is a false one.
There will always be people who abuse the support the union offered, like your dad, who gives unions a bad rep - most members work with pride and want to do the best job they can.

Time allotted work is intended to ensure jobs are done safely; not everyone will take that long, but it ensures slower workers aren't going to cut corners just to keep schedule. Without a union, your dad would have been expected to take 30min every single time, and lose your job if you don't.
There are plenty of empty containers heading back to Asia, I would imagine it’s very cheap to send plastic there.
The Trump Interior Department abruptly canceled a study into coal mining's effects on the health of nearby residents. An Interior Department official explained the decision this way: "Science was a Democrat thing"
Either way, 85 bits of post-quantum security makes me feel safe.
Oh, you don't start full-time on the second job. For the second job you just only ask for shorter workweek _after_ you have the offer.

Obviously it worked out for you with being upfront, so that's great. But you get more offers if you only ask for it once offer is in hand, and more offers == stronger negotiating position.
It's worth pointing out that Virginia offered among the most miserly tax breaks in the Amazon HQ2 "competition" (about $500 million when most cities were offering $2-4 billion), and yet Arlington was still one of the locations chosen. The HQ2 "competition" was almost certainly a ruse to get the target jurisdictions, chosen before it ever started, to shell out as much cash as possible, so it's not surprising that there was a massive controversy over the tax breaks.
Seems odd to also remove what appear to be signs for retail businesses on the walls of the business itself, but maybe I’m interpreting the before and after images incorrectly.
I'm moving more and more stuff into the database. Let me clarify my job:

- I use Postgres. This is important. Postgres has long been one of the most stable databases. It has multiversion concurrency control and even lets you make changes to tables within transactions, which makes such changes easier. It has many features, like check constraints, triggers, procedural languages, and JSON, which makes it easy to put move more stuff to your database.

- I have shell access to Linux virtual machines. I don't have layers of frameworks. I use the psql command-line tool and can log in as the superuser, postgres, when I need to. So my use of the database is not inhibited in any way.

- I write internal business apps. They can have complex business rules, but it is not web scale --- though I would be comfortable serving hundreds of requests per second for tens of thousands of users with my set-up, which is just a single virtual machine. I'm being conservative, and it could probably handle 100 times that.

I began 14 years ago as most web programmers do, keeping their database as a dumb data store and writing everything in their middle layer. But I have found maintenance easier, and the overall codebase much, much smaller, by keeping my database in the know as much as possible.

- Are the values in a column supposed to be from a limited set of choices? Tell it! Put those choices in a table, and link the column to that table with a foreign key.

- Is a number supposed to be within a certain range? Is the date in a column supposed to be after a date in another column? Tell it, such as with Check constraints.

- Is the data supposed to be sorted or summed or transformed before printed on the page? Tell it! Put the gob of SQL into a view, so that all your middle layer does is "select * from view".
So as I know John Hudson is on here - how do you answer the critiques here: https://spectator.us/shakespeare-woman-atlantic/
Afterlife? You're talking nonsense.
To take a sick day off? I don't really remember, don't let me put words in his mouth. As I recall it was framed like "find a way to get a day off. Wait until you need to take a sick day if need be."

I really wouldn't read too much into my decade-old-take. I read the book last in 2014.
Worse, if you run the numbers, at DO you get 1 dedicated core (2 threads) with 8G RAM for $60, but 4 "normal" cores with same RAM for $40. Only possible conclusion is that "normal" cores are less than a full thread.
You can blow up a Chernobyl type nuclear plant a year and it'd still be better than coal.

Until we've gotten rid of coal shutting down nuclear and delaying decommissioning of coal to take up the slack involves causing mass death.

Coal is only 'acceptable' because the consequences are not as immediately visible.

PV might well be a better option once we've shut down all fossil fuel plants but in the meantime shutting down nuclear is irresponsible and immoral if it delays decommissioning of other types of plants.
Calling what's happening with modern society "loneliness epidemic" is like saying that people in a building set on fire are "suffering from heat exposure and air pollution". A lot of social processes/constructions that make our society stable have been hijacked for profit or deliberately sabotaged for political gains. In both cases it's usually a product of extremely short-term thinking or highest forms of cynicism. Feeling disconnected is nothing more than an illusory side-effect of a whole host of other things.
Can someone explain what exactly does this do? I'm a screen reader user and it seems totally inaccessible.
Yeah, billable hours is bad (for everyone). Jonathan Stark talks about this a lot: https://jonathanstark.com/

Lots of programming jobs aren't tied to that, though.
I think you're right - it was something like "now you have all this free time, you can do this drop shipping thing to make yourself totally independent of work. Maybe you quit one day!"
> Fukushima was designed to be tsunami-safe.

If you look at the compromises made in the design, I don't think you can really say that this was the case. Even if so, all it proves is that maybe we should build such reactors in safer places, not on fault lines near the ocean.
Story checks out
"I'm an engineer"

"I guess a certain percentage of those who asked scientists"

Is guessing what engineers do now? I hope I never use anything you worked on.
Yes the T495 and the X395 ought to be the best ones.
I'm fascinated by heliostats. Living in an apartment, I have always wanted to put up 'suncatchers' outside my windows and lead sunlight in through fibre optics to all the corridors and darker rooms. Something like this [1][2].

[1] https://www.parans.com/products/parans-luminaire-diffused-na...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube#Optical_fiber
They are, but what's in their best interest may be growing the company, not in cashing out immediately.
New speculative execution bug leaks data from Intel chips’ internal buffers
I really like HyperExpert.
This may be the problem. That's not the standard that applies to HN. The standard is much broader: is it intellectually interesting? Does it gratify intellectual curiosity.
I think you all are missing a key element of the story. Dave was a cool dude. People liked him. He didn't take shit, but he didn't abuse his leverage or go on power trips.

