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> willing to look the other way with respect to his fiduciary responsibility

For how long? The companies he is trying to produce need to at some point be financially sustainable in order to meet their mission. And when should we wonder whether Musk is mixing up the mission with his own narcissistic endeavors?
Why is strlen so complex in C?
This is admittedly hazy, but I’m reasonably sure the Pi was originally named with Py-thon in mind.

Source: I think Eben told me himself a while back.
> None of this needs to be wrong or distorted.

The perfect defense against truth in any form.
Besides breaking the site guidelines by posting unsubstantive comments, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is also in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
2./2.1./4. Yes this is true, and that's exactly where root of my problem with this direction of research lies. The incentives of software vendors are partially misaligned with those of the users. A vendor will want to maximize their profit, if a tool that implements this research allows them to be lazy then en-masse they will (ab)use it.

3. Software is layered, if every layer of your electron app starts using this type of obfuscation you will notice the slowdown.

1.
I think there's an underlying assumption we both make about this research: it will increase the costs of finding exploits, but it will definitively not prevent a skilled attacker.

I also don't think it absolutely disqualifies anyone who's already able to craft an exploit, perhaps it will take them longer but anyone with the reversing chops to abuse an aslr weakness can figure out how to patch out or reverse the jumptables.

With that in mind, it comes back at the question:

Is it worth it? Increase the costs for an attacker but simultaneously adding an incentive for vendors to be lazy, an chose a cheap band-aid bolted-on-security approach as opposed to what we all know is the eventual (expensive) fix for memory related security problems?

I still think: hell no, don't make this stuff available, invest resources in alternative mitigations if not in outright solving the issue.
Hating on Musk is popular these days in large part because it is becoming more and more obvious that he is in many ways a con artist. Look at his recent self-driving car promises, for example. I don't believe that he is so misinformed as to actually believe his own self-driving car promises, so I view his over-promising as deliberate deception.
Exactly. Elon employs thousands of people. They deserve him to be forthright about their future.
Maybe it won't contain a vendor "management engine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Claims...
>So was Enron, the company who was creating the future of energy. A future in which we produce and consume energy more sustainably.

What in heavens name are you talking about? Are you really claiming that Enron was in the business of replacing petroleum and natural gas with solar and wind energy?
RISC-V is an instruction set - I think you're confusing that particular implementations of RISC-V (of which there are few yet)
As the article mentions, many people really never got out of the last recession. If we have another one, for them it will be just a continuation of a large one, making recovery even more difficult that it is now. Lost time, opportunities, compounded gains and mixing it with less income and higher cost of living makes it a situation not easy to overcome.

We are still bearing the consequences of the big bail out, forcefully paid by most of us instead of allowing some events to follow their natural path and the chance that things eventually balanced out. The artificiality of that solution has created abnormal behaviors and conditions such as the access to cheap money and a double standard for financial instruments, like personal vs institutional debt. Those situations effectively devalue money and allow arrangements that are very paradoxical from an economic standpoint as you pointed out.

As it has been mentioned in other comments here, I don't think this is limited to Millennials. Just by looking at the diversity of the economic statistics per state in the US you can see it is a more generalized problem. I would not consider that a complete "economy" has recovered from a recession when the numbers tell us we have just delayed aftermaths and major factions of it are still underwater with very bad prognosis.
If home taxes keep go up as your incomes goes down for people 65+ it has a very negative effect. It makes sense to me that taxes on property stay low and fixed.
I think you're just saying that because of the palatal affricates, which English very notably also has. The phonemic inventory of Esperanto looks like English minus its weirdest features, i.e. the interdental fricatives and tense/lax vowel distinction.

The case system, as you describe it, sounds Germanic, not Slavic.
Pointless nitpick: Synths in Fallout are specifically human-simulant androids. Conventionally mechanical-looking robots are just called robots.

But yeah, there's a lot to say about sci-fi/fantasy settings that give special names to well-worn setting concepts!
But none of them are competitive at all on an IPC basis right?

Don't get me wrong, I would love a RISC-V chip that is competitive with the ARM chips in smartphones but I think we are quite aways away from it for the time being.

RISC-V is most successful as microcontrollers who do not have to be state-of-the-art fast, they just have to work reliably.
if not for anything else why not simply for competition, more choice and lower prices?
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I haven't seen any of those, but solar panels are popular for office parking lots, with chargers for EVs. I don't know if SC ever got into those...
Must mean something like https://www.asus.com/Motherboard-Accessories/TPM-M-R2-0/ e.g. before IME and so on were built in, you could add them as extras.
I greatly wish a transcript had been provided at the very least.
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Yes.

