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Ah, I didn't realize Linux was so behind in supporting PCID here. Thanks! For what it's worth, Fedora Linux is on kernel 4.14.11 already.

Curiously enough, FreeBSD has had PCID support since 2013 (r255060). We found it improved performance in microbenchmarks:

> In the microbenchmarks, using the PCID decreased latency of the context switches by ~30% on SandyBridge class desktop CPUs, measured with the lat_ctx program from lmbench.

> If available, use INVPCID instruction when a TLB entry in non-current address space needs to be invalidated. The instruction is typically available on the Haswell.
Or, alternatively, you'll be driven mad by the sight and your entire civilization will collapse.

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
Sorry about that: "You can live wherever you want within the United States and must be authorized to work in the United States."
Yep, they are super nice machines too, they do the job super duper fast and really well. My city uses them but only to plow "city streets," or rather "streets not in front of anyone's property and streets in front of city property"

I really really wish they'd do my property. I pay a ton in property tax, you'd think they could afford it.

Either way, it would be more expensive.

I'm not sure if the operators are hourly or salaried but it would probably cost more in manpower to do all the streets, they would probably need more machines too plus there would be an increase in maintenance costs and a reduction in lifetime of the machines.
I still can't see it as being efficient like streets. sidewalks are disjointed, have trees in them, curbs, and any number of other obstacles.
The masking is done in addition to bounds checks, not instead of, so no it isn’t adding a mechanism to write out of bounds - the masking is purely to limit the upper bounds of speculative load distance.

As far as the attack: writing to memory pulls the effected page into the cache just as a read does
I don't want to comment on the article directly, but be cautious when Treffert is cited. One of his books mentions that 10% of autistic savants have ESP and that reincarnation might account for another savant's abilities. Savant research is not done well, and the media tends to amplify whatever comes from cited experts.

For a sample, read the article below, including the sidebar.

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/mind-reading-sharjah-g...
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The important part: "After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown."
I think because although Facebook have quite a strong moral code, and a culture which upholds that, their morals themselves are somewhat questionable. In particular, they seem to see nothing wrong with collecting all the data they possible can and using it for profit-making purposes.
Thank you for sharing this. With a 3yo son on the spectrum, many points here resonated with me. It was nice to see at least one other family doing Floortime--we're thrilled with the results we're seeing and are just surprised how little popularity the program has.
Oh, so I'm scare mongering about big brother, but your're not scare mongering about crime? Why do you put privacy "concerns" in quotes, why not do that with "concerns" about crime? And how is total surveillance in itself not a violation? You might say "but that's not a crime", well, I could easily solve the rape and murder problem that way, too, just make them legal.

People have been warning about the abuses of technology in these directions for like 100 years now. You might say, about a noose tightening around our collective neck. They're not scare mongering, they pay attention. Zuse, Weizenbaum, Berners-Lee, countless people you couldn't even tie the shoelaces of: it's not that they don't understand something you understand, it's the other way around.
Fair point, though for a typical end user this might be indistinguishable
That looks like a bar graph not a heat map. A heat map to me means you have pixels or squares which are colored according to frequency or prevalence.
I don't understand... If you're accusing someone of "blame shifting", presumably you can identify where you think that is being done.

In this case we have a payload that apparently failed to cleanly separate from the payload adapter (according to a variety of sources). Both the payload and the payload adapter were made by Northrup Grumman, not SpaceX, and the two were mated together by Northrup Grumman, not SpaceX. Do you consider it "blame shifting" to point that out?
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I have a few serious food issues and have regularly read labels for decades. I'm surprised that I've never heard of trehalose. Perhaps they list it as disaccharides? Or is it just rolled up into 'sugar' on the label?
You can do this already with iframes, link targets and :visited for css classes. Using javascript is unnecessary. This technique used to be popular before XMLHttpRequest.
I'm curious how far it'd go with something as serious as a nuke, though. I don't want to imagine how high tensions would be after such an attack, if there isn't enough evidence to pin the blame on someone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/7p80...
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/7p80...

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I want a word for the type of anti-scale problem you see in identity. Most people who don't work for Equifax can agree that ideally everybody should own their own identity, control it, and be able to monetize it if and when they chose to. The problem is the crypto doesn't scale up from a UX perspective, and the economics don't scale down. So it makes sense to build Orwellian centralized services from an economic perspective.

