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Is it really so much more readable with the operator?
another scam article from NYTimes. Media these days... You pay them, they'll write anything.
That sounds like a really bad idea. Also, you can make synthetic nicotine. So eliminating tobacco wouldn't help.
America in general is pretty dumpy. For one thing we have not been spending much money on infrastructure. I think Palo Alto is nicer then your typical comparable cities in the US, but that is not saying much.

I think Silicon valley has changed in a different way. Young people now want to get a safe, big paycheck at companies like Google, Facebook and Apple rather than doing a startup. I suspect that hurts innovation. At the same time maybe it will make some really big projects possible, like self driving cars and big AI advances?
2018 Tech Predictions
I second the vote for nonviolent communication. It is very helpful.
Well definitely google cloud spanner doesn’t offer any features related to COBOL — but it’s kind of hard to imagine that there are any projects which want to both (1) migrate away from mainframes (2) keep using COBOL.

But if you’ve decided that your task of migrating away from the mainframe will involve porting a bunch of cobol transaction processing code into some other language ... seems you might be able to do relatively straightforward rewriting of this kind of logic into some language that creates google cloud spanner transactions ... At least much more straightforwardly than the kinds of rearchitecting required if you had to factor in how the logic would need to change to deal with weakening of the storage systems consistency model.

You could be correct in suggesting that the main difficulty of migrating away from mainframes is the unfamaliarity of these codebases ... but what’s the next hardest part?

And Google Cloud Spanner does offer ACID transactions ...
Félicitations pour votre classement HN petits veinards ! :)
C'est quoi la prochaine étape du projet pour vous ? Vous voulez transformer ça en job ?
When given multiple commands, can it interleave executions instead of benchmarking them one after the other?

This would be useful when comparing two similar commands, as interleaving them makes it less likely that e.g. a load spike will unfavorably affect only one of them, or due to e.g. thermal throttling negatively affecting the last command.
Bloomberg says Intel has a big problem. The Economist says Intel has a big problem. Three class actions already filed against Intel.

Intel has a big problem. They're probably going to have to replace a lot of CPUs.
Why your business card doesn't need to be unique
> there is a time cost to using the tunnel, perhaps demand would go up if it was easier.

There's a time cost to everything. The trains in the tunnel travel up to "160 kilometres per hour (99 mph)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

Is there a reasonable suggestion that other options would be faster between equivalent points?
When reading this comment, I am glad prohibitionists didn't have these scientific tools a century ago. Creepy.
Nice. Not London, but the NY Public Library has a very nice set of "time traveler" tools for NYC here: http://spacetime.nypl.org/
There are some ARM CPU that are also vulnerable to Meltdown[0].

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
What in a smartphone based VR solution would give to it an inherently slow Motion to photon latency ? The communication between CPU and motion capture ? The 3d rendering ?
The channel tunnel trains are apparently at 54% capacity, so clearly no, at current prices there is no more demand for transport of that mode.

https://twitter.com/Ben_e_lux/status/954467087975673857

Dropping that price in the near future a bit seems like a much better use of funds than a prolonged and vastly expensive engineering project. But, there's no glory for Boris in that plan. He picks attention-grabbing, simplistic and iconic over quietly getting on with it, sound management and details every time.
The phrase "cultural marxism." You don't need to read much about Marxism to realize that it is a completely absurd oxymoron.
So you run on ARM just to do x86 emulation? How does it work?
I was expecting this to be another phone holder, much more interesting that you hacked together some hardware. Does this feature a low persistence display? Also, you mention "cheap tracking for next big update", is this just going to be an improvement over your current tracking or a full 6 DOF tracking? I don't think I've seen any hobbyist 6 DOF tracking for VR yet.

Oh, one note, in your read me, the part about Jonas convincing Chinese factories to sell you parts at premium prices should be changed. You probably meant he got really good prices, but premium pricing means basically the opposite.
How's the Dubai to Abu Dhabi Hyperloop coming? That's the ideal situation. Flat route across desert. Government cooperation. Parties willing to pay for an expensive luxury system. If that doesn't work out, nothing will.
I work as a sales tax auditor and I am always amused by these lawyers that love to talk in the courts.

These guys aren't even aware of how badly the current nexus statues are being abused. The current trend I've seen is companies move abroad (usually to south america or the Caribbean) and then ship goods into the USA to all 50 states. All sales are routed through this entity and thus since it is a foreign entity they are not required to collect any sales tax at all. This actual entity is most likely just a letter box company as well.

For the actual shipment of goods they have another company that acts as a drop shipper. Most states have exemption rules that make drop shipment transactions exempt from sales tax collection which gets abused since the duty to collect falls to the foreign entity but the foreign entity has no duty to collect either. Also due to these exemption rules, this structure is 100% defensible in court as well!

