skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> science needs to be politicized the right way. Diversity initiatives.

No thank you. I don't need the left telling me that there are 30 genders nor the right telling me that climate change doesn't exist. There is no "right" politicization.
We haven't solved the 'waste problem'.

1) Long term storage has some existential risks. Over very long time horizons, these risks become real.

2) Transportation, processing and storage: all of this operational stuff is totally ripe for accidents.
It's also available for Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...
I think China was looking at putting up satellite solar reflectors to avoid the electrical cost of night time illumination in cities. If that tech gets cheap enough you could in theory target a town/agriculture like this to give it an effective latitude shift towards the equator.
Right! After too much time watching CinemaSins I automatically think "This movie brought to you by ____" when I see a prominent logo.

Like the Microsoft Surface in Marvel's Netflix series.
Sorry if I'm reading between the lines too much, but 28 cores and 56GB RAM for a business that is not covering it's own cloud costs sounds like a lot of compute resources. Unless maybe you're doing something unusual and have a lot of data when you don't have a lot of users yet. I would try to aggressively cut those numbers, not the price per core, and stay with DigitalOcean if it was me. I've been forced to use cheap, less reliable VMs and it's a huge time waster unless you have a big team and big dev budget to code around it.

You might need to slightly, "prematurely" optimize your computations to get by with less compute power, but if you're broke you're broke. Don't forget that the first few times you really need more compute resources, you can resize production to a bigger machine(s) in 10 minutes and that's not "wrong", even if it's not going to be the long term solution.
I guess I'm arguing that UX extends beyond command names and learning curves (while definitely incorporating those things). I'm on-board with the notion that there are aspects of git's UX that are terrible. But as a user, if your experience was awful, you would not love the software.
What It Takes for a Smart City to Consider People's Feelings
It isn't wrong.

> The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television.
> Ratings tracking company Nielsen reported in 2014 that the average hour of television has close to 15 minutes and 30 seconds of commercials.

By their count 1/4th of each hour is commercials.

1600 * .75 / 365 == 3.3 hours per day
> I think it's a little far to suggest that any rank and file ENGINEER would have compromised ethics

They should have the ability to think about the ethical impact of their work, or have awoken to the necessity.

“never thought about it” is a worse answer than “I’m OK with it.” I may not hire someone who answers the later, but I can respect them for having a thoughtful answer.
The focus is on Intel partially because it's the most valuable target, so we might be looking at selection bias.
I actually forgot YouTube had ads until someone showed me a video on their laptop this past weekend. Was painful to watch them try to dismiss it.
How 80% of first page of Google results is dominated by one company
> How do you reconcile that with the notion of Darwinian evolution? Is it not true that individual organisms are born with small mutations which make them more or less suitable for an environment, and that over long time periods, the ones who are more suitable for an environment will flourish in that environment?

Very true. Nothing has changed about the facts of natural selection in biology. I'm not talking about biology, though, I'm talking about sociology, and I don't think the mechanisms that act on biology have much of anything to do with sociology. For example, we can demonstrate that natural selection can be totally annihilated by, for example, keeping people with birth defects alive with medicine. We can even develop entire industries around keeping these people "equal." One of these industries is Optometry.

> Are you suggesting the individual could reverse a detrimental inherited mutation in his own lifetime (as opposed to the lifetime of his distant descendants), if properly nurtured?

Since we are talking about sociology, the "mutation" is a result of society, not of biology (or anything to do with the individual, really), in which case yes, any aspect caused sociologically can be reversed/changed/altered sociologically.

People born poor and thus lacking education can be given education, which both solves the problem for new "people born poor" while also "reversing" the detrimental effects of a lacking education in existent individuals (through nurturing them).

I believe this method of nurturing or uplifting is not only morally superior to the concept of social darwinism (and I am happy to defend this point moralistically), but it is also better by all other traditional measures of society "success" - average happiness, productivity, technological advancement.
How else did we get our current extreme copyright lengths? Were regular people advocating for this? Or was it for wealthy corporations and their shareholders? Did anyone responsible for the Great Recession face any legal consequences for destroying our economy and putting people out of their homes? Did people go to jail?

Call it hyperbole if you want, but it's the reality we're living in.
There is "Google Contributor" [1].

The idea is basically that you pay the publisher out of your own pocket for their ad space, to buy your own impression. This might be a great product if it covers the majority of ad inventories...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
Korean team designs graphene-based transparent flexible battery
Works for your devices. Doesn’t work for the outside world.
Remember the Oracle cloud in iron man? Cringe
> For every set of "unique" insights, there is almost always many sets of unrelated data sources that can be analytically combined to deliver the same insights. In the slightly seedy underworld of data model brokers, I've seen some very impressive examples of this.

If you could share a couple of examples it would help a lot to get your point across.

