skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we could at least start with having people not use profanity, or tell each other to kill themselves.

I admit though I can't think of a good way to legislate the nuances of someone expressing an opinion that one ought not to be able to compete in sports of a gender they believe they belong to, without making them feel they are being dehumanized.

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On the subject of what led to this law, my girlfriend and I were avid watchers of the show Terrace House as the events that led to this person's death unfolded.

The girl had been quite rude to a foreigner on the show.

This was considered a huge disgrace to the nation of Japan, to have one of their own act so meanly to another, especially on as international of a platform as Netflix, especially to someone from what is considered a partner country, like the U. S..

This led to social ostracization where many Japanese were (civilly) telling her that she was no longer respected in general society, and questioning the extent of her ability to behave with civility.

I believe this (civilly said) cultural censure for her imopliteness likely contributed more to her feelings of worthlessness than any truly hateful and ignorant things said to her. Or maybe because she grew up in Japan she was just not emotionally prepared for hearing some of the hateful things people can say on the Internet (this is the public narrative).

Either way, it's a tricky situation, and many in Japan felt she was actually the one who began the degregation of civility with her behavior on the show, but none the less the resulting way people spoke to her was also not considered acceptable.

How can one balance expressing the idea that she brought shame to the nation while also not making her feel dehumainzed? I don't know. But I'm quite sure in the minds of the Japanese who wrote this law, the main thing they want to avoid is people telling others to kill themselves directly or cursing at them, rather than avoiding expressing judgemental ideas on one's behavior, which is common enough in Japanese society, to be subtly hinting at one disapproving of the behavior of others, while remaining civil.
At the time, yes. Today one could get it for a lot cheaper.
I really don't get it - the west must a) either know more about Russia and its plans than the public or b) are somewhat complicit in gaining from a long war.
There's so much variation (read, noise) intrinsic to response times for network requests to be satisfied on most cloud hosts anyway that I'm very skeptical about any practical attacks being made in the short term.
Having a lot of employees does not necessarily make customer service good. Telecoms and large retail banks top the list for the largest number of customer service employees, but often are notorious for bad service.
Same situation here. Super frustrated with these apps that moves old purchased apps to “classic” and forces people to buy a new app. $50 is ridiculous.
Interesting that the mitigation is to turn off Turbo/Precision Boost.

Four or five years ago there was an an article submitted here (I wish I could find it) about a developer who keeps a machine with Turbo Boost disabled specifically because it seemed to interfere with their performance testing. By keeping it disabled they were able to eliminate a number of factors that prevented them from getting consistent results. It sounded like they preferred this approach for working on optimizing their code.

I am not pointing this out to disparage this performance boosting feature, only calling it out as a point of interest
I suspect what we are seeing in the last few years is the slow death of purely symmetric multiprocessing. At the end of this I wonder if we'll see processors with one or two cores dedicated to cryptographic primitives, where the ALU has a fixed IPC, the core has a very limited number of clock rates, and the caches are sized to prevent eviction when running common cryptographic algorithms.
Did you? Do you have sources to back up what you are insinuating?
The US is interested in a protracted war in Ukraine to both make money for weapons and other supplies manufacturers, and to drain the Russian economy. The Ukraine war was precipitated by years of US machinations, despite media characterizations to the contrary.
Main provisions of the agreement:

> First, Microsoft will take a neutral approach when employees covered by the agreement express interest in joining a union. Second, covered employees will be able to easily exercise their right to communicate with other employees and union representatives about union membership in a way that encourages information sharing and avoids business disruptions. Third, employees will have access to an innovative technology-supported and streamlined process for choosing whether to join a union. Fourth, employees can maintain confidentiality and privacy of that choice if they wish. Fifth, if a disagreement arises between the CWA and Microsoft under the agreement, the two organizations will work together promptly to reach an agreement and will turn to an expedited arbitration process if they cannot.

Note: will apply to Activision/Blizzard employees 60 days after close of acquisition
Except that the processor can be doing other work during artificially induced noise delays, something not possible with delays introduced by lower mean frequency.
I mean, that was Google. In 2010 I got a Linux admin job from a 30 minute call so it's not like employment was an impossibility.
Nuclear power stations that run with Russian fuel? Good try. (Not to mention they don't just "turn on".)
Anyone claiming that we could be 100% non-nuclear non-CO2 is completely delusional. There are only a few tiny examples (like Greenland) that have sufficiently bizarre local sources of energy. And that’s not even taking into account plastics, fertiliser etc.

The price of this delusion is being paid right now: impeding famine, energy costs exploding, Europe financing Russian war in Europe.

