skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nopti is same as pti=off

Control Page Table Isolation of user and
kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
removes hardening, but improves performance of
system calls and interrupts.

nospectre_v2

Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
to spectre_v2=off.

nospectre_v1

Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
in the system.

l1tf=off

Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
affected CPUs

The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
enabled and cannot be disabled.

Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
emit any warnings.
It also drops the swap size and available
RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
bare metal.

nospec_store_bypass_disable

Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability

mds=off

Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.

Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
internal buffers which can forward information to a
disclosure gadget under certain conditions.

In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
attack, to access data to which the attacker does
not have direct access.

This parameter controls the MDS mitigation.

mitigations=off

Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
improves system performance, but it may also
expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
Equivalent to:
nopti [X86,PPC]
kpti=0 [ARM64]
nospectre_v1 [PPC]
nobp=0 [S390]
nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
l1tf=off [X86]
mds=off [X86]

Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

These seem to be undocumented or deprecated.

noibrs

Disable Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation in the microcode.

noibpb

Disable Indirect Branch Prediction Barriers.

no_stf_barrier

Disable Store-forwarding barrier (PPC only).

Source:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/powerpc/...
Modulating thermal conductivity in boron nitride via boron isotope concentration
I emulate old console games on my phone quite often. Games actually designed for the phone are mostly a hot pile of shit, which is a shame because there are gems out there like The Room series but it's not worth wading through the garbage to find them.
There was an article on HN a while back which demonstrated how presenting this kind of evidence works in practice. Police arrested a suspect on a DNA match, put on a dog and pony show for the jury about how absurdly unlikely it was for the DNA to match by chance, he was convicted and put away for a long time. What the jury didn't know - because the prosecutors managed to block the defence from telling them - is that the police had found half-a-dozen locals who were DNA matches and chosen the most unsavoury-sounding one to arrest. The tale they'd told the jury about the absurd odds of a DNA match if he wasn't the criminal was a bunch of nonsense, and the defence weren't allowed to clue them in about this. He's probably still in jail right now.
This is a typical hypothesis of the nazis in germany.

The truth is somewhat more complex because it's our own governments who don't take care about their people despite having the money and the power.

E.g. in germany the taxes for the richest got cut more and more over the last decade or so until there are some of those who don't pay anything at all.

There is companies like Google, Facebook, Starbucks, Ikea etc. who nearly don't pay any taxes in countries like germany.

On the other hand the citizens are forced to do labor without meaning and/or without enough wages to survive old age. If you have to retire in germany you are screwed if you had the wrong job nowadays - you see the retired collecting bottles and waste in the streets because they don't have enough for a good life anymore.

If our governments would take care of the people which they definitely could we'd have more than enough to share with the people who have to flee our guns and bombs we sold to their enemies before (to give the earnings to the richest again).
Tacking a custom header to the response is a nice trick!

Could be particularly useful for GraphQL apps where every response is a big opaque answer from `/api/graphql`: Add the GraphQL operation name to the response header.

This will also help with Chrome Devtools where you can add custom headers to the Network tab, otherwise you just see tons of POST reqs to `/api/graphql`: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/115-manage-network-response-heade...
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Probably includes helicopters.
Spin read-out in atomic qubits in an all-epitaxial three-dimensional transistor
You left off the assumptions that AGI will be a superintelligence and one capable of capturing all value. There's no evidence to believe either one. Instead, it will probably be pretty dumb like humans are without the decades of supervised training we get and our interactions with the world. Further, the second a smart one starts getting devastating results, there will be political push-back to do something about it. People might cast votes to make rules about them that limit their power or rate of development.

Which gets us back to the real risk that people like Altman are too detached from reality to get: the masses being damaged by laws and companies controlled by tiny few, aka a plutonomy. That's where we're at. That's what's causing most problems people face. For example, CEO's trying to get bonuses do layoffs while folks like Altman wonder how AI might hurt jobs. If they're really worried, the smart folks need to pool all their resources together to combat the ability of special interests to bribe politicians and get away with it. Then, incentive structures that do less damage to employees and consumers as the companies grow. That be a start on addressing real problems vs those they're making up.
Cython is nice, but debugging it requires gdb. For the PyCharm-loving end-users it may be quite cumbersome.

Those recommending to use multiprocessing have probably never been in that bitter spot when serializing something and computing something takes exactly the same time.