FWIW, I agree with the thesis that data intensive computation could be one or two orders of magnitude more efficient than it currently is, with sufficient engineering. Probably Cassandra vs ScyllaDB is a good public example, and ScyllaDB is likely not close to the theoretical optimum at all. But I'm not sure about deriving data from alternative sources. How do you derive movement data for everyone with an Android phone if you're not Google?
I don't play fortnite, but having been involved in other games with cosmetics, some of them quite expensive, most of the players would be able to easily distinguish the rare, expensive cosmetics.
I think there's quite a big difference between leaking information between security contexts (Meltdown) and leaking within a security context (Spectre). The later is a problem but it's not a the same magnitude of failure as the former is.

Also, no need for older SoCs. High end ARM chips have both in-order and out-of-order cores but the cheaper ones have in-order ones only. A Snapdragon 450 is pretty modern and doesn't speculate deeply enough to be vulnerable to Spectre.
Sharing CPUs is not the point, as long as you are sharing physical memory with other tenants, you are vulnerable (although exploits are much harder when attackers have to cross privilege boundaries).
>"people less genetically able to do certain jobs tend to become minorities"

This is a sidenote to my longer comment - I've never seen evidence, ever, of a genetic component to the ability to do a certain job, that surpasses a statistical margin of error.
that has happened repeatedly to people at my last few jobs. they simply didn't travel.
I'll take two instances of product placement in an hour's programming vs. 42 min of TV with 18 min advertising.
well we certaintly aren't moving towards that in Germany so I wonder where they actually are and what that looks like in reality. If everyone else is also just going to burn more coal than ever before all of this is nothing but a very expensive step backwards.
My point is that adopting such point of view is a form of fatalism that leads to erosion of self-control.
So, they've successfully got rid of about 50% of nuclear and 20% of coal by adding a very small amount of gas generation. Presumably the rest is coming from renewables. Sounds like a pretty good progress report.
The trick is to build yourself a four-hour workweek by starting a business that tells people how great a four-hour workweek is.
From my understanding, the technology is not deeply flawed. It just has accuracy problems when dealing with edge cases.

Facial recognition is not a 100% independent solution, but instead should aid other systems, including human-run systems. I think this is the concept that critics fail to grasp.
This happens only because Intel went much further than AMD and other companies in exploring these effects. If other companies used speculative execution as much as Intel, the result would be the same. It is not a flaw of implementation, it is a flaw of basic design.
It's a place where your family is, it's an OAuth provider depended upon by a bunch of apps, and it's hella popular as a contact page for individuals as well as businesses.

"If you don't like it, leave." is more like a religious mantra than a serious normative argument at this point. Did we mention the trackers?
This would be cool. Would need toggles with a wide variety of options since 'livability' means very different things to different people.

Like for me, I love that now that I live in Munich, I can get around by foot, by bike, by bus, by train, etc. But a lot of Americans really do like that in the US, everything is so spread out you have to drive. Different strokes and all.
Used this for a bachelor party. Slick product and much less cumbersome than Slack for our non-tech / industry friends. I just wish it would have helped us keep the groom alive...maybe something to add to the product roadmap?
Which is why I am a big fan of Analogue which is doing hardware level and accurate emulation via FPGAs. Hopefully they will be able to get through the PS1/N64/Saturn. After that, things become quite a bit more complicated due to increased complexity.

Also, there are quite a few really good emulators that do handle the vast majority of games and probably could be enhanced to cover the remaining incompatibility. The question is whether there is a enough incentive to do so.
Apparently the issue is the eMMC storage wearing out and failing, not simply getting full. Since it’s soldered on it is not a feasible repair at the shop.
You cannot give each VM their own core. The business model of the cloud is that multiple VMs with virtual cores run on a single real core.
Building+Reliable+Reprocessing+and+Dead+Letter+Queues+with+Apache+Kafka
kimsufi. They have dedicated servers in Canada and can be pretty cheap.
> Spectre/Meltdown, which leak the speculative information via the cache side-channel, completely blindsided the architecture community; it wasn't just one incompetent company.

In the x86 space, Meltdown absolutely was down to one company apparently deciding to over-optimize for performance.

I can't find it now, but I remember reading a thread from (I think) the OpenBSD devs about how the Intel MMU documentation described fairly sane behaviours and how far the reality deviated from the documentation.
They probably aren't literally watching the TV the whole time.

Some parents have the TV on in the background but the children are distracted with other tasks.

For example, I will watch the news while my daughter plays in the same room doing her own thing.
This.

