skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's not true at all, XMP is very much within the wheelhouse of "typical desktop use-cases" and can absolutely damage a CPU from electromigration within a matter of years.

(or rather, the overclocked/out-of-spec memory controller usually requires the board to kick up the CPU memory controller (VCCSA/VSOC) voltages, and that's what does the damage.)

https://youtu.be/HLNk0NNQQ8s?t=510

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHUz16MuYA

People have generally convinced themselves that it's safe but, the rate of CPU failures is incredibly high among enthusiasts compared to the general enterprise fleet and the reason is XMP. This has been "out there" for a long time if you know to look for it. But, enthusiasts fall into that classic "can't make a man understand when his salary depends on not understanding it" thing - everyone has every reason to convince themselves it doesn't, because it would affect "their lifesyle".

But electromigration exists. Electromigration affects parts on consumer-relevant timescales, if you overclock. Electromigration particularly affects memory controllers/system fabric nowadays. And yes, you can absolutely burn out a memory controller with just XMP (and the aggressive CPU voltages it applies) and this is not new or a secret. And the problem of electromigration/lifespan is accelerating as the operating range becomes narrower on newer nodes etc.

https://semiengineering.com/aging-problems-at-5nm-and-below/

https://semiengineering.com/3d-ic-reliability-degrades-with-...

https://semiengineering.com/on-chip-power-distribution-model...

Similarly: "24/7 safe" fabric overclocks are really not. Not on the order of years. Everyone is already incentivized to push the "official" limit as much as is safe/reliable - AMD/Intel know about the impact on benchmark scores too, they want their parts to look as good as they can. There is no "safe" increase above the official spec, not really.

The unique thing about Asus wasn't that they killed a chip from XMP - it's that they put so much voltage into it that it went into immediate runaway and popped instantly, explosively, and visibly. And it's not surprising it was Asus (those giant memory QVLs come from just throwing voltage at the problem) but low-key everyone has been applying at least some additional voltage for a long time. Eventually it kills chips. It's overclocking/out-of-spec and very deliberately and specifically excluded from the warranty (AMD GD-106/GD-112).

It's completely understandable why AMD wants to make some fuses/degradation canary cells to monitor whether the CPU has operated out-of-spec as far as warranty coverage. This is a serious failure mode that probably causes a large % of overall/total "CPU premature failure" warranty returns etc. And essentially it continues to get worse on every new node and with every new DDR standard, and with the increased thermals that currently are characteristic of stacked solutions etc.

https://www.amd.com/en/legal/claims/gaming-details.html

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/amds-new-threadripper-...
If you ever sit down and really think about it, it is absolutely wild how profoundly the invention of the birth control pill has changed the course of human history, our cultures, and human society.

It's gotta be up there with, like, writing and fire, in terms of shaping the destiny of our species.
I no longer read anything in parentheses for this exact reason. It seems people tend to write their "live-edits" and "related thoughts" in parentheses rather than spending a moment to figure out what they want to say and writing it clearly. I've found skipping anything within parentheses tends to improve my understanding while reading.
A better analogy would be a piece of paper with your username.

Finding somebody’s will doesn’t give you access to any of their data or funds.
If you use Python, you can restart the computer in one line using subprocess. Example:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python-script-to-restart-comp...

You can also use two scripts for security:

1. One that’s privileged for the shutdown command.

2. One with no privileges to accept the network request (eg Flask/REST), safely parse it, and send a message to process 1.

You could send the message in many ways. It doesn’t even have to be parsed or contain more than one byte. The reboot process might act if it receives any message from the other process in their dedicated channel.

Set both of these processes to run on startup however you normally do on your system.

If not a message, you could have the network enabled process write to a file in a shared directory. The reboot process periodically checks for the file’s existence. If it sees it, then it reboots the system. That file can be cleared on startup. I say on startup to reduce the risk of any kind of contention causing a problem later on.

The reboot process could also be easily ported to a systems language for resource efficiency. I’d keep the network-facing app in a memory-safe language just in case. D or Rust could handle both, though.
Yeah defense contractors are a route I’ve been considering. I’ve sent out applications to a few but haven’t heard back yet. Thank you for the suggestion!
Genetic and modifiable risk factor effects on vulnerable brain regions
Except if Apple decides, based on undocumented heuristics, that you do in fact need the key, as far as I’ve heard.
Or be in the business of selling .ai domain names.
He cannot get a bench trial unless he waives his right to a jury trial and the prosecution agrees.

It is remotely possible that they could amend the charges to include "providing material support for terrorism", in which case they could attempt to try him in military court. That's a worst case / best case situation -- he has the least rights as a defendant under the MCA system, but if the attempt is thwarted by the courts then it would be a huge blow against the government's attempts to circumvent due process.
Yep, agreed. Once you get there you can really appreciate what music is and does all on its own.
Definitely read his book The Cuckoo's Egg. Terrific story and prose.

