skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Strongest Case for Biden Is His Resilience in the Face of the Onslaught
I find this hard to believe but I will take your word for it, atleast now I know it can happen.
Just calling it "overclocking" is probably not the right way to describe it (all modern CPUs do sorta a form of what might be referred to as overclocking from the factory and it was about the parameters feeding the voltage behaviors driving that) and it's not really related to unsupported clock speeds, just holding said clock speeds in the wrong ways. Intel made an effort to avoid calling it just overclocking in the release on the matter as that typically means directly setting the clock higher not all of the other things too. For one more clarification, overclocking is never something that's supported by any of the CPU vendors, it's just something that the CPU has the capability to do instead of being locked. Some of these things (such as disabling c-states) should definitely be something Intel supports though as that's disabling a powersave feature for inactivity not changing how far the CPU gets pushed above nominal limits during turbo.

While it is something that definitely cleans up a lot of issues Intel also noted they don't consider it to be the root cause of the overall stability issue as a whole, just something problematic they've noticed was causing a lot of issues while trying to dig into it.

Original statement by Intel on this topic back in April:

"Intel® has observed that this issue may be related to out of specification operating conditions resulting in sustained high voltage and frequency during periods of elevated heat.

Analysis of affected processors shows some parts experience shifts in minimum operating voltages which may be related to operation outside of Intel® specified operating conditions.

While the root cause has not yet been identified, Intel® has observed the majority of reports of this issue are from users with unlocked/overclock capable motherboards.

Intel® has observed 600/700 Series chipset boards often set BIOS defaults to disable thermal and power delivery safeguards designed to limit processor exposure to sustained periods of high voltage and frequency, for example:

– Disabling Current Excursion Protection (CEP)
– Enabling the IccMax Unlimited bit
– Disabling Thermal Velocity Boost (TVB) and/or Enhanced Thermal Velocity Boost (eTVB)
– Additional settings which may increase the risk of system instability:
– Disabling C-states
– Using Windows Ultimate Performance mode
– Increasing PL1 and PL2 beyond Intel® recommended limits

Intel® requests system and motherboard manufacturers to provide end users with a default BIOS profile that matches Intel® recommended settings.

Intel® strongly recommends customer's default BIOS settings should ensure operation within Intel's recommended settings.

In addition, Intel® strongly recommends motherboard manufacturers to implement warnings for end users alerting them to any unlocked or overclocking feature usage.

Intel® is continuing to actively investigate this issue to determine the root cause and will provide additional updates as relevant information becomes available.

Intel® will be publishing a public statement regarding issue status and Intel® recommended BIOS setting recommendations targeted for May 2024."
Autonomous Mining Trucks, Blasting, and Koalas? [video]
Agreed.

This is the implicit assertion that developer time is more expensive than hardware costs.

Seems true in the short term, until the whole system crumbles.
Finally, some sense. My first though when reading the article was why are we even allowing these companies to collect that data in the first place.
>I don't see anyone choosing anything else for their pet project large or small either.

I also don't see anyone else choosing to breathing anything else than oxygen either. It's not like they have so many other options when the job market requires git and most coding tutorials also feature git and schools also use git, so the entire industry decided to use git despite other options existing.

Again, that doesn't mean git is bad or that is loved by everyone or that it's the best. Betamax also lost to VHS despite being technically superior. A lot of victories are won by the lesser product given enough inertia and being at the right time and the right place. Kind of how Windows and SAP got entrenched in the 90s. People and orgs were buying into it because everyone else was also using it so your only choice was to use it too no matter your own opinions on it. What were you gonna do? Piss against the wind and torpedo your hiring prospects by pigeonholing is some other "better" tool that nobody else uses?

I don't remember what VCS I used at my first job in the embedded industry but that one was hands down way better, easier and fool proof compared to git, with a nice GUI long before GIT GUI tools were even remotely good, it just didn't survive there long term because it costed a fuck tonne of money in licensing fees for the org. You can see where this is going, right? When it comes to bean counters, free beats paid every day regardless of most other arguments.
Genuinely chonky fines seems to be the answer to this problem, as it aligns incentives with rewards/penalties (if you’re lax about how your company approaches user data then you’ll be at financial risk).

Piercing the veil to prosecute those “responsible” seems like it would just incentivise the business to carry on as normal but with employees that are contractually designated (i.e. forced) to be fall guys if anything goes wrong.
I do kind of the same but I’d be concerned to have it readable and n not private. But maybe I shouldn’t be. What’s your thoughts on having it open? I think it would be the first in the company if it’d do that.
Depend what you mean by official. There are likely more compilers implementing GCC vector extensions than there are rust compilers.
I'll also add that I was never able to get the instability to show up when running the classic stress testing tools: MemBench, Prime95, and Intel's own stability tests could all run for hours and pass.

