skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many write-ups of the 6x00, it totally ignores the peripheral processor (PP) subsystem, which was both simple and innovative. The PP's were 10 independent processors, 12 bits wide, but with an 18 bit accumulator so that they could compute central memory addresses. Each had 4K of 12 bit words that stored both driver code and was used as I/O buffer. But.... there really were not 10, there was one copy of the PPU compute hardware, and 10 copies of the state that all the CDC old-timers referred to as "the PP barrel". It was just a big circular shift register, so the 10 PP's were actually just 10-way hardware multi-threaded. Yes, hardware multi-threading dates from 1957.

There famously were not interrupts in the classical sense in the 6x00, but PP's could read and scribble anywhere in central memory, and they could compute an address and jam it into the CPU's PC. So in effect infinitely flexible vectored interrupts.

4Kx12 is not a lot of program space, so most I/O drivers consisted of one or more PP overlays that would be loaded depending on which I/O device was in use.

If I recall correctly, the operator console required a PP full time -- the console being a couple of CRT's with shared X & Y DACs, and independent Z DACs, so they used vector fonts for everything. A second PP was full time dedicated to scheduling the other 8, at least in the common operating systems. (There were a bunch of operating systems... but I won't get into that.)

Also... somebody (maybe Seymour himself?) worked out a 12 word boot loader... and PP0 had a switch panel of 144 toggle switches arranged in a 12x12 matrix. You could toggle in the bootloader once, and leave it forever. At boot time those 12 words were loaded into PP0 core.
What do you mean by club exactly?
FTA: JavaScript's built-in JSON implementation is limited to the range and precision of a double.

Obviously, not all int64 values are representable in float64 (double).
On the other hand, functions that go through the VM messes with the Branch Predictor and increases Cache Miss, which affects anything that runs after (for a short period tho, depending on how often it runs).

You can argue that a good developer will configure Denuvo to only "compile" functions where those side effects doesn't matter (like after loading screens, during cutscenes, when the game is paused, etc). However, I've seen so many stupid mistakes in this industry that I would never trust the experience and skill of said developers, unless I can asses it myself by working on a daily basis with them.
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Yeah, I don't know, most of the time only time you actually need dep injection is for tests, and at that point why not just mock with Jest? Feels too much just having to do all this work just to complicate dependencies and make moving around more difficult for tests when a much simpler solution is available.
The hard part about playing chicken is...
What a sad little world view you have.
Of course it doesn't matter in the long run. But it matters to people alive right now. Which is why we do anything even though its all pointless. I guess you wouldn't care about your life or a family members life being taken by covid since its a nothingburger though huh?
A side effect of temporary DRM is the decreased incentive to crack it. Sure the "street cred" is still important to some people but if you just wait a few months it will be gone.
I think they could. By kid I mean roughly mid teens to mid twenties. I've seen what they can do -- create Linux, for example.
Same here, tiny little dot of gray/blue on my palm. Probably from 2nd or 3rd grade. Then I have another on in my arm, probably 4th grade.

Even after nearly 25 years they're still there.
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> Starting human trials before animal trials were finished is not what I'd call "extremely well-tested".

Citation needed. The FDA paperwork to authorize human trials and emergency authorization referenced the completed animal trials.

> The standard testing procedure takes years.

While testing processes do typically take years, this also factors in the production to testable levels of said vaccines, whereas mRNA vaccines are far more quickly and efficiently produced, reducing this time dramatically.

Also to be taken into account, work on coronavirus vaccination in humans had already been in the pipeline since the Avian Flu crises. This wasn't something new.

> These injections were forced upon hundreds of millions of people after only a few months of testing

Most people couldn't access the vaccine for much longer periods of time. Certainly no-one was being forced early on (and that goes for varying definitions of the word 'forced').

Sources:

- https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-vaccines-animal-...

- https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2N2NJ1IK/

- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/10/fac...
Ref: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
> The code to extract the object file and inject it into the build process was only in the GitHub release tarball.

I thought it was in both, however the backdoor wasn't inserted with the default build time options, so it ended up in the tarball, but not if you just did make unless you set things up the same as the build server.
Most likely a fake story. The internet is littered with blogs that make up stories like this to get engagement. After all, this one made it to the top of hackernews.

