skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Documentation is light on details, but both major CPU vendors give extensive documentation on the performance attributes of their processors, such as how many cycles an instruction may take to complete, and none see fit to mention once 'may take an arbitrary amount longer as the CPU ages'. Not to mention, these performance attributes are frequently measured by reasearchers and engineers, and such an effect as instructions taking more cycles on one sample compared to another from the same batch has yet to be observed (and it's notable and noted when it does differ, e.g. from different steppings or microcode versions). At least one of the many many people who investigate this in great detail would have commented on it.

The wikipedia article you linked makes zero mention of redundant gates as a workaround for reliability issues. The only thing close is that designers must consider it, but this is design at the level of the geometry of the chip, not its logic. It doesn't even make good sense as a strategy: the extra cost of redundant logic to work around reliability issues on a smaller node will outweigh the advantages of that node.

One of the greatest things about modern CPUs is how reliably they do work given that you need such a high yield on individual transistors.
A web page designed with only desktops in mind will work poorly on a phone too - not Flash's fault.
And if the laws of your country are unjust?
Pizza delivery can be dangerous in certain neighborhoods, for sure. At least one or two were killed in my home town. However, let's not pretend that the emotional and mental weight and responsibility of being a pizza delivery driver is anywhere close to what a cop has to deal with on a daily basis:

"Police respond to murder-suicide in Durham" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4D2toAHQ4

"Man shoots, kills police wearing body cam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssARbfxqTh0

"Police respond to reported armed robbery on South Hill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7iOelX_0kY

"Bodycam Footage Shows Woman Falsely Accused Cop of Sexual Assault | New York Post"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTv5VkX_T8o

"Police seek man who tried to rape elderly woman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWPvXsUmZik

You let me know what pizza delivery driver has to deal with shit like that.
Looks like Figure 17 is the updated analog of the original HN article-figure.
I think hacked versions of Flash are statistically more likely to be secure than the official version, though.

Why do you think that the official Flash player would provide a secure environment going forward? It never has, and so without Adobe's active support, I imagine it would get even worse. Official Flash has always been a security nightmare.
Using Neural Networks to Predict Droughts, Floods and Conflict Displacements
Of course. You can have healthy emotional involvement with your job while still setting healthy boundaries. That's what maturity is.

You ought to take pride on a job well-done, enjoy being part of a team with coworkers, and feel that your company does something positive. An online auction site is a positive thing, one reason among many being that it promotes reuse rather than throwing things out.

But to harass someone, to break laws? That's beyond the healthy boundary. That's why boundaries exist. That's gone to unhealthy self-identification with the company. Which is what baffles me so much.

When people go from "it's more than a job" to "I'll commit crimes for this company", it's baffling and scary.
Yes. My guess would be because the title is clickbait-y (though it is the actual title).

The title also doesn't seem to match the research results in the article.
With options your gains are infinite but your loss is limited to the premium. I don't think you can loose more than you put in, only exactly however much you've put in.
I was given cracked/pirate install disk at a LAN party in ~2000 because I was having SMB network problems with 98. Win2k was so much better in all ways and it could play counter-strike and medal of honor just fine. I kept using it till the mid-2000s around my switch to Ubuntu 5.04.
Flash sucked for a lot of things but what it was an unsung hero for was actually being an outlet and onramp for adolescent creativity.

Children online during that era were not just staring into YouTube videos served up by the algorithm they were clicking around Flash compilation sites with animations, games etc and many would eventually pirate a copy of Flash.

The beauty of the tool, especially in the AS2 era was you could open it up and start animating straight away but then to add sounds or loops you had to add little bits of code into the timeline. This was a perfect way for many to start dabbling with and understanding coding.
> the message it would send to current and future customers

What exactly is that message? Maybe:

"If you make your money by separating families, putting kids in cages, and deporting asylum-seekers to places where they're in danger, then we don't want your money."

Do you see anything wrong with that message?
If that were to be the case, why does my insurer try to wiggle out of paying me based on shit like bogus claims of 'preexisting conditions'? That doesn't sound like something dome in good faith.
Living in the PNW with many consecutive months of damp and cool weather, I've found most humidity sensors to be unreliable. Often their operating range is between 20% and 80%, which misses the very dry summers and very wet winters here. After a few weeks, I start getting bad readings, and finally failures.
Lately, I've had better results using a small 5VDC fan within the weather station enclosure, with the hope that dew won't form on the sensor (probably the main culprit). It's a Silicon Labs Si7021 temperature and humidity sensors (I2C). So far so good.
That blog post will go down as one of the all time worst examples of corporate crisis management.
In some ways, I think the interactive component has migrated to Unity. It’s in no way a direct successor, to be sure; even with the Unity web player there’s nothing approaching the immediacy of Flash's authoring and playing experience. Browsing Itch.io does channel some of those early-2000s Newgrounds vibes, though.
>One should not discriminate on the basis of race, political orientation, gender, origin or religion. Refusing service is clearly a form of discrimination

