skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the terminology of Stafford Beer, “AI” driven systems are creating untold amounts of variety that are not handled.

Of course, the media groups are to blame, but so are the technology companies. They’ve created systems that don’t need humans to operate, but they need humans to oversee, but there aren’t enough humans. This is unhandled variety born at the alter of scale.
My name is Kai, and back in the day when I owned an iPod, the device name was set to KaiPod. Needless to say I was somewhat surprised to see this headline when I opened HN today!
Just over 100 days of Libera Chat
Oh man. This brings me back to Return to Pirate's Isle. Damn... if you didn't put on your glasses within the first few steps, the whole game did not make any sense!

I had to wait 20 years for the internet and sites that had walkthroughs before I was able to finish that game.
Hurricane Ida Landfall Live Coverage [video]
http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/

http://usgs.gov

http://weather.com

it's not really too hard to find data on the internet
There is no realistic theoretical mechanism for a delayed attack on the female reproductive system, and billions of mRNA doses have been administered over the last year with no measurable drop in female fertility.
Agree with the above poster. I don't care about algorithms. I want algorithms. But I want algorithms that only work for me. Screw off everyone else.

Apple used to sell this. Then they stopped.
> Not sure what you mean here. Are there places where different groups of kernels can simultaneous execute different code?

Yes. Lets take AMD's GCN / Vega, since I'm most familiar with it.

The Vega 64 has 64 "compute units" (CU for short), where a CU is the closest thing to a "core" that the Vega GPU has. So lets really look at how one of these CUs functions.

1. A kernel in GCN executes 64-wide SIMD assembly language. This is the programmer model, but this is not what's going on under the hood. This 64-wide SIMD is executed every 4 clock ticks, 16-at-a-time.

2. The CU has 4x16 groups of vALUs (where a vALU is a set of 64-wide registers and 16-wide arithmetic units). The CU also has 1x group of sALU ("scalar ALU" has 32-bit registers). A kernel has access to upto 256 vGPRs (each executing in SIMD fashion: 16 wide over 4 clockticks for the 64 lanes) + 103 sGPRs, which are shared. (For example: a function call is an sGPR. Because function calls are "shared" between all 64-lanes, its more efficiently implemented in sGPRs than vGPRs).

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There can be up to 40-simultaneous instruction pointers being executed by the AMD GCN GPU. Aka: occupancy 40. The exact instructions will be switching between sALUs (ex: branching instructions, function calls, push / pop from the stack), and vALUs (ex: multiply-and-accumulate, which will be SIMD-executed 64x in parallel over 4 clock ticks). (Really: each vALU has up to 10 instruction pointers that its tracking)

As we can see, the modern GPU isn't SIMD at all. Its executing multiple instructions, from multiple different instruction pointers (possibly different kernels even) in parallel.

Even at a minimum number of threads... there's 4-wavefronts per CU getting executed (4-instruction pointers, one for each vALU). That's MIMD in my opinion, since there's no smaller unit than the CU in the whole of AMD Vega.

Just because its executing SIMD kernels / SIMD assembly code doesn't mean that the underlying machine is SIMD.

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NVidia is similar: except with 32-wide SIMD programming model and 32-occupany per SM (though these magic numbers seem to change every generation) NVidia is also beginning to implement superscalar SIMD (2-instructions per clock tick, if those instructions go to different execution units).

So I'd also classify modern NVidia as a MIMD machine.

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CPUs of course have superscalar units: something like 4-way decode and something like 6+ instructions per clock tick (if executing out of the uop cache. 4-instructions per clock tick otherwise).
I had about a 90 minute commute for a bit over a year that required getting up at about 6am. Still wasn't great.
This analogy is so very out of date. I've been able to sell my tickets for face value on the day of the event, using the 'net for over ten years now. And I could have made a killing if I really wanted to.
This is one of your best replies in the whole thread.

Yes to this. Prove it as well.
I never tried it, but ~20 years ago there was a project called Peep for auditory monitoring of networks.

From the Usenix (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...) abstract:

> We created a network monitoring system, Peep, that replaces visual monitoring with a sonic `ecology' of natural sounds, where each kind of sound represents a specific kind of network event. This system combines network state information from multiple data sources, by mixing audio signals into a single audio stream in real time. Using Peep, one can easily detect common network problems such as high load, excessive traffic, and email spam, by comparing sounds being played with those of a normally functioning network.