One of my hopes for the Bitcoin bubble is that someone figures out how to get a 100x improvement on private key management, including the messy forgotten password / lost 2FA device problems where crypto meets meatspace.
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>What you're describing is closer to a spy camera in a geosynchronous orbit.

I was thinking of a polar orbit when I wrote that comment. You'll always be over the same longitude with a geosynchronous orbit, as opposed to passing over any longitude. You have more flexibility in targeting locations that are mostly below you, though.

>A LEO nuke would not behave like this.

Why not? The orbit stays the same, while the Earth rotates under it. A particular point on the Earth will rotate under the orbit 0-2 times a day, depending on inclination.
This is stupid. Nothing went wrong during the launch. It's a top-secret satellite they are not commenting on. Move along.
You appear to be talking about soft brick vs hard brick? neither hard brick or soft brick is physically broken though...
She wasn’t speeding but we only have her word for it.
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I used to repair smartphones and this was a common phrase when someone would try and install a custom ROM. They would do it wrong and essentially brink the phone.

It's weird for me to hear it in software circles, since I've always thought of software as being more malleable. Correct a few lines of code here or there and you're up and running again.
Writing posts seems more like freeworking to me so the value of reading what others write gets balanced by the opportunity costs of contributing.
theverge ran a study on this (like, not a web poll but actually contracted a research firm to do a proper study)

Among the general public, Amazon and Google are significantly more trusted than the others: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16550640/verge-tech-surv...
I don't know. My job is a strange combination of programming and lifting large pieces of stone all day. I definitely prefer the programming part and would rather sit there and struggle with some code or a program that's not working right any day than struggle lifting yet another 150 pound piece of stone onto the machine. The more time I can spend programming in a day instead of operating or the physical part of my job the better.

Any programmer that thinks their job is physically hard should go try breaking their bodies for 10 hours a day for a while and see how quickly they'd rather jump back into that programming chair.
What I'm really looking for (and I've been asking this question in a lot of places recently) is some concrete examples of real world cases where this tech is being... you know... used as something other than just novelty or tinkering.

Block chain centric use cases don't count since those just reinforce my worst case hypothesis-- that cryptocurrency is a financial MMORPG and a pure value-free bubble.

What's an actual case of an actual team, project, or organization using this stuff to do something... actual?

I'm both a developer and a founder and am very active in tech. I have yet to encounter a single case of someone using a block chain based application in the real world with the exception of the core currency/wire transfer use case of cryptocurrency. We have used it for that ourselves, but as others have noted the appreciation in value is actually harming this use case.

What I see here is heaps of money being raised and a lot of developer time being spent building things without any contact with reality whatsoever. As they say in the military: the first casualty of war is the plan. IMHO there is nearly zero chance that you are building the right thing until you have shipped and iterated a few times, especially with something complex and rather byzantine. The only exception to that might be "scratch your own itch" or "dogs making dog food" projects, but those really aren't exceptions since if you are the customer you can (to some extent and in the early days) short circuit the process by testing on yourself in your own head as you go.

Colony looks like groupware on the block chain. Groupware is a very well known tar pit of death.
I don't believe God's anger and wrath in the Old or New testaments to have been unrighteous or wrong. There's a lot more discussion there than I have time for right now, however. Perhaps we can resume this discussion at a later date elsewhere.
My cousin's daughter was killed in a car accident while my wife was pregnant with our daughter. I think about her almost every day, and just have this absolute immense sense of dread when I think about what it would be like to lose her in such a sudden and freak way.

I can't imagine.
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Encyclopedia Dramatica informs me Pamperchu has only been around since 2008, six years after this article was published.
Wistia is amazing for lead tracking and analytics about your customers' viewing habits.
Cmov can speculate as well (it makes sense from a performance standpoint but that isn’t the same as secure ;) )
Yes but if the deep learning model says it it’s probably true.
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"We should not base our corporate policy on the completely unproven and highly unlikely assumption that oppression is the only possible cause of unequal representation"

There, fixed that for you.

Also, the research is not at all speculative, quite the opposite. It is immeasurably more solid than the blind assertion that unequal representation is caused entirely/solely by oppression/discrimination etc., for which there is very little evidence overall, and virtually none that holds up to any sort of scrutiny.
What happened to all parties is horrible.

