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If the buildings are valued enough, and the society can afford it, they are often rebuilt.
Rust FFI Deep Dive
I really miss church. Having a day where you knew you'd meet up with friendly people, have a potluck after, and maybe head to the beach, go for a hike, etc. was really nice.

It's a shame I was a fraud since I never truly believed, and eventually stopped pretending. I haven't found anything to fill that part of my life since.
Spectre variant 2 was a little more interesting in that it can trick the processor into speculative execution of something that's not a valid execution path for the victim context (by confusing it about the target of an indirect branch), but it still relies on the speculative execution happening in a context that is meant to have access to the targetted data. It's sort of halfway between this and the other Spectre variants; it can be fixed in hardware or software.

All three of these latest vulnerabilities are like Meltdown and L1TF in that they just allow speculative execution to completely ignore hardware-level access protections and read data from a completely different process, and there's nothing that can be done about it at the software level. (Originally, the comment you're replying to was posted on a discussion about all three, if I remember rightly.) All of these affect Intel but not AMD. It's not like modern AMD chips are exactly poor performers either.
Yes, but it typically means a significantly smaller speculative window -- rather than a ROB that can fill with several hundred instructions beyond a mispredicted branch, there is just the pipeline depth from fetch to commit worth of speculative work.
thank you! this is pretty amazing to see. i suspect lithium ionization will prevail a while longer but it’s good to see some radical pragmatic application of any potential alternatives!
> I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category.

I'm sorry to hear that. There is a lot of scammy behavior in the space, but there is also a lot of interesting work going on. It just turns out that the shitty people speak the loudest, so they're the ones you hear about, rather than all of the people heads down working hard on interesting problems.

I don't think it is intellectually honest to dismiss the entire space as a scam due to the bad actors.
This has been getting more and more clear for a while. I had already lost a lot of respect after Google decided to become a defense contractor, but this is just greedy and antithetical to the values that made most of us start using Google in the first place.

Google has been selling garbage ad placements for years which has been an obvious revenue boosting game, but nobody seemed to care.

Let’s hope Google gets its priorities back in order. I had thought Schmidt leaving the board was a good thing, but he seems to have been pushed out by those whose incentives are much more short term.

Companies can be hijacked by people with the wrong incentives.
> I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category.

This is unnecessary bias, though. If you look past the drama, cryptocurrency is a powerful and useful invention.
Oh, it won't idle, no worries. They're running as hard as they can. We use the 'leccy to produce the world's cleanest aluminium, nickel, silicon etc. These industries are what drove construction of the hydroelectric plants in the first place.

People are talking maybe we'll build the next gigafactory for batteries here. There is no shortage of electrochemical industries hungry for that power, and that green image.
I would encourage you not to google it. Google is full of worst case scenarios.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/05/26/free-range-kids-the-u...
Too much of our identity is tied to our employment.

Add to it the fact that our economic system is inflationary (and badly measured at that), not working literally causes one to fall behind.

So no one can actually take time off to do something different, cultivate lasting relationships, join a guitar club, play stupid games, travel, spend time with kids, spouses, family etc. without FOMO on inflation and career.
The problem you're having is you can't figure out how to use benchmarks to understand how a system works.

You're throwing up your hands and saying, "TOO DIFFERENT FROM REALITY!"

Other folks don't do that, and while not 1:1, they are able to correlate the performance of a benchmark with the performance of their own use case.

Try not to get wrapped around the axle on "everyone", by the way, it's not literal.
You can opt out of that revenue sharing thing if you don't want it.
IMHO, in this kind of a case it's not the employee who gives union a bad rep - it's the union. Why do they actually support this kind of behaviour?

(FWIW, it sounds this is actually worse in the US, where the unions are supposedly "weak", than in my country which has social democrats in government and "strong unions".)
Is interstellar still around? I love the tech, but I believe keybase affixed horse to wrong cart.
I would suggest osmand.

The basic version is free, you can download data state by state (country by country when you are traveling) so it doesn't need a data connection on the road (but online search is available if you do have a data connection). It does routing for cars / bikes / pedestrian and has decent turn-by-turn instructions that you can configure to your liking. The underlying data comes from OpenStreetMap (hence the name of OSM + and(roid)), so if the data is wrong you can fit it yourself.
Google Is About to Show a Lot More Ads on Mobile Phones
True. And one extremely sad thing for conservation, is that Twitch does NOT save all streams forever, it only keeps vods around that have been marked (I think by the creator?) as interesting. In one of those speedrun history videos, there was actually a case of a world record in a game, that was streamed, had many people witness it, but was not saved, and deleted by Twitch, and now we are not exactly sure how the run was actually performed, we just have the time for it. Luckily I think the record I mention was broken, but I can imagine that there are similar important moments out there that will be lost before anyone notices their value.

