skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel Gets Sneaky

"Despite losing considerable market share to AMD, Intel held on to a commanding lead by exerting its influence on computer manufacturers. Most famous was the “Intel Inside” co-branding program, in which Intel gave “market-development funds” to computer manufacturers if they highlighted the Intel brand on their products. But “Intel Inside” was not nearly as controversial as Intel’s practice of paying “loyalty rebates” to computer manufacturers for not using AMD chips. On the surface, Intel’s loyalty rebate programs appeared to be innocent volume or bundled discounts. Courts had struggled to apply section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act to the issue of bundled discounts, as it was hard to distinguish harmless discounts from loyalty rebates provided for the sole purpose of acquiring or maintaining monopoly power. But by taking into consideration the market conditions at the time and the nature of Intel’s relationship with the computer manufacturers, the monopolistic intent underlying Intel’s actions is noticeable. The commoditization of the PC market had severely impacted the profit margins of computer manufacturers, leaving their hopes of meeting quarterly earnings targets at the mercy of Intel’s loyalty rebates. In internal emails at major computer manufacturers, company executives were clearly distressed by the risk of losing such rebates, and most importantly, profitability, if they adopted AMD chips—or, as one Dell executive poignantly put it, Intel was “prepared for ‘jihad’ if Dell joins the AMD exodus.” Indeed, AMD’s biggest barrier in breaking 25% in overall x86 market share was its failure to court Dell, the biggest U.S. computer manufacturer. Dell was for a long time an exclusive Intel customer, but actually had been quite eager to use AMD’s chips. In an e-mail to Intel’s CEO in 2005, Michael Dell wrote, “None of the current benchmarks and reviews say that Intel based systems are better than AMD. We are losing the hearts, minds and wallets of our best customers.” Intel was quick to address Dell’s concerns. Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, replied, “[W]e are transferring over $1B per year to Dell for meet comp efforts. This [should be] more than sufficient to compensate for the competitive issues.” Soon after, Dell’s CEO Kevin Rollins announced that Dell had “made no plans to begin using” AMD chips, which Otellini described as “the best friend money can buy.” "(1)

(1) [See Subheading: Intel Gets Sneaky]

"Intel and the x86 Architecture: A Legal Perspective
Written by Greg Tang
January 04, 2011"

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archite...
Graphics Card Exposure Test
Bzg/woof: online monitor for mailing list based patch workflow
Tips I Learned While Building My Startup That Helped Keep Me Mentally Sound
Steamed Hams Gag at 25
Insider trades at the C-level were more interesting IMHO. Everyone liquidated significant portions of their total holdings.
There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Older Playstation Consoles
Thanks for sharing this — that is really cool!

What are you up to now? Still in the music/tech space?
You say that you don't think the US will stop eating meat. That seems entirely irrelevant unless you care about what others do.

Importantly, you say "There is no argument you can make that will change my eating habits." which is so closed-minded, I don't know what to say. Are you really unable to fathom a single reason that could make you change your behavior? Are you saying you're 100% informed about the meat industry and thus there is no more new information that you could learn (since you know it all)?

Are you comfortable in full honesty stating that the pleasure of eating meat is enough of a reason for you to pay money to people who thanks to your money torture animals?
TLDR: there is not one right way to do things and IQ follows a normal distribution.
> And a laptop allows me to use a single machine for all that, ain't that great?

It's AMAZING.

I have servers, raspberry pi's. I work locally and push to wherever I need.

I work from home, sometimes from my office, sometimes from the couch. Sometimes I went out to coffee shops or the library. I sometimes gotta hop on a plane and go to the office where I switch between desks, conference rooms, offices. I travel to visit family.

A single device allows me to just close the lid and keep going. It's amazing.
There are some valid reasons for using fingerprinting.

In the UK, gambling companies use fingerprinting to enforce exclusion lists (i.e. gambling addicts who self-exclude from gambling websites), and stop people from outside the UK gambling illegally (the latter is used generally, although desktop apps are generally more secure).

I believe it is also used in online retail to combat bots (self-evidently, not everyone is doing this).

I think it is a concern when websites use this kind of thing indiscriminately. I have worked in web development roles, and I have had devs tell me point blank (once, a lead dev) that fingerprinting is impossible whilst using products that expose their customers to fingerprinting...so it is important to be aware of it. But there are legitimate uses to fingerprinting specifically, exclusive of the APIs that some apps rely on certain features (i.e. WebGL). It is sometimes important to know who someone is.
Just disabled, how lovely!
WinGet is not a package manager. (never was, and probably never will be)

this 'old' thread still nails it: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/discussions/223

it's just sad.

use Chocolatey, if you can't for some reason try Scoop.
I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have a few minutes, my email is ben@shepherd.com. Can you tell me what you would do and how you would approach it? I'd love to chat if you have a few minutes :)
Thanks for the suggestion. Thread is too deep to reply to your actual message, but I will look around to see how other "online judge" software run arbitrary code securely.

