skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dm17 unlagged instagib. good times.
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http://www.whiteroofproject.org/faq

It can reduce energy consumption for start... and you already might need to paint your roof...
This is a super interesting approach I hadn’t thought of. Unfortunately it seems to be limited in practice, as demonstrated by the article: first of all, certain constructs cannot be used in a constexpr context, and second (and more worryingly) many compilers fail to diagnose undefined behavior or do so incorrectly. If the second issue can be fixed I can see this being a very useful, if specialized tool for improving the safety of C++ code.
AFAIK there have been bitcoin laundering services for years (bitcoin in, bitcoin out).

As for spending, there used to be pre-loaded credit cards that you could from bitcoin.
It's funny. Sure, DSL brought the (much) bigger bandwidths, but when moving from ISDN to DSL, ping times increased again and it made total sense to play ESL matches over telephone dialup instead of DSL.
But either they improved or it's just the normal. Anyway, I stopped playing shooters in the early 00s and so I don't really care anymore.

source: German who never had a 56k modem but started with ISDN in 1998 and can't really remember a ping > 100 on EU servers ;)
I'd like to know who he thinks the "we" is in this article. Several countries are already using ~100% carbon-neutral electricity and the USA and Europe are progressing rapidly. The main culprits are developing nations and China, so it's "them" who should be doing something urgently and "they" have a whole slew of other problems not covered by Gates' US-centric perspective.

Reasonable approaches would be to bring manufacturing back to countries that use mostly clean energy (oh, and modern approaches to labor and human rights) and to tax imports from developing countries with poor CO2 record heavily until they fix their issues.
CVE-2018-12130 is in the list of CVE's in your link. That is the ZombieLoad CVE. I hate these stupid names, they only confuse as shown by your comment.
"Ergonomics (i.e. edge of the screen is fast to reach with a mouse, color contrast, size of fonts, ...)"

It's more basic than that - the premise of UI deals first core usability, the layout of information of components in a manner that communicates information and allows for basic interactivity, and then to make it all coherent across the app.

That alone can get pretty hard, there's all sorts of decisions that need to be made. Consider that it's as much about what you don't see as those elements you do.

Then you can get into the more granular aspects such as those covered in this article that I identified as 'picky' (for example, the specific contrast ratios among various elements - this is far beyond what 99% of UI designers have the luxury of addressing) and then of course broadening the scope of accessibility, corner functions, cross platform consistency.

Even the basics of UI can be pretty hard, let alone the aesthetic elements, and very specific things.

And of course, all of it 'cross cuts' with the aesthetic aspects, which is why the disciplines of UI and classical design are so tightly interwoven.

Design and UX is very poorly understood, and it's difficult to professionalize or measure given the abstract nature of the subject. As Engineers, we love to measure things, and much of great design defies the kinds of classical measurements we are used to. As the OP indicated, it's also a field wherein it's hard to be self aware i.e. to 'know what you don't know', and so 'everyone has an opinion'.

A great UI is almost like a great API - it's hard to measure and articulate, but generally we know it when we use it.
> I've no memeory of what motivated me to spend so much time ...

I do :)

It was the wonder of doing something for the first time. Of feeling like you were pioneering and learning and having fun all at the same time.

Truly, fun times :)
Honestly, even trying to achieve the "theoretical ideal price" based on supply and demand is already screwing up with the market. Regular people are not like HFT algorithms, with infinite pools of money available and ability to turn opportunity cost into profit. Having a stable and predictable price is important when deciding whether or not order a taxi/rideshare at all.

(At least, that's my experience. I wonder what your data has to say on it.)

As a customer, I'd be happiest if taxi companies charged a rate per-km, that's calculated off their consumables + car amortization + some reasonable profit margin. I think drivers may be happier too - recent personal experience with myTaxi shows this. They offered a promotion in which the passenger would pay a fixed cost known immediately in the app, but which calculations changed every day or so. Some days, it would become a good deal for the drivers; other days, the drivers would be working at a loss. I had a lot of problems getting a ride when using this promotion, and chatting with the drivers revealed that they instinctively ignore those requests, as from their POV the profits are unreliable.
As you say, only the first Foreshadow attack went after SGX - it turned out to be a broader flaw that also affected OS page table protections more generally and could be used to attack process-OS and VM-hypervisor isolation. Those variants relied only on Intel's implementation of standard x86 paging, and they don't exist on AMD because they didn't implement it in the flawed way Intel did. That is, Foreshadow/L1TF is Intel-only not because it relies on an Intel-only feature, but because it's an Intel-specific implementation flaw. (Linux had to substantially rework its paging code to work around this.)

AMD don't seem to have commented on ZombieLoad yet, presumably because it's much newer and they didn't have pre-announcement info about it, but they've commented on the other two vulnerabilities announced today and explained that the reason they're not vulnerable is because the corresponding units in their CPUs don't allow speculative data access unless the access checks pass and their whitepaper seems to suggest the same is true of ZombieLoad: https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-whitepap...

