skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've done things to make it harder fingerprint Safari users. It might still work sometimes but will be less reliable.
> A 10 yr old functioning Mac is not unusual.

This means that Apple was good 10 years ago.
Yep. CPU's are barely increasing their performance (aside of increasing core count recently, but that's for very specific workloads). Motherboards is basically about CPU. Replace battery, optionally upgrade memory and SSD, replace broken components (WiFi card, keyboard) and it's as good as new. But that requires modular design.
> a large percentage of all industrial sensor data is "personal data" under GDPR

Could you give some examples? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
Even if you're pre-investment & zero profit, the LLC gives limited liability to owners, usually at less cost than a corporation.

And if you need to convert, it will be easier to convert an LLC to a Del. C. than to create a Del. C. based on your co-mingled personal and business records.
They are ranked a bit confusingly by the metric of 'potential future impact' divided by 'cost'. Refrigerants could have a huge impact if they are not controlled and/or improved, but they need not be very costly to control and improve. They don't yet present the scale of problem that carbon emissions present. The IPCC after decades of studying and advising on the matter is pretty well clear on that.
Online Reputations Become Inflated over Time
Only 50% of the homeless in San Francisco have been in the city for more than 10 years. Housing prices play a role but don't tell the full story.

When looking at the homeless who are still on the street, they're there because they refuse to go to shelters. The vast majority who are on the streets are there because of mental health issues or drugs. The visible aspect of homelessness has much more to do with us failing to provide adequate mental healthcare and a failed war on drugs than with housing prices.
Is there a real increase in these sorts of crime?

The temperature of the story and stats provided by the police don't seem to match.
Imagine an A.I assistant that a society was using and you could use a slider to change how much you want to focus on society or yourself. I wonder if in time focusing on self would be the same as the society option as more people used it unselfishly.
Adtech will die once people start paying for things on the internet. When that will be who knows.
Of course it was a 0-day. It was one until the day that Microsoft released patch MS17-010 on the 12th of March 2017. So for around 5 years it was a 0-day that was used by the NSA and possibly other unknown actors.
Excel checks the "good enough" box and while you have a point, it isn't going away.
Consider applying to research institutions. ETH Zurich and LRZ come to mind as examples.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998004
> Frankly, I think higher fines and more aggressive fining would even further deepen the business moat that mega businesses are already developing over small and medium.

You can always charge small companies more than the big ones. Also: witness my world's tiniest violin.

And yes, if that doesn't help, absofuckinglutely block them.
Dataset Mining Reveals New Planets
A few ways when you use averages and only use one type of average - mean average without including mode or median average types.

The age of on the road vehicles can be skewed by new cars.
The age of scrappage can equally be skewed by a few new cars written off and as such, scrapped.
Then we do not know average time of the road, the transition time of sitting in a garage/off-road and then scrapped a few years later. That could be a short period or decades. That again would skew averages.

As you can see - I have a pet hate about averages when they just use the mean average. Without knowing the other two averages or complete access to the data-sets - a biased perspective can and will be the outcome more often than not.

It's like a company employing 100 people - 99 earn 10k a year and one earns 1 million a year. The company can and often will say that their employees earn on average 19.9k a year. When the median and mode forms of averages would both in this instance yield an answer of 10k.

I'd be most happy if any use of averages has to include all 3 forms of averages - after all, we do teach them in school's, let's use them and save so much confusion, bias and statistical abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
There is no such thing as "filing as an LLC". When you form an LLC by default the IRS considers the LLC a disregarded entity and will tax you just as if you were a sole proprietorship. (i.e. you will report your income on schedule c) You can however elect to have your LLC taxed as an S Corporation. In which case you have to pay yourself a reasonable salary and then you can take a distribution on any excess income above your reasonable salary. When you take a distribution from an S Corp it is only subject to ordinary income tax. You do NOT pay self-employment tax on distributions. If you don't believe me you can read it on TurboTax's website (https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/ho...) or any number of websites for that matter.
I would argue that SQL is an excellent language and the only issue is with the actual inherent complexity of what goes on behind the scenes. Writing the equivalent of even a modestly complex SQL query in any other language is much more tedious and error prone.
>Unlike previous speculative execution flaws that partially affected AMD and Arm-based processors, the MDS flaws are exclusive to Intel chips.

This isn't an excuse for Intel and how they (sometimes poorly) handle issues that come up. And it is well known that many of these vulnerabilities are currently specific to Intel and how their subsystems are implemented, or only exist on Intel processors. But side-channel attacks are a nearly universal vulnerability.

SMT of which Hyper-Threading is an implementation of is used in many chips from many companies, AMD's Bulldozer, IBM's POWER, Sun/Oracle's Sparc, etc.

