skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to WWI, European border controls had pretty much dissolved (Prisoner of Zenda notwithstanding). The history section of the Wikipedia page on passports is pretty good though mostly Europe-oriented.

I was actually specifically taking about US passports (sorry I wasn’t explicit) which were introduced during and until the end of the Wilson administration and then were revived in WWII (for travel to Europe before the US entered the war). Again, the history part of the US passport Wikipedia page is not a bad overview.
> It doesn't replace friendships, but if you and a friend want to go to an escape room, we can help you find another 2 people to fill out the reservation....

> The plan is to make money from partner companies, such as the aforementioned escape room.

So, in conclusion, your startup isn't so much about helping people make friends; it's about giving businesses another advertising opportunity and reducing some barriers that keep customers from giving them their money. The friendship stuff is the aspirational, feel-good wrapping paper around the real product.

Edit:

> Thawd makes getting up, leaving the house, and going out with other people, really easy.

"Going out with other people [and spending money together]" is an optional and frequently minor part of friendship. You claim that you're "working to solve this problem [of loneliness], but this the kind of definitional distortion I was referencing in my other comment. The meaning of friendship is twisted to overemphasize its most economically significant aspects.

I feel that ethos of business is a big part of this problem, and it won't be part of the solution.
> Stop buying Intel products, and devices which contain them?

None of that helps with your public cloud workloads.
> Impeding VCAM1, a protein that tethers circulating immune cells to blood vessel walls, enabled old mice to perform as well on memory and learning tests as young mice ... it subdued the inflammatory mood of the brain’s resident immune cells

So this suggests: ↓ inflammation = ↑ memory. In the short term inflammation generally impedes function, so this is an intuitively reasonable result.
This sounds like something useful for the community I'm involved in! :O
> a fireproof Library of Alexandria to help avoid another Dark Ages.

This mischaracterizes the Middle Ages. First, we are finding they weren't as dark as we thought they were. Second, people forget, that while the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern Roman Empire went on to last another 1000 years, and it preserved a lot of the knowledge. In fact, it was scholars fleeing from Constantinople as the Turks conquered it that helped sparked the Renaissance. So that knowledge was never really lost. Finally, it was the loss of security and functioning infrastructure that was the largest cause of the "dark ages" and the loss of knowledge was secondary to that. When you are focused on how to avoid being robbed/raped/enslaved/killed by pillaging barbarian hordes, education takes a back seat.
A lack of shared philosophy means there's no open, shared spaces. Like tonight, I'm going to a Knights of Columbus meeting. On Thursday, we're leading marriage prep at our church. On Monday, it's my men's club meeting. Later in the month, we're having a church BBQ. Most of the time, we're over socialized.

For the elderly, we have a shut-ins ministry to visit them. For the poor, the Vincent de Paul society still goes two-by-two to all those who have asked. We've gotten rid of churches, replaced them with nothing particularly inspiring, and now we're wondering where all the social cohesion went.

EDIT: I will point out that I'm not restricting myself only to churches here. I think, in the past, America also had this characteristic -- anyone who believed in American ideals and sought to further them was an American. De Tocqueville mentioned this quality of Americans (every American is a president) in his various writings on American social structure. Unfortunately with the rise of identity politics and ethnic factionalism, we've lost this notion of 'America as an idea', as is seen in the reluctance of people to serve on juries, for example.
I don't feel like you're asking those questions in good faith.

In general, very few people are going to say they "like" crime. That doesn't mean they would support a 1984-style police state (not saying that is Singapore's situation, just giving an example). And to be fair, that's still not really relevant to the question posed by grayed-down, which was regarding the impact on non-violent citizens. Considering Singapore has mandatory death sentences for some non-violent crimes, it's worth thinking about.
It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either. A pane on the left shows a DAG, with nodes representing Hacker News comments extending from a central node. Mousing over a node shows the comment in a pane on the right. It's impossible to move the mouse pointer from the left pane to the right without changing the visible comment.
Yes, minus follower counts and the ability to see followers/follows. There is no practical reason I can see to have those features. I consider Facebook to be a useful public utility like a modern white pages and I wish the design was just a little different.
Dan Luu didn't note that Meltdown goes all the way back to their first out-of-order speculative execution design, the Pentium Pro in 1995. I note that ARM, and both of IBM's architectures, POWER and mainframe, also had Meltdown issues, and everyone including AMD "enjoys" Spectre bugs, so named because they'll be haunting us for a very long time.
It feels like they should just turn off syslog in production builds, release it in a firmware update and offer a recall for everyone affected by broken board.
Doesn't Brave substitute their own ads?
Multiple companies make high endurance SD cards for things like dash cams and automobiles. Take, for example, WD https://www.westerndigital.com/products/embedded-removable-f...
While I absolutely support allowing employees to spend a day a week on self-improvement, even if I were willing to consider those hours not work hours, it'd still be 32 hours.
You mean this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19639297
Married couples going through divorce/infidelity/family/kids/health issues(which is not rare) is a tremendous risk as well, right?

