skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't object to your language as a rhetorical flourish, because I think it's true that this level of exploit development is not all that rarified. I'm just saying, what I actually said is harder to knock down with a message board rebuttal. :)
> Because implementing it increased performance which made the numbers which captured market share.

More than the following big things, in both directions?

- A consistent fabrication advantage until very recently? That's said to have wiped out a generation of clever hardware architects, when Intel beat their best efforts with their next process node.

- Falling behind AMD with the Netburst "marchitecture", the front side bus memory bottleneck, and only supporting Itanium as a 64 bit architecture?

- Reversing the above by licencing AMD64, reverting to the same Pentium Pro style design AMD was using, and copying their ccNUMA multi-chip layout (each is directly attached to memory, with fast connections between them).

- AMD losing the plot after the K8 microarchitecture, including putting a huge amount of capital into buying ATI instead of pushing their CPU advantage? And then having to sell off their fabs, putting them at a permanent disadvantage until Intel's "10nm" failed? (And what happened to the K9??)

- Anticompetitive marketing and sales?

> Execution-time attacks and other sidechannel leakage have been well-known for years, and I can't imagine that at a place like Intel, nobody had heard of that.

The strange thing is that security researchers assumed for years that Intel was accounting for this, when it turned out not a single one of AMD, ARM, IBM POWER and mainframe/Z, Intel, MIPS, or SPARC did?
Social media is at the very core of 4th generation warfare. Social media is more powerful than nukes because he who controls the discourse of the public is more powerful than he who destroys the public. He who controls the social network can make people believe whatever he wants them to believe to achieve his goals. Vastly more powerful, invisible, and humane than nuclear weapons, especially in terms of reach. What we are already witnessing online is an information war which hijacks and disrupts our social connections and thought processes to replace them with highly engineered stimuli which steer the people to think and act in a certain way. Neural networks are in development which will provide a positive feedback loop to continually evolve puppet account discourse in a way which maximally achieves the goals of a behavioral campaign. Phrases which maximize psychological impact for each campaign will be identified and automatically evolved based on replies and related discourse to always maintain maximum engagement as the overton windows shifts. These experiments are already well underway.
Isn't Delaware $300 a year to have an LLC there?

Shouldn't you pick a state that has little to no annual filing fee?

https://www.llcuniversity.com/llc-filing-fees-by-state/
> I think conservatives are mostly white peoples and they don’t see it happening

It should be noted that while “minorities” (i.e. black and Hispanic people) were disproportionately targeted by stop and frisk, 53% of hispanic people polled supported the program (similar to the 57% of white people who supported it). Indeed, 25% of black people polled supported the program: https://www.blackenterprise.com/nypd-stop-and-frisk-poll-rac.... When you account for the fact that people who vote are older and more conservative than the general public answering polling questions, it’s quite probable that a significant majority of Hispanic voters and a large minority of black voters supported the program. It’s disrespectful to all those people to say that only white people could support the program.

I personally think the program is unconstitutional. But there is a real danger in assuming that “minorities” have liberal policy views. Their voting with democrats because of certain key issues obscures the large representation of conservatism within minority groups. People tend to pretend like black conservatives don't exist, but almost as many black people consider themselves conservative (22%) as white people who consider themselves liberal (24%). Hispanics, meanwhile, are evenly split between conservatives, moderates, and liberals: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245813/leans-conservative-liber....

Views on marijuana legalization are a good example: https://www.people-press.org/2014/04/02/section-2-views-of-m.... 55% of whites, 60% of blacks, but only 43% of hispanics believe marijuana should be legal. Twice as many hispanic people (39%) and slightly more black people (23%) support jail time for minor marijuana possession, as compared to white people (19%). (Remarkably, Hispanics as a group support jail time for minor possession at higher rates than Republicans as a group.)

Likewise with mandatory minimums, 30% of whites, 33% of blacks, and 41% of hispanics view reducing mandatory minimums for drug crimes to be a "bad thing." Hispanics are much closer to republicans (45%) than to democrats (29%) on that measure, even though hispanics overwhelmingly vote Democrat. You see similar results with the death penalty, with almost half of hispanics supporting it, and a third of black people.
Severe drought has forced thriving farmers to leave in search of wage labour
One book is missing. I've read most of these books and the one that helped me most as a startup founder is Disrupted by Dan Lyons. Comedy aside it was a true eye opener.

In the startup silicon echo chamber, you hear the same things over and over until you start to believe it. In fact, when I read many of these books, nothing came as a surprise because that's all the startup world talks about anyway.

