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What started as speculation about recent kernel developments has really turned into a shitshow for Intel. I can't imagine they thought that these massive changes would get through without anyone finding out. However, there really isn't any other better option for Intel, so it seems they are in a lose lose situation with no way out. Or at least a way out that doesn't involve them going bankrupt trying to repair the damage.
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Not by default they don't. That only works if you're willing to dedicate that entire physical drive to a single application anyway.
The comment in linux kernel mailing list, does pin point attacks using 'speculative execution' but isn't access to kernel memory space by any means a potential hazard to the security depending upon KASLR?
As a European immigrant to the US, it pains me to see such misconceptions so widely held. Some of this is complete nonsense, but some stems from a mix of unsophisticated thinking and a profound lack of understanding of the country.

> The US is philosophically much more egotistic than other developed countries

A weakness and a strength, see below.

> Politically the US is the most divided western country with its two party system

Political gridlock and fighting is largely irrelevant because the commercial sphere is the real motive force of the country. This point seems especially difficult to comprehend for Europeans accustomed to pervasive state participation in daily life. The vibrancy and diversity of the capitalist economy here is unparalleled.

> Money in politics means it's one of the most corrupt

The corruption flows from America's egotism; money is a red-herring. Political fund-raising is about relative success, not absolute (you just need to outspend your opponent), so the vast amounts in play are simply a function of a zero-sum arms race: American society deploying its ever-growing wealth to buy a fixed quantity of political influence. $1M creates no more obligation than $1000 if the latter is sufficient to win.

> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed

This is just silly. Fox News is 95% of "conservative media," and viewership on any given night is 2.6 million people, ~0.8% of the population. Multiply by whatever fudge factor you want to get to total viewership. You've got a ways to go to get to half the country.

> The billionare .0001% will probably do their utmost to keep the status quo

Paranoid, conspiracy-minded nonsense.

> The "American Dream" gives people the impression that working hard solves everything and that their country is the best in the world period.

This is very true, conditional on you being capable. The USA has an immensely deep bench of talent and does an excellent job assimilating talent from around the world. All of these talented people are immensely incentivized to deliver, and they deliver in spades! Their contributions pull the rest of the world up with them, despite all the inequality belly-aching from collectivist types. If you are a person of intelligence and ambition, there is no better place than the US to maximize your gifts.

> The US is doing very good in a lot of areas

You're damn right it is! Most curiously to me, many Europeans bemoan the state of our lower and middle classes, despite those same people doing _better_ than their European counterparts on almost every material measure at almost every decile! [try to play with e.g. EDHI by DECILE at http://www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/

> but I think collective egotism is preventing it from reaching its true potential.

Perhaps. It certainly makes it more difficult to solve certain collective action problems, but it also encourages citizens to tackle problems others find trivial. I doubt, for example, that Twitter could have been built outside the US: the a priori use is to selfishly broadcast thoughts about me, me, me; the vast social utility is an emergent property.
> So, in response to demographic changes across the western world (like an aging population) a bunch of countries made their systems more public and were able to keep costs down and the US has kept theirs more private and costs have ballooned. Maybe the answer is self-evident.

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.

> I think there is basically one cause: the existence of for-profit insurance companies.

I have mentioned 2 counter examples: my home country (argentina) and historical US. You can also see Germany also has public/private mix systems.
Health insurance companies actually have very low profit margins. Lower than the general market, lower than insurance companies, etc etc. They are not raking it in. The ones that are raking it in are providers.

> In a public system where government provided healthcare there would be a large monolithic body which could assert it's power to keep prices down. In a market with multiple insurance companies, they'll never have enough individual power to keep prices low. That's how the market is supposed to work by keeping power divided, it's just that healthcare is a terrible place for markets.

There is some contradiction in the previous statement (for profit) vs this one. You are arguing insurance companies cant negotiate prices down because they are not a monopoly, not because they are for profit. If there were only 1 insurer, they could definitely keep prices down, particularly the price of providers. But its hard to think a monopoly is the solution to a market problem.