Imagine if we only had Twitch Vods of PT, and nobody actually saved them cause at the time there was no point to it, and they were all lost now.
This is a funny article. The author essentially says,

"Alan Kay says software is bad but he isn’t being entirely fair; he's missing things -- small, incremental improvements in some tools."

and

"The future will be visual programming. I have no idea what it could look like. But it's already happening. But not in a concrete way. But it could happen and in fact it would be easy if we weren't stuck in the past."
Facebook prepares advertisers for 'clear history'
Capitalism != Monopsony
Ugh. I can't wait for my Puri.sm.
You misunderstand both the functional properties of flash storage and telsa's blunder. Tesla's mistake was sending too much data to the chip, yes, but it exceeded the WRITE ENDURANCE, not the capacity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear

(Incidentally, not a shill or shareholder, but rooting for tesla due the fact GM pushed for leaded gasoline and ford would rather litigate than fix dangerous vehicles. We're rooting for the underdog here hoping for global positive change.)
Nobody minds brutalist architecture when it's used for a fortified airplane hangar.
> But, you know, it's one of those things where after a newspaper writes about something in your field, you start wondering if they are that ridiculously uninformed about the things that aren't in your field.

Or maybe you keep reading because you believe the other things, see the Gell-Mann amnesia effect,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
> Hypocrites are liars, deceivers, manipulators, immoral and unethical among other things.

You've proven yourself incapable of identifying hypocrisy, in part because of your strange denial of the existence of collective action problems, but you're also flattering yourself if you think hypocrisy is anything other than a universal human trait.

This is all silly. If you're in a debate, debate the issues, don't attack the character of your opponent. If you're a citizen evaluating or advocating for or against a policy position, debate the pros and cons of the policy. What you are so fixated on is a weird non-issue.
I think 30 hours is much more realistic for cognitively intensive work. Assuming people are not wasting a lot of time.

So this makes sense to me. And I love that the jobs I am seeing on there are remote.

However, the 30 hours thing reminds me of one issue that has occurred for me as a remote contract worker over the years which is a lack of benefits. Now, I know that supposedly everyone can just charge a ton of money and then easily cover all of their own insurance and other needs. For many people that works out. However, there is a large section of the market that, whether people want to admit it or not, does not have resources that really stretch to cover benefits with the pay that they offer.

And so these small companies hire people like me who want or need remote work, and they specifically avoid going over 30 hours so that they can get around laws related to benefits. I have had several 'contracts' like this. They were all in my opinion normal employment except that they made a weak attempt at avoiding employment laws by forbidding invoicing over 30 hours and maybe a few other things.

To be honest, I am very bad at networking and have been glad to have those opportunities. However, not having things like health insurance or a retirement fund is a pretty big issue.
The Fractal Nature of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Union is bad.

Just put into perspective.

In the Garden State Parkway in NJ, the Union Toll Plaza has 4 lanes that accept exact change. No people involved. Then few months ago, they "upgraded" the exact change lanes and put people to collect tolls, 24/7. Not to mention, it takes longer to pass the lane now if you need to pay cash.

That means, at 40hr/week per person, 168hr per week, they need 16 people to run this 4 lanes. Then another 2 to 3 people to cover for time off. Assume a low $50k per person/year, that's almost $1m per year.

What values do these toll collectors provide to society? The only reason why these jobs were created in the first place is because of the union. Don't you think money and manpower can spend on something better to serve the customers? Like repairing the road.
Ironically, a high performance, general purpose architecture without speculative execution might require a deep reinvestment in SMT. Instead of trying to speculatively make one thread fast to mask IO stalls, run a large pool of threads that can stall frequently but still keep the execution units and memory channels busy.

To avoid reintroducing these spectre like bugs, you'd have to conservatively design the per-thread execution to avoid those covert channels. Not only synchronously enforcing all logical ISA guarantees for paging and other exception states, but also using more heavy-handed tagging methods to partition TLB, cache, etc. for separate protection domains.
IIRC one issue of NorGer(a similar cable) was that German energy law prefers domestic plants over imported electricity.
This of course is a huge risk to investors of submarine cables and was an obstacle in getting it built.
Correct. The price especially is wrong on CMC when there is high volume events.

I also invite the OP to check out Blockmodo's API. We deliver this data to developers and institutional investors.

https://blockmodo.com/docs/api

We stream everything which includes the price, trades, news, social media and community posts, and code checkins.

On the price side, we have two channels. We have a stream channel and a ticker channel. The stream channel derives the price of tokens by looking at raw trades from a select set of exchanges which have been vettted.

