skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is engineering, there's a lot of things that could happen but don't, we don't all run ECC RAM either. The problem is that speculative execution is really good and if Intel didn't have it they would've been selling worse CPUs. And to be clear, it was about 20 years from the point where people were seriously publishing theories about speculative execution attacks to the point where it was a practical attack.

Think about how much benefit we gained during that time. And even then, anyone running in a trusted environment would rather have the optimization consequences be damned. Do you think HFTs patched their boxes to criple their perfomance? No.

Sure, now we know it's a problem we'll offer solutions for people who really need it. But it'll be a long while before the average person needs to think about this and in the meantime billions of people benefitted from better CPUs.
Even with payment plants ,equity swaps, valuation tribunals, it would still be the case that someone with more money than me can force me to sell anything I own to them, by placing a value higher than I can pay on it?
Yep, and yet everyone in this thread seems to be rushing to kneecap their own performance, for what? My laptop isn't a GKE node.

There's a reason this CVE is classified as medium severity
I would like all levels of wealth to be treated the same. Why do we penalize people for being successful? If I knew you and, by some stroke of luck, you happened to become monocle and top hat wealthy I would congratulate you on your success. I would even buy you dinner to celebrate. I would not demand a share of your wealth just because you have a lot of money.

There are some systemic issues that cause wealth inequality. We should focus on fixing those issue to enable more people to enjoy success. Not trying to take from the most successful individuals in the grand game of life.
Yes, alopecia areata is generally a progressive disease. It might be worth discussing with your doctor early. I'm not too familiar with the European regulatory landscape, but I would guess any JAK inhibitor would need to prove efficacy in a European-listed trial of AA to seek approval there, and maybe you'd be a candidate.
If you're already executing native code on the machine, you probably have the ability to read and write all the other memory of every other user mode process, so you don't need this to attack cryptographic keys stored there. This attack is more against secure enclaves.
It seems the prime directive to startups is "stay alive no matter how". If you can do that, eventually luck will find you.

It's when VCs enter the picture that this becomes complicated. VCs want their pound of flesh back generally sooner than you will get lucky.
And you continue to recede so you will need follow-up treatments for that. If you're too far gone it's just not practical.

It's a meme at this point, but for most people shaving their head is the right option.
As I suspected, it counts dollars. Moreover, it attributes any subsequent income for somebody that received an inheritance as "inherited" (up to certain exponential boundary). I.e. if you received an inheritance of $1000, spent it, and in 30 years since you became a millionaire, then the amount of wealth you have up to what you could have if you invested $1000 at certain rate would be still counted as "inherited". I am very far from being qualified to understand the dense math in the underlying article (http://www.piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/AlvaredoGarbintiPiketty2...) but with such assumption, I imagine we could arrive at 60%. But it doesn't mean what you think it means.
A number in a computer has no intrinsic worth at all, apart from the generosity of strangers.
For me it’s the Menuette[0] extension, as a child I loved it (icons instead of menu names).

[0] https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/menuette
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
> Some might call it inhumane. But, it provides rehabilitation for those willing to seek care, it provides safety for those who've 'fallen on hard times' and makes the difficult decision to socially-isolate the small but dangerous minority within them.

Quoting you for emphasis. The “compassionate” version of addressing homelessness by Seattle and SF is anything but. Put another way: if I were mentally ill, homeless, and endangering myself and others on the street… I wouldn’t want to be left to my own devices, to OD. I’d hope that someone in my life would step up and actually help me through it, even when that help was hard, even when it meant putting me in an uncomfortable place like institutionalization.

Anything else feels cruel.
On linux, fork libc function(s) is(are) a wrapper to clone system call which is more flexible (they added some stuff to make Wine work better):

https://lwn.net/Articles/826313/

Clone is also used to start threads, IIRC:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4856255/the-difference-b...
Perhaps you're an idiot that keeps giving unwarranted advice and just wasting your time trying to help people that in the end will hate you for it?

Note, I am doing exactly what you were talking about, but with you.

I too, give blunt unwarranted advice, and don't give a single fuck if people hate me for it because their emotions cloud their judgement. I like to believe others that will read the advice from a 3rd party perspective, and if even a single person gets helped, it's ultimately worth it.
A high status company, they can do that. Find a boring company nobody has heard of
It was a glorious comment then, and it is now.

BTW, it's unclear whether the turd is... the specific truth revealed, or the revelation itself (since it could be incorrect). It's still a glorious comment.
Testing my “socialise” GitHub action
You can't attribute suicides of people investing in crypto to Armstrong. I think Armstrong had a great vision and ok execution (I would give grade D but not F). Overhiring was irresponsible. Out of control costs were unneccessory. But you have to understand that founders in this space have enormous pressure to grow, try new ideas and new products as they are constantly at risk by other players (Cashapp, Paypal etc).