I don't understand why lonely people are automatically classified as a tremendous risk. I've experienced multiple times that exactly the opposite is often the case.
It absolutely means that, and I've seen it play out like that.

But "that guy tried to rob me, so I stabbed him" isn't awesome. The goal is harm reduction, not evening of stakes. An eye for an eye isn't helpful when you're trying to reduce total eyes lost.

I can understand why vigilante security/justice is sometimes better than none, but I don't consider it a great solution, especially at scale.
City Officials Worry Homeless Campers Are Weakening Sacramento’s Levees
Has the Python GIL Been Slain?
Maybe he was hit / smashed over the head with an OPEN SOURCE CD?
Uber drivers are contractors, not employees, U.S. labor agency says
That’s not true. Arguably all professional athletics require a very large genetic component. Good luck in the NBA if you’re 5’1” tall.

I think the ability to accurately identify tones is also largely genetic, so professional musicians are probably on the list as well.

My guess is that software development also has genetic mental requirements but there’s no definitive answer for that.

Probably a lot of jobs have genetic components whether that’s cognitive speed, athletic ability, ability to focus, fine motor control, a particular enhanced sense...
iOS has native support for ad blocking services; no need for a VPN. I've been using the Privacy-centric blocker service provided by Firefox Focus.
> SHAtter was waived by many because the threat model didn't convincingly apply to them. Example: git.

Git quickly switched to the sha1collisiondetection library[1] by default after the SHAttered attack was published. It's a SHA-1 library written by the authors of the paper which the attack.

Edit: Marc Stevens saying that existing library will mitigate this new attack: https://twitter.com/realhashbreaker/status/11284190295369236...

1. https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection
Posix compliant, TAP producing, sh(1) testing library
> done by people without many resources

[Waits]

> Rome was already 1 million people during the first millenia, there were buildings with 6 or 7 floors,

Did you really choose an example of a society that used slave labor extensively?

It's hard to make a comparison due to opportunity cost. Imagine you are a person with the innate competence and dedication to eventually become a master craftsman. Do you learn woodworking, stonework, etc. and labor inexpensively for years as a apprentice to eventually top out at being paid moderately well doing work that benefits a single project .... or do you learn to develop cellphone apps that get used by tens of millions or billions of people?

As we create more jobs which are highly leveraged-- where one unit of work potentially produces an enormous amount of benefit all less leveraged jobs are squeezed by the competition.

In cases where high skills and years of training don't matter the effect isn't so great because skilled industrial production jobs don't compete as much for that labor pool. But for these construction jobs, they do.
I haven't! That's super cool!!
What impact does this have in a multi-tenant cloud environment? I'm legitimately considering moving my security critical EC2 instances over to AMD-backed instance types right now.
Many firms who offer RSUs offer double-trigger RSUs (i.e. the RSUs vest only if the vesting period is met AND a liquidity event happens) to prevent these tax consequences you outline. These function as golden handcuffs too.
There seems to be an assumption in this viewpoint that copyright is the state of nature for creative works, and removing copyright protections violates this natural order. This is the opposite of reality, though — copyright is an artificial restriction on expression and dissemination of knowledge, which would otherwise be free and unrestricted.

In other words, if you want to preserve or strengthen copyright, you're arguing for the government to butt in, not against it.
> Why do that to a company based in San Jose?

Because - as noted in the article - the practical effect of this story is that now people are worried about supply chains involving China, not that people are worried about Supermicro in particular. And selling this story on multiple fronts, official and unofficial, seems most effective.

And allowing negative side effects for domestic companies as collateral damage to harm other countries is standard practice; see e.g. visa policy. US companies can't hire the best workers, but it's okay because it helps the US government's political goals.
They have had many years of revenue growth that exceeds eyeball growth. They did that by slowly pushing organic results down the fold in favor of ads. That trick is played out now...there's little real estate above the fold left to cede to ads now.

So, to maintain revenue growth that exceeds eyeball growth, they need new tricks.

