skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more options than "you are using Crowdstrike" and "you have no protection".
According to the Western Union website, the company "is resuming its money transfer service between the U.S. and Cuba. Following the tightening of laws by the U.S. government in 2020, services had to be suspended leaving those wishing to send money to Cuba from USA with limited and expensive options. Now that some restrictions have been lifted, Western Union is gradually bringing back limited money transfer services from the U.S. to Cuba."

https://www.westernunion.com/blog/en/us/were-back-send-money...
AMD says its new laptop chips can beat Apple
Now I'm imagining an 80s-era scifi story that comes up with a reason to blow Mercury's crust off, revealing a planet-sized disco ball...

Come see it all! The system with the Ringed Planet, the Red-Spotted Giant, and most of all, the Mirror Planet!
Probably would've been use to mine bitcoin before it was patched
Use a static site. Compress your pages. Easy way to make it fast.

A static site generator is probably best, but the best one for you comes down to preference.
I'm more or less a layperson when it comes to LLMs and this nascent concept of AI, but there's one argument that I keep seeing that I feel like I understand, even without a thorough fluency with the underlying technology. I know that neural nets, and the mechanisms LLMs employ to train and form relational connections, can plausibly be compared to how synapses form signal paths between neurons. I can see how that makes intuitive sense.

I'm struggling to articulate my cognitive dissonance here, but is there any empirical evidence that LLMs, or their underlying machine learning technology, share anything at all with biological consciousness beyond a convenient metaphor for describing "neural networks" using terms borrowed from neuroscience? I don't know that it necessarily follows that just because something was inspired by, or is somehow mimicking, the structure of the brain and its basic elements, that it should necessarily relate to its modeled reality in any literal way, let alone provide a sufficient basis for instantiating a phenomena we frankly know very little about. Not for nothing, but our models naturally cannot replicate any biological functions we do not fully understand. We haven't managed to reproduce biological tissues that are exponentially less complex than the brain, are we really claiming that we're just jumping straight past lab-grown t-bones to intelligent minds?

I'm sure most of the people reading this will have seen Matt Parker's videos where they "teach" matchbooks to win a game against humans. Is anyone suggesting those matchbooks, given infinite time and repetition, would eventually spark emergent consciousness?

> The argument would be that that conceptual model is encoded in the intermediate-layer parameters of the model, in a different but analogous way to how it's encoded in the graph and chemical structure of your neurons.

Sorry if I have misinterpreted anyone. I honestly thought all the "neuron" and "synapse" references were handy metaphors to explain otherwise complex computations that resemble this conceptual idea of how our brains work. But it reads a lot like some of the folks in this thread believe it's much more than metaphors, but rather a literal analog.
> I think what I love most about websites is if they have extremely fancy animations which artificially delay actions and confuse the user. Really awesome to see people spending time, not on how information can be clearly and plainly communicated, but how to obfuscate that information and bury it under eye candy.

You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment? you couldn't not be an ass and state plainly that there's an excessive amount of eyecandy for your tastes, and that you feel it gets in the way of communication? The sardonic tone of "I think what I love the most..." doesn't set off your internal "wait, hold on, I'm being an ass and might consider rewording my comment" alarm?

Saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it" would be a less ass way to say the same thing, even! It's still ass, but less than what you wrote, imo.

But even then, the project isn't harming anyone else, so who are you to decide what they spend their time on? What have you done to cure cancer today and why haven't you done more? People get to choose what they do and as long as they aren't hurting someone else, it's up to them how they want to use their time.
Agreed on all points, but if we're going to start expecting people to do that kind of diligence, re: fail-safes and such (and we should), then we're going to have to stop stretching people as thin as we tend to, and we're going to have to give them more autonomy than we tend to.

Like the kind of autonomy that let's them uninstall Crowdstrike. Because how can you be responsible for a system which at any time could start running different code.
As a Miami native, I can tell you for a fact Cuban remittances do indeed happen. The sanctions loosened after the Obama admin d'tente even after the Trump admin restored most of the controls. My alma matter https://cri.fiu.edu/cuban-america/remittance/ has a continued focus of research to see how much flows go back to island nation.

Anyway tl;dr is that Cubans use: https://havanaship.net/nueva-agencia-de-remesas-a-cuba-orbit, which is a gov't controlled remittance operator. As of commenting isn't on the OFAC controlled entity list. It used to be sanctioned after the previous remittance operator was associated with the Cuban Army but is now in compliance.
I have a relatively uncommon name. Way back in the beginning Google thought I was an 18th century English criminal. Then for a while in the 2010s I gave a shit about SEO and got my own website ranked first for my name. Then I quit caring and last time I checked, Google thinks I'm an 18th century criminal again.
SoftIce predates me, but when I was doing filesystem filter driver work, the tool of choice was WinDbg. Been out of the trade for a bit, but it looks to still be in use. We had it set up between a couple of VMs on VMware.
Some of us stay far, far away from Facebook.
Even for the large amount of research that isn't publicly funded and is done by private research organizations and universities, there's no reason it shouldn't be available to the general public, for free. I wish someone would actually do it while meeting the use cases of the other stakeholders.
Of course there’s a risk of negative consequences. In fact, the US experiences many of them. But, it ultimately ends up stronger.
Alternately, attack the problem from the perspective of ownership.