SGX does make for an easier and flashier demo for Foreshadow, though, so it makes sense that the researchers went after that target. They managed to recover the top-level SGX keys that all SGX security and encryption on the system relies on, something that I don't think anyone had ever managed before.

Also, as I've said elsewhere, Intel seems to speculatively leak data that shouldn't be accessible pretty much everywhere in their designs where memory is accessed.
>If you can't identify the guilty driver how does the video footage help your case then?

You can use it to prove your own actions - i.e. was safely stopped at the green light when you were smashed into by another car.
Why not both - our current "forward" momentum is increasing greenhouse gases and, even if we switch fully to renewables with minimal carbon footprint in a very short time-frame, that momentum will continue to have effects. If we apply the "backward" momentum and start removing carbon while also switcing production to green, it should stop the negative effects more quickly.

Of course, I'm all for thorough planning and extensive, well-funded and organized research first - unfortunately, we can't seem to start doing one of these things seriously, let alone all three...
But because the world must balance the need to eliminate carbon emissions with economic growth

I read this often, and everytime can't help but wonder: must the world really strive for economic growth? Is just stability not enough? Isn't unbridled growth a major cause of the situation we're in now (and not just with respect to climate, but also the wealth of other environmental problesm, even disasters, the earth faces)? Note: these are honest questions. I don't know how econmics really work. Maybe I'm naive, and I perfectly get for some 'more more more' is the key aspect in life. But is that really required?
Amsterdam Dutch vocabulary contains a plethora of Yiddish words which are commonly used, though not outside of Amsterdam. Hence it is in contrast to the rest of The Netherlands where you'll still find a few being used but not nearly as much and ingrained as Amsterdam.

Its not merely the dialect, its also the accent. The hard Dutch 'g' isn't spoken in everywhere in The Netherlands (for example the south doesn't use it).

A musical piece about the Amsterdam Dutch dialect is Osdorp Posse - Origineel Amsterdams [1]. It contains a lot of Amsterdam Dutch vocubulary. As someone who cannot speak Dutch, see if you can recognize any Yiddish words?

[1] https://lyrics.fandom.com/wiki/Osdorp_Posse:Origineel_Amster...
Lachs is salmon, not to be confused with seelachs which is just (Atlantic) cod. Don't confuse the two in a restaurant. I made that mistake once. Couldn't believe the price either until we got our dish. Needless to say, mistakes were made...
Synthesis and Verification for All – Emina Torlak
This is why I stated where I lived - I always figured a few communities actually does things better. I'm happy it isn't everywhere, but boy oh boy was it like this in the Midwest (Indiana, to be precise).

Moving to Norway was night and day, though. Busses that run basically on time. Pedestrian paths all over that cut through neighborhoods and are safe. Actual right of way for pedestrians. Bridges or tunnels over busier roads and in my city, they are slowly routing traffic away from congested areas to make them walkable. I can get to other cities using public transportation as well, including the airports. I am not legal to drive here. We own a car (Spouse drives), but we only use it a few times a month.
I doubt that you both manage critical infrastructure on AWS and haven't read the AWS security bulletin.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-...
already better than s3 :) makes me think of https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
Boeing make a bunch of military aircraft, drones and missiles [1]. The US government might want to buy those in the future, so wants Boeing to stay in business.

Hence, the government is unlikely to deal Boeing a killing blow.

[1] http://www.boeing.com/defense/#/products-services
For the camera alone one could do a few tricks on the client like VR's timewarp/reprojection, but that doesn't work for gameplay actions (like pressing the fire/jump button).

Theoretically the server could speculatively render and transmit a number of different "potential future frames", and the client throws the wrongly predicted frames away.

That's a nice way to burn even more energy and bandwidth though ;)
So what's the right approach here? Could there be a BDS-like movement on things created with dirty energy?

If there was a "made with renewable energy" certification on products, I'd certainly consider paying a premium and even being inconvenienced into finding them.

Maybe even a version of the better world shopper (https://betterworldshopper.org/) which does exclusively energy grades and then have forward-thinking grocery stores start to to put the grade on the label.

I'd certainly shop at a store with that system at every conceivable opportunity.
That applies to intentional smuggling, but I'm sure a lot more CBP seizures (by number, if not quantity) are from enforcing agricultural and IP laws that travelers unknowingly or carelessly attempted to violate.

Bringing a citrus fruit from most countries, various other fresh foods, counterfeit goods, etc.
Does anyone know why nobody talks about how air-conditioning might be causing warming?

Related:

Scott Adams' Tweet

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/112654646662374605...