Then check out the old Nova documentary about the story: The KGB, The Computer, and Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
I see these types of jokes everywhere. I cannot understand that hints of corruption are so blatant (i.e. a politician consistently beating the market) yet people keep voting for the same politician. Don't see how that is possible, must be these joke are only on internet and mainstream media never mentions this.
Automatic Complaint Generator circa 1989
Because god forbid tech companies actually build compliant and responsive web sites!
How do you bypass a tool like this for a remote worker?

There is literally no way anyone can interrupt me when I'm working, unless they are already in my house.
Previously [0] (164 points, 59 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952
Who you gonna believe, the market-based consensus of 1000s of cocoa traders, or the lived experience of a wise ars?
Of those 2 billion subway riders how many were killed when they departed the station to get to their final destination?
Just FYI, many of the early Greek city-states were democratic, and they fought like cats and dogs.

Tito kept Yugoslavia in check for decades, and he was Not A Nice Man. The Romans probably had the longest-lasting empire in history, and they were very "not nice."

I'm not sure that there's any "magical" system of government that works better than others.

Also, you have governments that work well for the governed, and ones that don't bother others. Whether or not it is a "good" government probably hinges upon which side of the border you're on.

I remember reading that the best system of government is an absolute monarchy, and the worst system of government is an absolute monarchy.

People are really complex, and "one size fits all," tends not to work for us.
> The subways and buses are unreliable at best.

Everyone complains about the subway, but as someone who lives in Brooklyn it's been generally good enough to get to work without too many headaches.

I live in the Brownsville/Canarsie area, and I generally take the 3 into the city, and that generally just works, but I will admit that it kind of sucks that the 3 is the only train that's easily near me. It's not usually a problem on weekdays, but it's a very annoying problem on weekends when they have to do maintenance, meaning my only easy mode of transportation is either severely limited or non-existent. [1]

Still, I really don't think it's as bad as people complain about. I've lived in NYC for nine years, and deep in Brooklyn for about 5.5, without a car, and it's been "generally ok".

[1] It's not completely horrible, if I'm willing to walk a bit further (about a mile) I can get to an L train and if I am willing to walk a bit further than that I can get to an A.
Yep, that tracks. I used to have a NeXTCube on my desk and tried to hold on to it (and 3.3) for dear life, but sadly the research institute I was in at the time didn’t allow it. Thank you so much for grafting previous into your wonderful site, I’ve been having a blast with it on idle moments.
How many people own a safe? I personally don’t know anybody that does. I do know that safes sometimes get stolen.
Do you not think these issues will be poor for Boeing shareholders and beneficial to Airbus shareholders?
A Year in Review of Zero-Days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2023 [pdf]
> There's no point reading non-Western English language news if you don't know the owners and their biases.

You can see biases to a degree by reading different sources covering the same object. And I find the non-Western sources reveal the Western biases to a surprising degree, and there is much going on that isn't covered. My perspective on Israel and Africa are very different after reading some of the sources above.

It's not that much harder than in the West: Rupert Murdoch's biases are clear but what are A. G. Sulzberger's? I can take a shot at some, but I don't really know much.

> think tanks

I read those directly too. One day I realized: instead of reading the NYT (or Washington Post or FT, etc.) article for a few paragraphs of expert knowledge, just read the think tank report - they are just as readable (a surprise to me, at the time), provide a whole different perspective, a different magnitude of knowledge, and do it much more efficiently. Still their biases can be hard to read - donors, etc.

> There's no point ... it's all useless ...

I've heard that too many times about everything in the last few years. I can't change the world by my lonesome self - nobody can - but people do change it. Plus, knowledge has a value in itself and understanding the world has applications to everything. And my mind is sharpened by reading the best - why waste that time on anything less?

Great talking to you. I can go on if you like.
Do you have some data to back up your assertion, actual numbers? If you'd like to enter that number into evidence, you should source it. If you think taking the subway is risky, back up your assertion, don't just gesture in the general direction. Simply feeling it in your heart isn't enough to make something true. Not that there isn't value in your perception, but if we're going to talk about it we should know which is fact and which is feels.
That raises the TCO of iCloud considerably.
if cargo was malicious it would affect the binary, which is the point
Thanks! We'll boost the voice and re-upload the video. Agreed that technology doesn't solve the social issues at play and unfortunately policing behavior is hard. We think Patchwork can at least help the problem by having an alternative form of communicating rather than just chat. Then at least people can point interruptors to the tool and nudge them to use it.
> the desire of ordinary people to rule themselves in their own way without the interference, well-intentioned or otherwise, of aristocrats, bishops, bureaucrats—or wonks.