My refrigerator is capital equipment, I--possibly with the help of other purchasers--should be able to make it "smarter" or "dumber" as I please.
But how come they didn't catch it in the testing deployments? what was the difference that caused it to happen when they deployed to the outside world. I find it hard to believe that they didn't test it before deployment. I also think companies should all have a testing environment before deploying 3rd party components. I mean, we all install some packages during development that fails or cause some problems but nobody think it is a good idea to do it directly in their production environment before testing, so how is this different?
If you're a beginner you do.
It's because the US has historically promulgated a nudge-nudge wink-wink attitude that could be summed up as "You can't come here legally, but if you get through our defenses, there will be plenty of work waiting for you."

Many of us have sympathy for people who came in under this system who generally just want to work their asses off doing jobs no American wants to do.

We're also talking about kids brought here as toddlers. Many of us think deporting these people is particularly cruel, as their home country is completely foreign to them.
I thought the republicans wanted stronger border control. Border control and immigration policy are different things. If anyone can just hop the border and walk in and we don’t deport them then our immigration policy is irrelevant because we are choosing not to enforce it.
You can at least do this with games with the "Play Games" app.
You can see this with Italian immigrants to America. I’m in New Jersey right now, and recently was in Wyoming. These are obviously not the same people despite being “white.” They’re more different than Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and we fought a war to be separate from each other.
Ha. You should go to Cuba. They are as clever as any other group of humans and they all have family in Florida.

I’m sure you can’t just wire the money from a US bank to a Cuban one, but they surely have ways to do it. The island is full of stuff from America they aren’t supposed to have.
That last word makes this conversation not worth continuing.
It sounds from your comment that you are from Europe, but if you visit the US, you should travel to the south, find some white conservatives, and discuss black people. They will make astonishingly similar points to the ones you brought up, you'll find you and they have a lot in common.
No.

To trigger the crash, you need to write a bad file into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\

You need Administrator permissions to write a file there, which means you already have code execution permissions, and don't need an exploit.

The only people who can trigger it over network are CrowdStrike themselves... Or a malicious entity inside their system who controls both their update signing keys, and the update endpoint.
I work in VFX and I see that OpenCL has been used quite a bit in DCCs such as SideFX Houdini (which uses it extensively) and Foundry Nuke which uses it a bit too. Most of the GPUs are NVIDIA but there's some AMD too, and it's ability to fall back to the Intel (CPU w/vector instructions) host when running of the renderfarm, is absolutely critical as farm nodes generally tend not to have GPUs (most of ours don't even have X installed! So no hardware-accelerated OpenGL OR OpenCL is possible at all!)

Also one of my favourite non-VFX projects: 'Gollygang Ready' uses it to accelerate reaction-diffusion simulations.

I (perhaps naively) thought that OpenCL would still be a thing in a post-vulcan world.. SideFX are working on a new viewport using it.. I guess they solve different problems so can still coexist?
Lawsuits against whom? Certainly won't be Micro-Soft and this Crowd Strike or whoever as their ToS say use their software "as-is" without any implied warranty.
Is Google not able to predict the likelihood of a name collision as you just did? Is your solution to just continue showing incorrect information?
Seems like a reasonable way to solve the packing problem. You could override to set priority levels for people, but the background process makes sure no one person goes too long without a meetup.
The tendency of a subsection of orthodox Jews from one area of Eastern Europe to self-ghettoize is something of a red herring. In Western Europe, Jews were never truly integrated unless they converted. And even those who converted and their mixed race children were ultimately slaughtered for their ethnic background, giving lie to the notion that even a WWI veteran ex-Jew could become German.

The Haredi (ultraorthodox) movement itself is a reaction to urban Jews who wished to assimilate when such a thing became conceivable in the 19th C. And this is a ghetto mentality. In American terms, your question would be equivalent to "which Black people?" Implying that people who claim and cling to ghetto culture have a hard time integrating. But that 1. dismisses the role that ghettoization had on creating a subculture in the first place, and then 2. pretends the subculture itself is the reason for failure to integrate, i.e. that it's the cause rather than the effect, and 3. serves to allow and excuse and justify the mainstream of society projecting their negative perceptions of that subculture onto individual members of the same ethnic group who would like to integrate without completely renouncing their unique heritage. And in the Jewish case, even complete renunciation wasn't enough, so perhaps the ghetto culture had a point.
Does IME contact just Intel or also M$?
To antisemites, the type of Jew is not relevant.