These exploits are not a monolithic process, but many techniques chained together to get most of these exploits to work, and this common knowledgebase which has been refined by the researches will most certainly be recycled and reused on other processors.

If anything, the "capture 90% of the market." by Intel as you put it only ensures that these problems will usually be discovered on their processor's first.

If as much effort was put towards other cpus as it is towards Intel, you would see significant performance hits as well with them.
Neural Net Worth – June 2019 – Communications of the ACM
Can you think of a man made system that has had 100% reliability over sustained periods of time?
We are just animals, if someone in a low social tier is constantly blocked and fed negative affirmations, while someone from a higher tier is constantly granted access and positive affirmations, one is being trained to feel more confident and capable.

If they dropped me into a town with a bunch of actors who all pretended to be in awe of my intellect, I would begin to think of myself as some kind of genius.
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Is it possible they're talking about a chip where the K version had hyperthreading but the lower end of that line didn't?

Haven't kept up on Intel well enough for the last two years or so to be sure, but I seem to remember there being a generation where that happened.
Jurisdiction limits where a lawsuit can be filed. It does not limit what Apple can put in its terms of service for the App Store.
Does anyone know how this compares to TLA+?

Pros, cons, differences?
As long as people work to live, there will be a pressing demand for such labels, flawed though they may be. Top organizations will always want to hire the smartest/most brilliant/non-idiotic people they can afford, for various practical definitions of these terms.

If two people seem similar in every way, but Person 1 has demonstrated that they achieve greater probability of success compared to Person 2 given comparable time investments, then you'd probably want to hire Person 1. Real life is never this cut and dried, but the principle holds.
It's hard to map modern concepts like PTSD onto ancient cultures. Violence and abuse was commonplace to a degree we can't even comprehend.
My point was about the tools that let people do the job they'd ask to do programmers otherwise, but it is also a nice touch. Although, I think it is not only about JSX, virtually any modern framework markup part is not easily readable by non-developer. With complexity of the clients and trends we have now it is not fixable and won't be for a long time.
We've started thinking about how to prevent conversion fraud. I think conversion fraud is possible even with current tracking pixel based conversion using a headless browser that scrapes the DOM of the purchase page. I also suspect fake conversions are only useful as a way to try to mask fake clicks, so if fake clicks can be detected, it might not matter.
Yep as soon as I got that email, I replied saying this business is selling completely different and linked them to the domain and where the payments were coming from. They replied that banking partners won’t allow them. No way to appeal or anything.
It hurts the non-scummy businesses as well.

So the regulation causes problems for people that haven't done anything wrong.

A lets be clear here. People aren't dying, it mostly ads and shitty data collection. I think it might be better to actually educate the public (which govs are doing) as to some of the pitfalls of the internet rather than regulating the crap out of it.
I don’t like the tone of this advice. It’s very off putting.

Look, do what you want. If you want a business start it. You’ll need a CPA and a book keeper. These are easy to find and low cost. I pay my book keeper $200/month and my CPA a few thousand each year.

I literally have never bothered with taxes. I hand them to my CPA and just double check the numbers when he’s done. Same with my book keeper. I don’t deal with IRS letters and whatever I just scan them and forward them to him and he deals with it.

Tax/accounting/finance are the easiest part of a small business. These jobs are easy to outsource because they’re well commoditized. Tax/finance/accounting for a small business can be challenging for a lay person but it’s routine for these professionals.

Lastly, if you fuck up your taxes and accounting it’s not that big of a deal. The IRS is happy to have you sort it out and pay them what you owe with interest later. They’re very polite people. I should know.

The dirty secret about starting a small business is that everyone’s back office is a total shit show. Ask any freelance bookkeeper or CPA what state their clients were in when they acquired them.
I think CSS helps as you only have to figure out what elements h1 p img, etc to use and the CSS will take care of the layout.

That's the party line. Now do a View Source on some web pages.
Someone needs to ask Buttigieg what he thinks about MDMA. If he admits using it in the past he'd make a great President and if he says he never tried it he needs to drop out of the race.
This number doesn't necessarily have to remain 6 bits but note that if it got up to 32 bits it would be enough to contain a unique user ID (or even a unique ID for a specific click) which removes all privacy benefits.
Pottery Barn, owned by Williams-Sonoma, is a weird mention. They sell household goods from mall stores and their online catalog. There exposure to GDPR should be pretty minimal. Ship the product and don't sell your customer list and basic security work that they should be doing already.
An exaggerated belief of performance in a flash card game might not indicate that belief is exaggerated in general. Maybe they have a heuristic like "I'm good at things" which gives a pretty accurate estimate of their performance on day-to-day tasks, and flash card games are an edge case that they're not good at estimating.
Gamers are not the only target market. Gamers are a fairly small market.
I'm not sure there's been any evidence that the military has had success utilizing current computational approaches to data. E.g. the DCGS project was a failure and I don't think that project tried anything beyond what you'd get out of Microsoft Excel (https://nypost.com/2014/10/27/army-spent-5b-on-failed-techno...). DoD plans for projects that last for decades and the algorithms people are building for commercial purposes today are developing way faster than DoD's procurement can keep up I'd guess,
3 billions accounts less in advertise stats .. how many advertiser is paying over price based on fake statistics ..
Thanks for the link! I liked your explanation that

