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I agree with you entirely, except in the case of Apple. I don't like closed systems either, especially when it comes to security, but, for some reason, I trust that when Apple closes a system, it's for security reasons. Their history with the Secure Enclave on iOS devices has given me a track record of security that I trust and, although it's still a closed system, the fact that they release white papers on every secure system gives me far more confidence than closed systems distributed by other companies.

I won't trust the industry when this becomes the norm but, until Apple does something to violate my trust, they've made it a point to earn trust when it comes to privacy and security.
Yes and creating one or more "web workers" (threads) is a significant side-effect. Javascript to me, looks more like a systems-programming language (imperative with threads and sockets) than something trusted for interactive web sites. The web is a huge mess and today we learn that hardware is too.
Well, I'm feeling mighty good about my purchase of a 2011 intel Atom chip back in the day... Now if only I knew which box it's in...
C++ Spectre code that works: https://gist.github.com/mkagenius/b74a632d2a28d663b048d253be...
I’ve written a few compiler-related libraries in the past few years for a DSL (e.g. a few LLVM optimization passes and a type checker). I love two things about Rust: it’s easy to integrate into existing C and C++ projects and it’s super easy to build and compile (including dependencies). I dislike a lot of stuff about Rust like the noisy (Perl-like) syntax and strange (and enforced) style rules (Arm not ARM), but they are mostly the type of annoyances you’d encounter with anything you really like.
Doing a conversion of USD to equivalent CAD is not reasonable. Salaries are generally higher, dollar for dollar in the USD.

You're also ignoring the multiple tax breaks available in the US that aren't an option in Canada: mortgage interest deduction, uncapped 401K contribution, etc.
>This is pretty much what the rest of the field thinks, anyway (example of this view in [1]).

Yup. I'm not a CV engineer myself, but I work in between our CV folks and pure software engineering. I've worked on automatic labeling and classification of circulating tumor cells (focusing primary on the imaging system(s)) for the last five years. Every experienced CV person I've worked with or spoken with dismisses DL out of hand for what we're doing. The less experienced folk jump right to a DL solution without understanding the problem domain.
I don't think undoing all cache changes is enough, since it went to memory it generated memory bus traffic, which could be observed by another core (as extra latency). And speaking of another core, the cacheline might have come from another core, which could observe the effect on its own cache, even if it's later put back.
I think those are misattributions. Civil wars break out both among same ethnic groups as well as different ethnic groups.

Wars can then force people to see other stereotypes as characteristics of bad things. Kind of like the caricatures of Nazis and Japanese Imperialists. When Japan went into Nanking, they didn't need some psychological trick to enable them to go on their campaign any more than the US or USSR needed psychological tricks to bomb Dresden or East Berlin.
Just tried with vanilla Chrome and it's still not a link.
That's not what xe actually said. I hope that if zupzupper had wanted to name the actual executable xe would have got the name right, and said better than conhost.exe.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-command-interpreter-is-not-a-console....
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Well, beginning of the end. It would be 3 years from whatever date they release a new version that locks it to a chip like this and drop support for old models without it. So lets say, 4-5 years. Actually, probably longer since they've been supporting old systems for as long as 8 years(2007 imac, others) with some macbook pros approaching 9-10 even.

How long you think it would take for them to do this depends on whether you really think they'd just decide to cut off a ton of machines at once and reverse course on really long support windows. And long windows really seems to be a roadmap, if you look at how the ipad 2 was supported as well.

I think they care more about "look at how we support our products!" than hackintoshes. What i could easily imagine though is way more features than just imessage and such being gate-kept into "only systems with our secure chip are allowed to run this"
Funny enough the right information was available and accessible that made it trivial for me to follow my direct lineage back to Charlemagne

Of course being 42 generations removed, he is only 1 of 4,398,046,511,104 potential direct ancestor paths back at that level.

That number made me realize that we don't have branches in a family tree, we have laurels in a family wreath.
And the ears are not "compatible" either. Could this be the reason they prefer women's faces (with long hair which covers ears) in the article?
This statement is incorrect, 15" designs handle the 100W TDP just fine. Look at the Dell XPS 15 - it has an Intel H-series CPU (45W) plus a 1050 GPU (55W). While having all this power, it's slim and the cooling solution works OK under load (less reports about thermal throttling than latest MBP has) and with a 130W power brick it can be powered no problem unxer full load.
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If you're interested, I gave a talk at RubyConf a couple months back with updated info for TruffleRuby on the SVM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMldcAzd5o

The SVM is a critical component in achieving some of our performance objectives for TruffleRuby, particularly when it comes to startup time and running code that hasn't warmed up yet. Short-lived applications have always been something of an Achilles heel for dynamic languages targeting the JVM. The SVM provides a nice way of solving that problem as long as your program can operate with its restrictions (e.g., no dynamic class loading).