I take your point though. Even nominally homgenous societies will stratify and have out-groups.
> Their extreme focus on enterprise is probably the reason for the low traction they're getting. Can't believe how much money they're leaving on the table because of some of their more bone headed decisions. Not sure if that ever changed

That's exactly what happened. But they didn't do it well either. For example, they demanded that all users had to be the same level of subscription. Except many companies had people who would just log in to say use the wiki. But they had to be billed the same $99 a month as a developer who used most features.

They were so blinded by chasing dollars they lost market share.
I'm sure it was more, MS's crash statistics come from a long pipeline of WER reports. I know for a fact that some organizations disable WER or even blackhole it along with other diagnostics.
So our immigration policy is you can either do all the work migrate legally or you can sneak in and we will legalize you. Congress should make that our official immigration policy?
https://archive.ph/YQjGo
What are degs, and why does it love them?
You're arguing that a world in which some companies make Ferraris and some companies make Bambinos is a bad world and "someone" should make sure only things between a Corolla and a Camry exist.

Which is, basically, what Intel or Arm do, at any given time.

I prefer the possibility that some people make amazing products, and some people make underperforming (but possibly much chaper) products, and the market decides which ones to buy. The most important thing is that they can all use the same roads (software), even if they should stick to different lanes.

> SG2380 / X280 are already known to have a very horrible vrgather, which is gonna be extremely awful for fixed-width stuff, and even some scalable stuff too.

I don't believe that to be the case. IIRC X280 does vrgather in ~1 cycle for vector lengths up to the datapath width (256 bits, 32 bytes), so anything corresponding to your NEON or AVX2 cases are going to be just fine. As I'm sure you know the computational complexity of vrgather is proportional to vl^2 so no one is going to do single-cycle vrgather at LMUL=8 => 4096 bit sizes, or even probably at 512 bit.

You could use a 256 bit datapath to implement 512 bit vrgather in 4 cycles, and LMUL=8 (4096 bit) in 256 cycles but that's not the intended use for the X280 so they didn't spend those transistors.

At longer sizes X280 does 1 element per cycle, which is still a significant speedup over what you could do on the dual-issue in-order scalar CPU.

> And SG2380 is rather explicitly for general-purpose computing.

The *P670* cores on the SG2380 is for general-purpose computing. The X280 cores are for media processing and similar tasks that don't typically use large gather operations.
You'd use WinDBG today. It allows you to do remote kernel debugging over a network. This also includes running Windows in a virtual machine, and debugging it through the private network connection.
I don't really know much about India but they seem to have more illegal immigration than the US does and per https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50670393 seem like they have discussions about amnesty there too. My assumption would be that any regional economic power with long borders will struggle with illegal immigration.
I suppose a lot depends on what we mean by standard. For example the number of frets varies. Classical guitars are usually 19, acoustics are typically up to 20, and electrics 21 or 22 but sometimes 24.

Those with 24 frets can play E4 on all six strings, but 24 frets is pretty uncommon so I can see an argument for calling those non-standard.

But how about a 22 fret electric with a whammy bar? Those are very common. The highest note on the 6th string without using the whammy bar would be D4. Can you pull on the whammy bar enough to raise that to E4?
And (c) not get robbed.

I’ve seen “for employee safety, no cash payment” signs in larger cities, so I always assumed that was the main reason.
I use seaweed as well. It has some warts as well as some feature incompleteness but I think the simplicity of the project itself is a pretty nice feature. It’s grokkable mostly pretty quickly since it’s only one dev and the codebase is pretty small
Scare-mongering with the goal of manufacturing consent for “next gen 911 tech” which is really just just spy ware that simplifies the process for law enforcement to tap into a persons mobile camera and microphone in real time.

I’d prefer to take my chances without it but I don’t think we the people will be given much of a choice.
Call me crazy but that is a real worry for me, and has been for a while. How long until we see some large corporate software have their deployment process hijacked, and have it affect a ton of computers that auto-update?
One of the features missing in bun:ffi is inferring types for symbols from header files. This would let you import C libraries in JavaScript/TypeScript directly, without having to configure bindings.

We embed TinyCC for FFI, but TinyCC doesn't expose a way to read the types for exported symbols.

