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> TPM 2.0 and hardware-assisted virtualization allow them to move the kernel one level up in the privilege hierarchy, while properly verifying it during boot to eliminate entire categories of exploits and providing trusted computing that might actually work this time.

So Microsoft is going all in with hardware based security while everyone is still recovering from Spectre and Meltdown and dropping in additional layers of software fix CPU security flaws? Is there a betting pool somewhere on how long that will take to backfire?
> BTW, I majored in finance in college and worked at Merrill Lynch

As an intern, yes? I know enough people working sell-side to know that it doesn't give you an intimate understanding of the economy, and certainly not after an internship.

> Corporations right now are borrowing at 1 or 2% interest rates, but if the fed rate goes to 5% then those corporations will have to roll over their existing debt at 5 or 6%.

Fair enough. I don't think we will be seeing 5% anytime soon, nor do I think that will be necessary for a price level increase largely driven by disruption to real output due to the pandemic.
Vetting an information source can be extraordinarily difficult in this day and age, at least for those looking for more than confirmation of their world views. There is an ocean of well funded, profession disinformation out there. Telling BS from fact is barely doable for the technical elites who gather in this forum and it certainly cannot be expected from the average citizen. This is why the corruption of our sense making institutions and the unavoidable loss of trust is so devastating to the fabric of our culture. This is a very big deal and blaming the stupid rubes that believe obvious BS (to us smart people anyway) might feel good but its not just missing the point, it is actually making things worse.
> if I was a downed airman in hostile territory or in the middle of an inhospitable desert I wouldn't mind having one of these little guys along with me.

Of course, the guys sent to hunt you won't mind having their own to increase their search coverage and firepower.
One core problem is that any discussion of a non-technical topic must choose between being “edgy”/“inflammatory”/etc. (I.e. people express beliefs that differ from the standard issue) or being a completely useless echo chamber. Wanting to avoid inflammatory discussion is fine, but in that case HN should just ban non-technical topics entirely rather than mandate useless tepid discussions.
I guess it's telling in a way of the PR push if users believe that Apple is constantly and always protecting them, even when they do absolutely nothing.
But isn't the whole point that the average layperson is never going to sideload in the first place? If you make it just difficult enough, very few people that aren't tech-savvy will dare to try it, but then the rest of us can enjoy the benefits.
There is some research [1] to suggest that intelligence (ability) is correlated with depression.

So reversing the title's causality:

People who see the world realistically are more depressed.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-...
Oh no, they finally did it. I feel like Windows has some kind of fascination with taskbar grouping, every new version you have to specifically shut it off. They've finally gone and removed the choice. There is nothing in windows that annoys me more than taskbar grouping, I don't even have a rational basis for it, it just immediately annoys me when I see it.
Is it possible to either tax the individual for owning a controlling interest, or tax the trust directly as an individual?
Contrarian legitimate and respectful views are downvoted constantly and at an ever increasing pace. Let’s not pat ourselves too much. Comparing with FB is a low bar. I am not a fan of self congratulatory rhetoric when evidence doesn’t support it. HN’s quality of discussions are getting worse, more emotional and less objective. Party lines are clearly drawn. Anyone that wants to challenge this view can just browse threads from 2015 and see it for yourself.

I’m the guy that goes around and vouches for flagged comments if they’re not obviously vile/disrespectful/rude even if I disagree with it completely. Society functions because we allow voices that we obviously disagree with. Lines drawn today are getting closer towards center and the extremism is widening the spectrum.
Off topic: Is it just me or are there any others who find naming programming languages with women's names a bit weird?

Julia, Janet, Eve...

I understand the guy referring to his car as his "girlfriend" and give it a women's name. I just can't feel the same about tech.

I guess this may be the nerd's way of immortalizing their sweetheart, but if I was a woman I'd rather prefer to be a car and not a programming language.

A programming language doesn't feel much anthropomorphizable to me, let alone lady-like.

Women, what do you think?
Flammable is just a synonym for ‘triggered’. Funnily, we seem to speak the same language as the everyone else, however smarter we may think we are.

New Yorkers are a weird breed, we don’t get triggered. You have the craziest people on the subway and we still take the subway. Nothing bugs us because the subway is that worthwhile. There’s no moderator on the subway.

The internet is a subway, and we better start accepting that.

EDIT: Annnnnd, someone flagged this post lol. Grow up kids.
Right now at this moment my 60 year old SiL is holed up in her apartment with covid. She refused to get the vaccine. She believes that there are lizard people who live beneath the earth's crust, etc. She found a "doctor" to prescribe her ivermectin - the "doctor" does not allow vaccinated people into their clinic for whatever bizarre reason (sPIkE pRoTeenZ no doubt).

