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> imagine if instead of coming with full memory dumps and diagnostic codes, BSODs just said "sorry, your computer had an oopsie!"

So, MacOS? ;)

In all seriousness, I wasn't opining on the usefulness of opaque/hidden errors, but rather the effectiveness of them.

In an alternate reality where the first LLMs instead spit back an error reference instead of English, I don't think we would have seen nearly as rapid mass market adoption.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, early conversational LLMs and image diffusion models were literally trained so their junk output is as plausible as possible.
If I remember correctly, the term is ‘rugosity’. Hah, yup! [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosity]
In APX, Intel is adding "conditionally-faulting" CMOV instructions
Imagine this is implemented and goes live, all we need for a rollback s a couple of leaks of very influential people's chats.
You need some proof of work to prime the pump for proof of stake. Otherwise, you have no security because there's nothing at stake.

Now that we have plenty of proof of work completed, we don't really need any more. You can bootstrap your new coin by burning Bitcoins as a provable value sink to get it started on the path to POS.
An effort to fund an internet subsidy program just got thwarted again
What's the status of this proposal? Did it pass?
CuspAI raises $30M to create a GenAI-driven search engine for new materials
There’s no value. I didn’t ask them to do anything.
When we say open X, we expect something like the Via Negativa principle; instead of inviting members into a closed community, exclude those that violate the code of the open community.
Wow. Really close concept indeed. Thanks for sharing.
It's strange because Ableton Live wasn't mentioned—the two couldn't be more different. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet over Live. One is a DAW, one is a pretty lackluster groovebox-sampler that pales in comparison to the old MPCs. How is someone going to deliver music with just an MPC? Nobody ever just used an MPC even back in the day, it was always hooked up to Pro Tools.

"teams back up"? Akai went bust. Akai Pro is not Akai. Nobody from the original Akai works at Akai Pro. The MPC isn't even the MPC anymore, it's based off of Linux. They don't need to team up with Roger Linn to know what's wrong with the modern MPC, owners are quite vocal with what's lacking versus the originals and versus contemporary workflows. Roger Linn should carry on innovating on his own.

As for "destroying" Ableton, I can only laugh. This'll be why the modern MPCs have a mode for controlling Live and can export projects to Live, right? Like I said, they couldn't be more different. The modern MPCs don't even have the modulation matrix of the 4000, nor do they have the capabilities of JJOS. The looper is pitiful. No PDC either. No MPE. No comping takes. No spatial audio, not even surround sound. I could go on.

That's without even getting into not being able to score with it due to no SMTPE like the old MPCs, and lack of PDC makes it a joke for scoring even using the VSTi (same problem with Maschine).

Shit-talk Ableton Live all you like, but nothing comes close to Max For Live from any dev. Anybody serious uses what they need, including multiple DAWs to take advantage of what each does best, hence the death of ReWire sucks as that means no more bidirectional sample-accurate audio and MIDI between DAWs.

Ableton Link only does clock (hence not suitable for scores), but at least Ableton has Link, and Akai Pro integrates Ableton Link into MPC; seeing a pattern here with Akai Pro following rather than leading like the original Akai used to? Akai Pro has a brand and is coasting on the history of that brand. The modern MPC is quite irrelevant in modern production, IMO. Not to say you can't make good music with one, you absolutely can, but it's not even as good as what we had quarter of a century or more ago in many ways. Modern MPC is a toy by comparison and is priced like one; MPC 60 was $5000 in ye olde money. MPC 3000 was $3,699 in ye olde money. It shows.

If the modern-day MPCs were so good, the old MPCs wouldn't still be changing hands for considerable money and wouldn't be highly sought after. Go figure.
If plundervolt is a viable attack you’ve got much bigger problems (the attacker must already have gained full privileges). Not sure how this is relevant to just using throttled or similar to conditionally undervolt the CPU with fixed levels that can be proven reasonably stable.
Oh that makes sense!
I can’t share from experience, but I can commiserate. I was a high school educator for about a decade before being recruited to join a tech consultancy. The consultancy is growing, and I’ve worked my way to #4 in the org as a Head of Practice. This puts me in line for profit sharing, but it’s high pressure and transactional work. I like my team, but I’ve started doing occasional interviews for product roles (Associate Product Manager, Product Enablement, etc) when I see an interesting opening/company.

Tough time to jump lanes as the post-Covid layoffs have flooded the market with junior/mid-career product talent, but I would be happy to reduce my comp to get my foot in the door at a product focused company rather than keep chasing the consulting incentives.
Spain is adjacent to France, just like Germany; not sure it's farther away :P

But the way these networks work, you can often build up the interconnects where there's a pricing/availability disparity, and pretty soon you have a vast interconnect. Because if Germany's grid pricing benefits from relatively unconstrained interconnection with France, there's going to be a pricing disparity at Germany's other borders. Of course, grid borders don't necessarily reflect national borders, and national interconnection projects have to happen too.

