skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. I guess it's a debate of nomenclature, which lacks real importance (although it helps to reduce confusion).

My point of view is mostly that, no, the x86 architecture certainly is not load-store, but internally modern x86 machines have execution pipelines that are built like regular load-store pipelines (i.e. the topology and flow is mostly the same as a RISC-style load-store pipeline).

Or to put it another way, x86 execution pipelines are much closer to being register-register than being register-memory.

> No, they designed and evolved the pipeline and its internal ISA to directly match the x86 ISA they needed to run.

Yes. That is very true. Although the front end is the part of the pipeline that is most x86-specific, there are many parts of the rest of the pipeline that is tailored to be optimal for x86 code. It was obviously not designed in a vacuum.

An interesting observation is that even other ISA:s and microarchitectures have been influenced by x86 (e.g. by including similar flags registers in the architectural state), in order to not suck at emulation of x86 code.
If you cannot be bothered to read other people's comments, it's unreasonable to expect not to get downvoted by people who did read the other comments.
Can someone smarter than me figure out if this is more efficient than mechanical ventilation using a HRV/ERV? I looked at the paper the article references, but I didn't understand the comparisons between various ventilation approaches.
I assume if you trail by 8 and you scored a TD, you’d either tie or trail by 2
20 years ago SQL lacked type safety, testability, and composability. Today the same is true. I doubt it will be different 2 decades from now.

SQL is powerful. It is also very old and has very large warts.
Why the 155mm Shell Is One of the Most Wanted Objects Now [video]
More than one bad thing can be bad at the same time.
We might add to the list "tools and utilities desired by power users".
EBT-101 is an experimental procedure where they try to use viruses to excise the HIV retrovirus DNA from every cell in your body.
I have have lanner tech router that I installed a as internet gateway. I have been very happy with it. Works well, lower power, small has multiple ports. Can use SSD for storage.

https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances/x86-de...

One must install the OS; whether that is OpenWRT, OpenBSD or whatever OS. This means that one needs to be quite familiar with the OS install. So, one probably needs to be a technical person. The one I got had x64 intel based CPU, so it should run just about any linux or BSD distribution. The one that I got has a serial port for the console (no VGA, HDMI, display port etc).
> Too many chefs, not enough cooks

As long as the chefs also do cooking, having chefs is not a big deal. The problem is the people who do not produce anything but keep themselves busy doing stuff that ends up wasting everyone's time.
If you're using S3 to back up your files, it's easier to write a shell script with the AWS CLI. For example here's a script I wrote that I run automatically to back up my computer to S3. I have an exclude array to exclude certain folders. It's simpler than downloading software and more customizable.

# $1 # local folder

# $2 # bucket

declare -a exclude=(

"node_modules"

"Applications"

"Public"

)

args=""

for item in "${exclude[@]}";

do

args+=" --exclude '*/$item/*' --exclude '$item/*'";

done

cmd="aws s3 sync '$1' 's3://$2$1' --include '*' $args"

eval "$cmd"
Interesting, I see this attitude too often in the healthcare industry as well, often leading to recalls.

It sounds like someone under pressure came up with a "loophole" that was compliant with a motivated but literal reading of the CMES reporting requirement. In this case, I would wager dollars to donuts that the CMES reporting requirement only anticipated door separated/not separated.

Mental gymnastics is used to argue compliance with some technical requirement, like it is some legal proceeding where you can debate what the definition of "is" is.

No amount of formal quality process can defend against business pressure and incentives to hack the same system. Requirements dont and cant cover every corner case, like someone saying a door was never fully separated because you tied them together with a shoelace before dethatching it.

Asking if a justification passes the "red face test" is ultimately more valuable than asking if it passes a literal reading.
Stuck in a downturn, startups ghost investors
You're implying that bad politics is the product of bad minds but that's not the case at all.
In-N-Out Burger closes Oakland store over crime concerns
> It's not the same. You expect that the other team will score with so many possessions remaining.

If Baltimore special teams doesn't let a punt return TD happen, Houston had one FG to their name... the entire game.

I don't expect a team will always score, absolutely not a team playing against one of the best defenses in football history. So, I respectfully disagree with your thesis. :)
Exactly. Also, even if the gene and protein names were different, real scientists wouldn't get hung up on minor technical slip-ups like this, because everyone knows what is meant. (Former cell biologist)
Running LLM (phi-2) locally on latest Google Chrome Android
If I ever made it as a billionaire I'd start a foundation that found the most outrageous bullying cases and tried to sue school districts out of existence. We'd see some culture change if teachers thought they could lose their pension because some other teacher let bullying happen in their class.
I think there's more work we can do to balance the power of individual defendants against the state, but the adversarial justice system is the most accurate and effective system for mediating public safety, punishment, and revenge ever developed in the history of the world.
When someone's wrong it's not always in the content of their comment. Often they're missing context, don't have the whole picture and have made an excellent comment for the wrong point.

