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There are hundreds of thousands looking for a zero days bugs in bigger frameworks.

None for yours.

Wordpress is a great example. It has better security than your average php blog.

Your average php blog doesn't get attacked by automated exploits attacking known endpoints either.

A determined hacker would find it easier to buy an expliot to a common framework compared to figuring out your custom framework.

We've seen redis and mongo boxes getting hit by no password logins within seconds of going on the public web. Joe's custom cache and database doesn't get hit.
Yet somehow they didn't before a year ago
There are multiple, independent studies that have concluded that global human society has gone into overshoot. So much so that it is an unwritten consensus on that. There's even this site[1] that calculates the day of the year when humanity has consumed that year's entire resources and is dipping into annual overshoot.

[1] https://www.overshootday.org
Why is hacker news doing more advertising for a Youtube personality?
Oh, to be clear, I think it will happen. I just don’t think it’s going to be something so predictable. Almost by definition, a civilization collapses due to a surprise — some belief was wrong.

And there’s value in questioning our (often unexamined) beliefs. But taking it too seriously, thinking that you’ve got it figured out and that others are fools for not listening to you — well… Maybe you would have predicted the meteor to the dinosaurs, and maybe they would’ve been fools for not listening, but there was also very little any of them could have done to change the outcome.

Pick your favorite civilization collapse story. What would you have done, at that time, to change it?

One could argue “at least I would’ve seen it coming.” That’s true; be informed. But I object to the idea that everyone is generally foolish for not taking these concerns seriously. The concerns are mistaken far more than they’re correct.
Makes people feel uncomfortable - that is a lot more common these days.

Asking for documentation in these situations is somewhat routine when the issue is not obvious. Someone who used to be able to work in the office, and now can't return, that's not going to be super obvious necessarily why WfH is needed (and separately a reasonable request).

"An employer may require that the documentation about the disability and the functional limitations come from an appropriate health care or rehabilitation professional. The appropriate professional in any particular situation will depend on the disability and the type of functional limitation it imposes. Appropriate professionals include, but are not limited to, doctors (including psychiatrists), psychologists, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and licensed mental health professionals.

In requesting documentation, employers should specify what types of information they are seeking regarding the disability, its functional limitations, and the need for reasonable accommodation. The individual can be asked to sign a limited release allowing the employer to submit a list of specific questions to the health care or vocational professional." - EEOC.
Well, US is aligned with Israel. And Israel and Iran are mortal enemies by tradition now. The iranian leadership has the US and Israel as the enemy as their core agenda that is thought in schools. Israelian hardliners brag how about they will wipe out iran (and do carry out attacks)
It is hard to break out of that cycle.

Plus, it is much more complicated, because the other Ally, Saudi Arabia is mutual enemy of iran, too.
Not just geopolitics, also religious reasons. And .. a whole lot more.

I think it is sad, because the iranian people I met, were very nice persons.
That's a bit surprising (if not ironic) but I think it may make sense in a way. It's been pretty clear that Mudabala (an Abu Dhabi fund that bought AMD fabs in 2008 which then became GlobalFoundries) wanted to unload that investment after they stopped shoving money into failed process developments (GloFo licensed their 14nm from Samsung as a reminder, and their own 7nm failed too), so no surprise on their end.

From Intel's perspective, there are also some US assets from IBM, which GloFo "acquired" in 2014 (for -1.5 billion at the time), which includes some oldish US fabs, but also a patent portfolio. It certainly goes into the current US political narrative that Gelsinger has been pushing.

But perhaps more importantly, I think that what Intel is buying is what was sorely lacking them : people and a methodology of working with external customers.

From all I've heard over the years, Intel's process and design teams are so insular and out of touch with the rest of the industry's practices that they had a terrible time just working with customers. It wasn't pretty when they tried the two previous time to open up their process. Loads of announcements, few products if any coming out, and when it worked, they ended up buying their customers anyway, see Altera.

If Intel truly wants to go in that direction, they'll get some interesting outside experience, and while it may not make sense from a pure process point of view, considering how much of a sore point their inability to make it work has been on their previous attempts, the idea may have a lot of merit.

Perhaps a very smart move from Gelsinger, time will tell, in the meantime I'll have a laugh at Intel buying AMD's old fabs :)
As a human, I have a hard time finding common cause with people who consider humanity to be the enemy.

I mean, even if you say human nature is a problem, I might agree, depending on the specifics. But humanity itself? Well, if you think I'm your enemy, then maybe I'm your enemy.
A former partner of mine is an artist, and has a different perspective on the world than most engineers, combined with an amount of melancholic clarity.

She pointed out that the central idea of Armageddon, Judgement Day or the end of everything is largely common to most societies. If you look at the core of the philosophical concept and strip away any religious parts, it doesn't normally imply the end of all humans. But for you as an individual, the distinction is moot if your village is burned down and everyone killed or sold into slavery.

