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The article is ridiculously biased. It makes absolutely no sense to talk about "moving away from Intel" to anything else because of Spectre. Every modern CPU is vulnerable to this type of attack. The "fix" involves turning off branch prediction, and that will slow down any CPU, from any vendor, of any platform. CPUs which are not affected generally do not take advantage of branch prediction anyways, and that generally makes them less powerful. Why the hell would anyone move from an underpowered Intel chip, spending copious amounts of money for such migration (you don't just change your CPU), and replace it with an even less powerful chilp?

And Meltdown... Well, that's just the FIRST platform specific vulnerability found using the Spectre strategy. There will be more, hell, there are probably more already, just not published yet.

No brand is safe, this is not an Intel bug, it's a bug in Computer Science itself. If anyone wants to profit from it, they'll need more than paid Bloomberg posts, they'll need to rethink how we build processors.
has anyone tried both Hands Off[0] and Little Snitch? How is Hands Off compared to LS?

Also: Radio Silence[1]?

[0]: https://www.oneperiodic.com/products/handsoff/
[1]: https://radiosilenceapp.com/
Is White bread nutritionally useless?
Yes, but the two things that keep people using Windows are legacy applications and games. They’d also have to be ported to ARM, and I don’t see that happening in a hurry.
> Likewise, AMD wouldn't have adopted EMIB for their project with Intel if conventional MCM packaging were sufficient

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.
You can't tell me and my crypto quantun AI blockchain startup what to do!
Not that strange. Can't never get enough tubes. Underground, above ground, on mars. Before long we'll be talking about tubes in space; what's hype-er than hyper?
I've heard that having lasik can increase one's glare sensitivity. That is, it may make driving at night more difficult due to glare from the headlamps of other vehicles.
I don’t get the first point. If you can afford a BMW, $80 a year is nothing. Why do I care if it costs $80 a year instead of say $700 up front?
"twice as cheap"

wtf
More than 20 disks.

Hence, the copyfest era -- meetings where people brought machines and blank floppies to spread the gospel.
Always wondered why there were never any stellar guides for the underlying libraries of FFmpeg. Had to do a couple of projects with hardware encoding and decoding and the best example I found of how to use it was ripping apart mpv. At least it has samples of how to use the hardware encode features...
It was a big decision in me buying my last car. I really wanted something with CarPlay because I absolutely DID NOT want to be stuck with the OEM garbage for the next 10 years.

Now that I’ve given up on even listening to NPR on my radio, I never leave CarPlay. Works fantastically. And it’s MILES better than the terrible OEM system (which reviews said was dramatically better than the previous version. Shudder.)
Congratulations on quitting!
I personally strongly dislike GraphQL between internal services.

GraphQL is amazing when your service has to respond to unpredictable queries, like with a public API. But if the queries can be predicted, like in-between services, you lose a lot of database performance by opening your service up to literally any query pattern imaginable. Specifically; nested graphql queries traveling along edges of your data graph will inevitably span multiple tables, but actually implementing it with a single database join is practically difficult, if not impossible in many cases.

GraphQL also doesn't play well with strongly typed languages. Its completely fundamental to how GraphQL works. Your best, safest bet is to have pre-written queries with types associated with those queries, but at that point its questionable exactly what benefit you're getting from GraphQL.

There are practically no mature GraphQL frameworks out there. In practice, Apollo is pretty good, though its incredible to me that you're already using schema-stitching in a production app when it was released just a month or two ago. We're not about to force services to adopt Node just for Apollo. There are a few other promising GraphQL servers in other languages, but none are at the point where they feel production hardened.
To clarify my point: an AMD64 CPU could still run in 32-bit mode, if the customer preferred. Much later, the x86_32 ABI work also retained small pointer sizes while providing additional benefits. Whereas there is no way for a customer to fully "unNUMA" an MCM CPU.
Come on. Just think little bit about what Intel (and their competitors) have given us. It is obvious that they are straining against the inevitable end of Moore’s prediction. I salute them. This despite of Spectre etc.
That’s probably smarter, I imagine I would just walk out in disgust. If that’s the way they want to treat me I don’t think I want to deal with them.
" pick an idea from an already-approved (Atari) catalogue of ideas..,"
Now that's a book I'd like to see. I wonder if it ever made it out of the company to the world at large.
Seems like directional radio/laser-in-tube would get you back that 1/3 by avoiding the internal reflection problem altogether.
I mean, evacuated tubes are ultimately a development of atmospheric railways, which date back to the 18th century.

There were definitely lots of proposals to put maglevs in evacuated tubes from not long after large amounts of funding started to pour into maglev design.
it is a bit of a tell that they have built and are marketing an app for the hyperloop.
Chances of an app built today being relevant in 5 years?

