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Depending on your risk tolerance, mostly yes:

1) You can disable kPTI without opening the door to Meltdown (which let you directly read kernel memory as usermode).

2) You can re-enable hyperthreading while allowing virtualization (VMs) without obvious issues (l1tf used to allow users to read kernel memory through VMs). I don't know which, if any, distros do this, but it's the prudent thing to do if you care deeply about security. (Linux may have the scheduling fixes by now that also fix this, but I honestly haven't followed them, and they didn't have them in like November when I last checked.)

Others:

1) I'm honestly unsure if you can recompile kernels without "retpoline", but it's not a super big perf impact anyway, at least not compared to those two mitigations.

2) I'm not super familiar with the "MDS" vulnerabilities, so I don't know how bad the perf impact of their mitigations are, or how bad their impact is.

3) There's some TSX issues, which I'm also unfamiliar with, also probably don't matter much perf wise.

If you are paranoid, or have a multi-tenant machine, I'd still leave these on (and I'd particularly leave hyper-threading off, even on AMD), since we haven't stopped seeing new side channels. Hyper-threading is basically asking for problems on multi-tenant machines.

Honestly, if your machine is not multi-tenant, and you can tolerate some risk (e.g. you don't care if anyone sitting at your machine can read all of RAM, including potential malware), I'd just disable all this stuff. Unless you've run into particular hiccups (you compile linux kernels all day and you need the extra cores), I wouldn't do it.
iPhone 11, 13.3.1, no issues here. I do also run AdGuard, though that would typically break sites like this.
That doesn't sound good...
Upgrading SaltStack to Python 3
THE OSI rejected it and considered it equivalent to the public domain.
Yes, the payment is that you must contribute your changes back to the project.
I don't think the vast majority are buying electric cars with it being their only vehicle. Aren't 80% of Tesla owners also homeowners? Likely living with a spouse, who has a non electric car for those longer road trips. And maybe a Tesla owner uses the Tesla network for road trips but I think the majority of electric owners without a network have a gas car too.

Even then, I think those buying an electric can afford air travel.
Also, it seems that Germany and France are currently 7 or 8 days behind Italy, when plotting the diagnosed cases...

https://mobile.twitter.com/henrikenderlein/status/1236748772...

(Several plots in the thread)
> I believe that's a fair price to pay for breaking the software industry.

There is a theoretical legal question of whether APIs should be copyrightable, and then there are the practical issues.

As a purely legal matter, there is a strong (but not slam-dunk) case that an API is copyrightable. As a practical matter however, everyone in the software industry has been operating as if APIs were free to copy for decades, and enforcing such a copyright would break a ton of things.

Practical effects of a legal ruling are generally not "officially" considered by the judge, but more-often-than-not, they're operating behind the scenes and judges craft their opinions to support an established status-quo.
Yeah, looking forward to it. Especially with latest version of MSVC, based on this post from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/92bkxp/how_to_efficien...
... and if it's got enough mindshare to be worth having, but is AGPL or some other "too restrictive license", just reimplement (probably an old version of) it's APIs from scratch, and use misleading marketing weasel-words to lock in your existing users of other services who aren't paying enough attention. <smirk>
> Fortunatly some amazing people have been working on a stronger copyleft license (https://licensezero.com/licenses/parity)

How so?
You’re bad at living life.
I think you're miseducating your customers.

If creds leak, rotate those creds. Then, you check your logs to make sure there was no intrusion.

"Rotate the creds" gives the absolute best guarantee that they're useless. Three words I can explain to a nervous manager.

"What if someone got ahold of those creds?"

"Well, boss, here's the window in which it could have happened, and let's go over these logs together to see if it did."

Scrubbing the repo? I'm skeptical that you're getting rid of anything without push --force, and you sure as heck aren't running `git gc --prune` on the remote system, let alone `bfg`.
Every other nation on the list has socialized medicine and they leave have considerably shorter hospital stays. Japan is an outlier for their quite long avg. hospital stays.
Yes, You Should Work from Home to Help Fight Coronavirus Spread
Website loaded so slowly on my 4g I noped out of there
Yeah, it's pretty clear by this point that the virus has been spreading widely in the States for some time. Such is life.

Just wait until they actually start testing people in earnest; the infected numbers will skyrocket in a very short period of time, causing another stock crash and more mass panic.

It'll probably be at least another few weeks before it's time to buy with both fists, imo.
Amazon’s AI predicts product quality from customer feedback
Not that much has changed in 10 years and FAANGs had their IPOs 20 years ago.
"dinosaurs" as in "old, fat, coldhearted, ugly lizards" not as in "extinct"

It's not about the sales. It's about the brand.
That's a perfectly valid choice.

