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Sorry maybe I missed something but you had some really cool techniques to avoid using branches to do things like array length checks and type checks? So you replaced an if branch with a new, potentially slower, and harder to understand concept. I was not trying to imply you removed all branches.

It is a really cool piece of engineering but we can still be sad we have to implement it.

(On the hardware side I was assuming sommeone clever at Intel will come up with some security non Perf killing change to make branches trustable again).
There seems to be an active astroturf campaign against SpaceX and Tesla.
A company is a group of people operating together. That is what our company is. We are not incorporated in any jurisdiction.
> staff heard that some students were skipping meals in order to afford textbooks

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Possibly; my manager basically already does that, but then he's a manager so he has the rank to do it.
Google has become their own worst nightmare: Yahoo

Google has optimized its hiring process almost uniformly for raw intelligence and it shows...they have very little common or "street smarts" sense about product vision. Apple isn't perfect but they run laps around Google here. Google is what happens when you are only hyper-intelligent. Bezos, Zuck, Musk...none of them are losing sleep worried about Google at this point.

Google's products have become boring and stale. They endlessly build up and then tear down basic services like messaging that their competitors crushed long ago. They can't even fully commit with their hearts and guts to a "other bet". There will be some soul-searching at Google when Waymo is beat to market by a competitor that started years after they did but simply had more hustle and drive

Look at something like Slack, Discord, Github, Whatsapp...those would never have emerged from Google as it is today. All Google can do is polish its boring stable of utilities.
I found https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominal

See the "engineering" context: "According to plan or design; normal."
That is super cool. I had no idea a lot of this was JIT side, and I do agree this is one of the best fixes I have seen for this yet.
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That's a superb writeup. Really uncovers differentiators that I could feel but not put my finger on.
That was a very long time ago.

Microcode can be loaded by the BIOS.
In this context it means "as expected", nothing out of the ordinary. Sense 5 here:

> "5 : being according to plan : satisfactory everything was nominal during the launch"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nominally
If you only have one class, there's no point in talking about classes.
"Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average lifetime risk to almost 6%."
Permeated technical discourse lately? By lately, do you mean since the 1960s? "Nominal" in engineering means that the predicted value matches the expected value without significant error.
In aeronautics it means, roughly, 'within acceptable tolerances', or, in other words, 'as expected'. For a good analysis of this sense of the meaning, see this StackExchange answer [1] to this question.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-n...
I really like what you did with the nested grid layout, it’s totaly an idea worth stealing!

Flogo 2 and Hancock’s dissertation are my goto for live programming origin work. There has all been some recent out of MIT (called object-sheets). Also, Fowler’s illustrative programming post helps to put spreadsheet programming into better context: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html.

Also, here is a recent survey I wrote up about the field a couple of years ago: https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/live-2016/orig/LIVE_2016...

You might find it useful.
The context was "the left .. not capable of having reasoned debate even before the election. They prefer to shut it down."

Pre-election a similar thing happened to James Watson and Larry Summers - eg here is shutting down conversation about humans not being blank slates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/us/harvard-chief-defends-h...

"When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill," Dr. Hopkins said.
"Approximate" is one of the several meanings [1] of the word. Another is "being according to plan".

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nominal
Java 8 is now supported with the full standard library:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/runtim...
They changed their policy on it after the 2001 invasion.
This is not a book but a site really. Sqlite3 is an amazing database and the site has great documentation.

https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html
> The web by and large requires javascript, and it's not likely to change.

While I am mostly a pessimist, this is one place where I harbor a tiny sliver of optimism. Once users recognize that something is awful, and have the means to get rid of it, they eventually do so. Client side Java and Flash are dead, because everyday users figured out that they sucked, and were given the option not to use them. We're getting close to a situation where average people recognize that millisecond auctions to run arbitrary code on their machines are a bad idea, and those people also have the tools to say "no." Hope springs internal...
They seem to be anarchist in a sense that they reject the notion of state as an organizational structure for their society.
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He's far from the first to do so, although Ashis Nandy had different reasons

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-nandy-affair
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Perhaps when multiple routes present themselves toward a new technology, its emergence becomes imminent. By this reasoning I would predict space travel becoming more routine (with multiple companies like Space X and Blue Origin working toward this goal), quantum computing is realized (lots of ideas on how to make it happen with lots of companies working on it), and self driving cars (lots of companies working on it, it may take a decade).
I would hope the free plan let’s me get started for free.
>and increase rent by the standard market price every 12 month

That's not what he would do. Tenants tend to value a property more as time goes on. Beyond increasing market rates.