There's something unique about the workload of ninja launching a bunch of clang processes that draws this out.

On my machine, a clean build of the llvm-project would consistently fail to complete, so that may be a reasonable workload to A/B test with if you're looking into this.

The user quoted above was running gentoo builds on specific p-cores to test various solutions, ultimately finding that the p-core limit was the only fix that yielded stability.
Just have n64s and phish cover bands in your nursing home and you will capture more of the aging gen x population than you will know what to do with.
Dunno, I never eat KFC food.

I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month, pressure fried in a crust of MSG saturated dough, which is supposedly halal and Colonel Sanders actually hates. In fact I just went to the Italian store and bought almost half a kilo of porchetta because of what I read here. It'll keep us well fed for at least two days and has all the collagen my wife otherwise gets from awfully tasting expensive supplements.

Praise the lard!
Small cities in US Rust belt are leading an urban transformation charge
> the yet to be confirmed to be possible even in theory

It's trivially obviously possible in theory: take the world expert humans in each of the majority of domains, put them in a room together, and simulate their combined brain activity. It's all ultimately physics, so it's possible.

The hard part isn't the theory, but actually doing that — and not just because we don't know how to scan living brains to measure synaptic weights. There's a lot we don't know about how minds work in general nor how our brains work in particular.

But purely in theory, that method ultimately boils down to known physics.

(And as for why even that may lead to bad outcomes depending on who asks this simulated amalgam for advice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure)

> as if they would be guilt-free.

You can assign guilt and blame as you see fit. In these kinds of scenario, the human who makes the fatal error, who many might call responsible, would likely be going "but it works on my machine!" as they die from some error that may or may not be obvious even in hindsight.

I'd prefer that people treat software in general, of which AI is a subset, with more regard for the ways it can kill people — even back 20 years ago when I did my degree, we had case studies from Therac-25 and the London Ambulance Service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASCAD

Even back then our profession knew we needed to be held to higher standards, but didn't want to do what that entailed.
A lichess is a female lich I'm assuming? (It's like baron / baroness)
I was thinking the way Google didn't (initially) stay in China after being required to censor results. It seemed as if Google at least held out for a while before adapting to 'be less evil'.

Searching the Google story now, I see that this view may be inaccurate[0]. Perhaps Apple has learned from Google's lesson and didn't postpone their decision.

I wonder what would have happened if Apple entirely pulled out of the EU market over the requirement. Would there have been a civil uproar, or would citizens use iPhones bought elsewhere, or a different next phone? Some other companies when faced with a principle eroding requirement chose to shut down the company rather than comply (usually related to encryption/privacy).

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-googl...
A real notebook and pen are the perfect tools for this. Its the only one I know that works, long term.

append only log works, but skimming through 2 months of logs for a specific thing is poor and slow but very useful. I don't do that often but when i do need it sometimes and especially fast, like on a call, with no lead time. Its a superpower.

I now organize my notebook a with a few conventions that make it more useful.

I limit myself to using only the right side of a page for logs from whole week. Each new week gets a new page, always on the right side. Put the date as the page header. Makes skimming easier. Put any important tasks / targets for the week right after.

Further Split right page into 3 columns. First 2 for work logs, third column for recurring weekly/biweekly meeting stuff. Very easy to go back to what was discussed 2 months ago. All logs are usually 1-3 words. Just cues. but everything has a topic subheader.

Left page is free form for detailed stuff. Things i discover, design, 1:1 meeting notes, questions i need answers to, philosophy, anything new on HN, etc. Right page serves as context.

I also do an index on the first page of the book pointing to anything that i find repeatedly useful. Could do page numbers but i put the date as its naturally ordered by the dates on the right page.

Been doing this a while and works perfect. I have everything I need in one notebook, i can carry it with me. a $1 composition book with 50 pages lasts well over six months.
That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations (& a tax farm for those making bank on US foreign policy) so they can subsidize the rest of the world. Food, medicine, you name it — bottom-of-the-barrel service & quality for the average person & below in the US at top-dollar prices, & the people in the middle & below classes think they're doing well because it's all they know.
Cmax Foldable Mobile Housing
damn thats really freaking cool
WebVM: A Linux virtual machine that runs in the browser
This site has been hijacked and the link pops up aggressive “your phone has been hacked”, “download our VPN” pop-ups. Proceed with caution.
As developer that invested into WinRT, Microsoft did most of the work killing it.

Starting by the whole WP 7 to WP 8 reboot.

Multiple rewrites of WinRT, requiring us to yet again rewrite the application, between 8, 8.1 and 10, across the various deployment targets, phone, tablet and desktop.