Other people's choice to avoid corporations from adopting the project without giving anything in return is also a perfectly valid choice.

(You have a higher chance of having your project become globally used, other people value that less than pull requests and/or money. And that's fine.)
Grading on a curve is nice, but it defeats the purpose of having a standard.
Stallman is that you?
Oh yes? A productivity bonanza you think? I'm in the Seattle area and my office has been shut down for at over a week now. It's not been as rosy as you think. Here's what it's actually like:

First, the company has always been extremely supportive. Many employees have been working from home exclusively for years and nearly all of us WFH from time to time at least. The processes and expectations are well established. Engineers have always been supplied with a laptop in addition to their workstation, so WFH has always been immediately possible for everyone. You get your pick of hardware, but all the systems and services and processes have been optimized to make it reasonable (not just possible) to get serious engineering work done with nothing but a Chromebook. I've seen many programmers working _at the office_ from a Chromebook because they liked the interface. But for most of us... it's not optimal.

Corp work has to be done on Corp-owned hardware. This is enforced by technical controls that can't readily be circumvented, so even if you have a great computer at home, you'll be working from your laptop. Many of us at the kitchen table. Unless, of course, you've gotten a corp-issued rig in your house... which can't have happened in the past couple of months because the computer hardware supply chain in China has been shut down for a long time. Think you'll just go buy a nice monitor from Best Buy and dock it with your laptop? You weren't the first to think that; computer monitors are sold out across the city (having 4 giant tech companies all go 100% WFH at the same time will do that).

At a team level, it's been a mess. Productivity is definitely not up. We still get a lot of stuff done and we haven't adjusted any of our forecasts, but coordination has become a whole lot harder. Sure the company has been generally ready for this for a long time, but as individuals we were a bit blind-sided by the suddenness of it. Oh, and the local school district has gone "remote-learning" as well for this month (think WFH, but for 9-year-olds), so local parents are doubling as home-school proctors. It's not a distraction-free environment.

Thing is, we wouldn't have offices if it we didn't work more efficiently there. It's not like working from home is something foreign to us; like I said, we all do it as often as we like. Each of us maybe a couple of days a month, as circumstances require. But sending everyone home at the same time, that hasn't been the utopia it might seem to the casual onlooker.
VMs and Linux aren't allowed, and apparently the software can detect if you're using either. I'm probably gonna use my macbook for it, but I just hate willingly installing such garbage.

https://www.proctoru.com/proctoru-live-resource-center
> I think if Oracle wins, the best thing that could happen is IBM immediately suing for infringment on SQL.

IBM's potential claim on SQL wouldn't be a threat to Oracle.

IBM uses Java heavily. The most likely outcome is that the two companies reach a deal to cross-license with maybe a modest amount of money exchanged, freeing them each to go after everyone else.
Also speaking of AWS Branding, do you find there’s a certain temperature you want to get the iron heated up to before you brand the various cattle-not-pets?
> The term Nazgûl has been used to refer to IBM's cadre of lawyers, with whom it has been said that IBM can blacken the sky - particularly with reference to the SCO v. IBM lawsuit because they supposedly never sleep, are utterly ruthless, and are completely loyal servants to their master.

I thought it was SCO who were the bad guys in that one?
Same areas will be able to snuff it out with luck, social distancing and contact tracing. Stopping flights prevent them from being reinfected. But quarantining incoming travelers might achieve the same thing with fewer drawbacks.
right, as I understand the information from Italy right now emergency services are basically shut down because system overburdened. So as a healthy 30 year old, don't go do any of those healthy sports you like because you might get an injury and that's it then.

Also patient 1 in Italy was a healthy marathon runner who at least ended up in intensive care, not sure if dead yet or not.
Most practices do have explicit rationale. For example, the practice of touching or knocking on wood after mentioning a hypothetical bad thing is explicitly justified by reference to the practice's power to prevent the mentioned misfortune from becoming true. This is the norm; mostly behaviors have explicit rationales whether or not those rationales justify the behaviors.

But as the example shows, a practice's rationale is generally not related to the function served by the practice. Even if a practice is adopted for straightforward reasons and more or less fulfills its intended purpose with few side effects, over time other practices will come to depend on that one in unclear ways. Where should that be written down?
I stopped being annoyed by it when I decided it was short for "I could care less, I guess, but only if I tried realllly hard."
Dollar resumes descent against safe-haven currencies as virus spreads
Thats good, but I just meant in general. At my school, there's a decent amount of international students, and it just sucks that they can't even go home and see their families, unlike the rest of us.
I just feel really sorry for them.
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There’s 60,000 icu beds in the US. We are in full flu season and a lot of those beds are being used. We need to slow down this virus till summer and hope it that inverts the curve so we have time to develop methods and drugs to minimize the risk of hospitalizations. If we don’t slow it down, we’ll see 3% mortality rates instead of sub 1%. Our path is similar to other countries, we’re just a few weeks behind.
>> Note that the government didn't "bail out" Ford either:

> OK sure. The government gave a private company taxpayer money that didn't need it so it's profits wouldn't suffer.

