skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, "macros" can operate at any point during the compilation/interpretation process to transform the inputs. Generally speaking, the earlier on the more simplistic the structures and the less inferential products available. Also, the greater flexibility and power. Later on, early stages of compilation/interpretation will strip away information, simplify products, add inferential information, etc. These pieces can be made available to macro systems staged later on.

Lisp's most famous macros exist somewhat early in the compilation process, where trees have been parsed but variables aren't interpreted and the data structures are still simple.
Communication Workers of America union
I think every time I enter the European Union as a citizen (crossing the border in Denmark, Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands or Spain) I've either not interacted with anyone (electronic border gate), or said nothing more than "hello" and "thank you".

Speaking to a customs official is very rare, I've only had that happen once.

Do most Americans get questioned at their own border? I do, but I'd assumed that was only for "aliens".
> Why don't we have a CPU architecture where a master core is dedicated to running the kernel and a bunch of other cores run userland programs?

Sounds a lot like IMB’s Cell architecture.
Atheism will always struggle to grow its ranks until it replaces the necessary features provided by religion. I'm an atheist/agnostic who spent a few years in a very cult-like christian denomination. I can say a lot of bad things about it, but it did help me to become more social and taught me a lot about the benefits of shared beliefs. Having a network of people to call on in times of need is priceless. Regular socialization and group participation helped me graduate from being an anti-social outcast.

You can form groups around hobbies and activities, but the bonds just aren't strong enough to overcome our natural tendencies to judge others or take offense at the slightest indiscretions.

I think a lot of people like me end up Unitarian Universalists just so they can gain some semblance of a community again.
That speaks volumes to the integrity of the researchers. Similarly, it speaks to a lack of the same @ Intel. Bribing for silence is not the way to deal with vulnerabilities. I’m glad the researchers are getting some recognition.
Trying Intel attacks on AMD just in case is cheap and easy, and in this case fruitless. It doesn’t shed any light on how much effort is being put into finding AMD’s own specific screw ups.
Keybase is now a wire transmitter.

Just without KYC/AML.

Yet.
Assuming you're in America, I recommend Habitat for Humanity.

You're giving a family a home and the equity in that home that can legitimately change their lives for the better.

Plus you learn useful skills (home repair is always good to know), it's decent exercise, and it's HIGHLY social as well.
San Francisco moves toward ban on use of facial recognition technology
Couldn't agree more, and when a lot of kids are doing that you can imagine how much of an effect it has on peer pressure and what is considered a cool toy to have.
Maybe be more alliterative and title it Tomasulo's Algorithm Considered Tempting? Because as far as I have found without reading original documents, its development and use in the IBM System 360/Models 91 and 95 was only but fully out-of-order on the floating point engine, they didn't have the gates, implemented with discrete transistors, to go further to speculative, or include any scalar hardware.

Hitting diminishing returns on caches with an ever increasing gate budget is I believe prompted this second generation starting in the 1990s which adds speculative execution, which the algorithm with all those extra hidden registers really invites you to do.
If something is primarily used for scams, it's a perfectly reasonable heuristic to associate it with scams.

I understand why Keybase is doing this (the attraction of cryptocurrency is profound, and not just because there's so much money being thrown around), but it not do anything for their credibility.
Strong claim supported only by conjecture.
To offer a counter-point: for me, all those social networks and internet in general facilitated some of the most meaningful friendships of my life. Mind you, I am talking about real-life friendships, not just "internet friends" kind of stuff.

For example, two of my closest friends that I hang out with on the order of multiple times a week (dinners, concerts, sports games, etc.), I would have probably never met them if it wasn't for the common facebook groups. We don't even use FB that much (I log in about once every couple of days for 5-10 minutes at most), but I definitely attribute a chunk of the success of our friendship to FB. That's how we met, that's how we find new events and things to do (oh, your acquaintance X liked that new art exhibit opening on the museum FB page, you would probably be interested in checking that out with your friends!).

Also, I don't know where you live, but in my area, things are only getting better in terms of places for meaningful socialization. New small niche bars, concert venues, and hobby places (hacker spaces/libraries/garage co-ops/hobby-specific clubs/etc.) open up at a regular rate and seem to attract a lot of people, many of which become regulars. I talk to bartenders quite often, and most of them seem to echo that sentiment.

>we got [...] instant messaging to avoid making a call or visit.