And on copy/paste, the linebreaks in the original are preserved, which obviates the code objection answering you below.
AMD Chiplets Are Both Solution to and Symptom of a Larger Problem
You're absolutely right. It's not even just optimization. If you exercise your C++ compiler hard enough, you will find bugs. You have to know what the compiler is doing.

I have the misfortune of working somewhere where I generally have to use older versions of compilers for production. I've found two compiler bugs just in the last two years since I started my current project. I'm usually the last person to blame the compiler, but in this case I can be pretty confident because the bugs I found were fixed in later versions of the compiler.
But they are infringing on the copyright of the work. They've created a copy of the work in a different medium, which is one of the textbook examples of copyright infringement (not getting into whether fair use defense applies).
On 2.1, I"m not sure this is security through obscurity.

I can send a malicious individual a link to this paper saying I used these techniques on my binary but fuzzing will still be more difficult.

Just like encryption takes my message and jumbles it up to "obscure it", this technique is adding slowdowns and false paths to hinder the fuzzer.

Knowing my message is encrypted doesn't make it any easier to read, just like knowing my binary has been fuzzification-ified doesn't make it any easier to fuzz. The only thing that would help is giving you the key to my message, or program paths with added complexity to throw off the fuzzer.
> It means they managed to get irix running in qemu. Presumably on an x86 cpu.

Not quite. It means that they got qemu to emulate IRIX's syscall layer on linux. So you can run, lets say, a MIPS IRIX binary on x86 linux without having to emulate the entire machine.
Having a meal with no meat doesn't make one vegan/vegetarian.

> vegans and vegetarians are substantially more likely to be thin and, well, less traditionally manly, both in appearance and in values

I can point you to many fat vegans, and I've heard this 'need meat' BS from guys who were literally 135 lbs, soaking wet, so.... exactly this kind of attitude that 'meat makes you manly'.

Who said that I disagreed with those values, that is a poor assumption on your part.
Most Ponzi schemes usually do produce something of value for those who cash out early enough. I'm not saying the comparison is apt though.
Most aren't. Some towns are trying to change that. On the Montclair-Boonton line Bloomfield and Montclair (Bay Street) have higher-end apartment and mixed-use complexes either right next to the station or within a short walk.

I know the Main-Bergen line pretty much fits that description, though. Hell, there's one "station" that is just a half-ass strip of asphalt that passes for a parking lot.
SpaceX's stated goal is "occupy Mars".

Being able to land and deploy solar panels at scale is essential to this goal. And Musk has learned the hard way not to trust third party suppliers that he doesn't control.

SpaceX's aspirational goal is to launch something Mars-wards in the 2022 window to identify where the base will be and have some resources. Then send several vehicles and a few people in 2025 to set up a mission. Primary on that mission is to deploy solar panels, and start making methane+oxygen from CO2, water and energy. This is both for a return trip and for people to breathe. Then in 2027 send the first trip that can make a return flight. (Those dates are set by the fact that the Earth and Mars come into a good conjunction for launching from one to the other every 26 months.)

Musk says "aspirational". I think "crazy". But bump those by 2-5 years and it becomes barely plausible. And the end goal sounds less crazy now than it did 5 years ago. When it sounded less crazy than it was 11 years ago when we all were laughing at him.

And if he succeeds, the Mars colony could come to be worth more to SpaceX than its satellite launch business. By a lot.
G7 countries to provide $22m to fight Amazon fires
So here's what installing Debian was like in 1998.

Short of going to a first-tier University AND having a campus job that allowed you near the ethernet jacks, you were either going to spend weeks downloading disk images over your 38.4 kbps modem, or you were going to buy a collection of Linux distributions + the Sunsite archive on a 5-cd set that was released quarterly and available at computer stores.

Assuming that your CDROM spoke standard ATAPI instead of some weird hooks-up-to-a-soundcard interface from 1994, you probably had to create a floppy boot disk by dd'ing it off the cdrom, as your BIOS was 50/50 able to support the El Torito extensions that allowed a CDROM to boot the computer.

The dialog-based installer wasn't too different from now, IIRC. I think it was Debian that had options for installing from not just floppy and ftp, but NFS as well.

Once the machine was booted, you hoped to see "LILO" was successfully installed to bootsector and you could choose which OS to boot. If LILO didn't install right, it would just present "LI" and a blinking cursor. If you still had DOS on the machine, the recourse was to use a DOS floppy boot disk and use the undocumented "fdisk /mbr" command to put a normal DOS boot sector back on your hard drive.

Once the machine was up, you most likely had to get PPP working with your modem. Hopefully you had an external modem. Minicom was close enough to Telix that you'd use that to make sure that AT commands were making it to the modem, and then you went down the rabbit hole from there.