Basically, they set the bar very high.
Firefox Focus with tracking protection and content blocking. You can use your favorite browser and use Focus to block ads.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus
> I find a massive irony in News having the same inherent flaws as social media

News is broadcast, i.e. few to many. If the New York Times or Wall Street Journal or RT say something insidious, everyone has a chance to call them out on it.

Social media is closer to P2P. Content is selectively targeted over the social graph. Platforms' ad models further microtarget along ideological lines. This makes it difficult or even impossible to know what someone in another domain is seeing, which makes responding in a timely manner practically impossible.

(Also, mass media is nowhere close to social media when it comes to the prevalence and intensity of addiction.)

TL; DR The problems mass media has with addictiveness and hyperbole are amplified on ad-driven social media platforms.
Tesla has radio
Like a lot of things in politics, it is a question of enthusiasm and motivation. There might not be a single individual person in this country in which reducing copyright protection is their most important issue (and if there is, I think that person has crazy priorities), but strengthening copyright is probably the single most important issue for Disney and other long-established media companies. Having a large group of people who are mildly in favor of something is much less likely to yield political change compared to a small group of people who feel incredibly strongly about that issue. This is the whole reason behind niche lobbying groups ranging from the NRA to the EFF and why those groups are able to have such a large impact on politics relative to their size.
They blow up just like a pressure cooker blows up. If we build an unpressurized reactor with unflammable coolant, nothing ever blows up.
The issue is that when you work 30 hours you are still really working with the same output as 40 hours. You will basically squeeze the 5 days into 4.

I honestly feel it's easier to find a regular job and work from home 1 or 2 days a week and manage your week in such a way that you perform all your tasks in 4 days.
Sure, but unless cryptocurrency makes it into trustworthy software with legitimate uses instead of just speculation, it's always going to remain dodgy.

I really wish all the speculators just went away.
(and to the two other responses)

If your workload is already well parallelized, then, yes 20% is quite significant. However, working to parallelize properly over 8 rather than 4 has its own costs.

The thing that bothers me most is that 800% CPU and 500% CPU on this processor are roughly equivalent at 5x100%CPU, it makes everything very hard to reason about when planning capacity.
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I’ve been using Firefox Focus with DDG on mobile for about a year and don’t miss Chrome even a little.
Thanks.

Interestingly, that paper uses a variant of pi-calculus, i.e. an idealised programming language for message passing, as 'games'.
Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
> If you're in the US, going to a different country is a major undertaking unless you happen to live near the Canadian or Mexican border

How come it’s seen as pretty normal to go for example from the UK to New York for a weekend, even a middle class couple might do a Christmas shopping weekend like that once a year, but the opposite, the same distance and cost, is seen as a major undertaking?
When you blow up a bunch of radioactive material in a large steam explosion you get widespread contamination from fallout and a massive cleanup necessary to recover the scattered material, as well as dealing with the melted core material. That's not "normal".
> For example, your app will not be upgraded using a package manager.

Good. That means it won't break because someone arbitrarily changed an ABI.

> That makes proprietary software "not welcome" in Linux distributions.

No disagreement there.
Are you saying your building is ugly and should have been replaced?

The older buildings probably haven't been replaced because they're attractive enough and work for the residents.

The post-war buildings probably haven't been replaced because, although less attractive, it isn't economical to do so.

There may also be municipal restrictions preventing them from being torn down and replaced, restrictions that probably wouldn't have existed pre-20th century.

If one were going to tear down such buildings and replace them it would probably be best for the replacement to be significantly taller, in order to make more money. But that might not be allowed.
Here's a nice example of someone playing Demon's Souls on PS3 a few days before Atlus shut down the server - a neophyte playing together with an old hand who explains lots about the game and why it was loved.

Gaming Jay: Demon's Souls (PS3) (feat. Matt) - Let's Play 1001 Games - Episode 272
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x1mC1M0_Cs

EDIT: Adding the title of the video to go with the link, because one thing that's especially annoys me about bare YouTube links is that if the video was removed, YouTube doesn't even give you the former title so that you know what you missed.
> The gallery ads are part of an effort to make search results more visual.

By distracting from legitimate results?

Like others will say here, I finally switched to DDG earlier this week. It’s good enough and you get accustomed to doing a !g pretty quickly when needed.
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Google Travel Is Now One Step Closer to One-Stop Shopping
Does anyone have suggestions for an Android based alternative to Google Maps? (preferably open source, etc)
That is their claim. Theo is pointing out that the security is an illusion. Either the OS is secure and so you may as well just run everything in the OS without the VM in the way (ignoring issues of different operating system), or the OS is not secure and now you have to hope the VM is secure because otherwise you just exploit your VM to get out of it and then exploit the OS. The second level attack is more difficult, but that is all.
“We sell authenticity”
Not the parent, but I work from home and yes, very often it's a sandwich for lunch. Or more than one sandwich throughout the day, since with complete schedule freedom you are not tied to conventions like lunch hours.

