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This is one of the coolest youtube videos I have ever seen.
Samsung has similar issues.

Battery are physical object with physical limitations. They will have diminished peak capacity and peak voltage over time.
> I'm sure someone can point to a little "censorship" (e.g., children can't watch porn),

The US censorship model is sneaky; instead of official state censorship, we have “voluntary” “private” censorship by industry groups, but when government isn't satisfied with the results, it threatens official regulation (either directly of content or at least marketing of certain content, or punitive regulation of other aspects of the relevant industry’s business), drags industry execs in for public shaming, and engages in similar pressure tactics until the industry aligns censorship practices with government preferences. In this manner, it imposes censorship, satisfies the segment of the electorate seeking government action on unwelcome content, but mostly maintains a façade of refraining from government censorship.
And this here is why we’re in a bubble.
It’s such a direct consequence of the principle of relativity that it seems weird to need a name fancier than “coming right atcha”.
> Maybe some people can start acting like the ubermensch they pretend to be from their libertarian ideology.

I know that libertarians are often accused of being Nazis, but how I read that phrase was a general "you libertarians think you are such superior beings, start acting like it".
One year before he made multiple hundreds of millions of dollars with Hamilton.
How do you patch a CPU remotely? Are the instructions programmable?
You're right in all points (almost[1]), but those are mostly technical issues that can be solved with some work[2], except for two points :

- the bandwidth problem is real, but there is no more technological limitation[3], it's merely a commercial problem: client have no use for huge uplinks, then providers don't sell them. It's a bit of a chicken & egg problem.

- the monetization problem is the root of all sins in that case …

[1] on the client versioning & patching side, you underestimate the complexity of distributing a web client, with CDN, browser caches and clients who never reload their page, you can also end up with a lot of client lagging behind in updates.

[2] and centralized system also have their own issues (scaling anyone ?)

[3] ADSL was asymmetric because the asymmetry widened the reception bandwidth, which would otherwise be too low. With optical fibers, you don't have such limitations.
Linkedin has companies and recruiters pay a huge premium to reach you. They shouldn't need stupid advertising.
> Criteo is the only good employer in France […]

I feel like this needs some additional specification/limitation to make it a believable statement. The only good employer in the ads/data selling business?
> Online mobs can make you lose your job if you're working for a company with sufficient media exposure and insufficient backbone, but governments can make you disappear whenever they please. Practically speaking, that's a huge difference.

That's the traditional explanation, but does it apply any more now that we have the internet?

With the internet, any screw up or faux pas can cause worldwide publicity for any business. They can theoretically stand up for their employee's free speech, but in reality it's so rare that it's almost not worth considering.

At the same time, it's more difficult for the government to silence people due to the Streisand effect.
Yeah, if he hadn't merged solar city with tesla, it might have failed as a company. i'm just waiting till they merge tesla+solar city with space x. and the boring company.
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Thank you! You saved me a) a quick Google search myself, and b) the attendant self-conscious wondering about whether this is a word everyone knows and that I too should know by now.
People are so upset about blockchain being useless.

Meanwhile I use it regularly to do business transactions from the command line and shell scripts, which appeals to me greatly as a hacker who does business.

Open source finance! It's the future, guys.

Sorry about the speculative bubble. It's not really my fault though. Traders and investors are a bit crazy.
Interesting fact about Mark Twain that’s not well known: he was a member of the anti-imperial league, decried the invasion of the Philippines by the US
The market-wide increase in "ad effectiveness" may effectively cancel itself out.

This. At least in the US, consumers are pretty much spent out. In that situation, advertising does not increase economic activity. It just moves it around. This is an argument for not allowing advertising and marketing as a deductible business expense, an idea that's been floated in Congress a few times.

Historically, advertising was a small part of product cost. Today, in many industries from movies to drugs, it dominates. This runs up prices for everyone. There's an economic argument for limiting advertising spend.
I have roundabouts in my neighborhood. They have the exact same problem. If you don't come to a full stop and/or look around your A pillar deliberately, you may never see the car or bike hidden behind it.

I've also had the same problem turning onto a crossroad without coming to a complete stop at the stop sign first.

I believe the only real solution is driver training.
The "VC narrative" doesn't dominate HN. Quite the opposite.

Most everyone thinks it does, but that only makes it more untrue.
Criteo is one of the most profitable companies in France. Take 20% off and they are still the most successful French company of this decade.
Why not just exclude nodemodules folder and temp/cache? This helps me enough.
no, throwing the whole concept of copyright out instead of thinking of ways to improve the system.
But they are equally terrible in quality
I believe what you wrote, and that you wrote it in good faith, but it's still not enough to make me feel confident about using Windows. I'm a longtime Mac user but I recently bought a Windows machine, and the ads and telemetry make my skin crawl.