Maybe if someone uses messaging as a REPLACEMENT to hanging out in person, they never wanted to hang out in the first place? To me, that sounds like a good thing, because in this scenario, messaging cuts out forced in-person interactions of low quality.
So it's not fixable with software update?
Offtopic: Are you familiar with the AI departments/ courses (master) at VU? I have the opportunity to go but haven't decided yet. (Interested in human-centred and modern ML with neural networks)
that's so cool! i had previously thought that the first link in this line of work was in '99 with Donath's visualizing conversation https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/4/4/JCMC442/4584411
Essentially periscope passes the results of a query back. In python you get it in a pandas dataframe. In R you also get it back as a dataframe. This lets you kinda manipulate how you want... so if you’d rather display using dash or seaborn for example you can (periscope doesn’t have a sankey out of the box so this lets you get around that for example)
Reading a bunch of random tech articles makes someone capable of designing systems, now? I don’t think so. Without years of hands-on experience, the odds are that they’ll just design a pile of mud.

Things like this are reasons why tech interviews are so difficult. People cram some knowledge and then have the faulty belief that they’re actually capable of something. It’s frankly offensive to people who have been doing it for 20 years.
Follow up here it is: https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/mcnuttandrew.github.io/blob/...
San Francisco Becomes First City in U.S. to Ban Face Recognition Technology
>The people from disadvantaged backgrounds that have these traits will have leveraged them throughout their life to get in the door based on merit alone.

Generally speaking, diversity efforts are targeting those that were "missed" by this. That is, the people who life just threw too much at, and slipped through the cracks. "How many Einsteins died hungry in Africa?" is along the lines of what I mean.

> As someone who has lived through these situations I can say that people who are capable and want out of poverty can get out today.

Huh, disagree. I know people that are too ill from addiction or mental illness, but still quite smart. Or, they have a socially debilitating illness that means they have all the tools to crank out incredible code, but the social illness (high anxiety, autism at a level that makes them "uncomfortable to work with") prevents gainful employment, to no real "fault" of their own. When I was a recruiter, some people didn't get hired because they were of vaguely Arabic or Hispanic descent, and some oil and gas company owners were straight racist and simply wouldn't hire, merit be damned.

> I couldn't afford a computer growing up and had to write code by hand on paper then type it into our school's 20 year old Apple IIe. Where there's a will there's a way.

There's kids in America that are too hungry to do this. I've taught some. Smart, but too hungry. Or too sleepy, because of fighting at home.

I want to be perfectly clear - I am not knocking your achievements. I am sure you worked hard and I don't want to devalue that. I want to just highlight that there are people out there working as hard if not harder and yet don't "win," because we have built an unfair society. I don't think that's ok (i.e. the "life aint fair" argument won't hold water with me) and I think there's a lot we can do about it. I think we can increase "capability" to align with the "want" (desire) people have to get out of poverty.
Well your probably compelled to be there, so all the consequences of being a no show is what would effectively happen, or a police escort of some sort if your the kind of person with no id.
Sir David Attenborough warns that plastic pollution kills and1M people peryear
How about pure development work to build tools that can be used to experiment with and build atop decentralized technologies such as IPFS and Ethereum blockchain, etc.?

https://embark.status.im/

https://github.com/embark-framework/embark
The statistics cited by Local Babysitter are ten years old, collected in 2009 by Nielsen. This doesn't reflect how media has changed in the last ten years, along with how children consume it. It would be nice to have a more updated source explaining what has changed in the last ten years, since obviously Nielsen is collecting this data.
As a relatively long-time Keybase user, I went in and set up my Stellar wallet on my phone. There does not appear to be any way to fund this wallet, though. Reading the comments here, I guess I'd have to buy Stellar on some other exchange and ... transfer it to my wallet? (So I'd have a wallet on an exchange, and a wallet on Keybase?)

This is not good UX.
* Bitcoin's lightning network

* Stable coins (Dai, USDC, etc)

* What Keybase just built (much easier way to manage keys for wallets)

* Makerdao's decentralized loan system

The first 2 enable you to transfer value over the internet in a cheap and non-revokable way (internet cash). The third one simplifies wallet management for the first two. The last one opens up a bunch of new opportunities for borrowing money without having to trust your counterparty. All of this enables people to transfer value without any middlemen.

And separate from this, projects like IPFS / Filecoin (if they actually work) would let you store data without using a centralized third party.
Dude, you are such a fucking faggot.
> Instead of trying to speculatively make one thread fast to mask IO stalls, run a large pool of threads that can stall frequently but still keep the execution units and memory channels busy.