Moreover, you say the state would have the power to drive prices down. This contradicts reality today, where Medicare by law cant negotiate prices. The government is eager to put itself a restriction on negotiating, and is politically unable to remove it. If it cant change medicare when its a fraction of the market, do you think it will change more when its 10 times its size?

The state can, in 24 hours, reduce healthcare prices by just removing economic consented bad regulation. Read what the healthcare economists say: allow free trade for drugs and doctor immigration and you solve such a massive part of the cost immediately. The government has full power today to solve those problems and it cant. Doesn't that make you lose any faith in the government's capacity to solve healthcare?

Do you remember the Obamacare website debacle? Do you think medicare will make a kickass insurance website?
Not only is he the father of Mazda's rotary engine, he also recommended as president that Mazda build the Miata, arguably the best two seater sports car ever made. The Miata probably also kept Mazda in the spotlight and alive through the 90s.

Mazda is an interesting car company. Example: they have 0 electric or hybrid cars and don't have plans to make any afaik. They have a new 'X-Active' gasoline engine that also runs like a diesel at times to gain efficiency and power (https://jalopnik.com/mazdas-upcoming-skyactive-x-compression...). I'm not sure it's a great idea to continue working on gasoline engine technology considering the industry and market, but it is impressive engineering.

They've also managed to keep the Mazda Miata at nearly the same weight (only 300lbs more than the original) and size (3 inches wider, 1 inch shorter) after over 20 years of safety and convenience improvements. I can't think of any other car model that's done that.

Somehow this small car company always punches above its weight, which is impressive.
Here's a recent primer on Ant Financial's relationship with social status ranking and government relations --

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Wow, that's .. kinda opposite world from a few years ago. For the Intel chips, the socket remained consistent from the Pentium D all the way up to the Core2Duo. IIRC they had an offboard memory management unit, so the chips wasn't tied directly to a motherboard. The AMDs on the other hand had integrated MMUs and each new chip required a totally different board and the processors themselves were tied to the RAM type (DDR2 vs DDR3 etc).

Intel switched to the AMD model starting with the i3/i5/i7 series, now moving to an integrated MMU themselves.
The cryptographical ideas behind GPG are not flawed in principle, but the usability is absolutely atrocious and it's easy to get things wrong.
I imagine that a good ux-designer or two could do wonders for it.
1/10. Constant mass layoffs, most subject matter experts have quit, the code is a legacy pile of bugs and where changing one line of code is incredibly painful. Also new college grads are making 20k+ higher than my current salary despite having 2 years of experience in the bay area. I've been trying to find a new job but I'm so exhausted and stressed out at the end of the day that I don't have the energy to grind leetcode/algorithms problems to prepare for technical interviews, and those whiteboarding/system design interviews are brutal.
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True, a monopoly would be far more exaggerated, but Spotify still holds the individual largest slice of the share pie according to this report. Their revenue almost 3 times that of any other music streaming service. 'Thanks for the helpful link! I'm surprised only 140 million people subscribe to streaming music.
I can say this: you aren't alone! I'm in the exact same boat. Ironically, if we can coordinate those of us who "get it" on this issue, maybe we can organize at least some spaces and communities where kids can interact free of screens and have friends etc.

About the most important org any parent should know about and support: http://commercialfreechildhood.org/
In other words, don't worry - pretty much all the key performance bottlenecks most of us deal with at work will be getting tighter, but at least our video games will still run OK.
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But all you are ever getting with vps offerings is a description of the number of cpus and amount of ram and suchlike. I haven't seen vps offerings that say "x" chips yield "y" performance. Granted it is sort of implied that the hardware meets certain expectations but there isn't any guarantee. I was just now reading the TOS for AWS just to check and so far as I can tell they aren't guaranteeing any kind of specific performance.
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Also somewhat anecdotal, but in Japan kids are given freedom to the other extreme [1].

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-littl...
That's quite possibly the most inefficient way to handle such a thing. As a reminder: there's a very good chance that, with healthcare, inefficiency => people die.