Also forking didn't really work until Python 3.6.
The program doesn't have to be massively I/O bound for threads to be useful. Even with only a UI thread and a single background thread they're useful for animating a progress indicator in the UI thread while waiting for a slow network request to finish in the background thread, which works just fine in Python.
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Just so you know (not just for this comment)--you are my favorite HN user. Everything you post is either funny, quirky, or extremely interesting (mostly all of the above).
This talk about programmable knitting machines is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02h74L1PmaU -- it goes into more depth about the details of their operation, including an absolutely wild and apparently official graphical programming language called "KnitPaint" that reminds me of the esoteric language Piet.
Once the rubric is crossed it would happen again and again with increasing frequency.
Source?

Once you cross the bridge for "your thing", it feels to good to stop. Be it murder, rape or sex with minors. This is actually one of the reasons why it is so important to catch a criminal. Not to punish for previous crimes but to prevent new ones.
Larry Hastings gilectomy project is an interesting approach.

https://lwn.net/Articles/754577/

TLDR: simply replacing object usage counters with their atomic versions grinds the interpreter to the halt.
Regarding you questioning the statement "> whoever set the trap obviously did so to control him..." I consider that part of the statement obviously true. Causing somebody to give up his political functions is effectively a kind of control over the person (and more, when the person is the head of the party). What I understand you don't agree is "not to expose him" part, which was also true for whole two years -- an eternity in politics -- the video was made but not used to expose him for two years.

Therefore more interesting than philosophizing about the exact meaning of the words is following what was going on and how it was done:

There is a known relatively recently told story about the most powerful country in the world organizing events to compromise somebody in order to blackmail them:

"Snowden described his CIA experience in Geneva as formative, stating that the CIA deliberately got a Swiss banker drunk and encouraged him to drive home. Snowden said that when the latter was arrested, a CIA operative offered to help in exchange for the banker becoming an informant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

The scale of this what was used now is many orders of magnitude bigger. You mentioned in your other comment "the woman groomed Gudenus over half a year or so before the Ibiza meeting" and giving a link to the article in German, thanks for that -- so there is at least somebody writing trying to figure out who's behind this. Do you know what is the story mentioned there at the end (used Google Translate):

"And last but not least, the house search in the BAT with all its consequences should be mentioned as a secret service disaster."

The most interesting detail from the article you've linked:

"Above all, the US, which sits in virtually every major intelligence agency, has expressed a great deal of concern that information could flow away to Russia."
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I am curious to know, why?
>Any example of events 'us' is actively removing from history the same way China is doing with the the Tiananmen event ?

All kinds of events, from the Philippines war, to provoking Japan in WWII, to Mosaddegh, Vietnam atrocities, to the bloody US labour history, and so on [1].

Though in the US, as long as their importance is downplayed at official politics and the educational system, you can still let people talk and write books about those events, since nobody really cares. A lot of the suffering in those events happened to people outside the country anyway.

Whereas in China, talk about their things could seriously polarize people and have extended consequences (not just the CCP elites falling from grace, but also a hellish period of power struggles to fill the power vacuum, even a civil war).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...
I’ve played tens of thousands of games at various stages of development. The only mobile game I consistently play and still enjoy is The Battle of Polytopia (aka Super Tribes). That’s about it.
Modern society is full of those incongruities.

I bought an apartment in Belgium while in between jobs. In order to get a loan I had to get a job as a cashier, essentially taking a cut in my net income (unemployment payments are very generous in Belgium.)
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (2016)
A, what once was called "pointing out the hypocrisy" is now called "whataboutism".

A perfect way for people living in glass houses to throw all the stones they like at others unharmed...
> Pretty sure making emacs render smoothly in 2016 was not an isolated change--even if the code change were only a single line.

This was a corner case. What I meant is the couple dozen packages I have in my Emacs that are well-interoperating but otherwise independent, and can be updated independently.

> Or, just think about your phone. If I put my head to the speaker, a sensor detects that, and the OS turns off the screen to save power. If I'm playing music to my Bluetooth speaker, and a call comes in, it pauses the song. When the call ends, the song automatically resumes.

These each affect a small fraction of code that's running on your phone. Neither of them is e.g. concerned with screen colors/color effects like night mode, or with phone orientation, or with notifications, or countless other things that run on your phone in near-complete independence.
My neighbor took a daily baby aspirin and finally got tired of it and quit (much to his wife’s chagrin since it was her doing). He had a stroke 2 or 3 days later.