The goal was “clean abundant energy” but the green movement focused on clean to the detriment of abundant…
The Biden administration's goal isn't to stop the war, it is to reset geopolitics by creating regime change in Russia. For this to happen the Ukraine conflict needs to be drawn out as long as possible, perhaps even with an insurgency in southern/eastern Ukraine.
A diagnosis had completely the opposite effect for me. I stopped blaming my own failings and could compartmentalize those aspects of my life that were holding me back as something external that wasn't my "fault". The result was a big reduction in guilt and a big increase in happiness and productivity.
> Total Cookie Protection is going to put cookies that only Facebook can see in a different jar for each separate site you visit, making it so that Facebook can’t read it’s own cookies across different sites.

Won't this break some basic features like being logged in to Facebook (or similar services, e.g. Disqus) for the purpose of embedded comment sections on other sites? They don't use cookies only for tracking buttons after all. It would be… annoying… for every site to require a separate login.
You have to understand the utter diplomatic and geopolitical incompetence of the current US adminsitration.

You're talking about the same administration that literally admitted in the open to be executing cyber attacks on Russia[1]. The fact that they haven't made most of North America glow in the dark is an utter miracle.

And to make my point clear, the issue isn't that they're conducting cyber attacks - that's a given.

The issue is admitting it, in the open, to the news media. Everyone knows this is happening, but you don't say the quiet part out loud because it's an escalation against a nuclear power and gives them carte blanche to retaliate.

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[1] https://news.sky.com/story/us-military-hackers-conducting-of...
Not only ports, but the actual original source, see Fabien Sanglard's work:
https://fabiensanglard.net/

He has a "[Game Engine] Black Book" series where he touches old games, its full development history and so on. The Doom one is pretty good.
Ok let me take a stab at it. I actually am on the fence on this so purely a thought exercise for me. Plus as someone getting into midlife crisis this has been on top of mind for me.

How about take (in no order):

1. 1 or 2 fancy cars/suvs

2. Be able to travel business class (say once a month) for vacations and stay in decent hotels

3. Nice education (say 2 degrees at a top college)

4. Nice house (say 2 rooms per family member in a "decent" neighborhood) (add things like backyard, poop etc if you like)

5. Obviously enough money to pay taxes

6. Oh and ensure health-issue-free lifestyle

7. (Hobby or two)

8. (Ultra Branded clothing?)

See what it takes to get all of the above and double it. Or even 3x it. Ymmv ofcourse. I am not a traveller so fancy hotels or biz class is not a big deal. I am also not a car person so 1 and 2 are not big deals for now (things can always change).

I still can't see this needing billionaire status?
Interesting, and seems like a natural followup to this side channel: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf (RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis), in which researchers deduced that the high-pitched sounds made by CPUs could leak the operations that GPG was performing to decrypt some encrypted content, and thus leak the private key. All you need is a microphone and the ability to trick the victim into decrypting some known content.
> Is this only a problem for platforms that can read the current CPU frequency?

No, it just takes measuring the total wall-clock time of the relevant processing to exploit this.
We did exactly this in a recent paper we're presenting at ISCA next week (see https://jackcook.github.io/bigger-fish/) -- it's very possible for an attacker to do this. However, we didn't find that the signal the attacker found was due to frequency variations (and we did run an experiment to test this), but rather due to system interrupts.
Can I quote this story in an anecdotal context in a book I’m writing about Why We Play?

Sorry for such a short, bizarre reply. Your comment and GP are fantastic accounts, and I genuinely appreciate you both for sharing these experiences. Let me know if you have questions, but certainly no need to reply otherwise. Cheers :)
Apple isn’t paying for rights to MLS to be part of AppleTV+. The exclusive deal is for the MLS to have their own “channel” that you subscribe to separately that you can only buy through the AppleTV app.
> Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance.

Regardless of what one thinks of Coinbase, their decision to offer employees generous severance deserves massive praise. If you were on the fence about working at Coinbase, currently or in the future, it should be a major point in their favor.

If nothing else, it shows competence. Too many incompetent CEOs (and their boards) wait too long and then do layoffs with little or no severance. Instead of the responsible thing and laying people off early enough to give them a proper severance.
3 hours later it says "... across Windows, Mac and Linux."
Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune
>Are we going to have to design our crypto algorithms entirely on SIMD instructions to combat this sort of thing?

There is likely still potential for side channel attacks. From a 'first principles' approach a computer is always going to leak information about it's current state (power, noise, emi, etc) and the methods / tools / techniques for analyzing that leaking information are only getting better.

The multi-tenant nature of modern infrastructure is the bigger issue in play here.
Biden Will Travel to Saudi Arabia–and Meet with MBS
>When I feel like sleeping, I sleep. When I feel like walking in the park, I walk. When I feel like eating Stilton cheese with some barbunya pilaki and a nice burgundy, I eat and drink. When I feel like logging into HN to upvote various posts, I log in. You get the idea.