Beyond that, it's an insulting way to avoid having a real discussion on this issue. If the charity of the rich were enough to solve this social problem, we wouldn't be talking about it. Why are you participating in these discussions if the only solution you have to offer has been tried and failed for most of human history?
Does it actually block pain receptors?
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This is the best explanation I have found so far:
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> going bankrupt trying to repair the damage.

I think you took it a bit too far. May be, I am missing something. Is it really that bad?
Is that better? Imagine a bent leg. It seems like one would want it to break and heal, no?
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Open a store selling beekeeping equipment. I live in an area where that's somewhat under served and I have a lot of experience with online sales so I could broaden my number of potential customers a bit.

My wife keeps telling me that the stores we've visited are extremely poor at selling to the extend that they are missing obvious upsells.
"it will be difficult to prove otherwise"

The SEC could look at internal emails he got about this flaw, and if he got them (and especially if he replied to them) then it's pretty clear he knew about it.

They doubtlessly have other investigative tools they can use for this as well.
> Daca, illegal immigrants voting, chain migration, refugees voting, PC control of public debate, leftist biased media and reporting, another 4 rounds of liberals leaving college indoctrinated into leftism

I wouldn't say "indoctrinated into leftism" as much as it's outright facing malicious rejection and animus from the right. Latin-American immigrants are a natural fit for the religious right: they are more religious and socially conservative than average, the only problem is that they are brown. The GOP had a narrow window to pivot, but unfortunately, that was around the time the tea-party wing was ascendant, leaving no room for moderates.
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I occasionally see these stories on my Facebook feed:

Thousands of Irish extras sought for next series of Vikings

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/thousands-of...

It nearly makes me want to grow a beard. And move to Ireland.
You should be made aware that we are both Midwesterners. If you are not familiar with the regional culture, markers that normally indicate animosity are sometimes used insincerely as a sign of affection. Whereas elsewhere, if you hear someone shout "Hey asshole!" you might assume that person is angry with the other, in the Midwest it could mean that, and it could also mean the two are very good friends and one is enthusiastically greeting the other.

There is also some hyperbole involved. My spouse may take only 15 actual minutes to clean a toilet, and use one off the shelf product, specifically marketed for cleaning toilets. So in comparison to the way I do it, that is using 12 different chemicals and taking all f'in' day. When my spouse describes how I do it, it would probably be more on the order of "takes 15 seconds to rub the seat down with a moist towelette". It is a caricature, rather than a photograph.

Actually, now that I'm describing it, that does seem very strange to use insincerity so much. But as I was growing up, when sarcasm was everywhere, it made a lot more sense.
Looks interesting, thanks! Could you summarize briefly what you were referring to in the parent comment, though? I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to read the book.
Frankly this is totally case by case. I’m 22 and have been partying hard since 15. Simultaneous to that my career hasn’t been a distraction or a replacement. It would make sense that the support on a developer driven channel like Hacker News would sway the kids who hang inside more. I promise you HN, kids are partying hard.
>extraordinary scrutiny into campus parties

I was involved in Greek life in college and can testify. Not only did we need to register our parties with the university but we still had to worry about police presence and legal liability.

This isn't to say that these policies should be repealed- dumb people did dumb things, and thus these came into place, but it doesn't remove the fact that it's getting harder to hold a social gathering without a cop busting down your door and citing everyone in the room.
Some research suggests excessive restriction on screen use may be worse, and it's not abnormal for boys to use devices more than girls

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-12-14-children%E2%80%99s-scree...
The official position of the Catholic Church (The most numerous Christian denomination) is in opposition to the death penalty: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignit...

When Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress, he was chided by many for denouncing the death penalty which took 23 American lives in 2017, while staying silent on abortion, of which 652,639 took place in 2014.

There are certainly churches, typically evangelical, that are rabidly anti-abortion while promoting the death penalty, but it's less common in Catholic communities or even mainline Protestant denominations.
Thanks for that input!
yes its really odd I regularly see young kids traveling t and from school on the underground in London. I also see kids under 10 walking themselves to the bus stop in my village.

