skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those modes and microcode need to be validated, tested and add bloat to the boot software stack.

Just allowing booting directly in 64-bit mode and making 64-bit SMM mode would be enough to avoid boot software stack problems. Riddance of "legacy mode" doesn't require all it.
Long time ago they tried to develop a system where the users could explain things in "plain" English instead of the difficult codes used so far. It was called cobol.

As has already been pointed out, 90% of time is spent on debugging and modifying existing code, not writing new stuff. And of the 10% of coding, 20% is writing the happy path, and 80% is spent in handling errors, corner cases, input validation, and inconsistent domain rules.

Maybe we can have AI tools to help with all this, but there is still a long way to go. And when we get there, it will still take professional developers to use those tools, and to understand all the special cases.
I actually googled before writing the comment (preposterous, I know; also, out of vouge, should've asked chatgpt) and the bacteria thing was the only thing I found, nothing macro scale, which made sense since it's easier to rebuild than to heal. Anything bigger than that would have to be healed and it's hard enough to fix mechanical bearings, can't imagine how to regrow or heal one even if it somehow grows. Maybe it's an issue with my imagination ;)
Actual title is -

"Tech billionaire who spends $2 million a year to look young is now swapping blood with his 17-year-old son and 70-year-old father"
It's a bit scary to be honest. Linux is fairly easy to use because it piggy backs on the popularity and relative standardization of PCs thanks to Windows. If Windows were to go fully cloud-based and computers would become simple terminals, the availability of cheap Linux machines could suffer. Not a likely scenario, probably more a microsoft wet dream.
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Learning to write proofs is really learning a new kind of thinking, and that is not easy to do alone. For sure you can learn from books or other resources alone, but as with everything, when you are stuck in some way, good guidance can be very beneficial. I’ve thought proofs and logic at multiple levels and even though people struggle with similar issues, there is almost never a one-size-fits-all way to help an individual progress. It all depends on your context, way of learning, temperament etc etc.
I think the US certainly has some issues but it's still a million times better than Russia et al. There are degrees of evil.
Chinese hackers attacked Kenyan government as debt strains grew
https://archive.is/ZFRxS
Every UWP app I have installed has been horrible in terms of ui, half-baked & unreliable.

And these are on the M$ store too!
"UN" does not think more than building does not think. It's an entity for countries to talk.
Photoshop’s generative AI tool turned my vacation photos into nightmare fuel
Excellent question to which there is no easy answer.

There is no site available that can give a price for which you are sufficiently sure you are getting competitive rate for which the shipment will be actually performed in the time needed. None.
Closest you can get is inquire via some of the ocean carriers, 4PL sites, but you have to do this carrier by carrier and yet often you don't get comprehensive number.

Pricing in this industry is extremely opaque, indices quoted here are for the most part rough estimations, representing someone's hopes and dreams.
Bitwarden to Launch Passkey Management
There are other things you can't say in the west...

The (real or fictitious) collection of indecent images of children on your hard drive for example...
From the first section of the consumer.org.nz page (emphasis mine): "Can I make a copy of albums I own?
Yes. A recent amendment to the Copyright Act means that you can copy music – in the Act as 'sound recordings' – you own for your own personal use.". No such amendment would be needed if copyright was about sharing. Same with the temporary copies in RAM.

The license talks about "reproducing", which is copying.

You seem to be basically saying that you think Meta's lawyers and Creative Commons's lawyers don't know how to do their jobs (and can be trivially out-thought in a couple of minutes by laypeople), which seems very unlikely.
As a bass player in a noiserock improv band playing to click tracks bores the heck out of me for this reason. Pauses should be made by feeling, ideally by the whole band, not dictated by a click track that has no idea what you are doing.

Going totally controlled on a metrum has it's charm, but in my eyes (or ears, hehe) it should be the exception, not the rule.
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Sorry for the offtopicness but could you please remove "All of my posts are GPT-generated" from your profile? Based on your comments I assume it's not true (but rather some kind of witticism). But it's having the effect of trolling the threads - e.g. the sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36055724, and I think I've seen similar cases elsewhere.
I’m slowly shifting to zstd and it is installable with 7z!
Let's see. The experiment in Spain didn't work out that well: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-25/netflix-l...

Out of that 1 million, I think only ~300 000 were paying customers, but still it did not achieve the desired effect.
Is it suddenly allowed on HN to post GPT-generated comments, @dang?
What do you mean? What should this person do if not work for someone else? Start their own business?
Ha, yeah, GPT* sucks for nixos. I think this is due to

* NixOS development being pretty high paced, [with certain developments (like flakes) post-dating the original GPT cutoff still?]

* Documentation being slow to show up on the internet.