If they need sales agents in the state then they use a network of "authorized distributors" to do the soliciting. If you audit one of these authorized distributors then all of them have the same defense: we do not own or ship the goods being sold. We simply act as a sales agent (and only collect a commission). If you want to do the audit you need to go to the company that owns the products which of course is the foreign entity which does not have nexus.

See how elaborate this stuff gets? To make matters worse, the use tax is rarely paid by small consumers since it is way too complex to comply with and to be frank the odds of you getting personally audited for sales tax are pretty much 0% unless you are a high net worth person. It is no surprise that the companies that setup these elaborate schemes often sell the majority of their goods to small individual consumers rather than big companies. They know that consumers will "shop the sales tax" and look for sellers who don't charge it and thus the sales tax dodgers end up getting rewarded with more sales.

Also for everyone else, you might not see this as an issue but what often happens is when revenue start to decline then the politicians either have to cut services or more likely what they do is raise rates for other taxes. The only people who benefit are those who buy from the companies and don't pay use tax.
I built a platform that does this a year ago, using a combined stack of human and AI (Comouter vision) - it’s somewhat in maintenance mode because I haven’t had time to work on selling it, but there’s a version of Paris on the home page: http://www.papermap.io
> the San Mateo Bridge is eight and a half miles long and only raises up high enough for ships to pass for a short portion

> (the channel is) the world’s busiest shipping lane

> the biggest ships on the ocean.

Spot the problem with the "short portion" idea.
I haven't lived in the Bay, but work takes me there relatively often from my home in Seattle. Most often I've stayed in Palo Alto. Here in Seattle, I know the neighborhoods are notoriously steadfast in keeping their villages quaint... craftsmen-style homes (pepper in some modern cubic houses to taste) with broad green yards and strict zoning laws, lest every neighborhood be infected with the blight of more affordable condos and one or two decent places to grab a drink. In Palo Alto I got a whiff of the same, albeit in distinct Californian flavor. It's an allergic rejection of anything cosmopolitan or urban. Nothing wrong with that but it's no surprise that people would find it also distinctly unsexy.

My wife came down with me and we drove around with a coworker who lived there. We explored Mountain View and Menlo Park too, got some In-N-Out. My wife drooled at the big flagship Anthropologie at the weirdly-simultaneously dated and high-end Stanford Shopping Center. We laughed at the $3 million 2-br ranch houses on Redfin. Talked with our coworker about raising kids in a place like Palo Alto, and he gossiped about how PAHS kids were killing themselves on the train tracks – such a problem, they said, that there needed to be a security guard stationed there to watch out.

We went to University Ave and took a walk. A pushy salesman tried to sell us facial beauty products at $300/bottle, then we got accosted a couple doors down by a rolly robot thing with a screen for a face. The guy who was video-chatting through it was mute, possibly by some glitch. We reached the end of the street after 10 or 15 minutes of walking; "is this it?". Meandered back and walked into that JOYA restaurant for food and drinks. Sat between a tech company party of some kind on one side, and two meek young guys practicing a sales pitch for their startup on the other. We ate our mediocre food joylessly and Uber'd back to where we were staying down on El Camino, at Dinah's Garden Inn and went to bed early, hoping to get up early, which would let us get out early... Menlo Park and Mountain View, too, just seem like they were all clone-stamped from the same template: 6 blocks or so of faux-quaintess playing host to little boutiques and high end eateries, but nothing much else. Maybe they just aren't towns made for visitors, and maybe that's intentional.
With your example, I believe you’ve just described TimescaleDB. https://www.timescale.com/

We use it to store 150M records a day, and be performant enough to have a customer facing analytics dashboard querying against it for real-time results. Pretty amazing approach.
Boy am I glad people are free to try things instead of seeking your permission....we'd still be on horses.
When the US went through the same thing, it superficially seemed like cigarettes were largely replaced by caffeine, particularly in the form of "energy drinks" like Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy. It's possible that this is just a coincidence, though.

As to what specifically the need might be, there's a good bit of circumstantial evidence to suggest that nicotine relieves or compensates for some symptoms of schizophrenia, ADHD, and related disorders.
> There isn't an economic incentive to fund studies to determine why they don't work in others, since this could hurt various revenue streams.

I could be incredibly naive, but it sounds like a public health issue. Depending on how widespread it is, I can see any country organizing a study or pilot program. The country wouldn't have economic competition from big pharma and would see having a healthy and skilled population as an economic advantage.
right?!
Well, I just checked now, and they have removed Mexico and the other non-participant countries from the list now.
Not that I disagree with you that taxing cigarettes work, but what about Australian examples of additional policies including plain packaging laws, banning on advertising, the graphic health warnings on packs, combined with workplace and hospitality smoking bans?
Having a license plate doesn't make it possible for someone to track where you are at every moment.

