skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have confirmed through ARK that not only does my chip lack vPro, but it also lacks TXT, which I hadn't confirmed before. I consider TXT to be just as vulnerable as AMT / ME.

Feels good to know my sensibilities paid off. Worth every dollar.

Now I just get to sit back and watch the shit show unfold :)
Why use the internet at all then? After all I can 'prove' that real world interactions have far more informational content than virtualized ones, so all non-utilitarian electronic communication is inherently inferior if you begin with that premise.
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Yea, like grep and awk!

Naming things has always been hard.
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If I build a big tower, and it falls down and injures or damages, I'm liable, right?

If government-owned infrastructure falls down (because of lack of funding) and injures or damages, is anyone liable?

Not a rhetorical question
There's kinda two audiences for this paper: Uber, the engineering team that migrated away from psql, and the tech community at large, which saw Uber's technical decision as a signal about the quality of psql.

IMO, the shrug emoji is fine. If it were the only response, that'd be a problem but the author gives a proper response in the following slide: it was a short lived bug, and it's not like MySQL is objectively better. I can think of a few MySQL problems I've run into, like fixing a data loss bug in the rollback code by refusing transactions larger than 10 percent of the rollback buffer until a real fix can be published, making backups, restores and migrations pretty much impossible.

But the tl;dr here is that psql will continue to get a black eye in the tech community as long as slony exists and is useful.
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And Nim can be a lot smaller too https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/
On modern phones --- for the last $many years --- the baseband processors are connected to the AP via things like HSIC, not DMA.

Don't ever get your security news from Boing Boing.
I'm pretty sure TA does the same...
My girlfriend loves her Airpods, too. First Bluetooth headphones she's been willing to put up with, heh - because they just work.
There are also still plenty of businesses that have their own hardware on the 0s - 10s of servers scale. They are going to be much more cost sensitive, so AMD could really shine there.
Here's a reform to the copyright law that just occurred to me. If you buy a copy of a published work, then you're allowed to copy and distribute it as you see fit, provided that you pay the creator the same royalty that they were paid for the copy you bought. Other restrictions such as moral rights would still be in force.

That seems to get a lot of incentives right. Publishers have to pay artists decent royalties, and proprietary file formats can't be used to suppress competition. What would go wrong? Apart from the fact that this would have to be enacted over the cold, dead bodies of a lot of music company executives: that's a feature, not a bug.
I think the OP was referring that he doesn't care about the design of the machine, not that he doesn't care about design as in development.
Of course there is, people choose to spend their time talking to other people on the internet because they get something out of it that they find superior to other kinds of interactions.
We would be very interested. We have had great experiences with both Mech and Aero engineering students.
Hardware-assisted “traceless tracing” for performance and security analysis
Any chance of a UWP/Windows Phone app in the future?
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Frankly, Ryzen's efficiency improvements are marketing nonsense. The only way they hit their TDP numbers is at single-core loads, under a full-CPU load they have fairly similar performance-per-watt to Broadwell-E.

Of course that's on consumer chips with higher clocks for gaming - the math might be different when we get it down closer to 2 GHz.

Anecdote time: my 5820K (4.13 GHz all-core at stock voltage) pulls 92W during a Handbrake encode. It pulls ~140W during a Prime95 run. I think that's roughly comparable to what 6C Ryzen is pulling at equivalent clocks - if not less.

I just built a Xeon E5-2650v3 ES (10C at 2.3 GHz all-core) system last week for video encoding ($60 mobo from MicroCenter, $150 processor off eBay, threw the rest together from parts). It pulls 60W doing the same encodes, and hits roughly the same framerates. Single-thread performance is pretty bad though.
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Those are just features that aren't JIT compiled. They are still implemented, in the sense that LuaJIT fully supports them in the interpreter, so you can use them in LuaJIT programs.

I'm guessing that pairs() is not JIT-compiled because iterating over a hash table involves logic that is significantly more complicated than iterating over an array (like ipairs()).
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I mean, shocker, but the music business works the same way every other business does - through relationships. It's not Craigslist. There aren't really that many middle men between bands and the festivals/clubs that book them, unless you count the booking agents and managers, which I assure you are still getting a cut regardless of how the gig gets booked.
What's really happening is that fans of phone security want to say "iPhone" rather than "phone", but when they do that on HN, Linux-on-the-desktop Android supporters come out of the woodwork to yell at them, and it's a winnable argument on a thread that is only about whether iPhones are more secure than Android phones, but not on broader threads where it's just an enormous distraction.

As you can see from this thread, some people are bored and just want the distraction and will go out of their way to revive the slapfight.

Despite having friends working hard to deliver a secure Android phone for Google, my advice to generalists is the same as yours: avoid Android.
Totally irrelevant unless you're going to argue the Oklahoma City building was also under engineered.
It's definitely interesting, but it's been rough to get through a few of them. Some of guests spout sage-like advice with complete ignorance of any survivorship bias.

