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I wonder how Intel will deal with this.

If I were Intel, I'd offer free replacements for at-par performance, and potentially tiny cash payment for upgraded performance. Assuming the marginal cost to produce chips, especially older/slower ones, is very low, the only real cost to them is losing out on potential upgrade sales which would have happened organically, for a while.

However, doing this keeps Qualcomm/ARM and AMD from making massive inroads into the market. As well, it would be a great way for Intel to accelerate adoption of their newer technologies, causing even greater lock-in (you could assume a much higher percentage of users will have a feature)

This all works great for socketed CPUs (still common for servers/cloud). For embedded, where CPU is more likely non-replaceable even if socketed) CPU peak performance probably doesn't matter as much -- maybe do a discount coupon? Or work with equipment vendors to subsidize upgrades.

Laptops and non-technical end users (who couldn't swap their own CPU) probably don't care as much but also don't have the ability to upgrade. A rebate/upgrade program would work, or a substantial cash payment. Doing it as e.g. $50 cash or $250 toward your next Intel-CPU laptop would be interesting.

Intel is rich, the market leader, incumbent across multiple segments, etc., so they really should go overboard on their response.
I think the moderators prefer not to have issues like this discussed. The goal of my post was to discuss more broadly if issues like this are something that should be discussed on HN.
Terrible advice. IMHO, threats or ultimatums are only useful in very extreme situations.
Does anyone have insight on the implications this vulnerability might have on Remote Execution. Is controlling the access to the physical machine sufficient?
That’s a weird way to phrase it. Colorado voters didn’t vote to “overturn the legislation.” The law itself provides for referendums where voters can approve municipal broadband.
HPC, weather prediction, and how you know it's going to rain
The comparison is valid only if monetary generosity is linked with empathy. It seems as unproven a statement as saying monetary giving frees people from the dirtier emotional work of empathizing.

Societally, not sure it matters much. OTOH, I think it's probably more fair to compare church giving relative to the tax breaks they receive, rather than simply say they give a lot. They do, but it's amplified by a tax deduction, which isn't available to emotionally supporting/empathetic people.

There is, of course, no reason someone couldn't be in both camps, but this comment is long and rambling already.
Florian Leibert, CEO of Mesosphere, recently sat down with Stavros Korokithakis to talk about technologies that are being used to build the web today and tomorrow. Stavros is the founder of Stochastic Technologies and runs his own insightful and humorous blog, Stavros’ Stuff. He’s also active on Hacker News under his handle, StavrosK. Flo and Stavros talked about what makes Python and Django attractive for DevOps and data science. They also explore InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a technology rapidly becoming the foundation for the future distributed web.
You make some really good points here. I'm no stranger to long roadtrips; I do Detroit-to-NYC at least every few years, and I've gotten pretty comfy with Detroit-to-Orlando with an overnight stop. It's been a few years since doing Vegas straight-through with a co-driver, but I've done that a few times too.

The trips where I have plenty of time and can stop and go for a jog, or hike up some scenic terrain and take some photos, feel a lot safer than the ones where I'm nose-to-the-grindstone the whole time. I'm simply more focused when I get back in the car because I've had those minutes to let my mind and body wander.

I do feel like 15-20 minutes every 4-5 hours is a good and comfy amount of rest on a roadtrip. I've tried to do the 5-minute fuel stops and it just adds more stress than it's worth. Now, if more Supercharger stations happened to have a park or a gym nearby...
Take a look at SageManifolds: https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/01/20/sagemanifolds...

My understanding is the numerical GR community is moving in this direction. The theory people tend to roll their own inside of Mathematica or Maple. Some Maple users use GRTensorIII (https://github.com/grtensor/grtensor)

Disclaimer: I am a co-creator of GRTensorIII
Although I wouldn't normally post marketing-related stuff on HN, I think this one should be quite useful to a large audience here. Liam really figured out how to write engaging and truthful copy, which makes you want to keep reading, and doesn't feel like a typical marketing newsletter. Wish more companies could use this style (genuinely).
If bone marrow donations for all caucasians were mandatory I would agree.
Oh, thats interesting.

I can imagine that they would be very useful in azure to speed up VM-block storage communications. It possibly is secondary to reducing backbone bandwidth usage.

I assume that EC2 has lots of caching to make things viable (basic testing sorta backs that up)

They used to be quite popular in VFX land, as one could slap it infront of a filer and get a performance boost, without much work.

However once you move to a place where you can easily ans quickly move assets around, and have them on a larger amount of smaller servers (~150 tbs instead of a 1pb isilon cluster) then it becomes less relevant, especially for the price.
It sounds reasonable in theory to collectivize this stuff, but in practice the programs all run out of money. Politicians always over promise. This happens over and over again all over the world.