We are based in SF and happy to help at no charge! Drop us a note.
don't you sign a liability waiver when entering Tesla beta program?
USF – Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format
> today with the Electoral Collage a vote in CA means exactly the same as a Vote in WY.

Depending on party. In California, which is reliably Democratic in presidential elections, a Democrat vote counts and a Republican vote doesn't. In Wyoming, which is reliably Republican in presidential elections, a Republican vote counts and a Democrat vote doesn't. Thus, the same vote means exactly the opposite in California as in Wyoming.
Video: The Making of Larian Studios' Divinity: Original Sin 2
Nobody is surprised. The accusation had enough technical details that technical people generally accepted it could work on one motherboard. The logistics of pulling it off in the real world were less believable. (even then China probably could)
Adding !s for startpage is a good option too. Google results without the tracking.
What libraries and NIFs do you use? I am interested in such workflows.
Fascinating. Is it correct that with both implementations, you cannot move the virtual sun around - it's always shining from the exact same angle?
CAC Is Not CAC
I agree with you. I don't know why you're being down-voted.
That doesn't appear to be true [1]. It seems like a majority of powertrain warranties are in the 4-6 year and 50k-70k mile range. Tesla's 4 year and 50k warranty on this part would therefore be on the low end, but it matches the powertrain warranties for Audi, BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, and several other manufacturers.

[1] - https://www.motor1.com/features/253277/comparing-new-vehicle...
I literally just attended Natalie Silvanovich's talk at Infiltrate. Very interesting work.
https://www.mcnutt.in/forum-explorer/?id=19615895

The circular tree your code generates is very cool. That presentation makes it a lot easier to see how the different threads relate than a flat tree structure.

It's especially fun to see how the topics weave through the conversations. Though commenters mostly stick to one topic on a particular tree, some of the same topics appear on siblings of adjacent trees.
"In Maps, ads will now appear in recommended search queries, on routing pages and during navigation"

Ugh, this is sad and clever at same time - during navigation screen is on all the time and one usually glances at route from time to time even if it is just "straight ahead" for couple of kilometers. Moreover ad will be potentially visible to all passengers as well.
It is original new research. Set in its context in the literature by the hundreds of references cited therein. Apologies for not just copying someone else's work. You would be well placed to actually read the patents/data/arguments/cited references. Especially before throwing around labels. At the end of the day, the drugs outperform in independent standardized tests at the National Cancer Institute. One is ready to enter Phase II clinical trials and these are soon to happen (for NSCLC). Yes there is much more work to do. And I am trying to do it. I am the first at this and the whole point of a patent(s) is to keep it like that (for a time): rendering a monopoly incentive that I can hopefully raise money against to move further foreward. Anyone that feels a tantrum coming on about patents, please look at how the crowdfunding campaign has bombed.
Go to the comments for a story.
Twitter baits developers into their API again
I read your argument, but I do not understand what you are taking exception to.
How about volunteer with a group advocating for something you deeply support?

Or how about Universal Unitarians?
After 30 hours is full time and they may need to pay benefits.
Yeah, but there have been horror stories about one parent who takes the children back to their home country. Typically it's been the dad back to Saudia Arabia but maybe that's just the stories that made the news.

The reason (I assume) for the 5-year expiration is that kids look a lot different in 5 years.

Here in Portland you can go to several post offices but the easier way is to go to the county headquarters. Very short wait time, photographer on premises (I keep wanting to just stand the kids against a wall but wife vetoes that), etc.

Last year I had business on Spring Break and my wife took our kids to British Columbia. I was a little surprised that they made it across the border without a hitch. No notarized letter, etc. We did have to have both parents notarize something for my son to cross the border for Boy Scouts.
On the importance of exposing our ideas to people who disagree with them
And with that idea, lies the grain of "truth": if you want friends, you have to buy them things or time.

Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies? Or how about free concerts? Or how about meeting up at hackerspaces on open house nights? Or encourage the hundreds of free things happening in a city at any one time? Or what about someone hosting a house party, and staying away from bars and club style events? You can't make money on free. I'm sure it'll be given lip service. And there's juicy data there that can be siphoned, correlated, and sold to the highest bidder. What's the chances of this complying with the GDPR?

This is how you degrade friendship to tit-for-tat in a business deal. It's just another adtech business that attempts to attack and hijack friend relationships by sneaking in the back door.
I just want to plug their course hardware security (at the VU University Amsterdam). It's an amazing course and it costs 1200 euro's for students who need to pay full price. I've learned a lot about Spectre, Meltdown and novel forms of cache attacks and Rowhammer when I took it.
I don't get this push towards visual programming. Visual programming works great for visual stuff (for example the Forms builder in VB6) but for general programming, not so much.

