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> Quantum computers will be released to the public soon.

Don't believe all the hype and don't worry because a general quantum computer with enough qbits will take a long long time. At least 20 years ... https://xkcd.com/678/
NRC of Canada's blockchain publishing prototype
https://github.com/gkaindl/meltdown-poc
Specifically in the third clause of a for loop, if you have two iterator variables being incremented (e.g. at diffeeent strides), it is more clear to use the comma operator I think. Very narrow use case but it is convenient to exist.
The throughput of hyperloop is equal to ~3-4 trains per hour of capacity, assuming you completely maximize utilization of the infrastructure (that's ~30s dispatch intervals). This is assuming you could safely dispatch pods at 30s intervals, which is a contentious issue to say the least. For HSR, you'd generally see 6-12 tph for intercity trains, although the tracks themselves can generally handle 24-30tph (depending on how good your signalling is).

Effectively, hyperloop is the capacity of a point-to-point transit system (e.g., airline) with the infrastructure requirements of a train network, or combining the worst features of both systems. You'd have to bore city-center tunnels for every city you'd want to connect to, as opposed to being able to share those tracks (the fact that you can't share intercity rail with commuter rail is a big reason why maglev generally doesn't make economic sense).
> Once again, you are talking about an Intel CPU, so what you are saying makes no sense. It is not AMD's project. It is Intel's CPU that happens to use an AMD component.

The only EMIB in that product is between AMD's GPU and that GPU's DRAM; the Intel CPU die in that product is not using EMIB. The fact that the AMD GPU is using EMIB is significant—it's a somewhat external validation that EMIB has value as an alternative to conventional MCM packaging or large scale silicon interposers, both of which AMD uses for products of their own.

If EMIB wasn't saving money while offering sufficient performance, then Intel would have integrated the AMD GPU into this product using the off-the-shelf silicon interposers that AMD's own products use to connect the GPU to its HBM DRAM.
Those that are sufficiently concerned tend to stop being, or avoid becoming smokers, so the unconcerned are what remain. Same goes for prices.

I think we can both agree that taxation is the better ‘value’ policy [negative costs are hard to beat], but studies such as the described at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396458/ suggest that generic packaging has positive effects too.
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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. Roughly speaking, revenue being taxes on what you earn, and customs being taxes on what you buy.

There used to be separate departments for each, but they were merged years ago. This was a slightly odd move, as the revenue were people who were good at doing very detailed analysis of paper trails, whereas customs were people who were good at kicking down smugglers' doors.
> By using drug profits to mine and sell gold to American and multinational companies, criminal organizations can launder “staggering amounts of money,”

Another disaster caused by making drugs illegal.
subway tunnels

Well, that's the point, isn't it? These are like subway tunnels, which are a solved problem and implemented for decades - including multi-level tunnels. Musk just seems to want to make them cheaper and put some space-age motorail inside it.
Hey, thanks :) I went 20 years using, 10 years off, one year using, and now over 10 years off. It's a damn hard drug to kick.
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So are they dropping “it”, by which I assume you mean the FaceId tech, or are they rolling it out to the other phones that Apple sells? Your statement contradicts itself.
Quite a lot of these arguments against smoking are silly. In moderation, smoking is fine and studies have shown that it increases cognitive ability and lowers stress. Some of the best engineer's I've ever known in my career smoked cigarettes. I don't personally smoke them, but I used to. I use nasal snuff and smoke a pipe now, which is significantly different than cigarettes. However; the social stigma against cigarettes is crazy. It doesn't bother me as long as I'm not trapped in a room with no ventilation with a cig smoker. Sugar is probably worse for you than cigarettes, but like anything it should be moderated. Cigarettes are specifically engineered to get you hooked.
Yes, Gold is the original smugglers currency. Yes, gold extraction is typically exploitative and often environmentally destructive. No, the gold in Miami is not used in your mobile phone or electronics, because those aren't manufactured in the US. Look at Africa and Asia for those sources... even though it's a global market.