I see no real alternative to freedom here. Let people make their own choices. Over the long term you can't really conjure up better investment returns and better retirements for people by decree. The wealth has to be there.
> Finally, don't lead with how long it's been since your last raise, says Valerie Streif, a senior advisor at Thementat.com, a San Francisco-based organization for job seekers. "This starts off the conversation with a tone of entitlement and shifts the focus away from your achievements. Instead, it reveals that you expect the raise solely due to the amount of time you've been in your position."

Right, because experience has no impact on your expected value in the job market. I think managers should read some articles on how to not lose valuable employees.
Good thoughts, Stephen!

I was recently reading about Hypermedia HAL APIs[1]
(TLDR: add metadata to API responses, helps w/ discoverability etc)
which could conceivably play a role in solving this kind of problem.

[1] https://sonalake.com/latest/hypermedia-apis/
Yes precisely
I think ethereal deliberately uses such fancy talk to wow people into buying ETH and pumping the value.
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> Abolishing copyright will thus mostly affect these middle men, and have little effect on content creation itself.

You act like that's a good thing... What do you believe these middles mens will do then? They will just steal instead of paying.

Theses copyrights at least force them to pay and try to create unique content instead of stealing the newest idea.

Open your TV and look at Star Wars ads. Notice anything? Where I'm from, in Quebec, but it looks like it's everywhere, Disney allowed many companies to use Star Wars to advertise their products. It's crazy. I don't care much, but do you see anything particular about these ads versus the others? No originality. They are stupid, boring and are essentially: "YOU LIKE STAR WARS, WE DO TOO, BUY OUR PRODUCT".

You know why they do this? Because it's cheap and it works. Original creation is expensive and hard. You just saved so much cash for these middle mens, it's crazy.

Okay, now what's the gain for everyone else? Now you can legally read old stuff without paying the old content creator (do it illegally then, except the moral dilemma, which you doesn't seem to have, I assure you, the legal world probably won't do much to you)? Now you can use Star Wars characters in your stuff? That's it?

The gain is minimal... for god sake, if you want to reuse, then recreate. Possibilities are endless, please, do something new instead! I read that some people aren't too happy that 2017 was essentially a year of remake/sequel in movies.
>>> But equally europe needs more appreciation of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to enable a richer startup culture and let the EU become an economic leader instead of follower

Isn't the EU the biggest economy in the world? For now at least, Brexit and all that...
Why are most sold supplements in the 3000-5000UI range?
The article drums that line, but the research cited says that screen time is irrelevant. They also didn't measure screen time, they relied on parents self-reporting which may be very high or low (reflecting parental self-image,not actual screen time). And the research didn't look at long-term effects, only short-term. And it waved off that high screen time may be merely correlated to poverty and unengaged parenting, not literally strictly screen time. The research isn't an endorsement to let little kids stare at tablets all day.
..And US is not more healthy than the other advanced nations.
According to Wikipedia (without a citation)

"CCR5 Δ32 has an (heterozygote) allele frequency of 10% in Europe, and a homozygote frequency of 1%."
When I was like 5 or 6 we roamed freely in South Korea during the early 90s and when we came to Canada, we still used to hang out in the apartment complexes, playing hockey, riding bicycles, building tree forts....looking back we lived in a notorious low class white ghetto with regular police & k9 units with few attempted home invasions...it just got worse as we neared year 2000 and past...Gang became a fad and by then we stopped hanging out as a whole...even walking to school sometimes felt a bit unnerving because my friends would be targeted by ethnic affiliation.

I understand why parents don't want their kids out in environments like that. If I have kids it's going to be a struggle to let them out into that scary world...but growing up in the ghetto doesn't come without life lessons.
I agree with most of what you say, but why do you take for granted that it's up to the customer to demonstrate that the product is defective? Furthermore, where does the idea that the customer must be able to communicate this to a uninformed clerk come from?
If so, this definitely moves the needle on the EPYC vs Xenon price/performance ratio.
I can think of a few ways to get privilege escalation if you already have rce as unprivileged user:

1. Read the root ssh private key from the openssh deamons kernel pages maintaining the crypto context and ssh into the system

2. Read a sudo auth key generated for someone using sudo and then use that to run code as a root user

3. Read the users password's whenever a session manager asks the users to reauth

4. If running in AWS/GCP inside a container/vm meant to run untrusted code, read the cloud provider private keys and get control on account

5. RCE to ROP powered privilege escalation exploit seems reasonable...

6. Rowhammer a known kernel address (since you can now read kernel memory) to flip some bits to give you root

Also remember running JS is basically RCE if you can read outside the browser sandbox, ads just became much more dangerous...
> There is another side to this. And that is that the American university system has a distinct political agenda that is opposed to the interests of the Trump-supporting half of the American electorate.

