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>I've used Arch years ago. It was a trainwreck. They had a very very bad QA and I had to reinstall every few months.

Wow, just about the only OS I've never needed to reinstall is Arch (and I am a 99% Linux user and work and at home). My longest running install is something like 7 years on a desktop, and my laptops tend to die or get replaced on about a 3-4 year cycle.
Good choice, there's always money in the banana stand.
I think they had a problem with pay-per-view.
That’s terrible - these are precisely the sort of customers who will suddenly get hit with a performance hit that will negatively impact their operations!

This sounds like it’s positively evil for outfits that rely heavily on virtualisation also.
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Software development workflows have some of the worst syscall profiles out there. This is going to hit most of us where we live.
An IPO provides 1) a fundraising opportunity 2) a liquidity event 3) an opportunity to fulfill contractual obligations

One of the conditions of their recent debt financing was that they IPO within a certain time frame. If they believe that they don't need additional funding at the moment or can get better terms then they are simply fulfilling criteria #2 and #3 with their unique IPO. I imagine Spotify can get decent debt financing terms b/c they have such a steady and predictable source of revenue (though not necessarily profit).
tbf, decentralisation + e2e crypto is hard, as we've discovered at Matrix & Riot. You can have some wonderfully nasty situations if you don't know which devices (or even users) are in a given room, because the room is by definition not globally consistent due to being decentralised. Although we're doggedly working through addressing all the edge cases which result; my guess is that it's about 6x more work than the equivalent centralised service.
There's also the fact that children are typically hurt by people they know, not strangers
MS putting advertisements of its own products inside its other products is certainly not a cool move, nobody wants to pay for ads.

But in regards to private data, the parent does have a point.
Google's main business is aggregating data for ad purposes, selling their users privacy is how they make most of their money, you wouldn't expect anything else from them.

MS does some of that too, but they make most of their money through other means, so they have less incentive of disrespecting their user's privacy. Even more so considering the PR blowback if it should ever turn out that Windows spies on its users so MS can sell that data.
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Did Klingons genetically engineer themselves? If not, this is hard to square with such a (relatively!) hard-science show. In order for that to happen through evolutionary processes, you would have to have chance mutations give them double (or higher) hearts, and that would have to happen for all the organs, and the selection pressure for warriors that survive (otherwise) fatal blows would have to be happening all throughout that process.
Ask HN: Intel Kernel Vulnerability fix: why software not microcode
Could someone please explain why the mitigations for the Intel CPU bug are having to be implemented in the OS rather than Microcode?

As it only seems to effect Intel and not AMD processors, and as the issue seems to be with the CPU not invalidating cache after a failed OP, this seems like something that would be best fixed actually on the CPU itself.

I assume there's good reasons why not; if anyone could explain it would be greatly appreciated.
I don't believe that, I'm a Skeptic.
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How are jukeboxes licensed?
> Society is sick, let's face it, and technology is largely to blame.

Technology is never to blame for anything, because technology is not a moral actor; people may be to blame for the manner in which they use technology.

OTOH, people have been falsely conflating “the youth of today seem to have a different lifestyle than I preferred in my youth” with “society is sick” for at least as long as we have historical evidence of what people thought.
No, the main skill is planning. Whether or not you're endangering other people it's hard to cover lots of miles quickly on roads with other people. Nobody who's serious about a good time is going to be on a crowded road. It's a waste of time.

You have to balance your route planning between weather, peak commuter hour, shortest route, fuel stops, speed traps, etc, across a few thousand miles and a few time zones.

The biggest risk to "others" is that when traveling much faster light traffic you have little margin for error if someone in that traffic does something dumb.
He's the last technology patriarch. Practically a dinosaur from the age where women were not allowed to study STEM.
AND HE MARRIES ONLY SUPERMODELS, how's that for a smoking gun of oppression?
Is there any real danger for desktop users? We should be allowed to skip this patch if we dont want it, I would rather take the risk than the performance hit.
In the future this possible on Linux with the filesystems that support DAX. Currently this all pretty experimental with lots of work being done in this space in the last two years.

But this will require you to have the right kind of flash storage, right kind of fs, right kind mount options, and probably a different code path in userspace for DAX vs traditional storage.

