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I sorta disagree with the premise of that talk, although the problem is real.

Its just that even that talk vastly underestimated just how many microcontrollers exist on a modern machine.

In the past those controllers were isolated to a few areas (disk controllers, higher end network cards), but the drive over the past decade+ for more efficient devices and "universal" packetized buses (ex PCIe, USB), has sprinkled them in places simply to monitor utilization and adjust bus clocks, as well as packet scheduling and error/retry logic, etc, etc, etc. I was reading about some of the latest m.2 NVMe controllers a while back and IIRC there were something like a half dozen independent Arm's just inside the controller. The last fully open disk stack on a PC was probably an MFM/RLL controller in the mid 1980's.

So, while I would love if the manufacture of every little USB device or whatever published the full register documentation, firmware listings, whatever, that ship has long sailed. The worst part isn't looking for the piles of scattered SPI flash eeproms on random boards, its the integrated "Secure" sides of these devices which happen to be all but invisible. None of that is going to be documented anytime in the near future. Every single one of these companies hides their "secret sauce" in the firmware of these devices, be that how to minimize latency on a NVMe device, to how to get maximum throughput on a wifi chip, to how to increase a DRAM controllers power efficiency. In some of these cases, the firmware probably isn't even that special, they are doing basically the same thing as every one of their competitors, but you will never get them to admit it.

So, imagining that an "OS" can control this mess like a 1960's mainframe is nonsense. Modern mainframes don't even control stuff at that level anymore.

So like software abstractions, we have hardware abstractions which provide higher level constructs for low level software to talk to. Be that something like XHCI where the system talks to generic endpoint queues and a processor does all the low level packet building/scheduling or its something like the tiny integrated cores making decisions about which parts of a CPUs clock and power domains need to be dynamically enabled/disabled for a given perf/power profile and the OS talks to generic firmware interfaces to set policies. To even LBA disk layouts which abstract away all the details of flash channels, COW, wear leveling, NAND error correction, bit pattern sensing, page/block erase sizes, etc.

In the end, if someone wanted to actually work on this problem, the first step towards open hardware isn't really building a RISC-V system, its building competitive NIC's, keyboards, USB controllers, etc, etc, etc with open hardware designs. What we have today is like linux, everyone wants to work on the kernel, no one wants to maintain old crufty code in Make. So, in the end swapping an x86 for a RISC-V doesn't give you more open hardware if its still got its own management processors tied to the same closed hardware IP for literally everything else in the machine.
SLA printer could do it, they even mention using it for prototyping on the wiki page
One of the biggest interests & excitements I feel over QUIC & HTTP3 is the potential for something really different & drastically better in this realm. Right out of the box, QUIC is "connectionless", using cryptography to establish session. I feel like there's so much more possibility for a data-center to move around who is serving a QUIC connection. I have a lot of research to do, but ideally that connection can get routed stream by stream, & individual servers can do some kind of Direct Server Return (DSR), to individual streams. But I'm probably pie in the sky with these over-flowing hopes.

Edit: oh here's a Meta talk on their QUIC CDN doing DSR[1].

The original "live migration of virtual machines"[2] paper blew me away & reset my expectations for computing & the connectivity, way back in 2005. They live migrated a Quake 3 server. :)

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/06/networking-traffic/wat...

[2] https://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/spring15/readings/...
> for-the-public-at-large

True. Most of the people I knew with computers back then had them provided by their work, or bought them for university.

But then I lived in a small city in Texas not near a major metro. Most people there didn't buy a home pc until the DotCom boom brought those cheap emachines.
As a child I had a total blast building and programming things with Fischertechnik: https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/playing/robot-toys

You have microswitches, photoelectric and magnetic sensors, motors and pneumatic actuators to name a few. It all came with a software to program it all in a flowchart like fashion.

I fondly remember unpacking a set at christmas and playing with it. Honestly, I think Fischertechnik had a huge impact on me and put me on the career path that I am now. While my last experience with Fischertechnik is more than a decade ago, the website seems like they haven't lost their spirit
You can still buy them secondhand.
Containers have a history of escape vulnerabilities, for reasons like sharing a kernel with the host and other containers.

VMs are designed from the ground up to isolate guests, rather than focusing on application deployment.

Firecracker is the modern container alternative in untrusted compute scenarios, with Fly.io even converting container images into Firecracker VMs.
You left out the part that if there is a collision or loss of life the captain goes to prison.
The best is when you use the linkedin connection to pull your resume and then they ask you to fill in the same information again. Insta close any app that does this
solution: playing music and sing isn't allowed on NPR
Well, I had a colleague who worked with them directly. He was a product manager who formerly managed incident response, and this was at a company that at one time had incidents that affected significant chunks of the Internet (no longer - that mantle has passed to AWS). It's been a couple years now, so the details are a bit fuzzy, but I remember him saying that dealing with Oracle was about the worst experience he had on the job. Their representatives were outright rude and condescending, and seemingly difficult to no purpose. So that's my (2nd hand) experience with them.