Scott Adams' Video of Giant Room at Wynn Las Vegas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1SP-tinmPw
You could not be further from the truth. Carbon emissions per capita is way higher in the US and in Europe than in China and India.
Maybe “get the lead out” would be better?
You are downvoted for apparant racism.

The western world, of about 500 million people, pollute 4x more than China which has 1.2B people.
...what's the point of playing competitive first-person-shooters when an AI is at the controls.

And those types of game are the ones that are suffering most from input latency.
Yeah. The grandparent post is such a cliche in an age when the competition authorities stopped doing their job.
Same thing in Netherland. There's constantly attempts to cut down on "schijnzelfstandigheid", which results in me having to jump through lots of hoops because I do long projects for big clients, on-site, as part of a team. But I make my own business decisions.

But when PostNL wants to fire all their mail deliverers and rehire them as independent contractors, they can. When I asked why, it turned out the main difference was that they are replaceable and I'm not: if they're unable to deliver mail at a certain day, they can get a friend to do it for them. When I'm ill, I can't send someone else to do my job.

It's a stupid rule. It's the exact reason why I have power over my work situation and they don't, yet somehow it's the reason why their situation is allowed and I constantly need to prove myself (though I haven't had any trouble so far).
Growth does not imply consumption of resources. It can simply be technological advances. Finding better cures for cancer is also growth.

Of course mankind would continue without better cures for cancer. But I find it difficult to argue that we shouldn't look for better cures.
> Then maybe the Python crowd wouldn't need to call out to C code whenever they needed to do some number crunching.

Numpy and Scipy use a lot of Fortran at the backend, and unfortunately, beating Fortran when it comes to number crunching is insanely difficult, not just because of the language, but because those libraries like LAPACK have spent decades being refined into incredibly fast and accurate systems.

Python's ability to talk to those libraries is a bonus. But Python itself could never compete directly with them. Pure-python code isn't capable of some of the insane speed those libraries can pull off.
Favourite Talks
https://www.sundayassembly.com

This is an example of what you seek. They pop up every now and then in my country.

Quote from website:

>The Sunday Assembly was started by Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, two comedians who were on the way to a gig in Bath when they discovered they both wanted to do something that was like church but totally secular and inclusive of all—no matter what they believed. The first ever Sunday Assembly meeting took place on January 6th 2013 at The Nave in Islington. Almost 200 people turned up at the first meeting, 300 at the second and soon people all over the world asked to start one. Now there are over 70 Sunday Assembly chapters in 8 different countries where people sing songs, hear inspiring talks, and create community together. Why do we exist? Life is short, it is brilliant, it is sometimes tough, we build communities that help everyone live life as fully as possible.
Beeing a designer is not easy. Other than in programming or e.g. in sound mixing, everybody has (strong) opinions on design. Ever met a boss who came into the room looked at you code and told you to use library x instead of the thing you used the past three weeks? Stuff like this only happens to designers, because everybody believes they can judge design. The client that makes a design in MSWord and wants you to do exactly that still exists — why they hired you when they already have it remains a mystery.

On top of that you have so many free templates and drag and drop website designers, as a designer you can’t really afford making good design unless your customer is a multinational company, because customers will always compare you with the cheap online service. This means most designers are basically forced to use something fast, that looks halfway decent by economic reasons. Of course there are always those who really think what they do is great, but I don’t think they are in the majority.

That beeing said, I love the interfaces of old professional electronic gear (and lately I have been working in some myself). I don’t think you can transfer that in a good way to the flat screen without adjustments. Let’s not forget the abnominations bad skeuomorphic design produced, every trend will consist of a lot of cheap trash always.
> We can do even more. By investing in energy innovations...

Ok. Do it. You promised to give away your entire net worth years ago but you're still worth $100 billion. What's the hold up?
IMO, when well done, Material design looks like skeuomorphism for movement.

That is probably correlated with my taste for minimalist/stylized animation/graphics.

Arguably often it appears just low effort, empty and forgettable.
Portuguese and Spanish:

tongue (can mean language as well): a língua portuguesa, la lengua española.

language is different, Portuguese is feminine, and Spanish is masculine: a linguaguem de programação, el lenguaje de programación.

idiom is masculine in both: o idioma português, el idioma español.
Is he happy with his Oculus job after the FB deal or will he leave after the Quest comes out?
The word 'artificial' is, well, basically bullshit. There's no such thing as 'artificial' (or 'natural'). It all boils down to molecules and atoms, in the end.

What matters is (lack of) toxicity, harmful, LD50, food safety. 'Artificial' however does not and should not imply any of that.

As for

> Is it only me or is this whole preprocessed food stuff the most American thing ever?

I wouldn't say so. There's innovation regarding this throughout the world.

On top of that, cutting down on meat saves the environment. Is saving the environment an American thing...?