Do you have any evidence for that? What is the agenda of the American university system? What is the interests of the Trump-supporting half of the American electorate?

If a lot of academics think Donald Trump is dumb as fuck, it does not necessarily mean that there is a problem in academia. It could also be so that Donald Trump is dumb as fuck.
The important question: How much money was it worth to Comcast?

They have a population of ~136k, comprising 60,503 households. If each currently pays $100/mo for a cable bundle and all abandon them for fiber (a gross over-estimate), that is $72.6 million per year of lost revenue to Comcast.

It is, however, $72.6 million of returned value, or something more than about 10% of the $620M/year total city budget. If my town voted to net-reduce its total burden to me by 10% or so, that would be very appealing. If they only returned half of that, it would still be substantial.

If they dispensed with the "evil" of the regular garbage "fees" and price hikes that modern cable monopolies love, it would be worth 100% of the price.
I wish they'd let anyone run whatever they wanted for whatever lenth of time they want. Anything beyond that is a gross misuse of power.
There's an old saying about a programmer who has 8 years of experience: The same year, 8 times over.

I think we have all worked with that person, at one time or another. Does that individual deserve a raise for the accomplishment of not being fired?
> Mersennes are beautiful and have some surprising applications.

Unfortunately that page doesn’t elaborate on what these surprising applications are, which is itself surprising on a page that purports to answer “why”.
customer service. cpe rental/installation.

hypothetically the actual internet bandwidth itself. cities could provide a nice big fiber network, and then let independent companies actually bring in the internet connection(s) that they're going to resell.
Breaking Out HSTS (and HPKP) on Firefox, IE/Edge and (possibly) Chrome
I think a lot of it is due to America being so litigious. Doctors and hospitals are afraid of being sued, so they need lots of insurance to protect them, and they order lots of arguably unnecessary tests to cover all their bases. This drives up costs for consumers.
It was a fun read but I feel like the article is also partly re-invoking your imagination on assumed stereotypes you already had.

I'm by no means an expert but from playing around with it a bit, it seems no different from something like Klout which came and past in that it takes your scores and mostly uses it to send you lame in-house 'benefits' promos that are more like normal ads.

Something like https://epic.org/algorithmic-transparency/crim-justice is far more impactful and interesting.
Apologies. I think all the HN-ites crashed my teeny wordpress install. It's back up now.
> I'd just make sure the server firewalls are super tight and not take in the future patches. At least for now.

Good security is about layers. No one layer can be assumed to be watertight, but with enough layers you hopefully get to a good place.
Fractured West
I suspect that business professional dress codes coincide with a number of other workplace downers that a lot of us don't like.
A couple of things:

1. Eyebrows are a pretty elaborate structure to have evolved purely by chance.

You don't get from not having eyebrows to having eyebrows via a single mutation. It seems reasonably likely that the specific shape of eyebrows (as in, one person has bushy eyebrows and another has thinner eyebrows) might be tied to sexual selection (as in, the variations don't serve a functional purpose other than being attractive to the opposite sex). But that eyebrows exist at all is probably tied to some survival/reproductive benefit.

2. I think you underestimate the impact that something as a small as, say, a 3% improvement in an outcome can have on the evolution of a specific trait.

You can use a spreadsheet to model this yourself. Start with a population where 1% of people possess some trait that allows that subpopulation to have 3% more children per generation that the other 99% of the population. I'm showing that it takes a little over 150 generations for the descendants of that first group to comprise 50% of the population. As a point of comparison, there have been roughly 7,000 generations of humans. So, you can see that natural selection will act even on minute details of anatomy because when you play them out for many generations they matter.
Trading would be a lot easier if you could wait till the facts come out
Dapp just means distributed app[lication]

Blockchains, distributed networks and especially the Ethereum community have called themselves web 3.0 and their primary javascript object to access web 3.0 functions is called web3

Think of the Ethereum network as a bunch of docker containers (nodes) that will execute random functions you throw at it and assume thats a good idea but either way you have to send ether for them to do it

Ether is a limited resource so therefore it has value because other people want to use it too. Ether is the gas on the ethereum network, and you have to use it as fuel to execute functions.

Still with me?