That said, the top 5 countries by peak load in wikipedia are France, Germany, UK, Italy, and Spain, which are all either France or neighbors of France.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
Same here. Saves me so much time and very reliable. There are also a few settings one can tweak (limit to homepage or top X%, for example) to make it even better.
> (except perhaps hydro for reasonable definitions of "reliable").

And geothermal, as you mention below. But, like hydro, it only works in certain geographic areas
They do have the best hot dogs.
> weights being leaked

You can hardly call that "leak" when they basically were sending the weights to thousands of people who applied for access. It is not that they kept them secret.
Sure, but if Nvidia “ceased to exist,” the fabs could keep manufacturing the same chips. So at least in the near-term, the world wouldn’t change much. Whereas if TSMC “ceased to exist” then there would be an immediate worldwide chip shortage.
> Honestly, I can't even finish reading through this comment. This is the opposite of idealism - is there a word for it?

realism
In high school writing software brought me a lot of money, way more than my peers, it was very welcome
Dynamics of magnetization at infinite temperature in a Heisenberg spin chain
This is awesome! I just played for a while. This may be a dumb question but... how do you win? Please forgive my frazzled brain if I missed the instructions somewhere.
Sorry to hear that. I use Firefox on a fairly old Android device from 2017, and it's acceptable? Maybe the device you're using is very busy?

It'd be hard to trigger the sound before the collision (although possible, in theory)...
Gee, I didn't try anything obvious.
This probably isn’t what you meant, but if the magic is on the input side, then everything interesting about interacting with GPT is being provided by the human and not GPT.

We don’t have any strong evidence that GPT “understands” its input in general. We absolutely have examples of GPT failing to understand some inputs (and not knowing it, and insisting on bogus output). And we know for a fact that it was designed and built to produce statistically plausible output. GPT is a mechanical device designed by humans to pass the Turing test. We’ve designed and built something that is exceptionally good at making humans believe it is smarter than it is.
The tools I built were used to defend aircraft. So they were protective. But the aircraft have missions, which are often destructive, but not always. The company I worked for got bought by Lockheed Martin, which very definitely makes weapons of destruction. So that was a factor in my leaving.
Link seems broken? I assume you meant this: https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/18/designing-software/
Opensubdiv would definitely be the robust, industry standard solution. However, R packages that are distributed on the CRAN have additional restrictions on required system libraries, so for portability I went with a bespoke implementation.
Where I live Viaplay bought the licenses for showing football matches on all levels for the next years. Previously we could see the football WC and European championships, and national games on the national tv channel. With the new viaplay deal the games would only be possible to see on their platform or whatever it is.

Fortunately they fell into financial troubles before the deal became active.

They massively overpaid for showing all of the matches, to force everyone interested in football to get a subscription. But probably most people just watch it on tv, because "hey, why not, national team of x country (or our own team, for whom winning a match is a miracle) is playing, lets watch it". Not "I will happily pay tens of € each month to some company to watch stuff".
What is even the purpose of preventing photos being taken of the controls in a commercial power plant? I thought all of it was documented elsewhere already and pretty standardised across the same model of reactor.
KOSA gains enough supporters to pass the Senate
Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
See also: Apple
I thought that the only effective way to clean this is ground-based focused energy. And even that has absolutely absurd energy requirements.

Everything else is in the realm of science fiction.
https://archive.ph/HoERr
> I could rig something that could do it out of what I've got lying around the house

Can’t wait to see it!
Just strap a drone to it! Only somewhat facetious. :)
The threat is that if you sign malware with your name you will be quickly connected with said malware. If you don't live in a country that turns a blind eye to cyber crime that is a quick ticket to jail.

Of course people stealing other people's signing keys is an issue. But EV code signing certificates are pretty well protected (requiring either a hardware dongle or 2FA). It's not impossible for a highly sophisticated attacker, but it's a pretty high bar.
Nvidia pushes out Apple, Microsoft to become most valuable company
Wouldn't it be nicer if FreeCAD had an option to save its files as a directory and optionally use .zips for export/import functions? It'd probably be much faster as well, as it wouldn't need to decompress anything during operation.
Hadrius (YC W23) is hiring engineers looking to grow into future founders
A pile of facts is not an argument.

I understand this is how modern pro-wrestling news addresses issues, but assembling a mass of emotionally-inflammatory things doesn't buttress your point.