> [the] warped numbers are like a hole that you can fall into but you can't climb out of, and 0/0 is a deeper hole inside the first hole.
I have not, but that sounds like an interesting read. I will have a look at it, thanks for the tip.
If my understanding of the announced updates [1] is correct, the need to update exists for non-HT CPU, too (see C3000 series and such).

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
How to Make a Good Secret Sauce
> the rabbit hole of developer-focused engineering process and developers go on to combine more and more responsibilities beneath the surface of single cranium.

(1) There's a strong reason for this desire. Software systems are very interdependent.

We you can see from front to back and side to side, and you can recoginze the potential for improvement or optimization.

(2) "Full-stack software developer" is more specialized then you might think.

As a "full stack" web developer, I can count on one hand the number of times I've looked at a browser's source code. Same for databases. I understand the basics of DNS, IP, TCP, UDP, BGP, but not the details. And my knowledge of common ISAs is laughable. And I have essentially no knowledge of hardware: physical CPUs/GPUs, displays, fiber optics, etc.
"It works", yeah, you're right, it does what it's meant to. Unstated, behind my angst, is the question of whether what its meant to do is actually worthwhile.
Interestingly enough they cite this article with another misleading title in the same way:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Iconic-Stores-in-SFs-M...

Besides noting shoplifting, there is no other mention of crime while noting explicitly gentrification and real estate prices.
I'm always left wondering how one gets from such a specific thing to such generalizations

In this case, I will suggest that someone is simply marrying general "common knowledge" to the study specifics.

Classism is very real. I've become very aware of its effects in recent years.

My mother's mother came from a low level noble family that sold the title. I grew up in a nice suburb, daughter of a retired decorated soldier. I was one of the top people in my high school, arguably one of the top people in my state academically, based on placing 3rd in a statewide competition and being a National Merit Scholarship winner.

In recent years, I've been quite poor and spent several years homeless. My social experience suggests that my recent poverty completely wipes out the value of my academic accomplishments etc in the eyes of a great many people.

It's been a huge problem for trying to get my life back. In the eyes of many people, I'm too poor to be considered competent enough to hire for anything.
RSpec is written and read mostly by developers. Unlike those tools that business likes to use and abuse developers with extension requests just to feel more control over the situation.
For me, Fullstack is only enjoyable when using JS or TypeScript both in backend and frontend
Environment matters a lot.

Road salt and Ocean Air destroys car bodies. The drivetrain can be fine, but the body just falls apart around it.

There's going to be an interesting time for Used Cars coming up, with all the electronics and complex parts. Where cars could be worked on in your garage or local shop, now need a trip to a dealer to work out the Electronic Wizardry.

Followed by the dying out of non-diesel ICE shops turning into just Brake and Tire places.
> Because a good DSL abstracts away things that are not relevant to the domain (e.g. in Excel, memory pointers and allocation) while retaining those that are (which data transformation you want to apply).

I agree, I wrote this small example on using DSL for E2E testing, where you abstract away a lot of asynchronous calls, headless browser specifics and other low level concepts to expose a simple API so domain experts can help you to write tests https://github.com/davps/tic-tac-toe/blob/master/src/App.tes...
"Gamers" don't game 100% of the time. They also do normal web browsing (possibly to buy the next gaming pc).

Your argument is invalid.
I’m more peeved about the soldered batteries. They still expand!

What are the big-battery people doing to get 22 year life that can't be downsized for small batteries? Is there some fundamental reason we can't have mobile devices where the battery is good for two decades?
Memory unsafe languages are already the perfect generator of exploitable bugs with how easy they are to make exploitable mistakes in. Few exploits need more explanation than that. (It would be interesting if the popularity of memory unsafe languages like C/C++ was somehow encouraged by the NSA to keep the world exploitable, but I've never heard of any evidence of that.)
Yes, countries are not doing enough to reduce their own emission either, but this is precisely the reason why clean energy R&D is such a good climate policy. Making clean energy cheaper also makes decarbonizing more politically palatable for advanced economies. Especially the US is worried about economic competitiveness.

One economic model suggests that "if a carbon tax imposes a dollar of cost on the economy, induced innovation will end up reducing that cost to around 70 cents".[72] Given that political acceptability is mainly a function of cost, making clean energy cheaper might make carbon taxes more likely.

