skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think their processors are not including management engine, so you are safe to buy one.

There are no new AMD or Intel processors that come without ST (formerly PSP) or CSME (formerly ME).

>The management engine that included in chipsets can be switched off permanently.

This is factually incorrect. me_cleaner cannot neutralize or disable modern CSME, there is no way to verify the HAP bit does anything at all, nor that the included TCP/IP stack on the Minix OS cannot accept remote commands to disable the HAP bit, if set. To our current knowledge, only the onboard GbE controller is accessible to CSME's TCP/IP stack, but we're working with extremely limited information. These are closed-source, hardened opaque-boxes that are deliberately designed to be inauditable and tamper-proof. Adding firmware support for other ethernet controllers or wireless cards would conceivably be trivial.

>In general usage, it does not matter while you use third party controlled CAs, distro repositories and automatic updates,

I compile from source. OS, drivers, browser - all of it. I don't care if you think this is "unrealistic for the average user", my objective is not to have the security model that the average user has.

>not speaking about microsoft, google, nvidia, valve, mozilla spyware that can do anything with your data anytime they (or US/EU government agencies) want.

I do not run Windows, I do not use chromium (or firefox) based browsers, I do not use a discrete GPU, I don't have anything remotely gaming related (like steam) installed.

What I do have is a constitutional right to privacy that does not end where my CPU begins, and an unshakeable resolve wherein I refuse to voluntarily cede that right to privacy just because so many others do.
Ops team?! We, the developers, are monitoring the DLQs: It is our mistakes, and we must fix them. Operations' only role is to keep the VMs the ActiveMQ is running on active, and the database it uses responsive.

If you used it in a synchronous fashion for a end-user, you are correct: He'll get a timeout - but the message will blink red on the DLQ, giving the devs exact info as to what has happened. As opposed to a 500 or something similarly bad, which probably in the best case was logged somewhere, and hopefully someone is tallying up the error codes every few weeks..

I fail to see how messaging is worse in this case.
NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails
This does not exist in a vacuum.

> Other people say, and I think this is a widely used rationalization, that fundamentally the tools we work on are "mere" tools; This means that whether they get use for good or evil depends on the person who ultimately buys them and so on.

> There's nothing bad about working in computer vision, for example. Computer vision may very well some day be used to heal people who would otherwise die. Of course, it could also be used to guide missiles, cruise missiles for example, to their destination, and all that. You see, the technology itself is neutral and value-free and it just depends how one uses it. And besides -- consistent with that -- we can't know, we scientists cannot know how it is going to be used. So therefore we have no responsibility.

> Well, that is false. It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mountain pass. And if the question arises of how a specific device is going to be used, in what I call an abstract ideal society, then one might very well say one cannot know.

> But we live in a concrete society, [and] with concrete social and historical circumstances and political realities in this society, it is perfectly obvious that when something like a computer is invented, then it is going to be adopted will be for military purposes. It follows from the concrete realities in which we live, it does not follow from pure logic. But we're not living in an abstract society, we're living in the society in which we in fact live.

-- Joseph Weizenbaum, http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
Build in docker.
10 years old CPU (i7 4790) is still a decent and fully usable for everything except few unoptimised AAA games and jetbraing IDEs. It is performance equivalent to late 2021 mobile i5 10300h.
The gap between different CPUs lines is huge. Back in 2020 you could buy a new celeron n3060 laptop with performance of pentium dual core from 2006. It was a straight e-waste, but people actually did something on it.
I could not have done my last job without this feature, because it required assuming multiple dummy identities across various chat platforms communicating with each other. I still use it to separate out accounts for different parts of my life (work vs conference planner vs personal).
It's not very performant. Jumping between 40 and 70 fps on a GTX 1070 in Firefox on Linux on a 144Hz screen. And mouse wheel scroll is broken.

If it ran at 60fps on a 2012 Macbook pro, I have to say I'm very surprised by how poorly it scales
> It is funny to wonder how it is that people who aren't in their prime youth anymore, who already have visible signs of aging, are able to have a baby who will get a fresh start, with intact DNA. It is like there is a complete reset button on aging.

My understanding is that this is one of primary purposes of gametes (eggs and sperm). That the body does have the ability to repair DNA (the testes do this during sperm production), but that it's very energy intensive. It does make sense that from an evolutionary perspective, individuals living longer may not actually contribute (and may actually be a detriment) to species fitness past a certain point.
> For example, you can still play games like Master of Orion 2 or Total Annihilation in multiplayer, because they rely on players hosting servers, and some people still host servers 25+ years after release (and people have even written fan patches to make that possible today, if necessary).

You make it sound like a good thing. And it indeed is for gamers. But it's the worse nightmare for established dev/pub that people play the old games, on their own servers, instead of your latest title.