Without rent control, your rent will increase faster than the average market increase would indicate unless you move very often. Rent control may not be the optimal way to combat this, but it is something many societies recognize as a problem.
This is a top secret mission, nobody is officially saying anything about a failure, it's all just 3rd party speculation.
OK I'll bite. I think your solution only solves one edge case. And there are too many other edge cases to warrant spending the infrastructure to fix one edge case.

Examples, your solution doesn't solve:

- Mugger waits for you to withdraw the money from ATM.

- Mugger forces you to withdraw everything AFTER you entered your PIN.

- Muggers holding someone ransom until you get them their money.

- You are traveling outside of your home country/unreliable law enforcement.
Variety is, famously, the spice of life. But it is also the spice of spice. Exotic spices can often be sprinkled like the more standard condiments such as salt and pepper. By sprinkling spice on some parts of one's dish and not others one generates a stronger and more interesting experience overall. Presumably explained by the principle below:

http://changingminds.org/principles/contrast.htm
The article i posted specially attacks this. Inflammation is a symptom of many things including cancer, but isn't something you really aim to treat. And there is no good evidence that there is such a thing as an anti inflammatory diet.
> Did they give any numbers on the quality of the qubits?

No they didn't. I've also had problems finding the benchmarks for their 17 qubit processor. I would appreciate if someone could link them to me.
There won't be an official report. No one knows who paid for building it, other than it was a US government agency. The NRO has no problems acknowledging it's launches, but it doesn't claim Zuma.

Those are the facts we know. the CNBC report is based on their sources, making it a bit more than rumor-mongering.
> He did not profit from it at their expense, though. The people he sold stock to were already going to buy stock at the same or worse price, just from someone else

That's not really true, it is so in an individually imperceptible way but its there. If he then after stock plummeted 10% went back and bought back shares and kept the 10% as a profit, where did that money come from? It has to come from someone elses pocket, it was created out of thin air. Its just impossible to return that money to who it belongs to, because it belongs to everyone that traded the stock in a certain interim.

This is all related to information disclosure, which sometimes is necessary and sometimes isn't. A guy selling stock is a poor proxy to a disclosure of a security issue like this. I think intel is more responsible for untimely disclosure than the CEO for untimely selling.
> Unfortunately the genie is out of the bottle already. The web by and large requires javascript, and it's not likely to change.

This fatalist stance is childish, and dangerous. As long as there are people working to make things better, things do improve.

Sure, if you make sure that one small website works without JavaScript then that doesn't change the world. I hear a similiar argument when I explain why I don't eat meat; I'm told that animals will be killed anyways. But if I don't eat meat, then less will be killed. How many less? I can't specify the number, but I don't power-hungrily demand my own decision can magically change the world completely over night, and give up when I realize it doesn't.

Still, each and everyones has an influence. It's about doing what's right. And even if you are the only one doing the right thing, things will be a bit better for your actions. But in fact the situation isn't that bad, and one isn't alone.

> It's not like users can be relied on to do the right thing all the time anyway.

So, if you aren't sure you locked the front door of your house, then it also doesn't matter if you left the door to the garden open? Clearly it does matter!

This fatalism deems us into inaction and into accepting the status quo even if we know it's bad.
The study examined female and male brains, found that males on average had a higher general intelligence score and a higher standard deviation. The study also found that male brains had on average higher surface area and size even if you control for body size. The study found that brain size in both genders on average leads to a higher g.

I don't understand how your criticism "indirect correlational evidence" applies to this study, could you maybe elaborate on how you would improve this study?
Regarding branch predictor spoiling, if AMD doesn't update the branch predictor based off evaluation of branches the occurred along a speculative path, then the Spectre exploit (from my understanding that it trains the branch predictor using speculative code) won't be able to work.
Do you happen to remember how much you bought it for?

Just wondering if it was much more expensive (inflation-adjusted) than a modern one. As there are claims that products these day are made less durable in exchange for being more affordable/accessible.
Ask HN: How do you organize your photos?
Do you organize your folders by year? By topic? By season? Where do you store them? Do you have multiple copies?
Nothing, if it's a small app?

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits#...

