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Disclaimer: I know relatively little about differences between processor architectures, so this might be totally wrong because Intel might just have them over a barrel on this.

I think the major difference between this and, say, the Equifax blowup, is that Intel's institutional clients are affected by this.

I'm not sure what they're thinking internally, but it stands to reason that they're probably a bit upset at least: Their CapEx just went up to maintain the same level of computing power. I'd be surprised if internally Google is buying the "AMD is just as affected" line that Intel's been throwing out.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if they're at least evaluating AMD.

Or, again, maybe Intel just totally has them over a barrel and transitioning isn't feasible at all. It certainly doesn't paint a great picture of Intel's future if AMD does catch up, though.
you don't need the entire bridge to be tall either, 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 on the western side where I believe the water is deepest.
> forgive misdemeanors

> clearly not misdemeanors

Please don't read this to mean misdemeanors in the US legal sense of 'not a felony'. In the UK (where the trial is) misdemeanor would normally be understood to be 'something some people consider wrong' [0]. There is no concept of felony and misdemeanor in English law. I meant this in its ordinary English sense and I am sure we can both agree that this was a misdemeanor, as in 'not the right thing to do'.

[0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/misdeme...
How was "packaging meltdown/spectre together was a brilliant PR coup from intel"?

It was Google who found the exploits, and Google who published the exploits in the same document & their press release.

Google is the one who packaged these exploits together. How does Intel PR take credit for this?
I doubt the performance of a c++ web site would be better than c#/java or some other compiled languages for most non-trivial web sites. Once things like jits come into play, and you see large projects (1million+ loc) the performance advantage of c++ often disappears or it becomes less performant for things like web sites. Most companies do not have the time nor ability to do all those optimizations that theoretically exist that would make c++ more performant.

This isn't even counting the dev time difference
It all depends on what you're comparing against. For you I can imagine that we'd be a bad fit. We're actually going after those that now operate premium-rate numbers. They usually pay a lot more than 20% to their providers (it's difficult to say exactly since they have very complex pricing schemes).

You're business has to be centered around charging for calls in order for EagleDial to make sense. But for those use cases we believe we provide a lot of value.

edit: I'd be happy to hear more about what you do, and how we can improve EagleDial. Please send me an email on danielk@eagledial.com if you're interested in talking more.
@edf13 recently posted this 2007 BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6517611.stm

“
Cross-Channel bridge bid revealed

Plans for the Anglo-French bridge have been preserved

People could have driven between England and France across a huge suspension bridge if plans had been approved, records show.

A submission for a £3bn three-lane motorway link was made to transport officials in April 1981, files released by the National Archives show.

Engineering group LinktoEurope estimated motorists would pay a £5.60 toll charge and lorries £8 to cross.

The records did not show how seriously the government considered the plans.

Margaret Thatcher's government was discussing the Channel Tunnel project when the bridge plan was submitted for consideration.

[…]
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The wall isn’t happening because it’s nothing more than a campaign lie and an extension of the electorate’s racism, which, like the wall, has no place in modern society and is unsustainable in the long-term.
I think borders between countries that keep people out are inhumane. Also building literal walls at great cost is to me the opposite of what we need - we need to connect people not separate them. I do not believe immigrants from South America and Central America are a threat to us.
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Care to share a link to the issue / pr?
Statistically, Unions have (on paper at least) proven to be more stable and better for employees. Not to mention, its a natural counter weight to the Tycoon owner, who wants to behave like the Koch Brothers and Murdoch.

A paper without a union, is not worth vesting my time in reading really. As no one has any vested interest in its credibility or upkeep. And if no one has any interest in that, then I don't either.
Then maybe I misunderstood what you mean by entry level. Or maybe you own a model that is an exception. I deal with cheap (sub $200) chinese android phones a lot because we do development in React Native but it still has to run smoothly on these things, and I've never encountered these issues with phones newer than 2015.
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It's almost as if the author didn't watch the Vegas Keynote. It was the very first thing that was addressed when the CEO spoke.
CTemplate is a not-unreasonable option for C++ as well.
I wrote my blog site in C. Runs as CGI and works just as fast as other tech stacks, say PHP.

C has very low startup time compare to say Java. And process fork-exec isn't as heavy weight under Linux as in Windows.
I think the big institutional clients are always evaluating AMD, and even more exotic options. But I don't think this bug has materially affected the equation here. Savvy buyers understand that there will occasionally be bugs, and this one has already been mitigated. How Intel verbally responds to the issue matters much less than their actions, because the words do not affect the costs of using their products, and the actions do.