Agreed. Same as Tesla (in your words: "The government did not "bail out Tesla". They lent them $465 million, and Tesla paid it all back, plus interest, ten years before it was due.")

> Last sentance in the first paragraph of my link says "In the end, taxpayers lost $10.2 billion." (with a footnote to [0])

Thanks. Ironically that reference says "While the auto industry rescue resulted in a cost of $9.3 billion to the government". I guess maybe they are correcting for inflation?
The part that's missing from Ars' story is when IBM and Oracle shook hands and decided that SQL was a super-awesome standard that everyone else in the industry should be able adopt for free. Yay! So not happening, sry.

Java was different because Sun was actively trying to prevent the "SQL" or "UNIX" semi-compatible fork scenario. IANAL, but bad analogy.
lmao! you will be eating crow until you puke, idiot.
Going through SFO on Sunday, the TSA agent working the controls behind the X-ray screen sneezed into his hands. A colleague looked up at him, and then he sheepishly ceded his seat to the other agent and put on new gloves. As I was packing up my things on the other side of the metal detector, I saw him chatting with a more managerial looking TSA agent. Not sure what conclusion to draw from the brief observations, but it did leave an impression.
Contagion is funny.

Each sick person will only, on average in unmitigated conditions, get two or three other people sick. If you consider just a single infected person that doesn't seem that infectious at all. Yet because this is an exponential process that won't slow down until a significant fraction of the population is infected or immune 2-3 is enough to go from a couple people sick to most of the world in fairly short order.

Yet if you can reduce that 2-3 down to 1 or below even with relatively half-assed measures like telling some people to stay in inside, isolating known-infected and likely-infected persons, closing down some major spreading venues, telling people to wash their hands or use surgical masks... presto chango the disease dies out and no more than a tiny percentage of the population will get infected.

If the half-assed measures reduce the exponent but don't get it below 1, eventually most people will still get infected but it will take a lot longer. That extra time means the hospitals get less overloaded and lots of additional lives are saved because many covid19 cases require serious medical intervention (forced respiration). It also potentially creates time for better treatments to be created/discovered.

The best time to start seriously addressing this would have been weeks ago when it became clear that it was spreading from unknown and non-isolateable sources inside the country-- at least to the extent that it could be done without major damage... before there were thousands (likely hundreds of thousands now; given the observed spreading rates) of cases circulating in the US. But so long as the vast majority of the people who could eventually be infected are not yet infected, it's STILL a good idea.

On top of the risk we're facing from hospitals overloading, there is also a lot of potential for widespread panic once testing catches up and the numbers go from a rounding error to "big and scary looking" overnight. Beginning countermeasures earlier should help reduce the panic both by decreasing the peak infected numbers and by making it clear that the issue is being addressed.
Are people not aware at this point that the US will look like Italy/South Korea in a few weeks time? Hence, the hoarding of goods that has already begun..
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I was just thinking that walking meetings really work in today's environment because as you are walking you get the chance to get in contact with more people that were not originally supposed to be in the meeting and give them things, or get things from them.
national healthcare system that doesn't send 10% of the GDP to the insurance industry

although the state of the UK seems to suggest that this is a necessary rather than sufficient condition.
“You look busy”
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Slowing the spread is exactly what we need to do. Around 15% of the people who get COVID-19 need ICU care in order to keep breathing. The fatality rate with care is no higher than around 2%, and maybe less. Without medical access, it is around 15%, guaranteed.

The problem is there are only so many ICU beds available. If we self-isolate and slow the spread, then we can keep the number of dangerously ill people below our capacity limits, and make sure that everyone who needs care gets it. This is what Japan and South Korea have done. Italy did not react fast enough and now the fatality rate there is approaching 8%(!!).

With very strict measures, we might even stop the epidemic in its tracks. So far, only China is on track for doing that.
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two common scenarios when you can't charge at home: charge at work, supercharge
This is the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VScSEXRwUqQ
My current company is stating they "don't have a work from home policy." Very frustrating and conflicts with my try not to get sick policy ...
Ask HN: I want to do physics experiments and I have a Master's in Math
I have a Msc. in Math from DePaul University and I want to learn how people go from observations to theories. The problem is that there's no entry point: it seems the most basic of entrypoints require you be training since High School. That kind of competitiveness is not fair.