Yeah, we get it: you're independently wealthy and doesn't need to work, nor have timelines imposed on your days.

Or, you don't really do all those things "when you feel like it" (and the above is what you'd like to do).

Or, you do them "when you feel like to", but this surprisingly coincides with your free time and holidays...

No fourth option, iirc
The top so far. I have no idea about the future. Regardless, when do people sell? When it's at the top? When is that? If it's going up shouldn't you continue to hold? And should you sell when it drops? You haven't. So what's your line in the sand? Should new people be buying in? When should they stop? And then who are you going to sell your coin to? The greater fool.

Comparing bitcoins volatility to fiat is ridiculous but regardless, you haven't made any actual guaranteed monetary gains until you sell.
Yeah and Russia could have ended the war by now too by simply launching their nukes.

I think it's weird you don't think anyone involved in the problem has thought of your proposed solution, or that you don't think there's any potential negative effects from antagonizing an unhinged despot with his finger on the nuke.
The frequency change is observable by the whole algorithm taking a different time to run - the algorithm is constant-time, but because the clock speed is changing based on the data, it's not constant-wall-clock-time and you can perform a timing attack.
This is the real problem. In theory it could be argued that a wealth tax and estate tax are the only really fair taxes in a capitalist economy.

He who owns then capital is king, so tax the capital.

But in reality it would as you say force all sorts of unwanted liquidation and monetisation of assets just to pay the tax.
> angry, love, sad, and wow

Those are not reactions to controversial posts. Those are stong reactions to posts that you want to see and you generally agree with. 'lol' has been used either as it was meant (positive reaction to a joke) or negatively (mocking a sincere post).
I got something readable on Windows by calling it from the "Git bash" terminal (installs with git)
And here I thought the boogeyman issue was Houston’s lax building codes letting all those people live in a flood zone but, sure, we can concentrate them in camps in the middle of the desert “for their own good”. We’ll keep the floodlands for the middle class.
Paying your own employees enough for them to buy your product is the perpetual motion machine of business models in the sense that it doesn't actually work. You need other sources of revenue to survive.

Cars used to be luxury goods and the idea of common people like factory workers driving cars absolutely blew people's minds, even if they were the best paid factory workers. The majority of Ford's innovation here was in reducing the cost of manufacturing rather than by paying his workers more. Another point is that assembly line work can be alienating, and being able to own the finished product is probably a decent remedy for that type of alienation.
We already have a tiered system of taxes in the US. We don't tax everyone 50% because the average US wage is 100x that of a third world country average wage. It's possible to examine only the US wealth distribution and make choices about taxing the highest of the high earners there in isolation of all other earners in the world.
It sounds like there's some mitigations available for the crypto libraries, but perhaps defense-in-depth is going to require the libraries to do "junk work" to obfuscate what's happening against future attacks like this.

(I wonder if one is possible if the same key were to be used on different processors, if that would leak certain information, for example.)
Are the supply shortages policy-induced? Or do you mean not by the Biden admin, but just the regulatory status quo (incl tariffs from the previous admin)?
The difference is that oil is a money maker for Russia, grains and fertilizer are not so much (and are likely subsidized as part of an effort to exert influence).

Russia has little problem withholding food resources as a way of forcing cooperation. If the US can actually get Russia to agree to play their best card in exchange for almost nothing, it could be an overall win.
This^ + how much capital did Elon Musk actually allocate to Tesla and SpaceX? It was much closer to $100m than $1 billion or $100 billion.
I like Casey Miratory's "non-pessimization" approach in Philosophies of Optimization [1] [2].

He breaks "making a program go faster" into 3 modes: (1) "optimization" which includes counting expected cycles or memory bandwidth, careful benchmarking, designing custom algorithms, etc which can be fun but is expensive and is only rarely applied; (2) "non-pessimization" which is simply avoiding adding extra unnecessary work for the cpu, which should be done 100% of the time but isn't in the industry today; (3) and "fake optimization" which is shallowly repeating 'optimization tips' and conclusions from unrelated cases of (1) without actually measuring it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoetgxecw8

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStYLF6Us_Q
You can ask people who left. I wouldn't leak documents because that cause a lot of collateral damage.
I thought the plastic mostly leeches out with heat. So cans with plastic lining: bad, the canning process uses heat.

Raw vegetables in a plastic bag? Not so bad, you can wash them and then cook them yourself (but avoid non stick cookware which has PFAS coatings - use stainless steel and cast iron instead).
>What can you do about it? Nerf your CPU performance by disabling "turbo boost" or equivalent.