The SourceForge page is still up: https://sourceforge.net/projects/peep/
> believing that leaving webcams running emulates in-person office environments

Who seriously believes this?
It is favourable because they still get to keep that money. If you robbed a bank, and when they caught you, they let you keep the money and walk away, you'd call that pretty favourable.
Do snarky comments like this add to the discussion?
There's been lots and lots of titles with Denuvo cracked by scene groups like CODEX and CPY/Conspiracy and EMPRESS[1]. There's also controversy with the DRM's highly excessive and arguably wasteful use of resources. Some games were much more performant after Denuvo was removed

[1]: I would link CrackWatch but they seem to be down atm. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/lnbi5a/crack_wa...
The US leased a Gotland w crew in 2005 for a year, so it's fair to say this isn't a new development.

https://jalopnik.com/sweden-has-a-sub-thats-so-deadly-the-us...
Or once in a lifetime in some cases.
I can definitely understand your concern. Often, focus on equity can manifest as lowering the ceiling for all students, rather than lowering the floor so more students can access 'the room.'

In our pods, we have space for accelerated learners who want zero constraints on their progress (i.e., just let me go as fast as I want!). We do our best to match them with learners who are equally paced (so they may work together to challenge each other) AND those who may not be as accelerated (so they may learn to work with a variety of student profiles).

To continue the analogy from before, we are all about expanding the room so all types of learners can succeed.
Means that almost noone can see what your posts because of HN algo and moderators.
Perhaps "annealing heaters" could be integrated on-die, and the bursts of heat controlled to be short enough that they don't change the external package temperature much if at all.
Obviously the count took less than -2 years, which is even quicker than getting an instant result.
> without the ability to self host is a dead end

Indeed, this is why you would be foolish to use Ente as you cannot self host it. At any point they can choose to lock things down, make their clients closed source, etc etc, and you'd once again need to spend time jumping ship because you'd need to find a new ecosystem.

Ente is just convient and is coming at the right time (hence the massive amount of upvotes) but does not give you total control nor your freedom back. Using them instead of something you can self host is just running in circles.

> open source may suck...

What? This was extremely random and out of place with the rest of your comment.

What you really want, if you care about self hosting and all the other stuff you mentioned, is Nextcloud[0]. And if you don't want to self host yet, you'd be better off hosting Nextcloud in a VPS, even on Linode you can just 1 click deploy a Nextcloud instance in their app store[1]. That way you don't become dependent on a service you cannot control/deploy yourself.

[0] https://github.com/nextcloud
[1] https://www.linode.com/marketplace/apps/linode/nextcloud/
Sure that's how much of it started, but that's not what most teachers are TRYING to achieve.

Mostly they've been indoctrinated into the mythology of how teaching/education is SUPPOSED to work.

This like policing have hypocrisy baked into so deeply no one has a clue what the reality is or how to even detangle the truth.

And because it somewhat works, along with a healthy dose of hazing because it builds character/I had to go through it so this is the right way to do it, there is no call to try and rebuild it from the ground up.
I've only heard of HATEOAS from people loving it but not getting to 'do' it.
Is flexlm comprehensively cracked yet? It seems like a juicy target.

Honestly, I hate all of these things. My employer spends multi-millions on software licenses every year. All these DRM schemes are painful, insulting, and inevitably break at the worst possible moment. We have one box -- legally acquired -- with a hardware dongle, plugged in the back of the machine. Someone smashed it when moving the thing accidentally. Were we inclined, with SEM, TEM, AFM and plenty of x-ray facilities, I'm sure that it's not beyond our ken to crack the sodding thing, and honestly, after that experience I was sorely tempted.

I'm fed up of being treated as a rich criminal by businesses. They want an un-get-out-able subscription agreement, for life, and with "markets made" at every available opportunity, i.e. $METRIC_FUCKTON_OF_MONEY for $MINIMAL_INCREMENTAL features. One commercial FEM solver I use charges per GPU, per CPU, and per year. The whole thing is based on maths invented in my university!
There are some good answers here (along with some less good ones), but I wanted to just pause to applaud you for this post.

Even though HN is full of smart, data-orientated people, it's rare to see this level of self-awareness, vulnerability and curiosity demonstrated in a single comment. We could all benefit from more of this set of skills. Most of us dole out advice far more willingly than we ask for it. Through revealing your own frailty, you've opened the door for others who are less courageous to hear some good advice.

There's nothing pathetic here at all -- it's how we learn and grow. I hope this doesn't come across as condescending: I genuinely wanted to say, "thank you".
Their grotesque implication is that older and vulnerable people who could die of Covid is a sunk cost?
Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
> Think about da womenz.

Sadly, this is an effective means to have positive action for men gain acceptance.

> Boys already face more shame and stigmatization than girls without being told "And now we expect you to become a rapist!"

Well yes, even professionals Struggle to acknowledge that women can be perpetrators.[0]

0: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/08/20/women_sex_off...
What happens when turning a bike while riding with no hands? Does the lean induce the handlebars to counter-steer briefly, or is the counter-steer not necessarily because the lean is already happening?
Timestamp Permalinks.
So what is recommended for long term storage? (not many writes, I mean, for offsite backup).
Replacement batteries for the inreach mini online are labeled at 3.52Wh. The iPhone 12 has a 10.78 Wh battery.

