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AMD is no more lucky than ARM, though Intel was ‘unlucky’: Spectre affects Intel, AMD, and ARM alike, while Meltdown Intel CPUs disproportionately (AMD and ARM CPUs have been mostly unaffected by it).
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From your strong reaction, Trump’s political career to date has been effective indeed!

Ebola (for example) is extremely effective. That doesn’t mean you have to like it, or want it anywhere near the White House.
POSIX is an interface contract between users/programmers and the operating system, and very much matters.
>There is no higher meaning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
Thanks. Its really not important though it was really just idle curiosity. My interactions with all their people have been very pleasant.
You mention maintenance of the fibre, but I think the bigger reason would be maintenance of the pipeline. Pipelines require frequent maintenance and inspection, and expecting the workers doing that maintenance to avoid slicing the fibre is probably optimistic.
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Thanks for the thoughts.

We're at a very greenfield stage of development, so part of the problem is that we are yet to feel much technical debt pain from everything that is going on. And a lot of it is invisible. Eg: in the example above, I needed to put aside time to review the code that was created for component X. Because it was written in Python, this review was quite a lot harder than if it was well written code in a more structured language. Most arguments to most functions have no obvious data type documented or constraints around nullability set etc., so figuring out what everything is involves a tremendous amount of reading code and navigating up and down the code hierarchy. Multiply this by every team member who has to understand and ultimately maintain this code and you have a tremendous cost. So in a real way it is definitely costing us already, but its very hard to measure. But as you say, my real worry is about the longer term. It's easy to figure out what a data type is when a function and its caller are right next to each other in the same file. But as things grow and they get split apart, maybe even into different modules or projects altogether it gets massively harder to do. We could go all in on type annotations but I see it as a bandaid compared to the team actually investing in using a core structured language where the typing is a first class citizen.
A discussion about whether everything knowable about the universe is already known/that a single source can contain all the wisdom there is?

You're right, I'm not really open to discussing about that and I'll stand by my statement that people who reject new wisdom are intellectually dishonest.

I don't see how being open to new wisdom and science would make someone less spiritually enlightened. However I'm very interested in hearing why you (seem to) think so, that is fascinating to me.
Some ARM CPUs are vulnerable to Meltdown:

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
"Why I like to run my own hardware for $100, Alex"

You can patch various tiers of servers at your own leisure, depending on threat levels and exposure. Measure the impact, capacity plan, etc. Rather than it being forced on you across all tiers because cloud.
Does smarter imply more children survive to reproduce?
Giant heads have other disadvantages, having to be born being one major one.
The history of one of the internet's first viral videos (2018)
Then I guess the bitcoin people will have to reinvent credit cards.
I don't think the point of what was written is to say that physical fitness is unimportant and that philosophers thought it was just for jocks. It's rather that we're currently facing an emerging culture of striving for perfection that wanders somewhere between insanity and oppressiveness, that it's often used as a marketing ploy, and that it's perhaps (ironically) not very healthy.

I don't know what it's like where you live, but it's cultish where I am. People aren't just trying to improve themselves, they live for it. It's stifling. I figure it's not quite as bad away from Silicon Valley.

You can't just be a person who likes to try different foods, you have to try all the different foods, accumulate Michelin stars (of food you consume, not produce, of course), learn how to use a sous vide, etc.

You don't just go to the gym, you go to the $250 gym. In your $500 gym outfit. You go every day. And every night. For four hours. You go on a serious food cleanse, etc. etc. Your body is chiseled.

You don't just go to therapy. You go to CBT. You do scream therapy. You do MDMA and LSD therapy (I don't know if that's a thing, I made it up). Go meditating. Go to Burning Man. You're one with the universe. You get the idea.

I'm not going to rewrite the article, but the behavior is real. It's "work hard, play hard", no, work hard, everything hard, to the extreme and logical conclusion. Physical fitness is just one small part of the culture.
This would be pretty mild hack compared to all the other cryptocurrency hacks that have happened so far. There's the $30M Parity hack, $94M stolen from Bitfinex, $473M from Mt Gox, $5.1M from Bitstamp, $50M from DAO, $7M from CoinDash, $8M from Veritaseum, and $500k from Enigma. I'm probably missing a few big ones, and countless small ones. But a $1M Overstock hack would barely make the news, and would probably be covered by insurance.

It's fun to think about all the people behind these hacks. JB Snyder could have been one of them, and we'd never know. A lot of them are probably just regular software engineers and security experts who stumbled onto these vulnerabilities.

I think it's true that the "fuck you, got mine" mentality won't get us to Mars, but that's the motivation behind cryptocurrencies. We can't trust billions of strangers, but we can trust math and physics.