Isn't something like that done for GPUs? They have the advantage of having a massive number of threads to execute. For CPUs, the number of runnable threads tends to be lower.
You could also file a bug report in Red Hat Bugzilla even as a non-customer. But clearly you think that Red Hat is being malicious about this, which is definitely not the case.
Everyone who does speculative execution had Spectre issues, but Meltdown-style vulnerabilities have been mostly Intel-exclusive. These new ones are too.
Erm, no? Meltdown was intel only. Spectre affects absolutely every architecture with speculative execution, but Meltdown (which allows crossing process and security boundaries) are absolutely unique to Intel.
They already do this; it's roughly in the form of: "take a left at sunset boulevard, right past the jack in the box".

I suspected it was a paid ad, but never knew for sure
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a threadwinner.

Why has nobody else mentioned this? This is how google's gonna either get slapped with lawsuits, find that folks switch and make openstreetmap.org suddenly usable, or even both.

Whoa.
Except that's objectively wrong - x86 virtualization breakouts have been extremely rare in practice, and fixable till recently.

The new class of attacks we now see target any type of shared code execution environment. OpenBSD is as vulnerable to this as anything else.
I'm sure I remember a post on here (or possibly /r/programming) a couple of years ago from an Intel employee mentioning that Intel was cutting a lot of QA staff, and that we should expect more bugs in the future. I could be imagining things though.
It’s the same.
> Sure, you're not wrong, but you've just stated an individual trait, not a population one.

No, I’ve stated a population trait. The population of professional athletes. Not all tall people can be NBA stars but all NBA stars are tall. Being genetically athletic is a prerequisite to professional sports not a guarantee that one can become a professional athlete. Being genetically unathletic does disqualify you from the profession though.

> I don't see how this information could be significant enough to have an effect on any decisions I make in life (for example, hiring decisions).

You’ve been advocating strongly for your position so I’m not sure it makes sense to just discount the opposition as useless. At the very least this seems like a great field for further study.
The dumbest thing about this is that Adobe's Creative Cloud manager is responsible for installing and keeping their software updated on my computer, so Adobe installed software that I'm now not allowed to use on my computer!? Adobe needs to take some responsibility. It's really not my fault that Adobe can't manage it's install base...
Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says
Do you think there will come a time where it is a 100% independent solution? I'm sure that is the goal for some companies and organizations.
The reporter.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
> I didn't downvote you, but your post did annoy me. This is an interesting article about HTTP/2.

Thanks, that's a nice, constructive criticism and I appreciate it. My post was in retrospect not exactly a piece of precision, so let me try again if I may...

I recently worked on a "big data" project that wasn't. It was a car crash because the "big data" conponents were thrown together with a very expensive cluster (>£100,000) of machines. The end result crawled because the lead programmer didn't gave a clue. I am pretty sure I could have got minimum 100X the performance for ~5% of the price.

When I'm asked to optimise something (a common request) I first ask, is this doing the right thing - is this really a technical problem at all? Can we just not do it? Followed by, what are you doing that makes this so much less than the theoretical max performance?

(Edit: the point was the big data components (apache spark, mesos etc) weren't necessary because we didn't have big data at all, and performance was dire because he didn't know how to use those components)

What we have here is a social problem of web devs simply not understanding their job, combined with the problem of advertisers who I loathe but seem to be a product of many user's desire to not pay a single penny upfront. Both of these are non-tech problems. This article is pushing a tech solution, but should it, really?

I don't think being abrasive was a good move by me, but you say "...should make smaller web pages with less javascript and ads [and my post doesn't]really contribute (in my opinion) to the discussion at hand" but I think it does. I think it central, actually. Or what problem is this new protocol solving?
I don't think anyone is talking about courses of action yet. "What you should do about it" is really out of scope for announcing a vulnerability; what you should do is often contextual anyway.

Like, what exactly are you hoping to hear? A bunch of our existing processors leak information, and it's a big problem. Big problems don't always have quick, clean solutions. Sorry.
I guess. But as I understand it, it's much harder to lock down apps on phones than on Linux. Users can't directly control networking, for example. And have zero insight or control over the cell modem. Even doing a real firewalled VPN on smartphones is virtually impossible. And I don't believe that one can do VirtualBox or KVM or whatever virtual hosting on them.
To supply a supporting anecdote: as a cis male, I'm consistently served ads for female-products like tampons on Instagram, presumably one of the "smartest" spies out there
Britain and Denmark are the only EU countries that don't issue identity cards.