It takes a lot of time to turn that kind of comment train around.

The language and culture barrier on the internet does not help.

Downvotes are a blunt tool, they are the best we have for limiting exponential growth where otherwise one must justify more and more logic to counter a runaway train.
I mean, sure, that's also a valid description. If we're to be precise, at least on x86 the OS sets up a global descriptor table[0] and then uses the LGDT instruction to tell the CPU to use it[1], and LGDT is a privileged instruction so only the OS (kernel) can do that.

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Global_Descriptor_Table

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/GDT_Tutorial#Telling_the_CPU_Where_th...
I am not sure, but if the store name was 'Dermalogica products' that would seem a bit dodgy straight away.
The end result of sharing the secret is the same. We didn't reinvent secret sharing. What's unique here is there's no server keeping record of a secret, a link or the parties involved. It's the truest form of zero-knowledge because the data doesn't exist in Retriever. With Privnote if you have the link to the secret, then you have the secret. With Retriever, only the requester has it.
For me being the victim of violence was part of the curriculum and I wound up "graduating" from elementary school the same way Ender Wiggin did.
Here's the diff: https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/389ea9be7d68bb189e...
Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog
I believe your number for the global economy is GDP, which is more analogous to revenue than to market cap. Microsoft's revenue was $211 billion or 0.2% of global GDP.
Yeah, I mean technically people and coffee are genetically similar.
A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense
Why are you concerned about a specific version released 7 years ago?
Using pandas is so annoying in comparison to R built in data wrangling that its amazing to me people not only have the patience for it but the lack of an ability to look out of the trenches for a moment, just reach for easy R, and be done with it.
It is funny that this supposed hereditary deafness is caused by what they call a "nonsense mutation".

"Yasunaga S. et al. (1999) showed that the affected individuals in this family were homozygous for a nonsense mutation in the OTOF gene. "

(retrieved in 2024/jan/24 from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-a...)
differences in outcomes by zip codes, for instance.

I feel it is important to point out that when talking about people, this less because of the physical properties of the land (proximity to superfund sites not withstanding), and more because of human controlled elements, like policy choices.
The article you shared is about cybertrucks where there is a Year's long reservation queue and Tesla doesn't want the cars to be considered a 250K+ purchase. That's about prevent scalping. A car you win at pwn2own wouldn't have such restrictions.
There is some controversy because they are definitely fallible. Much more fallible than was believed before 2005.

https://www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2005/opinion/fingerprints.htm
why don't they acquire Boeing into a government owned company (for the defense stuff)
Also for newer packages outside of the tidyverse, it's hit or miss if it installs unchanged. Often you have to manually figure out and install a specific version of some dependency to get it to build error free.
I think this might be one of those cases where how it is is a function of how you look at it, or the respective perspectives each of us is taking on the situation.

The perspective I am taking is that while it is clearly sub-optimal that a non-trivial percentage of the population "has issues" with taking vaccines, it is also sub-optimal to not think strategically about how to act when one finds oneself trapped in an environment (Planet Earth) with such people. I don't disagree at all that something is "on" anti-vaxxers to educate themselves about vaccines, but understanding the metaphysics of how to respond to such people, and the consequences of one's response, is also "on" everyone. You may not like the emotions of the people in your outgroup, but don't forget that some people do not like your and your ingroups emotions either - like many things, it is a two way street, even though it seems otherwise.

> Discussion should be science vs science, let the truth win. unfortunately a 2 way street.

I am not a fan of artificially constraining methodologies, or relevant causal variables - generally speaking, science does not take phenomenology into consideration when considering vaccines, whereas (proper) philosophy would take science and everything else causally relevant into consideration. I strongly oppose those who insist on suboptimal thinking methodologies (as you strongly oppose those who you believe are acting suboptimally), especially when it is enforced.

> Your style might be better suited to a lesswrong forum.

It might also be more suited to optimizing interactions between not entirely rational humans of all psychological tribes. I think dialogue and (attempts at) understanding are more suited than presumption and antagonism. I can acknowledge that it is plausible that I am wrong on this, but I suspect I am not - as you say: "let the truth win".

Here is something that I believe is very interesting and relevant: I propose that if abstract instances of such topics come up (say, a psychology study on logical fallacies, interpersonal communication, etc), most commenters on HN tend to align more with my take here, but when controversial, object level instances arise, people tend to act otherwise.
Using AI to Move Cybersecurity Defense from Reactive to Active
The Fedora mailing list message actually lists 3 different CVE: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announ...

