skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a JIT doesn't automatically prevent Spectre/Meltdown attacks, but as far as I'm aware, they all involve either a conditional memory operation in a speculative operation or a speculative indirect load using an address generated via speculative execution.

I think some data flow analysis in the JIT would allow you to replace speculative conditional loads with unconditional loads followed by speculative conditional register-to-register moves (including shadow register commit/rollback). (Unconditional prefetches would be weaker protection if the hardware is free to drop prefetches when the memory bus is busy.) Data flow analysis should also allow you to keep track of which addresses are calculated from data retrieved via speculative operations, and refuse to emit those loads where they'd execute before it's known if the predicating speculation was correct.

Any time you reduce the JIT / processor's instruction scheduling flexibility, you're going to reduce its performance, but I don't see a way to mitigate better than outlined above.

I think any hardware-based mitigations are along the same lines as outlined above, but are much less capable of performing dataflow analysis in hardware, so I think they'd have to be much more conservative than a software-controlled speculation that's much more capable of dataflow analysis.

Though, my understanding of the subject is cursory and there could very well be variants of the attacks not covered by the outline above and there may be hardware mitigations that work differently than unconditional prefetches or a basic hardware "speculation tainted" bit to keep track of data loaded by speculative operations and prevent indirect memory operations via "speculation tainted" addresses.

I can think of all kinds of schemes that instead of using a single "tainted" bit, assign each in-flight stream of speculation a "speculation domain" number (presumably reserving speculative domain zero for non-speculative execution), and then perform some data flow analysis, along with forwarding networks to re-mark all uops for a given domain to the non-speculative domain or no-op out all uops marked with a given domain. From there, you can start doing a lot of data flow analysis in hardware, keeping track of which domain loaded which data and preventing any sort of conditional or indirect memory uops from operating on speculative data, but it seems like it would very quickly eat up a lot of transistor budget, getting more complicated than the out-of-order scheduling logic.
> shortly before his death, was describing very serious, very ruthless strategy to accomplish goals

Do you have a link for this?
Microsoft releases the roadmap for a lot of their products.

Ex. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan...
A lot of good WebAssembly stuff in there. WASM threads, bulk memory ops are big performance wins, and reference types huge for DOM interoperation.
I'm currently trapped in the U.S. waiting for my passport renewal, which currently takes 3-4 months. Since you have to mail in your existing passport to get your passport renewed, I literally have no passport until the new one arrives in the mail. People who applied for their new passports in March are only now getting their new passports in the mail today.

I know someone will say "oh you shouldn't be traveling anyways". I don't live in the U.S. anymore, I live abroad. I only returned to the U.S. because I had hit my visa limit abroad, and thought I could get my passport renewed within a reasonable time frame in the U.S. (max 1 month). How stupid of me to assume my country took passport processing seriously and with any sense of urgency.
https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/114

Used to be "Drop ICE", created by @holman, one of the people who built GitHub.

It's now deleted, because Microsoft doesn't want you discussing their contracts with the US military/paramilitary.
I don't think flu strains are a type of coronavirus but I think some of the common cold strains are.
There are different kinds of tourists as well. Shuffling hoards of cruise ship passengers out on a day trip to snap their Instagram selfies with a few landmarks and buy some mass-produced tchotchkes from the gift shops before returning to the ship for dinner has a massive impact on quality of living for locals (and even other higher value, lower impact tourists) while doing very little for the local economy.

I really hope when this is over we see a global end to the bargain mass tourism that's been causing so much damage to cities around the world in recent years.
Have you seen their model verification stuff? I don't say there's no improvements to be made, but what I saw when I looked at it last year seemed pretty strict.
What defines a "self-made" man?

IMO, you don't have to directly inherit a large sum of cash or assets to disqualify you from being considered self-made. People consider Bill Gates to be self-made because he founded Microsoft, but his father was a prominent lawyer and his mother was on the board of directors for a bank and the United Way. His parents were already millionaires with connections. Bill was already very likely to be successful.
> Yeah you have the chance to make a typo, but I guess preventing that kind of error is not what this is about, is it?

That's the kind of error it catches, where you entered one of the entries (say, the cash outflow) and not the other (say, the invoice you were paying) or they were not consistent.

Note it's not always as easy as "this number goes into two places". One entry in one account may correspond to multiple entries elsewhere (say, price plus tax). At least that's what I think, nobody told me not to do that or I don't remember...

And it's literaly a checksum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balance

"The purpose of a trial balance is to prove that the value of all the debit value balances equals the total of all the credit value balances. If the total of the debit column does not equal the total value of the credit column then this would show that there is an error in the nominal ledger accounts."
I strongly doubt that. It's the global supply chain that prevent the another WW.
Most OSes and devices randomize MAC addresses during scans to prevent this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing#MAC_Address_Rando...