It looks like you're trying to imply that discriminating based on political orientation is as bad as as discriminating based on race, gender, origin or religion, but that's wrong. At least when it comes to the law, political orientation isn't a protected class. Race, gender, origin or religion are.
I don't think we can detect enough neutrinos to make this work. The reason it works with the Sun is the massive number of neutrinos it generates and exposing over 500 days since even then so few are detected.
Network effect is the moat they need. i.e. it is easier to the use the solution that everyone uses, nobody wants to install 10 different vc apps.
How can I help nonprofits with my data skills?
Hey HN! I am COO at startup that builds data products for commercial banks (btw we are profitable). I wish I could help some meaningful nonprofit but my skills are quite limited (apart from 15 years in banking IT depts): python+pandas+numpy+sql+dask+scikit. Maybe some ideas or links to organizations that may need my help or advice?
> The court can only interpret law, they can't reverse a law just because a majority of people don't like it.

The Supreme Court invented Qualified Immunity[1].

The law before that was very clear[2]:

"The Civil Rights Act of 1871 is a federal statute, numbered 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that allows people to sue the government for civil rights violations. It applies when someone acting 'under color of' state-level or local law has deprived a person of rights created by the U.S. Constitution or federal statutes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity#History_and...

[2] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-a-section-19...
Would a concentrated high-energy beam of neutrinos be easier to detect?

There was a new HN thread about such a beam just an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528970

We'd modulate this high-energy beam. Data bandwidth would likely be quite low, but in terms of latency, it should be the fastest.

A beam directly going through Earth (e.g. from North America to Asia) is definitely going to be faster than optical fibre (or satellite) links that have wrap around the Earth.

I'm assuming neutrinos are sparse in nature, which is 50,000 metric ton pool of water was needed to detect the neutrinos emanating from the sun. But if we artificially create a highly concentrated beam of many many neutrinos, even a 99.99% loss / non-detection rate shouldn't be problem. (Again, bandwidth would be low, but we are aiming to minimize latency.)
If Adobe would have invested reasonably in security (timely fixes, code quality reviews, silent auto-update by default, general attitude towards code quality in hiring/development) Flash might have had a chance. They didn't.

Flash didn't work "perfectly fine" on Android - basically every product shipped with Flash was vulnerable at almost any point in time.
What are we to do about all the useful tools, pages and games that were either written in or utilized Flash? I realize some of this stuff will be rewritten in HTML5, but what about the things that are not?

How will we preserve all those classic flash games that we wasted our time playing in the early 2000s?
There’s a lot of critical reception in this thread, mostly people complaining about bandwagoning. However, there’s a lot to be said for eliminating the unnecessary “div all the things” mindset of websites today, it makes html much easier to read and eliminates unnecessary typing. As a css framework, this is also agnostic to rendering frameworks.

I wouldn’t consider classless a trend, just another useful methodology we still should be exploring.
Reality seems to be more like 10% on a capacity basis. On a performance basis, of course, it's extremely negative.
The problem with MainFrames is not the hardware, is the vendor
Windows 2000 also represents the zenith of UI design for Microsoft software. I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP, it looked like a toy for toddlers, and installing the Zune theme was the first thing I did after a fresh install to try and tone it down.

The in-your-face over decoration of UI's thankfully hasn't persisted, but instead we're seeing a similar kind of decadence among our supposedly minimal and flat interfaces. The misuse of space and screen real-estate has gotten pretty bad as of late, and I'm all for an appropriate amount of whitespace (I keep railing against certain linux DE's for not getting this right) but modern software seems to be devoid of any kind of efficiency with layout or a sensible information density.
Yeah, back in the days Flash was fun for creating simple interactive animations. I yet haven't found a good alternative.

HTML+SVG+CSS+JS+Canvas+WegGL+... can do all the things, but there's no good and simple to use editor.

For pure animations I recently found Synfig, which to me has a steeper learning curve and misses the interactivity Flash provided.

In a way similar to the missing replacement of Delphi in the Web - simple tools for creating quite acceptable results quickly.

