skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally disable spectre/meltdown mitigations for performance. I don't think any of it is very important for my use cases and I don't leave sketchy websites open for hours on end to give them a chance to make use of the exploits.
https://longbets.org/362/
Sorry, I think that's the right thing to do. And should have been done a lot erlier. Like 10 years ago when the list first started. And I'd also consider firing everyone that contributed names to that list, and that I can find public conversations making fun of people names. I don't care if they are male, white, black or whatever. That doesn't matter. Making fun of peoples names, weight, religion or whatever is wrong. No discussion. You're fired for this.

This is the real shameful thing here, from my biased european point of view. This is the intolerable part.

Now, shutting these discussions off *from work* is the right thing to do in my opinion. Because they literally have no end, and the company is a business, which needs to build products, which needs to sell, so you have your money. If you spend your day discussing politics, you don't make money.

Do you want to discuss politics? Do you really want to discuss these societal problems? I'm all in for it, lets grab a beer at 6am pm at the pub across the street and come up with a solution for these problems. Let's found a political party or an association or whatever we want to do to fix problem.

At least here, in europe, the moment you propose to do these things out of work hours, you 1) See 80% lose interest in their principles and prefer to go home and enjoy their kids and 2) You get to meet with the 20% people with the real interest in fixing things for a better world.

I insist in my opinion. It is not that these things should not be talked about, dismissed, or whatever. These are important things for the future. It is that your workplace *is not* the place for this.
Mutual respect means one person makes a good faith to respect the preferences and culture of another person. And the other person it patient and forgiving of mistakes and assumes good faith from the counter party. Some cultures have different salutations based on age. Even though the US doesn’t make that distinction it is respectful to adopt it.

It isn’t necessary to fire every employee because a dispute is intractable. If an employee makes a good faith effort to adapt but makes innocent mistakes that are very poorly received they may not be at fault.
Yeah, this is exactly right:

1) Employees left for ideological reasons.

2) Employees left out of self interest.

There are reasons I believe it’s predominantly 1, but neither explanation is more convoluted. Misuse of an excellent thinking tool.
They lost the entire iOS app team. If they live I think it'll be because they convince the people to stay, not because they replace them.
a couple of hard drive lookups every few minutes uses orders of magnitude less power than asics & gpu hashing
I mean most of then say explicitly that it’s because of this decision in their tweets. Would you really go out of your way to say something like that if you didn’t believe it?
For reference, Texas, North Dakota, and more are also passing laws. I suspect you'll see at least five to ten states passing similar legislation in the next 1-3 years.

It's a huge boon to Florida. Content producers concerned about being banned (or have been banned) are effectively risking their business for not being based out of Florida. If you run a business, you should not put your company at an unnecessary disadvantage with no recourse.

The end result of this is going to be thousands of political commentators, comedians, musicians, professors, artists, etc moving to Florida. Their families and people they support would also move, more immigration to Florida.
The pyramid is a depiction of the fact that genocides can't happen without insensitive jokes. Of course it would be silly to read it as saying insensitive jokes necessarily lead to genocide.

But why bring it into the conversation?? If you're not implying any link from jokes to genocides, why is it relevant? I agree that bringing the concept of genocide up in a conversation about insensitive jokes is absolutely escalating.

We can talk about the direct harm of insensitive jokes. That conversation can stand alone.
...and Google does a hostile takeover of Disney (probably less antitrust issues there than with Comcast, who would be a little cheaper.)
Maybe EPIC [1] architectures need a revival. Rely on compilers to take advantage of explicit instruction-level parallelism, and keep the CPU dumb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...
> The safe execution of any untrusted Turing complete code is a pipe dream.

I don't think that's true. It's not turing completeness that's the real problem here. It's that software usually has access to accurate timing information, whether it's via RDTSC, gettimeofday(), or sharing memory with another thread that does things that take a predictable amount of time. If a program has no notion of current time and cannot measure how long something takes, then a lot of those side channel attacks no longer work. (Note that this precludes using styles of threading that have nondeterministic results, but it doesn't preclude using styles of threading that are deterministic, like Haskell's parMap.)

I do think maybe we should move away from the model of "let's let people run programs comprised of arbitrary instructions on their computers, and build all our security around keeping programs from reading and writing things they shouldn't" to a model of "all programs running on this computer were compiled by a trusted compiler, and our security is based on the compiler disallowing certain unsafe constructs". This is sort of analogous to web browsers running javascript in a sandbox, or running eBPF in the Linux kernel.
Exactly, having control over the artifact is so empowering for learning and curiosity. A simple image or gif wouldn't be nearly as engaging.
They said absolutely none of that, unless you have quotes I haven’t seen.
SharedArrayBuffer is not disabled in all browsers. It was briefly disabled at disclosure time of the first Spectre vulnerabilities, but as browsers moved to site isolation (one process per origin), they have reenabled it.
My feeling is that a publicly traded company should not be treated the same as a private company... this is a gray area.
Absolutely. But the idea that this is a "totalitarian" deficiency in the country's provision of negative rights is ludicrous.
Even with minimum wages at 15 dollars, it is still hard to say this is a decent job, although this is the already among the highest globally.