Chances of getting proof that this happened are zero
What caused the graphite fragment to be ferromagnetic?
Very nifty, but I'd argue against it due to possible confusion in various atypical scenarios, such as:

* The user wants to read the script before executing it, and their preferred reader (perhaps due to browser extension or something) is a standard browser.

* The user has `curl` aliased to `curl-impersonate` in order to avoid things like Cloudflare's bot detection (a captcha that triggers on things beyond the HTTP request, like the less fancy TLS handshake of regular curl) -- https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

* The user doesn't have curl installed, but has wget / lynx / some headless browser / etc. and expects any of those to work the same as curl.

Not to mention, if a site encouraged users to execute an HTTP response by piping curl into sh, and the response for curl was different than the response otherwise, that just might make the top of HN for being sketchy as hell.
Noise-making toys are what you get for parents you hate. Can confirm nearly every one is way too loud.

Unfortunately electronics are so cheap that it can be a challenge to find the one similar toy out of ten on the shelf that isn’t a torture device.
Why would you think they would voluntarily disclose this to the public ?

Companies are typically required to keep this information private.
Right. This is a multiple timelines problem.

This story happened a bit over 10 years ago at this point. At the time of the story, the Wi-Fi bridge was already almost 10 years old -- we'd had the same equipment since I first remember getting internet at home.

That means the antennas at the start of the story were mid-2000s mid-tier consumer level equipment. I don't think a 16-17dB antenna would have been $35 at the time, in either mid-2000s dollars or in today's dollars. I also grew up in a country much poorer than the US, where $35 could feed a family for a week.

At the end of the post, we upgraded to 802.11n antennas (but still tech from 10+ years ago) which solved the problem by being newer, nicer, and having beamforming + MIMO capability which let them be more tolerant of obstacles (effectively, get more dB at the same emitted power level).
That's a pretty strong claim. Do you have any evidence they have done this?

And i mean, i'm genuinely curious. I don't think they would be above doing so if they had the opportunity, i just haven't heard of any instances where they were caught doing so.
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git config --local blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
2nd Edition != Volume 2
I hate how fake this sounds since it's a funny story.

Trees leaves being weighed down by a slight drizzle? What tree does that? None around where I live.

A tree blocking signals that strong as well? Doesn't make sense to me either.
there was a whole line of mips decstations. I think that part of the market was already saturated for them.
No idea.

Taken mesalazine as directed by my doctor for nearly 30 years, and been extremely lucky.

(I’ve had to take predisone three times for flare ups, but not for more than 20 years. As I said, extremely lucky).
Trump's tariffs hurt the US more than they did China, and his belligerence and instability made China look stable and reasonable in comparison. Why wouldn't they want more of that?
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> What medical research? For some reason, the most obvious approach, repurposed drugs, was nowhere in sight.

What?

The vaccines we do have are because we have vaccines for coronaviruses in animals and had nearly a decade of work for using them in humans.

> the smear campaign against ivermectin

The smear campaign against a drug that did not, does not, and could not work, because it is an antiparasitic, not an antiviral?

Combatting disinformation (and at a certain point, it became deliberate disinformation) is not a "smear campaign".
There’s always room for more research.
> There outta be a law against registering people to vote if they want nanny-states.

hard pass. what nations need is more participation in democracy, not less. i agree that a law that makes the bar culpable for patrons actions is probably incredibly stupid, but a law that makes it illegal for people to vote because their opinions are different from yours? what?
(Author here) For our Wi-Fi bridge, the devices on both ends were set to max power.

I don't recall them being able to change data rates very much (if at all) because the ones at the beginning of the story were 802.11g devices, and 802.11g didn't have channel bonding capability or similar tricks up its sleeve. Newer equipment definitely has more options like this.
Prediction achieved: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_s...
You just called him a liar based on that “leap”.

I still fail to see the issue if it’s a minority of activity. Does your resume description perfectly correlate to percentage of time spent?
> What kind of evidence would satisfy you?

Any evidence at all whatsoever, supporting your claim that

> so it asks RAND to publish something that will drum up support for it.

Or any of the other fake conspiracy theories invented and spread with no evidence, in this comment thread
>I'm ignoring that because it doesn't matter. Are you saying that our population is simply growing without places for people to stay?