There's probably some low hanging fruit in configuring Docker properly.
=\ thats too bad

but I do have 16TB of NVMe SSDs so..... hmmmm, I guess that's fine since I already own them
Thanks, this is hilarious

> Inflicting that complexity on you all would help with margin control, but ugh. What we've done instead is set a blended price that fits most apps running on Fly.io, and decided to just eat the extra cost from outliers. If you want to exploit that, run an app in Sydney with a whole bunch of users in India. We'll lose money on your app and you will win one round of capitalism.
Because sometimes you want to learn the fancy tools but only need to make something simple. When the time comes to make the complex web app, you are now more prepared.
I've had 5-6 different captcha bots, and they were routinely defeated.

I've used this bot for microtransactions: https://twitter.com/lntxbot
It took me a sadly too-long time to realize that this had nothing to do with any printer API.

Like, I read the whole post, and all the comments here on HN. And only _then_ did it dawn on me.
It's common enough. I'm guessing that you just don't notice it because it's so natural.
Intel (Converged Security) Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware and Tools
The one who devises a method to keep crypto people busy without them having negative effects on the real world might get the Nobel Peace Prize - or rather the Economics one? Maybe both - to express our deepest gratitude?
well done tromp
What happens when you submit code?
I've used this bot: https://twitter.com/lntxbot

takes microscopic amounts via Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Amazingly effective.
Lessons from Roman Empire about dangers of luxury
Sorry, my M1 mac mini doesn't push out the 165Hz, it maxes out at 60Hz. Sure this is the average refresh rate most people ask for, but this is also the max the mac mini go.

My display is a Qhd (2560 x 1440)
Getting really fucking tired of these ponzi schemes creating massive collateral damages. Can the "industry" just move on to proof of stake and contain their damages to themselves?
That study is interesting, but us an extremely synthetic testing environment, where everything in the experiment group was called a "consipiracy theory" in a synthetic research prompt, not measuring how peopld respond to actual usage of the term.
"Being in a study" may have as large an effect on the result as "attitude toward the term "conspiracy theory".
Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (2012)
The primary use of Bitcoin is moving money out of China. That's what drives a lot of this.
Not really no. The differences between distros are essentially rooted in philosophical beliefs defended by near religious zealotry. Entire identies are defined around the differences between distros.

A bit of an exaggeration, but well...pretty much that.
Thanks :)

Ya good point, when I looked at search volume I was surprised how many time sensitive searches there were. I would like to rank for those eventually but I am still playing with the best way to do that and make sure what people land on is specifically what they want. The Amazon tip is a good one, thanks!
Amount of damage by cryptocurrencies is mind boggling and yet they are going strong...
The copyright industry is worth billions and billions of dollars. Their lobbying power is insane. Plus they have the USA on their side pushing their intellectual property laws on every country on Earth via trade agreements. Seriously doubt we're gonna beat them at this game.

Our best bet is to create technology they cannot block. Make it impossible for them to enforce their ridiculous laws. Decentralized, anonymous networks that everyone can use to communicate. If we can send arbitrary data to each other freely and without fear of consequences, their little data monopolies and regulations won't matter.

The idea is to increase the government tyranny necessary to enforce laws we don't agree with. We'll eventually find their limits.
Nice to see another Julia user! Yup right now we only have 27 problems but there will hopefully be many more in the future. Some people might even contribute some new problems.
Martello Tower
Does it matter if they know you're spoofing, as long as it prevents them from linking two separate sessions together?
Indeed. The big boys all made their own CPUs, and the growth market has been mobile. And x86 isn't there. The architecture is still big, but under pressure from both sides.
If technical limitations are incompatible with social concerns, the social concerns are what needs to take priority.

If society wants to make sure algorithms are fair, it may decide one option is to ban black boxes algorithms — if DNNs can’t be comprehended, that means no DNNs. Alternatively, if society says the only way to have a black box is to not compete in the domain the black box judges, then Google et al will have to change their business models.
I believe HDMI can only send uncompressed video data. It can support compressed audio but not compressed video.
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It looks like they failed at the "extend" part.
The problem is that some of those collectors don't realize that there are any other ways of approaching a hobby.

A while back on BGG, someone new dropped a question in a forum about designing a game based on a web comic. He was told immediately that he'd never make money, that he'd never be successful without more experience than he'd be willing to get, and to top it off, got a long lecture from one grognard about how the game---based on a comic---would be a total failure unless he dropped the concept and rebased it on said grognard's own ideas.