There's a huge chasm between "we don't collect your data, period" and "we collect your data but have internal controls in place to prevent using it in certain ways for now."

Apple's Spotlight Suggestions and Ad ID are real things, and IMO are mistakes. (Ad ID is not yet not yet on the Mac, thank goodness!)
You're right. It's been a while since I've driven in the countryside, but I do remember a few of the intersections where visibility isn't so great due to trees etc. having stop signs.

Obviously, human error is a problem too, as the article states.

You should't be driving at 37 mph though an intersection with a yield sign in any case, which I guess is the whole point of the article and the suggestion to turn the intersection into two T-intersections.
Some people are not capable of transporting their own bodies, and we're always going to need motorized transport for them. Self driving cars will be super-human in most of the ways that matter for driving (reaction time, constant vigilance, ability to analyze a scene in all directions, experience gathered from an entire fleet of cars). I hate cars, but I'm hopeful they'll be so much better and also so much more expensive, that we'll have a much smaller, much safer fleet of them, and humans driving in most circumstances will be banned.
Even if I'm a big fan of HN style discussion and this snark was directed at me I'll say it adds to the discission because it allows me to add some depth to the argument.

I'm generally a huge fan of European police and think they often don’t get enough credit for the work they do.

That said, in this particular case there is a number of red flags for me, e.g.:

- generally Scandinavian police won't go to these lengths for cases like this. Why this time?

- why wouldn't they even meet him in the embassy until their deadlines started approaching? If I was trying to sort a case big enough to require extradition requests then flying to London to interview would be a no-brainer.
The microcode update is always lost between reboots. This is e.g. why the Linux kernel can update the microcode during early boot.

The only way to make microcode updates stick between reboots is with a BIOS/EFI firmware update (some vendors provide firmware updates with microcode updates.). Then the microcode update gets applied during every boot automatically.
Microsoft could at least pop up a nag screen every 15 minutes to notify the user that their AV software is crap and needs to be removed. The average user wont know that their AV is actively keeping their OS unpatched.
> rolling stops

What's special about a 4-way stop here? And a rolling stop is good enough to prevent a high-speed collision anyway.

> assuming an intersection with a stop sign is almost always a 4-way stop

Around here there is a good mix and I don't think that happens.

> I prefer the consistency of my home country where every stop is a 2-way stop

Well I personally hate going through 2-way-stop intersections that are over 25mph.
First of all fast.ai is awesome and most of the points they make align quite well with my personal views which of course doesn't mean they are the right views ;) but...

"""Hiring a bunch of academic researchers will not improve your product and harms your company by diverting so many resources (unless your goal is an aquihire)."""

Disagree. Ceteris paribus a previous academic researcher isn't necessarily a worse hire than a graduate or someone who has worked at other tech companies.
I'm really not a fan of this "don't hire people from academia" narrative. A good scientist is well versed in systematic problem solving which doesn't sound like a horrible skillset for someone working at a startup.
Sure there's enough people with PhDs that can't write working code but there's also enough people that can. I'm not sure about the US but hiring a PhD isn't necessarily more expensive than hiring someone with job experience in the tech sector either.
I get their basic idea but it's news to me that even AI startups are on "only PhDs all the time" hiring frenzies.
4-way-stops aren't really 4-way stops. Nobody stops at them.
So it sounds like what you really want is a better centralized database that has those properties, rather than a slow, energy-inefficient ledger providing features you don't need like reward tokens, mining, and decentralization.
>>A sane thing to do would be to piggyback on one the existing blockhains and their pre-existing hashing power.

That's what they're doing. They're creating an Ethereum-based ERC20 token and smart contract platform: https://www.bitsonline.com/introducing-kodakcoin-kodak/
You don't need a blockchain to "do business transactions from the command line and shell scripts" so I don't find your personal counterexample particularly compelling
Sleeping giant.

Next big thing.

Uhm... What else? Ah, yeah:

Great team!
With stocks, the market cap is the total valuation of the company. Companies can have valuations because they can be bought and sold - either when they're private, like when Google buys a startup, or when they're publicly traded, like when Microsoft bought LinkedIn.

The valuation of a company is determined based on its financial performance and, ultimately, by its ability to generate cash for shareholders. (Keep in mind that, unlike cryptocurrencies, companies generate profit for their owners just from their daily operations).

That overall valuation drives share price. Equity investors consider how valuable they think a company will be in the future and back into a price they're willing to pay per share from there.