I'm not sure of your use case, but it seems likely that you'd be able to use 1-2 32GB or 1 64GB dedicated machine instead of 7 8GB machines. You can get those cheap at Hetzner or OVH or OVH's surplus site Soyoustart.com
You could apply that same logic to pretty much any hardship that builds character. It's not a good argument.
That number is included in the marketplace vs 1P sales. The 3P seller gets credited when their commingled item is sold. Amazon gets credited for the sale when it is the one they own that is sold. That's how it works. A lot of sellers also opt out of commingling so it is really not as much of a factor as is sometimes portrayed. There are only certain kinds of items that are disproportionately impacted by it.

>I know Walmart is very severe with their vendors, do you believe Amazon is worse?

I mean, Walmart is harsh, but Amazon is just an insane robot as it relates to most vendors. Think more maliciously dumb than evil.
Can we actually compute without branching? Genuine question.

What architecture would do that, and how?
It's marked as such (the "/s" at the end). But I didn't realize that it was satire until I got to the "/s". Which is scary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/boiknf/linux_kern...

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/bofpri/linux_kernel...

https://www.cert-bund.de/advisoryshort/CB-K19-0400
Your dismissal seems more hyperbolic than that statement. I think that statement is very plainly worded and uncontroversial.
I do linode + Wasabi - https://wasabi.com/
There's an upside to loneliness for employers. Fewer distractions from the job. Less likely to mate and require higher insurance premiums for a spouse and children. Less likely to join a union or act as a a group against the employer.
I'm trying to figure out if i'm allowed to post it publicly yet, in the mean time shoot me a message (on say twitter @_mcnutt_) and I'll send it to you
> If the person saying it is asking for a tax break that they say will fund this increase in jobs, then yes I would assume it precludes cutting jobs elsewhere. The whole point was it would be additive to society rather them shifting resources around but still pocketing the money.

I don’t think that assumption is at all sound. AT&T has 2.7x as many employees as Alphabet, but just 21% more revenue. It has a huge, unionized workforce that is in a long term process of being trimmed down over time due to market changes and automation. (It had 310,000 employees in 2007, and is down to 260,000.) A commitment to invest money that will create some jobs cannot be interpreted as a commitment to reverse that long term process altogether.
You're right, it's not illegal, but there's been a MASSIVE chilling effect on outside play. Of my daughter's friend group, she has by far the most freedom. She's got free reign over our neighborhood which has two parks, a school, a couple lakes, and even a small wooded area kids can venture off into. But none of her friends are allowed to play outside. One friend of hers, 12 years old, is not allowed to ride her bike in her own driveway without a parent outside with her. Another friend of hers, 13, has never been allowed to spend the night at a friend's house. All of these other parents think I'm the crazy one for letting my kid play outside. She usually chooses not to, because it's hardly any fun to play alone.

I know, anecdata and all that, but it's really crazy out there.
> these flaws mostly affect Intel because they are the largest CPU manufacturer

It doesn't have anything do to with how large Intel is. They have clearly made a more aggressive hardware design which has more corner cases to break. The designs are broken and microcode can patch some variants of these side channels but the overhead is becoming a problem.

In this case it's not certain if microcode can address the problem but if it can't, disabling of SMT (hyperthreading) can be a significant cost for some workloads (well above 10% for things that haven't been specifically tuned to avoid cache misses, which is most software in my experience).
So I'd love to post an Ask HN: Which AMD Laptops would you recommend for work, alternatives to Thinkpads?

I've noticed some Thinkpads with AMD CPUs but I feel like I'm on virgin ground when it comes to AMD and their integrated GPU offerings.
Apologies for the misunderstanding on agreement outside of the definition of mindfulness. I've had a quick skim of your first link and also of the selected correspondence on mindfulness. Obviously there's a lot to digest there so I will wait until I can give them the attention they deserve. Until then I have a couple more questions if you don't mind answering (it's fine if you don't and I will read your links regardless).

First of all, when you say:

> to be curiously explored with awareness and attentiveness

To me that sounds like introspection (correct me if I am misunderstanding). You say that disassociating from your emotions is the wrong way to go about it, but how can you do true introspection without disassociating a little? Otherwise wouldn't your introspection be clouded by your emotions?

I was wondering if you had any thoughts on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? To my knowledge, the main idea of ACT is that you don't avoid negative emotions or feelings but instead accept them and attempt to passively observe them.

In any case, whether you answer these questions or not I appreciate the conversation. It's always interesting to learn about new philosophies and criticisms of other philosophies.
To be more clear: Red meat is classified as 2A (probably carcinogenic) and Processed meat is classified as 1 (definitely carcinogenic)

Glyphosate is 2A
The hit is in IPC between the kernel and userland processes. If you really want to pay it, then just go microkernel. You can do that today.
> Is it really so outlandish to suggest that populations have diverged cognitively after tens-hundreds of thousands of years of separation?

Yes, actually, because civilization is only (barely) 10,000 years old, which is not many generations to develop "cognitive" difference.