With that being said, I'm inclined not to believe people when they say they're following the speed limit without prior information about the driver. Speeding has become endemic to much of the western world. The driver in the BBC article claims to be following the speed limit, but can't remember it precisely ("45 or 50mph"). That's certainly not a point in her favor. And the various stats I've seen and also my real world experience suggest that relatively few people actually do follow the limit. I'm a cyclist who intentionally rides on roads with low speed limits. I can recall multiple instances where drivers decided to make dangerous "punishment passes" by me for apparently going too slow, despite the fact that I was actually going slightly faster than the speed limit (typically around 17 in a 15 mph zone). I can recall one particular instance where I spoke with a driver at the next light and they seemed incredulous that I was actually meeting the speed limit. I told another driver who almost ran me over that the limit was 25 mph and I was going around 28 downhill, so they can't claim I was going too slow. Their response was that I should be arrested, though they must have been going at least 40! That's entitlement. Too many drivers seem to have the attitude that someone deserves extra risk for inconveniencing others on the road. (The only reason I go a bit over the limit sometimes is because drivers tend to get angry if I don't, though I'm starting to question the utility of this. I go slower if there is no one else on the road.)

I often say that people are different when they're behind the wheel. They're less patient, and outright irrational. Speeding really does not save much time at all outside of perhaps empty highways. I see it all the time because my top speed is less than half of most drivers', yet I regularly catch up with them at stop signs and lights. Speeding is mostly extra risk for little gain.
A sibling poster covered this, but a maybe-not-terrible analogy occurred to me: it's like writing software. Even when you've finished building out all the features you want to build, it's still never done. There might be bugs that need to be fixed, or you might want to make some slow parts of the code more efficient, or users have come up with some new use cases that require you to add new features. It just never ends. It's rare to find a software project that's "done", aside from abandoned projects.

I guess people are just never satisfied with some kind of end state. And I guess that's a good thing; life is pretty good these days (if you're reasonably well off in a developed country), but, well... we still don't have our jet packs or hoverboards or flying cars. All progress depends on people not being satisfied with the status quo.
I wouldn't say "many"; nuclear-powered vessels generally are ones that are going well beyond Earth's orbit. They also aren't "normal" nuclear reactors, since they use the heat from radioactive decay to power thermocouples, as opposed to sustaining an active fission reaction like most nuclear power plants here do.
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It happened with traditional music.
In the credit report screenshot, all the addresses are Georgia or Minnesota. I wonder if that's just dumb luck or some specific system has been compromised?
its only a matter of time before bank settlement and cross border payments are all done on blockchain. I would think that asset tracking and real esate deeds are a great application. Asking why these things aren't on the blockchain yet is like asking why businesses aren't using the internet in the 1970s.
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Thanks for providing a solution.

If using JavaScript to achieve this is easier/more efficient/better in some other way that is convincing, then we can think about standardizing better ways to do it. And if it's not better using JavaScript, then it's just an issue of raising awareness about not using JavaScript for it.
Actually it's not entirely exotic for games to use Lua in a manner that's comparable to JavaScript in browsers.

Connecting to a server could instruct the client to download a custom map that embeds code or download and execute sandboxed code alone by design.
Met someone who works at Apple over the holidays and he had trouble believing that I trusted Apple over any of the other big tech companies mentioned, but wasn't able to delve into his reasoning.
Looking for which hardware is affected, I only found a statement form AMD [0]
tldr, Ryzen CPUs are fine

> "AMD is aware of an issue with some older generation processors following installation of a Microsoft security update that was published over the weekend. AMD and Microsoft have been working on an update to resolve the issue and expect it to begin rolling out again for these impacted shortly."

[0] http://www.techradar.com/news/meltdown-and-spectre-windows-p...
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A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in Market Value Vanishes
> Whatever value has been delivered seems extremely minor compared to the vast sums of money being spent, making this perhaps the worst ROI I've ever seen.

What's even worse, from my POV, is the humongous amount of electricity that is used to support the blockchain. And to what end?

Personally, I won't start believing in the blockchain until a non-wasteful alternative to the present PoW scheme gets developed and actually deployed. Right now, this looks to me like the most direct way of turning human vices into cooking us live on this planet that humanity has ever invented.
You might like this example, it puts decentralized smart-contracts in a digestible context: https://germanylandofinnovation.com/2016/10/19/german-compan...