The doctors say the aspirin was helping keep things at bay but I wondered if it was more like his body adjusted for the thinner blood.
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As a matter of fact, I did. But obviously, it seems that we didn't experience the events in the same way and I don't have the impression that you are even trying to understand what I am writing.
To add some positivity, I'll add that I'm also a fan :).
> 4. The big orange shithead aka POTUS started the thing with the trade war (of course he does - he's still a bully)

China was heavily protectionist long before Trump, so it's very puzzling why so many believe he started it.
You can look at my SPA that maintains state perfectly well and persistently without any framework. It isn't hard, but you would have to be willing to write original code.

https://prettydiff.com/

All of the UI is defined here: https://github.com/prettydiff/prettydiff/blob/master/api/pre...
>> If OpenAI achieves AGI and you invested in it, you get infinite returns, because AGI will capture all economic value

AGI would render ALL humans redundant... Investors too.

"Evolution is cleverer than you are" - Orgel's rule.
On a serious note: “Mobile-first” was a rallying cry a few years ago - but all I remember are pages that didn’t work well on desktop, especially pages with above-the-fold (`height: 100vh;`) full-screen graphics or worse: videos. It’s cute on a handheld 480x640 display you can scroll-flick, but terrible at 2560x1440 with a mouse-wheel.
> That was quite painful to read. I browse HN on mobile 95% of the time, most of the time I'll just back straight out of a site like that,

On the flip side, how are you a mobile power user that doesn't use some sort of reader mode.

Edit: I regret this comment. I was an ass.
Can I put the Mazda hardware in the spider?
I have absolutely no vi knowledge. I just opened an ssh to a vanilla Ubuntu install (digital ocean droplet), tried what you wrote, and I got:

abcdef

I've been accidentally dropped into vi on countless systems and never have my ability to type "i" and "ESC :wq" (the full extent of my vi skills) failed me.

I'm super confused by your comment.
I liked Hoplite [0] for some time.

---

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hoplite/id782438457?mt=8
Has the same issue as Pascal's. Competing AGI projects (gods) exist and their believers might be the ones reaping the infinite rewards, not to mention the distinct possibility the AGI (god) doesn't actually see rewarding believers as its highest priority, and might choose to share its infinite rewards with people who aren't part of the inner circle, or even punish people who joined inner circles with the express intent of elevating themselves above ordinary people :)

Actually makes a bit more sense from the traditional view that AGI projects might not reach their goal but the well run ones are likely to have very commercially valuable byproducts anyway. If we were getting Star Trek economics out of it, who'd be interested in entirely obsolete concepts like "economic value" and "100x returns" anyway?
Have been planning to get into XCOM2 for a while now. Really liked XCOM:EW even on a mobile device.
These [0] two [1] sections of the GNU Bash man pages were very useful. I also found that this tutorial [2] provided a useful perspective. I spent a small amount of time looking through the bash-completion [3] project as well as the git bash completions [4].

Generally, my process for writing is google around until I have some base level of knowledge, then building one or more demo applications to ensure my understanding is correct. Then as I'm writing the blog post I'll be refining the demo applications into examples for the blog post and/or library code that I want to open source.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Programma...
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Programma...
[2]: https://hackaday.com/2018/01/19/linux-fu-custom-bash-command...
[3]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion
[4]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...
I've been using Rails since version 0.8.6 and have apps as old as 8 years I'm still maintaining. I've had teams as large as 20 on a single rails codebase.

You do not need anything other than the MVC pattern.

I would love to see the claimants of these needed abstractions post their code so I could refactor and show you how you're wrong.

If you make good use of your base controllers you can reduce controller code to next to nothing.

If you avoid Rails abstractions such as scopes use callbacks sparingly and focus on writing raw SQL instead of using Arel's query builder your models are easy to manage.
Why are so many of your comments of a gate-keeping, self-congratulatory nature, or blanket criticisms of others?

I find it frustrating because I do think you have plenty of valuable stuff to say, but you're consistently presenting it in a rather unappealing package and I don't really understand what you get out of that.
When I was ten I got a vic 20. Do you know how old I was when I arranged my first beta testing session? I invited my brother to play a text based adventure game that drew on screen the scenery using nested if else statements. I programmed the first couple of scenes and asked him to play through them. He said it was a bit short but the idea was good. He was eight. I was still ten.

I have two kids now. 9 and 12. They are brighter than me. They speak swedish and English almost fluently thx to yt and since I introduced computers early in their lives they aren't scared of anything. My son started his YT channel at the age of 8. Mostly in game footage. He uses down pretty cool sw to edit his clips.