The problem lies that the value of assets, especially housing etc, increase much faster than wages can catch up.
> Of course, now days the wiring harnesses themselves have become huge and unwieldy in many vehicles - literal miles of cables!

Engine harnesses are not that bad in my experience, especially not for a small 4-cyl. Chassis harnesses, with all the bells and whistles they keep piling into smartphones on wheels, agreed. But we're talking about engines here.

> Things like motor controllers/inverters tend to be very reliable so there is rarely any need to disassemble or service them during the lifetime of the vehicle. If they do fail there's a ready supply of affordable replacement parts, thanks to salvage from crashed vehicles, so it's often easier to just replace a faulty part than attempt to service.

I figured as much. This is basically already the case with all the various modules littering the chassis in modern ICE vehicles. We don't service the power steering or engine control modules; it either works or you replace it, usually with some cheap used replacement from a wrecker. Unless the car's been flooded, the miles and age don't seem to be a problem except the occasional cold solder joint.

Many more of my hours have been wasted fussing with jets and floats on old carburetors than any control modules on these newfangled computerized vehicles.
The paper:

I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/venkat/papers/isca2021a.pdf
The 'zon has it, but at an outrageous markup over the 3.5 cents per packet mentioned in the article.
You can construct a high resolution timer from shared mutable memory and multiple threads. It's simple. One thread increments a counter, and the other thread reads it.
Building an open infrastructure for civic participation
The eventing part doesn’t seem comparable at all to Firebase: https://docs.spaceuptech.com/microservices/eventing/

It merely supports triggers versus the synchronization primitives of Firebase.
Isn’t this true in tech in general as turnover is so high? At any given point, half of software engineers are at least contemplating leaving.
Thanks for the explanation. It is a difficult situation to understand from the outside tbh. I agree dhh looks like the person that, if you agree with his points of view, everything is awesome. The moment you don't seems you'll have a hard time convincing him otherwise.

So I do think the first one that should shut up (at work) ranting about politics is himself, and provide an example for others. I hope from now, with whatever number of employes they end up with, they get back to work.
Totally doable! What applications would you use it for?
[florida]
Show HN: Xplr hacks – hacking the rusty terminal file explorer
Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One?
> Why not just... manage people well?

This feels like a statement along the same lines as "just don't be poor".

If it's so easy to manage, how come so many people screw it up?
He's Danish. Danes are wonderful people but they can be very blunt.
Frankly, at this point I’m inclined to agree with OP that the politics rule was just a pretext to assert their power over the employees. (Partially because the employees learned about all this via the public blog post, which seems uncontroversially dickish no matter how one feels about the actual changes).

I’m sure they expected attrition — hence the severance — but I’d wager they thought it would be closer to Coinbase’s 5% when they announced a similar policy, not 30% and counting.
> Yes, you may repair it if you want, that's never been the issue.

The problem is precisely that you can't repair it even with all the skill in the world, because the schematics aren't documented, the components aren't for sale and the components are software locked to the device. That's what right to repair is. Just like you can repair your own car by buying the components and doing the work yourself you should be allowed to do this for everything you buy. No one is asking manufacturers to repair your device for free or give you components for free.
Such an awesome example. I didn’t know this phrase. Thanks for that.
Someone a while ago imagined a future humanity where we had constructed a Dyson shell entirely devoted to cryptocurrency generation and were now a species of conmen and zealots desperately trying to convince alien civilizations that it is valuable.
> [1] I'm suspicious of the majority of cases where this claim is made. A rational business person would see that such a business is already marginal and that they would likely be better off shutting it down and redeploying the capital elsewhere for a better return. This happens all the time. If the owner can't see this, keeping the business on life support isn't doing anyone any favors.

I agree with you, I would never own a restaurant or bar personally. But profits are really ~10% for the average mom n pop restaurant. It's just how it is. So $1mm in annual sales makes you $100k, more or less. People like owning restaurants, despite their best financial interests.
Oh just wait, someone will come up with cryptocurrency that benefits from usage of higher bandwidth over longer links and then we're all truly fucked.
Did they knock out the BS? Or did they just get dragged into a massively political and now massively open fight? What do you think the average productivity of a Basecamp employee is right now?

