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> In a 2005 forum post, John Carmack explained his thoughts on patents. While patents are framed as protecting inventors, he wrote, that’s seldom how they’re used. Smart programmers working on hard problems tend to come up with the same solutions.

I find this happens in UI/UX design too. When you're trying to come with the best interface for a problem, there's only so many directions that make sense once you've explored the design space and understood all the constraints.

With desktop and mobile interfaces for example, all operating systems and devices have converged on a lot of similar patterns and visuals. I don't think this is because people are unoriginal, but given the constraints, there's only so many decent options to pick from so many designers will inevitably converge on the same solution.

> I’m a designer. As a designer, I feel the need to be original.

I'll often come up with a solution on my own after immersing myself in a problem for a while, then after looking at existing work more later, find it's already been done. I'll then sometimes even consider changing my solution so it doesn't look like I copied, but usually there's no obvious other direction you can go in that is close to as good.
not strictly sysadmin. working on fedramp certification of really big system.

we have crowdstrike in our usual production environment and i was always against it because i was always afraid of something like what happened. but security department pushed it through because this is something that they understand and can control. "security architecture of product" it's not concept that they understand.

but answering your question, fedramp does requires EDR to be present. according to our fedramp advisors clamav is sufficient for passing audit.
As someone who's lived through many, many, many cycles of offshoring and onshoring this is funny take.

We have at least 2 maybe even 3 full decades of businesses offshoring to cut costs, then the quality of the work they receive doesn't just plummet it burrows a hole through to the center of the Earth and keeps going. Then they onshore again, and everything eventually returns to normal.

Offshoring is a meme perpetuated by MBA's, and misery factories full of the "best and brightest" like ValueLabs - it doesn't work and we have decades of lived experience to prove it.
Maybe Windows Defender should also not have the ability to crash the kernel. Instead Microsoft can provider proper hooks to pluggable drivers that can be used by both themselves and third party AV.
I think it's telling that they are delaying the microcode patch until after all the reviewers publish their Zen5 reviews and the comparisons of those chips against current Raptorlake performance.
True. A change in focal length is exactly equivalent to moving the vanishing points further away/closer to the picture plane. See the vid at the bottom of this page:

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/perspective...
The number mounted matters cause it determines how missiles can be used. With multiple warheads, ICBMs could be used for first strike. First strike won’t work, but opponent still needs to worry about it. With one warhead, ICBMs are only useful for retaliation strike.

Also, the US is still following New START treaty after Russsia pulled out.
What's often lost in the discussions about whether entropy is subjective or objective is that, if you dig a little deeper, information theory gives you powerful tools for relating the objective and the subjective.

Consider cross entropy of two distributions H[p, q] = -Σ p_i log q_i. For example maybe p is the real frequency distribution over outcomes from rolling some dice, and q is your belief distribution. You can see the p_i as representing the objective probabilities (sampled by actually rolling the dice) and the q_i as your subjective probabilities. The cross entropy is measuring something like how surprised you are on average when you observe an outcome.

The interesting thing is that H[p, p] <= H[p, q], which means that if your belief distribution is wrong, your cross entropy will be higher than it would be if you had the right beliefs, q=p. This is guaranteed by the concavity of the logarithm. This gives you a way to compare beliefs: whichever q gets the lowest H[p,q] is closer to the truth.

You can even break cross entropy into two parts, corresponding to two kinds of uncertainty: H[p, q] = H[p] + D[q||p]. The first term is the entropy of p and it is the aleatoric uncertainty, the inherent randomness in the phenomenon you are trying to model. The second term is KL divergence and it tells you how much additional uncertainty you have as the result of having wrong beliefs, which you could call epistemic uncertainty.
More E-core is reasonable for multi threaded application performance. It's efficient for power and die area as the name indicates, so they can implement more E-cores than P-cores for the same power/area budget. It's not suitable for who need many single threaded performance cores like VM server, but I don't know is there any major consumer usage requires such performance.
That definition is on page 18, I agree it could've been reached a bit faster but a lot of the preceding material is motivation, puzzles, and examples.

This definition isn't the end goal, the physics things are.
> Thanks for your candid report. Not enough people tell it how it is, and everyone thinks they're special.

That's a good point, too, one I failed to mention. A lot of people are losing poker players, but they don't know it. They don't keep records, and they don't manage and analyze their bankroll over time. A losing poker player has a negative EV. If you buy in to 20 $1000 tournaments, bink one of them for $15K, you're on top of the world, but guess what, you're a losing poker player. Cash players are even worse. They donk off $500 a night but only remember that time last week when they were up $5000 and cashed out. Congratulations, but your EV is still negative.