- a type confusion

- an out of bounds read

- an out of bounds write

All three are in V8, so node might also be affected?
The story is almost assuredly real, at least in the sense things went wrong here. If you search the victims name, companies / courts involved the story is widely reported by reputable outlets.

Apparently the victim, HPD, and the mayor have all been contacted for or given comments as well.

Regardless, this is not the first time this issue[1][2] has been reported on and litigated.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/13/facial-...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/business/facial-recogniti...
> negligent union parasites

This provocative language severely undercuts your point, especially because the fatal problem with the MAX was the designed-in MCAS system and management decisions to hide it & hush up the problems they knew about years before it killed hundreds of people.
And I responded multiple times that that just shows that engineers can be good CEOs, nothing more.
Yes, that is completely reasonable. The goal is to have meaningful discussion, not have a pile of the same comment over and over. If someone already said what you wanted to, nod, smile, upvote, and move on.
So, suppose you walk into your local grocer and today the carrots are from East Dursley. Last week they were from North Grimsby. How does that affect your buying decision?

There are at least 1000s of distinct terroirs that any given crop might grow in. It's far beyond most people's cognitive ability to know any significant fraction of them.

Maybe you could devise a sharding scheme, where each grocery store got carrots from 10-20 different fields in different growing belts for year-round availability. With a limited set, consumer might learn their favorites.
PapersWithCode or GTFO.

[0] https://paperswithcode.com/
No amount of taxing and mingling will make protection against long-tail events profitable. It's something that either the government does or it hires, the market will not provide. (But, well, it can order too, that works.)

For seasonal balancing, nothing is certain. Maybe you luck-out and there's a profitable way to consume the summer overproduction. But I'd advise against betting your life on it. Anyway, carbon taxing does absolutely nothing to change the profitability of this one.

The funny thing is that the US (I imagine this is your context, because most people thinking this way are there) is one of the democracies that most intervene on energy safety. It doesn't show on the final result, but the amount of reserves that government holds is so large that when it changes its mind on something it bankrupts people.
>But that really is a 15% increase in win chance.

No, that's dishonest. Probabilities are already ratios between magnitudes (desirable vs. undesirable outcomes), so when comparing them you should be subtracting them, not dividing them. A relative increase in probability of 15% doesn't tell you anything if you don't already know the base probability. Also, why go for the 15%? You could also say that the loss probability is reduced by 2%. But I guess you don't get a nice juicy number that way.
It's interesting to me that I can't think of anyone remotely comparable to Euler in the public consciousness today. Even the work of someone like Erdos seems very esoteric by comparison and also was largely done in collaboration. Was Euler just born at the right time and picking all the low hanging fruit? Or maybe his immense creative production was a unique consequence of wealth plus limited distractions? I'm inclined to believe there are similarly talented individuals today but wonder if it is even possible to fully recognize them in the moment. Perhaps we will only discover the Eulers (and Shakespeares and Bachs) of today in a few hundred years time.
This kind of tough talk sounds may sound good to you, but the end result will be that only thugs will dare to be DA.

There needs to be accountability, but this isn’t the way to do it
We are about to see the fracturing of the Internet on a geopolitical basis not seen since the Cold War.
I honestly can't tell if you're from Brazil, trolling, or not understanding the data.

Brazil has destroyed more than 3x the forest than the next-highest country, and the forest it's destroying is considered the most ecologically important. It doesn't matter how much is still standing. The rate at which it's being destroyed tells us which country's behavior needs to change.

This is similar to burning fossil fuels. We don't say, "Look at all the oil the US hasn't burned yet!" We say, "The US is the largest consumer of oil." We don't care about the damage they could do but haven't done yet. We care about the damage that's happening.

Now as it turns out, Brazil has already destroyed enough of the Amazon that it's now a carbon emitter rather than a carbon sink[1], so the task is not just to stop Brazil from destroying the Amazon, but actually to reforest it over time, which is even more challenging.

1. https://research.noaa.gov/2021/07/14/deforestation-warming-f...
No, it's implementation-defined, not undefined behavior. That means the compiler must document a consistent behaviour. From 6.3.2.3 [ISO/IEC 9899:2011]:

An integer may be converted to any pointer type. Except as previously specified, the result is implementation-defined, might not be correctly aligned, might not point to an entity of the referenced type, and might be a trap representation.

Any pointer type may be converted to an integer type. Except as previously specified, the result is implementation-defined. If the result cannot be represented in the integer type, the behavior is undefined. The result need not be in the range of values of any integer type.

Also, the C standard merely codified existing practices and common extensions. Actual use of C has converted integers to pointers for a long time. If converting integer literals into pointers were undefined behavior, it would just show that the C standard isn't being practically useful in one area (since it's commonly done in practice).
There's not a lot of context in this submission, but presumably it is being linked because the release notes for this CVE says "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2024-0519 exists in the wild."