Getting X working sucked. I think by 1998 there was a helper script for generating your XFree86 conf, but even that would most likely require some hand-tweaks. If at this point you had your modem working you could at least get online with PPP or even just a plain shell account to start searching DejaNews for hints on how to get that working.

dselect was awesome, it felt like being connected to the world's hugest BBS, where you were guaranteed that every piece of software in the archive would work on your machine.

Now you're a few days in: You've got X working (probably at a wonky refresh rate), you can connect to the Internet (when your ISP has an open line and you aren't hitting a busy signal) and you've got Netscape installed. Getting your soundcard working is probably still a week off.
I guess it was surprising to me because I don't know anyone who's ever used their pi for python stuff. I mostly use them for networking, though.
Low density notwithstanding, the Menlo Park example does seem like a nice, walkable downtown area near the train station.

(And apparently the Menlo Park station was built in 1867, making it one of the oldest passenger rail stations in California!)
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Emailing us for help with one account while abusing the site with another is pretty cheap. I've banned both. Please don't make accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A chip can't bin faster than its slowest core.

Intel and AMD recently started binning individual cores, although I don't think it has hit Xeon yet.
> We use apt by typing apt-get in the terminal

You can also use apt.
There was a virtual console release for Mario 64, so it's still applicable
Possibly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderByte_Antivirus
No, GP is saying that there is a long way to go before RISC-V implementations can match ARM implementations in competitiveness on an IPC basis.
I am glad to have lower prices and more healthy competition
He also happened to be one of the largest bondholders as well. And SpaceX was also deeply invested in SolarCity bonds. He could not have been more conflicted in this transaction.
Musk is a genius engineer. He is arguably the most brilliant technologist in the world today. Can you point to anyone who has produced as much technological progress, and in two quite different fields?
Isn't it possible that someone could just do research and work this out, rather than trying to derive it axiomatically?
Mupen64 for N64, with a python GUI. Was playing last night, best Mario ever.
But YouTube belongs to Google which is a rival company to Facebook. And that can be a problem.
Is there a comparison between RISC-V and Power? IBM recently published the POWER instruction set.
BOOM is close to Ivy Bridge IPC in one benchmark. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~celio/
Would this help improve the Virtual Console release?
The only actual fact is that the bottom 20% of American residents spend as much as some developed EU national averages.

But then the whole swathe of conclusions are pure ignorance.

If I were to compare my $20 purchasing power in rural Pennsylvania vs the the same $20 in London, I would get more in London. It's really not the same.
There are a lot of services that compound to create a lot of cost for people, that don't exist in many other places.

And then there's the failure to recognize the status of USD, that makes this comparison wholly irrelevant. Donald Trump starts a trade war and the result is 5% rise in value of USD against multiple currencies.
IMO, the only reason that you gave that holds water here is that it requires dynamic hosting and that the resulting operational complexity just isn't worth it for a personal blog. Having to add caching plugins/config for a PHP CMS isn't out of the ordinary, being written in PHP is not in itself a negative point (modern PHP really doesn't suck).

I will never, ever, ever advocate for running Wordpress for much of anything, but I would also argue that any nontrivial piece of software has a fair number of security issues and that Wordpress vulnerabilities are particularly visible because of how widely used it is and the public-facing nature of the software.
AIDS is a public health crisis. Are we to limit homosexual intercourse too? If a can of soda invites government meddling into people's lifestyles then literally nothing is safe. There will always be some aggregate cost that can justify intrusion until every private decision is optimized and regulated according to some central rubric.
As a counter perspective check out "Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics"

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Evolutionary-Informatics...
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insidesales.com. I was the product manager when we launched Playbooks. Its core value prop is this.
What OS would they run?
Except that Zamenhof spoke Slavic languages as a native - and not German nor English - and specifically chose Romance languages to relexify - there is no discernable German or English influence on the language
How does that relate?
Grass is often green. So are leaves.
Yes, you can play it on your phone with the screen off. You're still playing the video and processing the graphical data.

What would not be permissible is stripping the audio track from the video to play separately. That would generally be copyright infringement and there are limited circumstances under which a fair use defense would apply.
For all the negativity here about Musk and his business decisions, there is something to be said for integrating transport and energy services in one great package.

I consult for a large energy conglomerate that wants to get into this market from the energy suppliers side, but the problem is that they are completely clueless when it comes to expanding beyond their traditional business. In their vision, they'll supply customers with solar panels, an EV charger, home battery, heating solutions and as a backup their traditional business: gas and electricity. All integrated in a nice package.