I'm a bit young to have ever known much about Sun, but I get the impression that they were very respected for their products and commitment to open source, and Oracle's purchase seems to have really rankled the community. Interestingly, the only Oracle products I use are all from the Sun era - MySQL, Java, Virtualbox, and ZFS.
Now imagine each frame is a slice of a 3D scan, build the object in your mind.
So they built a wind farm on the presumably undesirable land around a coal mine, and now they're dismantling (moving?) one or more turbines to open space for more mining. This overall feels really minor.
Eben Moglen, law professor and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, gave a talk on privacy that discussed exactly this. I believe it was in 2011.

I would urge you also to consider that privacy is an ecological rather
than a transactional substance. This is a crucial distinction from what
you are taught to believe by the people whose job it is to earn off you.

Those who wish to earn off you want to define privacy as a thing you
transact about with them, just the two of you. They offer you free email
service, in response to which you let them read all the mail, and that’s
that. It’s just a transaction between two parties. They offer you free
web hosting for your social communications, in return for watching
everybody look at everything. They assert that’s a transaction in which
only the parties themselves are engaged.

This is a convenient fraudulence. Another misdirection, misleading, and
plain lying proposition. Because - as I suggested in the analytic
definition of the components of privacy - privacy is always a relation
among people. It is not transactional, an agreement between a listener
or a spy or a peephole keeper and the person being spied on.

If you accept this supposedly bilateral offer, to provide email service
for you for free as long as it can all be read, then everybody who
corresponds with you has been subjected to the bargain, which was
supposedly bilateral in nature.

(Full transcript available at [0], video at [1].)

Interestingly I see I'm not the first to quote this at length on HackerNews [2].

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qflooj...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRs8ZPbHtos

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747916

(Link-rot has eaten the original [0] URL, and archive.org is seemingly down, but I realise the irony in linking to Google's cached page, as well as their copy of the video.)
That’s what they want you to think.

First they make you drink fluoridated dihydrogen monoxide, then when you get a job in enterprise IT, the extra ions in your teeth make you pay extra for vPro.
Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)
> Everything Tesla/SpaceX has done has been: 1)Light years above the competition 2)Done with less employees and less money 3)Completed in a timespan that makes companies like

We're discussing Tesla's self driving system. It's certainly not light years above the competition, as it doesn't even use state of the art sensors for safety like LiDAR, which has predictably resulted in multiple Teslas killing their drivers. Maybe they've built what they have with fewer employees and less money, but I don't think that's a win given the deaths. They probably should have used more money and employees to prevent that kind of thing. As for completing it in a timespan, I mean... they're nowhere near done and have been saying for years it'll be ready any day now, yet are still happily accepting money for their promises. That's pretty much the point of all this.
It makes no sense that Siri is so stunted in what she can do.
Work is boring bullshit. That’s exactly the correct mindset as an employee. She showed the parts of her day that actually matter. No reason to assume she doesn’t work, it‘s just boring.
Yeah, but that isn't a crime. You can pre-order things. They still claim they will deliver it. Seems like maybe you could do a class-action or something to get your money back, but not argue that actually it was reasonable to believe you already had it and therefore are not liable for a crash or whatever.
Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
I think this logic is flawed. If we find a bug in the compiler, is that now a guaranteed behaviour as being the implicit spec?

I think a spec is different in a way that allows it to document expected behaviour vs implemented behaviour
What is a thing it does that a user may want?
How are you managing biometric data to comply with BIPA?
This is always an interesting app idea to me, but after trying group trips few ways with people, the most successful have been loosely coupled:

Pick a geographical location. Pick some dates that overlap. Plan your own trip. Keep things decoupled.

Then, just find times that you want to meet up. Just like regular life.

For things that require coordination, like a camping/canoe trip, email works well.
In your area, they don't use square footage as an important factor in determining the price of a house?
The usual FSD complaint is that Tesla has been offering it for years, at ascending prices, without any date-certain of delivering it (just tweets predicting it), without refunding it when not delivered after X years. I can easily imagine an eventual class-action suit requiring some % of refund all the way back to the first car purchased with someday-FSD (!).

If they deliver it, then (at that time, and depending on how well it works), the complaints of not-good-enough or dangerous-killing-people could come into play.