The current US administration was considering significant cuts to its energy R&D budget and has not advanced Mission Innovation.

But recently it appears as if a unique window of opportunity has opened up for policy research on the effectiveness of higher and smarter clean energy R&D spending. The Mission Innovation secretariat is now led by the EU and Canada. And it also now appears as if there will be a slight increase to the US energy R&D budget. It might increase further in 2020, because there is a chance of a change in US leadership after the 2020 elections, which might affect clean energy policy.

citations here:
https://lets-fund.org/clean-energy/
DMX is standard for lighting, but although the actual protocol is rock solid the parts around it are no where near as good as MIDI. Device to device is fine, but USB DMX controllers are expensive and rubbish in my experience using them to control a ~100 piece (dumb) lighting rig
Seems like Chipotle should have to pony up for wrongful termination.
I'd again mention the ongoing replication crisis in psychology.

People have specifically attempted to replicate Paul Piff's numerous studies trying to assign various negative characteristics to those of upper social class. The results did find some correlations maintained, such as those between greed and unethical behavior, but Piff's keystone correlation between social class and unethical behavior was completely unable to be replicated.

I do not think people understand how bad of shape psychology is in right now, social psychology in particular. Social psychology replication studies tend to be hitting around 20%. For instance once again the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology comes up. It's interestingly enough the journal that published the study that this link is discussing, as well as the journal that Piff published in. Its current replication rate is 23%. [2]

[1] - https://www.collabra.org/article/10.1525/collabra.166/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...
GPS is a bit different. It's uses multiple frequencies, so receivers can correct from some of the water vapor attenuation. I suspect that GPS satellites also broadcast at a much higher power than the starlink terminals will. Starlink is also using a much higher frequencies: GPS is around 1ghz. Starlink is in the 12-40 range since it used Ku and Ka band. Ku and Ka are much more susceptible to problems from moisture in the atmosphere. That's actually why K Band was split into Ku(under) and Ka(above). The middle parts around 22ghz are not useful for communicating through lots of atmosphere because so much of the signal gets absorbed by water (sidenote-- NASA and NOAA use signals around 22ghz to measure water vapor in the atmosphere. That's why they're pissed that the FCC auctioned off 24ghz spectrum for 5G-- it's going to interfere with forecasting things like hurricanes).
I remember when the news about Jussie Smollet broke, the usual SJWs on Twitter erupted in a tweet storm like they always do. (I follow a lot of great programmers who have a wide array of opinions and ideologies outside of their technical expertise) As what many have come to accept as the truth came out, no one ever retracted.

These are smart people, some of which have very high feedback here on HN. It seems to me however that their highly tuned critical thinking skills take a backseat to a desire to be mad about the state of the world, with little regard or accountability to what their words can mean.
The data I’ve seen for Nissan looks terrible, enough to put me off until the do some active battery conditioning like other manufacturers. https://pushevs.com/2018/03/20/nissan-leaf-battery-degradati...
People are both what they read and what they don't read - and in a broader sense, what they osmose [1] and don't osmose. As in, learning by osmosis.

[1] osmose: v: verb form of osmosis

If that isn't a word, it just became one, because I made it so - deal with it.
Well, I think that EV is the way to go here.
Few moving parts in one of those which should in the end gain us consumers, but who knows. They’ll find new ways to squeeze us!

An ICE is really a very complex piece of machinery. Lots of $ plowed down to get them where we are today.
As the saying goes, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans".
Another micro-architecture attack. Since the advent of Spectre and Meltdown, I really wonder what is the practicality of exploiting these vulnerabilities. As an end-user, if I have malware running on my machine trying to trigger these exploits, then in many ways I have already lost. The malware program has access to all my personal data anyway.

Personally I wonder whether the cost of mitigation is worth it. According to the article (and their simplified HT methodology) certain workloads experience a 25% performance hit.

The only cases I currently consider as exploitable are VMs in the cloud (perhaps a reason to own dedicated servers after all this time) and running JS in the browser (perhaps a reason to disable JS).

There will always be side-channel attacks. Our devices are physical devices and will leak side-effects, like electromagnetic radiation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) ). This recent spate of MDS flaws don't necessarily fit in my threat model.
We need 70x more nuclear power than we have today, just replacing electricity with zero carbon power only fixes some of the problem, still have all the fossil fuel powered machines to replace.

If everyone in the world reduced the energy usage to 2kW (which if you switched to electric motors rather than fossil fuel would be quite easy) we'd need to build 3000 nuclear power stations per year for 10 years, to cover 50% of our total energy needs. Better start yesterday.
I would not consider it simple either. However, the word "simple" was not used. The word was used was "simpler".

The source for youtube-dl is not what I'd consider "simple". While neither solution is "simple", one may be "simpler" than the other.

Also, it is ash, not bash.
No one ever? Hmm.