The newbie concluded, rightly, that it wasn't a welcoming community.
Windows task scheduler is suitable for periodically checking for updates.
Kind of curious how you can actually ensure they actually have that unused space available. The article said it had to be empty.. couldn't someone just write their own disk driver that lies about the size of the drive?
The process of collecting was probably most of the fun, anyway. That said, I could see how the internet ruined it because 99% of what you're looking for can be in your hands in a week for the right price.
I disagree on the importance you’re putting on what I think are edge cases for most development. When I’m building a binary, the biggest issue I tend to run into is the “machine” I’m building it on. Docker allows that “machine” to have reproducibly equivalent dependencies. Same version of Node, .NET, Java, etc. I don’t see how the kernel really matters that much here. I’ve never once cared what Linux kernel I’m on, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to figure which exact version of Cordova I need with Ionic or whatever mess of dependencies I need.
Author of the post here, I love those kinds of slow burns. I'm really glad you managed to experience one.
Actually not any more. I'm a software engineer these days in the energy sector so nowhere near as glamorous! Gaming industry is a young man's game so I decided to move on and scratch my programming itch instead! I didn't fancy being a game programmer.

Music is back to being a hobby again. Was just a 3-4 year thing that I went into it professionally.
Then you still don't understand the problem. This had nothing to do with consumer margin; they could have not offered margin as a product and still ended up in this situation. The TLDR is that DTCC requires cash from the brokerage firm for buying a stock until settlement clears, which means the money you pay to buy $100 worth of apple, a percentage of that amount must be paid directly by the brokerage i.e. not from the $100 you gave but from the businesses account. During the gamestop fiasco, the percentage of money required from the brokers increased in orders of magnitude for GME and other meme stocks which caused a pseudo liquidation issue, but not actually since no one's balances were at risk yet.

It's ironic because this prevents small brokerages from building their own clearing houses and reducing competition in that space. Robinhood innovated to push the feature development cycle faster and got punished for it due to an archaic rule about settlement time. T+2 is really 99% of the reason this happened -- sure RH could have raised additional funds, but a black swan event isn't usually what a smaller bank plans for.
This isn't the first proof-of-storage-capacity cryptographic currency. I think the first was Burst, which came out in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_space
Your last point is not supported by your link - this is an article praising Guido, the creator of Python, and remarking how good Python is.
It’s exhausting getting accessibility points communicated when there’s always a reply which is just an exception that proves the rule.

“Oh iPad too complicated you say? Well one time I saw an example where that wasn’t the case.”
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And yet there's hundreds of apps that will never be updated or changed to conform to standards.

i suspect many of those are no longer actively maintained. at best they receive security patches from distributions.

Tell that to snap. It insists its folder must sit nicely in my home folder and nowhere else.

my (low) opinion of snap aside, the bad here is that the location is not configurable. as a library of applications, i would want snap in $HOME. or i would put it in $HOME/lib or an equivalent. maybe .local would be appropriate too, but i understand it's for app specific user-data, so it doesn't look like whole apps should be in there. (edit: elsewhere i just read that .local is supposed to be like a user specific /usr/local, so snap should fit in there somewhere)
It's easier if you want to achieve the same things. Our expectations have just increased even faster than things became easier.
Just the grind of cold emails :)

It is a pretty easy sell as it is win/win for them. They recommend five books on a topic they already know well and then I feature them and their book alongside the list forever. Plus, what we are finding in early user testing is that by giving those little recommendations readers get to peek in their head and it increases interest in their book.

Half my long term goal with this website is to give authors better ways to market themselves and their books. There is a growing trend that authors have to do full time marketing and I worry that a lot of authors spend more time on marketing than their craft. And, for new authors it is a catch 22 to try to get that first book noticed.
Great work! Though, wouldn't it be easier to just open the controller up and use transistors to close the contacts? Transistors are cheaper!
> How does this help with journalism?

I'm sorry, I veered horribly off topic in that comment. Hard
to edit on a phone.

The only sustainable solution to fix journalism is to
abolish copyright. That's it. That's the only thing we can
do to fix journalism.

For some context, journalism has not signicantly improved in
roughly 150 years, perhaps longer. Perhaps it some slight
areas it has gotten better, in others it has regressed. You
can test this for yourself. There's a book available right
now used on Amazon for $3.51, called "New York Times: The
Complete Front Pages 1851-2009" ^0. Get that book, read some
of the front pages from ~170 years ago, and compare to
today's paper. It's a toss up which is better.

So I will conclude in part from that the field of journalism
has plateaud for at least the past 100 years. This is
surprising, as technology has improved dramatically. You'd
expect the quality of the news should have gone up.

What else has happened in the past century? Well we
know governments dramatically extended copyright laws. So
now our prior should be that increasing copyright has not
improved journalism at all, and probably has had a
significant negative effect, enough to offset the
improvement we'd expect from better technology.