Other ones, just when I think they're going to go that way, make humble admissions that there was a confluence of people and ideas that they combined with hard work to get to where they were at. So there are some good ones.

That all could be my side-line opinion though, tinted by my ego protecting itself while I'm not successful.
The Xeon 3400 as well. I've not yet found any others that are also probably vulnerable.

It would be really nice if Intel would categorically state which Xeon line products are and are not affected.
I noticed it was increasingly easy to get memberships; I saw several groups promoting free AL memberships as a side benefit last year. Now it's free to join, apparently. Not sure if these numbers capture that shift, but loss of subscriber revenue was, apparently, a plus not a minus.

It was more useful when it was limited to paying members. I'm sure IAC sees easy profit in shifting to a "if you're not the customer, you're the product" model.
I switched my SSH keys on my Yubikey from using the OpenPGP applet and all the funkiness of gpg-agent over to using X.509 certificates with the PIV applet.

Added bonus is that not only does it work with SSH, but you can use those certificates for TLS mutual authentication in web browsers. Works out of the box on Mac/Windows.
Algorithms and Data structure problems
curio and trio libraries demonstrate pure async/await models https://vorpus.org/blog/some-thoughts-on-asynchronous-api-de...
Say you had an afflicted machine on the public internet, but completely firewalled in terms of IP, is this exploitable? I'm still not clear on how it happens.

Edit: Sorry read a bit deeper. Presumably this has to be enabled in the bios, but O/S level firewall won't help. Ack.
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CockroachDB also stores SQL metadata inside of the KV store, but that metadata is also gossiped around the cluster (i.e. it is replicated to every node) so that SQL execution almost never has to read it from the KV store. Handling changes to this SQL metadata is challenging and required a design [1] that is unable to take advantage of the easy correctness of simply doing reads from the KV store on every operation.

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What's with the table flip?
What is evil is not providing a hardware lockout to disable it if you don't want that ME. AMT is only one application running on ME, there are others and the whole thing could be insecure. If you don't need it it is better not to have it.
If an implementation of a patent exists, and that patent expires, it is impossible for that implementation to infringe another patent for the same thing, because any other patent that applies would have been invalid when issued, because of the previous patent.
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Thanks
You can't really easily opt-out of ME, which is the real problem. The fact that AMT has sprung a leak was only a matter of time but I'd rather not have the whole ME business.
IBM has staked heavily in Swift already considering how early it is https://github.com/ibm-swift
Branding and name immediately reminded me of Cicada 3301: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

Haven't had a chance to fully evaluate yet but I do like that they're taking inspiration from scifi.
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Isn't there also often an issue with anonymizing data? More precise spatial coordinates make this harder than with binning methods.
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Does that include sub-x86/x64-level micro-code on the chips themselves?
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Hrm, but those also run in travis right? I noticed at the bottom of the karma.conf it checks to see if it's in travis.

The travis image is installing chrome stable, which is not 59; AFAIK the headless feature is only available in beta right now which versions out to 59.

I admit I'm not sure if your unit tests are running in travis, but if they are, I'd wonder if the --headless flag is just getting dropped as an unknown flag.

Curious either way actually so let me know; I'm looking at starting the testing moving from phantomjs to headless which is why I was sleuthing out Clarity's move
Do I need to be concerned about my Mac or my Lenovo Windows laptop?
I'm not sure I understand. The problem with symmetric/antisymmetric is that the names make students think they are related and this can lead to misunderstanding (e.g. "since this relation is antisymmetric, it cannot be symmetric"). Arguably, this confusion would not exist if they were named differently.
Firewalled at which stage? OS-level firewalling will do nothing, but if your border is rejecting packets for port 16992 then only people on your local network will be able to attack you.
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon; it's not on this list, but it did have AMT enabled in the BIOS when I checked. I wouldn't take that list as definitive.
I would say:
- Look at what they have accomplished. But be sure you are looking at accomplishments of the actual team, not people who are taking the credit (that is a little trickier).
- See if there is relaxed communication and trust.
- Ask everyone individually what the goal of the team or the goal of the project is. Really talented teams sometimes put their individual goals ahead of the overall goal. As in: the front end engineer says a responsive front end is most important, an AI dev. says deep learning is the key feature etc. All can be talented and well meaning. But if everybody doesn't agree on the trade offs, effectiveness will suffer.
Am I free to use MP3 now? Or am I still restricted and they won't sell me the rights to use it?
Thanks! :) I can't take credit for the pun but I've certainly enjoyed it..
Ending tax credits would kill electric-car market, Edmunds says
Thanks. Didn't realize there's another big thread, will have a read.
> they could get similar offers and opportunities without an HBS stamp

Many HBS students work as analysts at management consultancies prior to their MBA, and their employers send them to HBS before promoting them to consultant. What happens when the analyst refuses to get an MBA?