Market cap is a meaningless metric for crypto since nobody would ever want to buy all the Bitcoin in the world and hold it for ten years. What would be the point? It won't generate cash flow during those ten years, and it almost certainly won't be worth more in ten years - with one person hoarding all the Bitcoin in the world nobody could use it for any transactions and people would lose interest.

Case in point, nobody talks about the market cap for USD or other currencies. It just doesn't make sense for assets that are only valuable as a medium of exchange.
Last I recall, it requires javascript or flash to generate unique fingerprints reliably.

Noscript or umatrix should protect you.
WhatsApp was at one point charging for its service a very small sum (like 1 EUR) and was ad free. Then they were bought for 14 billion...

Signal is gratis and ad-free and so is Telegram AFAIK.

Your line of argumentation that the advertising industry is a blessing for the poor is simply embarrassing. They're taking advantage of the ignorance of the majority.

You also keep repeating that people are exchanging their attention for products when that's clearly false. They are exchanging potentially damaging personal information which is stored forever and that can be given away to anyone.
That's a very crappy deal, but most people are clueless about what's happening.

Any financial interests related to the ad industry that you'd like to disclose? For someone that hates ads you seem to be their biggest defender.
Basic rule of the road: if you haven't made eye contact with someone, you should assume they haven't seen you and don't know you're there.

I mean, they could improve the intersection by making it a full stop, but educating bicyclists not to ride out in front of somebody who will hit you if they don't slow down seems like a good step too.
I don't really follow your logic, considering I was referring to over 6 months ago.

But I do agree we're in a bubble.
America's Army is for recruiting. China still has a draft.
Would you know if the patches are or will be included in the mainline kernels which are at 4.4.14 and 4.4.15?
Didn’t Ronald Coase win the Nobel prize in economics for basically pointing out why this was a bad idea? [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
Nope, that was possible, but the boolean operations could lead to numerical instability if you didn't align your brushes to the grid at a reasonable granularity, which could still lead to leaks. The flooding code was generally pretty well done but developers had to bandage issues like this in every Quake-engine game.

FYI Unreal still had leaks (which lead to major performance issues if uncontrolled, due to the PVS being too inclusive), but it was not as pronounced as the negative space still allowed the map to finish building the BSP (Quake just failed, sometimes without a clue as to why).
Performance Impact of Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations on Windows Systems
Great domain.
Woah, thanks for the resource. With technology I feel as if it's super easy or convenient to get stuck in the more simplified aspect of the maker / hobbiest community and feel as if your cheating yourself by using premade breakouts and boards and so on. I'm not saying it's bad by no means at all, they are great tools. I just feel in my personal experience, it took me a while to realize how to dig deeper into subjects like this. Instead of just buying GPS recivers form some company like adafruit, It would be nice to have more resources like this that go deep into the concepts and push you into new unfamiliar "territory" to learn new things. That's how I felt when I finally understand microcontrollers we're more than just the Arduino board and IED; that most microcontrollers are essentially the same platform just different implementations each with their own tools and established workflows. I would love to see more resources that kinda break down this barrier / mindset for beginners and allow them to understand and approach any new technology and explore it as advanced as they like.
You don't need cross site and cross browser trackings to see the visits on your site.
The private terminal aspect is why we charge a little more than other airlines' lowest fares. It looks like we need to do a better job of highlighting the private terminal feature on our site. Thanks for the great feedback.
So this specifically states AMD as well. Can someone explain in how far AMD is now affected? I thought they're not affected by the most severe bug?
Thanks for sharing this! Please share it on your blog as well https://letsencrypt.org/blog/

I subscribed the RSS to keep me up-to-date
They do exist in Germany.
I'm sure many of us feel this way but would you please not post unsubstantive rants to Hacker News? It leads reliably to lower-quality discussion, partly because it's so generic, and partly because rage gets the lower-quality juices flowing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>>It'll never happen, and if it does offfer any kind of freedom, it's the freedom to go back to pre-fiat boom and bust cycles of economic hell detached from modern macroeconomic theory.

Before the central banking era, the US banking system was made more fragile than it would have been under a free market by 1. Civil War era banking regulations that required banks to hold US bonds as reserves and 2. laws against interstate branching.

The former resulted in an unstable centralized money supply that fluctuated with the volume of outstanding US bonds and the latter prevented more diversified banks from emerging that could better weather localised shocks. Canada had neither of these mandates and consequently had a far more stable banking system.

There were proposals before the Fed was created to make the US financial sector more like Canada's, but the banking cartelists won the argument, and the Federal Reserve mandates were passed to cartelize the banking sector under a centralized hierarchy.