Child labor in mining:
http://www.ilo.org/ipecinfo/product/download.do?type=documen...
Other stuff works too. Australia mostly killed branding by enforcing plain packages, and they added images of what smoking can do to you. It worked.

Varying the images matters, so that people don't tune them out. It is best to focus on sex appeal: wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, nasty teeth, etc. The next best thing is to focus on the harm to children, both unborn and living in the house.
Yes, absolutely. Start by purposely working on your listening skills. Listening is the easiest and best way to be kind.
What if the 'train' picks you up at the door and gets to your destination exactly when expected? would you still prefer to park autonomously blocks away?
Given the cost of designing a CPU and setting up manufacturing capacity you could argue that they’re a natural monopoly. At the least there is a significant hurdle to entering the market, which intel can use to its advantage.
.NET MVC. I'm just so comfortable and proficient in C#, it's hard to want to use anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoncWqttN6U

I can only imagine it's gotten better in the past 20 years.
I could buy something for ongoing software and security support but this is steep for something designed to reduce the amount of work they have to do in that regard.
Here he's interviewed about that episode. Bourdain calls that meal his favorite and likens Bocuse to Mohammad Ali for the impact he had.

https://www.youtube.com/v/hV6h8tvDgTg?start=0&end=80
Intel has produced multi-die CPUs in the past. They aren't doing it now because their fabrication advantage allows them to make bigger monolithic CPU dies than AMD can afford, so Intel doesn't have to incur the performance penalties that AMD's multi-die CPUs suffer from. At the same time, Intel has been very publicly preparing for the day that it makes sense for them to once again make multi-die CPUs, by making sure they have the technology to do it without the performance hit that is currently necessary. There's no heel-dragging from Intel on this issue.

Once Intel's fab advantage is actually eliminated, they'll be forced to make multi-die CPUs to compete against AMD's multi-die CPUs. But every indication is that Intel will be ready to do multi-die better than AMD is doing multi-die. How much better is up for some debate, but it does look like Intel will have a leg up on EPYC's biggest weakness.
The Boring Company plans to support shared-use pods as well as cars, and between high density locations I would expect them to be more common.

What is the ratio of empty space between trains on a subway? I guess you conveniently forgot that because you were swept away by righteous moralization

Image of shared pod: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WIUer4cIhek/WSzqVRLPgGI/AAAAAAAAt...
Amen... I had to fly through San Jose airport once. Never again. Most miserable airport I've been in. Stupid design. Coming in from overseas, I was forced to exit the secured arrivals area, walk outside lugging bags over broken pavement to an entirely different terminal (no automated pedestrian walkway or train connecting terminals all within a single conjoined secured zone), and go through the TSA security theater for a second time. Barely made my flight 3 hours later. This entirely ignores the hideously ugly buildings themselves. Felt creaking, ugly, poorly thought out, and old.
Angry iPhone X users say nothing happens on the screen when the phone rings
Lol, how did that go? I am thinking... something along these lines:

Telemarketer:	When you sign up with ShitWare, our Platinum partner, you get a free BigMac (tm) with a crumpet and a small drink! This exciting promotion is only available to our subscribers! Limited time offer. Quantities are limited. Only in participating restaurants. Some conditions apply. Taxes (incl. VAT) not included.

Queen:	Goodness gracious, did you just say free BigMac (tm) and crumpets? That is, like, fucking amazing! OK I clicked on that link, it says "Your Windows is infected! Click here to clean!" Is that OK? Btw where is my food.

Telemarketer:	It is, indeed, perfectly OK! Just click on where it says "I Agree". BTW it is one crumpet (not "crumpets") or a hashbrown, subject to availability. This exciting, time-limited offer is ---

Queen:	Yeah whatever dude, just send the food in.

Queen:	This is good. Most good.
Even if it’s respectably higher than anything existing, it can only source passengers from hub origins and drop them at hub destinations, leaving last-mile problems yet to be solved. Spokes will be needed at destination hubs, that allow for individualized selective destinations for the last mile.