I think this concept represents a fundamental fear which most humans go to great length to reduce the risk of. Lots of potential doomsday scenarios can be viewed with this lens. It doesn't mean that the risk being discussed is non-existent, but mitigating measures will most likely reduce the risk and impact dramatically.
How to get the most out of meetings
Actually thinking about it, another aspect is almost certainly 'commercial sensitivity' for want of a better phrase? The university will own the copyright; they might have a policy against just handing it out when they might want to be able to later decide to commercialise it (because it's some whizz bang faster than everyone else's 25519 accelerator)?

I spent my first internship at Arm benchmarking various libraries' performance on Cortex-M. Arm subsequently acquired PolarSSL, now MbedTLS (I don't recall my results - no claims here, about PolarSSL nor the influence of my lowly undergrad intern work!) for I assume some non-trivial amount. You could imagine a similar company acquiring WhizzBang25519AccelCorp from the university but perhaps less likely/for less if there's a convenient WhizzBunnie25519AccelOSS re-implementation?
Or it's an ongoing cautionary narrative that we shouldn't take our civilizational accomplishments forgranted, and that government and civic works are ultimately a long chain of development and stewardship which depended on those before to keep going.
Purely functional expression is not subject to copyright. If you claimed that your code was used to train an AI among thousands/millions of other code snippets and somehow your creative expression came out the other side, I would suggest what you are trying to claim is a purely functional expression and not subject to any meaningful copyright. And I would be correct.
There actually was a shortage--of residential TP, due to people spending more time at home instead of at work, where commercial TP is used.
Don't the developers of League of Legends specifically put in a lot of effort to make sure the game runs on older hardware?
In regards to electric vehicles, I think Tesla blazed that trail :)
These are great examples. I knew that I preferred destructors over defer, but I could not explain why. You put it into words.

I think people have a bias against destructors because of C++, but they really are pretty nice. Speaking as a guy that uses C instead of C++, destructors are the one thing I would add to C.
For a 7" screen jumping down to 720P is just fine. It's market niche is clearly not to compete with even a GTX 1050, but to be a little less than that to manage most games reasonably well and even newer games with a a minimally playable performance anywhere you go. I'm looking at it as a Nintendo Switch with a massively larger available library that can play most games I already own and don't have to wait & hope for ports when it's already more powerful than a Switch, the most comparable portable device available.
I've been here a lot longer than that. But one must keep in mind, when those guidelines were written, no one fathomed a comment attributing a vanilla statement to a beastie boy after praising him as smart would be made.

This makes ≈3 snarky comments, the rest were simply unpopular.
A Coaching Paradox
Exciting. Gloflo could use a boost and intel could use a foundry business.
> The whole premise of “doxing” being a problem is that people have a right to say things on the internet that would get them in trouble in real life.

Mmm. In some cases terribly dangerous things to their health, like being gay in a country that forbids it. Or criticising a government that forbids it. Or saying something that only becomes illegal or publicly reprehensible after the fact.
If your question is purely "is the value prime" the Fermat primaility test is very fast, probably about as fast as a hash table lookup on a table that large. Running Baillie–PSW to eliminate false positives isn't a huge deal either as it will only need to run if Fermat passes. It's not a horrible idea on its face and may indeed be a little faster, at the cost of lots of memory. I don't know of a use case where it would be worth it.
> This is US-focused and other countries will differ, but some do's and don'ts:

If your local jurisdiction doesn't have pretty much the equivalent, it's a red flag to consider.
There is a legit phenomenon in chess of "assistants" that are literally just Stockfish telling you which moves to play. People still want to play chess against untrusted opponents. Real-life chess tournaments generally make people surrender their electronics at the door for this very reason.

Fortunately, most cheaters don't know how or are not trying that hard to hide, and are identified by pattern recognition. It's not that big a problem in practice. It's still universally considered cheating.
Once you start having multiple data sources, business logic implemented in application code might be easier to reuse than business logic implemented in one of the data sources. For example: start with Postgres, then add ClickHouse to the mix. It might be easier to let the application handle access to both DBs, rather than write RLS policies in Postgres and then try to apply them to ClickHouse.
Wow,GF came out of AMD and now going to Intel.
Employers have a right to know about the disability and the functional limitations it imposes.