Programming is about abstract communication. If you look at human history, we see a progression from visual (cave drawings, pictograms) to text (cuneiform, alphabetic languages).

If you look at law which is in the business of trying to specifying stuff in detail, the murder statutes are written in text, not with pictures of knives and guns and a big red "x".
Nicely put! Did you notice that not even in sports can we relax and make lasting friendships and a relaxing atmosphere? If you didn't win, you went there for nothing. As a result, everybody seems to be concentrating on keeping score and winning and not on having a good time.
Art 3.6 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
"nobody complaining about the ballooning price."

Very few people would have been in a position to complain about the ballooning price.
What is "the CWA"?
I recognise the sarcasm, but technology isn't completely incapable of helping. Instead of trying to solve the "matching problem" which has all kinds of issues, there are apps (I work for one) that are helping people have more authentic relationships with people they already care about but just don't have the time/schedule/location to spend time with.
Illusory side effect?

Not at all illusory to my mind. We've never been more disconnected from people as we become ever more connected to the net. And that, is certainly not where I thought we'd end up or were even heading for most of the time I've worked in tech.

Society has had 40 years being persuaded to believe in the cult of the individual and that society and community does not exist, and did not matter anyway. All that real terms GDP growth gives fewer and fewer community services and resources because of reasons - political dogma and artificial commercialisation mostly.

Just about every resource, amenity, hobby and club my parents would recognise, and had locally, has been commercialised, consolidated and centralised. There's now fewer of them, and so they're further and further apart. Now it needs transport, and planning. Pubs, clubs, shops and small music venues are closing in record numbers, and besides who can afford (time or money) to go out any more? So Netflix and chill.

Now add apps that try to make every single human interaction no longer actually need human interaction. No need to talk to someone in a bar, or when meeting friends to get a date, we got Tinder marketing images to swipe, and instant messaging to avoid making a call or visit.

Maybe I'm just getting too old but I miss friends calling every week or so just to talk crap for 30 minutes. That got spaced ever wider - now comparatively rare - everyone's on fucking facebook or working on their instagram image. Calls are far more likely to feel intrusive. The other half can talk for England, but spends a fraction of the time on calls compared to 10 or 20 years ago.

Any more disconnected and there'll be a moat around everyone's houses. Convince me it's all illusory. :)
Why doesn't this type of news cause INTC to tank - they're up today. I know the market is up today, but (and it's probably my innate overreaction) I would think this sort of news would cause its stock to suffer.
Keybase is a really cool application regardless of Stellar, so don’t be deterred by the comments!

Free, encrypted git repos and file storage as well as ID assertion and chat.
How many megabytes of storage are subsidized by, say, 100 views per year?
> Intel was also planning to wait for at least another 6 months before bringing this to light

Of course, until the legally agreed date when they can dump shares so there’s no obvious proof that it’s insider trading. Isn’t that what (then) Intel CEO Brian Krzanich did after Meltdown/Spectre?
Thanks! We've updated the headline from “Google to show ads on homepage of mobile site, app”.
My 5-day week is (not unsual at) 37.5h - so 4/5 is 30.
> So with the network at our test site the max latency is decreased by roughly 99%, which is a nice improvement.

Calling 50s to .4s a “nice improvement” is an awesome understatement!
Although you are correct and GP was mistaken in their definition, `reflect` fits better here.

I don't see why deflect isn't acceptable. Previously the sun was shining on the hillside below, now it's been deflected to the town square.
That the cost of storage is falling exponentially certainly helps but it isn't necessary if we want to keep the old stuff.

In fact most of the exponential increase in storage space is used to cover the even more exponential increase in video file size.

But there is a limit on how big video can get. Our perception is limited and passed a certain point, we won't notice the improvement. Audio has been "perfect" for quite a while now, and with 4k video, we are getting there too. There is also a limit on the amount of content users can produce before people do nothing but film themselves.

We may find ourselves running out of stuff to store before we need to delete the old stuff.
Thera are a ton of OSM apps that are quite good but Google Maps still wins with the search function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWf2KnvgE8
You are excluding the weight of battery which far outweighs the saving of Electric Motors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ceVwF8rTo
No, it is still hard to hide the other electronics. But self driving cars will be powered by the windscreen.
The color on the parking garage helps.

Compare this monster in New Haven.

https://nrsys.com/site/wp-content/uploads/temple_street.jpg
phones don’t really have a design problem that can be solved with transparency other than a gimmick.

However being able to integrate the battery and the display into the same structural element opens design options for other applications e.g. smart glasses.

It also can be used for other applications such as say UV/IR spectrum solar panels with the battery integrated into them which could be made into a drop in window or structural glass for architecture or for automotive applications for example.