Meanwhile if a city needs 3/4 of it’s workforce through the door by 9AM, congestion at each hub still occurs, and rush hours aren’t actually alleviated, only spread around. Hub stations will be the same horrible kind of place train stations, bus stations and airports are, unless a new conceptualization of origin sourcing and destination arrival is brought to the table.

The only new aspect that a hyperloop adds to the equation, to change the game is that, theoretiacally, longer distances can be negotiated, permitting any given urban center to import from greater distances than before, and urban residents can interchange between hubs without 500MPH aviation.

Of course, for those promises to hold true, tubes must be cut, and track laid within them. Every mile of interconnection adds compelling power to the principle of the concept. Individual point-to-point connections are meaningless, if there are not many points connected, and the distances aren’t longer than was previously realistic.
In this case the amount of data and the frequency with which it needs to be updated made handling this in MySQL more practical. I otherwise would've had to have some process querying and updating the records outside of MySQL and it turns out that that puts a whole lot more load on the server than if I just ask MySQL to do it.

And besides, what happened to the hacker ethos? "Because I can" should be justification enough. :-)
One of the fears among Net Neutrality advocates is that, without the Internet being regulated as a utility, ISPs will start nickel and diming you for using services for which the ISP is only the conduit. Call it the Trojan model of rent-seeking.

That may not be the most important aspect of the Net Neutrality fight for you, personally. But it is an aspect of it. And it is valid for others to be concerned about it.

And for those people to whom Net Neutrality is principally about nickel-and-dime rent-seeking, comparisons to BMW's nickel-and-dime rent-seeking are appropriate.
The article says so many things are explained about Mars, but now I am wondering why the same thing didn't happen to Earth's magnetic field, if there was a giant impactor, and why Mars doesn't have a large moon, if it had a giant impactor.
> corrective eyewear is a pain

In HN fashion, I'm afraid I have to proffer an alternative, contrary perspective. :)

I've worn glasses almost all my life. I do not find it remotely inconvenient, and if anything adds points to my perceived intelligence, an advantage that I find extremely useful in many social circumstances.

1) Glasses don't have to be cleaned that much (just a bit of soap and water during a shower suffices). Almost no one I know uses solution for glasses.

2) They never slide off your nose (if they do, they were incorrectly fitted).

3) They hardly ever break and/or get lost if you wear them all the time. Most frames are designed to be tough yet flexible. I only replace my glasses once every 2-3 years to get an updated prescription, and never because the frame broke or anything like that.

4) They are no impediments to surfing/camping or even swimming if you use straps. I've never had trouble being active with glasses on. Billie Jean King played tennis with glasses.
It's completely dependent on how long the cars are. You could do hyperloop* with 1,000 passenger trains just fine. The real limit is utilization, and smaller cars are easier to design.

The real benifit is simply speed, it's faster than aircraft and no need for extensive security as you can't hijack trains.

* Not that the term seems to refer to any specific design at this point.
This is a great story. I can relate to it from start to finish!
I absolutely think drugs should be legal or decriminalized depending on the drug. However, blaming this on US drug policy is an overreach. The United States has illegal drugs, but no encampments of slaves and child sex slaves destroying the environment to dig for gold. The culprits here are the corrupt and weak government of the countries like Columbia that permit such activities and, of course, the criminal gangs that execute these activities.
> I would never let my manager into my Linux systems, just to make an analogy. I give my manager a report on what's going on but I'd never let them in.

I'm not sure about the chain of command in your company but in most companies, managers don't need permission from their charges for access. Managers are the ones who give their underlings access.

Granted, in most tech infrastructure, only a handful of people might have direct access to production/sensitive assets like databases, file, web, etc servers. And managers wouldn't want to muck around on production servers. But the idea that you wouldn't let your manager access or that they couldn't get access if require seems very odd. What happens if you quit or get fired? If your manager wanted access and you refused, he has the power to fire you.