I am deeply skeptical of the commentary on Intel's attitude and press releases. I really doubt that matters much to most buyers.
The performance would be notable. However, hardware is cheap these days.
of course not, the moral choice is to give everyone equal access to weapons and military equipment.
Can someone explain to me why this has (so many) upvotes? This is like elementary undergraduate econ stats and kind of trivial?

There's very little content either, it's literally a reformulation of the formula, no interesting graphs or geometric interpretation. What I expected from a title like "Linear Regression By Hand" was the minimization of some quadratic error function, by hand (i.e. using pencil and paper).
Yeah... this example code is bad. Not to mention that CGI is slow, problematic, and chock full of potential security issues. At the very least, spawning a process per request is a DOS attack waiting to happen, even if the code were immaculate.
Yes, it is entirely possible.
You do realize that what you actually just said is: the difference is large because your valued customers in the second tier with the gigantic 356% price jump, are paying for your perhaps overly generous free plan.

What you maybe should have said is (speaking from a sales perspective): the reason there's a 356% jump in price, is because of an incredible value proposition step up of 1,000% in what you're getting!

I think that price gap is a classic, and very large, opening for a competitor. There's a ~$89-$129 style plan missing in there, that is a logical step up from $59. That's obviously just my opinion. I also happen to be a big fan of charging more rather than less, in the service space; that under-charging is a common mistake young companies make. And I still can't make sense of $59 to $269 as a step.

I launched a new business in the last quarter. It has a user feed system that is fairly standard. I've built several feed-like features in the last decade. I looked at Stream a while back, having run across it while trying to avoid building my own again. The good news is, I like your product, it got my attention. That price jump between plans, for a very modest increase in service volume, made it a non-starter. It's too easy and cheap to build my own, which then gives me tight control over its evolution over time as well. It's basically impossible at your price points to compete with what I can just do for myself relatively quickly; that $269 product can be run on a low-cost Digital Ocean droplet in terms of its actual resource demands. You're charging for the quality of your software product primarily, and some support, which makes perfect sense. The problem, is that I can build that and scale it to the $899 plan and save myself $10k a year. If you could do 10 million updates at ~$50-$75 / month, with normal plan stepping from there, it'd be interesting. 250k to 350k updates per day is not an immense sum, just 20,000 daily active users can saturate that pretty easily.
I started my career as a designer and eventually taught myself programming. I moved from front-end to back-end development over the course of a few years. I unfortunately had to completely remove any design-related skills from my resume because I would always end up in a front-end designer role, even though I preferred and was more passionate about back-end development roles.

I have found my design skill set valuable for my own businesses and side projects, but when working for an employer I have found the skill set burdensome and counter-productive for my career direction. (It’s worth mentioning that I do not enjoy doing design-work professionally, as I usually feel like I have no creative freedom and end up feeling like a paintbrush.)
Study: The politics of space mining – An account of a simulation game

Citation: Paikowsky, Deganit. Tzezana, Roey. Acta Astronautica Volume 142, January 2018, 10-17.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.10.016

DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.10.016

Abstract: Celestial bodies like the Moon and asteroids contain materials and precious metals, which are valuable for human activity on Earth and beyond. Space mining has been mainly relegated to the realm of science fiction, and was not treated seriously by the international community. The private industry is starting to assemble towards space mining, and success on this front would have major impact on all nations. We present in this paper a review of current space mining ventures, and the international legislation, which could stand in their way - or aid them in their mission. Following that, we present the results of a role-playing simulation in which the role of several important nations was played by students of international relations. The results of the simulation are used as a basis for forecasting the potential initial responses of the nations of the world to a successful space mining operation in the future.

Highlights:

• The realization of space exploitation will disrupt world politics.

• The simulation highlighted the political tensions and different interests.

• Inclusive international process is needed to reach fast adaptation.

• Creative mechanisms are needed to allow sharing of new global wealth.
So the wall isn't happening because it is a lie? That isn't a very strong argument.
Having a better and more expressive type system.
Very nicely put. I agree it's an evolution, but I see a lot of companies waste a lot of time on the monolith -> services transition phase.

Usually what happens is that they try a complete rewrite which turns out to be rather expensive (especially in opportunity cost). They should ideally just move the pain points (ie. performance problems) to services and optimize that, but the enthusiasm towards the shiny new way of doing things that will fix their problems is so high that they opt for the riskier move of rewriting all the things.