This conversation is pointless since you don’t understand economics 101 or the law of supply and demand. That’s why you think it “doesn’t matter”… you’re missing the forest through the trees. The prices are going up because there’s a chokehold on supply… when you restrict supply and demand remains the same or increase—prices go up. This isn’t rocket surgery.

Just Google the rates of homebuilding in California. It peaked in the 70s and dropped every decade since.

Sure, here’s an article: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2432071/california-h...

Yes, it’s great to work for a big tech company in California. But I guarantee it’s better to be a teacher or any other normal job in Denmark. Not everyone works for Google or Apple so maybe we should stop pretending like that’s all that matters…
Take this with a grain of salt, but back when I was last in SF in 2018, it was easily one of the most disgusting cities I have ever been in. I live and grew up in the Midwest and have been to most of the Midwestern cities (sorry St. Louis, some day I'll visit you) and a handful of other cities. Garbage lined the highways like I've never seen anywhere else, it was truly surprising and something that sticks with me years later. I spent most of my time downtown, but did venture to other parts. The nice parts of SF were really nice, but you'd go one block away and there would literally be people shooting up drugs on the sidewalk. I've spent a lot of time in Seattle as well, I really love Seattle, but it's quickly becoming very similar in parts. It makes me sad, both because of the suffering but also because it makes me not want to be in either of those cities. I don't think y'all really understand how abnormal that stuff is, and it's blatantly the fault a greedy and incompetent political body hiding behind the masquerade of performative politics.
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I think the major problem is that once you get to the second hop, you already have hundreds of links.
My experience from working in the security space is that all the tech is pretty un-sexy (with very good sales pitches), and none of it will save you from a nation-state attacker.
Google to delete search data of millions who used 'incognito' mode
The commit history from bad actor set tomezone to +0800
Source:
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...
> We know it doesn't transmit very well in humans. Luckily people have been working on that:

You make it sound as though they're working on making it transmit well in humans. Oh wait, they are! What's wrong with them?!
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I'm pretty sure the 6600 could issue multiple instructions per clock. A 60 bit word could hold 4 15 bit instructions, or for instructions that required an 18 bit immediate address, those took two 15 bit parcels. If there were no conflicts, I think you could issue multiple instructions in a clock.

For instance, if Ax is the base address, and Bx is the stride, you could do
A4 = A4 + B4 ; loading X4 by side-effect
A3 = A3 + B3 ; loading X3 by side-effect
X1 = X5 + X6 ; do an add of data loaded in the previous unroll of the loop
A2 = A2 + B2 ; store X2 by side-effect, presumably computed in previous unroll

All 4 of those fit in one 60 bit word. And if you are clever with loop unrolling and instruction timing, you can get a lot of overlap.

The 6600 had dirt-simple opcodes that took about a week to memorize, but.... that was a long time ago, so sorry I can no longer assemble machine code in my head. Memory fading.....
Security advice from Docker? Hypocrisy

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/45610
I mean it's supposed to be impossible for a web server to know you are using Incognito, by design, for hopefully obvious reasons. So by extension it's also impossible for websites to "respect" that you are in incognito and delete your server side session data afterwards. The browser of course handles deleting your local data once the incognito session is closed.
That’s actually a really common misconception. A lot of unhoused people in LA have one or more jobs. One survey I saw put that number over 65%.
Interesting to see gorilla mux still being used. Would have really appreciated the post including the rationale behind using gorilla instead of other routers. Used to be that gorilla was pretty slow, not even sure if that's a thing these days.
Bah, that’s just two spudgers stuck together with a cardboard tube!
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I mean, my point was kind of that they didn't mention the word "proselyting" at all. If that's what you're doing for the majority of your time, it feels like a lie of omission to not even mention it. It'd be like putting:

"B.S. in Computer Science (2013–2017); attended classes at MIT; 4.0 GPA"

when the reality is I went to Wellesley and cross-enrolled in a couple architecture classes. I entirely understand only selecting information that's relevant to the job. I think it's disingenuous to only select information that's relevant to the job and puts you in the best light. It's even worse if that implies you have more experience in a relevant area than you actually do.