Disrupted made fun of the things that I thought were pretty normal. One example is the culture were building in our own startup. We focused so much on the right culture fit that we got some of the worst people to work with us. And we couldn't see that it was all our fault.

Get a book that has an opposing view of your world. From time to time, someone has to make fun of us or we start to take ourselves too seriously.
When a software company ponders the environment
We can also try to get the people we do produce to consume less…
Modern data centres are a lot more efficient than that. Google currently uses 0.11 watts of overhead per 1 watt of compute, and that overhead includes voltage conversions. [0]

As for residential systems, typical AC unit efficiency ranges from ~15 to ~25 SEER, which is essentially BTUs of cooling per watt•hour under "typical" conditions. Stripping away the weird units, that's 5-7x efficiency. So 5-7 watts of heat removed per watt spent, under whatever the EPA's definition is for "typical" conditions.

[0] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal
The most amazing part of this acquisition was discovering there's a gay dating app called "blue" that I bet most americans, even those in the space, have never heard of with 10 times the traffic of grindr.

And grindr isn't obscure or known only among gays, I've heard it joked about on late night television and light-hearted NPR shows. It's part of the zietgiest whether you're in the target demo or not.

I guess the domain space is inherently regional since it's about meeting locals but I'm still continually amazed at how unknown some of the largest players are outside their market.

It's like the regional scooter/rideshare/delivery competitors. I listen to UK podcasts and they act like everyone on the planet has heard of and constantly uses a company named "Deliveroo", which I, even in the startup world had only maybe tangentially heard of, but not in any significant way. It serves in 14 countries and has 13,000 employees and 20,000 deliverers.
True, I was wrong about that. I looked at it from the perspective of the affected customers.

In that case it was a 0-day until probably February 2017.
Woah. 200,000 points. Thats a lot of stays and or purchases. Did they acknowledge the theft ?
I always tend to get interested in some technology or library and go straight to the docs. They usually have intro or tutorial/gallery type sections that help you get started. It helps to have a use case in mind and imagine applying it as you read through the API details. This worked for me equally well for ML libraries as it did for learning kernel stuff (except for the latter i went to a reference book).

It's real similar to just doing your normal software job, but in this case it's just for fun!
My SEO consultancy can handle that. We'll submit your site to hundreds of the top search engines and web directories.
> Why do you think developer salaries are so high?

H1B visa limit?
I stand corrected then I guess. I definitely read before that it uses plain midi messages.
"France passed an ambitious energy law in 2015 with a target of cutting the share of nuclear in its electricity mix to 50 percent by 2025 from 75 percent currently, while investing in renewables and efficiency to curb consumption and heat loss."

Didn't know that.
i really do, i mainly miss:

* people not being able to contact me 24/7

* not knowing what is going on in the world all the time (this i miss the most)

* things being local

* way less crap people used to own
What would be proper insurance level for typical SaaS?
Basically. Look at it from Stripe's point of view, they don't want to be associated with scammers. A lawyer will look at the facts of your situation, and at their ToS, and then explain to Stripe's legal department that you're anxious to be a good partner for them because you spent some time and money to clean up that old mistake and see things from their side. That gives someone with decision power something in writing that (I hope) they can put their stamp of approval on.

Best of luck!
I think that is true in the sense that everyone has their own reality. However I don't think that precludes things getting worse. For anyone who has a utilitarian view of housing, or buildings in general, this is certainly the wrong decade in most places.
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I miss the trajectory. Many things were exciting in the '90s, but many things didn't turn out so well.

This is pretty much the same way I feel. I'm not sure exactly when things changed, but there is definitely a sense that we went off the rails somewhere along the way. Some time ago there was excitement, optimism, and a sense of boundless opportunity, associated with the Internet and tech in general. Now... well... there's still some of that, but a lot of it has been replaced by negativity, fear, pessimism, doubt, and suchlike. The overall zeitgeist is definitely less pleasant these days, IMO.
>We need 70x more nuclear power than we have today

A nuclear fission world will never happen due to the economics of it.

Fission plants are hugely expensive, and take a decade or more to construct. Investors would prefer to bring 100MW a year online every year than wait 10 years for 1GW to come online and hope the power produced is still competitive.