And that's part of why he got away with things.

Also according to the story he did spread his knowledge rather than jealously guarding it
There's an app for that. Replika[1]

And in Japan, Gatebox.[2] Gatebox is like Amazon's and Google's home "speakers", but with a more personal AI and a display that shows, inevitably, a cute female animated character.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/03/08/replika-c...

[2] https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/gatebox-azuma-hikari-virt...
Lina Khan: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

Thanks for the tip, I hadn't seen it anywhere yet.
I absolutely hate radio ads as well to the point where my next car is a Tesla because its one of the few vehicles that simply has no radio.

My current vehicle has a MS Sync/Carplay/AndroidAuto that reverts to radio when disconnected. The radio invariable has an ad on.
I know next to nothing about physics - is this even theoretically possible? The article states the goal is to build a machine that "generates more power than it takes in" - doesn't that violate a fundamental law?
Throw Your Laptop into the Sea, the Surveillance Economy Will Still Win
A birth certificate or social security card would probably suffice, too.
Making note of the absence of it is easier, in my experience (also, for me, the outside world needs to be silent as well). It is a really interesting state to be in.
ClickHouse as a Replacement for Elk, BigQuery and TimescaleDB
OTP-22 Highlights
Obvioysly the GP does not literally mean depleted uranium, but spent uranium, i.e. containing whole decay chains of radioactive isotopes...
Do you know about the demise of the studio system in Hollywood?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system
I have no doubt the requirements for Endgame were ridiculous. I waited a week to see it and of the 9 screens in my local Cineplex, 8 of them were still showing Endgame. The theater I was in was mostly empty, although to be fair it was a Sunday matinee.

I can kind of see demanding that kind of coverage for the first week, but for a second week you're just robbing from competing films and the theaters themselves.
I did not see that, thanks for the link! Glad I could be an influence :)
The wording makes it sound like you're calling the parent comment an anonymous coward. I also suspect a lot of people didn't catch the Slashdot reference.
"Shakespeare couldn't have written those plays because [insert cultural bias here]."
Coal plants spew much more radioactivity into the air and keep doing so. Add on the particulate matter, and we'd be better off with a Chernobyl a year - the death toll from coal is much higher.
Addendum after edit time passed: the final and primary criticism I'm making about this argument is this: if you selectively narrow your view to the Apple ecosystem and ignore all external entities, you would easily come to the conclusions you are coming to. I believe that is an artificial and distorting narrowing of the scope that must be considered in this argument.
Sorry, but this is bad manners, breaks several of the HN guidelines, and is no way to treat a guest.

If you're going to engage with an author who probably isn't familiar with HN (or any reader, really), please do better than a snarky one-liner.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908505 and marked it off-topic.
The generation capacity will idle otherwise. It's probably better to sell the electricity for cheap than let the capacity idle to the point where it rusts and becomes useless.
What can I say, Playstation Vue is in deep trouble
I find uBlock works well at blocking YouTube ads but occasionally I get a static screen in the video player that says something like “Service not available at the moment.”.
YT seems to be intermittently blocking UBO users.
Well there was that (product placement) scene in Weeds where they talk about the Prius being a great "dealer" car because the silent mode is great for drive-by shootings.

IIRC, Weeds was on Netflix.
As with Spectre/Meltdown, L1TF et al, Intel chooses who to loop in to their disclosure.

All of it is tightly controlled under an embargo. Who they choose to involve is entirely their decision, and is likely based on previous experience with those parties and their likelihood of leaking. Intel doesn't want these kinds of things to leak before official communication is done, or it's pretty much guaranteed to impact their stock price.

This time around has gone much smoother than the previous ones, though L1TF was pretty good too. L1TF was a little rough with the patching side of things because the patches were finalised a little late.

The various distributions and companies knew that the embargo was due to end at 10am pacific, and were probably (like us) refreshing the security advisories page on Intel's site waiting to pull the trigger on all the relevant processes, like publishing blog pages etc.
> and could've been found through thorough examination of the processor manuals, but nobody had really looked too hard there.

I don't think you're giving enough credit. The actual microarchitecture isn't documented much in those manuals, so looking hard at those wouldn't help without making a series of assumptions of how it all works. The authors of recent exploits have been diligently reverse engineering and making sensible guesses.
I dunno, I'm not convinced TV time is as detrimental to children as we're being told. It sounds a lot like the "kids these days" trope.
This article is so hard to read. If youre interested in tracing Id just check out Brendan Greggs series on the subject.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-traci...
> Less likely to mate and require higher insurance premiums for a spouse and children

Lonely people are a tremendous risk to themselves and others, they do a lot of spontaneous dying and tend to get progressively worse at caring about doing their job. I've seen employee loneliness hurt company bottom lines, I don't think that's rare.
You're putting words in my mouth. The key fact about eating at restaurants is that you don't need other people to prepare food for you in order to eat. You can make food for yourself. That is not true of most other consumption.

But speaking of consumption, the best thing most people can do for the environment is to reduce consumption. And the easiest way to know whether you've achieved that is to just spend less money on everything you buy. Buy a used car instead of new. Take a road trip instead of traveling via plane. Make more food yourself. Eat more grains and less leafy greens. Eat more chicken and less beef. Etc.
Having a look on https://lowendbox.com/ maybe worth a go