We asked her to take a pic of her oximeter reading and send it to us - it read 91. We told her she should get to a hospital where they could give her some oxygen, but she refuses (doesn't want to be in "the system"). She is the poster child for disingenuous skepticism and it's impossible to have a "genuine conversation" with her because she's so infected with conspiracy theories (including the Q conspiracy).
Agreed! I feel like it is also a good term for a psychologically disarming recognition. I am flammable about certain topics, and having that word now makes it easier for me recognize my flammability (and hopefully tone it way down), if that makes sense.
But the rent money not paid by the tenant, is not recieved by the landlord so while tenant will spend more the landlord will be spend less, the net change is zero, no?
I'm on a 3900X/2080 Super and have had zero issues.
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I honestly can't fathom for the life of me why taskbar grouping is even the default, or what problem it was supposed to solve. It is a terrible UI pattern.
Tank treads operate in more limited terrain than legs.
Dunno, Reddit and other platforms are much more of an echo chamber. You see dissenting opinions on HN far more often.
A company owns a nuclear plant. Are they hording wealth?

"Facebook the company" owns "Facebook the website". Are they hording wealth?

Alphabet own the Google trade mark. Are they hording wealth?

My and my colleagues decided to make a joke cryptocurrency that nobody is using.

Elon Musk want to buy our company for 10 billion $, but we don't want to sell. Are we hoarding wealth?
You are being pedantic. The time of year is not relevant to the point, and in any case 2 examples in addition to the current one is more than enough.

There is a regular stream of these rumours which have proven to be empty so far. Perhaps the wolf will really come this time.
That's cheating. JIT is more recompilation than emulation.
Also airplanes, satellites etc. The standard now is laser ring gyroscopes as they have no moving parts, are super sensitive, and very light in comparison to older options. Mentour pilot has an episode on how these are used in the 737.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope
>The thing I really like about HN's commenting system is that it's explicitly designed to discourage flamewars -- the way heavily downvoted comments end up "dead" means that "edgy" content is quickly buried.

It's sad that it goes well beyond that. You don't just remove edgy, you also remove anything controversial or dissenting. You end up with an echo chamber.

The question, how do you minimize cost of moderation while allowing discussion under hostile conditions? Nobody has an answer to this question.
Trading is an activity with supply and demand for trading. It's behaving like any old business. You're offering a product to a customer (the investors).

The problem with this is obviously that consumer markets can be saturated. The number of investors does not grow with the number of traders. Adding more traders just results in a fight for market share.

When traders are pretending that other traders are their customers they basically started a game of musical chairs where someone has to lose.
The technical goal is to simplify the OS by dropping legacy hardware support and code for it, and only support machines with UEFI, TPM 2.0, AVX2, FMA3, and VT-x or AMD-V.

See this list of processors:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

and this blog post:

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/06/28/update-...

I can empathize. As a consumer, though, I'm not sure I like it. I've got a lot of machines on Windows 10 LTSC that will be looking for a new OS in 2029, that may or may not require a hardware replacement...
>The last time we saw a consumer price index value this high or higher was 30 years ago!

Yes, but from 1968 until 1991 there were 24 months out of 276 when the CPI was lower than today. Perhaps what is remarkable isn't that inflation is so high today, but that it has been so low for so long.
Maybe I'm just too pedantic, but this is not a functional language. Yes, you can write functional style code, but you can write functional style code in C, C++, Java, Python, JS, Ruby, Common Lisp, Scheme, etc etc. That does not make any of these languages 'functional'.
> pinpointing a neurological mechanism for a problem amounts to externalizing the problem

I read it as "pinpointing a simpler reason to explain an often more complicated problem". It's easier to say "it's a dopamine rush" than "I'm on Facebook all day because I'm an insecure person and it's makes me feel bad and I don't know what else to do about it" (to mention a non-personal example).

An addiction has for sure its chemical reasons, but limiting to only that when dealing with it, it's reductive (my wife is a Psycologist and I heard arguments like these many times already....).
Ask HN: High Inflation Investment Strategies?
My view: The hedgefunds/PE and many individuals have already flooded the low interest loan high leverage real estate inflation hedge. What else is out there? Please share your high inflation investment strategies (not bitcoin or gold please)!
I am about to post a Flammable comment
I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

If you're on a knitting forum and people keep talking about fantasy football, they deserve to be flagged.

The problem with my analogy is that hobbies aren't opinions, but I think that's a great reason for people with different opinions to start their own discussion forums.