The banking sector also has a recruitment funnel at the top MBA schools. While I'm sure it's possible to get your foot in the door without an Ivy League pedigree, many recruiters are focusing their attention on a handful of schools.
Interesting. It doesn't seem to work at all with the built-in Podcasts app. Come on, Apple.
How does this relate to Richard Hendrick's work with middle-out compression as the basis for a new internet?
French Wikipedia seems to have an article about it

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayennais

including some purported vocabulary, plus a few books that discuss it! Some of them discuss it as "bas-mainiot" or "patois du Bas-Maine", of which Wikipedia says "Il [Département de la Mayenne] correspond essentiellement au Bas-Maine, qui formait la moitié occidentale de la province du Maine"... I guess you're probably very familiar with these geographical designations, but I'm definitely not!

Google has a scan of a 1975 reprint of an 1899 book about "les parlers du Bas-Maine" which includes tons of references to speakers and lexical items observed in Mayenne.

https://books.google.fr/books?id=mcykCmekgioC

(It's sad that some pages are missing from the preview... maybe Google algorithmically concluded that the book might still be in copyright because it was "published" in 1975.)

But it's true that a Wikipedia article isn't the same thing as finding a thriving language community online.
Galileo and helicopters? I think you mean Leonardo da Vinci.
You can buy your Rihanna in FLAC or AAC on 7digital.
Fetus in fetu
> Cryptocurrency first being described in Cryptonomicon

Really? That's crazy! I always thought that Stephenson had heard early ideas about cryptocurrencies and incorporated them into his book.

Are you saying the Neil Stephenson invented the concept of a cryptocurrency?
Forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (2015)
The UK just switched on an ambitious fusion reactor – and it works
All I want from home brew is a dead simple way to install an older version of a package ;(
better off today in almost every measurable way

Quants are not the only people entitled to have an opinion on this. While I mostly like the modern world it has lots of downsides too. Simplistic measures like life expectancy reduce the business of living to a handful of metrics and then pronounce things to be good or bad according to how those arbitrary criteria measure up.

That's great if you want to live in a world that's run like a factory where productivity is the highest social good. I don't. I would be fine with dying at 60 or even tomorrow, not because I don't want to live any more but because I've chosen to set my own goals about what sort of life and activity I find meaningful rather than simply maximizing some inherited utility criteria.

Long life would be nice, in general, but it's a fact that one's life might be arbitrarily cut short by some random accident. In your world being out at one extreme or the other of the probability distribution is statistically interesting but nothing more. Your value system lacks any criteria for determining the worth of life other than the most primitive feedback loop of maximizing whatever quantitative factors you've set yourself to measure.
Not sure I see how this avoids an inevitable mining arms race (if it is indeed claiming to avoid such a thing). Even if miners are randomly drafted into random pools, the more miners you create, the more income. Seems like a very game-able system.
Eh, I'm pretty sure that suffers from the problem noted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375108

See the "genuine sieve of eratosthenes" paper, and also:

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/08/quicksort-in-haskell-qu...
So we understand what AlphaGo or our brains do at an abstract level, but not how they accomplish what they do.
This is magical.
To be clear, I wasn't endorsing the concern, just attempting to clarify it. It doesn't surprise me that it can be over-applied.
It has to have the ME silicon and the AMT enabled firmware. According to Matthew Garrett, who I'd generally trust on this stuff, Apple hasn't ever shipped AMT-enabled firmware.
Talk about missing the point. Your age at death is not a score.
Lots of people have lots of code online. Lots of companies don't take that into consideration when interviewing.

I share your experience that most problems can be reasonably talked through without writing code, but most people here are talking about a specific kind of interview that does not work that way.
To be fair, the marketing was actually very successful. They got people to the event. I would call this a remarkable example of fluffery.
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"...maybe worth a shot" is a pretty thin reed upon which to hang your hopes. There are a lot of reasons to not return the second stage, business as well as technical.
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> Umberto Eco

https://i.imgur.com/h9NDpy5.jpg
I attempted to use Angie's List once as a paying customer; I found that it was outright deceptive:

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Users flagged the comment because it violates the guidelines, which is how this site works. The way to avoid this is to not violate the guidelines, which in this case would mean increasing the information-to-inflammation ratio in your comment significantly. This is asked of every commenter, no matter what opinion they're expressing or "side" they're on.
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Who was the presenter from Intel?
IIRC for 35W there were lawsuits against the engineering company and department of transportation.

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State Sen, Ron Latz sponsored the legislation that set up the compensation fund. While the state recovered from Jacobs and another firm less than half of the nearly $37 million paid out in compensation to victims, Latz said it was the right thing to do, not just for the victims and their families but also for Minnesota taxpayers."
I just saw that Python's Makefile has support for PGO builds:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Makefile.pre.i...

Not sure when it was added, but Python 2.7 has it.

It's not clear to me how to tell if say my Ubuntu binary is built with PGO, but it's something I'm looking into.