So we're a little ways away from this.
> Now, those who think they don't want to pay for health insurance are forced to pay one way or another

Not anymore. The new tax law removed the individual mandate.
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> I would make employer-provided coverage no longer tax deductible, and possibly even reverse that initially so that consumer-purchased coverage is tax deductible. This would cause a shift over the next few years away from employer-provided coverage.

This is something that I have argued for as well; the disconnect right now between what insurance costs, what it pays, and what the customer pays is too confusing and provides a very strange incentive structure. I would even go further and argue that all medical expenses should be tax deductible, with insurance premiums just being a special case of the general deduction. Get rid of all this FSA and HSA nonsense.

That said, I think part of the problem is that medical insurance is increasingly being used for routine medical care. Auto insurance, for example, does not cover preventative maintenance or oil changes, so consumers need to price those themselves. Similarly for other major kinds of insurance, like life or homeowners.

Vision insurance plans are increasingly common now, like VSP, and as a result, I've anecdotally noticed strange distortions of the market for eye checkups; we're still at the point where you can get a quote for one, but increasingly it's buried behind talk of co-pays and co-insurance that serves to hide the fact that the costs are going up for no reason, and the quality of service is being put at the exact minimum level that the insurance generally will cover.

I'd much prefer a high deductible plan (in fact I'm on one now) but I'm hampered by the fact that it is almost impossible to actually manage -- the billing comes from three different places and I can never figure out whether I've already paid a bill because they keep billing for different amounts for the same visit. And sometimes they bill my insurer, and other times they bill me directly, or sometimes they just go ahead and do both, and also send me threatening letters about paying bills that I've already paid.

I would love to see increased competition in this space, but until we get rid of employer plans, I don't see that happening.
>With a Bolt, there are places that you just can’t go.

This just isn't true, check plugshare.com. It is now possible to drive cross-country in any EV with fast charging.
The article that started most of the discussion listed the first publicly seen patches at middle of november from Microsoft, and one would assume that a bug that could cause major performance impacts like this makes its way upstairs pretty quickly to Intel.

https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/930412525111296000
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Not exactly but almost. I am saying this is the most likely outcome.

Judging by other activities of the intelligence agencies and working with pure speculation -- not hiding from these words, you are correct by calling it that -- I still think it's much more likely they commissioned the Intel ME.

You mention critical thinking in another comment. Critical thinking, the way I apply it, also requires a historical context to be applied to the situation one is analyzing. Agencies have been doing pretty shady stuff and some of it has been uncovered for the entire world to see.

Critical thinking, the way I apply it, says that the odds are there is a foul play. I merely wish you to recognize that this is the more likely scenario than a bunch of coincidences and/or people supposedly making the ME to serve data center sysadmins -- btw many of those sysadmins, including on several threads here in HN, said they never used the ME and named a plethora of other tools.

Obviously I am not trying to change the way you think in general. I believe we can both agree that none of us knows for sure. The human brain's strength is to work with many variables and be able to impose some order in the chaos by pattern recognition and using historical info. I am not gonna deny this can lead to people drawing awfully misguided conclusions sometimes -- and I've been guilty of that as well! -- but it's the best we have, especially having in mind what tiny imperfect brains we have to work with.

Everything I can name are circumstantial evidence. I accept that. It's the nature of the area. Intelligence data isn't easy to come by.
It's from the same guy who made Juicero. surprise surprise
Bankrupt might be a wild guess, but it is one of the largest blunder I can recall. 12 years lineup affected, large penalty fix, hardwired. Intel is gonna enjoy a healthier diet for a while.
That's exactly how I think it will be solved, or more people shift to become contractors.

If the high performers aren't compensated properly, the ones that a company needs the most, they will leave because they have options.
> If you consider the fact that human males who live to 80 have a 80% chance of prostate cancer (IRL not Star Trek), it seems like we live with time-bombs that do eventually go off.

Except prostate cancer comes in different forms, and many old men die with it, not of it.
They run Intel CPUs made within the last ten years so would be subject to this issue. But the performance hit is really dependent on the computing that you're doing. It's not a guaranteed 30% or a guaranteed 5%.