In fact, they can even have you to go to an employer selected doctor if you're not giving them good info / good docs - this is someone who will be paid by employer to check into your condition and report back to them.
The article mentions influencers as a revenue stream and I personally love makeup and make purchases and recommendations based on a creator building a reputable brand. I would like to see that model in more spaces. Make up brands give influencers press kits and they give their honest thoughts. Today a TikToker “mass hole” got Kylie Jenner’s updated product and I watched 4 videos of her trying it out and the product that stood out the most was not liked by the creator (upgraded highlighter formula if you’re curious) but because I trust the channel I saw a product that fits into a niche I care about (a more subtle highlighter). Marketing might be getting meritocrized?
No nuclear weapons either, which, if countries are suffering from major drought and famine, may tip the scales in favor of using them.
That is supposedly what happened with Rome. A very modern society (by our standards) was replaced by barbarians (by our standards). Those barbarians eventually developed a lot of the same social and political structures as Rome.

It was a regression from a unified pan-continent society to isolated tribes. How advanced those tribes were is hard to say because most didn’t write things down.

As far as I know what followed Rome was a period of unrest and lessened commerce. From that aspect at least it was “worse”.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction (i.e "free")

I don't actually. If I could pay for something that gives good value and by doing so I also shut off all tracking of any kind, I'd do so, assuming it was something I was interested in.
"My point though is that it's increasingly clear that Facebook's audience is becoming just that, an aging niche, and that's not a great place to be for a social media platform"

A few counter points can be made here.

Yours is a very US centric view. As one example, in several Central and South American countries, Facebook is everything. It's where everybody is, and this weird western idea that mingling with old people is "not cool" isn't a thing there.

Facebook is nearing 3 billion ACTIVE users. Astonishing to call that a niche. It isn't shrinking or stagnating, it keeps growing.

Last, the obsession with non-teenage users somehow being the death of a social network is ridiculous. Most people in this world are not teenagers. Adults have all the money, and all the political money.

Who cares what teenagers think is cool? Teenagers are idiots and they don't have any money. They aren't going to grow up in your service, they'll dump it within 2 years.
So it turns out that the "Freedom Phone" is nothing more than a low-budget "Umidigi A9 Pro" preloaded with apps that some folks will love. The grift is endless.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-14/dogecoin-...

The key quote is here: https://ibb.co/Sm8LW0x

Asked and answered + 1.
Gentoo is usable in production. Straps out extras. Only thing there is what you put there.

Seen it done and participated.
No - they can ask about the specific condition that requires accommodation. They only need to know about that one issue, if you have ED or hair loss that doesn't need to be disclosed if you are not asking for accommodation as a result.
> But as things get more complicated, where does the business logic live? Maybe in the database as stored procedures? It's less crazy than it sounds.

We do this today with SQLite, but we don't use stored procedures. Assuming you load all required facts into appropriate tables, there is no logical condition or projection of information that you cannot determine with SQL.

We also leverage user/application defined functions to further enhance our abilities throughout. It's pretty amazing how much damage you can do with SQLite when you bind things as basic as .NET's DateTime ToString() or TryParse() into it. There's also no reason you cannot bind application methods that have side effects if you want to start mutating the outside world with SQL.
1) Most of the roles can just switch to another FAANG where the largest discount is 85% instead of 50%.

2) Employers have changed the terms of employment at will for decades, I can literally find stories from a hundred years ago. This is a situation where employees are changing the terms (which also happened a hundred years ago in the US)

3) The American Disabilities Act is a law, diversity and inclusion are concepts. There is a large difference between being bad for diversity/inclusion and violating the law. When you violate the ADA you open yourself up to lawsuit (although the loss is a drop in the bucket for a company Apples size)

4) And? Companies need all types. The mid-performers and even the low-performers provide value (otherwise they wouldn't maintain employment). If all you care about are your high performers you'll have a larger churn and pay the price.

5) It's the verge, do you really think they're for high quality rigorous analytics reporting? No, they got a few chat threads and made some inferences. It may be that literally only 10 people at the company care about this (unlikely)
How many distinct foundries will be left in the world after this happens?
Good question! So this is like US companies paying bribes. The employee handbook for my first job said that bribes could be paid in other countries if they are usual and customary. Bribes over a certain sum required executive authorization.

The US has now made paying bribes in other countries into US felonies. So now US companies do not pay bribes if they are sane.

So sure, an attacker could say "Go get some BTC and deposit it. Where do you get some? Not our problem." But then the executive in charge would have to choose between (1) committing a felony with jail time attached for him or (2) possibly going out of business and finding a new job. For sensible people, that's not really a choice.
It's a shame none of the information he was willing to tell about its origin was on his site. And where does the software come from? Sad that isn't the first thing to answer.
In a field like crypto you also have the concern that someone might copy your implementation and actually use it - this is fine if your specialty is crypto implementation (resistant to side-channel attacks and so on), but if your specialty is instead coming up with faster algorithm, your implementation is going to be much more proof-of-concept. In the theme of “don’t write your own crypto” is “don’t release your own crypto if you look authoritative (Eg a professor) and are not absolutely sure of it “
Yes there was a brief TP shortage. I think the bigger takeaway was that a large portion of the workforce just stopped and there wasn’t a material reduction in the standard of living.