Yes, people can ask you to elaborate at an interview. But that wastes their time, and makes it so people who actually have the experience you claimed might not fit in the interviewer's schedule.
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Fun fact: I consider myself a pretty bad writer and initially started the newsletter to try and get better at it. The results have been mixed on that front so apologies if you got confused by the "purple prose". I'm trying.

Anyway, my point was:

1. The disclosures point to "OpenAI Startup Fund I" being under the control of a fake company and CEO.

2. The fake company and CEO in question looks like the creation of an AI hallucination.

3. If a fake company and CEO were intentionally used by OpenAI, this isn't a minor infraction and there are highly consequential ramifications to consider given Altman's prior "ownership" of the fund, reported concerns it was being used to circumvent OpenAI Board oversight/governance, and participation in the fund was allegedly a means to invest in OpenAI.

Much of the piece is admittedly a helter-skelter collection of disclosures and explanations focused on supporting #1 and I don't really get into my rationale for #3.

Overall, it makes for bad long-form reading, but it did compel BI to do the needed journalistic follow-up work, made OAI acknowledge the filing was "illegitimate", and pushed the story forward.

We now know, according to OpenAI:

1. The company and CEO doesn't exist to their knowledge.
2. The document indicating this fake company and CEO controlled "Fund I" isn't legitimate and completely fabricated.
3. They're not willing to elaborate/explain how or why these "fabricated" entities got filed by them.

It's ugly spaghetti prose, but I'd say the write-up worked as intended.
The Jetson TX2 in the Lancet has less processing power than my laptop.
I agree it's super great. Every word has a little cloud of associations to go with it.
My attempt at a TLDR for the piece:

• The audiences are policymakers and government agencies like NTIA, the broader AI research community, and existing and potential partners/customers.

• It attempts to justify OpenAI's approach of releasing AI models via controlled APIs/products rather than open model weights, using fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

• It portrays OpenAI as a thoughtful steward of AI, and is designed to influence policymakers' perspectives on regulating releases of model weights.
As a MediaWiki dev, i would love to know what happened here. Was it a vulnerability in MediaWiki? Some custom extension? Some other component on the wiki server unrelated to mediawiki? Was it just a really old software version with known public CVEs, ir something else?

Edit: the "disable indexing" makes it sound like there was some sort of system to upload private stuff and the directory it went in had mod_index enabled. Which i guess would not have much to do with MediaWiki.
No, I remember getting a vaccine that way, and it was different from the smallpox vaccine which was a bunch of little needles that left a scar. I got it in elementary school -- I want to say 2nd grade. I don't think the spray thing left a scar.
I'm not sure how common that is, but I've definitely bought 2 games after the "removed DRM" event. (Basically allowing me to play on Linux in pre-steamdeck times) I'm aware that lots of people don't care.
I'm really disappointed this doesn't include technical details, especially the bit about "The game can not run without the token, as it is used to e.g. decrypt certain values at runtime and similar things."

Is the game installed encrypted? What encryption schema allows you to decrypt the same set of data using multiple different keys in this way?

If the game isn't installed encrypted it seems easiest just to not allow it to encrypt itself before running.
(snarky) TL;DR: if people have weights available, they can bypass the dumb censorship we do, which isn't good for us. Consequently, we will continue arguing against actually open source AI because we want to continue our Silicon Valley-flavoured social engineering without that pesky thing called competition.
the submission from 2021 had a "Let's Play" stream showing the thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125294 (it's also toward the bottom of the sites page but the YT player is black with an error)

I'm glad those mediafire links are still live because the multiple wayback snapshots are basically bogus due to the extensive use of JS to make the real URL :-(
Yes, this is all very interesting, I've found golang is significantly simpler to get up to speed on from a c-family based education (c/c++/java) so I'm curious if these teams were both proficient before starting the projects. (And 3rd party package comparisons come into play). Either way enough to keep an ear out as I'm sure with the wealth of python & js developers the language of choice will be promoted by their experiences/evolution (so suspect mojo will also be something to keep an eye on)

(Notably I've gone through this evaluation recently and landed on implementing my personal project in c++23 (using cosmopolitan if possible) mostly for the value of updating my c++ knowledge (and perhaps look into cuda))