Okay great, before now it has been much more cumbersome to use any of this, and now you can do it from a mobile device

Erc20 is a standardized set of functions that make it easier to use the docker containers, it is the 20th one described and it caught on. This is analogous to REST protocols being made from a mere description in IETF RFCs. This particular standard primarily allows for the creation of new tokens. With this protocol, The docker containers will recognize the new unit of account and also execute the transfer functions to other Ethereum users. This works For all intents and purposes

Ethereum has been called the World Computer for these reasons
It's somewhat marginal for HN and might not get a lot of attention/upvotes, and it's general interest enough that it might get some flags for that reason, but I wouldn't flag it (and, in fact, have upvoted the story where it was submitted on its own.)
Because they're there...
You know you'll wait the same amount of time, right?
Not sure it’s a good comparison. Comedy is a bit different animal than music. I’m not sure big stars like Rihanna, Taylor Swift etc would be able to become such big stars and maintain their fandom and deal with all the logistics of TV/radio promotion & deals, concerts, brand awareness and such alone without big studios doing that for them. I am not up to date on music but are there examples of big international pop stars who bootstrapped their superstar career without being promoted and pushed by one of the big three studios?
Because of the fraudulent agents in the insurance, healthcare and government. And the innocent american citizens who nod yes for every crap policy and rule that is thrown at them. Isn't it obvious?

Same medical service costs 10 times less in other countries for same or better quality. Because they have kept the service of a price 1$ as 100$.

We need some disruptor to simply crush the insurance industry.

If you don't take insurance you may become medical bankrupt if somewhere you screw up your health.

They started with 1 $ few decades back and slowly increased and since world has majority of un smart people people collectively couldn't find a just system.

And everyone and every future generation has to pay the price for the mistakes previous generations made.

Its just is hell guys.
Some people value self-expression and would rather be judged by the quality of their work than their appearance.
You mean, integrating your children into society makes them safe when they spend time out in society?
this reminds me of Fliptape, a project I built many moons ago. Looks great and is basically what our roadmap was. We went mobile first back in 2011 with the same concept. Would love to have kept it going.
FANG has the same "problem" as the video game industry: it is inundated with applicants and can afford to be highly selective and selective in ways that are literally irrelevant to the jobs they have available. Generally for well qualified candidates who don't want to (or in some sense can't) jump through their hoops it's better to work elsewhere: the compensation difference isn't that significant in most cases.
Given every libertarian/conservative economic theory that's been advanced since Reagan entered office has been tried and without exception resulted in increased income inequality and bricking the economy, comically uninformed seems pretty accurate. Given conservatives collective track record of having legislation thrown out in court on constitutional grounds claims of upholding it are likewise clearly unfounded.
Strings and Template Literals in ES6
That's an interesting worry to have! Sounds like fun, you definitely won't be bored at work.
Azure got some AMD EPYC.
Opera blog post: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/12/opera-50-beta-rc-cry...

> After we recently updated the rules for our built-in ad blocker mechanism, we eliminated cryptocurrency mining scripts that overuse your device’s computing ability. Simply enable Opera’s ad blocker to prevent cryptocurrency mining sites from doing their dirty work on your computer.

Looks like a blacklist extension to their ad blocker.
> Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.

Given the lack of any facts, evidence, or details in the press release, how is anyone supposed to take Intel seriously?
It WAS big news. It was called the Snowden leaks.

For example, the government argues to this day that it is ok to do drag net collection of phone meta data.

Having access to every single person that you have called, counts as spying in my book, even if they aren't listening in to the conversations specifically.
so I didn't know this, but got curious about how many known prime there are - I knew there were infinite primes, but thought that there would be some concrete list of all the primes that we had discovered somewhere - but apparently not

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/272791/how-many-pri...

> Nobody's really keeping count. ... There are very many hundred-digit primes to find. We could cover the Earth in harddisks full of distinct hundred-digit primes to a height of hundreds of meters, without even making a dent in the supply of hundred-digit primes.
I'm not an insider, but it seems like Apple's motto is "long-term profit above almost anything else." As a result they certainly are considering designing their own x86-64 or ARM CPUs in hopes of reduced costs down the line from vertically integrating their business. What may stop them is the fact that their PC sales don't enjoy nearly as much volume as their mobile devices.
Assuming that you aren't just suffering from paranoid delusions, care to share the likely harms from me using an Echo?

I use a car and the worst case scenario is death or permanent disability, right? People die in their cars every day.

So what's the worst case scenario for using an Echo? How many people a day does that happen to?
>How's technology to blame for helicopter parenting, fear of terrorism and crime in general, the notion there seemingly is a nonce behind every street corner and similarly irrational ideas and behaviours rampant today?

It seems obvious that this is the result of fear mongering-profiteering in the news media.