It actually happened quite a lot. Starcraft I was (is?) more popular than Starcraft II in Korea, where the biggest Starcraft E-sport scenes are. I recently learned that Red Alert II is still fairly popular today in China, and Red Alert III players don't exist.

"How to out compete our previous title" is a real problem that established studios face. The lack of durability is a "solution".
Who are we comparing them to, though? The US Military publically ran (and runs) an international network of torture camps. I don't think the US military is especially bad: rather, all militaries are awful, all war is unadulturated evil, and any attempt to make it 'clean' through ROEs or accountability procedures is stupid.
I think you are missing the humorous tone of the comment you are replying to. There is also some speculation that Xi might have approved this project in principle a while back, but due to the size of the Chinese bureaucracy it has since gone into autonomous operation, and the people nominally in charge of it are going to be carpeted to account for the headache they've created for the boss.
There's a parachute attached and a phone number to call.
95 to go. Maybe it’ll be finished by late summer.
https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/384
Why are monorepos great?
Steam is always compiling shaders before starting a game.

What is this needed for actually, can't these come precompiled with the game, just like the game's executable?

There are 3 brands of GPU so max 3 precompiled versions needed? Is that naive to assume this? CPU's need only one version mostly between AMD and Intel (or at most a few for different SIMD instructions)
I found a case that may be caused by human training with information that is not on the internet. In the following conversation ChatGPT claims the title of The Clash song "Charlie Don't Surf" was inspired by The Beatles song "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"

I can't find this connection after searching for awhile. It seems like a big problem to me that ChatGPT's assertions can't be verified. The two songs are often mentioned in the same article, but there is no direct quote that I can find.

Edit: Yann LeCun - "LLMs as they exist today will never replace Google Search. Why not? In short, because today’s LLMs make stuff up."

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1624898875927527425

Q: Why don't Charlie surf?

A: The phrase "Why don't Charlie surf?" is a reference to the song "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" by The Beatles. The song is a classic example of rock and roll music and features a straightforward, driving beat and lyrics that are simple, but memorable.

In the context of the song, the question "Why don't we do it in the road?" is a suggestion to engage in an intimate act in a public place, rather than in private. The phrase "Charlie don't surf" is a reference to the 1979 film "Apocalypse Now," in which a character named Kilgore utters the line as he and his men prepare to attack a Vietnamese beach.

So, "Why don't Charlie surf?" does not have a specific answer and is just a phrase that has become popular and widely recognized, largely due to its use in the song and film mentioned above.

Q: Please give me a reference that shows that the title of The Clash song "Charlie Don't Surf" was inspired by The Beatles song "Why don't we do it in the road?"

The reference that shows that the title of The Clash song "Charlie Don't Surf" was inspired by The Beatles song "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" can be found in the liner notes of The Clash's album "Sandinista!" In these notes, the band members themselves explain the connection between the two songs and the origins of the title of "Charlie Don't Surf."

Here's a direct quote from the liner notes: "The title of the song is taken from a line in the film 'Apocalypse Now,' which was inspired by a song by The Beatles called 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road?'"

So, it is clear from the liner notes that The Clash themselves acknowledged the connection between their song and The Beatles song, and that "Charlie Don't Surf" was inspired by "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
tbh, I don't think HN's flamewar detector is much good.
Context: happy monorepo user.

1, 2 and 3: Use separate dependencies for each package, so this doesn't happen. Use e.g. GitHub Actions or another CI/CD file filtering wisely: if a file is needed by two packages, tests for both packages needs to run whenever it's changed, before merging, in addition to usual end-to-end tests. Have vulnerable dependencies alerting and make sure to upgrade it everywhere it occurs.

2: Also have some guidelines on that and enforce it either automatically or manually in PRs.
how much revenue does all the other “stuff” in their portfolio bring in? oh right…
A CEO I worked with once said: "academia is like a burlap sack full of cats with one sardine in it"

This seems accurate.
Like floating a warhead over the US mainland? It would just count as a first strike regardless I imagine.

The bigger question to think about is the fear itself that led you to this question, the fear, the vulnerability and the anxiety you are feeling. Perhaps if americans weren't so frightened all the time there would be less wars?
While these ideas was brewing, I ventured down into many libraries, Camel was one of them. It did not solve any of my problems.

Mats is messaging with a call stack. One messaging endpoint can invoke another messaging endpoint, and get the reply supplied to its next stage, with the state from the previous stage magically present: https://mats3.io/docs/message-oriented-rpc/#isc-using-mats3 and other pages.