All the tools I found till today either produces only crap, which falls apart quickly or one has to make it a real project with proper coding and everything.
> The first link of your parent should've been https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Erfi.html

Sometimes Markdown eats following parentheses and sometimes it doesn't, and I've never figured out why. When I first viewed the post it showed me the parenthesis not being eaten, but then it did it anyway when I viewed it from the main page (too late for me to edit). Thanks for fixing it up!
Yeah good point. I actually use Reuters as my go-to for that reason, and the ability to get what matters quick and efficiently.
Lol you’re not being a better person when you add a passive aggressive paragraph at the end but it’s all good, we’re on the Internet after all

And OP went out of his or her way to post that link I don’t think any of us are entitled to a summary or whatever
> [...] but it's crazy to not let discrimination happen on things that are a choice.

Religion is a choice. Does that mean that you're fine with discrimination based on one's religion?
To quote myself from a different comment, I did not mean to imply that the visibility of these issues hasn't changed; it's quite obvious that these issues are much closer to the surface of everyday discourse than they were earlier.

The visibility alone does nil, though, when it comes to everyday practical effects. The mere fact that this issue is visible did not change the death counts. Death statistics during police interventions can be considered one such standard. It's a good first step that needs to be followed by further steps.
>> All corporations are political

Almost no corporations are overtly political in who they service.
> Flash worked perfectly fine on Android back in the day

This is absolutely false. It was not fine, much less "perfectly fine".

It was slow to touch respond, super laggy. You couldn't hover. Scrolling and tapping wasn't supported right. It broke browser navigation when you weren't expecting it.

Flash never worked on Android fully.
A blanket policy ban on hiring people attracted to women, or people attracted to both sexes, or attracted to neither sex. The court did not add "sexual orientation" to the list of protected classes, they just said that firing a man for being attracted to a man, but not firing a woman for being attracted to a man is discrimination based on the sex of the employee.
shrug Never build a towering edifice on a closed-source, closed-protocol, single-company-owned engine and infrastructure ever again, because there is no solution to this problem?
That's exactly my point, and no it isn't. Policing isn't less dangerous because deep sea fishing is really dangerous. If someone said "It's the most dangerous job", then it would be germane.

Here's the same logic applied elsewhere:

It's not dangerous to be a black man in America. What's really dangerous is to be a El Salvadoran living in El Salvador(the country with the highest murder rate in the world).
There's also the Players Coalition, a group of >1400 prominent professional athletes and coaches, which has publicly called on Congress to pass the Ending Qualified Immunity Act: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/10/athletes-pe...
How do you handle things like ordering things online that usually requires a email address?
Maybe it is offending people, maybe it isn't. I hold no doubt that the concept or slavery is offensive, but I haven't actually seen an argument from a PoC saying that it offends them. Nobody alive today was a slave during the time that it was legal in USA/UK, etc. I'd hold a very different view if we were having this discussion in the 1800s. As I said, I haven't actually seen any significant outcry about this from the relevant communities, for lack of a better term.

My argument goes more along the lines that changing something like this can cause more harm than good in some cases, given that we have years of established documents using these definitions.

As an example from science, the reason that the direction of conventional current goes opposite to the flow of electrons is because we found out new information, but decided it was too costly to change.

If we remove the Master/Slave terminology from everything new effective today, then in 20 years, will a new developer know that 'Main/Secondary' in their 2021 datasheet is referring to the same thing as 'Master/Slave' from their 1991 datasheet?

Possibly, but also maybe not. A smart person could infer this and another could search it, but there is still potential for confusion.
I'll probably regret asking, but why would it?
Just a reminder that choosing to obey and assist in the execution of unjust laws is a political act.
Judges tell one thing to the public and do other thing. To the public: they say they don't invent law. But they do invent, modify law. That's why there is so much literature on "judge-made law".
If the client is large enough, it does. Same as with a cake shop. Someone buying a slice of cake doesn't participate as someone asking for the design of a cake at a much higher cost.
My point is that it's the government that makes and enforces laws.

Government is responsible for both its own misconduct and companies'.
>which to me is akin to modern day slavery

There's 3 times more slaves today than during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. Estimated to be 40m people, 10m of which are children, mainly in Africa and Asia.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...
Well in this case since they showed me video evidence of murder, I would call the police (assuming I don't live in a CHAZ zone).

This is bogus though. Will Home Depot allow me to buy some rope if I declare to a random employee that I plan on using it to do a lynching on my local colored neighbors? Yes, they will. Does that make Home Depot an immoral organization? Nope.
Thanks for the clarification. I read Kavanaugh’s dissent instead of the Court’s opinion, so I made a wrong assumption. You are correct, they aren’t making the argument I was thinking they were.