Are you doing a lot of really CPU intensive tasks that make a lot of syscalls? Most people aren't. If you are, you'll probably feel that pain. And if you're not, you probably won't notice a difference. And if you don't know you can either research if what you're doing typically is going to be affected, or wait and see.
I do block them with ublock origin and have been for years.

For some unknown reason I thought adwords ads came through and I just happened to subconsciously ignore them, but having just Googled for something now, I see they are not even there.

Funny how the brain works.
I thought it would be pretty obvious that I wasn't talking about either of those. The dead give-away should have been the "poorly-understood" part.
Open a bar and/or distillery and/or winery. I'm very interested in mixology, and there is a lot of interesting stuff happening with alcohol right now at the intersection of modern science and centuries-old traditions. Some ideas:

* Open a place that's a juice bar by day, and a regular bar by night. Focus on using fresh, seasonal ingredients for all drinks.

* Experiment with using fruits other than grapes for wine-making. Some fruits, like blueberries, have many of the same properties as grapes, so it would be interesting to see what sort of beverages you could make by fermenting them.

* Same thing with distilled spirits: There is so much untapped territory here because most distilleries use ancient, traditional methods, with maybe only one or two variations from the norm. I would experiment with everything from ingredients to techniques, including using different types of wood than oak for aging, and pressurized aging to accelerate the process.
It has always been surprising for me how much overt racism is still there in the GOP (I mean, not surprising after Bannon and Trump's election). Latin-Americans are (generally speaking) conservative, Christian, Pro-life etc. But since they're brown and speak Spanish, they were alienated by the GOP?
Following links on github, apparently it's Console User Interface. Looking at the project, it's what I've always known as a TUI (Text User Interface). I wonder why this new acronym appeared. It's even causing confusion with Commandline User Interface which sounds like CLI (Command Line Interface) which should be a different type of interface from TUI.
cool! Included here: https://www.tapirgames.com/blog/open-source-physics-engines
Two years ago, I began a transition to a more hybrid niche. Food/Cocktail promotion, which involves my photography, and web development skillsets. Spent the first 1.5 years, working on all of the relationships with bartenders/restaurateurs/chefs, promoting their work through instagram and the web. Becoming the largest promoter in the area. Now I'm ready to start rolling out the second phase, involving web software.

So while not totally out of IT, I've definitely branched into something much more enjoyable. Eating delicious, meeting tons of new people, has been rewarding.
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> Admissions officers and the International Students department is colluding to increase number of international students to increase the budget of the latter? Oh please. Gimme a break.

Did I say that? I thought I was agreeing with you there that universities might prefer American students in general because they _don't_ have to incur the additional admin cost. But you turned it around into universities want to get international students so they can incur the extra cost and hire more people. How does logic even make sense, do they get paid more state money if they have more admin staff?

> many US citizens just don't want to go to college? The US has a shit ton of Universities and there is more than enough room for all students, domestic and international. And like I said before, if American students did apply, I find it hard to believe that they would not get preference over international students.

Ok there aren't enough students, and universities might have to scale back.

> Now you're conflating things. The OP was talking about research in general.

Right but the article is talking about undergraduate international students and OP was talking about research setback in US in general. Yeah we can talk about general interest or kernels of interest and how some undergraduate students are involved, but that's moving the goal post. If we discuss graduate research, grants, state funds, then that's a different discussion.

> possible only with the smartest, hard-working people living, contributing ideas to your society.

Still don't see how undergraduate international students coming most likely from the wealthiest families paying full tuition to go to Kentucky State or Oklahoma State necessarily equates to a major setback in our society. There is nothing about them that's necessarily more hard working or being the smartest.

> Again, please don't use these hand-wavy anecdotal arguments. Maybe some Universities are like that. I was rejected by basically all the undergraduate programs

Ok but aren't you using the same hand-wavy anecdotal arguments? What's wrong with sharing personal experience. Thanks for sharing yours, I shared mine. You don't think that's representative that's fine. I went to college around 2000s so things might have changed since then. Also there are enough schools that everyone is going to experience something different.
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I would call the Miata the most successful "driver's car". Other sports cars have better numbers and do better at the track, but the Miata is darn fun to drive.
I started taking pretty high dosages of Vitamin D about a month ago, after seeing this item (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918). It's really incredible how much better I've felt over that time. The impact on my mood has been really remarkable - I was pissy and irritable, short-fused and pessimistic. Nothing much else in my life has changed, but I'm feeling much more even-keeled and relaxed since starting the Vitamin D supplements.
Because curing or at least chronically managing AIDS is more important especially considering how hard it is to scale stem cell therapy.
Didn't realize it until this comment, but you're right. Tinder really made hooking up a lot more efficient, and finding mates was the only reason I had to go out after I was ~23.