From a positioning perspective, I think an interesting aspect of the SVM is TruffleRuby is no longer an implementation of Ruby on the JVM. It's an implementation of Ruby written in Java for sure, but the JVM isn't required.
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What does it being stateless buy you?
I liked the comment system we were able to have a discussion.

While the PR guy was shady, realizing other people having the same experience via rebuttal and affirming my comment via their experiences seem much better.

I usually like having a dialogue/discussion. Glassdoor is where you can give anonymous reviews, mind as well have people annoymously have a discussion about said company.
Meltdown: affects only Intel CPUs, is the 'biggy' short-term, but patches to mitigate it are landing as we speak and patches to eliminate it using trampolines are described in the paper. So no need to replace your Intel CPUs unless you can't live with the performance drop, but a good reason for buying AMD going forward.

Spectre: hits AMD too. Hits everyone today. Hope for a new arch (bias: I am a Mill CPU dev ;) )
You can have both "modern web" and block most JavaScript. You just need to keep adding scripts to the whitelist until sites you trust work again. It's a bit arduous at first, but possible to get used to once everything you visit daily has been added.
At this point, both Intel and AMD press releases should be treated as highly, highly suspect. They are both jockeying to mitigate money loss or take advantage to make money. The truth is a secondary concern.

I'd believe CERT, project zero and the independent linux kernal devs if you want the truth.
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Thanks for the reply. It sounds like rustup outside of Homebrew is still the best option. I should add, it’s tottaly fine. My only annoyance is that Homebrew’s doctor command complains, but I suppose that’s more of a Homebrew issue.
My understanding is: Speculative executive is flawed, out of order makes it hard to tell when the errors are going to be really bad.
This is slightly off-topic, but developments such as these really make me look forward to when Apple will finally get around to releasing their new Mac Pro (coyly quasi-announced as not being due for release in 2017, but in development supposedly for a late 2018 or early 2019). This kind of technology might not be revolutionary per se, but makes for a very solid technological basis to build a system on. If the Mac Pro turns out to be an iMac Pro divorced from the screen and with some internal expandability in a suitably fancy-looking case, I'll be very content.
Fair enough. I definitely agree with your broad point. My wife manages grants (many of which are federal) for a research institute and even though they aren't governmental themselves, just being federally funded creates many of the same circumstances you're talking about here. Being able to fire people more easily would not solve any problems: they need to be able to incentivize good work much more flexibly.
Compiling Rust to WebAssembly and building https://github.com/koute/stdweb

Rust is a powerful enough language where you can do crazy stuff like write inline JavaScript inside of your Rust code, and freely pass data in and out of those JS snippets, and compile the whole thing to WebAssembly.
Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor,including Intel and ARM
This tweet has a GIF of the original YT video:
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Doubtful - Intel's press release is carefully worded to suggest that the chip is working as designed, and that others are to blame if exploited. I'm sure they see the lawsuits on the horizon
The space of inventions increases exponentially with every new piece of knowledge, insight, or tool we produce. Are you asserting that this space becomes so sparse that we will no longer have any useful inventions?

If this is the case, why have we seen an explosion in inventions? Is there some critical turning point? When is the critical point? It's a lot of speculation.

As depressed and lonely as I am, I live because I believe the future is worth living for, mainly because there's stuff left to do. If there's nothing left to do, we may as well all die today.
Hmm, but running 'all possible programs' is an exponential time operation (in the lengths of the programs)...
this is our golden opportunity to switch to something less privacy evading and bug-ridden.

(and it will incidentally also prove that the market really doesn't work very well, because most people will still buy intel)
I don't have any adblockers. I'm using Firefox. It's not a hyperlink for me, it's plain text.
If you're going to mint a token, macaroons are a great spec. But when designing a critical security system, the default should be the simplest possible thing, and DB lookup is still much simpler than macaroons. So, you have to have a big problem that macaroons solve first. In my experience, the cure is worse than the disease here.
Vouched for your dead comment. I believe you're shadowbanned, but I personally don't see a problem with the stuff you've written...
Except for the fact that it still lets you do exactly that.
I was recently looking at replacing my 13" MacbookPro and comparing laptops that would run Linux. Here are the notes I had in order of most-likely to least likely to choose:

* Razer Blade Stealth - 1 USB-C, 2 USB-A, concerns over build quality

* Dell XPS 13 - camera below screen (looks up your nose, fingers in frame), proprietary battery charger. They recently updated it; replaced SD card reader with microSD, USB 3.0 and power dropped for USB-C

* Thinkpad

* Precision 7xxx

* Surface - concerns over long-term build quality, USB-A only, magsafe-ish charger

I went with a MacBook Pro because soldered on RAM was standard on most all of them which took the price up within 20-30% of the MacBook Pro. With all of the PC laptops I had concerns about trackpad and general build quality and wasn't confident about battery life or resale value.