I cook a warm meal for dinner. Works for me.
Disease is progress
Ignorance is strength
Fair point! :-) What can I say, my training is in math, where we take great pleasure in squinting at obvious things until we feel insightful.
I was a Nielsen subject on multiple occasions and it depended entirely on self reporting via a paper questionnaire.
It's where the market is heading -- away from all in one cable packages to pick and choice only what you want streaming services.
I've seen https://maps.me recommended on HN before. It's based on OSM.
Progress isn't going to be held up by a couple of acres remaining idle because nobody wants to pay the remediation costs.

Your notion of progress is weak.
"The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television."

"Saves kids", yeah right. Must be just great to spend all that time in front of the tellie eaten em tater chips and drinkin that mountain dew.

Idiocracy Now!
It’s been a while, but Looker provides LookML, something akin to an ORM for dynamically integrating relations, measures, aggregations, etc. into SQL queries on demand as well as a variety of visualization options for the result set. This is somewhat similar to the architected metadata aspects of SAP Business Objects or Microstrategy.
Periscope provides an interface for a developer to manually write a static query and visualize the output similar to Apache Superset.
(Cunningham’s Law if this is outdated or otherwise incorrect)
In-order does not mean no speculative execution
How many millions of users would be excluded if they chose that path, and are their controlling shareholders okay with that reduction of active users?
In some areas we sell through Lighting Agencies, Distributors, and contractors who will set their own prices and markups. If you let me know where you are located, I can give you a number - but as rough guide, in the USA it is somewhere around $15-$20k for a 40x20 inch unit. We will be announcing a new version next week.
> 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?

I don't think they miss out on this though. 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.

> 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.

My experience is the opposite of yours. I've done a lot of hiring, managing and mentoring and I can say without a doubt that businesses do not have the resources to grow people to the extent that you're suggesting and they certainly can't pass on people who already meet the requirements needed for a role in favor of someone who doesn't.

> To do that, we need people that have lived through those situations to find the best way to lift people out of bad situations.

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. If you can code, you can get a job and learning to code is within reach for any smart person with enough drive regardless of how poor they grew up. 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.
My wish is that adds fill the first SERP so that I can just go to page 2 and be done.

Damn you, Overture, why did you have to do that!
>It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either.

That's very true. This hasn't really been designed around screen readers, making this type of graph + comment tree interface work accessibly well is a really interesting challenge!

>It's impossible to move the mouse pointer from the left pane to the right without changing the visible comment.

If you click anywhere on the graph then it locks the current comment selection. You can then click to unlock!
You certainly make some good points about the downsides of RTC. RTC's streams are often compared to git's branches because they're the closest construct, but they are definitely very different and have pretty minimal overlap, considering they're basically the parallel construct. IMO stashing changes was not bad (suspending change sets, I believe it was called), but perhaps I was mostly doing that within 1 stream and not between streams. I agree that code review was not great, though I'm not a _huge_ fan of GitHub's comment/PR review mechanism either. I'm not aware of code reviewing built in to git itself, though I could be totally missing it.
Step one: switch to in-order cores. Step two: cheekily author a Medium article titled Tomasulo's Algorithm Considered Harmful
What makes you say that? Take a look at the summary in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19913933

That looks like progress to me. Why do you say "everyone else is just going to burn more coal?"
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Another option other than malicious intent is that people are choosing to live this way even though they know it makes them unhappy.

Where is the pressure to live differently? It used to come from family and community.
On the other hand, they probably aren't still being used, either. Nor are they likely to be civic focal points like a city hall.
Greed? Please Wall Street?

I don't really know really. Maybe the executives are in fear they will be swept out if they are not delivering on hiking the stock price?
Yes, that's true, several of the vulnerabilities involve checks that are performed late (not at time of speculative access, but at some point before instruction commit). Not excusing the design choice at all, but it's conceivable that an engineer could make this choice if (i) side-channel effects of the speculation are not considered at all, and (ii) the postponement of the check allows the load latency to be reduced. Again, not justifying, and the vulnerabilities are terrible, but there does seem to be a rational-given-some-assumptions way to reach such a decision.
Apple pretty please launch a slightly cheaper phone for us tightwads so that we can ditch Android and Google, once and forever.

Already using DDG. Been trying to run my own mailserver.
Mostly because they can't take risks with their dependents.
So the implication is transparent phones?