Specific countries have greater or lesser individual rights and adherence to law.

Why doesn't it make sense to take that into account when extending trust to specific pieces of software running on your device?
I ended up using vim for log files, it recognizes messages and log files and highlight them automatically and I can also edit them if needed.
I was unable to find any reference to reversing progress. Was the article edited or something?
The process by which rich soil is naturally created is quite interesting. See also, "pioneer species".
Fisker Files for Bankruptcy
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I can easily clear up the difference, “vegan” leather can or cannot harm animals you cannot be sure “if” or how much, real leather on the other hand cannot exist without a dead animal. As a vegan I usually find these type of comments more like a defensive “you’re not better than me” same as when they tell you that avocados and almond milk use a lot of water and iphones are made using child labor.
I'm in the same boat, I always mean to switch to FreeCAD, I always fail and stay with OnShape because that's what I know, and I only use OnShape over Fusion because the former runs on Linux.

I'd like to switch 5 FreeCAD just because then I can save the files to my computer, but the UI is too different from Fusion/OnShape.
Then why is the fanless model, the Air, the cheapest laptop Apple is selling?
Wargames tend to try to be fun, as opposed to being a realistic simulation of war. Imagine you are playing Napoleon at Ligny: How much fun is it that your reserves receive conflicting orders all day from a field marshal fighting in a different nearby battlefield, and that there are similar town names in the map, leading to your troops coming in late and in a useless location?

You shouldn't even be able to watch the action in detail, Total War style, as you might have a hill, some messengers and low power binoculars. Games have attempted to copy this, but it's a curiosity, not something that brings sales
Somewhat reductive. Waves behave differently than classical particles, and we can measure this on the level of individual particles even though we can't image the full pattern with a single measurement. For example: a single particle can end up in the middle of a shadow, but this shouldn't be possible classically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arago_spot
It’s probably why Dropbox failed.
Giving Advice Creates a Sense of Power
According to Steven Pinker (who has blocked me on Twitter), Chomsky is alive. https://x.com/sapinker/statu/sapinker/status/180316457011212...

I was too lazy to log out but could see this much from Google search. Pinker said, (28 minutes ago):
"Reports today of Noam Chomsky's death (in Jacobin and New Statesman, since taken down) were greatly exaggerated. I have confirmation from..."
I remember seeing the reaction to this on Twitter. For the most part, it was actual lesbian women who were furious about HER banning users who politely stated in their profiles that they're not interested in dating males.

The bait-and-switch of inviting males to what was previously advertised as a lesbian dating space was of course already unpopular, but kicking actual lesbians off the platform for asserting their sexual orientation was what definitively crossed the line into a larger backlash.

It wasn't really anything much to do with conservatives / right-wingers, even if some of them did pass comment when word spread of how lesbian women were being treated by this app.
It's a chip that you could buy over 2 years ago. It's a JH7110 SoC which you can buy for like $40 in one of several SBC:

https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards

https://pine64.com/product-category/star64/

https://milkv.io/mars

I happen to have 2 of them and they're dog slow, pre-vector extension RISC-V. You cannot do much useful with them, they're slower than a Raspberry Pi 3.
I actually retracted one of my papers. It was before it was published, but after I had submitted it. I had discovered a flaw in my methodology the night before that did have material impact on the results. I was so stressed out for 24 hours until I spoke to my advisor.

My advisor was very chill about it. He said that retractions aren't a big deal and was glad I spotted the issue sooner rather than later.

I corrected the experimental methodology and while the results weren't quite as good, they were still quite good and I got published with the correct results.
No one is denying that tech transfer can be speech driven, but that doesn't mean that this particular increase in tech transfer was because of speech.
I seem to recall a startup or two working on AV ‘micro-buses’. That is, AV buses that held 4-8 passengers and that would have broader route patterns than traditional buses. Anything ever happen to those? I can see how those could complement traditional mass transit very well.
HN had an error during saving and when I attempted again I picked the wrong message and can not change or delete it now. I will add an extra answer later.
When will the HDD go extinct?
Ephemeral Values in Terraform
You get both. You get a single impact in a location determined by the interference pattern.
'Digital Twins' [Simulators] Could Revolutionize Planes, Cars and Hearts
Many pieces of malware are encrypted and obfuscated to prevent analysis. Often, they'll detect virtual machines to make it harder for people to analyse the malware. Plenty of malware hides the juicy bits in a second or third stage download that won't trigger if the dropper is loaded inside of a VM (or with a debugger attached, etc.).