Then after the plant has lived its useful life, it cannot simply be demolished like a gas plant or wind turbine. It takes specialists a good few years and more money to decommission the plant.
News websites https://web.archive.org/web/19990128201038/http://dnes.sezna...

no spying, popups, animations, autoplaying videos, clickbait thumbnails... just a simple website with information

now I have to use three addons just to get back this clean look
The bed jumping article is written by the Tickled director, David Farrier. It's as if he's destined to expose underground fetish markets.
I like the ads actually. Nice piece of content marketing.
There is a parenting style described in the literature, i think it's called the 'deliberate cultivation style'¹, where parents train their kids in test taking almost from the time they are born.

In this parenting style, many interactions go sort of like this:

(Points at bird) "Do you see that, what is that?"

"Bird!"

"Yes but what kind of bird? That's a Robin... A robin"

...

Repeat over and over all day.

Note that what is being taught here isn't just taxonomy of birds, but also it's a kind of rehearsal for test taking. In a test you get asked questions, and then you have to provide the answer. It's a type of performance, a type of structured conversation.

Other parenting styles are more hands off. In some cultures parent's don't even really talk to their kids until the kids start speaking on their own.

Now which parenting style would you predict would better prepare a kid for getting a high score on an IQ test?

1: It's actually called:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted_cultivation
This article was actually written by the same guy from the Tickled documentary.
It can be argued that people really want things like happiness or security. If they can get this more directly, they can leapfrog some of the materialism. Of course for the ultra poor things like medicine are rational materialism. But there is diminishing rational value for example in dwelling size.

For example there is nothing inherent in status symbols that they need to be environmentally harmful. We can change our values.
This seems strangely timed, given the current talking point of the Trump WH
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You have zero proof to that and your explanation also violates Hanlon's razor (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
There are so many fake hackers and perverts online who extorts people off their hard earned money from
the basement of their mother. it took me several months to find a genuine hacker who is trustworthy.
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> I'd be more inclined to think that richer people spend more time and money on their kids

This article [0] says your generalisation is correct:

> Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation [...] Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/upshot/rich-children-and-...
In order to ensure the right to e.g. scratch your face in public, how many false negatives are acceptable? I'll take false negatives over false positives. More so, it's incredibly important for false positives to be easily rectifiable.

I'm stunned to see someone arguing that ticketing someone for scratching their face is acceptable. Just because a machine lets attempt it at scale doesn't make it any more acceptable.
On the other hand, France seems to have gotten it right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
The switch that completely isolated power from your pc. Luckily that still exists at the wall .... for now.

Phones are another story.
I understand the anxiety and the relief from abandoning a possibly unending and self-destructive task for "purpose", but it is exactly that energy which propels humans to do great things. But I agree, meaning can be everywhere.
A state organization IMO should protect the public interest. If anything the NSA should be releasing CVEs and protecting US companies by patching their systems. I don’t understand what service exactly does the NSA (and similar intelligence agencies elsewhere) provide to their public by hiding vulnerabilities from the public. Does the victim of a hack that the NSA could have crates pay taxes? What for???
iOS 13 concept packs all the features we want
This is near-impossible without killing a lot of people. Humans generally don't just give up their comforts en masse for some distant benefits. This is a fixed property of humans, and the source of most world problems.
The Myth of the Niche Market
Submit this as a Show HN, will show in the Show HN tab as well.
The cloud is only able to be cost effective because they are able to utilize those fleets of big-iron computers to provide nearly infinite VMs and resources to anyone who signs up for their services. Relegating each customer to their own physical computer would raise costs so high as to essentially eliminate the purpose of the cloud's existence, and most businesses would be better off going back to their own data centers at that point.
The entire CIA network in China was recently brought down from stuff like this while the agents of Chinese military are masquerading as innocent Chinese graduate students and copying University hard drives as fast as possible. My coworker from Carnegie Mellon described the situation years ago and it seems pretty grim.
Our company misses screen hero big time, comes up in discussion often. The only suitable replacement we’ve found is vscode liveshare which is actually very good but not everyone wants to use vscode.
>Also, how does insulation help keep out infrared radiation, which is a key heating source if your place has sufficient windows.

Low-emissivity glass, plus shutters and screens.

http://glassed.vitroglazings.com/topics/how-low-e-glass-work...
Also the 90s kind of sucked. Otherwise grunge and goth culture would have never taken off.