Anyone is able to view a license plate in a public place. Just like names on mailboxes and house numbers, it's a publicly viewable identifier, not an Orwellian form of surveillance.
Presumably the vehicle manufacturers are paying the mobile networks for the ability to call emergency services. I doubt it falls under the same rules that allow for mobile phones to always call 911.
How? I thought the number was the size of the smallest transistor?
Building scalable architecture for Web and distributed systems
Of course, most first-world countries do both.

But if you accept immigrants, you also need to instill some of the ethos that makes your country first-world, and this challenge is something that many first-world countries fail miserably at. :-/

(And I'm not trying for some sort of wacky cultural superiority angle here, it's not the shape of your culture, the colour of your skin, or the language you speak that makes it first-world, it's simpler things like your society being high-trust, not tolerating corruption, and accepting and embracing diversity and individualism. These things are also culture, but pretty hard to teach others.)
how unlikely is it that nvidia won't be the center of their own "meltdown" in the future though?
Yeah, I’m wrong about this, it happened awhile ago.

It just seems insane to me. I don’t understand how some random country thinks they have jurisdiction over the entire globe just because someone else sold their citizen something digital. If you want to tax that transaction, I think the best you can do is hold the citizen responsible for payment. But of course, tax law is not usually about what’s right or logical or fair. It’s about what you can enforce and get away with.
Well written article! Definitely a few waited in there that explain the problem in plain English
Not true. Work smart, not hard.
Which are your visual defects, precisely? It's the most important factor, along with age.

Laser correction is essentially gambling; this is the reason why you're getting conflicting opinions.

Being young and having small defects is low-risk gambling; being older and having significant defects is high-risk.

Also, the other crucial factor is what's your purpose. Hoping not to wear glasses anymore, and reducing defects, are very different matters.
Do you have better advice for archiving practices? I don't get the joke.

Partitioning is not like copying to another table because the partition is already its own table. It saves the entire expensive operation of copying that data and you get the additional benefit that it stays current.
> The only measure that has ever been shown to work to reduce smoking is to make smoking less affordable.

Not exactly. A better way to phrase it: "The only measure that has ever been shown to work to reduce smoking is to make laws around how smoking items can be sold." Whether that law is to require tax, or age, or whatever. In your example, they are laws around requiring extra money be charged when selling something. Whether something works should not be the only factor in its implementation, especially at the state/legal level. Otherwise, you fall victim to the prohibitionist fallacy.
Ask HN: Are small blockchains secure?
I finally read the Bitcoin white paper and there's one thing I don't get. The security relies on the majority of miners agreeing on the state of the global ledger, where "the majority" is measured in computing power.

It seems reasonable to assume that the computing power of a malicious miner doesn't stand a chance against the enormous hashing power currently devoted to Bitcoin, but what about smaller blockchains? Couldn't the biggest Bitcoin miner just switch all their resources to Litecoin for a few minutes and cause complete havoc? I imagine the smallest blockchains could be hacked/ruined just by someone with a fairly high AWS Lambda rate limit.

I keep hearing about new projects to use blockchains for every little thing, and I just can't imagine how any blockchain other than the big one can be secure.
Glasses may be chic, but corrective eyewear is a pain. Glasses need cleaning, can constantly slide off your nose if they don't fit right, and if you require them for driving you're screwed if they're broken or lost. Contacts aren't much better. Every Christmas various family members ask about a contacts case or solution (we now have a large stash). Both also suck for outdoor activities like surfing, camping, etc. It is much better than not being able to see. (As an aside, I'm curious if people who don't wear corrective eyewear are more likely to wear sunglasses?)

I feel like I've seen more people wearing glasses with fake lenses.
I use one of the non Github mirrors that are linked in the readme, they are not https though.
x86 is a problem... Itanium was supposed to be the life boat but it came too soon.
It probably depends on the restaurant and the person. I’m nearly two hundred pounds and active and I’ve eaten at a half dozen Michelin 3-stars, with meals usually lasting 3-4 hours. Never left feeling hungry.
So, I never post on here - but this made me very curious about whether anyone else here reads with one eye?

I'm 26 and have been reading with one eye closed for a long time. It seems like that would mean presbyopia wouldn't affect me, so perhaps doing exercises to read with one eye would also be a viable approach to overcoming the condition without using reading glasses.
> (3) Samsung SSDs generally trounce Intel ones.

This is true only for the consumer SSD market, where Intel outsources large portions of the product development. It's also a market that Intel may abandon completely in the next few years as Intel and Micron start to pursue separate flash memory development. If Intel doesn't score a solid win with a consumer SSD in the next two generations, it would be reasonable for them to pull out and focus solely on enterprise SSDs, where they have no trouble winning.
Cool project by teenager kids shame that its useless in practice since thered be no sw support from major engines. So as a next project youd need to make an engine plugin for ue4 for example.
> AMD is using Intel's EMIB to connect an AMD GPU to its DRAM in an upcoming Intel product

It is Intel's CPU using AMD's GPU. I am not sure how this is evidence that EMIB is superior tech. Of course Intel is going to use their own tech wherever possible.