Before Coinbase, investing in crypto was super murkey even without all the volatility. They were able to make crypto accessible and provide marketplace that is not full of scams (so far). For people who controlled their risk by not exceeding crypto investment beyod 1% of their networth, it was great way to get in the market. If Ukrain war + COVID didn't exist, they had a decent chance realizing vision. If they can survive the storm, I think they would still be the most trusted crypto marketplace.
What about surging valuations in the equities market? If I'm worth $1B for a few moments because of a surging valuation, and then the government takes $900M of that, and then the stock crashes back to 1/100th of its peak, do I get my shares back?
Maybe in the 70s/80s it was weird to be bald, but there are so many bald people now, it's like whatever. If you think I'm ugly or you're not into it fine, but there are plenty of women who are.
Can it be evil?
How are they able to host a website on the public internet like that, without it being taken down? Is it in Russia or something?
www.modwiggler.com/forum/
https://llllllll.co/
You can deploy your whole monolith on one single lambda and it will scale the same. It may even help to keep it hot.

Services, micro or not are only really useful when load factors are vastly different and you’re not serverless. Or when you have sufficiently many large teams and a sufficiently large codebase that a single deploy becomes unmanageable because too much communication / coordination is needed.
How about making operations constant time in application code by picking an upper bound which is acceptable for the application, but that is certainly longer than the actual CPU computation and then waiting until the upper bound to return the result?

Eg. my app is performing digital signatures and I'm sure that they take <1ms CPU time, but performing digital signatures in 10ms is acceptable for my application, so when I perform a signature I measure the CPU time elapsed, say 0.5ms and then wait for 9.5ms.
I don't think it will go away any time soon. If the current feature set is enough for you stick with it.

The next release will even include CSI support it seems, which will be a big longevity booster.
That is correct, however the doctor is a hair loss specialist (and also has alopecia himself, which I feel may mean he is quite familiar with the condition).
> billionaires are getting all the growth while middle class and the poor see their share of the economy shrink.

In your own sentence you had to use specific words "their share of the economy shrinks" can be true, while their wealth increases. The economy is not a zero sum game. The middle class could see their share of the economy increase while also having standard of living, total wealth, etc. all decreasing.
It wasn’t the truck traffic only. It was also the activity at all hours. Plus the deliverers on their bikes making lots of noise. Plus these stores being boarded off or closed becoming very ugly and shady.
How wealthy are you? If you don’t like me asking a question then it’s a bit hypocritical to make comments about others wealth. If your net worth is over 100k USD I think you should only have 10k and the rest be stripped away from you and give the needy? You don’t like that tough your freedom isn’t yours.

I’m honestly not trying to be confrontational but you shouldn’t just impinge on peoples freedom to acquire wealth. Those who do shouldn’t have any. Those who have some level and wealth and try it. Well they are just pulling up the ladder behind them.
Everyone is certainly different; I know people on Adderall (or Vyvanse, which is similar) that have great outcomes, but Adderall gives me manic episodes, raises my resting heart rate by 20bpm, prevents me from sleeping, and causes mild hallucinations. I took it exactly once. Vyvanse had the same side-effects, but much milder and it lasted longer. I ended up on Focalin, which works and the only side effect is mild interference with my sleep.
This isn't about yachts, it's about sensible policy. Corporations aren't a naturally occurring phenomenon whose autonomy we must respect; we wrote laws to allow them to exist because we thought they would be good for society. They mostly do, but when unfettered capitalism leads to bad outcomes, it needs to be fettered.

So it comes down to: is a handful of pseudo-randomly selected[0] people having wealth on the scale of billions a good outcome or a bad one? Personally I think it's pretty obviously the latter, and if you agree then I struggle to see why a wealth tax isn't the obvious solution.

0: "It isn't random, they worked harder than everyone else!" Where would Microsoft be if Gates' mom wasn't friends with IBM's John Opel? Where would Amazon be if Bezos had been born 5 years earlier, or later? Etc.
This was 1994. Web technology was barely even emergent.
Zoning laws already take care of that.
Meanwhile, every grocery chain does it, Walmart does it (Successfully!), Mcdonalds does it, and more.

The later is more interesting because it's a franchise model, and if a franchisee is successful, there's usually nothing in the franchise agreement to stop corporate from setting up shop nearby. Maybe not across the street or a block down the road, but yes.