That scenario is simply so dangerous and expensive that companies will be better off starting with a proper distributed framework - which doesn't really exists yet, but we are slowly getting there.

Anyway, this is just my 2c but I have seen this pattern of full blown rewrite at a lot of places.
Spectre is fundamental to processor design, but Meltdown is pretty much a bug.
The US government can break TOR and pretty much everything else when they really want. That’s no protection.
CGI isn't slow -- starting interpreters is slow. Starting Python or Ruby can easily be 1000x more expensive than starting a process in C, which takes MICROSECONDS, not hundreds of milliseconds.

See this 7 year old message by Richard Hipp (of sqlite):

https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124

This server takes over a quarter million requests per day,
10GB of traffic/day, and it does so using less than 3% of of the CPU on a virtual machine that is a 1/20th slice of a real server.
The problem is that many developers don't care, they just want to do something that works and move on.

This is not specific to C++, but it is worse in C and C++ given the nature of these languages.

It also doesn't help that management even cares less about QA than those devs.
It's literally the first thing he mentioned in the speech, though I admit he likely went too fast on the subject and was not convincing or reassuring at all
Spectre affects all advanced chips with out-of-order execution.

But Spectre cannot break kernel memory. Its more of a "new class" of bug, similar to how "Buffer Overflows" don't describe a particular attack, but a methodology that hackers will use to exploit new bugs.

Spectre affects virtually every high-performance computer in the world. Smartphones, SPARC, PowerPC, Intel, AMD, ARM. All of these designs use out-of-order execution, and in theory, a rogue Javascript would be able to read the rest of process memory if a programmer isn't careful about how things work.

Meltdown took it one step further: and showed that code could read Kernel memory. That was an Intel-specific mistake.
What do you scrape?
It makes zero sense to look at nationwide average for Brazil to draw any conclusions without looking at per-state or per-region data.

Northern region has places with 60+ homicide rate, southern region has places with 3-4 homicide rate.

Take a look at this article:
https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_unidades_federativa...

And this map with some of the highest/lowest homicide rates:
http://55ca7cd0-f8ac-0132-1185-705681baa5c1.s3-website-sa-ea...

Both in Portuguese but I think it's not hard to make sense of the numbers (rate is 1/100k, map colours describe increase/decrease in violence, bottom lines show current top/bottom rates in cities with 100k+ residents).
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Why just countries? Do you live your personal life like this? Is your private property, and private house with locks on it inhumane?
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Speculatively executing code without performing memory access checks seems like a big design/architecture mistake. Not really the kind of thing that testing or verification is aimed at.
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This is incredible (in a bad way). How is it not on the front page of every news site?
What qualifies this opinion?

Value of nobody's on the net and all..
Frankly I think this says something about the security of modern OS's that two of the most recent exploits have been hardware based.
Building parts of a web site backend in C++, maybe. Anything else with the current state of technology seems futile for a production environment.
Don’t be generous to Intel. I work in a vertical strategic to Intel, and get regularly called on by them and get NDA presentations and the ability to talk to engineers about strategic projects.

For this incident, I got an email a few hours after the embargo was lifted, that essentially said that it was no big deal and referenced public information. The purpose of the communication was to have people like me message up the chain that this was no big deal. That misdirection is inexcusable, particularly when they could have given meaningful guidance under NDA.

We had some follow up questions, which weren’t really answered. We were directed to hardware OEMs, as ETA for microcode updates are out of their control and according to Intel are the full responsibility of the OEM. In reality, Intel was struggling to deliver the code, and the OEMs we deal with issued patches in hours, and had to pull back updates due to Intel code revisions.

Personally, I do have alternatives for strategic parts of the business that drive high margin Intel sales. Many critical aspects of my business can run on Intel or Power platforms, and we can engineer solutions either way in similar cost footprints.

Less strategic aspects of the business, like end user compute now have niche competitors that can gobble up Intel business very quickly. Half of my desktop users run on VDI, mostly with AMD thin clients. 50% of my constituencies can run their core line of business functions on iOS. iPad with a keyboard could reduce my Intel desktop spend by 50-75% for 2-3 years.
Java can be C like when compiled into native code, OpenJDK isn't the only JVM around.
Shouldn't it be log_2(10^22,459,157,718,361)?
In Catholicism (and probably in some other religions), there is a practice of an "examination of conscience." It has helped me to make improvements of the kind you refer to.

Basically, the essence is to take 5 minutes at the very end of the day to think back through each hour of the day, perhaps with a couple of focus questions (eg "did I become angry, even internally"). You use your will to sincerely regret anything that you think was wrong, and maybe use a bit of problem solving to see how it could have gone differently.