Disclaimer: I work at GCP.
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Why are you lot so dishonest and so disingenuous? "Look at Chicago and Detroit!" -- let's ignore the fact that these places really aren't that bad, but what about every single other democratic city in the U.S. that's the backbone of this country (Hint: By and large cities vote blue, consistently).
You can't renovate the neighborhood though.
Fine, but in addition everything you do should be encrypted end to end as well as you can. Use httpseverywhere. Use privacy badger.
I think the disclosure procedures were abandoned because people outside of the loop had figured it out from Linux kernel upgrades.
Farnam Street Blog also has their comprehensive list of mental models: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/
Generally it's suggested to keep a consistent identity on HN as it suggests more reasonable discourse when people understand their actions follow them. Discourse is fun, rational discourse with consistency is what makes this site amazing.
Pick up a newspaper. Classified info is leaked practically daily.

When you lose a billion dollars you are pointing the finger at someone else. This is true in general business and especially with government money.
Note that the US government has been known to launch satellites with optical and radar stealth. (From what I understand, the Misty series had this.)

What better way to hide a stealth satellite than to launch a satellite-shaped object of the same mass as the real thing, separate out the real deal, and claim the object is a failed satellite?

We don't even know which agency launched ZUMA, and there's no obligation for them to tell the press if it worked or not.
Yes, except that processors are now incredibly complex beasts that have all sorts of optimizations and other features (hence....a lurking, unobvious bug).

So there is this layer of software that operates with this x86 interface on a hardware implementation of different instructions.
Can also be loaded at boot time by the kernel, etc.
That's actually a really good point. One could argue that value of rent control is priced into the rent.

I've know plenty of people who winced at the rent they paid, but told themselves that in 5 years it'll be worth it as the rent will be below market.
Back when people were mostly programming in assembly it was convenient for one instruction to do a lot of stuff, but it hardwiring a large instruction set poses design difficulties. So CISC chips have some special microcode memory that runs a program that converts the larger instruction set into the actual hardware instruction set. Intel's CPUs since the Pentium Pro allow writing to the microcode memory (with severe restrictions).

According to Wikipedia [1], CPUs have had microcode since the 1960s! However, this is mostly an artifact of CISC architectures. Since most programmers these mass-produce their instructions with a compiler rather than with artisinal, hand-crafted assembly code, CISC fell out of favor compared to RISC. Since the RISC instruction sets are simple (by design), there isn't much need for microcode. ARM chips typically don't have microcode (although they do break things into smaller instructions) [2]. But since Intel has to keep compatibility with 40 years of CISC instructions, they need microcode.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/934752/do-arm-processors-lik...
I understand that it's all-caps in the original, but if you would decapitalize it, our collective eyes would appreciate it :)

Here's an online form (I'm sure there are others) that'll do that for you: https://convertcase.net
Insider trading is one of the few things that can still put rich people in jail, though.
I can't tell if you are concluding that he didn't do it intentionally, or if you are concluding that he was stupid in doing it.
"Legit conspiracy theory time. How do you put a satellite in orbit without anyone knowing about it? You hide it with another satellite!

Apparently, during the first launch window for Zuma back on November 15, a secretive US satellite tracked as "USA-276" was due to fly directly overhead under conditions ideal for a rendezvous. USA-276 itself is secretive and unusual, having passed as close as four miles from the ISS. It seems like the NRO (or whoever actually built it) has a lot of confidence in their control over that satellite and its maneuverability.

The rescheduled launch window for Zuma seemed to rule out a rendezvous with USA-276; the launch inclination was expected to be similar, but the satellite wouldn't be passing overhead at the time. However, several days of launch delays coincidentally moved Zuma's launch window closer and closer to lining up with USA-276's orbit. The earlier launch windows could have been decoys, intended to suggest a willingness to launch away from USA-276 when it remained their goal the whole time.

What are the reasons for this? Well, if USA-276 is meant to be a highly maneuverable satellite, it could potentially burn through fuel quickly. Testing the ability to refuel an unmanned spy satellite would be highly valuable. If you made the rendezvous quickly, you could claim your refueling drone was "lost" and it would be hard to disprove. We're not yet at the point that civilians can track the exact location of every satellite at all times without government help (hell, we can still lose highly advanced jumbo jets in the middle of the ocean). Once the refueling drone is docked with USA-276, they would be tracked as a single object in orbit.