Camel has, AFAIK, nothing of the kind.
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Thanks for thinking it through a bit more in the spirit of the question. That's a bit more what I was getting at. There are potentially instances where it starts to become a grey area (responsibility with both parties), and the separate question is who would the public deem responsible.
I suspect the lifecycle of a brand is different based on when products "commoditize".

In "non-commodity" products, brands represented a proprietary offering. Think back when a Trinitron CRT TV or monitor commanded a premium price. The label on the box meant it had a unique design and came from factories known for quality output.

In an industry like frying pans, small appliances, midrange electronics, basic modest-quality tools, these days, there is no special sauce. There's no breakthrough tech or unique manufacturing process. The best they can offer is "we curate the OEMs, selecting sensibly, holding to high standards." The brand is a signal of predictably consistent perhaps more than great. Now, that can work to an extent. The Costco Kirkland brand is probably the best example-- they make very little directly, but you know most products are going to be predictably middle-to-above average.

However, as a brand, the "Predictable OEM curation" just as hard to build as a "real manufacturing" brand, but much easier to undermine (how tight is your leash actually?) This is why you're still seeing the same brand names selling can openers and toaster ovens as your Grandma did. They're slowly burning through their original equity-- earned mostly when they were still direct manufacturers. It's still enough to present a headwind for new brands to take their place.

In a way, it's sort of weird that what we ended up with was the EQFFDN "psuedo-brand". Whoever is doing that marketing is creating an abstraction with no value. It conveys neither "directly quality manufacturing" nor "predictable curation" If they went to full transparency-- selling "Guangzhou Industrial Iron Forge #23" brand frying pans-- that at least restores the idea of "we at least know that they're using the same factory that at one time produced a product I was satisfied with."
Yep. It's compromised. This is the link from Google :

https://governor.ar.gov/news/video-super-bowl-nfl-a16.html

It automatically redirects to:

https://black-devil-1516.blogspot.com/2023/02/2023-super-bow...

That then redirects to:

https://yourmatchtoday.com/super-bowl

It's either compromised, or someone is being VERY stupid.
The Rise of Windows Part 1 (1981-1985) [video]
I just want to share an excellent video about computer history devoted to the highs and lows of Windows OS development. As it turns out, the first years of the project weren't rosy at all despite the common perception of a younger generation.

Another important takeaway is that initial Windows 1.01 took about 80 man/years which is insane. Especially when you try to install it and play with it. Looks like a yet another GUI shell of the day, primitive-ish, nothing notable that meets an eye. However, it's only the tip of an iceberg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqt94b8bNVc
Presumably because of the wax ring at the base of many toilets
In a desktop, hardly anyone cares. Everyone is using AIO coolers that can handle these insane temps. So the 15% improvement is usually worth it, considering the CPU will not even use these powers unless it's actually being used to the fullest.
You are talking about "safe spaces". A woman's ability to rock climb better than a you doesn't make her much safer. If you were in a locker room with a woman, even if she was better at rock climbing, chances are, if you attempted to physically assault her, she would easily be overpowered.
It seems the software bloat has finally failed to keep up with the hardware.

Outside of fairly niche uses (4K, actual heavy compute) even an older CPU is fine. Won't hold forever...but longer.
Elon's vision seems more likely nowmthat AGI seems to be closer than ever. Even if it isn't "conscious" nor has "free thought", what we have today seems awfully close to what's necessary.
I love deno so much and all of its ideas highlighted in the article (dependency management, security, performance) so much that I've build an entire framework around making scripting enterprise grade that is centered around deno support. The project is open-source [1], we even expose a web monaco editor and made the lsp support available using websocket and json-rpc. The goal here is to build enterprise-grade one-off script and workflows in deno, that can benefit from permissioned credentials, autogenerated UI (by parsing the main function parameters), a workflow engine similar to airflow/temporal, etc ...

We have a hub [2], centered around deno, that serves as our library of integration. An integration for us, is just a script that uses the right dependency to do an atomic action like fetching data or doing a POST.

We are betting big on deno, and are hoping with windmill to be the framework to make it enterprise-ready for other things than webservers (which most of the deno framework currently focus on).

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
[2]: https://hub.windmill.dev
> PCs are usable for much longer these days.

100% this. If my motherboard hadn't started to slowly fail (been running on the backup BIOS for the past year), I'd still use my 2013 Xeon system. It's still fast enough for daily use and as long as I'm not recompiling large codebases, it's still fine today.