It's also not guaranteed that every person is carrying a phone or that their phone is turned on.
That's the spirit! Only trust what they say when it comports with what you already believe
If you go through life looking to be offended, guess what? You're going to get offended.
I created the same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences
Microsoft’s first product ever was a port. MS-DOS was literally just someone else’s product, rebranded. Bill Gates’ wealth was built on the backs of many, many people, many of whom he just flat-out screwed over. Microsoft was anti-competitive almost from the very start, that’s why Gates is wealthy, not because he built himself up from nothing.
I'm not going to spend my time investigating and debating the relative awfulness each of those atrocities, but I think if you spent the time to dig in, you would see that there are pretty clear differences between the events you mention and the ones I did. It's simply untrue to say there isn't a difference between supporting horrible people and actively planning and executing a genocide.

I grew up somewhere that was a victim of both European and American imperialism and they really aren't comparable. Even in some of the Latin American countries worst hurt by American capitalist imperialism, I think it would probably be unfair to say that it was equal to or worse than what European colonialism did.
Nope! I was a bit worried about flying with it, but no leaks there either.
I think I have to agree with some comments that it's very unlikely companies do get a lot of value from these surveillance programmes. From a side, it all sounds super advanced and promising,but in the reality it's usually more down to earth:
After buying a dehumidifier from Amazon, they keep sending emails with various dehumidifier options.. Like I need 20 of them. Sainsbury's tracks my shopping via Nectar card just to give me 5p discount on the cucumbers and crisps I sometimes buy. Where's all the sophistication? With all the tracking and analytics, one would think they could better track shopper sentiment,yet thousands of tons of unsold food and other products get dumped every day.
Also,just because someone is doing it, that doesn't mean it's profitable. A lot of CEOs get sold all this AI/ML hype and because they have genuine fears of being left out, they just roll with it.
Hypothesis: Hospitals Are the Vector
How do we know that other seasonal viruses don't also "spread fine" during summer, except that the illness is less severe?
What are the important lessons you learnt in life?
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As counter intuitive as it sounds there is reason to believe that currently the penetration of the disease is much lower than in March.

The modeling from IMHE claims that in March the number of daily new infections were above 250K whereas today are about 120K.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

see the tab called Infections and Testing

It just that we were measuring a lot many more people now. But it is true that in June there were fewer cases than today, but by far the most cases were in the Winter.

How else would be in the situation where 10% of population is already seropostive and at least as many don't develop antibodies since their symptoms are mild, thus we are probably over 20% of people having had the disease.
> It wasn’t on westerners radars until February in any serious way.

I'm no scientist but that was the end of Winter and there were very few people with it at the time.

Isn't it possible that it is indeed seasonal and it's now in its "weak phase"?
The more they say the less credibility they have
> after some time that got kind of meh.

When I was younger, I used to while away time by browsing exotic vacation destinations (that I couldn't nearly afford) on travel websites. One day, I got an offer to work at one of them. After about a month there, the last damned thing in the world I wanted to spend my free time doing was looking at travel website destinations. Made me re-evaluate what sort of jobs I'd want to do day in and day out.
I really love the idea of photofeeler, and I want it to work.

Just to share my 2c: I can't get over how strange the pricing structure for photofeeler is. I've come to the site a few times with my credit card ready, willing to drop a few dollars to get results.... but the abstraction of your pricing model is just confusing enough that I've dropped off the funnel each time.

Ok, so I need credits or karma to run a test. So I answer a few photos, get my karma to medium, and leave the test over night. The results are often inconclusive - my photos are consistently rating as "meh->ok" across the board. Ok, that's fine, I'll try another. Upload another, get more karma, leave that over night. Ok, this photo has +.8 attractiveness, but -.6 smart. Ok, not sure what to do with that information, but it's intriguing. The results are close enough, that I'm curious what the margin of error is if each is getting ~10 votes.

Ok, well maybe this is just the downside of the freemium model. Let's take a look and see what I can buy. 40 credits for $10. Ok, so 1 credit is .25c. Cool. What's a credit get me. A CREDIT GETS ME ONE VOTE! Ok, hold on, that can't be right.

Let's think about this backwards. How many credits do I need? So I probly want 15-20 votes on any one photo to get enough data to be conclusive about the results. Sure. And I'll want to run at least 3 photos. So, I'm looking at $15 per test to know which of 3 photos is preferred.... but realistically if I want to get rid of my own biases, I'd be testing 5-10 photos... Hmmmmm.