Except, we already have systems that allow us to trust billions of strangers (governments and laws). Governments and banks could have reversed all of these transactions. The FBI might have tracked down the hackers, and a judge might have sent them to prison. I'm starting to think that we don't really need cryptocurrencies, and the current system is actually pretty good.
Here's my understanding/interpretation - if I get any details wrong, I hope someone will correct me!

Brains are very expensive and, for our body size, we have very large brains; evolution had to build a brain that could operate within the calorie constraints imposed by our ecological niche - presumably a hunter-gatherer niche.

If you graph adult body volume relative to gestation time across the placental mammals, there's a good correlation, but humans are an anomaly; for our body volume we should take more than 9 months. So we are kind of born prematurely - the reason? So our heads can fit through the birth-canal. Significantly bigger brains would have likely entailed altering our walking gate, thus potentially sacrificing our ecological niche (and guaranteed source of those much needed calories!). Most of this was taken from Pinker ([0]).

Bostrom ([1]) brings up another interesting point - anything smarter than us would have probably taken longer to evolve than us. So it might not be inaccurate to think of ourselves as the dumbest species that could build an interplanetary species.

My suspicion is that things much smarter than us are very possible; my reasoning is, it just seems so strange to me that the peak of feasible intelligence just so happens to correspond with what can be fed by a hunter-gatherer diet and fit through a birth-canal which fits into the constraints of an upright primate.

It seems more likely to me that we're a local optimum - we're probably close to the optimal design for something as smart as us, in our ecological niche.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Mind_Works
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...
Is the link supposed to be to a specific post? I just see a list of posts so I'm not sure where to read more about what you mean to share.
Probably because they'd want to minimize correlation between the thing being monitored breaking and the thing monitoring it breaking.
Blogging. Assuming you’re using your product yourself, if you blog about why you’re using it and which problems you’re solving, you’ll find in the mass people that share the same issues.

Note: I’m assuming b2c/smb (given your profile), and I’m assuming you’re still trying to get product/market fit. Of course, if you can get a customer paying $10 buy paying $9, then go for paid ads.
Yes I most likely will. The code is a bit messy since I just kind of threw it together, but keep an eye out!
For me the interesting part of this article was the author discovering that he barely recognised his old self. I wonder how common this is? When I reflect on myself, I have a notion that there's a kind of continuity to my ego over the years that - despite the changes in the intervening years - I would recognise. But I'm not a diary writer nor do I have a stack of old disks from a distant part of my personal history, so I can't confirm either way.

Has anybody else experienced what this author describes?
My wife also added to the list the need to make love with her more often ;)
Hell yeah, there's a nerve to hit.

My first thought isn't about the shitty parent or my own choices, it's about the kid who's a secondary character, or whose mere existence appears to be exclusively a cause of grief for their parents. How does the kid feel? What is being done to ensure the kids aren't fucked up if their caretaker is moping around saying they'd rather have a lifetime of wine parties instead of going to soccer practice twice a week?

Do you also believe the "bullies are just jealous of their victims" story?
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When you have a record, there's almost always a middleman in the way of you getting a job. Most of the time, that's H.R.

HR is NOT your friend. That is another conversation entirely.

If you cannot find someone to give you a break for a job, then I'm betting your best bet will be to remove the middleman, and go the self-employed route.

It is NOT easy, but it can be more lucrative and rewarding.

Good luck.
Find some hardware that can /physically/ read the disks, then find some version of Linux that runs on it and some way of connecting it to a network.

Failing that, get an older POSIX compatible OS of some sort and cross-compile any tools you need.
Ha! Combine this idea with my proof-of-concept CDN53 Chrome extension and it would be serving websites directly from others' DNS resolvers =:)
A lot of people seem to be really bothered by those, and I have no idea why.
For what it's worth, the power9 servers look great. Not sure if they'll live up to the hype, though.
On the other hand Mozilla has frequently quoted telemetry as the reason for removing niche or power-user features, for example Tab Groups and Themes. "Low usage" in both cases.

So telemetry doesn't always improve the user experience.
Of course how much you disclose is totally your business, and I can't speak for the person you're replying to. But for me this isn't enough to go on, because your questions seem to be about others' perceptions of this as a risk.
> how much impact would it have on the land life.

Sounds like oceans would be significantly lower, for one!
What I find fascinating is how in fact we are dependent on Natrium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HivpHP-5I), presumably because our organisms originated from oceans to begin with.