The key to keeping power consumption low is that you transmit momentarily, not constantly.

A use case like backup communication on an iPhone wouldn’t necessitate use of the iridium network at 100% duty cycle.

> There is no way that would fit inside an iPhone, even with Apple’s creativity in antenna design.

The vast majority of the volume that a helical antenna consumes is empty space. The obvious solution is not groundbreakingly creative: try using something other than a helical antenna.
Their original purpose was to help administrators identify unused files to migrate to auxiliary storage.

This is discussed in a BtrFS post on the atime impact to snapshots (quite harmful). Definitely mount BtrFS with noatime when snapshots are in use (likely best with ZFS also).

https://lwn.net/Articles/499293/
And all really, really fat.
Retention specs are usually for "end of life" conditions, i.e. after the blocks have been cycled the specified number according to endurance. If they were only written once, and the device kept at room temperature, I would not be surprised if it lasted a century or more --- the retention is an exponential function of both temperature and cycles, if I remember correctly from the last time I researched this stuff in detail.
Everybody forgets that the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project that spawned most of these guys was a massive disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...

But, then, this just proves the business aphorism that, for your career, it is better to be part of a gigantic disaster than a modest success.
https://increpare.com/game/heaven-on-earth.html
> without us even noticing

If only we had two receptors on the front of our face that were capable of detecting EM radiation with wavelengths between 380nm-700nm.
I wonder and muse about this. Could we possibly use PKI electronically to do this? The gov sends you a private key as your a citizen. We anonymize it somehow. You sign your ballot. I don't have a clue how this would work, but it seems like it could be feasible.

Obviously, voting must remain anonymous. Could it happen?

I'm guessing this would be similar to presenting your SSN. Its troublesome. But regardless, I'd think that we could prove the voting record.

Edit: the more I think about this, I don't think PKI could work. Voter identification would always be available in some way shape or form. I'm not sure this can be solved with tech. Maybe we should just have paper ballets.
Yes, the next person will contact someone like https://zerodium.com/program.html instead
Recursive queries are definitely top of the complexity pile IMO. However I usually discount them because I am yet to actually need them in a production environment. Window functions are super useful on the other hand.
The price for both hardware ($199) and subscription ($99/year) seems pretty reasonable. I could set something similar up myself, but then I would need to _maintain_ it, and doing email properly so Google doesn't mark everything as spam is non-trivial.

I don't like the idea of essentially opening up a bunch of ports to the internet. If you connect to their AWS endpoint on a bunch of ports (25, 80, 443, etc) that connection is transparently redirected to the device in your LAN over a point-to-point VPN. You can lock it down by putting the device on a VLAN and firewalling it off, of course.

Ultimately you're making a bet on Helm properly maintaining its software, security updates, etc, and more importantly being around longterm to do so. That's where I just stick with Google. Gmail (and GSuite or whatever they brand it as these days) isn't a service I'm at all concerned about Google kicking to the curb.

If you're serious about disconnecting from the cloud, though, this is a neat product and service. I hope it succeeds; if it's around a couple more years I'll switch.
I'd like to see countries only accept local ownership of property.

Foreign IP owners must partner with local businesses(which own the IP for that country)

You could have foreign ownership of said partners, but they'd be paying local taxes, and moving money out of the country as individuals
The internet was supposed to allow the spread of free speech across the world. Then silicon valley invented internet spying tech and created the software for state sponsored firewalls.

So I'm a bit skeptical on this claim.
#libera is the best channel so far
Actually these seem like fair criticisms especially regarding your mischaracterization of Ramit Sethi.

Your conclusion in the article (under "What would I recommend you do?") turns out to be the same thing Ramit Sethi recommends you do (among other points in the article which are in agreement with his writings).

So, you are not calling out Ramit Sethi as much as you think you are.

It also conflates the fundamentals (not having credit card debt, investing in a tax-advantaged retirement fund) with the next step of not trading money for time.

How is someone who can't manage their (small) amount of money going to manage the large amount of money earned from a successful business? They can't.

As a further thought to consider, what are the chances they would be able to start a successful business to begin with?

In other words, "you learn to crawl before you walk".
Anything that is possible (allowed by compiler/interpreter/runtime) will eventually make it into your codebase. For this reason alone I will always prefer languages with strong principle and big idea to languages that are multi-paradigm and agnostic. (Not saying that’s my only preference ofc)
"rent seeking"

Just as informative as "zero day."

We have lots of words that mean stuff. Use them.
The same reason that trust fund kids end up being dumb and lazy. When you have a corporate cash machine printing money, you end up getting lazy and stupid.
First part is true, but another contaminated batch is found in Gunma, Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/29/national/scienc...
Thanks for the detailed answer! I didn't realize you Apple left firmwares running on a bunch of the peripheral cores, that certainly makes things much more achievable, if only for reverse-engineering what they're doing.