Was a teenager then, but here are some of the things that I can think of:

- recessions in many countries '91/'92

- Asian financial crisis '97

- higher crime rates

- reunification in Germany (causing massive budgetary/cultural issues)

- nuclear testing in the Pacific (was a big issue here in NZ at the time)

- threat of nuclear material being "lost" from ex-Soviet military

- collapse of Soviet economies, esp. Russia

- WTO riots in Seattle 1999

- large absolute poverty worldwide (see also the Millennium Development Goals)
Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is concerning a velocity control signal, not a stream of audio samples.
This control signal would be mapped the internal processing of a synthesis or sampling engine, resulting in an audio signal whose data format (analog or 16/24/32-bit digital) comes down to the physical characteristics and design of the synth.
Once it leaves the synth, a host can convert to whatever it needs to have enough headroom for further processing.

This is orthogonal to the issues remediated by oversampling (harmonic artifacts due to aliasing in non-linear processing like saturation, not distortion issues related to bit-depth).

16-bit velocity signals, if linearly mapped, means 96dB of velocity sensitivity which is pretty good. And it won't be linearly mapped, because exponential velocity mappings are already prevalent in the industry.
On a sidenote, does anybody else find it interesting that all the benchmarked games running on Vulkan have only minimal performance hits?

IIRC Vulkan was designed to be more suited to modern multi-core processors, and I believe that the "HT-agnosticism" it exhibits is good proof that they managed that pretty well...
Can you not prepare for an IQ test?
Cool, but how did you find out my email address?
This one of the few that resonated with me: #readpoetry

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die
miserably every day

for lack
of what is found there.
This. I use the very same method. All my apps are in a folder.
> Software engineers have an average IQ of 110ish so most HN readers are capable of doing almost any job.

Do you have a source for this?
Yes, but they won't lead to mutually assured distruction. Only nuclear weapon can do that so far: ensure that whoever pushes the button die in the counterstrike.
I've only donated and voted for liberal candidates. Also, my comment explicitly said 'leftists' which is different than liberals. Argument was also in direct response to a comment. Good day to you~
> Unreal Engine’s Blueprint

Previously: https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

"Confessions of a unreal engine 4 engineering firefighter": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775166
There were always trolls and lots of people that weren't quite trolling but weren't contributing much.

(I have a lower 5 digit account over there)
France is phasing out 35% of their nuclear power in the next few years. With one exception[1], there are no new nuclear power plants in planning to replace any of the existing fleet, which will all have to be retired soon.

[1] Flamanville, which is 400% over budget and behind schedule by 11 years.
Yep, UK here, and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
I don't know how else I could have made my point. And yes, I feel my comment adds to the conversation.
Developer salaries are high across the globe (relative to local salaries)
If we're building 70x more than today, are there any economies of scale?

Problem is we can't wait for research into better designs, have to act yesterday
I miss buttons in general.
The power switch: tracking Britain's record coal-free run
people not being able to contact me 24/7

You can still have that! I have it. Literally cannot remember the last time I answered the phone :)
There is a middle ground, you just can't get there by asking nicely. Humans aren't capable of this level of coordination.

You can reach this middle ground by e.g. building more nuclear plants, introducing emission taxes, subsidizing electric cars to speed up their adoption and other top-down measures that realign the markets with desired social goals.
It didn't take much, it didn't stop me from starting a business, and generally I never think of it.

But it's a huge win for consumers.

How your takeaway is that I somehow proved your point because I happen to know a lot about GDPR on top of the tiny amount I needed to know to start a business boggles my mind.

Man up and admit you're wrong, it's liberating...

Although it sounds like you're an extreme randist, so there's probably no getting through to you!
Only around 50% of the people in this forum are from the US.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521
The problem with programming for non-programmers is so many programmers have told non-programmers that they can't program. Programming is far easier in the small than we'd care to acknowledge. Don't cripple what you let your users do, enable them.
Those diagrams are of data structures, not algorithms. Here's an example: http://alloytools.org/quickguide/vizview.html
I miss 90s complexity!

Sparc, MIPS, and Alpha were still alive. Assembly was a thing.

Mobile telephones for mortals were a marvel and technological breakthrough that could let you communicate everywhere.

3D graphics could run in software, and Abrash' Black Book was a black book, and even more, wizards had managed to capture things in hardware for the PC with some sort of voodoo.

Now we have 1.5 dominant boring architecture where performance is bumped by "Meh, just double the cores and crank it to 11" and no one cares because everything is ecmascript anyway, mobile telephones, or "telephones", are devices that mildly entertain you as you wait for death, and graphics are a matter of dumping the right shaders through the right libraries.

The future just looked a little more interesting. The 90s for me is where the great tragedy of simplification began.

The present is still pretty okay though, I just would have liked it a little "rougher" computing wise :)