Yet still, if dominating salt were Lithium or Potassium, we'd still probably happen to evolve, yet with slightly different cellular features.
... did you say fruit flavoured eraser???
It attacked diversity policies, which form the reason for power for a great many Google managers, and one of the only ways to climb the corporate ladder at Google that aren't to build a new product (which is the incredibly hard way. Maybe one in 1000 to one in 10000 Googlers does that).

These people see these reactions as only fair. After all, this memo attacked their careers, so they attacked the author of the memo. Doubly so, of course, when it turned out to be well-written, effective, and, crucially, led many people to question the reason for the policies that form the basis of many "careers" (sorry "initiatives" I hear is the current term) at Google. I've heard similar stories of this happening at many companies.

Google is just doing what every other company is doing. Managers are directly rewarded or punished for diversity, but (at the moment) also for effectiveness. So they give out the jobs that don't matter exclusively to women. And of course management is enabling this. The cleaning staff. Security. There are many kinds of women-only internships. HR. Finance. Does this result in equality ? No, of course not, it results in antagonism, resentment as careers are destroyed because the person behind the career is the "wrong" gender, and to a lesser extent color, religion, ... (and, I would like to point out, as can be clearly seen in any SV company: minorities are racist too. There are teams in every company that "just happen" to be young Japanese males. Indian females with a few males among them that are behaving VERY obediently. Pakistani males. And so on. Zero diversity in those teams, and from the stories I hear, not because people don't join those teams)

The real thing diversity wants to achieve (imho), a more reasonable, perhaps even equal proportion in the various departments like engineering, is something that may happen over, well, let's be optimistic and say between half a generation and a generation, 15 to 30 years (from what base I don't know, because it still isn't the case at all that women and men have equal proportions in university CS).

Those are the rules many higher ups live by. You attack me, I attack you. Issue is that a LOT of people in the lower echelons don't know what might attack them. Diversity efforts are at the moment idiotic : it is not possible to recruit 50% women engineers from a pool that is 95% male, so the stated result is impossible to achieve and to get better scores they must cheat. Pointing this out, in a way that becomes popular, is an attack against the careers of higher ups and will result in very high up management demanding your dismissal.
Pretty much how Uber is not regulated, but they wouldn't have any physical presence for the govt to try and force rules on them
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Ask HN: How to improve and measure verbal communication skills?
In 2018, I'm attempting to improve my verbal communication skills.

I seem to lack the ability to clearly and consistently articulate my thoughts.

I work with a medium sized development team (~100 ppl), and although I'm an decent developer, I sometimes struggle to verbalize my ideas clearly.

I'd like to improve this skill, and somehow measure it throughout the year; right now I'm shooting blind. Any ideas on optimizing this skill?
My bad, missed that.

Yes, that risk is increased quite a bit, but I thought the main selling point of Bitcoin is that govt can't control your spending, which would stay
This reminds me of the Complexity Principle, as stated by Dan Ingalls who was responsible for much of Smalltalk ...

"If any part of a system depends on the internals of another part, then complexity increases as the square of the size of the system."

A link to a slide from him showing n2 dependencies - http://bit.ly/2t0xukK
This is an open secret, at least for us minorities.
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It's more than that even - given that a high portion of the code being run now is using virtual machines, a lot of that protection is redundant. If all code is run inside VMs and zero 'native' code is allowed, then you could run without needing protection rings, system call overhead, memory mapping, etc - which in theory could more than make up for the virtual machine overhead.

This was being explored with Microsoft's Singularity and Midori projects but seems to be a dormant idea.

A fun talk on this idea with JavaScript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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In San Francisco Sonic charges $50 + taxes for 100Mb/s fiber service, and they're profitable. IIRC, the CEO of Sonic has hinted their connection cost per house is closer to $400 (at least during a roll-out in an SF suburb), though I can't find any references.

They forced AT&T's hand, which began rolling out their service in the city about a year later. AT&T charges $70 or more, I think.

It's cheaper to do this stuff than the big companies let on. The problem is that they can make even _more_ money investing in other services and products, like cellular and cable TV. Worse, fiber eats into their cable TV profits and jeopardizes their wet dreams about 5G cellular data plans.

[1] It's $40 + $10 router rental, or $50 if you have your own router. But $50 for the service alone isn't promotional, whereas the $40 + rental is technically promotional and might become $50 + rental down the road.
I store my data in a five node ceph cluster via CephFD, backed up to a ZFS RAIDz2 array on another box (pull backups) and also to crashplan for my off-site backup.
I recently did a deep dive into all the 5.25" disks I could find around. I do sort of remember some of the stuff I found, but some of it was rather foreign.

I now have a handful of "flippy" disks and have to set up an old 1541 drive to read these.