I'd wager that fast food is mostly an American invention, but it got picked up throughout the rest of the world. Like preprocessed food it isn't good or bad per definition.
Risk implies uncertainty. A "guaranteed risk" is not a risk.
And of course I prefer a small decrease in life expectancy to the risk of rendering millions of people homeless.

The equation does change when taking climate change in account. But that does not mean renewables are preferred to nuclear merely for "political reasons". Being better than coal does not remotely make it acceptable.
I was curious about the Turkish word Pilav so looked it up. It turns out it's related to both Pilau in India and Paella in Spain, brought by the spread of Islam. In all cases it's rice or other grain cooked in a broth.

It's a much more recent dispersion than Indo-European, but I still found it fascinating that the Spanish, Turkish and Indian restaurants in my town have this connection in their cuisine.
> As an example, peas themselves are likely very healthy, but pea extracts like protein powder and pea-based fake meats are likely not.

That's an awfully strong statement. Do you have any evidence or cite?
People want to be surrounded by other people like them, consciously or subconsciously. Whether it be under the guise of physical security, security of their house’s sell price, security of their kids education, all of these lead to the same place. Stratification by income/class/job security.

I don’t know if there is a good way to combat this, without restricting people’s rights. People will sort by quality of school district when choosing where to buy a home and live in the one best one they can afford, and that correlates super well with parents’ socioeconomic class.

Reducing the income/wealth gap seems to be the only way on my opinion to overcome this phenomenon.
I think you need to clarify your question. Are you asking what the scope of a USD1M+ / year software contract would be? Large internationals easily pay the SAP and Oracles USD1M+ / year in maintenance alone.
I think they might not care unless this can somehow endanger their infrastructure. (It's not really unlimited, is it?)

If the few blokes using this scam their way into few hundred terabytes of free storage, so be it, it's not worth the hassle for Google, imo.

edit: Apparently an account can create up to 250 docs a day https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/qu...
It is interesting to see so many grammar and spelling errors in this short article. Almost sounds like he didn't write this himself.
It was one of the least popular versions of Windows, no? Certainly its market share never exceeded XP's.
I have to agree with you. Put your money where your mouth is.
No, lets be clear here. OP said that Designers fundamentally do not understand their job, how OP "hates UIs and [..] UI designers" and how much they know better.

What OP is talking about is how sometimes there is bad design, in exactly the same way there is bad code, and using that to extrapolate out to an entire discipline. Imagine seeing someone's shitty very first Visual Basic project and just declaring that all developers fundamentally don't understand their jobs.
I find it super hard to believe that get older faster genes have a universal advantage that makes them widespread across a lot of species.
My perception for a long time has been that Vista, from a technical perspective, was leaps and bounds above XP, but the end user experience was sometimes lacking; 7 didn't provide drastic technical improvements so much as offering a much-polished Vista.
"Published online: 29 Apr 2019", says that page, and the article itself says "May 15, 2019", but it looks like Gerard Cheshire published his theory in 2017, because here's a plausible-sounding rebuttal from November 2017:

https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulga...
This is a huge thing for me.

The ability to have the same setup on desktop, tablet and phone is just unbeatable.

(Yes, I know you can do this with Safari on Apple-things and chrome on the rest too)
But the growth talked is "economic growth"
It's that thing on mobile that we have: instant search.
The article lists three important solutions for transition to clean electricity. But there is also a fourth important solution, one that I think HN crowd can help with: demand side management systems. Essentially, this aims to match energy utilisation to energy production.

One idea which needs implementing ASAP is a way to use EV batteries as a flexible storage device, so that you charge the battery when there is a surplus of power, and perhaps release a bit of energy when there is a deficit. To do this in a user-friendly way is not trivial, but surely not that hard either. And yet no current or planned EV seems to be offering this.

Can someone get onto this please :)
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Except, the "lone engineer" VW blamed it on was the head of the diesel engine department, and by now even the former CEO is facing jailtime.

I doubt Boeings management will get any punishment whatsoever.
I've seen unironic versions of your parody argument posted right here, especially when someone posts an Electron app.
How could be people convinced about importance of this if it doesn't or won't impact them enough?

Yes, "think about our children" is good, but in the end people are still selfish and will think that it's not their problem.
One thing I don't hear discussed much is that we really need enough renewables installed so that on good days for solar and wind, we're actually generating much more than 100% of demand. This then substantially reduces the fraction of the time we depend on expensive storage. This only works though if we have additional variable demand that can kick in when things are going well, both to stabilize the grid and to provide a profitable market for energy. This is where technologies like Prometheus are developing could fit in really well - generating carbon-neutral aviation fuel from atmospheric CO2 and electricity, so we can decarbonize those parts of the economy that cannot switch directly to electric power.
Not surprised the 2008 patch is intended to work on Vista, I was more bemused that they had an otherwise exhaustive list of versions and how to patch them, and just...left it off, not only in the headlines, but in a number of the enumerations.