And I walked to and from school in the village (in the 60s) from age 5
The GP meant to say "it doesn't matter for SpaceX that we find new planets, since no rocket company will send anything there in the forseeable future". The GGP was pointing out that TESS itself is launched by SpaceX.
I don't think that's true in the slightest. Men's tennis is much, much more popular across the board! That's actually why guys like Novak Djokovic were complaining!
It is a strawman because it is reliant on a literalist interpretation that no one is actually arguing for. Of course the rockets are not literally his just as Obamacare wasn't literally Obama's.

> B)A CEO 'owns' a company's assets.

Never made the claim nor does it seem relevant here. No one is talking of actual ownership. When it comes to ownership and accounting of a company, there are already well-established metrics and practices to figure that stuff out.

Yes, the rocket is designed by engineers and put together by technicians and mechanics and thousands of souls have come together to achieve this task, and no one is denying their contributions.

But none of that would have existed without Elon. And he is being praised for that vision and steely resolve while others work on their PhDs from Armchair University.

This leadership is not trivial and it is central to something like SpaceX even existing.
I concur on gometalinter.

It can be a pain sometimes to satisfy it, but most of the time, my code ends up better than it was before.

Well, except for gocyclo. Some functions just are complex - simplifying them or breaking them up into several smaller functions just to keep each function small is not always the best idea or even possible. But that can easily be disabled on a per-function basis.
What makes you say HN has forgotten? The title is just copied from the article which describes another interesting sounding alternative.
The closed and centralized nature of their backend in combination with them being a very small team makes them especially vulnerable to being compromised.

Are we sure no single employee can be pressured by the government they operate under or the company as a whole?

Are we sure none of them are compromised and perhaps don't even know it?

Who holds the signing keys for the mobile apps? How have they been handled?

Are their internal CI servers secure? Do they do reproducible builds? How can we verify no last minute changes were slipped in by an employee or an NSA operative that has broken into their systems?

Considering Moxie has been openly opposed to third parties wanting to do externally verified reproducible builds such as f-droid... I simply can't have much confidence here.

On their website signal says they "...design open protocols, develop Open Source software, and give it away for free."

In spite of this, they do not allow spinning up your own clients and servers to validate their work without forking their client and re-implementing portions of their server.

I would challenge that we should not run from a situation where we have too much trust in one entity only to put complete trust in another.
Honestly, I see this same stuff on Windows constantly. Our 50+ Windows devs still struggle to hook up to projectors, extra monitors, docks, etc. Sound drops out during meetings, sound devices lock up and require reboots. The worst thing really is the new updating process, which despite configuring it to not reboot during the day, it does so anyways. Some of these updates have taken 2+ hours to install. Can't even use the computer at all. Not to mention, many of these updates end up breaking components despite our best efforts at testing.
Walmart/Target parking lot or Caribou Coffee here. Craigslist was (is) the best. People are still good, our "social" media just tells us otherwise. You have to be street smart to be able to do this stuff... if you go to meet afraid, a maybe-mugging is a sure-thing-mugging. Most people just wanna do business and be done, some of them may take an opportunity if it's there so don't give one beyond doing business. This is true in all of life, so meet in courts by the police stations "and stuff"... be smart. I've used CL as recently as last year in SF, and in 3+ cities over 10 years. No free lunch, if it looks too good to be true it probably is, don't take free candy from strangers, tell a friend where you're going, etc...
> The NSA doesn't spy on US citizens

That is a lie, but I understand why people would need to believe it in order to work for the NSA.
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why am I getting all these downvotes? clearly, it's much safer for a teenager to ride the train in the Netherlands from one end to the other, than to do a similar thing in Chicago, let's say. So, yeah, it's not that impressive.
He's arguably already had legitimate and impactful successes. Building a business even remotely capable of commercial spaceflight is a huge deal. What Tesla has done, both in batteries and in getting the major auto makers to put focus on EVs is a huge deal.

Musk arguably does significantly more talking than doing, but his goals are lofty enough that even failing to make it halfway still means significant advancement.
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Have you tried with Blue Origin? I heard they don't expect you to have background in space
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