I’ve come to believe fraction of of the workforce could keep the economy going at current levels and much employment is only marginally productive and exists only to distribute the wealth of society.
That's a bit surprising (if not ironic) but I think it may make sense in a way. It's been pretty clear that Mudabala (an Abu Dhabi fund that bought AMD fabs in 2008 which then became GlobalFoundries) wanted to unload that investment after they stopped shoving money into failed process developments (GloFo licensed their 14nm from Samsung as a reminder after their own 14 failed, and their 7nm failed too), so no surprise on their end.

From Intel's perspective, there are also some US assets from IBM, which GloFo "acquired" in 2014 (for -1.5 billion at the time), which includes some oldish US fabs, but also a patent portfolio. It certainly goes into the current US political narrative that Gelsinger has been pushing.

But perhaps more importantly, I think that what Intel is buying is what was sorely lacking them : people and a methodology of working with external customers.
From all I've heard over the years, Intel's process and design teams are so insular and out of touch with the rest of the industry's practices that they had a terrible time just working with customers. It wasn't pretty when they tried the two previous time to open up their process. Loads of announcements, few products if any coming out, and when it worked, they ended up buying their customers anyway, see Altera.

If Intel truly wants to go in the foundry direction, they'll get some interesting outside experience, and while it may not make sense from a pure process point of view, considering how much of a sore point their inability to make it work has been on their previous attempts, the idea may have a lot of merit.

Perhaps a very smart move from Gelsinger, time will tell, in the meantime I'll have a laugh at Intel buying AMD's old fabs :)
> Coming next week - a post about why X is the best programming language, from someone who hasn't bothered to learn any other programming languages!

Hey, that was me-- wasn't that all of us, after we learned our first programming language?
> The implicit assumption you are making is that the demand increases in lock step with productivity gains.

This is basically the theory around modern industrial revolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Efficiency increases demand more than the efficiency saves.

You could argue that labour does not follow that, but it is more about the technology improving rather than disrupting.
Very cool, it's exciting to see where the 'Pay It Forward' goes.

What is the 'incentive' for entrepreneurs to pick particular projects and perhaps pick successful projects?

Is there any money reward or point based 'karma' or can it strengthen their ability to get future loans or is it community/networking building. Or just human nature?
And who knows what Chinese backdoor pre-installed. These cheap phones always come with no updates and shady OS programming.
Wow. This is the chipmaking side of AMD that got spun off in 2009.

I didn't realize they still had a sizable US presence. Malta NY (14nm fab) & outside of Burlington VT (90nm fab). The largest employer in VT! Also Singapore & Dresden (12nm).

Supposedly they were going to try to go public. To be honest I have a hard time understanding what's in this purchase for Intel, hard to see this as anything but anti-competitive, but Intel is trying to become a silicon foundry to others & GF knows how to do that. They also have a decent patent warchest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
And/or Hasura.
> but it hasn't happened yet

To provide some context, I think it is worth quoting this article[0] from February:

> In a Thursday statement, the fossil fuel giant [Shell] said its “oil production peaked in 2019,” and that we can now expect it to decline gradually by 1 or 2% per year. Shell also said its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7 gigatonnes.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/shell-says-it-has-reached-peak-oil-produ...
This would be a good example of the true definition of the "dark web", right? Websites that exist but are not accessible from any standard search engine or hosted directory.
I thought this was the purpose of warrant officers. By design, they have a separate hierarchy and charter for all intents and purposes. Sure, you don't get paid as much as the private sector, but you do get a lot of autonomy and mastery. There should be plenty of people who want to accept this challenge.
The common approach in go is something like

func newMocks(
) (
foo Foo, bar Bar, baz Baz,
cleanup func(),
)

and making the caller responsible for calling the cleanup function, possibly in a defer. To me, this seems like a good trade off between making a little more work for the caller and keeping things explicit and under the caller's control.
Not a solution, but still - check "Oxytree". It's a tree "farmed" in Europe, that was created in Spain. Within 6 years it grows to 16 meters. You can cut it almost completely, and it will regrow. You cut it then every 4 years. It will regrow multiple times.
The tree as far as I know cannot re-plant itself (so its not invasive), and it absorbs up to 10 times more CO2 than regular trees.
It's still young project, but more and more countries create plantations of it (also as a way of CO2 recapture).
> Are you saying this based on experience?

No, just observation & supposition.

> My assumption was that it was a number of factors.

I'm sure! I did say I suppose part of the reason.

Didn't mean to imply any experience/authority, OP just made me think about it. Sorry if it sounded like that.
It has to be a troll…