> Yet these top directors are able to get access to essentially any database or system just because of their title.

Depending on their role, directors of any company can get access to anything because they act as the ultimate arbiters on behalf of the shareholders. The chairman of the board is who the CEO of companies report to.

Sure, you wouldn't want people who don't know the systems to gain access. But I'd be interested to know how a low level employee can prevent their manager or even directors from access if they wanted it.
Love Quiver... I wish some encryption was included. I suppose a wrapper/script might be able to handle it.
> I can’t think of any realistic scenarios that serve as a counter argument. Can you?

Based on what I know about PSAPs (industry term for a 911 call center) and how stale their technology is and how poorly e911 (the tech which started rolling out in the early 2000s to give your “location” to 911) works in reality, they are offering an added value over “just calling 911”. I’m happy to provide additional details if you’d like, but there’s tons of reading material if you google “911 location accuracy”.
You're basically spot on here. I have a bunch of rows that need to have trend data crunched and updated pretty frequently. Putting this into MySQL cut the server load quite a bit, and it isn't so much business logic that I feel bad about doing it.
>"if you manage to make it to old age you are physiologically much younger (20-30 years in the case of the Brazilian p53 mutation)."

That sounds interesting, but I can't find it. Can you quote the part of that paper you are talking about?
The one thing the article fails to mention is that electronic cigarette usage in Greece has skyrocketed the last years. E-cigarette shops are popping everywhere, I know at least four in a mile radius from where I live.

And while cigarette taxes have raised considerably, the prices aren't that high because many people smoke tobacco which costs around 7,5 euro for a pack of 30 grams that lasts for days.
> If at all possible, buy a car without any computer more powerful than the ECU and just use your phone or a tablet or an aftermarket “””smart””” interface.

That's rather the point of CarPlay. It takes the "smarts" out of the car and essentially lets your phone use the car - its touchscreen, its speakers, even its GPS receiver - as a massive peripheral device.

The truly offensive aspect of this is that the CarPlay standard is effectively fixed. There is no further maintenance or code required. BMW doesn't need to write a software update for the next version of iOS because CarPlay doesn't care about anything at that layer. All it cares about are audio and video streams to be presented and inputs to be received.
I agree it's stupid (and there's no question this move won't survive in the long term) but there's one thing to keep in mind:

BMW's iDrive is better than CarPlay. As someone who very much likes Apple's current iOS and Mac UI, this feels absurd to say but iDrive is just that good. Of course choice always preferable, but unless CarPlay is extended to allow me to use Waze maps, I can't imagine why I'd ever use it.

Unlike CarPlay, iDrive has a well-resolved, tactile and customisable physical interface. It's just better suited for someone who's driving.

Tesla doesn't support CarPlay at all, but you don't hear about hoards of people boycotting Telsa: because their system is also better than CarPlay. (Though at least BMW gives you the option, even if they do so in a weirdly customer-hostile way.)

The only clear advantage of CarPlay is that the software is being continually updated and improved. Perhaps when your 2018 model is seven years old, the features of CarPlay in iOS 16 running on your iPhone Xs Edition would be preferred. And by then BMW will have been shamed into aborting this annual fee joke.
Oh, "other manufacturers" you say? So you mean, the market is competitive and I have a choice? That, among the other reasons listed, is why it's nothing like net neutrality. Also, your #1 is an opinion.
Here's some academic work that goes into much more detail about this topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03449
Ask YC: Who's Hiring in NYC?
Hi,

I'm getting ready to get on the job market and I'm wondering which (YC) companies are hiring in NYC? I'm specifically looking for Data Science related jobs, but open to other opportunities as well.
OT: just wanted to say Fight Aging [1] is an amazing, inspiring model for how modern public interest initiatives should work IMO. Thank you.