Why claim it's lost, then? To try to hide that you have this ability. That's especially relevant when you consider the repeated close passes USA-276 has made to the ISS. It seems like a satellite meant to surveil other satellites, which would be more valuable if it had ample fuel and could make orbital changes more frequently. You'd only get one real shot at it before the element of surprise is lost, but if you had a maneuverable satellite with ample fuel on board, you could go take close-up photos of a few Russian satellites before they realized what you were doing. Hell, maybe even get close enough to grab one and deorbit it."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/the-zuma-satellite-l...
The article said, “upgrade the units and double the estimate.”

So 20 hours -> 40 days -> 80 weeks -> 160 months
How was it deliberately misused for moral outrage? I thought the context here is that people flat out misunderstood it, not deliberately misused it. In either case, whether by Damore or the public, deliberate or not, it was definitely being misused. Splitting hairs by whom is the pointless exercise.
Yup, found that. Makes sense now. Still think my coworkers are using it incorrectly. Probably has something to do with the fact that our boss uses it frequently as well.
Its ironic that you say parent is thinking like American yet you are doing exactly that.

The US like USSR used ideological excuses to prop up dictators who goes into heavy debt from buying weapons, infrastructure etc.

When they can't pay it back (not all country is Saudi Arabia), they must give in to US demands, not directly of course because that would directly implicate US but through US corporations.

In return these dictators enjoy their power, material perks and send their offsprings to the elite military academies in America where they learn the latest in torture and warfare tactics to keep their father's opponents at bay (so they can keep all the cool toys).

Would it kill you to admit that possibly, that US is not exactly innocent or uninterested (as you say) in South America or any other parts of the world? Would it anger you that this imperial economic system was created to benefit the elite in your own country while letting the poor barely afford the luxuries that even other smaller countries have such as national health care?

I'd understand what you are saying if the average American were the intended benefactors of this global imperialism but you are not. You are just saying exactly what you've been programmed to say because admitting the truth is too painful. Similarily for Russians or Chinese, everyone is going around defending the elite of their country, for what? National pride? How patriotic would you be when you realize your own leaders don't give a fuck about you?

It's time to wake up and realize, we are living in the same feudal society which we were sure was over. I don't even care that it's Americans. Yesterday it was Britain. It could be China doing the same shit tomorrow. It could be Russia or India. It doesn't matter. All we can do is just acknowledge and try to think independently! I'm not even saying everyone get their pitchforks and start a revolution. It's just a slow step to eroding that mountain of ignorance now even bigger thanks to information overload.
I like the links--thanks.

About DIC and WAIC, etc. ... that's a huge topic for me.

There's a relatively well-cited result that shows that you can arbitrarily choose any penalty in an information criterion (i.e., penalty in the form -logL + penalty), as long as it meets certain weak conditions, and it will eventually work with big enough samples. So the issues of most importance are usually how selection accuracy increases with sample size, not its asymptotic performance. The leads to a certain hesitancy for me in terms of why I should pay attention to any particular IC.

Having said that, DIC and WAIC are pretty elegant in my mind, and I've been glad to see research on them.

Predictive scenarios aren't really my focus, although I've become much more interested in them the last couple of years for various reasons. Most of my work is in what might be thought of as unsupervised models.
A step in the right direction but it doesn't entirely solve the issue. To make this complete they simply need to remove all Google nav/branding/back button from AMP pages (or at least offer the option)

AMP should have been purely an open source library implementing a specification, not a way to opt-in to becoming a sub page within Google

If I go out to a new URL it should then cut away the relationship with the old site, even if AMP makes that transition a bit quicker and gives the new site tools to load the page more quickly
My favorite theory is that they switched Zuma and Elon's car. Think about it, they were both at the Cape and Zuma actually switched launch pads to LC40 from LC39A (where Falcon is preparing to launch as we speak with the REAL Zuma). :D
> As far as I'm aware, neither of these is known to have resulted in damage yet

Damage as in malicious? No. Damage as in co's reporting higher instance usage on cloud services after patching? Yes. Don't discount companies being angry about higher hosting costs and taking it out on Intel via a financial damages suit.
Moving jobs after a year is very common in tech. If you have any co-workers who left, asking them for referral (if they like the new gig) is a great way to go about it. Lots of companies pay referral bonuses so your old co-worker will be happy about it too. I'm on my third job after graduating and have more than doubled my income in 3.5 years.