I plan on using my new rig for at least 6 to 8 years as well. The times when CPU performance literally doubled every other year are simply over. For the average user, literally any mainstream CPU released in the past 5 to 8 years will actually do just fine (stuff like high-end gaming and video editing aside).
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PLA use USN activities in SCS and recon off her shores for training as well but US activities persist because there's mutual intelligence gathering going on, usually favouring the gatherer since the trade is info on one ISR platform vs said ISR platform gathering from host of sources. PLA probably knows alot about US P8s but those P8s learn about PLA navy, air bases, coastal defenses, radars etc. PRC can't simply shut down their hardware to deny info if collection occurs frequently. The benefit and burden is disproportionate. Hence it's favourable strategy to prod at US capabilites currently limited to CONUS that could be deployed in IndoPac. Imagine PRC sending ballons with iterative hardware to break through US EW, or counter measures to test against US missiles. These are activities US limits elsewhere but pressured to "reveal" because CONUS politics demand shoot downs. US alleged they jammed 1st balloon but likely only PRC on recieving end knows how successful. Learning more about US EW capabilities alone makes such missions useful and in return US... gets to shoot down balloons and get hand on carrying hardware PRC wants to reveal. Which might be huge, or nothing like PRC doing their 1000th P8 interdiction. Economics favouring the balloon is likely secondary consideration.
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Namecheap's email flow compromised: valid rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc on phishes
Personally, I am looking forward to switch to a monorepo as it makes things a lot easier. Makes testing a lot easier when you don’t need to deal with 70 repositories to test something. Also it’s easier to ensure dependencies such as API libraries are up to date in each service. Quicker feedback whether code changes break the things. Now I have to wait at least 24 hours to find if my PR that I merged breaks things.
some more details here: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2023-February/2216...
> message queues are just shared DBs with some extra ordering

Completely agree. And I have stated that elsewhere in these threads. I mention it here: https://mats3.io/using-mats/matsfactory/#connecting-to-the-c...

And I have a feature-issue that explores implementing Mats using DBs: https://github.com/centiservice/mats3/issues/15
How is this different from the super old firefox profiles feature?
Publishing a New Idea
Here's a 360 video of the hall of mirrors in Versailles mentioned in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-w-96KqK8
These days 4k 144hz screens are pretty affordable and good. I picked one up recently because I couldn't stand less than 4k to use while programming. But I agree in games it's not the biggest difference.
> That is not cynical, that is the great power of democracy. No one can change rules by themselves but agreements are needed.

I guess the cynical bit is my belief that the flip side of this "great power" is that a democracy quickly becomes structurally incapable of doing anything significant, good or bad, to meaningfully improve things or to solve a problem ahead of time, before it turns into a crisis.

> When one person can make big changes alone then it usually a form of dictatorship and things do not go so well.

That's true, unfortunately. If it wasn't the case, democracy would not look appealing at all.

> But many politicians go thru all that pain to achieve good things, not just to profit personally.

The cynical part of my view is that no politician can "go thru all that pain to achieve" arbitrary things, good or bad. They can only directly achieve things that are already neutral or beneficial to most of their colleagues. For all the other things they'd want to achieve, a direct attempt to push the issue through will only get them sidelined or forced out, and indirect attempts (through the long process of compromising and trying to gather allies) will just wear them down and turn them into just another self-interested politician.
No, not floating a warhead. See my other comments replying in this thread.

'The bigger question to think about is the fear itself that led you to this question, the fear, the vulnerability and the anxiety you are feeling. Perhaps if americans weren't so frightened all the time there would be less wars?'

I'm not American. I live almost about as far from the US as it's possible to live on this earth and don't feel any anxiety about this. Just a curious observer.
The resolution is secret - and that matters a lot.

Why do citizens need to know detailed specs of IR optics systems installed on fighter jets? I can come up with reasons why this information should be kept out of adversaries hands: and handing this info out to citizens makes the latter impossible
Thanks, I'll take that Erlang-comparison as praise!

(I actually mention the actor model as inspiration here: https://mats3.io/background/what-is-mats/#attempt-at-a-conde...)
Sounds like you would like to use a console for gaming.

When I built my last desktop, in 2015, you would've blown way more than 2k just on the over-the-top monitor that you're mad can't be cheaply populated with high-speed, high-complexity output in 2023. Now you can get a decent quality 4k monitor plus a desktop that will drive it for years of normal tasks, all for less than 1k.
Input lag doesn't seem relevant for playing around with AI models for 5 minutes until you get bored.
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Looks correct to me (except 4e15 is a peta- rather an exa-, but that's tangential and doesn't seem to affect your real conclusion, the "factor of 1M"). The "facial recognition" must be me misremembering the original writeup, which I still haven't found.

It's probably lame to double down on this point, but, gigapixels is definitely enough to contiguously track people back to their homes and workplaces, which gives you like 90% of the benefit of facial recognition (for, as you point out, 1e-6 of the cost).
This whole thing reminds me of self-driving cars ca 2013-2015, impressive but not quite there and letting the imagination fly how we soon won't own cars anymore or how they would change cities in a decade.

The last 5% will take 200% of the time, like usual.