It took them two years to set up a department that sells their first product (besides gas and electricity): an outdated EV charger, from a company they bought that stopped innovating after acquisition and is now lagging behind competition. Not a car, just the charger.
On the contrary, I feel like these kinds of projects are exactly what should be making the front page of Hacker News.
Except for that property taxes in Texas are quite high for the US and there's no equivalent to prop 13. So, mostly you're right, there hasn't been as much pressure to use the land well, but as urban centers have appreciated there is more pressure than there would be in California.
The difference is, Enron didn't build any cars, manufacture any solar panels, or launch any rockets.

Anyone buying into Musk's vision understands that they're buying into all of it, for better or worse. Either that, or they're too dumb to be entrusted with large amounts of money, and markets have a way of handling that situation quickly and efficiently.
My old country as always at its best when it comes to propaganda. This elections will be noted in history for the first usage of blockchain instead of for the brutal suppression of opposition https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/europe/russia-protests-arrest... (note the helmeted Russian storm-troopers don't have any ID on their uniform, so they are practically unpunisheable for their actions - I mean there is even no guarantee that it is actual law enforcement and not just some dressed up guys who enjoy beating people )
It's quaint that you think you cannot apply a nonphysical meaning for "attractive" to my comment and see that the point still stands.

I think you're probably wrong about yourself too.

And yes I did call out that I don't know the full circumstances.
If RISC-V takes off, I think we'll first see it come from small shops that put it on the side of a chip with other functionality they're selling. Then it may bubble up into more advanced implementations as demand for the instruction set builds up.

Process tech is slowing, so I think that costs of the best processes will go down and we'll see more competition for CPU designs.
The article hints at this, but I thought it was interesting that Capek's robots, though mass-produced tools, were not mechanical: "There are descriptions of kneading-troughs for robot skin, great vats for liver and brains, and a factory for producing bones. Nerve fibers, arteries, and intestines are spun on factory bobbins, while the Robots themselves are assembled like automobiles." (Wikipedia.)
If it requires a nail, the final device was not 3D printed.
I agree with you, sort of, in that if we're inventing a new system we may as well make it more intuitive for base 0x10 numbers while we're at it. At the very least we need something like the thousands separator, otherwise something like 0x10000000 becomes very difficult to say. Perhaps just use "word" as the suffix for (2^4)^4 sized groups. [1] And then "biword", "triword", "quadword", etc. So 0x10000000 would become "one aught aught aught word".

But then you start to see the advantage of named systems, because you end up saying "aught" or "zero" a lot to distinguish "0xA" from "0xA0" within words. "A salary of one aught aught word" doesn't seem as easy to me as "a salary of one hundred thousand". So perhaps something ought to be done about 0x10 and 0x100, even if we only use them in situations that can be abbreviated like that. Maybe 0x10 is "hex", so "base 0x10" becomes literally read as "base hex".

[1] Of course this fixes a meaning for how many bytes are in a word, which a lot of people aren't going to be happy with. ;-)
Obviously IANAL, but my understanding was that conversion and translation is deemed to be under the same copyright as the source.
I'm a little lost here. I agree: heritage birds that are free to roam uncrowded pastures will taste better than CAFO chicken. What's your point? A dry-aged ribeye also tastes better than a bottom round steak. If you're eating dry-aged ribeyes (or heritage chicken) every day, you're wealthy. Congrats, but most people don't have that option.
Tangentially, I thought that Alexander Nix did a terrible job of defending himself.

I have no sympathy for him, but I don't understand why he didn't at least try to argue that CA didn't really do anything new: political campaigns have used polling and have adapted their discourses to their audiences for a long time. It's just that now they have better tools.
Maybe the documentaries on educationally focused services like Magellan TV or Curiosity Stream are of a higher standard than what you get on Netflix. I see advertisements for them but have not checked into them yet.
No - qemu supports "userland" emulation where the processor ISA is emulated but syscalls and memory are translated to the host OS. The IRIX kernel and OS doesn't run in this scenario.
Elite Man Podcast - http://elitemanmagazine.com/elitemanpodcast/

Rich Roll podcast (he tends to ramble sometimes, but he has some great guests) - https://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/

Bundyville - always two sides to the story, https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

Reversing climate change podcast

Superhuman academy
It appears likely that Apple will be transitioning to ARM for its laptops in the future so regardless we should start seeing architecture diversity in laptops.
Good video - thanks!

I didn't quite follow how information came back out of the black hole as it shrank - is it "encoded" on the Hawking radiation?
QEMU is thought of as a hardware emulator, but supports "userland" emulation where the processor ISA is emulated but syscalls and memory are translated to the host OS.
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I think it's a bad idea to do this for reasons others mentioned. It's the willingness to look away that incentivizes more poor behavior that puts the mission at risk.

But I appreciate the honesty about it.
This is not an adequate explanation for why Prop 13 tax basis can be inherited or why it is valid for commercial buildings. The "sell their homes" rhetoric does not work for investment properties either.