* Just in general lower popularity (than windows or ubuntu or etc) leading to less data for ChatGPT to pick up on.
If that's the case why are we sending wheeled rovers to mars/moon and not something with legs?

In any case this discussion is going sideways, the point is that nature doesn't have monopoly on being optimal. This also applies to intelligence/learning/modeling something better than brain.
Rogue IT worker extorted company after hijacking ransomware attack
"...unknown to the police, his colleagues, and his employer, Liles commenced a separate and secondary attack against the company.

"Liles accessed board members’ private emails more than 300 times and altered the original ransom note to change the payment address to his own cryptocurrency wallet."

Yikes, talk about creating trust issues. Charged with helping investigate and remediate and then capitalises on the situation to extort their employer.
Par for the course in automotive. Once something works, it is not getting modified unless bugs appear.
"The problem is this was never a stackoverflow question and there was never an answer for it."

Your example is so trivial, that there are definitely similar code examples. Maybe not word for word, but similar enough, that this is not really mindblowing "making things out of thin air" for me. It seems like a standard coding class example, so not surprising, that it also can make the unit tests.
This is awesome. What I would really love to see is pandoc compiled to wasm and usable in a browser context. I tried before but since I'm unfamiliar with Haskell i didn't get very far.
Where have I claimed anything?
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

Love is sharing a password

Didn’t aged very well. Why I shall give you my money if you lock out my loved ones?
Discussed at the time:

Generating code from natural language is closer than you think - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1912530 - Nov 2010 (80 comments)
Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon?
So, what is the advantage over BitTorrent then
Yes, exactly. We wrote an article here regarding PHP on Wasm that covers that: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/mitigating-php-vulnerabilities...
I absolutely agree it'll change the world. But in a meta sense, we've been through this before. Even in living memory, my grandparents were middle-aged before computers became a big thing and at least one of them grew up in an unelectrified Irish village.
> Solid metal parts wobbling like pudding at a noise level that'd make AC/DC blush. Not eery, but the other kind of frightening.

Reminds me of something my dad snarked on decades after happened. He was on a team doing FEA to verifying satellite structures. They told one team that a cross member on their design was going to break when subjected to launch vibrations. Other team had a big hissy fit and told them to buzz off. And it broke on the shake table.
>ultimately still in the same precarious situation as they must still seek employment to earn a salary to live.

But earning a salary that, when used well, can last several YEARS of unemployment, makes them a very different category of worker. These are the last workers that need help, of all the world's workers.
Oh it isn’t?! :(
If at any point a person chooses to "share" the work of an artist with other people outside of the marketplace where the artist is selling their work, then those people are stealing. I really don't think it's that hard to discern fair use from theft. I also don't understand why so many people rush to defend stealing software just because "it's only numbers on a computer". Stolen software is not just a number on a computer. Quality software is very expensive to produce, and when people take that software without paying for I then that contributes to bad software being produced in the future, because the quality developers you want producing your software can no longer be afforded for your bullshit, because too many of you have no problem stealing from other people.
> We still don’t even know how plausible a camera based system is.

I hope they have tested this by remote-controlling cars using only the camera inputs.

ie. verify a human can safely drive the car using only what the computer sees.

If a human can't safely drive in those conditions, a computer probably can't either.
Please don't post flamebait. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You're welcome, of course, to make your substantive points thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> we made critical changes

That's exactly why people (including me) tend to like LTS - no critical changes till next release. Upgrades for security with minimal surprises. I go further and often use unattended-upgrades on my Ubuntu fleet. I don't wanna version bumping until I explicitly ask for it as much as possible.
This is however not the same operation, changing the palette will affect all pixel of that color, flood fill affects only all the pixels in the connected component you clicked on.
Thanks rektide :)
Your comment supposes that it has to be extreme -- rapid growth or stagnation. Why do you think a responsible CEO / management team cannot plan for a 'moderate growth' pathway that sees steadier levels of hiring and firing more akin to what the rest of the industry shows?

I wonder if for tech companies part of the answer is also that moving people around is an 'easy' way to play with numbers. You go to the market / to your investors and say ''Hey, we've hired 1,000 people over the last 12 months, we must be doing so well [give us money]'', and likewise ''We're gonna lay off 1,000 people soon so we're all good here [give us money]''
Arturia KeyLab 88 [1]

Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88 [2]

Both with hammer action Fatar keybeds.