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/01/stable-channel...
What? The industry already exists. There's clearly money there. The idea that you can't have an industry just because it's specific to the richest country on earth is silly.
I don't see why they can't get into the subsystem for the drive by wire stuff, but there are things that can be done that would be quite bad even with the systems that are directly exposed.

What about if I can remotely hack into your car, crank up the heater and leave that running overnight so that when you head out to your car in the morning it's sitting at 0 battery, that's certainly super annoying. Could I potentially exploit the battery management system and run your battery to 'actually 0' damaging or potentially destroying your very expensive battery?
Show HN: Northwind Traders App with Cloudflare Workers and Distributed Postgres
The dashboard shows Cloudflare-derived geo-IP information. We connect clients to the nearest Postgres node to their location for low-latency access from Cloudflare Workers.
Yes but technically the jury are the ones who convicted.
Nobody has any skin in the game, police, prosecutors, judges. Not even their reputation or ability to get hired somewhere is affected by putting innocent people in jail.
"very sensible"
- Starts off describing own group in glowing terms.
- Centers piano as flashpoint while ignoring own group's demands to not be recorded, to stop streaming, and to delete video.
- Ends up impugning and blaming streamer.

This isn't a sensible response. This is casting blame solely on the other party. A guilty child could have written this. Stop falling for this.
This is essentially about letting Space-X in on more military missions that today they can only pass through Boeing and co.

Presumably Space-X wasn't willing to take an entire chunk of staff and dedicate them to military-only missions and/or had staff that couldn't even pass the stringent security clearance requirements. The US government still wants to utilize them for missions, especially with starship and its payload capacity on the near horizon.
The main concern here is that the system is being nearly entirely bypassed.

Literally 98% of cases plea out^1, bypassing the entire system of court procedure that is supposed to resolve these issues.

1:https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...
Was there anything you did to help run the game after the switch? I have a 7900 xtx and WT crashes after each match :/

I am running Fedora w/ Wayland.
Today's architects can learn a lot from 19th century's aesthetics too.
It's indeed impressive. Stable diffusion is progressing so fast. That being said, I find myself picking more and more cues that an images is AI-generated. There is a feel to it. It's not different than the best movie CGI. As Christopher Nolan pointed-out, no matter how good it is, it's not the real deal.
Yet another unuqdated Electron app?
A lot of what the article is saying makes sense, but I really wish the reporter had pushed a bit harder on Hampikian. He conducted a study to show that mixed DNA analysis can falsely exclude people, but are there similar studies that confirm the complex strategies he's exploring in the Tapp case can't falsely exclude people?

"Civil rights advocates object to [familial DNA] because it means that simply being related to an offender can make you a person of interest." If Hampikian knows that DNA can snare the innocent, shouldn't he be opposing any use of familial DNA rather than helping people use it in their appeals?
That’s a different statement from “they all taste the same.”
Can we, like, cool down a little bit on the 'OMG, yet another Boeing had a problem!!1!' posts? This issue was already submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118095 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39114528 and seems... uninteresting? I can tail -f avherald.com as well as the next person, but come on...

The last 757 was delivered over two decades ago, at a time when, allegedly, Boeing still had a proper engineering culture. So, this seems more like a maintenance-slash-really-bad-luck thing than a pervasive manufacturing malpractice scandal.

In any case: I would be royally annoyed when flying Delta out of Atlanta on a 757, but mostly because these planes tend to be noisy and cramped, not because of any particular safety concerns...
I've often wondered how fermentation effects bean flavor. It was a surprise for me to learn recently that coffee beans were fermented in the first place!
I think one of the biggest missed opportunities in language design is the integration of powerful relational database and query models directly into a modern language. Not as a bolt-on or an ORM but as a first class part of the language in the same way as maps and arrays. Make a language that deals with data relationally and where relational queries are a core part of the language and relational query execution is baked into its runtime.

If persistence hooks were also baked in then you'd have something a little bit like stored procedures in databases but far more powerful and with a modern syntax. Couple this with a distributed database layer supporting either eventual consistency built on CRDTs or synchronization via raft/paxos and you'd have an amazing application platform.

It's always seemed dumb to me that data, which is in the very center of everything we do, feels like a bolted-on second class citizen from the perspective of pretty much all programming languages and runtime environments. "Oh, you want to work with your data? Well we didn't think about that..." Accessing the data requires weird incantations and hacks that feel like you're entering a 1970s time warp into a PDP-11 mainframe.

Instead the language and runtime environment should be built around the data. Put the data in the center like Copernicus did with the sun.

Why has nobody done this? Has anyone even tried?
it sure seems like donating 1k to a charity to wipe away >1M of debt should make you a millionnaire