The second thing sounds even more dangerous to Tesla - smart to keep delaying (and building up that first risk higher and higher!)
Don't they report earnings in constant dollars?
There is a character that is a wonderful example in this category in "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett - I'd suggest reading the whole book because it's fantastic but in particular Mr. Pony is the epitome of the pressed on engineer

> Pony looked around, a hunted man. He’d got his pink carbon copies, and they would show everyone that he was nothing more than a man who’d tried to make things work, but right now all he could find on his side was the truth. He took refuge in it.
>Containers have a history of escape vulnerabilities

Generally agreed, but for this use-case do we care?
The context for this is talking to a person on a dating app where you haven't met them personally. In that case, assuming you've never met them, I think it's inappropriate to send an explicit photo/video unless they straight up ask to see it.

"The standards for initiating sex don't require a sit down conversation as to what each party is agreeing to."

This attitude leads to women having sex/relations they aren't super comfortable doing. It's not a mood killer if you take a beat just to make sure you're on the same page with expectations and it takes a lot less time than locating, opening, and putting on a condom.

You stated in a different comment that your gf tells you off and it kills the mood if you ask to move to the bedroom or having sex while impaired, but surely you realize that's a totally different situation than you meeting up with someone from a dating app, right? Spontaneously acting with someone you know and with who you have built trust is waaaaaay different than sending an unsolicited nude or making advances on someone who is a little more than a stranger.
It's not uncommon for me to 70% of the way through a checkout process because that's the only way to figure out how much shipping is. I'm not trying to buy the product, just get a single number - but pretending to buy it is often the only way to get that number!
Then wouldn't that be the ultimate test ;)
Lego is similar to Nint€ndo and Di$ney, they do not support the free culture, instead their lawers fight agains to free software projects or charity events.

Any educational tool/toy must be public domain or free license.
PayPal quietly re-adds $2,500 “misinformation charge” in user agreement
I’ve seen Twitter uproars against Google and LinkedIn employees who have uploaded similar content:

https://twitter.com/coldhealing/status/1561022408206729216

A lot of the lavish perks they’ve showed have been part of these companies since these two young women were toddlers.
It’s privilege discourse meeting the cringey nature of TikTok.
Yeah, I have an older Viessman boiler and it already does this. There are a variety of ramp patterns that can be set.
They can have a physical switch or tool to disable it, or sell separate chips with/without IME.

Unfortunately there isn’t really incentive for Intel to do this, unless larger companies / governments refuse to run IME-enabled chips due to security concerns.
The probe isn't about the future "full self driving" product.

It's about the current "autopilot" product, or more importantly, the marketing around it. They are investigating if Tesla deliberately oversold the capabilities of autopilot, implying that can do far more than it actually can.

Basically: are Tesla criminally responsible for customers who misunderstood what autopilot was, and then didn't correctly supervise the autopilot and ended up in accidents?

Though the fact that Tesla/Musk were continually talking about the FSD features will play into the probe, but only because customers might have confused things said about the future FSD feature, for the capabilities of the current system. But only if Tesla deliberately encouraged or knew about this confusion (or should have known)
Apple M* CPUs do not have anything like that.

Their coprocessors are not higher-privileged. On the contrary, they are all isolated from AP, each other and main memory (by IOMMU).
Remember when the "mobile version" was just SMS? It was fun back then.

Fun fact: A couple of years ago, I wanted to see some of those first tweets I made over SMS, and they were gone. My guess is that they had major data loss at one point, and just never told anyone.
It might be useful to go over Wikipedia's entry for both platforms, here's the IME:

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

And this for the T2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2

Neither of these are obscure products, they are of great interest to reversers and other security researchers. The list of shady things IME does which the T2 isn't known to is extensive.
They released a new generation not long ago (last year?). Sounded like it wasn't warmly received initially but later they were sold out. Something to do with that?
Everyone in this thread has made good points and I don't disagree with any of them. Nor would I advocate to change policies here. My comment was really a surface level reaction to the number of resources deployed that I wouldn't expect to see living in the city for example. I almost deleted the comment right after posting but it was already generating discussion so I thought I'd leave it.

> Or perhaps his error is to consider dollars to be the ultimate commodity.

I was thinking (from a utilitarian perspective) about where those dollars could have been deployed to have a larger human benefit. Ie if the operation cost $500k (I really don't have good numbers on this but two military ships + the aircraft are not cheap) how else could you use that $500k to help people in need.
As others have noted, they still have an education focused robotics set, it’s just not called Mindstorms:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-education-spike-prim...

As a now-successful robotics engineer, I was the target age when the first Lego mindstorms set came out. Due to the cost it had to be a combined birthday and Christmas present (still obviously very privileged). The simple scratch-like programming system that kit used was great for me as a tween learning robotics.