My major objection to anarchy is: rotation is fine for general roles, but how does one handle specialist roles?

(I'm not sure AI is exactly the answer here... If you don't like wonks making decisions, why should bags of weights be any more transparent?)
There's some uncertainty about this, and while not properly controlled for obvious reasons, a study of lives of men of renown in 5th and 4th century Greece found a median life expectancy of around 70: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/
Finley (YC W21) is hiring to remake the $1T private credit space
Or those of us with no degrees and decades of experience?

I'm in Boston.
Did you check the real sudo binary, or the setuid wrapper?

On my system sudo is `/run/wrappers/bin/sudo` but that is a setuid wrapper for `/nix/store/z008bzqrl2zc848gjhh04012jhxpl72q-sudo-1.9.15p5/bin/sudo` which is dynamically linked.
Sunken Ships of the Second World War
I agree! Especially now that the data analysis tools have been integrated by default. It even writes and executes code to validate most of its mathy answers. I tried for a few months to find a good Physics tutor for my high school-aged daughter and eventually just started photographing her homework with GPT-4. I’d ask it to solve the problems and explain its solution to me, then I’d check the answers and teach her myself. It was correct more than 90% of the time over three months, and I relearned high school physics in the process. Even human tutors aren’t always accurate, and in my experience, they also sound confident when they are wrong. Eventually, I decided to just remove the monkey from the machine and got her an account of her own. Almost every day she tells me about something she “finally understands” that she’s been struggling with in class. Her in-class, no-access-to-GPT test scores (after I got her the account) went from high 50s to high 80s.
> why not just deploy it on a cheap vps?

I’m that kind of a person and the usual response I get is - hey, that’s too complex!
> Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.

~ 1999

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2014/01/29/google-as-described-i...
It's not what I wanted to read, but thanks for the honest answer! I realize creating a new toolkit is a huge endeavor, and I hope you'll some point reconsider :-)
A system that lets an attacker send hundreds of push notifications, effectively making a phone unusable until you click "allow" is a technical failure. So is one that lets an attacker spoof Apple's caller ID. Sure, that one is a failure with caller ID in general, but it's not beyond Apple's ability to special-case its own numbers.
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PepsiCo makes Flamin' Hot its own brand; portfolio launches w 25 unique products
It's not that simple though. His own article "Canon TDD" [0] still involves writing a test before writing the corresponding code. In my experience, the practicalities of all but the most far-removed integration tests (i.e. when receiving this request, server ultimately returns this response) mean that I would be effectively doubling my workload by having to repeatedly refactor two sets of code as I explore. The TDD steps listed do include refactoring if/when required, but I'm not entirely sure Kent had exploring and comparing half a dozen different approaches in mind for that one. It still seems fundamentally geared towards implementing a solution you've already arrived at.

I'm not disputing TDD as an effective strategy—I've seen it work wonders for some of my colleagues and I will still occasionally employ it myself when making additions/changes to well-established bits of code. But, for me personally, I feel I can stay in the flow and get all the same benefits by just doing step 1 ("Write a list of the test scenarios you want to cover"), implementing the code, then actually implementing those tests at the end.

[0] https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd
What do you call the thing that butter is made in, then?
I've always enjoyed Hondas for the same reasons. I hope they keep it up.
i would have said it like this:

my grandmother became a grandma to my cousin at 45
Not at all. Patchwork should be the home page to what's going on in your team. All of the changes and progress should role up into it and we should be able to help you see the ones most important to you. That's a lot of what the integrations are for.
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It seems like a good application of the technology to a real problem, it just sucks so much that the meta problem is so diabolical. Definitely a local optimisation far from the global.
Loved the idea and the entire project! Starred it on GitHub.

One suggestion, when I land on the website I would love to see a small example already added. Basic CSV and some SQL queries to run and play with.

It would be best if you also launch it on Peerlist. Many people are working in a similar space there, they also might find this useful.
Dupe of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952 (164 points, 59 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836513 (107 points, 26 comments)
Yeah it's a weird benefit of the free plan for low traffic teams. You can't use slack as the primary communication because some people may never see it.
Why assume that they are excluded?
> Mr Thomas would rather the money had been spent right across London on projects that stopped rain flowing directly into drains where it mixes with raw sewage.

> "You could use nature to be dealing with this. You could have lots of areas that would soak up the rain rather than rush it off the streets and rush it off the roofs straight into the sewers."

Berkeley's started building bioswales* in several places to better manage stormwater. It makes a lot of sense and is also a big aesthetic improvement - instead of a concrete gully, you've got a nice green patch and some happy plants.