Take a newborn member of one population, plop it in one on the other side of the planet, and in 20 years they'll be indistinguishable from anyone else (minus whatever effects that society applies to the child due to differences in their appearance).

I disagree the genetic heritage of an individual affects their cognitive ability in a way to overcome statistical error, with all the cognitive "noise" of society existing.

It should therefore be disregarded.
I wonder how the Lumen value is being derived. I assume whatever current worth is on Coinbase Pro at the time the amount is sent, considering they namedrop Coinbase Pro as a place to buy Lumens.
Git signatures are designed for cryptographic security, and they (currently) rely on the SHA-1 hashes.

When you're signing a commit (or a tag) you're just signing the commit (or tag) message which includes the SHA-1 hash of the relevant "root" tree object (or commit object). The tree object, in turn is (in effect) a list of SHA-1 hashes of the files directly in the directory, along with their file sizes and permissions, plus the hashes of the tree objects corresponding to any subdirectories.

Consequently, if you replaced a file with another having the same SHA-1 hash (and the same file size — a considerable complication), all the hashes would remain the same and the signature would still be valid.

Obviously, once git transitions to SHA-256, the problem will disappear.
Why do that to a company based in San Jose? Much more likely it is just bad reporting, compounded by tech ignorance. The US government is very open about its critique of Huawei, why would they secretly and illegitimately attack Supermicro, Apple, and Amazon?
Right. So its already sequestered as plastic whether its in the ocean or a landfill. Creating new plastic from oil and then reburying it doesn't sequestrate any more carbon.
That's super cool! I hadn't seen that, very neat. That reminds me a lot of this https://github.com/enamulh/ConVis
Erm, not full exactly. This is more like a rechargable battery that cannot handle being charged anymore. The old battery is not "empty", it's dead. This chip is not "full", it is dead. The lifetime physical endurance limits are exceeded, and functionality is lost.
I guarantee you someone out there is thinking seriously about it.
Buying changes to intellectual property ownership laws isnt antitrust tho, its regulatory capture.
In public schools in the US? No, not really.
2^85 is for finding a collision; finding a preimage of a specific hash would take 2^128 steps of Grover's algorithm. That's thought to be beyond any possible future computer system.
Almost all creative works make the majority of their money in the first few years from their release, if not the first year itself. Movies, TV, etc. will still be extremely profitable businesses under a shorter copyright. Shorter copyrights also serve to help encourage creators and artists to continue to produce new works for the public to enjoy.
I’m sure the usual fearmongering arguments will be used to promote the technology. But I have to ask: what’s the upside of this tech? It needs to scan everyone’s face at all times to get a match. What are the applications and what’s the upside? How does it compare with a CCTV system like in London or Singapore? I’d like to understand the trade off.
Why do you need so much compute power?
Google combining travel tools (hotel, flights)
When the GP mentioned Elysium I was also reminded of the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie with the AR ads similar to this video.
I had that exact same feeling visiting the village where my wife is from in the mountains around Karpenisi, Greece. I couldn’t stop looking up and at times I felt this oppressive and menacing sense of claustrophobia (which I don’t usually suffer from). Am now more used to it but I wouldn’t want to live there. Born in Australia near the coast I’m definitely a beach guy and like others have mentioned I am very happy to see the sun on the horizon.
And is it a coincidence that copyrights have been extended to coincide with Disney’s major properties being scheduled to move into the public domain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Our customers successfully use VictoriaMetrics [1] in production as a long-term remote storage for big amounts of time series data from Prometheus. We are going to open source VictoriaMetrics soon.

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/Sing...
> If you're a Red Hat customer, you could file a support ticket to get it pulled back in.

I have never spent $1 of my own money on Red Hat. After seeing this, I never will.
Isn't dental insurance just a scam? It's a lot of money but then if you need a root canal or something it only pays 50% so why?
Yeah, all my favorite shows from my childhood in the 80's were created to sell a toy.
His post is, but there's probably like 20 people working on VC pitches that aren't.
considering the june/july initial reporting, the stacking of evidence to related exploits and the release in may next year it look more like 9 months plus some slacking due to multiple being reported. Does not sound like a "they kept waiting indefinitely" but more like proper due diligence.
"Massive spending programs without clearly-defined revenue streams."

Science doesn't have "revenue streams". Basic research doesn't have "revenue streams".
"dominated by voucher white label sites with them representing about 50% of the overall results." I would have thought Google in its almighty wisdom would have had automated system in place to detect this. That's terrible.
Can I ask (just generally) what you're doing that you need that setup to just start? a SAAS? Machine Learning? Scraping the web?

Just curious if there's a better approach/your estimates are way off.
By this logic there should no copyright protection in the first place for entertainment. Why should the government use law enforcement resources to track down people and take away their freedoms because they copied a movie?

Only because the government is already involved, protecting their interests, is there even anything to "take" in the first place.