Why would moving away from copyright lead to better
journalism?

Let's talk about 3 parameters that will change.

First, collaboration will go up. Lots of people who are now
prevented from seamlessly collaborating to improve the news
would now be free to do so. Articles will be developed on
git. Instead of constantly sucking everyone's attention to
show frivolous novelty covered in ads, more important long
term stories will be iterated upon.

Second, trust will go up. If one paper starts lying and
someone knows the truth, they can fork that article/paper
and offer the better version. Over time sources that
prioritize truth will win gravity from tabloids. Every
article will be backed by git (or similar) and the chance
history and authors will be visible at every step of the
way.

Finally, distribution will be improved in myriad ways.
Starting a publisher will be easy for everyone, and you'll
see a resurgence in regional and topic specific publishers.
You'll have lots of innovation around customizing content
for specific kinds of devices and readers.

So collaboration will increase and the cost of doing great
journalism will fall dramatically, trust and auditability
will increase, and distribution will increase.

It will be a dramatic win for journalism, and journalism in
10 years (or 100, if it takes society longer to wake up to
the obvious), will be a big delta different compared to the
delta in the previous century.

Thanks for getting my thoughts back on track!

0:
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Complete-1851-2009/dp/...
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Given what they wrote in their release announcement, I have a bit worse opinion of them:

Why not contribute to another open source package manager?

We looked at several other package managers. There were several reasons leading us to create a new solution. One critical concern we had was how to build a repository of trusted applications. We are automatically checking each manifest. We leverage SmartScreen, static analysis, SHA256 hash validation and a few other processes to reduce the likelihood of malicious software making its way into the repository and onto your machine. Another key challenge was all the changes required to be able to deliver the client program as a native Windows application.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-m...
Proof of stake is an oligarchy. The only proof-of-X that works is if X guarantees one person has the same voting power as another person. Finding X is currently an unsolved problem in mathematics and computer science. No cryptocurrency does this.
Another retro approach: a knob that you turn that generates static when you're between stations.

For extra authenticity, there should be hiss (or a station) when the knob is sitting still and crackling when it is turning.
Citations?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/07/china-bit...

>China’s vast bitcoin mining empire risks derailing its climate targets, says study

>China powers nearly 80% of the global cryptocurrencies trade, but the energy required could jeopardise its pledge to peak carbon emissions by 2030

>Bitcoin miner Huang inspects a malfunctioning mining machine during his night shift at the Bitcoin mine in Sichuan Province, China.
China’s bitcoin mines will generate 130.5m metric tons of carbon emissions by 2024, the Nature study found.

>China’s electricity-hungry bitcoin mines that power nearly 80% of the global trade in cryptocurrencies risk undercutting the country’s climate goals, a study in the journal Nature has said.

>Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rely on “blockchain” technology, which is a shared database of transactions, with entries that must be confirmed and encrypted. The network is secured by individuals called “miners” who use high-powered computers to verify transactions, with bitcoins offered as a reward. Those computers consume enormous amounts of electricity.

>About 40% of China’s bitcoin mines are powered with coal, while the rest use renewables, the study said. However, the coal plants are so large they could end up undermining Beijing’s pledge to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060, it warned.
I wanted to share this here in case others find this useful to help them patch Intel CSME vulnerabilities when their system manufacturer or motherboard vendor refuses to. :)

The Intel CSME Version Detection Tool[1] said that the Windows desktop I'd built myself was vulnerable to a number of flaws from 2020[2], based on the CSME version number.

I checked on another computer (from Razor) and according to the CSME version number, it had all but the last vulnerability in November 2020 patched. For that one, I'll ask Razor for an update.

I needed this link because my motherboard manufacturer has not released an update since April 2020 when the last Intel patch was released in November 2020. It's not even clear if they released patches for their newer motherboards. (This one was from 2019.)

I decided the company wasn't going to patch it for me, and this forum post helped me build a patch for my motherboard myself. It's a bit complicated but possible to do it if you take it carefully step by step.

1. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28632

2. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
I would really like it if we'd stop posting nonsensical NFTs, of which there are a literally unlimited supply, since anything can be made into one.
The actual bitcoin-core wallet needs revamping, why don’t you start there?
I Complain About Companies on Twitter (and you should too)
French court rules anti-semitic murderer won't be punished because he was high
Here's an interesting Litmus test:

Go into any Staples regular brick and mortar Retail location and look at the Laptops on the showroom Floor and see if they have any AMD laptops on display there! And If they do not then ask the sales associate why. And I've asked and been told that they have AMD options but the AMD laptop has to be ordered online! So do that at Staples and other Office Stores that have brick and mortar retail locations!