At this point I do some work to get some free karma (note: if there were hotkeys for voting it would make a WORLD of difference).... leave the test over night. Look at it the next day, say "meh, results are inconclusive based on sample size" and forget about the site for 8 months.
> you have half of all restaurants on Yelp permanently closing

You misunderstood the data. Half of all restaurants that temporarily closed went on to permanently close. >98% of restaurants stayed open, less than 1% permanently closed.
Sure, so what
Eh… I was just in a Harley dealer last weekend and a salescritter was riding one around the showroom (…yeah…) and it was loud. I know they have db requirements to be imported or whatever, but I don't get the sense that Harley-Davidson is just now building quiet bikes.
CDO is a political officer assigned to the company who enforces social/political rules for corporations of a certain political persuasion. I think everyone can see that now. The social/political rules are not diverse, legal, or moral.
Not trying to be rude here, but have you designed a plastic part for production? This isn't remotely practical for many if not most applications that I have seen. Cost, tolerance, surface finish, yield are all major issues. It's also far less automatable than injection molding. Post processing an SLA part for example is very manual, injection molded parts come out of the tool ready for use. What do you think is going to change about that?
Thanks for the answer! I have a followup question: if the server is Linux, that means the app itself (or the "solution") is Linux based, which means that an OCaml solution would have to compile (or cross-compile to) and run on Linux, which means that ARM64 on Linux is relevant :)

Unless of course most OCaml devs don't target Linux.
You can put the entire web into “dark mode”: https://darkreader.org/

Highly recommend. Also worth changing the default background color in Firefox to avoid burning your retinas every time a page loads.
My father recently described this phenomenon to me as, "buying one's lifestyle." I'd never heard the phrase before but I think it perfectly describes what so many of us do in urban areas once we've established a foothold financially.

I have actually done all the things you list living in Brooklyn, NY over the past seven years. But it hasn't come easy. I grew the vegetables at a community garden, which took years for me to get into. I had to work on the motorcycle in the alley way of my building, which due to recent crime increases in the area is now untenable. I cook and cure my own meats on occasion but due to the high costs associated with getting good meat, the tiny kitchen I have to work with, and the vegan next-door neighbors who roll their eyes at me any time they smell a steak cooking, I obviously don't do it as much as I'd like.

The value of the city for me, as someone who both grew up here and then returned after school to pursue work, has been all of the metropolitan values: living so near so many interesting, distinct, and different kinds of people. I work in tech and media but I really tend to enjoy the company of those who work in other fields - I enjoyed the diversity of interests, talents, and values here in NYC. But every place has a point where things become too oppressive and expensive to yield any further cultural benefits - and we clearly hit that mark here even before quarantine.

Now, with quarantine in effect, the one thing I really cherished and held onto over the years - being near people - has become a major detractor living in NYC. Without a magnificent amount of reversals, I will be looking to buy property in a state where I am not paying an entire paycheck in taxes to my city government.
The poor pandemic response is just one symptom of our societal malaise. I think that's the point. One might expect a country to pull itself together and work for the common good in a crisis. The U.S. no longer seems capable of doing that. We're like Ahab strapped to the Moby Dick, preferring to die exacting vengeance than to live.
I tried with the same setup and it works fine. I tried to disable JS too and it's OK. Could it be a rogue extension?
True (edit: and not my downvote), and Google Translate doesn't support all the languages Microsoft Translate supports: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23977310. But my point was that not only is “Google translate … has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality” absolutely false, but that Google Translate is not even way too close to as good as its competitors, and DeepL is a service that I can personally vouch for, and there's even broad consensus that it's at worst as bad as GT.
Virgin Galactic set for last key rocket test flights
You may have commented on the wrong article, because the WHO isn't mentioned in this article.
I rarely seem to see that on the FIRE forums. It seems like 99% of people on those forums are trying to achieve FIRE, and very little discussion about those who have.
How does that explain the spiking that occurred as soon as states re-opened?

Politicians are load balancing the healthcare system, not the infection rates.
If you prefer that style maybe https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/ is helpful.
When SO took off they thought they could replicate the success with other sites. This lead to the original trilogy (SO, SuperUser, ServerFault) and the Area51 site to propose new sites, of which many betas were started. Turns out few beta sites reached the engagement criteria to graduate to a full site, and this creeping scale with hundreds of site led to substantial technical debt. Each site was more or less a fork of the codebase, and required a separate DB instance.