Also quite common w/ lapsing leases with walmart and such, they take out 15-25 year leases, and if it fits their margins, they will build nearby and ride the lease out.
Different countries have different laws, but at least in sweden it is common to be part of an income guarantee program (a-kassa, usually via a union but can also be outside of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_funds_in_Sweden). You get around 80% of your income for the first two thirds-ish of a year (200 days) and 70% for the rest of the year.

It's obviously good that this is handled outside the employers control.

After that you get the normal unemployment benefits from the state which is capped at a low but livable level.

It is (in sweden) abnormal (and illegal) for companies to just fire people without cause, and the valid causes are pretty restricted. One of the few valid causes are lack-of-work (arbetsbrist), but even that triggers negotiations between the employer, the employee and the union, and is usually a last-in, first-out thing. The employment contracts are always including a fixed notice (I think it's 3 months regulated by LAS, can be lower if your on a trial employment up to 6 months).

As an example, the klarna downsizing was major news in sweden a second time because of their obviously illegal way of handling firings.

> Other "European" countries have much worse severance packages.

Please give me a source.
> The person who knows most about the hardware on which the program will be run is the person running it, not the programmer.

Then again, in scientific computing, often these are the same person.
Scotland exported 19Twh of electricity to England in 2021, which was about 30% of its generating capacity. It represented around 10% of english electricity power needs.

It's on a growth trend, the wind farm on dogger bank may alter the balance.
This is Germany, not the US, rules are different.

All I know is a lot of great engineers at my company are internationally refusing more pay to non union jobs. I.have no idea if it applies to other companies, or what the benifits are
I have, in fact, played League before. And many other competitive online multiplayer games.

Being an asshole online is unfortunately normalized among many players, which we can see from your comment.
This is a ridiculous misrepresentation of what I said, and I suspect you know that.

Why on earth would they be able to burn crosses on anyone's lawn? Hate speech is currently protected by the First Amendment by decades of well-settled jurisprudence. Where are they permitted to burn crosses on people's lawns? And please provide a link to where the KKK is given a free hour of television every day.

> We can know what these groups are, who their members are and what they believe while also limiting their ability to spread those harmful beliefs.

How would we know if they aren't allowed to publicly say what their beliefs are? I submit that we know that only because their hate speech is protected.
I’m pretty sure I read something on HN the other day that showed that a linked list is almost always a bad choice, even for small values, due to memory locality issues.
They aren't, it's the structures of power that organize around them that are. If you want to get paid in crypto, you have to find someone else to pay you; it's peer-to-peer. As such, any service that revolves around cryptocurrency is almost always engineered to extract a marginal profit from the transaction.
Right. I'm mystified this is anyone's reaction... dishing empathy while garnering sympathy is a weird double bind to put on people on the receiving end.
Yeah, after the first successful IPO, the traveling IPO CEO has contacts at investment banks, media houses, etc and is on a first-name basis with many key analysts. That's why they keep getting brought in to help a company IPO, after you've done one, the subsequent ones are easier.
I love this sysadmin comment and the GP dev comment. The key is to get the sysadmin team putting requirements to the code, whether the restarting ends up in process or as a nice small unix separate tool that just does restarts well, is an outcome of a process.
That might be the best day for starting your own business!
There was a very early (1985-6?) app called "Selectric." When you ran it, it immediately exited, leaving you wondering what the point was. Until the next time you started typing: every key you typed made a "Chunk!" sound, the spacebar went "-diggit-", and the return key went "zzzzz...DING." Way fun.
Read the Bitcoin white paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Compare everything else to it. Bitcoin is not a scam. There is nothing like it.
This reminds me of: In the 90s I rememebr hearing a story about someone hacking a supposedly 'impossible' remote machine for a competition - they did it by analysing the response times and using that info to derive the key - at the time, a novel approach. Can anyone remember the story I must be dimly remembering?
Just as current income taxes have a hard deadline in which financial assets are assessed, your extreme edge case is only applicable one day a year, rendering it ever the more trivial.

Not to mention, the calculation for wealth would probably be based on something less temporary than a fleeting moment in the markets.

Finally, the government would not directly take shares, so they would always be owned by you. Presumably with the stock price so much reduced you can simply purchase more at a pittance.
Prediction and Judgment: Why AI Increases the Importance of Humans in War
I think no one was writing about ones who master specific language.

There is a lot of people who learn just a surface without going deep into tool and think they know enough.

For me it seems that someone who would really go deep into learning language would get most of theoretical stuff on the way. Because there is no way to really master C++ or really master Java without learning about data structures and all kinds of "meta-level" concepts.

Maybe the difference is mostly approach to learning more practical/more theoretical.
Depends on where you are I think. At my kids soccer games I see lots of coaches and dads wearing Sounders gear.
This is not good advice, it depends on interest rates.

i.e. if I can earn more interest than the cost of the loans, it makes sense to pay them off as slowly as possible.
> Rights groups have warned China could use its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle dissent.