Even after the dust settles, will you trust that DHH and Jason will keep their promise of no politics? What a company says about its culture and the reality are often quite different.
I agree that this is bad.

However, I have to say that if I had stated "Yes, I'm embarrassed that we didn't put a stop to this list far earlier." and then some employee kept objecting, referring to the pyramid of hate and genocide and all that and I knew that said person had participated in the making fun of names themselves, I would be tempted to call that out as well.

That does not make it right and it certainly shouldn't have happened publicly but I don't think it reveals quite the character flaw that some seem to think it does.
I honestly don't know why people even try clicker games. They sound awful.
You're most welcome! Patreon link on website ;-)
You completely omit the company's actual response. If the company had shut down the list as being unprofessional and that "work is for work" we wouldn't be here. So I don't really get your point. Are you saying in the EU that if such a list were circulating, the business would take a stance that the list has a place in the workplace? That seems to contradict your statement that "work is for work" And, honestly, mocking your customers even if it isn't offending employees seems like something management should discourage.
>I mean, yes, they might be paranoid enough to see it that way, but it's completely divorced from reality

It began in ~1950, when it had been less than a decade since the latest of the several times the US has invaded China. It's not unreasonable to worry that the US would lead a new Eight Nation Alliance to return the Kuomintang to power.

It's less likely now, but it could still be used in some kind of proxy war somewhere like Korea. Arming the border does far more than just prevent China from invading.
SCOTUS has ruled on a case very close to this and it held up.

PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1979/79-289
As far as I remember they last did that when the OBSD 5.x branch was launched. Since then it's been stable.

Or atleast my rule-setd are simplistic enough that I haven't noticed.
That was a fantastic metaphor, and though I am intimately familiar with engines I had never thought of the crankshaft as four simple hand cranks stuck together before.
I feel like you have a misunderstanding. Most of the work of a D&I group like this is pushing for diversity and inclusion issues in their workplace, not in the country at large. And why shouldn’t they? There are places and organizations for society-wide stuff as well.
I Refuse to Stand by While My Students Are Indoctrinated
One thing that I am wondering about amid all these departures is how would Basecamp operate on day-to-day basis when 1/3rd of their staff is leaving all at once. It's gonna be tough times ahead for Jason and DHH.
If you’re in the US or Canada, you probably want something else for water purification in your emergency kit (iodine or a good filter or the equipment to boil water)— bleach (including the calcium hypochlorite in this stuff) won’t adequately kill Giardia cysts or Cryptosporidium.
«It has so far produced nothing»

Censorship resistance. Digital money that does not require constant "authorizations" from incompetent, flaky, slow, or even sometimes corrupt payment processors or other financial entities. Money that works even where traditional systems fail. No denied transactions. No limits. No "account" to open. Works for the underbanked. Send it truly anytime anywhere. No other system does this.

In other words, money created by people for the people.
To be clear, I mean a scenario in which an employee refuses to refer to a coworker by their preferred pronouns. There is exactly one way in which that situation can be resolved with mutual respect: the former employee making a good faith effort to not misgender the latter.
I feel like you haven't read what happened because your responses are all over the place.
> If the company had shut down the list as being unprofessional and that "work is for work" we wouldn't be here

Ok, I assumed this was done and part of all the changes they just did. Wasn't it? Are they still sharing the list around?
Not defending the founders, they sound like tools. But it's not hypocritical to be political on your personal social media but apolitical at work.
they're targeting 20 tps which is roughly 5x bitcoin and pretty similar to ethereum's tps. they're planning to rely on layer 2 scaling because bram thinks sharding is a bad idea when it comes to security. it's definitely not competing with s3, just trying to be better than bitcoin in terms of decentralization, power usage & programmable money with chialisp & colored coins.
You aren't making the point you think you are. All you are doing is showing that you lack empathy for how others feel. And that is the fundamental problem: it isn't about what you think you are doing, it is about what other people think you are doing, and the fact that what you think is funny is offensive to other people.
> an environment tolerant of small things can eventually become tolerant of bigger things, and then much bigger things, and that's why it's important to pay attention to the small things.

Huh, sounds like the "broken windows" theory of policing. Did not expect that.

The list was clearly unprofessional and made some people uncomfortable, that is enough for it to be gone. It would be worthwhile to discuss explicitly what was wrong with the list, opening people's eyes to perspectives they hadn't considered and to take a little time to foster shared ideals for the workplace culture. Even alluding to genocide is wildly over the top and I can understand if it offended some people, regardless of whether they had anything to do with the list.
This is a silly argument because humans are autonomous and cannot drive in all environments safely. Level 5 means matching human performance, so the cars can still get stuck and require a tow, if we reach level 5.