With that said, I still think that this is far from the Judiciary system amending legislation.
I don't hate it. The Hertz proposition is quirky and strange, but it's fully out there as well. These risk paragraphs are fun to read because they're ment to be a clear warning of what could go wrong. Not too much CEO-speak allowed, because if you cover up and mess up, you'll get sued. This filing, or say the WeWork IPO are in my book good examples of a part of financial regulation just working.
Please see my response downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530467. You're running into the classic cognitive biases that distort perceptions of this forum. People with opposite leanings have exactly the opposite perceptions of HN, ironically because they have the same cognitive biases. It seems we all have those.
Came to say this. In 2019 I opted for Hertz instead of a cheaper local company because I wanted to be sure to get a proper infant car seat. They charged me something similar and when I went to pick up the car they had a toddler seat. I said that my baby is only six months old hello... the Hertz rep asked her friend from another company next door, who gave us an infant seat, albeit one that was like a weird reclined plastic shell (with the price tag still on it, worth $50!). I was super bitter at Hertz after that. We ended up going and buying a proper car seat for about $150 for our ten-day trip.
This is their first step into a much bigger ecosystem that will start in Brazil in Q4. Brazil will allow micropayments in very interesting schema based on QRCodes, PIX.
You can add these to the list of selfish parties:

Developers wanting full scripting support; this is what lead to all the security problems.

Advertisers that turned an amazing animation system into a thing everyone hated.

Macromedia and then (to a much larger degree) Adobe that took every possible wrong turn imaginable. What started as a system that allowed interactive vector animation to play from a floppy (native player AND media) turned into a bloated mess with features no one wanted or people wanted for only selfish reasons.
>Popp was eBay’s senior manager of global intelligence, Stockwell was the company’s manager of global intelligence center (GIC), Zea was a contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst within the GIC, and Gilbert was a senior manager of special operations for eBay’s global security team.

Maybe hiring dirty psycho ex-cops and giving them carte blanch authority is just eBay's approach to "Artificial Intelligence"?
The decline of Flash did not begin with Steve Jobs. Maybe accelerated, but definitely not started. Flash was already long on its way out due to many of the reasons Jobs listed.
Not nitpicky. It was quite relevant to the thread.
I think "Six year old Android phones" is optimistic. As I understand it the ISRG root was added in Android 7.1, and 7.0 was released in August 2016.

So it might be more like "Three year old Android phones", given the lag between upstream releases and adoption.
Prior to the IBM PC, ironically, Steve Jobs had coined the term "personal" computer. Prior to this term, they were called "micro" computers "home brew", "toy", "small", etc.

The idea of one man, one machine. A computer that is personal -- like a toothbrush is personal.

It is irony that IBM used the term on its microcomputer.
High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization from a Single Image
Radios doesn't work because despite the label wrapping the input, the 'for' attribute points to a id that doesn't exist.
> Total disaster, right? Softbank and retail investors got totally screwed by the IPO due to questionable economic assertions made by Uber.

I wouldn’t call making a bad bet getting screwed. There was no fraudulent numbers I am aware of.
Just wait till the election is over and Trump is out. All this virtue signaling will stop because their preferred party is in power, and by definition everything that party does is virtuous.

Even if Biden continues the exact same enforcement with ICE, no one will care.
If you just wanted to download and run a binary (or jar) - you can still do that?

While freedom zero (the most important!) is the ability "to use the software" - being able to improve, patch and adapt the software is also very important!
Search for "site:mermaid-js.github.io graphviz" returned nothing. Odd. So how does it compare?
> latency win

Perhaps, but if you consider the probability of missing an individual neutrino your error correcting scheme will have to be either very long or very clever because your odds of collecting the right neutrino at the right time will go down very quickly as the packet gets longer.

On top of that, if you used some kind of pulse scheme (i.e. morse code with neutrinos) it has to be slow enough to be detectable, but fast enough to beat the latency of a cable (let's say 100ms - speed of light + processing and errors) and also fast enough not to use enough power as to be unprofitable.
Fortunately, economic theory is more broad than classic economics.

Managerial and behaviour theories here:

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

Linked to from the Economics article under the Theory section:

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

The theory your suggesting here has been known since at least the late 50s.

You might also be aware of, or find interesting anyway, the principal–agent problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

Edit: typo
Simple: anti-discrimination laws only apply if you're being discriminated on the basis of being in a protected class. being gay is a protected class. Being ICE isn't.
To some extent, yes. The economy exists for the benefit of humanity and not the other way around.

The question is: does the automation help us build things that were impossible before, or does it exist for the sole purpose of cutting jobs and funneling more money to the executives?
Considering how often Flash was found to have a security bug, I've been actively avoiding it for years.