Also keep in mind that macroeconomic theory is just theory. It cannot be scientifically proven correct due to the complexity of the factors involved. Also keep in mind that there is an enormous financial incentive to popularize the idea that centralized control over the money supply is economically beneficial, and Economics is not immune to undue influence. Consider that the Fed alone employs thousands of economists, and consider the institutional biases the Fed and its shareholders likely have.

Even with all these forces at play, there's no macroeconomic consensus around your belief that free market banking is less effective than central banking.

A couple of good talks by George Selgin on pre-Fed era and the 100 year performance record of the Fed:

https://youtu.be/Z0J_Ai2sSmY

https://youtu.be/P0E7I4URW5o
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No the basic rule is ALWAYS have enough safety marginals so you can handle the unsuspected.

What you are saying is just a round about way to tell bicyclists to always yield for cars. It also has no support if you look at statistics, around here the overwheliming majority of accidents between drivers and bicylists are caused by car/bus/van/truck drivers (70%-85% depending on the situation).
No, it's for redundancy.
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Same story for me. In the USA you're seen by many of your peers as a crazy reckless daredevil for riding to work. Here in Ghent, Belgium you're just another guy riding to work. During rush hour it feels a bit like critical mass did back in the states.
Open ports mean there is a service listening. A service listening means that there is code on your box interfacing with the internet. That means there is the possibility that an exploit in that code could lead to remote code execution. The meltdown vulnerability means that any remote code execution vulnerability can be escalated to the highest levels.

Exploiting meltdown means you can read all of kernel memory, that destroys any additional layers of protection you might fantasize you had. It means that in memory passwords and encryption keys can be copied. It means that IO between other processes can be spied on. It means that all of the juicy locations to exploit for "return oriented programming" in order to gain local root will be laid bare. And so on.

That's why it's called meltdown. Imagine someone who had hand crafted the equivalent of a modern OS with all of the best practices in place for an internet server. You have kernel address randomization. You have each service running as its own non-privileged user and also in a chroot jail. You have your filesystem permissions locked down tight. And so on. All of that is gone out the window with meltdown, it doesn't matter, because even code running at the lowest possible privilege level can gain access to the contents of any part of kernel memory.

As for "workstation" systems. If you are behind a firewall, you never run untrusted code, and you have JS disabled then potentially you are safe.
That was OpenBSD, not FreeBSD.
They should change the name too. I still feel repulsive seeing SourceForge link and never download anything from there. Reputation is easy to lose but very hard to fix,so I'm surprised the new owners chose this path.
Sure, the personal site is for selling your services and writing about whatever you like. The thousand dollars of yearly revenues is just a nice to have side effect.
Your assumption is that the time factor can't be handled by the user. Users try somewhere else when a page doesn't load, and in my opinion that is fine. Granted, it's my opinion. Perhaps most users don't agree and here we are.

If it is truly the best information, it is what I want and I will wait. If I trust that Google can give me the best information then I would be willing to wait. I give up easily now because I can't trust Google to give me quality results. I will not wait for an ad bloated news aggregator.
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First, would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?

Second, your insinuation is groundless, uncivil, and gross. Please don't sink to this level if you want to keep commenting here.
I feel it. It's good and perceptual, you might say it breathes,
but how is it significant in any way.
Off topic?

newb enjoyed only.
This still happens with online ads, but supply quality matters. Location of an ad, quality of the domain (ESPN is very good value). But roughly 100 junk auctions come in (no bidder) for every ok auction (single bid reduces to floor) and just a tenth of that represents a good location (bids drive the price above the floor). So yes, people still hit up espn's college football pages with truck ads and the Washington post got targeted for ads by the Bahraini embassy trying to drum up support during their spat with Saudi Arabia.
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> How does one patch a CPU?

Microcode updates that enable or disable various feature flags or patch the microcode used to interpret specific instructions from the outside CISC world to the native RISC world that all modern x86 processors use.

In terms of deployment, there is support for OSs to deploy microcode from Ring 0 each time the system boots, or the permanent fix is a new UEFI that includes the new microcode at system init.
When you enter the building of a AAA game studio, the majority of Epic paying customers, it is filled with Windows computers and some macOS ones on the 3D rendering and iOS departments.

So they are paying attention to whom gives them the bucks.
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> What is of interest to them is the fact that their data can become decentralized with the blockchain…

I honestly feel like the terms decentralized and distributed are often used as synonyms when people talk about blockchain, even though they mean very different things. I get that a blockchain is distributed, but how is it decentralized? Aren’t you just replacing a big database in a data center with a big database replicated to many computers?
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

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That is indeed the most valuable advice you can give any cyclist. You are very vulnerable and surrounded by fast traveling boxes of death. Don't assume anyone cares about you.