I am using the word autonomous as defined by the SAE levels, which are described as “levels of autonomy”. You are yak shaving and contorting the words to your liking.

Also tesla is level 3, not level 2. It also doesn’t require hands on wheel 100% of the time, although they say it requires this
I read that as well, and even read the open letter that was included in that post. Seems like maybe Basecamp is better off without those employees who've decided to quit.

Just from the open letter (https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-...) take a look at the kind of attitudes they have; these are some serious snowflakes:

"As you know, I am writing this while on medical leave from Basecamp, a condition that was necessary in large part because of the extreme emotional duress I have experienced as an employee at the company."
Sorry, I mistook your comment as asserting that because gmail supports 25mb then everything does. My bad.
> one that is orthogonal to the one solved by minimum wage or basic income.

no it isn't orthogonal - UBI and minimum is based on the premise that there exists people who would not be able to produce value that is enough to sustain themselves (aka, they consume more resources than they produce), and thus need the rest of society to pick up that slack (otherwise, they'd just die).

I'm saying that people would always be able to sustain themselves if they are able to get trained to do something useful. As more knowledge is required in the modern day, this training becomes more expensive, and so society should make this investment, rather than place the entire risk onto the individual.
My impression is that the storage space is not actually capable of being used for anything. In other words, it is just as wasteful as existing cryptocurrency, just in terms of storage hardware instead of compute.

It is becoming increasingly maddening to me that people still think this is a good idea.
A notable exemption:

“The bill includes a clause that exempts a company "that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex" - which allows Disney to be exempt from this bill.
Florida is home to the Disney World theme park.”
Sorry I probably used the wrong terminology. I didn't just mean DSP plugins but more general third party extensions to the DAW.
One of my colleagues is a old Unix hacker (one of my favourite things to do is get him ranting about his least favourite OS of all time, HP-UX 8.x). I have wondered before what editor he uses, and once when I peeked over his shoulder I saw that it was MicroEMACS. At the time I thought it might be a neat GNU Emacs clone with a smaller footprint, but no, it’s nothing of the kind. Old habits die hard.
How long before we see a headline about Haitian wildlife choking to death on non-biodegradable P&G flocculant wrappers littering the landscape?

The P&G branded plastic cup was a nice touch too.
Yes, but what about all the jobs that don't pay severance?
I have had the same thought, software can often feel messy and unpolished. But to be fair to ourselves, we simply don't require the same tolerances in most software.
so was your mom
This bill would've sounded way more principled if it didn't have:

>The bill includes a clause that exempts a company "that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex" - which allows Disney to be exempt from this bill

With this and:

>"If Facebook buys a theme park, does that prevent us from being able to regulate what happens on Facebook?" asked Andrew Learned a Democratic member of Florida's House of Representatives.

>"So, if they bought a theme park and named it Zuckerland and he met the definition of a theme park under Florida statute, then yes," said Republican Representative Blaise Ingoglia.

I just can't take it seriously. It just reeks "rule for thee, not for mee" and crony politician doing their own thing.

Edit: I would totally go to Zuckerland, though.
Is it a good to name your company “MyThis” e.g. MySpace or MySQL?
Where else is your ship going to go when it's 8-bit x-position overflows?
America's Pokémon Card Crisis
Agreed. The graphics/animation are obviously great but even the actual explanations/text are really clear and well written.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised at how surprised people are by the number leaving. Not passing a value judgement here, I have no dog in this race, I'm just surprised. They've made a significant cultural change (deliberately), and there's a big turnover. And they made this turnover very easy (even attractive) to do, which can only be because they thought it would be a good thing. Say what you will about them, they aren't stupid - there's no way they didn't fully expect a big departure with a carrot that big. Big turnovers during big changes aren't uncommon. If we were talking about an acquisition, turnover of 1/3 wouldn't raise an eyebrow. The place I was at during an acquisition turned over 80% in a few months - that's big! My partner is a civil servant, and when there's a change in government, this kind of mass exodus in non-elected positions is considered par for the course. I imagine they're completely fine with the outcome and decided it was time to clean house. It's not like they're going to have a hard time hiring.
Thank fuck fluff titles like "Happiness Engineer" have gone away though.
We wouldn't want to step on the toes of our tax base, now would we.
> The problem for the business is that the financial model is set by the fixed or imperative costs

What about profit sharing?

Hire an employee who agrees to get 1K currency units if company (store, resto etc) made 100K CUs.

But 500 if company made 50K CUs and 50K CUs if store made 5000K CUs.

There's always a max cap, but never a min cap. When someone talks about min caps we all get antsy.