By my own measure, I was a losing poker player for most of my years playing the game, and I have a spreadsheet to prove it.
Everyone making less than 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) qualifies for free healthcare. I dont think most people would say that the USA has universal healthcare.

The same is true here. If you make $0, you get $12K UBI. If you make $24K, you get $0 UBI. Is that universal?
Hi! We are interested in similar problems.

I worked on a new idea for EMR at UH Cancer Center called Pau (https://github.com/breck7/pau). It's now encompassed as a tiny part of a larger effort called Scroll (https://scroll.pub/). You might be interested in learning about ScrollSets (https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html)

Happy to chat if you want some feedback (email is breck7@gmail.com)

P.S. I love your focus on the concept of "instruments". Great word choice. Bullseye concept--well done!
If only olive oil would replace soybean oil as the ingredient of mass distribution choice.
Does this formulation work?

You have 6 wooden blocks, each can be 1 of 6 colors. There will always be either (A) 3 blocks of the same color, or (B) 3 blocks of different colors.

Iterating through all possibilities:

6 of 1 color - case A

5 of 1 color, 1 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 2 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 3 of another - case A

3 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case A and B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 2 of yet another - case B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case B

2 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another, 1 of another another another - case B

all colors different - case B
> so few performance cores and so many efficiency cores

I was baffled by this too but what they don't make clear is the performance cores have hyperthreading the efficiency cores do not.

So what they call 2P+4E actually becomes an 8 core system as far as something like /proc/cpuinfo is concerned. They're also the same architecture so code compiled for a particular architecture will run on either core set and can be moved from one to the other as the scheduler dictates.
> confident, farseeing, capable, and prudent

Sounds like a good description of some of the most villainous species of science fiction. Or members of our own species.
Discussion (64 points, 1 day ago, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590
It's AV though, if it didn't, it'd be useless.
Don't think open source projects should be shamed for using open source work.
Then they'll just spam you with offers for their paid plan...
The intent make sense (humans are better at durations than with absolute timestamps), but the lack of granularity is ridiculous. It should be "1d 20h ago" or based on the dates in question maybe more or less granual. (It's a hard UX problem, but that just means that the program ought to know what the user wants. What's important to them. Are the searching for something? What patterns to highlight? Ie. if there's a directory with a 1000 files but only 2 old ones maybe put some emphasis on them, etc.)
You also have to keep in mind the "interface" for 1962-1968. The printer teletype machine.

The "control codes" were to "control" the printhead. So "carriage return" meant move the "print carriage" back to the left margin. "New line" meant move the paper platen one line height of rotation to move the paper to the next line. In that context, "back space" was "move print head one space left" (rather more like a "reverse space"). The article does mention that there was some debate about whether space should be considered "printable", but if you consider a mechanical printer, as the head is moving to the right and banging out characters onto the paper, the spaces between words do, sort of, look like "printables" (of a sort, a "print nothing" character as it were).

Tab's being control characters then make a bit more sense, in that they cause the printhead to jump some fixed distance to the right.

The article stated why DEL is where it is (all ones) -- so that for punched paper tape, one could get a punch-out of every position, which was then interpreted as "nothing here" by the tape reading machine.

As for typewriters, no, none had a "black box" blot out key. Correction (for typewriters without built in correction tape) was one of: retype the page, apply an eraser (and hopefully not damage the paper surface too much) then retype character and continue, or apply correction fluid (white-out) and retype character and continue.

For those typewriters with built in correction tape options (at least some IBM Selectric models, possibly more) the typewriter would retype the character using the "white-out" ribbon, then retype the replacement character using the normal "typewriting" ribbon.
That's because the intended purpose is either useless (for machine control characters) or useless and logically impossible (for delimiters).

What do you do if you have a record that includes a record separator character? Given that you have this problem anyway, why do you want a character dedicated to achieving the same thing that a comma achieves?
Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (But Still Not Soon)
online is getting pretty dicey these days sadly
Show HN: Lisp in C#
Because he had a partially dismantled Lenovo sitting around.

I've done the same thing with some random HP laptop from 2006 whose screen died, used it for youtube on a TV until it finished crapping out. I had windows xp on it though.
Edge Case Is Showing: Stand by United
Thats fine but if you are paying to have the restrooms maintained then the expectation should be different. Don't excuse a private company charging money to patrons and then providing poor service. If I want bad restrooms, I can have the government maintain it like in many places in the US.
>the optimal time to launch an interstellar probe, and the punchline was that embarking too soon means you will be overtaken by a later vehicle which launched later but with better tech.