I fear these systems aren't going to disappear even if COVID becomes less of a health concern, and countries like Russia or Hungary are going to be eager to deploy something similar.
Are you sure that those disks contain the private files? As in a 'backup' rather than the 'recovery' of Windows alone?

Generally speaking, the private files would be backed up separately, and not with the Windows operating system.

Is there any indication of the software used? You could possibly get in touch with the company that produced that software. (If it was Microsoft, then you are SOL.)
Not in the sense of "a large percentage of homeless people are running chop shops". However, you do find some notable examples of apparently homeless people just running chop shops in the open on random public land. Sometimes people who've had their bikes stolen will go them to find their bikes there and take 'em back.
In general Sweden treats as much data as possible as being open. As such you can find my home address, who I live with and my phone number (and what car I drive) with a simple google search of my name.

Salary data is also publicly available, but as a nominal fee and you buy a “book” which is an area of the country.

When it comes to mortgages, banks ask for extended rights to look into your data on your behalf, you have to sign this with your digital ID (BankID).

This information is centralised and you give permission because they are ostensibly looking for outstanding debts and bankruptcies.

Unfortunately I only learned about the health discrimination when I was applying for an official diagnosis, I received a letter from a company “Modigo” warning me against getting a diagnosis because it can negatively impact my life in this way.

I heeded the warning of course.
Nobody saw it coming, the world's next theme park: Amazon World.
It's paying the salaries of those employees at those companies, so in what sense is it "parked"?
> Why do we penalize people for being successful?

I assume you mean "relative to people that are less successful". The answer is because the marginal value of wealth decreases the more you have.

If you're poor, $1,000 is the difference between your kid seeing the doctor or not. If you're rich, it's a nice meal out.

> There are some systemic issues that cause wealth inequality. We should focus on fixing those issue to enable more people to enjoy success.

The core systemic issue is that wealth is a positive feedback loop. The more you have, the more you can leverage it without losing it in order to get more.

Treating all levels of wealth the same is directly incompatible with resolving this positive feedback loop. You need a counterbalance that scales with the level of wealth, because the magnitive of the positive feedback loop does.
FAA Clears SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site
When Spectre came it turned out that it was very straightforward to implement the relevant attacks in JS. A script can use workers with shared memory access to monitor execution and get a timer with less than 100ns resolution. As the result the shared memory were disabled. Later under the presumption that relevant issues were mitigated, the shared memory was re-enabled again.

So I wonder if the shared memory will be disabled again as it may allow to monitor frequency changes.
The whole series is pretty great. One of the interesting points he makes is that non-pessimization (2) is a necessary precondition to optimization (1). That any attempt to do hardcore optimization of a pessimized codebase is futile and will continuously faceplant into endless expanses of stupid code filled with unnecessary work for the cpu that instantly becomes the bottleneck.
...okay? Those are both pretty terrible things to just let go on, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

Yes, I understand that the people doing the stealing and the people running the chop shop are usually not the same people.
Little different- the church doesn’t pay property taxes. Amazon does, unless they have a religious investment arm.

If I had to guess, I’d say land purchases are some sort of vehicle to filter profits for tax purposes. There’s a million rules that benefit property owners for that purpose.
https://lobste.rs/ - I find the comment sections more enjoyable

https://www.advrider.com from time to time

not really forums, but I lurk on nixos.org matrix server
> It should be obvious that anything that goes from not existing 25 years ago to top five market cap company in the world is probably offering value somehow.

That is very true, I think probably from the outside looking in it was hard to see what value they were offering. But from the responses here I think I got a better picture of what people get out of it that makes it the best choice for them most of the time.
You don't even need to discuss billionaires though to get some very bad effects. Take Denmark for example that taxes software engineers 50 percent of their salary (it's not unique to SWEs it's just because nearly all SWEs will make enough to fall into this bracket). I'm thoroughly examining other lower tax bracket countries to move to because why do I want to pay half of my salary until I am enfeebled and the state lets me enjoy my enfeeblement?

Let's macrosize the perspective: why do you think Unity moved HQ from DK to the USA? Could it be the crushing taxes here?

This is the issue. You really can't have it both ways. Yet many Americans love to fetishize a hatred for few very specific individuals without thinking through the whole causal chain that girds their economy.
Again hyperbole with comments like “10x more skilled”. If you had a valid point to make, you wouldn’t need to fill your post with exaggeration. I don’t even think you realize you’re doing it.

We both know the Alana has many physical disadvantages compared to a male fighter. I don’t know why you feel the need to ignore that fact.