Is that acceptable or does this site have to be all things to all people?
Exactly. The best stack to use would ideally depend on your particular use case (and constraints, of course).

Tiles make sense if you have a large area of interest (a country, a continent, the world). But in many cases your users would be better served by one of the big providers instead (Google, Mapbox, Here.com, Bing, OpenStreetMap) because of their superior infrastructure. If I got a dime for every time some local government GIS site self-hosted on ESRI bloatware slowed to a crawl or just plain broke... (though, to be fair, the ESRI web viewers are getting rapidly better. there's just a lot of legacy crap from old versions still in the wild)

For smaller areas of interest (say, a city map, a campus map, an indoor building map) tiles are not only excessively complicated but also produce a worse UX because they don't allow for seamless zooming & panning. If your geometry can be easily described in a few hundred lines, the whole thing can just be served as a few kB geojson attached to the page and rendered dynamically by openlayers or leaflet. With a modern phone or computer, that rendering happens way quicker than it would take to load map tiles over the phone, and once it's all loaded the rest of the interactions are instant. You can even make it a progressive web app for offline use if you wanted to (but does anyone actually do that?)

Tiles were a 90s/early 2000s solution to the infrastructure at the time, where servers were much more powerful than clients and Javascript was still in its infancy. These days a lot can be done on the clientside and arguably should be, except in cases where the data to be transmitted would be huge due to complex geometries or intricate graphics (e.g. for clients without a gfx card, rendering 3D textured maps on the fly a la Google Earth may be difficult... in that case prerendering them into tiles on a server makes sense)

In any case, real-world maps typically combine approaches. They could use a tiled basemap as a background, overlay first-party bitmaps onto them (like a pretty map ripped from the print prochure), then add geojson POIs on top of them.

This is one we built on openlayers using hybrid data sources, including a tiled background from OSM: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...
They famously do not.
I've done a few, it's been fine. If you try and use cvs like git sure you're going to get burned. There's a reason Linux was using Bitkeeper and not cvs after all. But if your project organization works well with cvs, you can seriously avoid the massive wad of incidental complexity that is git.
The taskbar isn't allowed to be moved from the bottom anymore, so that's to be expected.
Sure, there are people who have achieved mastery in their field and are very knowledgeable and experienced within their area of focus. My personal opinion is that fewer and fewer people are actually at that level. Even less likely that those people are in a position of influence. The decline of education quality, the instant gratification era brought on by the internet, nonstop sensationalism, politics and social issues being forced into every aspect of our lives. I lean towards experts being the unknown and unheard people, while the people who have a voice and power to influence something just played politics right, knew the right people, and kissed the right butts.
Yeah, I get that. You don't even own the thing at all, which makes it more of a ripoff. You essentially own a digital record that says that someone agrees that you paid money so that there is a record that you paid them money.

As soon as 1 person issues a replacement NFT due to theft or something the entire idea comes crashing down bc now the "real copy" is actually "owned" by some thief and a new "real copy" is being created. From what I read a while back you kind of just have to trust that ppl won't sell the same "real copy" over and over again. This works fine in the real world of tangible goods but when people can be anonymous it's just begging for abuse.
Let's agree to disagree on that, shall we?
I would prefer something like “heat” instead of “flamebait”, which usually implies way too much intent and responsibility.

Of course sometimes “flamebait” is exactly the right word, sometimes people subconsciously want to provoke fights, and so forth. But it often feels like the word is defined arbitrarily by the majority side of arguments here, and so guidelines should definitely not use a word with those connotations.

Otherwise, 10/10, great work as always.
You should still be able to `reset` in line-buffering mode.
Yeah, but that's not a hard/firmware replacement. Besides, JITs are cheating :D
I bought into Uranium companies earlier this year (main position is Bannerman, bought at $0.1, now at $0.4). Also the oil sector (IPCO for example). For agriculture I have Verde Agritech.
HN is sort of like Go and C. It's simple and it just works. Let's not make it complicated.
Though this isn’t really true either. Nearly all homeless folk I go out and talk to and smoke a cigarette with, believe in God, but I would generally say they are pretty miserable. Belief in a god hardly makes you happy. But it can make the suffering of life (an inevitably of life, contrary to those trying to build a progressive utopia), more meaningful.

If you’re homeless, and treated like crap left and right, by yourself and others, lacking in the dignity every human deserves, the idea that a god (a king) would care about the lowest of low, and even be on your side is something powerful.