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Under the prototype, users interact with the charging station by agreeing to a smart contract that is programmed on top of the Ethereum network. Prior to charging, the user makes a deposit on the network, which is later released after the transaction is complete.

The main difference is that instead of users being billed for the amount of time that they are connected to charging station–i.e. the way most stations work today–users pay only for the amount of electricity consumed during the charging process. The hope is that both the cost of the micro-transactions, and the allocation and consumption of electricity, will be made more efficient and ultimately save money.

In addition, the blockchain plus smart contracts has the potential to streamline the process of purchasing power from a charging station. In theory, this can take place directly with the machine (charging station) and not require prior contact with the providing company or a human representative.
Read up on the dynamic tolling political fights. Whoo boy, when you start actually charging people for driving (or inconvieniencing them in any fashion), the flamewars get pretty hot pretty fast.
But why? How about intelligently assessing the situation and doing away with The Bad?
These two bugs (Meltdown and Spectr) are really very speculative things. It is like when human beings became aware of astroid orbits they thought that earth is in danger of being hit by one. Now that is indeed a theoritical possibility but what are the chances? These two bugs have been existent for 20 years and there is no known exploits of them. In the GitHub demos also they mention that the demos will work only if "For this demo, you either need the direct physical map offset (e.g. from demo #2) or you have to disable KASLR by specifying nokaslr in your kernel command line." - So you basically start with a broken system to exploit these bugs.
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Also known to some as the "Middle Way": [1]

In the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, the term "Middle Way" was used in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, which the Buddhist tradition regards to be the first teaching that the Buddha delivered after his awakening. In this sutta, the Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the middle way of moderation, between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
I have no idea, actually. But bitcoin consumes more energy than a small country (Denmark, I think?), which is quite a lot, yet it's much less useful than all current financial institutions combined.

I'm all for shrinking the carbon footprint (or social footprint, even) of banks and other institutions, but I don't think bitcoin can do that.
How many studies, on average, does it take to show an effect p<=0.05 for n=31 where none exists? How many for n=200?
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Not necessarily, but in this case it did. The grandparent comment talks approvingly of nature's intention.
It's more like Damore's claim was that specific corporate policy were based on the assumption of the opposite. Also, he did not reject Google's core values, unless you take a biased and imputational reading.
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I will add though that despite what it may sound like, I'm still not entirely sold on AMP myself.

My main issue with it is that it the spec still contains [this line][1]:

> AMP HTML documents MUST

> [...]

> * contain a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag inside their head tag

The actual specification requiring JavaScript to be loaded into your page from any one particular server is unacceptable IMO. Hopefully this is fixed in future updates to the spec.

My other problem with it is much more minor; I just don't like the idea of serving a "special" version of my site just for mobile. I'm very much a fan of responsive design, and I'd prefer to just serve one version of my site that looks and works great no matter what device or internet connection you're viewing it with.

[1]: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/spec#scrpt
Unbootable, they say. I think they actually mean it!
Nah. His claim was that there was enough evidence to question policies (secret policies that were in violation of those public core values and probably also the law) that are based on the completely unfounded assumption that discrimination/bias/oppression is the only possible cause for unequal representation.
Instagram and Snapchat share exactly 1 feature ("Stories"), so I really don't see how this shows that Snapchat is failing due to Google/FB monopoly, and not due to the reason I listed above.

Instagram is more analogous to Twitter, and I assume advertisements occur both within the "Stories" and the newsfeed - this seems much more favorable to advertisers and is something advertisers are more used to.
I think the downside of many approaches is the "lose it and it's gone forever" aspect. Users just aren't used to that failure case. There's always a password reset link that gets you back where you started. If you have PGP-encrypted mail and you lose access to the private key, you've lost access to that mail forever, and that's still not a very well-understood concept to many people. Awareness of this sort of thing is certainly getting better, but arguably we aren't to a point where your average user is comfortable with that yet, and we certainly weren't there back when OpenPGP was first designed.
Was it really possible that the fuel explosion could have also detonated the warhead? I was under the impression that these nukes had fusing apparatus that made it difficult/impossible for them to detonate if not explicitly armed and in the correct scenario.
Google announced their version of this yesterday. they have a "smart screen" platform and are partnering with lenovo and a few others to launch products by the summer.