Apparently the use of tinder in the NBA is actually making a big impact on away teams' sleep schedules. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents18969358/tinder...
No, my point is not about democracy vs dictatorship or something.

My point is that in government, there is a hard divide between the people who make the rules, and the people who implement the rules. The people who make the rules are rewarded for distrusting and limiting the capabilities of the staff.

In private industry, it's the opposite. Executives ultimately are judged by the performance of their staff, and they have great flexibility in how they organize and delegate authority down the chain.

Firing is not the key secret to success. Dictators can fire anyone whenever they want, but as you point out, their governments are not necessarily any better, and in many ways worse, than the U.S.
>I've had private insurance my entire life in a western country with free public healthcare. I have practical experience of the trade-offs of public vs private as a consumer and a tax-payer. The demographics changes hit my home country just like any other, but it didnt make public more efficient than private, nor more effective.

...wait wait wait. How much experience do you have with the American system?
This is different from the intentional backdoor, Management Engine?
Probably even earlier.
>> ...a careless approach to a main function can result in needless complexity. Compare two versions of the same main function: before and after. One version is over 400 lines. The other is about 40 lines. That’s an order of magnitude. One will be easy to change.

A potentially contrarian view: a long-ish straight linear function without duplicated code is often much easier to understand than a smaller function broken into subroutine callouts (because you don't have to chase down the implementation of the subroutines to figure out what's going on).
I've been in the space industry for decades (plural) now. There is plenty of IT work to be done here, though development and test are very process intensive and constrained compared to the commercial world.
You will screw up your kids just like your parents screwed you up.... You just don't know how yet. But it isn't really screwed up... It is called parenting.

Then when u become a grandparent it begins to totally make sense....we all screw up our kids...teaching thwm how to recover is the real deal
I'm assuming it's still the same 10% that used to go buy their fake news from grocery store checkout stands.
Keep in mind that if the OP is 21, then "when s/he was very young" would've been circa 2000. That was before smartphones or even Wi-Fi, where you pretty much had to be seated at a desk to use a computer, which is very different from the situation now. This is an epidemic that snuck up on us.
The problem is companies keep getting these holidays. Investors were starting to get antsy about having all this cash tied up overseas and were starting to pressure companies into repatriating the funds.

I suspect that, had Clinton been elected, many of these companies would have bit the bullet.
Don't confuse trait selection for evolutionary pressures. If previous generation exhaust or over-sequester resources it dooms the species that relies on them.

The carboniferous period sequestered a huge amount of carbon. That's a process spread across an enormous time frame. But, that was primarily atmospheric carbon, which can be circulated much better than terrestrial minerals. Since it was atmospheric, you wouldn't have localized shortages (air currents bring in fresh air). It took much longer, but the trees of the period gradually choked themselves out by pulling too much carbon out of the air. It just had to happen on a planetary scale and geologic time frame.
There are a few niche venues, but overall yeah I agree with your assessment. One compounding factor is that public transportation in SF has terrible coverage, stops early, and just kind of sucks all around. In Tokyo or Paris, spending the night with a friend who lives a few kilometers away is not a problem. In SF, if you live in the mission and your friend is in the sunset, you’re probably not going to hang out together that often.

There’s Lyft/Uber, but they’re a bit pricey, and you’re just contributing to a slimy system and not doing anything to help public transit.
It must be serious when stock of this size goes 5% down now...

https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+stock

Edit: AMD 8% up: https://www.google.com/search?q=amd+stock
I'd move into politics or teaching. Something that would improve my country (the USA). Maybe lobby for increased education standards, more pay for teachers, that kind of thing.
I did indeed pay someone on upwork to help with packaging design etc. and yes that was all included in the 11k - however my contact at the factory was able to facilitate having all of it made (albeit with lots of photos and emails back and forth for clarification)
It's about population trends, not individuals.
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