Water management is definitely something we're going to have to get better at. Letting the free water that falls from the sky dump straight into the sewer system is very much a mid-20th-century everything's-infinite-why-worry type approach.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioswale
Hey,

I took a look at https://figr.design/

How is it different from v0.dev?
Explaining porn and hoping it will not affect kids negatively doesn't help when there's such easy access to porn everywhere. It's like explaining drugs to kids and there are drug dealers at every corner and a society that encourages drug use. Doesn't work.
For most of those things, people produce as much as they consume. So more people doesn't make things worse.

Fossil fuels are a bit of an exception, but the transition to non fossil fuels is in full swing, and will be complete long before the oil runs out.

Land is a better argument, though multi story buildings is a partial answer. Either way, we are very far from running out of land.
There's also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836513 (107 points, 26 comments)
How good does it need to be to get any passable result? Well, as good as the people writing it nowadays. The kind of quality you get from writers is not the same as you get from editors.

Or did you mean how good it must be before mangers actually start replacing people? That one I have no idea, and I don't expect it to have any relation with how good content people expect to read or how good content the LLMs actually produce.
Hmm dunno, I have seen 1) people rising >2 levels above their level of incompetence, as well as 2) people staying <2 levels below their worth.

What’s definitely true is that actual level / title don’t match perfectly with “competence” which itself is a nebulous concept in many companies.
> I've already said that I do. So no, I'm making a more specific argument than the one you're trying to have.

My point is which externalities you are considering, and which ones a city is trying to account for.

Cost of building and maintaining asphalt is one externality.

A city might consider other things like congestion, noise, and emissions. Pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Green space. Space allocated to parking vs additional homes and businesses.

You can call this considering the externalities of car traffic, or you can call it social engineering because the city wants fewer cars. I'm saying the distinction isn't super important, they are both the result of recognizing negative effects and trying to reduce them.
That isn't a real patch, more of a mission logo. The details are too small. The pink nose, if actually in patch form, would stand out as a pink dot in the middle of a blurry cat.

Fyi, military patches look best when using lines with fixed-width. Anything pointy or jagged doesn't translate well into stitched thread. Avoid shadows too. Yes, there are some all-plastic patches that are carved into 3d shapes but those are evil. Real patches are thread over velcro.
> cheap alternative

Here from my experience is a still cheaper alternative: My experience? From 9th grade on, concentrated on math. In college also took a lot of physics. Got a Ph.D. in applied math. Taught math in two big universities. Applied math to US national security (mostly Navy work), FedEx, and computing.

From that some advice:

(1) Get a good outline of math, that is, a list, with short descriptions, of the main subjects, and for each subject get 2-3 of the best books. One source: Course descriptions at the Web sites of some of the best universities. In this, draw ONLY from the very best, e.g., Princeton, etc.

Fact of life: Mostly the teaching and books are, in a word, junk. The worthwhile teaching and books are under 10% of the total. It's simple: A big fraction of the profs are much less good than the best but still teach and write books. Sorry 'bout that. Soooo, did I mention, draw ONLY from the very best. For cheap, pay no tuition. Get the books used, cheap.

(2) Study the books, and work a lot of exercises. Sometimes go through quickly and get only some high points; other times go slowly and try to understand nearly everything there. Sorry, at least in math, it's "not a spectator sport". Maybe a course with lectures can help, but really to do well with the material still have to do that sitting alone with the books. Sorry 'bout that.

(3) Work to understand the psychological, social, national, economic, power, political, competitive, publicity, and business aspects -- these have important effects, and the real world of the subjects is not 100% pure knowledge. E.g., get some understanding about how US/EU academics works. Use this understanding to help make decisions about career directions.

(4) As you proceed, think at least a little about how might do some original research building on what you have learned. Eventually you will find some results to publish, and that will open some special doors for you.
I take the trains all the time in Brooklyn, and live here, but the person you're responding to isn't completely wrong; there's a fairly large patch of north Brooklyn/lower Queens that has pretty bad train coverage.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Of...

Also, in Brooklyn, there's a lot of places that do have train coverage in the most technical sense, but that means they have exactly one line near them. This is fine, but it can be annoying if that line is your main mode of transport and it gets shut down for whatever reason.

When I lived in Manhattan, even in the less-covered Washington Heights, it was comparatively easy to find another train nearby if the train I was planning to take was down. In Brooklyn, unless you're near the more metro-ey hubs, you might just be out of luck (or just take the bus).
“We’ll be chartering buses to travel to and from schools around the Northeast. Sign up early if you’d like a seat on one of the buses.“

Will they be doing that “roll call” song too? https://www.tiktok.com/@theoffice/video/7254560650909928750?...