Britain has a proof of age card, but 10 years ago it wasn't recognized very well: http://www.pass-scheme.org.uk/
Yah - it's easy to find alternatives offline. The problem (and the context of the discussion as I understood it) was online shopping.
Exciting news! Can't wait to start using it!
I see mostly WordPress, Shopify, and a smattering of Rails (but Rails may be because that's one of my favorite tools). I've never seen ASP or Java out in the wild, but I'm 1 man who doesn't focus on those techs.

PHP dominates the web, but I'm sure there is plenty of business elsewhere. The internet is pretty vast - some of my clients are in niches you've likely never heard of. If you were working in particular industries, you might see ASP/Java more often, depending on who the major players are there.
For those dismissing the Bloomberg reporting, what exactly is the scenario you find more believable? Did the reporters improperly extrapolate, either through ignorance or eagerness for a story? Did they unknowingly succumb to CIA disinformation? Knowingly? Something else?

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I would add to that some explanation as to why the proposed decentralization of custody, control and leverage inherent in any cryptocurrency proposition should be expected to remain stable indefinitely rather than collapse into a conventional, de facto centralized model under the inexorable pressure of competition to derive profit from such a system
So glad I live in SF!
I believe they've stated these are not ads, but are strictly for navigation.
Removed comment, because child comment has a good point that I somehow 100% missed~
No surprises here. Addictive virality that exploits the paranoia of old people trapped in their own homes, enthralled by the throes of agoraphobia.

Perfect recipe for success on the internet, as we round off the first two decades of the new millennium.

The lid of the coffin is in place, and now all we need to do is drive in the nails.
The demo page (which is linked above) should transform those loading message into a list of threads you can click into. Would you mind filing a bug over on https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer ?
AT&T is just another big Corporation, not a person! Why would we expect them not to do what best for the shareholders vs. what good for its employees???!!!
Me being a caveman who believes that technology is a hammer that still can be used to drive nails into building materials instead of our own heads, I'm longing for an Intermesh of simple networked 8-bit machines running on vanilla (no ARM core bonuses) FPGAs, with CPUs simple enough to be predictable and understood not by a select few superhumans in the world, but by a critical mass of people, and communication protocols built from scratch with privacy and security in mind, so that such device could represent a social node: here's some info that I chose to make public, and there's my protected data. A single pedestrian FPGA could host a swarm of such tiny CPUs, each dedicated to a single task or security domain: a CPU to talk to shared filesystem, a CPU to talk to the private one, one more to process input, one to Tx/Rx bytes over the wire etc..

Or, if that is too complex, there could just be a bunch of breadboarded ICs capable of networking. There actually are real-world examples of such machines exposed via telnet, e.g. http://www.homebrewcpu.com

And all the performance beasts, while surely indispensable, could just enjoy their air-gapped solitude. Are there any massively parallel supercomputing tasks whose results couldn't be summarized and reduced to mere text, which is not too hard to move over the airgap manually?
I'm happy to see this, but it's not really going to stop the inevitable rise of the police state. They _will_ find other methods that aren't using facial recognition technology. I hear that gait recognition is quite accurate.
Oh, you’re not American? Kind of overstepping a little.
But... the Einstein summation convention is kind of fine in deep learning. The tensor manipulation in deep learning doesn't involve any of the gnarly contortions that physicists need to do like raising and lowering indices, taking covariant derivatives, or taking traces: and even that stuff moved along just fine without the need for diagramatic representations until the 1960s or so.
I feel the main issue with forum UI is the limitation of 2 dimensions. Once AR and VR become more mainstream with higher resolution, I predict we'll have more interesting conversation UI
I'm already considering ditching the Gmail app as it displays ads at the top that look just like new e-mails (I was an Inbox user before); although I am not quite sure what app to switch to.

Sadly there isn't really an alternative that even approaches Maps. There are a lot of 'ok' alternatives but Maps is just in an other league in terms of POI, Navigation and UI.
This video does a good job explaining the stellar consensus protocol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Gj2nQZCNM
>>Atheism will always struggle to grow its ranks until it replaces the necessary features provided by religion

Strange claim, and wrong as well, since number of atheists/agnostics has been increasing steadily for a long time now, as fewer and fewer people identify as members of a particular religion.
Isn't this more of a network effect than something inherent to Teslas?
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root
Maps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps

Forked from maps.me, but without their tracking or ads.

Please tell me you have F-Droid installed.
No biggie... do some contract work for a week and pay for it with that money. If you know how to put together a project that has seven servers, busting out a marketing site or two should take you almost no time.
People should go out more... There's a life outside these walls!!
That reminds me of newspaper ads for someone selling beige box PCs.
How many FAA officials used to work at Boeing (or related lobbying firms) or vice versa?