Five minutes at the end of the day (maybe it stays on your mind as you sleep? but that's just my bro-science) every day for a month should help you make some small steps.
>Unless you can share some other resource that suggests something else, I find your claim to be completely unfounded.

The paragraph prior to the one you quoted:

At one point on an internet chat he said
that he had considered not sharing any more
information “because it put lives at risk,
but then I thought they are killing innocent
people every day”, the court heard.

He was aware that he was doing harm to people, and justified it based on his belief that his victims were doing greater harm.
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I disagree with you and I'm sad that you're getting downvoted so badly. Your objections in this thread are common and reasonable, and they deserve reasonable responses.
Isn't it way too expensive, just like recovering tons of gold from the bottom of the sea from sunken ships?
Oh, but it IS an industry wide problem. Keep in mind Meltdown also affects some ARM processors, not only Intel.

And Intel did not have a saying in packaging both vulnerabilities together. Researchers at Project Zero did, and with good reason, since both exploit the same function through different means.
I can’t speak for everyone but I think of the C++ of today as being dangerously close to the C++ of 1998 because there is so much 1998 C++ code still being linked into most C++ projects. C++17 is incredibly powerful but it’s also hard to wield correctly and most people don’t have those skills yet (and almost none did while writing that 1998-originated library you eventually find yourself need to use). It’s not just the language that matters, it’s how that language gets used and by whom.
How do they want to bring their stuff back to earth? Is there any technology on the horizon that allows us to bring heavy masses to Earth in an affordable way?
That chart is far from surprising. I was shocked to find out that 52% of US homicides recorded between 1980 and 2008 were committed by black offenders, but only around 13% of Americans are black! Pointing to poverty rates is not a satisfactory answer. Whatever the reason, people should be able to acknowledge hard truths and still uphold equal rights.
As replied in another thread, IoT.

There aren't many options when you just have a few hundred KB.
The Danyang-Kunshan is mainly over land. It's an elevated railway line. It does cross the Yangcheng Lake, but that part is only 9km long. It's not a suspended bridge, there are piles every 80m. Not suitable for heavy maritime traffic. The lake has an average depth of 2m. https://www.lakepedia.com/lake/yangcheng.html
It's not comparable as a channel crossing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyang%E2%80%93Kunshan_Grand_...

Likewise the depth of Jiaozhou bay is 10 to 15m. The channel is 45m deep between Calais and Dover (the shortest and shallowest crossing). Moreover the strait of Dover (or Pas de Calais in french) is the busiest shipping lane in the world

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/22/article-2636152-1E...
The wall isn’t happening because, among other reasons, 2,000-mile long structures aren’t trivial to build, especially when subject to the whims of the political machine. Have you considered too just how long the thing would take? We’d probably be well into the next administration by the time it even got close.
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If at some point you study scientific philosophy, you will learn a lot of terminology that makes it way easier to discuss these things. You might want to look up the anti-realist school of thought and obviously the Kantian view of it.
HN supports THIN SPACE just fine. I used it in my comment, and so did you.

I’m not at all fond of the thin space digit grouping practice; to my Australian eyes it tends to look fairly terrible in most places, like bad kerning.

Your comment also shows another catastrophic weakness of using a regular thin space for digit grouping without additional magic: you need a non-breaking thin space, but there isn’t one. On my comments page, your comment shows the 1 on one line, and the 234 on the next.

I love my YYYY-MM-DD dates (I use it everywhere where the date format isn’t prescribed, and thus get the occasional odd look on forms and such from people aren’t used to that form of date—so you can see I’m not afraid of deviating from local conventions to prefer superior or sometimes merely international ones), but I hate and consequently don’t use thin space digit grouping in general.
There is certainly demand for more freight capacity; the ferries seem to be the biggest problem with regular delays.

When these delays occur it's not unusual for the serving motorway to double as make-shift lorry park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Stack

For regular passenger cars, I'm not so sure as it's mostly holiday traffic. Most people travelling for business would use the Eurostar (a regular passenger express) and I don't see much complaints about the capacity of this?
Google were quite explicit about the distinction between the two and the fact that the more severe of the two only affected Intel. Intel's press releases, on the other hand, used the existence of Spectre - before the full details had even left embargo - to convince people that there was no Intel-specific problem, indeed no problem at all, just a industry-wide design decision.
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There shouldn't need to be such a choice. Make both more difficult - license plate tracking and inappropriate lookups.