Where can I find positions for research assistants that are open to people who aren't prepared like others, or who have an atypical background?
Tesla on the Hunt for Cybertruck Plant Location in Central U.S.
I don’t know how you hang in there.
IMB cannot be sued for using code Oracle granted a perpetual license to them for, namely OpenJDK.
Super nitpick: SFO doesn't employ TSA agents. Those were CAS contractors.
Those are worst IMHO - when you look at the tricks used by top performers to look good, it does not reflect real life situation at all.
Honest question -- I am trying to see how she and others arrive at these numbers. (Believe me, I'm not a burying my head in the sand ... quite the opposite. I'm very concerned.)

Italy has 8,500 who are still sick. And yet, reports are that their medical system (which is good) is completely overwhelmed, to the point where treatable elderly are not even diagnosed [1].

Yet the numbers indicate they have about 3 hospital beds per 1000, or 186,000 beds, which are normally 80% full. So that means, 37,000 beds available.

So, 8,500 cases (not all of whom are in the hospital) should not overwhelm 37,000 beds, right?

Perhaps the number of _doctors and nurses_ are overwhelmed? Anybody know where to get reliable stats on that?

Anybody see what I'm missing? Or do you think I've gotten incorrect info?

I'm trying to arrive at a rational prediction of how bad things could be in the US, and how soon.

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...
Slowing the spread is the point. We have a lack of capacity for handling the urgent care cases. Once the capacity is over limit, in particular ventilation, people will die who otherwise would not die. The difference is in thousands of deaths.
Could you come up with a better name than bottle rocket?
IBM has their own implementations.
"Merkel went on to tell lawmakers that more events and large gatherings could be canceled, depending on the severity of the outbreak.

Postponing parliamentary proceedings is also a possibility, Merkel said."

wtf. This is what they are planning to do about it?
> To my eyes (auto mech first job/into car/driving experience more than i can afford): There has not been an interesting new car (on my sub 6 figure radar) in around 15 years.

How have you missed the best selling fun car for thirty years?
https://www.mazdausa.com/vehicles/2020-mx-5-miata
Believing mind reading and mind control is possible can lead to bad behavior and mental illness in some people. I'm all for the research of electrical data in the brain, as described. The cutting out of the gut biome and liquid signalling systems in the brain, among other influences that contribute to the mind, means you do not see the full picture of what you are attempting to control. Which is fine for progress and terrible for building beliefs about the world.
> The idea that so much existing infrastructure would infringe on this new kind of copyright is tough to accept, but at least it's very straightforward in a way, with brutal direct consequences.

I don't anticipate a doom-and-gloom scenario if APIs were all-of-a-sudden copyrightable. Today, open source software is backed by powerful companies, and there is far less lock-in to any particular set of software functionality. The likely outcome is that big tech companies would just cross-license their basic APIs like Win32, SQL, NTFS, POSIX-like functionality, and other basic interface layers.

Today in 2020, the value is not in the interface, but data. Facebook probably wouldn't care if you created a clone that used the same API structure. But if you started imported their user data, you could expect a lawsuit.
Slowing things down is important in order to keep the medical system from being overwhelmed.

We already know we don’t have enough ventilators or enough staff to care for the ill if we end up with a similar growth curve to what they’ve seen in Italy.
Won’t every person on earth in contact with other humans already be either immune by exposure or dead within 6 months?
Perhaps to some people it might be ridiculous.

This, however, is not applicable to hobbies. Hobbies are what one tries to save time for. If for you gym is a hobby, you should not be doing the above calculation.
Huh, interesting hypothesis. But I wonder why flu hits very young children so hard, then? Is SARS-CoV-2 more handily defeated by the innate system than flu?
Seems to be a prediction at the dramatic end in particular if the quick lockdowns and quarantines are kept up. As China has shown it's very possible to bring the numbers down.

Either way though even if it turns out to be a too high a prediction at least she speaks plainly and I guess electing a physicist who understands how these dynamics can work was a good idea.
I’m sure MongoDB really appreciates all the “social proof” that Amazon gave them.
I totally agree! you should rotate the keys! we explain how to get rid of it in terms of Git. This is in addition to rotating it. Sorry for not being clear
Europe doesn't have the same franchise laws as the US, and they still use dealers.
You make a very convincing case, but would most of the same apply to Earth's moon? I don't know how available water compares, but tilt seems to be the most important factor.
I would guess that Italy's severe Covid-19 cases and available hospital beds have very different geographic distributions.
The numbers are based on confirmed cases. The task of confirming cases is not a trivial matter -- you need test kits, and someone to administer them, and the virus doesn't wait around for you to test for it.
Poor you, again, lol.

Seriously, though, I hear you both for what you were actually doing (not really whining) and for how you are taking it. I personally have never been able to just let things roll off me,either (or, better yet, turn them into humor).