The mistake was to treat each site as a separate community and expect it to eventually grow to an SO-level success. In contrast, Reddit's subreddit approach is much more scaleable and can tolerate niche communities. Reddit is strong not because of any single community, but because of the combination of communities to grab inbound traffic and keep users engaged. SO partially missed out on this.
I don't think the USs influence in Latin America had/has much to do with US citizens interests as such but US corporations interests.
> I don't understand the problem

It's pretty infuriating seeing Americans say that there's nothing wrong with people being trapped in their own countries and unable to move around. Nobody should be trapped in a country, and nobody's movement should be restricted by their nationality.
All we can do is find problems
Why do we need a gold standard study when the medicine is 60 years old and Africa and Indian have been using it forever to fight malaria and it seems to be helping those areas of the world already? Who acts like that as people are dying around them, "Well we need one more study to prove its effective." Why not just let doctors and people take it and make up there own minds. Humans are NOT a bunch of idiots, they can think for themselves.
Wasn’t she on the board of IBM?
See here, the first adult road bike is at €260.

https://www.decathlon.fr/p/velo-de-route-triban-rc100-gris/_...

They must have skimped on everything else to get a 100% aluminum road bike so you're probably better off buying any other type of bike in this price range.
I'm a German developer that live in the US and I'd never go back.

Even if I was poor I'd rather stay in the EU.
Doubtful, in the case of Stack Overflow, I think "free" and ads provide a hell of a lot more users and revenue than paywall.
Would someone like to tl;dr? I can't tell whether I want to watch this 1h26m video based on its vague title.
And the full extent of it isn't obvious, because I've seen a lot of intensely political submissions get hundreds of upvotes flung at them before they're flagged within the hour. A lot of normally reasonable people have simply decided that they're cool with flamebait and chucking insults. And I'm not sure whether moderators can maintain a good intellectual environment when the userbase is willing to tolerate a bad one.
I understand the fears of inflation because of the additional money printing the fed has been up to, but what I think everyone is missing is that this time around, everyone around the world is also printing money. As long as eventually the economy gets up and running, the relative demand and value of dollar should stabilize.
Neither is most "employer-provided" insurance. A few folks have 'gold-plated' plans where they are hardly out of pocket for anything, but most people with health insurance plans, of any stripe, still have moderately sized deductibles, on top of paying a portion towards the monthly premium anyway.
Actual Roadmap with KanBan Board : https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1
Microsoft becomes maintainer of the Windows version of PyTorch
It's infuriating! Netflix even goes as far as condescendingly saying "don't you worry about this kind of stuff, you worry about what to watch next". It's ridiculous, if you're gonna require patch notes they must either be part of the app review, or be optional from the start!
If you click on the roadmap link in the main README, you can see the issues selected for development on a GH Project Kanban board. [1]

[1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1
Isn't your criticism of libel/slander/tort laws? It's not as if, given that these laws exist, that media organizations should be able to exist outside of them.
Modern accounting systems like most ERPs allow you to specify the account and offset account in one line. It pretty much like you describe and is the preferred method for simple entries with only two accounts.

It gets a bit trickier when, for example, sales tax is involved where a simple example for a sale of $1.000 with 25% VAT would be:

cr. revenues $800
cr. VAT patable $200
dr. accounts receivable $1000
That's fair, but concern about China should not be tossed aside; The U.S. is practically on the verge of a new Cold War with them, where the rules and regulations are nothing like we've ever seen.
The internal SO offering (SO for teams or what it's called) works reasonably well for huge orgs.
Death of the Lecture – Sixty Symbols
> Drive the same distance outside of Boston or NYC

The North American headquarters for Sig Sauer is only an hour from Boston.

Do you live in New England? It's not a big deal at all. Not just in NH, but in MA too.
Pill mills were shuttered, but you'd be surprised at how creative people are when they need to feed their habit. There are doctors and pharmacists all over the place that are either:

1.) Being explicitly blackmailed by prescription drug addicts.

2.) Whose employment is completely dependent on prescription drugs because their patients demand prescription drugs as a quick fix for their problems. There are people who literally feed clients to those doctors because they know they are afraid to tell their patients no when they ask for prescription drugs

3.) Don't bother to find alternatives for their patients that don't involve prescription drug abuse because it is a faster method of getting their patients out of the office.
Iroquois Nationals, barred from World Games, gave gift of lacrosse to the world
yep, co is 2 55 gal barrels. I know I've been looking for a home to buy in about 12 states :). I chose CA, closing in a few weeks.

In any case, yes, most of the laws had been driven by the Univ of AZ. They found that letting the water go into the ground mostly feeds the trees. Very little of it goes into the actual ground water, and it takes a really long time for it to arrive. So the theory is that by capturing water and using it specifically on the things you want to water (food plants, and showering) you're conserving a fuck-ton of water. And besides, all of that water that is captured actually ends up in the ground anyway - where do you think the shower water goes when you're on septic.

The point is, AZ is pretty much ahead of the game with regards to water capture and science research on it.