That's the wait calculation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstellar_tr...
Not only does it assume a GUI for user input/output, on an API level there's the assumption of an HWND (window) and its message loop. Some Windows APIs aren't even available if you don't have that. Console-only applications are considered second-class citizens on Windows.
The problem is, that's been tried and SCOTUS ruled it unconstitutional in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Term_Limits,_Inc._v._Thor... ), so a constitutional amendment would be needed. Good luck with that.
Judge rules Meta's non-disparagement clauses violate US law
Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft's Coming Handover (2008)
https://archive.is/mMYuM
To be fair to you, that sentence was very awkwardly phrased. Considering that’s a 13 year gap, they should really be 2 separate sentences.
Mac’s are a tiny segment of the business market, and hence get almost none of the attention from attacks.
There are two curves. The hope is one overtakes the other. If the economic conditions are favorable this is more likely to happen. If they are not then China's back to burning coal and passing the cost off to future generations as this is a proven working economic strategy for them.
>difficult to plausibly claim that all the ancient rusty USSR stuff across the strategic rocket barrier is in any sort of usable shape.

There is no more ancient rusty USSR stuff -- at least in the Kremlin's strategic nuclear arsenal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041532
Actually some of the 13th and 14th gen Intel Core processors support ECC.
We must hang out in different places. Are you seeing all that racism directly or had it been curated and presented to you by leftists to show off how racist rightists are? That's a big problem with social media - highlighting the extremes of the other side which most members of the other side don't even know about.
One problem with file based backups is that they are not atomic across the filesystem. If you ever back up a database (or really any application that expects atomicity while it’s running), then you might corrupt the database and lose data. This might not seem like a big problem, but can affect e.g. SQLite, which is quite popular as a file format.

Then again, the likelihood that the backup will be inconsistent is fairly low for a desktop, so it’s probably fine.

I think the optimal solution is:

1) file system level atomic snapshot (ZFS, BTRFS etc)

2) Backup the snapshot at a file level (restic, borg etc)

This way you get atomicity as well as a file-based backup which is redundant against filesystem-level corruption.
Yeah I was amazed when I first bought a wireless sensor bar, and there was nothing to plug into the console!

Turns out all the smarts are in the controllers, the bar is just there to show a couple of fixed points for positioning.
You are making great points. This is power of Netflix marketing and branding that they are considered as cutting edge tech company. In reality most of Netflix Java projects are pretty mediocre Enterprise Java stuff. Last year or so they have mandated Spring Boot as their development platform for all their web services.

This is exactly same stack I have to deal daily and management reason is it is lowest common denominator that works well with 3-month contract developer to deliver Nth micro service whose sole job is to call another service.
"Elevated operating voltage" my foot.

We've already seen examples of this happening on non-OC'd server-style motherboards that perfectly adhere to the intel spec. This isn't like ASUS going 'hur dur 20% more voltage' and frying chips. If that's all it was it would be obvious.

Lowering voltage may help mitigate the problem, but it sure as shit isn't the cause.
I spend time just staring at the graph on this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta
this looks like someone took their systems design interview too seriously
> According to my dad, flying in airplanes used to be fun... Everybody was attractive ....

this is how I feel about electric car supercharging stations at the moment. There is a definitely a privilege aspect, which some attractive people are beneficiaries of in a predictable way, as well as other expensive maintenance for their health and attraction.

so I could see myself saying the same thing to my children
There is no system in existence that would provide a 90% interception rate. Existing anti ballistic missile systems are designed to intercept smaller attacks with low single digit warheads, no MIRVs and no decoys not a full scale attack.
You need W680 boards (starting at around 500 bucks) for ECC on desktop intel chips.
That how I buy my sci fi books, so at least one. To be fair I usually buy all the nominees
No, it's not Tesla's official Youtube channel.

Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tesla
Which aspect of the future are you trying (or want) to build? Will drawing better pictures with graphics programming get you there?

Not mocking, it's a tough ambition at times.
Google rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies in Chrome
While I don't clap for Disney at all, it's important to note that the fairy tales are still there where Disney found them.

The problem with Disney is their extremely aggressive and repeated push to safeguards their own golden goose. (And IMHO they have a serious quality problem. "Somehow Palpatine returned.")

In general the quasi-forever current copyright regime is simply too blunt, and arguably waay over the optimum point in terms of length of granted protection with regards to "incentivizing the creation of arts", and of course it's incentivizing the collection of money-making properties and flooding the market to extinguish most of anything else. (Naturally attention is a limited resource, so "arts is a zero sum game".)
It appears that they're gathering orders for to do a group-buy of a custom-machined aluminum shell for the keychain widget, and that this newly-minted custom-machined hunk of aluminum includes the a replication of the Nintendo logo.