Today I am designing an open source farming robot as a non profit project! (See my profile)

The early history of Lego Mindstorms is interesting. I didn’t realize Seymour Papert was involved but that makes a lot of sense! Especially with the name Mindstorms:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book)
This is plain false.
I don't recall where but Adorno specifically wrote about how the concept of a hobby is in itself toxic and enabling the very logic you are criticizing
Volkswagen ID 3 compact SUV, two £20k entry-level EVs confirmed
Yeah, they took a beating this afternoon.
The Importance of Lisp
> iOS has an ad-free YouTube app?

yes

> What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast?

"that leaves crappy settop boxes"
There is Fischertechnik, a German brand. Don't know how common it is outside Germany. It's pretty close to "real" robotics/construction.

https://www.fischertechnik.de/en
What if Tesla are safer than a regular driver?

What if they actually saved lives?

There is plenty of video evidence of that: https://youtu.be/hF96jQ0SY8w

Would we try to stop it?
A lot of companies would like to stop it, that’s for sure.

There no doubt that a computer will match a human, than exceed its capability, 24x7, never tired, never distracted.

For the moment, every drive has to acknowledge that they are responsible, need to keep the control and have to stay vigilant every time they use self-driving. It seems to me that take precedence to the product brochure or random comment in a tweet a few years ago.

Of course this comment is going to be heavily downvote like everything positive about Tesla here. I wonder why?
Dunno but Ukraine isn't.
Yeah, see that's the other side of the story that doesn't seem to be told much either, and I'm interested in that too. It does seem like some researcher or journalist should have blown the case open by now if this thing were systematically providing telemetry from everyone's "powered off" (but still plugged in) machines to an intelligence agency. Can you point to an article or paper that thoroughly debunks the claims as crazy conspiracy theories?
Bummer, I remember loving the system when was on the school Botball team in the early 2000s.
The GP is not saying anything is fine.
Don't see any email yet!
Note Reality Labs revenue is down 50% YoY -- not a rosy picture for the Metaverse. $285M revenue on $4B in expenses and:

> We do anticipate that Reality Labs operating losses in 2023 will grow significantly year-over-year.

Yikes.
X86 may be mature but I think the M1 has shown that there is plenty of potential for improvement. I know M1 is ARM instead of RISCV, but there may yet be ways to get better chips.

That said, the hardware we have is really good, it's just the software side that is a complete garbage heap.
wow, I thought you were joking
100%. It may or may not sell products, be good for ads. Those engagements might not be ideal, for those stakeholders-bearing-checkbooks.

But it is by orders of magnitude highest radix connector of humanity we have. I've probably clicked fav on a million different people's tweets, I've probably written messages to tens of thousands of different people I've never met. I've seen multiple sides of millions of topics & synthesized my own opinion.

Nothing comes remotely close. Highest human engagement platform of all time.
Thank you for your question.

We do not touch or manage biometric data.

When you use our Passwordless MFA mobile application to login, you use Face ID to unlock the certificate in the hardware backed storage, and then that certificate is used to authenticate user to our platform. Biometrics processing is happening only on end user devices.
What if this kind of thinking would lead to no Legos at all?
Interesting. I’m a totally different persona over here as those rules are appealing. If a trip is focused on co-working and climbing then I’d prefer to keep it mellow, get some sleep, get up early, etc.
Can someone make an argument against buying at this price point? It was what, 378 a year ago? It’s even cheaper than the crash in 2020.
In absolute seriousness: yes they should.
> mean something like meetup, a superior marketplace for selling

They've tried these things - you mentioned an example of one yourself.
> Alcohol allowed

> No drugs

???

> with verified identities (license or passport).

Also, hope you've thought through storing personal info like passports and driving licences mate. Not just for GDPR, but if you don't have liability insurance and a good legal team you are asking for trouble. Hope you don't get any data breaches!
Why would one use disposable email adresses for SaaS trials?
I have a second emailaddress for this purpose. The only thing I can think of is people looking to create multiple accounts at the same SaaS. So basically a form of abuse.

Something I'm missing here?
But do almost any of the OP's complaints actually help with stopping that? Do fraudsters and the unqualified not have references and form-filling capabilities?

I get that there's problems these things are trying to solve, but it doesn't seem like it's doing anything to solve them and it's frustrating all the people who aren't the ones you're trying to run off.
Hi Barnabee. I'm the author of the blog post. Thanks for your comments. I'd be interested to know why you would prefer funding come from an external crypto token instead of a paying for a hosted version. I would think that dogfooding is a way to stay on focus on the main project instead of being distracted by something else.