I was surprised how much of it was readable, the amount of dust and bad smell these things developed over the 25 years in a basement, but also that I only had about 200 megs of data at the end of the multi-day process.

I also spent some time digitizing Super 8 film too, so it has been a nostalgia trip.
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Somehow integrate with Shopify, Github, AWS, Jira, Salesforce, Segment, Heroku, Zapier, ..., etc.
It’s weird, just mentioning non-mechanical pencils brings me back to how coveted Dixon Ticonderoga pencils were when I was in grade school. The Crayola of pencils, standing out in a sea of Roseart.
A constant bitrate video codec seems much simpler, IMO.
Unless you plan on conjuring spectrum out of thin air that's still got some serious barriers. Most of the frequency bands are pretty crowded already.
What kills me about the advertising are three things:

1) It creates a huge barrier to entry because new ISPs have a hard time getting any name recognition.

2) Newpapers, radio stations, and television stations probably wouldn't want to say anything bad about telephone or cable providers. Imagine the phone call an NBC TV station would get if it attacked Comcast. That advertising is a good chunk of money.

3) Advertising is rolled into the PUC-approved "cost of doing business" and the cable or telephone companies get to add their profits on top of that.
Google was one of the founding members for OpenPOWER. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation

The large providers are always looking around, it would be silly not to.
City folk often start out camping in designated grounds before moving on to solo trecks in the wild. "modern" cultures that have had more time to assimilate looser and more free conventions don't see how discerning or unsafe certain things are to a more traditional worldview.

There is some compassion for Grandma, but other cultures are seen as "backwards" as not being "developed" enough.
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So what you're saying is

People should worry about pensions because they won't fail, instead they'll be adjusted to become much less, both in terms of years (longer work) and in terms of benefits (which will be your only form of income for decades).

This makes me wonder, what, exactly, do you think "failure" means, to normal people, for their pension fund/social security/... ?

In my humble opinion, it is that they'll have to work longer and make more money themselves, after getting a pension. And for various other social security recipients it'll be analogous.

So your long comment essentially says "pensions won't fail, they'll fail !". (Or perhaps one could say that you're being extremely pedantic on the exact meaning of fail versus the common meaning of fail)

Obviously the claim made to the population by social security is that they'll receive benefits for a given period. You clearly agree that that promise is unsustainable, and fail/("will be adjusted").
It can be confusing when other languages get added to the mix, because they don't necessarily follow that convention. E.g. in Russian, you traditionally translate the main meal of the day as "dinner" in English - but it's actually eaten early in the afternoon (usually around 1pm), so it's more like lunch in that regard, and honestly should probably just be rendered as such. I often found that whenever I would refer to "dinner" in my conversation, my (native English speaking) friends would automatically assume the end-of-the-afternoon meal; and the idea of having a dinner with colleagues implies some sort of highly formal event.

On the other hand, the after-work evening meal is usually less heavy, and is rendered as "supper" in English. And, again, I find that Americans usually assume that it takes place much later than it normally does, and is also much lighter than it normally is (basically a snack rather than a proper meal), if I use that word.

So clearly there is some implicit time-of-day mapping there.
Dupe. Comments here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16137727
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I don't think throwing intel out entirely is a solution, but rather, diversification. What if there later comes out another vulnerability granting arbitrary code exec given a specific bytestring in memory, which only intel processors are immune to? Better to have as many as possible of as many different CPUs as possible. Just like, e.g. backblaze has done with HDD manufacturers.
In Russian, you invite people "for a cup of tea", which really just means "come be my guest", not any particular meal.
I have a 10 year old PC. The 210ms to 140 ms time was with the single cylinder script, which is much shorter, and the < 3 second prediction was for the wine glass script. I just guessed by looking that it wouldn't be hard to improve by an order of magnitude. Sorry if I wasn't clear!
I remember seeing these in cars periodically although they weren't as common as I would have thought with over 2 million sold. When I heard that Jim Davis had a team of writers for the Garfield comic strip I completely lost respect for both the comic and Davis. I would have thought if you had a team of writers that the comic should at least be funny occasionally.
You might also be interested in this older project from etsy

https://github.com/etsy/skyline

Has a fairly good mixture of models approach to anomaly detection even if it's not maintained.
If AI really really, worked, Google would’ve called the team: “Google Brainless”.

Hang on tight we are getting there.
Fruit scented anyway. You weren't really supposed to eat them, although I can't speak for GP. (I used to eat match heads when I was a kid, so I can hardly criticize anyone's eating habits.)

You can still get them, for example the Lil Juicies:

https://www.ooly.com/lil-juicies-fruit-scented-erasers-set-o...