> When Intel gets around to making a multi-die CPU using EMIB, it'll blow away AMD's EPYC in terms of bandwidth between dies.

Do you have any bandwidth numbers on EMIB to support this? There are other sources saying that EMIB is crap and doesn't interface with HBM without using a bridge provided by TSMC. [1]

[1] https://semiaccurate.com/2017/12/19/intels-claims-fpgas-hbm-...
Sorry, what is a trailer?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-...
I agree with your general thrust though I think you are overstating a few points significantly.

> Skylake has born SIX new product lines; Goldmont, Goldmont Plus

Goldmont, Goldmont Plus are Atom products and are not "Skylake-derived" in any really major sense.

> zero presence in mobile

This is true only if you disregard the traditional laptop and newer convertible and chromebook markets. More importantly, Intel has an admittedly-indirect but financially very significant presence in the mostly-ARM cell phone and tablet markets, in that the backend for pretty much every cellphone app runs on an x86_64 server core somewhere. Every cell phone and tablet sold helps sell a modest fraction of an x86_64 core too.

> little presence in HPC/AI

Again, every major HPC/AI deployment that I've heard of still has a huge number of Intel cores. Though - as with the cell phone and tablet markets - you can definitely fault Intel for not capturing these markets in their entirety; they certainly had the talent, IP and the capital to do so, but they screwed up strategically in a way that will almost certainly become a cliched business school study at some point, if it's not already.
What do good project managers do that average project managers don't?
Well, then they still had alternatives. There is not much in terms of alternatives for a broken reputation. Intel's management of this particular crisis hurts them precisely in the one place where they can not afford it.
Good to see this is getting attention.

I was hoping this release would as well: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-techno...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193246
This fee shouldn’t be compared with net neutrality. It’s a completely different and less scary thing.
I didn't mean it as some rebuttal to your overall argument - I'm pretty sympathetic to it, for what it's worth. But you did put 'IP contracts' at the top of your chant and then used it as an example of something universal. It seems to have generated a lot of pushback, as well.

My just-so-story understanding of this stuff - if you are a full-time employee in some brainy job, your employer does have some sort of non-zero claim to some kinds of your intellectual output, even when you're not on the clock. To disambiguate this, a standard approach is to let the employer own everything while making it easy for the employee to explicitly exempt personal projects. The onerous-sounding AoI comes with an escape clause and the understanding the employer isn't going to be a butthead about letting the employee use it and that's pretty much exactly how it works out. That way, as your career takes you from a kitten subscription service to a dev tools vendor to Unicron, your npm packages for Pokemon eugenics optimization stay yours.

I can totally see how this might not work that well if you're a specialist in a specialized and funky field like security or how such agreements might seem like utterly evil overreach if you're reading about them on HN from your digital nomad space van parked in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz. But as a general [US/software/SFBA/etc] thing, they don't feel like a top-of-the-list issue.
The entire South Bay is incredibly dumpy. One nice thing about the Chinese system: No NIMBYs. Central planners keep the housing stock really high, and that's great for social stability.
"some estimate that for most intents and purposes, tobacco tax increases are also regressive even at the population level" [...] "While there are numerous studies that support the effectiveness of increasing prices, most declare that equity implications need to be paramount."

An important point to be sure. I think we should just execute smokers. Surely a study will show that reduces smoking. /s ...or maybe we can just realize the ends don't justify the means.
Ce que je voulais dire, c'est es-tu sure que je ne suis pas une fille ?
Strange to me this price point isn't being met by Alibaba/Banggood
Three, prior attempts at better CPU's plus one bug if we just go by the numbers. BiiN alone lost at least $300 million. They had to do a straight-up recall over the FDIV at a cost of who knows how many millions. Then, they and HP spent at least half a billion on Itanium over time. So, yeah, they've had some rough times with reactions or losses that are way worse than I've seen so far with this with some microcode updates and bad press. It certainly could get worse but not as bad yet.

Aside from those, I added a link to Intel i960 that spun out of the BiiN project since it was a nice, little RISC that you might like. It had object-based security and fault-tolerance built into it. There was still potential for reviving that before RISC-V ecosystem, CHERI, and so on obsoleted it. Too bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

https://www.wired.com/2012/02/hp-itanium/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960
I tend to agree. This is a setback, but all vendors will have to rethink how they do out of order and predictive execution and caching even if this time it was Intel who seemed the most vulnerable.

I think the vendor best poised to challenge Intel is NVidia. If they are able to put a number of Arm cores, in a Phi-like organization, on their GPUs they may be an alternative for many datacenter big-data applications.