Similarly, there have also been malware that will deactivate itself when it detects signs of the computer being Russian; Russia doesn't really care about Russian hackers attacking foreign countries (but they'll crack down on malware spreading within Russia, when detected) so for Russian malware authors (and malware authors pretending to be Russian) it's a good idea not to spread to Russian computers. This has the funny side effect of simply adding a Russian keyboard layout being enough to prevent infection from some specific strains of malware.

This is less common among the "download trustedsteam.exe to update your whatsapp today" malware and random attack scripts and more likely to happen in targeted attacks at specific targets.

This tactic probably won't do anything against the kind of malware that's in pirated games and drive-by downloads (which is probably what most infections are) as I don't think the VM evasion tactics are necessary for those. It may help protect against the kind of malware human rights activists and journalists can face, though. I don't know if I'd trust this particular piece of software to do it, but it'll work in theory. I'm sure malware authors will update their code to detect this software if this approach ever takes off.
I wouldn’t dare in their place. Academia is tiny.
I went from 5 day to 4 day about a year ago. Absolutely worth it, even with the drop in pay. I don't have the artist lifestyle, but I'm able to support my family on my income even so.
That said, note that it's not a panacea for burnout. My current company is currently thrashing after layoffs and reorgs and general leadership incompetence, and I feel the siren call of quitting. Even in this market.
Quiet Compounding
Back in the 80's Intel tried to make a CPU designed for high level languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

It was a commercial failure.

The iAPX 432 programming model is a stack machine with no visible general-purpose registers. It supports object-oriented programming, garbage collection and multitasking as well as more conventional memory management directly in hardware and microcode. Direct support for various data structures is also intended to allow modern operating systems to be implemented using far less program code than for ordinary processors.
Wait, you don't need to be rich. With pay-to-publish (also known as free access), it is an absolute goldmine.

People generally don't want to do the work of editing and publishing, or lack the academic knowhow to do it. But if that is not an issue, I don't think money will be an issue either.
Unfortunately, what I really want is to find any story about my search term that has comments, but I've never found a way to do that. (Usecase: "Hm, should I install Foo or Bar? Let's see if anyone on HN has used either and written about it...")
I would easily say yes to the offer of ban phones in schools in return for a ban on all guns. Unfortunately no one is willing to extend that offer.

It would be a win-win.
frantically searches for MKBHD take on Rivian
At the time I joined, 35 years ago, they were very willing to teach new people. Schools don't teach electronic warfare so they were used to doing training and people taking a year or more to get up to speed. A background in physics helped a lot, as well as knowing electronics. There are a variety of kinds of jobs in the industry though, from marketing to R&D to computer simulations to management to handling secret documents, and more. Having a tolerance for strong language helps also, I worked at times with some Marines doing microwave systems. EW systems are some of the most closely held secrets so expect a very thorough background check.
I had a great relatively chill job at a FAANG-adjacent company, making 300ish in a LCOL city. I went and chased some money at a very large company. It ended up being the worst possible time. The company was soul-sucking, they froze hiring as soon as I got there when I supposed to be building out a new team, I sat around and did nothing for like six months before I was laid off.

I took a few months off and got connected to a co founder of a local seed stage startup through a friend. I convinced one of my best friends to join me there as well.

While we are making less money, the work has been really fulfilling. No more big company bullshit, I help determine direction with a handful of other leaders, and I feel like I make an impact. We have product market fit, we’re growing, and the hardest part is scaling to keep up with the growth.

It’s been fun, I’ve learned a ton. I probably haven’t worked this hard in a long time but I really do feel fulfilled in my work which I haven’t been able to say in a long time.

YMMV
In my opinion the first step in a more decentralized internet,
or at least a big part in being able to move in that direction would
be a system for a global easy system for (micro)payments.
That is preferably modelled like cash. (more anonymous).
and ubiquitous, they can also be used in the real world.

It would be nice for me, if someone reads an article I wrote and they
give me ¤0.01 ¤0.001 or something. (Given that a lot of countries,
people make vastly less money than others what constitutes a "micro"payment.

That would of course mean that transactions were either utterly inexpensive
or free.

We would have a ubiquitous, distributed, untraceable", distributed means of
conducting international transactions.

I think we have all the technical issues solved.

but

No Western government will ever allow it.
(Nor most other governments).
Since it would rob them of a lot of power,
and we would hear:
"Terrorism, child pornography, bypass economic sanctions,
election manipulation, disinformation" etc etc.
The usual stuff.

(Even though all of that is going on already....
I like this. I'd love to be able to move the red balls too.
This "non-production mode" has a bad side effect where benchmarks on laptops will be artificially fast and people will "forget" about the data loss disclaimer, just like the bad old days of MongoDB.
Seagate Demonstrates HDD with PCIe NVMe Interface