Out of the concerns we share I didn't find anything better on the PC side. The Razer Blade Stealth was closest, but with 1 USB-C port that is used for charging isn't reasonable, either. Why would I buy anything with USB-C on it if the only port is already occupied?
Is this really all that desirable? Hackernews takes up way too much of my time as it is, and I get people replying to my posts all the time. Seems like this would quickly lead to notification hell.
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Not justifying conclusion, saying "check with experts" and giving away sources is not a proper medical recommendation.

It's like me writing a report to my client on "should you use an HTTP API", ending up with "probably yes but it depends so check with you local web dev" and sourcing O'Reilly books. It's political correct bullshit: as the expert, it's my job to not only give a strong actionable conclusion, but to justify the hell out of it.

Have you read the list of possible side effects of the drug ?

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/malarone-side-effects.html

This is a very active product.

If you advice somebody to take it PREVENTIVELY when you are healthy, not even mentioning on a long period of time, you better have a really compelling case.

Not just "meh, yeah do it".
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>This aligns pretty well with the ideas of the anti-vaccine movement though. //

Can you expand on that at all, what particular ideas do they have that this aligns with. Seems a long way from "vaccines contain stuff that is deleterious to health" [which is sometimes true, though key is that provably carriers in infant vaccines weren't causing Autism] to "we should drink water with unknown pathogens in".

Surely the refusal to put unknown pathogens in your body would align better with the refusal to put unknown vaccine constituents in to your/your child's body?
Before I switched to Mac, I was a major ThinkPad adherent. It was the best laptop hardware. Anyone have experience running Linux on one of their recent models?
Yeah, I was definitely expecting some more interesting than this. It reads like an NVIDIA nForce2 press release from 15 years ago.
> the court operates under the rule of stare decsis

Yes and no. If you have a decision on one set of facts made on one basis just come up with another set of facts and another basis where you can get a opposing result without necessary logical conflict and you are all good.

The rat's nest of federal law and prior opinions makes this trivial, so at the end of the day, all legal opinions are arbitrary, and the only actual basis for any decision is whether or not it serves the interests of the court, which outside of the pet peeves, biases, and corruptions of individual judges, consists mostly of the perpetuation of the institution.

The SC's power is rooted in the federal government, and it is stacked with statist/corporatist hacks, so it will always have a preference for extending federal power, but that instinct must be tempered by the threat of an over-extension which reveals the inherent weakness of their position.

Making a move against a majority of the states now, on a subject where popular opinion is clearly against them, and with an all time low level of trust and respect for the federal government would definitely not be desirable.

Normally they could just refuse to hear appeals, but the 9th circuit is in a pretty feisty mood these days so I wouldn't be too surprised if they sided with the states, which would then force the SC to either let their ruling stand, or expose themselves directly on the issue.

Either way, they either let the states keep this going, or they piss off a lot of people, and either way is bad for them and good for the states.
I forgot to mention another amazing feature: documentation. Rust has speculatcular documentation for beginning, intermediate, and advanced users. Likewise, Rust manages their community so you always know where to look for help (like the managed forums).
Also I would imagine that incremental improvements to tools and methods have the potential to benefit farmers much more than hunter-gatherers. So even given the same amount of free time, farmers have more incentive to tinker.
[cough] Oh dear, Moore’s Law

/edit
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Does the set of everything exist? Why or why not?
Salaries that have been <£40k for the past few are starting to look really abysmal. UK inflation is currently 3.1%. In England we have above-inflation rail fare increases, inflated rents that keep going up, potentially 5.99%/year council tax rises and not to mention utility bills and food.

The effect of price rises (council tax, travel, utilities, rent etc) combined with your salary remaining stagnant is nothing short of devastating over a period of 10-20 years.

Companies pretending that inflation doesn't exists probably contributes quite a bit to job hopping
"A secure alternative". Citation needed.
The sentence that follows the line you quoted is

> However, real-world workloads exhibit substantially lower performance impact.

I feel like you could have mentioned this.
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I’ve binge-watched a few series’ through several times.
One issue, is they have an App for every platform, and thus is distributed through .. less than auditable .. means.
Hypervisors and containers already blur this line. I think we were heading there anyway.