The project is complete and utter nonsense. Which maybe wouldn't be an issue if it the only effect was marketing for brand Musk and brand Branson. However, it is likely to distract from critical infrastructure that (given the political will) could be built today with proven, practical and affordable technology.
"That's exactly what a sucker would say"
The idea that a state is entitled to some cut of a purchase just because the purchaser lives in the state is absurd to me. If I can walk across state lines and buy something in a brick-and-mortar store and be charged that state's sales tax, why should I be taxed according to my own state's sales tax if I instead buy something online that's physically located in another state? Or, to make it less "techy", if I order something over the phone or by mail order, why should my state feel they deserve a cut of that?

I think it makes more sense for all purchases to be taxed at the rate where the seller resides, regardless of where the buyer is. So if I live in CA and buy something from a seller in NJ, I pay NJ tax, to NJ, even if the seller has no presence in CA. This has what I consider to be the nice effect of making this detail a part of the reason why you might want to move your operations to a particular state. State governments can offer businesses incentives to move/stay in-state if they do have a higher sales tax rate: they can offer other tax breaks to a company that will allow them to reduce prices so they can remain competitive, or states can just lower sales taxes to be more competitive. I'm not 100% sold on that latter bit, since I like the idea of taxing consumption (encourages saving and/or investment), but I like some of its other properties. This does get more complicated when a business has a presence in multiple states, but I'm sure someone can figure that out[0].

I don't find your argument about sellers moving out of the country to be persuasive. That sort of thing can be fixed with shipping taxes and/or import duties. If states or the US aren't implementing those sorts of things, that's the thing that should be fixed.

[0] Note that I'm looking at all this from the perspective of a "user" of the system. I don't know or care how complicated it is to implement by businesses or the states (as long as the complexity is limited such that compliance doesn't add undue costs); what I do care about is what seems fair and reasonable to purchasers who are subject to the taxes.

> 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.

I don't see that as an issue. Raising rates for other taxes is a perfectly reasonable action to take to keep state revenue stable and predictable. This is already a problem with sales taxes: recessions and booms affect sales taxes in ways that require states to adjust budget already.
Hyperloop is a variation on the Vactrain [1], a concept that goes back a long time. The thing that made Hyperloop different was the notion that you didn't need a hard vacuum in the tube -- the air in a Hyperloop tube will be really thin, but it will be there. The other thing notable about Musk's original proposal was that the cars would float on air bearings rather than a maglev track. I think most if not all of the current experimental Hyperloop systems are using maglev technology because it works better than the air bearings would. If Hyperloop systems adopt hard vacuum in the tubes, then I think you can make the case that Hyperloop is not new, it's just re-branded Vactrain. In reality, I don't know that this distinction will make any big difference.

I personally think we will ultimately see some functional passenger-carrying Hyperloop systems, but I don't know that they will be any more successful than maglev has been to date. I don't think we will see any systems using a hard vacuum (the classic Vactrain), because hard vacuums are, well, really hard to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
I was not familiar with Joe Frank but I did quite enjoy Fresh Air's remembrance of him that aired last night:

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/19/579097081/remembering-peabody...
All of these approaches are going to run into the reason why ageing is happening in the first place - to prevent cancer. Ageing is one of the original anti-oncogenic systems and anything that messes with the rate of aging without doing something about cancer is doomed to failure.

Interesting there are some human mutations that slow down the ageing rate [1]. These all cause an increased cancer rate, but 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).

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27663983
Fun fact, on the lowest memory available, cold start times are really bad in Python when you have a lot of libraries that need to be imported.

The Lambda runtime is exceedingly slow at that on the 128MB tier. This is in fact the case for Django apps, even in their default state.

Now here's where the fun fact starts: If a function times out during cold start, it hasn't successfully been warmed. That means upon its next trigger, it will coldstart again.

Now lets say you deploy a tiny little function over wsgi. You see in your metrics that it takes an avg of 200ms... now, you're a smart dev, you set its global timeout to 3 seconds down from the default of 30 seconds because you don't want to get billed more than necessary. But as it turns out, the cold start takes on average 10 seconds. Your function now never successfully completes.
I did, since that's not true. Knights Landing is discontinued and Knights Hill is suspended, but they are continuing development for DOE Aurora and other projects and targeting 2020-2021 - while existing stock is used regularly and the used market is plenty active. I get a lot of use out of the x200 line.
Porsche already has an idea of temporarily more horsepower for money, not even permanently.
I guess? I mean it is not poorly represented in the Top500 and Top50 for "crushingly bad" memory bandwidth, I'll say that much.
Are you insinuating that voting records are faked? Because raw data of voting is what I'm referring to.
Do it over video.
This is pure speculation on my part, but it’s the only concievable use for the cameras. They are laid out in the exact same way as the Samsung Odyssey headset which does that. I cant imagine they have solved the compositing issues involved with doing pass through AR yet, although I’d be impressed if that’s the case.
Pay $700 upfront and that value translates into the used market when you sell the car. Subscription fee, and that money goes straight to BMW Corporate.
BMWs just aren’t very good cars. Do research on reliability metrics across brands. If you want a car in the BMW range probably just get a Lexus or a Mercedes.
I really like the magnifying glass!