I'm surprised and impressed you got so many peripherals running, including DART! For USB, do you mean USB4?

I hadn't heard of BootPolicy for other OSes, and I can't find anything about that online. Sounds like that gives you a much more solid foundation to work on than I thought.
No, S3 buckets named after hostnames are served when said hostname is pointing to S3 servers .

Bob owns bob.com and sets CNAME bob.com.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Eve creates the bucket and can now serve any static content she wants.
There’s a good idea in the article, but I’m trying to distill it into something I can use:

I don’t think we’re bifurcated into two kinds, it seems more reasonable to say there’s a spectrum: at one end engineers are more predisposed towards the way a program behaves externally, on the the other side, an orientation towards quality of the internals.

On a separate axis we have development speed/competency, and in practice that really becomes a budget to be spent on external or internal quality. A top performer probably has time to do both. Someone struggling won’t do well at either.

I would hope that for a thoughtful, experienced and self disciplined engineer, regardless of predisposition, conditions would dictate their focus, such as: maturity of product, maturity of industry, importance of correctness (e.g. writing a database vs a CRUD app), and the goals of management.
This reminds me of a recent front page article that mentioned a developer's convenience (not those pesky ACID properties) is the major factor in choosing a database, since ACID is so 1990s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330297
> It would be a lot easier than inventing Rust

And yet rust has been invented, and it seems the CL version is hypothetical.
Yes. And I think the world works that way sometimes.
I wonder how sales psychology might differ between a "lurker" subscription and an inexpensive limited plan? Lurker might have a more explicit "I think you're interesting and want to support/encourage you - thanks, we appreciate it" exchange. Or maybe defuse "but is it usable?" or "do I want to bother attempting to use it?" or yet-another-thing commitment concerns. Not "am I really going to use this?" but "does this look worth encouraging?". And maybe has a funnel story of "ok, now it's looking good, and I'll start using it for real... and not the mere limited plan". Sort of a patreon vibe, but blended with plans?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/09/30/787...
lots of marketing, not much substance here for me.

the manditory subscription with no option to avoid it is a 100% non-starter for me.

I would much prefer a documented method for seting up my own cloud cutout with a variety of providers then be stuck with whatever they choose and no way to change it to something of my own chosing, particularly with the cost of the subscription.
I worked at a company which made heavy use of a math library that had license enforcement via a method rather like FlexLM. After enough complaining, we got them to send us an unenforced version -- and they became a little more proactive in sending us annual bills and asking if we needed a new number of licenses.

If you're paying bigbucks, try asking for better terms. Explain how painful it is for you, not to pay them, but to not be able to use their software. Maybe it will work.
The counterpoint (not that I am saying everything is fine) is that there are often many minors the responsible adult can try to have sex with, at least one of which will probably be receptive. It's not clear that in every case there is coercion as most people would observe and define it which is why it's taken so long to start a discussion about female on male rape.
You assume a large company with lots of specialised roles. But lot's of full-stack developers work in small companies where they are the only DBAs. I for example have never worked at a company that employed DBAs.
Hacker responsible for the leak of data from 50M T-Mobile customers
Didn't there used to be a prize offered for anyone who could reconstruct a disk that had been zeroed?

I don't think anyone ever won it.

Yes, it seems that it is theoretically possible to recover a drive that has been zeroed, but it seems that, practically, no one will bother.

Of course, SSDs are a complete other kettle of fish.
Was happy to see this transition both took place and lead to minimal fragmentation of communities. Seems like everyone just left wholesale. I guess if any community was going to do that it was going to be ex-Freenode users and idlers.
All competent governments on earth already regulate wireless communications, including satellite communications. Most have found it fairly effective to regulate trade and manufacture of such devices.

At a minimum, it is effective enough that it is a response that would be expected to be elicited if a government found a device undesirable.
just disable javascript
> Do people who own horses typically walk around with a photo of themselves and their horse?

lol, clearly hasn't met a horse owner
Not sure why Ivermectin is even involved in COVID-19. It is used for parasites!
That’s presumably what this deal is partially to prevent. This deal makes Apple’s cost of doing that now $15 billion more “expensive”
Wikipedia and a Pint of Gin
Ah, yeah, finally got your "capable of generating itself" idea. Pretty cool, interesting to experiment on it. I guess it would be something like a site that downloads itself also.
Anti-vaxx police officer who had been taking horse worm medicine dies from Covid
The Joy of Cooking (An App)
This is uncalled for. dleslie made a factual claim and you asked for documentation, which he/she supplied. You seemed unable to understand that dleslie had supported the claim, so he/she pointed out to you that the document did, in fact, precisely support the words used. Now you are raising moral and emotional objections to the pointing out of simple and relevant facts.