Replacing C++/CX with the junk tooling of C++/WinRT, back to the ATL glory days.

Ah, the broken promise that all WP 8 devices would be compatible with WP 8.1.

And this doesn't cover the remaining mess on the desktop, that carries on with WinUI 3.0.

Eventually we stop caring, and moved into more trusty platform holders.
I started this a few months ago and find that my TODO grows faster than it depletes. My TODO items are both professional items (i.e. implement feature x) and personal (i.e. fix bike chain). The list is items that will take some non-trivial effort.

I now find that when I have a moment to do something, I pick it off of the TODO list and complete it. Prior to this technique, I did not have a list of this nature and some items never got completed.

I feel incredibly productive with my current setup. However, I don't feel as though my previous system was unproductive and am concerned that I'm "spinning my wheels" by feeling like I need to complete these tasks that went unfinished before.

Have you experienced this? Do you know how to best think about what is optimal?
I recently switched my (small) company over to using just files within our codebases and it's been going over very well thus far.

We're building a set of apps that need to run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows so having a consistent solution for each is better than shell scripting and I personally have never felt great about make and it's weirdness.

It also helps that we have a pretty big monorepo so that anyone can bounce from one app to another and `just run` to use any of them, no matter the platform.

Either way the justification for me came from COSMIC[0].

[0] https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/blob/master/justfile
> Do you all pay for obsidian?

I did pay to support their development[1] early on. I've been an obsidian user since early 2020 and I had to roll my own sync solution at the time. At the time I was experimenting with a lot of other PKIM/Note apps and Obsidian was the only one that didn't do proprietary storage format and really honored the "minimal but trivial to extend in powerful ways" philosophy that I value.

> Subscriptions rub me the wrong way for whatever reason

I can understand that. Software development is hard and we are _long_ past the days where software was static. In some ways, I miss buying a computer that didn't expect an internet connection to constantly self-update. On the other hand, though, paying a few bucks a month so make sure the app is updated to take advantage of new OS features and generally keep up with device capabilities is worth it for me.

If there was some 2-5$/month option to support obsidian development I'd consider it. Yes, I know their cheapest sync plan is $4/month but it's only good for 1 gig of data and my biggest vault grows by that much every year or two... hence using SyncThing on a cheap VPS :).

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Catalyst+licen...
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Privacy/protection of personal data is slowly being recognized as a Right across the world, as it should.

The standard legal philosophy across the world is that you can't actually predicate protection of a right on ability to pay (under reasonable limits). So, for example, nobody gets to build unsafe bridges and charge less for it, because it violates the right to life.
Bill Gates was chairman and CEO of Microsoft for the longest. Have things changed since then?
Theoretically you could have a large mold with multiple different parts, kind of like plastic model kits.
I think the easy internet is the exact issue. We try and solve friction by abstraction that serves to misunderstand what is fundamentally happening with the computer, adding more confusion that could be avoided. All because we haven’t solves the onboarding problem, merely beat around the bush of it.
Permission boundaries
I've always felt stderr should have been stdmeta.

p.s.

Well, actually more completely, something like this:

+---------+
[meta-in] --> | | --> meta-out
| p r o c |
input ==> | | ==> output
+---------+
Requirements as listed by the article:

1. Browser extension has a wildcard pattern for content script.

2. Content script passes postMessage messages to the background script using sendMessage.

3. Background script passes the message to native application using sendNativeMessage.

4. Native application handles the message dangerously, leading to code execution.

Requirement 2 seems to be the most important. postMessage messages should never be passed to sendMessage raw without validation. Fortunately, this should be a rare occurrence in the wild. It only provides very specific benefits to use postMessage in an extension to begin with, and developers who do need to use it are more likely to be aware of the potential vulnerability.
StackBlitz != WebContainers.

StackBlitz is another code playground.

WebContainers is a library that they've extracted from their codebase and are selling that allows other people to build full-stack code playgrounds on their sites.
There’s a time and a place for checking its work.

Depending on the search, I either don’t care, or I use something like perplexity, which includes its references.
I think the inefficency of zero-trust can be applied to many other things in life.

Like

> The only defense is everyone looking out for themselves on top of everyone else. It's fcking hard. It's a slog. It makes the act of maintaining relationships that much less sexy.
The US also has laws that, in isolation, would suggest some sort of protection against universal corporate/government surveillance, but they’re no more effective here than in the EU.
> Injection molds start at 6 figures

This was the same 30 years ago. Why is this stagnant?
https://archive.is/zf9vO
It holds my 7 layer burrito
Yes, mostly blaming them for cookie banners (which aren't because of the GDPR) but also because it makes them need to think about compliance.
I used to work at a Canadian KFC and it's just like you guessed, occasionally we'd have a special sandwich for sale for a limited time that had strips of bacon on it. Normally we wouldn't have any pork products on the menu, and when we did have bacon I'm pretty sure it was microwaved.
The US doesn't have an even population pyramid, there's a bulge of late baby boomers and late millennials, but none for Gen Z.
Unfortunately many physicists believe chemistry is just applied physics. In reality most physicists have no clue of chemistry beyond the H2 molecule.