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It's not just companies; almost no organisation is democratic. And this makes sense: how would I as a person leading a team making a bit of software understand all the information required to make top-level business decisions? That's more than a full time job.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I don't think it's hard to guess, since the topic is not only flamebait, it's a flamebait cliché.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Open-source Ethereum library for C language
No interest in the article, but had to click through on the quality of the title pun alone. Well done WSJ.
i had the pleasure to see a corporate windows laptop in action recently.

the amount of official spyware on it that enables oversight is astonishing, and it doesn't really function offline (at least during boot it definitely wants to fetch some stuff off the mothership).

it also works just as well as you could imagine -- once somehow the 'delete' key got logically stuck, perhaps through a remote access facility, and the user sat there in shock as outlook kept deleting the mail. also, the constant prompts to 'urgently' close the business software for an update...

so a return to thin clients seems to be a healthy direction to me.

(i'll just keep using my linux laptop).
it's controversial but they're not allowed to sue us for it -- being a lawyer or doctor just requires a lot of rote memorization.
How is this a surprise? Nothing can improve an army like war. Just compare the US military before and after the Afghanistan war. Each individual piece of equipment and every tactic went through several evolution.

This is why other countries send troops every time the US goes to war. They send them to practice and learn. Certainly, the United States did not need the help of Ukraine, Latvia, and Moldova in the Iraq war. They went there to learn.

The Middle East has been the largest playground for the world's armies.
Security Issue in JWT Secret Poisoning
Interview with Microsoft CTO on AI Copilots
However, that is to equivocate an LLM with a human brain. They both can be conceptualised with the idea of the 'neuron' (though with wildly different actual implementations of that term), but that is their only point of comparison. Thus your conjecture is invalid.
> And sure, plenty of people will tell if you do it "right" you'll have no issues.

Go is inspired a lot by CSP, and allows you to apply CSP calculus when using goroutines and channels.

It doesn't make it impossible to make mistakes, but it does give you tools needed to reason about your concurrent program, which is more than can be said of most other languages' concurrency support.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (exclusively?) for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop. That's not allowed here, regardless of your ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't know that. That's genuinely useful to know.
It's an interesting point but one that is flaw as the market isn't open.

The problem is reverse, we thought they were giving the network what it wanted but it's clear now it's a narrative to push a world view that may or may not reflect reality.

We started with trust and moved to conspiracy:)
By saying that he is directing internal heat ( and external heat - like yours ) to himself, rather than HR, or middle managers etc in Google.

I suspect that's the reason for saying that. If you feel the need to blame somebody - blame me ( not other people or external conditions or shareholders ).

Ultimately it is his fault - even if it was forced on him be shareholders - he'd have the option of resigning ( following orders isn't a good excuse ).

In terms of the effect on him - you are assuming he isn't somehow human, and somehow these decisions aren't personally very hard to take.

In the end it comes down to whether you have a company culture of firing people the first mistake they make or not. Most people would suggests that's a bad company culture.

Whether they should have chased unsustainable growth is an interesting matter. I think the culture damage that large layoffs can have, particularly to companies that previous have always been growing, is substantial and underestimated.

ie the people left are often demotivated.

I once worked at a startup that let ~20 people go ( just under 10% ). The company was reasonably successful in keeping the best people in the short term, but motivation was right down and many of them drifted away over the next year or so.
That's my main argument when people say: "What they are doing is exactly the same what we did in Iraq/Afghanistan" etc.

Yes, it might be true. The big difference: In the West you can actually go out on the street and protest against the acts of your government.
Ha! I had no memory of posting that and am impressed that you dug it up.

Unfortunately I also have no memory of asking him or of anything he said.

I want to insert a joke about memory erasure, hypnotic suggestion, or psyops, but I'd better not.
Hi! We have the same problem here, as we're working on LLM Testing (safegpt.ai)

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Snowden would be a better example I think, as Assange just published everything classified he could get his hands on.

So there were also bits of wrongdoings here and there, but they seemed more random and the "collateral murder" as the shining example way overblown and missrepresented (as unprovoked murder of journalists, when they were in fact covering insurgents, who were engaged in combat in that area)
It's not even close to the same market. This thing seats 12. A cat ferry can seat more than a thousand people and a couple of hundred cars on top of that.

You probably want the comparison to a helicopter - because that's the same market: Can take off directly from the city, skips TSA security, seats 12.
No mention of govuln?!
Unrelated, but I was looking a very long time to re-discover this app (someone else posted it here some time ago). It was impossible to search for, and I haven't bookmarked it. And now I have it. Thank you!
Ultimately the parent comment is about accountability.
This is an extreme example, but if a billionaire kills another billionaire, would you "forgive" the perpetrator because the victim was relatively privileged compared to any other potential victim?
No. That's not how accountability works.
It is irrelevant here whether "even littler people" exist.
Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]
One word: carriers.
While the _engineers_ of Intel are definitely not idiots - otherwise they couldn't have been getting enough success - the quasi-engineer layer over it, which makes the real technical decisions, showed a truly summit of folly, multiple times.