My daughter plays Roblox and act as everyone's go to for all questions revolving around that game.

Both navigate windows or Android or macos like they have inherited their knowledge from me. My kids are brighter as hell. Not one has asked me about programming.

I blame 8080. It's not accessible. Is it technically more advanced? Perhaps. But somewhere along the line we forgot about computing and children. Somewhere along the line we said it's no longer important for kids to learn programming. It's for adults.
Was gonna say the Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun ports are pretty good (Dragonfall and Returns) but can't seem to find them on the Play Store now. Weird.

There's also the XCOM: Enemy Within port for Android. I loved these.
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Ask HN: What are the best perks you have on your company shuttle?
My company is moving a bunch of people out from the city and into the suburbs and they have asked us what amenities we want on the company bus. I am thinking the usual things like wifi, coffee/snacks, and more comfortable chairs, but I was wondering what FAANG buses look like on the inside. Anyone able to share pics or details?
Too little, too late. When money stolen from taxpayers is decided, it becomes obvious this company doesn't make products that can be sold at a profit.

It's going to be fun watching all the fanatical investors hang onto their Tesla shares until they become worthless.
Your first source is quite flawed IMO. For one, they focus on the idea that the impetus behind the Tea Party movement was some kind of schizophrenic notion of citizens wanting both low taxes but also many high-quality public services. The Tea Party in the Boston harbor wasn't simply about taxation, it was about representation or lack there of. The modern Tea Party that sprang up under Obama was quite similar in that regard, i.e. voters felt they were being squeezed while their government provided them an inadequate voice in how they should be governed, and after the massive shift in state and local governments in 2010 after the ACA was passed, the Tea Party essentially sputtered out because the goal of representation had been achieved in a lot of cases.

Secondly, it lacks focus on cost efficiency or assessing cost effectiveness in how the tax payer's money is being spent. I don't know the situation in Chicago very well, but my inclination is to discount any source as irrelevant if it doesn't address how efficiently tax dollars get converted into desired services.

Finally it seems more concerned with diverting the reader's attention towards national politics, particularly Trump's election and why voters voted for him.
It's obvious it was crickets. Here is the "mysterious" sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANykud9iE1A Here is the sound of Cuban crickets: https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/492a.htm That is what the Cubans themselves said when they heard the recording: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4375193
Or what the Frobeniusnumber is for given box sizes (ie, the largest number of McNuggets that you cannot buy (exactly). For the classical sizes of {6,9,20} it's 43).
People are startlingly ignorant, and the media has a vested interest in keeping them that way. China's default historical position has been protectionist to the point of exclusion, except when they have been coerced by war to open their markets.
With the death of Flash comes the loss of a huge part of internet cultural history, mostly interactive parts - as at least flash cartoons can be rendered to video and put up on YouTube. There were a lot of innovative games and concepts on sites like MiniClip and Newgrounds.

I remember seeing a very early demo of a <canvas>-based SWF player shortly after the iPhone came out - I wonder what would have happened to Flash if Adobe, Apple, or Google put effort into making it work the same way they did with the JavaScript-based PDF renderer.
>Amber and Guido are both beautiful human beings.

Perhaps, but Guido's response was shitty here (and purposefully refusing to get the point), whether one think Amber was right or not.

I deal constantly with the shitshot that is Python packaging (and lack-luster default packages) and I happen to think she is 100% on the spot.
I mean, zero is so even, it is not even odd!
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How is what you're doing not FUD? You have no evidence for anything you're stating. Zero.

>Microsoft did gain political influence in Munich by moving their headquarters there.

And did it actually influence the decision of Munich to change their infrastructure? And how much? 10% or 90%? Let's say it was a minor consideration, on the order of 1%, and the rest was the result of the failure of the LiMux deployment itself - see what I mean about needing evidence. You can't just say things because of your FEELS.

Again, one thing we know, it wasn't a great deployment.
This is really well done. I could tell which was Faux Rogan by listening to the pacing of the sentences, not so much to voice itself.
Taking 50mg before going to bed, for periods, (3-6months a year, during massive crunch time project deliveries), it helps me sleep better and be less tired, also it makes my dreams extremely vivid and more complex, is there any study on this? It is a constant aspect that I can reproduce steadily...
you can get a number from https://engagespark.com, but you can't receive to email, but to an http endpoint. And Zappier could bridge that gap.