A comparison with much more recent history, OpenStreetMap in 2007 vs now: https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#13/51.5/0.0 - London is where OSM started, so it was pretty well mapped even in 2007 (OSM started in late 2004). If you look at other parts of the world or even the UK, it's easy to imagine how almost everyone thought it was a crazy idea that would never get off the ground.

There are some rendering issues (like water missing) due to the OSM schema going through some significant changes over the years.
> People obviously prefer SOVs to standing on trains. Why not give people what they want if we can develop technology to do it?

SOVs just take up so much space, about 20× that of normal standing density. In cities were even the mass transit is oversubscribed, there is no possible way to fit in SOV. Even burrowing in tunnels doesn't work--you'd still have to somehow squeeze the access ramps in. Cities that try to be SOV-centric instead of transit-centric end up having really large sprawl and lose the benefits of being close to anything.

To give you a sharp visual statement of the difference in space. When trains disgorged their passengers at Union Station in Toronto, people would often stream across the surrounding streets without particularly regard for crosswalks. When traffic was waiting at the light on Simcoe St, there was more people walking between the cars than there was sitting in the cars waiting for the light to change.
That's why companies doing HFT or stock exchanges often use microwave links... Just to crank it to eleven err to gain that 30% back.

Information Transmission Between Financial Markets in Chicago and New York: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5966v1.pdf

Time is money when it comes to microwaves: https://www.ft.com/content/2bf37898-b775-11e2-841e-00144feab...

Trading Fortunes Depend on a Mysterious Antenna in an Empty Field: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/mysteriou...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
The hue lights work fine over a standardized LAN protocol. I control them with both Google Home and F.lux on my desktop.
Inside Moscow's Metro
I’d argue that if you’re doing serverless right you should be abstracting away the particulars of the serverless provider and implementing your functions in an provider agnostic way.

A good example would be using something like apex/gateway which simply proxies lambda requests to golang standard http handlers. Virtually elminating vendor lock-in.

I think serverless has a place (yes even for business logic) but like anything you have to pick the right took for the job.

Apex/gateway: https://github.com/apex/gateway
This isn't about FreeBSD not getting a fix, it's about not getting advance notice. If to be exploited you require a remote unprivileged exploit first, I think you are at least an order of magnitude, if not multiple, less likely to be exploited than a cloud vps provider or desktop user that is downloading and running programs from non upstream sources.

I mean, should OpenBSD have received advance notice? What about QNX? What about all those embedded POS system providers? FreeBSD accounts for a very small percentage of high risk systems, and I think that explains this.
I see the entire catalog, item "001 – THE ENTIRE JOE FRANK COLLECTION – SHOWS AIRED 1978 – 2002" ... $1,510. I wonder how many they've sold.

The first time I ran across Joe Frank was traveling Phoenix <--> San Jose. I tuned into a public radio show, the background track was awesome, and an anthropology professor was discussing his experience at a conference, in a "confessional" interview style, and I thought "standard public radio fare". The storyline was plausible for about two minutes and then veered into a couple of off-kilter details ... then wandered into stranger and fantastical details. The result was thought-provoking, strange, and oddly satisfying. There were various other segments in like and different styles ... and the whole hour-long thing fit together so well.

In truth I haven't run across anyone ever that knows about Joe Frank's shows, I've enjoyed them over the years. I wish I could justify $1,510.
In rush hour in plenty of cities, trains will almost always be quicker, because they can move more people per hour than the road network can. (If you look at some metro systems, you can get up to 60,000 passengers per hour on a single track; for a highway, 2,000 cars per lane per hour is considered good: if you're all in SOVs, you're talking 30 lanes in each direction to be comparable with a single train line.)
That's not what this is about at all. It's about making sure things that are out are reordered and moving

Those things aren't an issue if you avoid outages to begin with. And while this specific link may have been referring more specifically to the re-facing issue, there is a broader story in play here, including another, different article about Whole Foods, which is more about their general ability to keep items in stock. I'm addressing the broader issue in my post above.
Fuzzing TCP servers
I agree with you, but that's the language the article used and I make it a point to let other people use the words they want to use to describe what they're trying to describe, unless the use is egregiously wrong or I can make an entertaining argument as to why they should use a different one. A lot of people would consider charging on the basis of "what the market will bear" as price gouging. So I didn't object to that so much.