- Foolhardy snatch 1: iAPX 432.
- Degradation in first half of 1990s, concluded with FDIV bug, and marvellous savior "ASCI Red" which paid all OoO development (PPro and following).
- Foolhardy snatch 2: RAMBUS + Itanium. Nearly collapse with P4 and miracle #2 with Israel team, Core, and stealing AMD64.

I can't imagine that a person adopted EPIC-based Itanium had had a real engineering competence. (Not sure for iAPX 432, this is a complicated issue.)

On a lower layes, as ISA details, every Intel move looks like using prediction less than for 1 move forward! Maybe 1/2 move sounds more veracious. Loads of examples. And, this also seems a guy that just remembered he was an "engineer" 30-40 years ago is now a decision maker.
AMD Instinct MI300 Details Emerge, Debuts in 2 Exaflop El Capitan Supercomputer
Its arch nemesis is also its intimidating and messy UI.

I noped out of FreeCAD in the first minute after I downloaded it and tried it. I'll open it again right now and record my thoughts:

I open up FreeCAD and am immediately annoyed. A splash page takes multiple seconds on an M1 Pro, and then I'm dumped into a empty page with a mess of buttons around it.

Why are there browser UI elements and buttons for "set URL" and "open website"?

I click around and realize there are different "workbenches" which are different UIs for making different types of parts. The UI feels sluggish, and it's hard to tell whether a button is disabled or not. Clicking any button seems to take hundreds of milliseconds to respond.

I go into the Drawing workbench to attempt to make something. There are two buttons with identical iconography (a piece of paper with a shiny light on the top right). One means "new empty document" (what is a document?), and the other is... Open SVG (?)

Right now I am just attempting to draw a sketch or _something_ like that. I guess Drawing wasn't the right workbench. Moving to "part design" now.

Ahh, finally the combination of "create new document" and then "create body", then "create sketch", then "select workplane" _finally_ puts me in a view to start creating something. I am assaulted with what seems to be around 30 new buttons with unintuitive icons which I need to hover over to decipher their meaning (at least they have hovertext!)

The rendering window at this point is quite tiny compared to my screen, and it's rendering at what seems to be around 30 FPS on a 120 Hz display.

I saved my project to a file, and it dumps out some binary thing. Good luck with version control on that I guess.

I'll stop here, but overall FreeCAD just feels gross to use, and it needs a lot more than just tutorials to increase its usage.

Compare to SolveSpace, which loads instantly, puts you immediately into a mode where you can start creating, renders at my screen refresh rate, and doesn't overwhelm me with UI elements I don't need until I'm actually doing something related to them. I know SolveSpace has way less features compared to FreeCAD, and it also has its confusing moments as well, but it actually has decent taste in its UI and UX, and runs very responsively (as all applications should with the kinds of computers we have these days).
One of my thoughts in my journal is the idea of "cloud integrated desktop", that lets me create cloud resources with a GUI and outsource computation to clusters of machines.

I can right click a program and click "Outsource" and send it to the cloud.

For example, I could have my data synchronized and indexed remotely (on cloud instances I control), for searches to happen against the cloud for finding resources fast locally. The searches would be extremely performant because there is more cloud resources than the local machine. Search can be parallelised and distributed.

Another idea of a cloud integrated desktop is to have my settings, open programs and their states synchronized with the cloud, a bit like Linux workstations that you can resume execution from anywhere.
Came here to up vote for the pun.
> If the regime collapses even greater violence and general horrible stuff happens.

There might be violence, but in general you can't know this. And in the end you end up arguing against democracy itself; the opposition cannot be allowed to win, even if they have the votes, because of the risk of rioting by pro-regime supporters. And in order to suppress them winning, you have to commit more crimes.
There are 176 sequences that match 8,6,7,5. Which one did you mean?
It has been speculated for years but now it is formal.
Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever
The lack of asynchronous closures does make it awkward, as you often need to put an `async move` block inside the closure for things to work correctly, which means the closure becomes an FnOnce and you have to work around that using clones.

It’s one of the worst corners of the ecosystem currently, and I’d very much recommend avoiding it.
Wouldn't have been easier to ask the partner to install 7zip?
Wouldn't adding that to the statement have the same effect but also be honest? Perhaps the effect would be even greater given that people wouldn't feel like the need to guess at the real reason?

I guess it's better than some approaches such as "we can do better."
Aurora Rising: A Machine for HPC and AI
"And sure, plenty of people will tell if you do it "right" you'll have no issues."

My answer to that is always that if you are able to do it right in C or C++ (and maybe golang) you should not run into any issues with Rust. Especially you should not ever have to fight to borrow checker because it does the job you should be doing as a C/C++ programmer in your head anyway.