The ability to not crumble under suffering from oppressive evil men, and instead have it be your glory, is not easy with no idea of a good god. That is why the story of blacks in America is glorious. They endured through hell, again and again (even after slavery), and now have the potential to be a powerful people if they can cast off that which binds them. The pessimist says they’re victims, the optimists says they are and can be victors.
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> Part of the inflation rate is housing, in many regions there are still blocks on evictions, foreclosures, etc.

That's...not what was cited.

I am asking about back rent payments due and bankruptcy potential which is what was cited upthread.
Cars are nominally on an annual year cycle but many models go relatively unchanged for a generation which could be 5 years or more.
Crazy idea for apt:

Concurrency

Honestly tears to the fact that it doesn't multi-source and many-connection. There's something to be said about "it doesn't improve server specs" or maybe even "I don't like the idea of having too many connections" - it's just known it does speed stuff along.

Basically making a lot of people sit and wait.
The difference is political articles are allowed, but political comments aren't.

Well, it depends when they are allowed, sometimes.
heaven forbid they wait 30 minutes or so to get it complete and right.
Of course we have a choice, that's what determinism is for, to make choices. A choice is a necessary, consciously imposed relation between past and future. If there were multiple possible outcomes, it wouldn't be a choice because it wouldn't be in our control.

Philosophical free will is terminally confused, because it mixes up map and territory; it confuses the speculative imagined futures in our decisionmaking procedure with actually existing, physically real universes. To make a decision, we create speculative fictional mental universes conditioned on different choices we make, rank them by preference, then "decide" on the one that is the most favored. Now of course the output of that function was predetermined from the start, but we did not have access to it. So we compute it, and the process of computing it is what 'choosing' is.

The universe isn't fake, our minds are fake.
Jeeeeeeezzzzzuuuusssss... and I thought I was cynical. But all the "this is just a PR stunt" comments and commenters focusing on "how much did Bezos pay Shatner" comments really pain me. Is that really the main takeaway here or the only thing people can choose to fixate on?

Sure, it was a "PR stunt". But I posit that it is incorrect to say that it was just a PR stunt. I believe that the symbolism involved in "Captain Kirk goes to space FOR REAL" is immensely inspirational for many people. I mean, heck, I find it inspirational enough that I know it's a "PR stunt" in a sense.

But to my way of thinking, if this "PR stunt" helps serve to get even a few more people excited about space exploration, and science/engineering in general, then that is unequivocally a Good Thing. I mean, given the number of people these days who seem quite content to abandon science/logic/reason and embrace various forms of Magical Thinking, I'm all in favor of anything that works to counter that trend.
Correct.

Look, I didn't get vaccinated because I was told to by pharmaceutical companies. Those shady bastards are on TV all the time selling stuff that seems super sketchy.

ALSO, I didn't get vaccinated because I was told to by doctors; I've had enough experiences with them getting things wrong in what they tell you to do.

I got vaccinated because doctors and health professionals THEMSELVES got vaccinated without hesitation. Was lucky enough to see a good friend, a quasi-famous black doctor, get the jab on TV, which sealed it pretty quickly for me.
Why the flamebaity, judgemental, artificial HN title for a very objective descriptive article?
Cheating is the name of the game.
> mentioning neuroscience is a great way to convince people you are more knowledgeable about something, and to make your arguments more convincing.

Eek, I have totally done this at a tech conference. But I try to do my hw first...
Executives are more politically savvy and know that in-person connections are more effective to build alliances, coalitions, trust, etc.

Additionally, they have the resources to pay people to take care of their kids and do their home chores, so that they don’t need the flexibility much
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Forum moderation is... fascinating complex. Because not only do you have a complex immediate system: you have a complex system with memory (i.e. individual posters stick around).

As a consequence, moderation (the verb) has tons of second+ order effects, as all interventions ripple out into future posts and attitudes. Sometimes in an opposite way to what you intended with your intervention (e.g. so angry about being moderated that my next three comments are written in anger).

> The problem with provocation and flamebait is easy to derive from first principles: you can't provoke or flame others into curiosity. (dang)

As clear a description of "why" as I've seen. And the statistical argument is a good one, because moderators never control who shows up. [0]

If a comment has a 60% chance of attracting a flame in response, then that comment is dangerous to the forum as a whole, and a responsible commentor will write it to decrease that as much as possible.

Personally, I find myself paring down my comments to minimal kernels, when commenting on hot button topics, because any excess verbiage is a potential target for a flame to notice and attach to.

[0] My quintessential example of this was putting in hours of moderating a touchy topic on the EVE forums, IMHO doing a decent job getting every calmed down, with good feelings all around, only for some jackass to pop into the thread for the first time with a borderline (non-moderatable) comment that lit everything back on fire. "I am Jack's broken heart", indeed.