Based on that, your “less prosaic” could be a good candidate for an explanation.
Gallium likes to form alloys with other metals, does this anomaly happen with the gallium-containing alloys as well?
I love how in the article they just let him go back and walk around the kitchen and bitch even though he had nothing to do with the company at that point. Who's going to say no when you walk into a KFC and you're Colonel fucking Sanders
Threat of AI earthquake creates growing political rift in Silicon Valley
Also cookie banners are from the e-privacy directive, not the GDPR.
https://archive.is/w8oFr
We abstracted ourselves into this. Imagine how the spotify app would have been as an early 2000s website. Loads an informationally dense page in a fraction of bandwidth. User and password box probably immediately visible. Forgot username and forgot password button immediately visible. Customer support email and phone number probably there on the bottom of the page.

Somewhere in the years since we decided basic utility were unsightly.
You could benchmark how fast you can count the number of words (and characters and lines) in all of project gutenberg with wc-gpu.

https://github.com/fragmede/wc-gpu
It’s not, xeometry can do it for much less! Or hubs.com (now part of protolabs)
That really is the solution: stop misusing phone numbers as secure channels.
That was pretty bad, but I'm glad you at least got out. It's PIA to work with such a person. Is that an F500 US company?
HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed in Japan
Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not pi (2022) [video]
I am no R expert, but pipes don't seem the most intuitive for ggplot. This is because they would imply that, e.g., ggtitle() %>% geom_point() means that ggtitle() outputs an input for geom_point().
TIL John Carmack accidentally used an incorrect value of pi in Doom's source code, off by a small amount at the 10th decimal place.
Japan's new defense white paper delivers strongest words yet on Taiwan
Expanded bandwidth yields a transmission rate of 402 terabits per second
Hi HN! Cofounder of StackBlitz/WebContainers here, cool to wake up and see this on the front page unexpectedly :) Happy to answer any questions!

Btw one emergent use case we've seen growing rapidly has been code execution for AI agents. Would love thoughts/questions/feedback if you’re working on things in that space: https://webcontainers.io/ai
I’d not for nothing it’s good for the economy! /s
In my circles in Berlin, everyone is working 5 days a week. Some work 4. 6 days is unheard of.
Going by the jobs of my closest friends:

One works on increasing clicks, or rather driving traffic to an admittedly important website.

One is a librarian, and does Kids Storytime.

One keeps streaming infrastructure for a major broadcaster alive.

One works at a famous zoo.

One is a nurse.

Out of all of them, only the first could really be meaningless.
Imagine a world where suffering a data breach meant you could no longer collect, let alone hold or sell that class of data for a decade, and this rule preempted laws that required data gathering.

AT&T would be nearly equivalent to an E2E service overnight.

The lines wouldn’t be encrypted, so the NSA would still tap them, but at least there would be zero mutable storage in the AT&T data centers (except boot drives, SMS message queues, and a mapping between authorized sims and phone numbers).

In this day and age, why do they even maintain call records? They don’t need them for billing purposes, which was the original purpose of keeping them.
Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
I blogged political stuff in the Tea Party days. Had a blast. After a couple years, I realized it was pissing in the wind, and just do snark on Xitter now.
This project just got started with a grant from Dumbarton Oaks in May and there aren't any papers, peer reviewed or otherwise, so take the dating with a grain of salt. It appears they're estimating the age based on the motifs carved in the temple walls until the carbon dating on some pigments comes back.

This is the professor in charge of the project: https://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/luis-muro-ynonan
If it can hack personal computers, it can start blackmailing people to fulfill its goals. If it can accumulate money in any way, it can hire people.
Without the evidence of firsthand observation to stand upon, what have you got?
I agree with you but I am unfamiliar with all of these details. Can you draft a constructive letter that we can send to our representatives?
Really neat article, this is my first encounter with the concept of NaN Boxing. Thanks for sharing!
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Gen z is more tech illiterate than you would think. I work with a few student interns in this cohort sometimes. “Copy and paste that into notepad and save it as a text file then email it to me” “uhhhh”

These kids grew up on the iphone or gsuite. They have little concept of a filesystem much less how the OS works. Its a black box. Teaching command line or writing scripts takes a lot of effort just to break out from their own wrong internal worldview of how a computer works. It’s kind of disappointing seeing what tech companies have done to dumbify this generation in terms of tech literacy.