That's commerce.

Now, obviously: Their target market knows exactly what they're buying, and they aren't going to be confused by any of this at all.

But trademark law (and the surrounding case law) may not see it that way.

It's easier (and a lot less fear-inducing) to cease-and-desist before Nintendo's IP lawyers send a nastygram than it is to do so afterward. (And in order to keep their trademark intact, they pretty much have to send that nastygram. Trademarks are very much a defend-it-or-lose-it thing.)

---

"Sorry guys, the first order had to be scrapped along with all of the money we collected and spent on it. If anyone is still interested, the price is still $55 for a shell without the logo if we can get another 30 orders in again."
Even without fptp the system is rotten as its dependent on campaigning. My local mayor race was also "bad" in a sense. It started with like a dozen candidates which meant the vote was split between many people who had about the same sort of platform with little to distinguish them beyond a few instances of social media based muckraking perhaps, then there was the frontrunner supported by the democratic establishment and its donors and the closest competitor which was a self financed billionaire. These two went to a run off election in the fall and the democratic party endorsed candidate won, and practically it couldn't have happened any other way than that outcome.

Remove campaign financing by donors and ban advertising. Have the local election commission mail out policy positions of the various candidates funded by a small fee paid by these candidates (less than five thousand or so such that it isn't gate kept through wealth; most anyone can get that amount money on credit if they don't have it today). Then maybe we can consider the election process actually a little bit unbiased and not predetermined by monied interests.

Of course, people who benefit from donor financed campaigning and playing on emotion vs rational action would probably sooner compare this to the election system in Cuba, and it would never see the light of day.
Moxion Power furloughs staff, says shutdown is likely
The data had already been declassified up to 2020, so they only needed to estimate changes over the past 3-4 years:

> Between 2010 and 2018, the US government publicly disclosed the size of the nuclear weapons stockpile; however, in 2019 and 2020, the Trump administration rejected requests from the Federation of American Scientists to declassify the latest stockpile numbers (Aftergood 2019; Kristensen 2019a, 2020b). In 2021, the Biden administration restored the United States’ previous transparency levels by declassifying both numbers for the entire history of the US nuclear arsenal until September 2020—including the missing years of the Trump administration.

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2024.2...
A lot of folks are choosing to buy Hisense dumb TVs and pair them with either an Nvidia Shield or Apple TV 4K
Ah Yik Yak was fun, until it got kind of... dark.
While I admit it can be controversial to some, certainly in many countries an argument is made for "the moral rights of the author."
> it looks and feels like any other desktop app

It doesn't, though: from the very start, you don't need to enter credentials on a desktop app, let alone create a 8-character password. And it doesn't look anything like my other desktop apps either, in regards to GUI elements.

Lastly, if things go wrong, like when you follow the README and don't run the needed "manage.py migrate", … error reporting is by exceptions thrown in one of the 2 processes running in the background. The browser interface is just stuck.
Well with a place like Starbucks, they might be addicted to the sugar.
Interesting how complete this is. It's almost as comprehensive as prefect.io

This is a critical software infrastructure I have been promoting for years yet almost everyone thinks they don't need it.
That "tiny percentage of the time" is roughly once every 15 minutes when done well, and transports (in my city) roughly 150 people during rush hour.

Every bus lane you build is ~800 cars you don't have to deal with in traffic, assuming an approximately two hour rush hour
Other articles without paywall:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/meta_layoff_severance...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/meta-layoffs-judge-...
Amazing times that there are two CPU architectures from five vendors that mostly work.
Not that matters, but according to Wikipedia he was killed by a passing car when inspecting an previous incident, presumably on road.

Saying it was "road design's fault" or even implying he was a "pedestrian" in this context is kinda weird without any further explanation.
I agree with you, of course. On macOS, Arq uses APFS snapshots, and on Windows, it uses VSS. It'd be nice to use something similar on Linux with restic.

In my linked post above, I wrote about this:

"You might think btrfs and zfs snapshots would let you create a snapshot of your filesystem and then backup that rather than your current live filesystem state. That’s a good idea, but it’s still an open issue on restic for something like this to be built-in (link). There’s a proposal about how you could script it with ZFS in this nice article (link) on the snapshotting problem for backups."

The post contains the links with further information.

My imperfect personal workaround is to run the restic backup script from a virtual console (TTY) occasionally with my display server / login manager service stopped.
the "overlords" already have enough money to pay a team of real live human beings to tend to their every need until they die, AGI robots aren't going to change that for them.