But a microkernel is going to have multiple processes talking to each other, so there will still be more overhead whenever a message requires coordination between more than two processes.
I know and that's why I still buy their stuff but as soon as that trust is broken it's a firesale on hardware over at gigatexal's. I mean they are a corporation with a lot of people depending on them for their fortunes, should the era of excess market returns fail or slow what avenues of revenue might they turn to next? I think perhaps it was a huge deposit in terms of trust when they left Google's mapping service for maps to roll their own now that i think about it.
I think the real competitors for hobbyists are physical GTX 1060s. Hobbyist cloud-computing is a different question though.
Anecdotal, but from my own experiences with recovering (and not recovering) addicts in my family, the AA/NA approach seems to only redirect addiction away from the drugs or alcohol outlet, instead of "curing the disease" of addiction itself.

All the recovering addicts I know are still addicted to something in one way or another. The new addiction may or may not be a healthy one. For instance, running 100+ miles a week, every week - while objectively better than drinking yourself out of a job and home - isn't exactly "healthy".

I also notice a higher level of selfish behavior among the recovering addicts I know. It takes an insane amount of pathological selfishness to neglect your responsibilities, especially children, for the bottle. AA doesn't seem to address the selfishness as much as just to get folks to stop drinking.

All of this is preferable to having a raging drug or alcohol addict in the family, but it's far from a perfect solution IMHO.
The game is changed forever, and CPU designers across the industry will likely have to can some or all of OoOE, setting performance back considerably. It can take years to reachieve performance we're used to today at the security level required.

The approach Mill Computing [0] is taking is to have the compiler toolchain handle all instruction scheduling for their new design. All instructions have a fixed, known latency (in terms of clocks). And the processor doesn't have much in the way of global state (like condition code registers and such). All metadata is stored with the data on the 'belt' (replacement for registers) itself, which is saved / restored upon context switch.

They are also years away from silicon it seems.

[0] https://millcomputing.com/docs/
There have been multiple bills to reschedule marijuana over the past several years. They all died. There was another introduced this year and it met the same fate. I'm not sure why you'd blame Obama for the House's unwillingness to act.
So it's basically SecureBoot + lets remove the SATA controller, the audio chip, the H264 chip and roll them into one chip.

It feels like horizontal integration; similar to what Elon Musk does with SpaceX by integrating the pipeline and producing everything internally to save costs.

The article doesn't sound very revolutionary. They're saving money, maybe a little space, by producing all those subsystems themselves. So long as they don't lock down the hardware so you can run Linux or other operating systems on it, I guess that's okay.

Still, it sounds very non-upgradable. The article mentions the memory comes in two banks. Is it replaceable, or is it soldered to the board? nvme ssd cards are super tiny, super fast and super standardized. I can upgrade the ones in most laptops. I can replace a dying battery. Apple seems more geared to people who don't like to fix things or work on their own machines.
Thanks a lot for the insight.

It's amazing how seemingly simple things can get so complicated when talking about security.
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There's not much evidence of efficacy for cannabis as a treatment for long term pain.
Just as a FYI, according to:

* https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/4/432
* http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/andrewcoop/xen.git;a...

It appears that Skylake and later can actually predict retpolines? Some hardware features called IBRS, IBPB, STIBP (not a lot of details on this are out there) are supposedly coming in a microcode update.
You need to take into account how much it costs to you save a life through other means. If the marginal cost of saving a life with healthcare improvements were 100 million, it would be much better to put that money into other things.
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Great example. If they hadn’t had a cycle shop that generated enough income to develop a plane, while simultaneously not requiring too much of their time, they wouldn’t have been able to do it.
I agree that prosecutorial discretion allows racism and other prejudice to be reflected in enforcement. However, every practical system will have prosecutorial discretion because resources are always limited.
Just a small 'way forward' for those wanting to have the ability to revoke a JWT after I came up with a solution on my last project: A 'Gateway' - use OpenResty to verify the JWT ID stored in a redis cache using a proxy pass. When the Authentication service grants a JWT add its ID to this cache along with a way of identifying the user. That way the entire advantage/disadvantage of decentralised authentication is not fully weakened and OpenResty + Redis can be relatively fast.
i fail to really understand algorithms so i think support roles is all i will ever muster -- still gotta give kudos where it's due. And I agree, a lifetime spent in computing is what i did too, when kids were out playing i was building a 486.
This makes the Holographic_imager a reality, hooray!

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Holographic_imager

To me this is the most major breakthrough I've heard in the recent years, which can and will hopefully affect everything. Using the extra CMOS Chip on your flagship smartphone will allow for taking 3D and soon Holographic pictures!

How Amazing! I remember there was an AI trained to turn 2D pictures into 3D [2], combining that with the NPU Chip on smartphones can truly make this happens very soon.

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4904298/The-A...
People will buy sulphurous water, "tastes vile enough that it seems like it could be a medicine" I think is the rationale. Eg at Bath in the UK, not sure if you can take it away but you can buy a glass in the tea-rooms.