[1] https://www.fightaging.org
Would it be economically feasible to use the hyperloop to transport just goods and not people, similar to a pipeline vs train transport? I always see it referenced in connection to human travel, but it seems like safety is one of the biggest issues.
I think that a lot of discussion here is missing a key design aspect of modern speculative cores: the "late check" of permissions was likely not a sloppy shortcut or oversight, but rather due to a common design principle, or separation-of-concerns, in modern cores: exception-condition handling and speculation flush/restart are ordinarily handled when the excepting instruction reaches retirement, because at that stage, instructions are back in order again, and they are "real" (could not be flushed by any earlier mis-speculation). It seems completely natural w.r.t. modern design principles to handle page faults at retire.

In other words, as obvious as the vulnerability is in hindsight, the general design is "textbook computer
architecture" -- at least it would not raise any eyebrows. In fact the alternative, eager checking, would be the less obvious design, because almost every other exception is handled at retirement, and it would require careful thought and some additional complexity: do you cancel the instruction? (Potential problem: dependent instructions are already scheduled and will expect your result next cycle, because scheduling is deeply pipelined. Now you need some auxiliary scheduling information to let you cancel those too, which will be very complex and ripe for bugs.) Do you zero out the result? (Potential timing issue: this requires a few more gate delays between the data-cache word-select MUX and the results bus, a pipeline stage that's probably already timing-critical.) Clearly, AMD and ARM made other design decisions, but I would bet this is due to incidental aspects of their pipelines rather than an explicit prediction of a Meltdown-like vulnerability.

Overall: the issue looks very obvious in hindsight, but it arises due to an unexpected interaction of common design principles of modern cores, rather than a negligent oversight or shortcut.

(I worked on processor design for a while; throwaway for obvious reasons)
I really want to see Lua support.
>fission heat

Those probes are absolutely not using fission. Radioactive decay is not the same thing.
> People with psychosis tend to die 20 years earlier than the general population. One of the reason is that people with some types of psychosis smoke a lot.

Is this a significant reason relative to suicide amongst psychotics?
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Kind of like asking what happens if an aircraft breaks down during flight. It's very bad, so lots of engineering has to go into making sure it never happens.

Also, I agree with the article:

> launch a commercial operation by 2021

is an insanely optimistic goal.
As a Brit that moved to SF, this kind of thinking is precisely the reason why.
A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
PostgreSQL's explain analyze made readable
https://mazdatweaks.com

Android Auto is working, but looks like mazda locked down the USB ports so there’s some disassembly required if you’re past a certain firmware version.

Android Auto and CarPlay are supposed to be coming to recent mazda models but apparently it’s been promised a while. I’m gonna wait a year and then see what the state of that + the hack scene is but seems like interesting stuff!
> people are indeed very passionate about making the world a better place.

And how exactly do they plan to do this?
perhaps to process the information it is necessary to visualize the phantom environment where all information is transmitted in order to manage and construct as part of the processing the so-called reverse engineering;

understanding the electricity and visualizing the magnetism and diverse waves and its interactivities;
in order to detect as to the example of a bird landing on the high voltage wires and how the properties of the particles can be read as well as stored in plants etc. and how the materials are properly constructed in order to distort the assimilation necessary to start the machine ;

and then destroy the school logic as to algebra titles etc, in which it is part after the experiments to start organizing circuit logic;
maybe something about the quality of the electricity by improving the components including rust and dusting etc.
perhaps thus by sealing the components in the process of initializing the machine to verify the veracity of the circuits;
some degree of upgradeable serial number in order to connect other parts, perhaps identifying a first problem of logic;
- and perhaps the idealization of unique components like the Raspberry system-board? where volatile parts is taken as user Hard-Disk content being the logic of software?

so better focusing on the complexity required than the ultra-fast Quantum Computer processor? can be produced at higher levels for virtual realities; [?] Just Guess;
You're telling Apple that its okay to rip users off like yourself. No reason why that phone should cost that much.
Still cant understand why we cant simply ban them.
All the graffiti in the photo accompanying the article is in the Latin alphabet. What gives?