Eh? Doesn't this require an attacker to actually be able to talk to the targeted system? You mention classes of actor ("journalist, human rights activist, etc") that aren't online public service providers or at least perhaps shouldn't be. Private devices connecting out to the greater net are effectively universally behind firewalls and often (CG)NAT as well and not unilaterally addressable the other direction. For private services, access should be exclusively via VPN (direct WG or mesh like nebula or something) with PSK alongside public keys and perhaps something like port knocking in front as well.

Same as with other hot class side channel attacks, the attacker does in fact need to be able to get the targeted system to run something somehow. So the most basic thing to do about it is simply not allow attackers to do that. The players for whom this is fundamentally impossible are general public online service providers, but that isn't the class most people or businesses fall into. If attackers are getting sensitive servers to respond to arbitrary code then they have already gotten access credentials of some kind.
Launch HN: Make Your Computer Infinitely Faster
There's a great thought proposal on how to tax assets fairly. In this system, you are taxed at the self-assessed worth of an asset. However, if somebody bids over that price, you are obliged either to sell it to them, or raise your self-assessment.

It's somewhat of a game (joke perhaps), usually used in the context of ways to fairly assess land value.
> it's hard to imagine the wealth gap getting worse under a non-inflationary, trickle down economic model

Trickle down economics has exacerbated the wealth gap, as demonstrated by large scale international retrospective studies of its effects [1]. Given that, it's hard to imagine how making things more trickle-down would improve the wealth gap.

1. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/poverty/530731-...
To make this case, you would have to show that education completion rates, drug addition, and criminal behavior are as bad or worse in Finland compared to the US.

Maybe they are doing better at treating the root cause, and because of that their symptomatic treatment can actually help.

>Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the United States, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.[1]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-s....

I imagine you would find similar differences in the other two categories.
They don't much care if Ukraine wins, they want Russia to lose as much as possible. If Ukraine wins too fast or effectively, there's a risk of Russia getting desperate and using nukes, but also there's a chance Russia will pull back before taking as many military losses as possible through a protracted conflict.
Of course other things might be conscious - I quite like the idea of panpsychism.

You wrote about us not being sure whether conscience even exists, that's what I took issue with.
> But really it's just price hikes "because we can".

This is just an absolutely wrong-headed understanding of what is causing inflation that is premised on some corporate benevolence that existed prior to 2020 that no longer exists. [0] The question to ask is "why are prices able to be raised now"? The answer is contracting supply and surging demand.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1525171240796712960
The Intel-requested delay would have let them cross-brand with a famous bankrupt car rental company!
So here is the thing. Your rock, your wish. It is wierd when you get to take interest free lines of credit on the 1B valuation on the rock and never pay the 500m in taxes :)
Thanks for giving the OIDC work a shoutout! I'm also (biasedly) very excited about it.
The simplest self-replicating system we know of that exists in some natural environment (not, say, in a carefully purified solution of energetic monomers) has billions of atoms. And self-reproducing proteins have never, to my knowledge, ever been demonstrated in any experiment.
Yes, this is the website of the author of the Google-internal resource.
I mean the end state of crypto isn’t a very positive one. Either it will crash catastrophically or it will slowly fizzle out until the majority of people just forget about it. Either way, at some point virtually nobody will be using it.
Can someone comment on whether ADHD medication leads to 'loss' of the unfiltered imagination that I have come to associate with my perpetually distracted self ?

A friend on ADHD meds told me that it feels like trading unbridled creativity for stability. He found it to be an essential drug for functioning, but I got a sense that it involved losing something really central to your sense of self. Almost like being made sedated/compliant by force.

I have long dealt with the double edged sword of ADHD (diagnosed at 27, obvious symptoms since early age). I have had my best ideas / 1st author papers during moments of hyperfocus. At the same time, I struggle to do mundane busy-work with any level of reliability and have had bouts of depression tied to ADHD derived perfectionism/procrastination (if you know, you know).

I have yet to make the leap to medication as I have managed to 'hang on' through the different things I have tried in life. I often joke that I will start medication if I get fired. I am grappling with the decision of making the leap over to medication, and if the cons are worth it in any situation that isn't incredibly desperate.

Some perspective here would really help.

edit: Thanks a lot for sharing your personal experiences. It really helps in at least convincing me to give meds a try. I'll set up an appointment .... tomorrow, soon, surely
The west could have ended the war by holding talks between Biden and Putin too.
Even if Apple just carried all Pac-12 network football games, that would really move the needle. The Pac-12 network is pretty much impossible to get through traditional cable providers outside of the west coast.
The 2 aren't mutually exclusive but anyone who doesn't believe in A is pretty naive.

It's saying that we, keyboard warriors on a programming forum, are just as knowledgeable as e.g. Biden who has the full briefing and resources of the CIA