That said, now that I think about it, BMWs are a luxury good, and charging what the market will bear is clearly fair game when it comes to luxuries. Competitive vs noncompetitive doesn't even need to come into play. So long as commodity automobiles are available at reasonable prices, luxury items available at higher prices are just adding diversity to the marketplace. Nothing wrong here.

So I totally agree with you that the premise of the article is bunk. Debating the philosophy of what journalists cover and why is pretty far out of my scope of knowledge, I'll admit. I think that journalism based on faulty premise is so ubiquitous that trying to fight it is all but pointless, so we need new forms of rigor to judge journalism by these days.

But back to the semantic point of debate, an analogous example in the "definition of colorful terminology shifting over time due to the original no longer being a thing" vein is how the definition of slavery shifted over time from "legitimate economic trade of human beings" to "any instance of forced labor", because the former didn't exist anymore (except in exactly one country in Africa) and slavery is just too poignant and riveting a word to just give up. I tried to fight this particular definitional shift myself until I realized it was pointless. Not everybody treats history with the same care and reverence that I do, and that's probably for the best.

Finally, what I took issue with on this article was net neutrality, not any of the other myriad problems with it, dunno really why. Perhaps it should have been their usage of 'price gouging'. For whatever reason it wasn't. I'd muse about it, but this comment is already far too long as it is.
I don't know what you mean by "I don't want anybody to be able listen to the events," since web apps can always be taken apart using the dev tools (including the network requests). But, putting that aside for a second, since you want a node server to send events to your react app, socket.io (open source, MIT license) should be able to help you. It works with node and you can bind it to a Component's state.

https://socket.io/
But what's the percentage of BMW drivers are HN readers/tech savvy? I would guess pretty small. The BMW salesman will probably say "This car comes with CarPlay, you can connect your iPhone to it, it costs $80 per year. And they will either pay it because if they can afford a BMW they'll think that's cheap; or they won't pay for it and just use BMW's iDrive (will they even get rid of iDrive on CarPlay-enabled cars?).

Later BMW can say, "Hey Apple, only x% of buyers want CarPlay". Speaking of iDrive, I wonder if this decision was forced by whichever C-level-guy (or whatever level) sees iDrive as his baby project.
Link? That's disgusting
Wirth's Law – Wikipedia
And yet we find ourselves talking about Libertarians while discussing anarchies ;)
>>GG Flip is a Golang library which generates the Javascript sign flip library. I preferred Go because lack of generics seemed like a good design choice.

God help us if this isn't satire.
I’ve been wanting to learn how to use a real programming language (I’m strictly front-end languages) and Nim looks great at first glance.
Well, we already have tech that can provide us with virtually lowest latency physically possible without having to dig any tunnels - high frequency radio waves :)
Of course bandwidth could be a problem but for pings it should be enough.
> They need not be zero energy.

How would that work exactly? First of all it means they could not escape a black hole, since they would be carrying energy out of it. It also means they would not travel in straight lines, since by carrying energy, they are subject to gravitational force, and boy of boy what a mess that would make of things if the gravity carrier was affected by its own gravity (or even the gravity of the neighbors).

Second when the graviton "landed" it would have to transfer energy. If they only act via gravity, how would you transfer energy to or from them?

And then if they carry energy, then what, energy is constantly streaming out of every particle in the universe? Or are you proposing two kinds of gravitons, those that carry energy and those that don't?

> They can indeed be associated with frequency.

Really? So how would their measured effects vary as their frequency varied?

Are you confusing gravitational waves with gravitons? The two are not the same.

> You can crate them just like any other field quanta.

No you could not because if you did you would be creating gravitational force out of nothing, which is impossible (violates a whole bunch on conservation laws).
I'd say the huge difference for Michael Phelps is that he has no obstacles in his way in seeing a psychiatrist. The rest of us have to worry about our health insurance, drug insurance, transportation, time off, etc.. I am not demeaning Mr. Phelps - I just want to make the point-- that seeing a psychiatrist regularly can make all the difference in mental health and state of being.
Serious question: for a transatlantic network, would it ever make sense to do something along the lines of buoy + helium balloons + laser or microwave? Or in a similar vain, would it make sense to attach microwave 'towers' to shipping vessels?

I could see something like that work really well for the HFT world, where some clever hacks could make use of an unstable, but extremely low latency connections.
Seems to be the big problem with this. I can't see it being anywhere near a high speed train. The distances between pods would have to be (very) significant and the pods themselves will be pretty small I bet as it's in a pressurised tunnel.

Other problems include branches and junctions which normal railways can do with no problem.
There's already LDC, a D compiler using the LLVM. The 3 D compilers (DMD, GDC, LDC) nicely complement each other.
Bhutan has the ban.
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