Currently, it looks like this:

import { dlopen, FFIType, suffix } from "bun:ffi";

// `suffix` is either "dylib", "so", or "dll" depending on the platform
// you don't have to use "suffix", it's just there for convenience
const path = `libsqlite3.${suffix}`;

const {
symbols: {
sqlite3_libversion, // the function to call
},
} = dlopen(
path, // a library name or file path
{
sqlite3_libversion: {
// no arguments, returns a string
args: [],
returns: FFIType.cstring,
},
},
);
console.log(`SQLite 3 version: ${sqlite3_libversion()}`);

It would be nicer if it was something like this:

import {sqlite3_libversion as version} from "sqlite3.h" with {lib: "sqlite3"};
console.log(`SQLite 3 version: ${version()}`);

Would love to use Aro to do this in the future
Relatedly, it’s crazy to me how many people still get news from the Sunday times!
> I'm more curious why they need CrowdStrike on every system in the first place. I can understand employee computers but servers and critical systems should have other security measures in place to make them less available to attack in the first place.

The boring answer(s) is compliance and necessity. You need a security solution installed & running for a bunch of certifications, and maybe you also need it to secure some unmaintained software you have to run. Plus, even if the machine isn't front-facing, a lot of these EDR solutions are installed to prevent or monitor for lateral movement.
9C means that it's a NULL address plus some offset of 9C. Like a particular field of a struct.
What I don't get why nobody questions how's OS that needs all third-party shit to function and be compliant, gets into critical paths in the first place??
> Ultimately I don't think Gitlab or anything like it can hope to actually make money.

Oh they can absolutely make money. Stop chasing enterprise dollars which is always hard. Start chasing hobbyists and small to medium sized business. Let people pay money for what they use. They could make a KILLING with small dollars. But that doesn't sell IPOs and get you bought out.
The Mac is clearly not Apple's priority right now. The relatively sad state of SwiftUI on the Mac vs iOS is more evidence.
> The answer is NOT to bring the country down by mass-importing low skilled workers

My great grandparents came to this country as low skilled workers. I work with a second generation computer programmer whose parents came as unskilled workers. I know a guy from Guatemala who cleans houses and put his three kids through college. He just about explodes with pride when he talks about his kids.

Not everyone shares your views.
I pushed for press freedom in Hong Kong. The Wall Street Journal fired me.
> 4 trillion butts per year

Robot manages maybe 1 butt per 10 seconds

It would take over a million of these working 24x7 to get the job done.
There is plenty of great information that google is just unable or unwilling to return these days which it returned just fine in yesteryears.

I'm not talking about political bullshit or culture whatever, though Alphabet has serious problems there too, but just boring stuff like technical documentation that doesn't even have a lot of obvious spam interference.
raises hand

Some people don't jump on every fad out there. Most of the people who miss out on fads quickly realize that they aren't losing out on much simply because fads are so ephemeral. As far as I can tell, this is normal (though different people will come to that realization at different stages of their life).
This might be an excellent application of the language models included in the latest Chrome builds.
Chip design & manufacturing is probably the closest thing we have to witchcraft as a species.
Trying to explain to execs that giving someone root access to your computers means they have root access to your computers is surprisingly difficult.
I mean, isn't that roughly the solarwinds story? There is no real shortage of supply chain incidents in the last few years. The reality is we are all mostly okay with that tradeoff.
Cool to see someone quoting Cex 20+ years later. I listened to his stuff a ton back in the day and actually revisited only just a few months ago. Holds up just fine.
“Don’t be horny on main (branch)”
I still remember the machine code for 2 important instructions to use in Macsbug: 0xA9FF for a breakpoint and 0x4E75 for returning from the current stackframe.

We'd debug and insert breakpoints by directly overwriting the program code in RAM.
It's a ".sys" file but it's not a driver binary at all. It's a binary configuration file, and from what I gather it's a sort-of packed table. The actual kernel driver mounts it, parses the contents, and uses it as configuration. The ".sys" extension is probably for the believability of being a driver so users would leave it alone.
Around -4 years? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...
You have all that in C++ too.
Exceptions are near zero cost and used everywhere, sometimes even in embedded stuff too.
Anyone know if the updates use outbound HTTPS requests? If so, those companies that have crappy TLS terminating outbound proxies are looking juicy. And if they aren't pinning certs or using CAA, I'm sure a $5 wrench[1] could convince one of the lesser certificate authorities to sign a cert for whatever domain they're using.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/538/
You mean like the SolarWinds hack that happened a lil while ago?

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/SolarWinds-hack-ex...
> Gitlab's biggest issue has always been their ridiculous approach to pricing.

Yes it has been. They literally refuse to take money and be smart about it. For example, all users must be licensed at the same level. So if you have the $99 / month level, and want people to just edit the wiki, it's the same price. Instead of a much cheaper price. So instead of people doing that and them making more money, people just say "nah" and they lose money.

It's utterly ridiculous.
Officially that may be the case, but arace.tech claims to have 8GB versions in stock, and they seem to have been an official partner of Radxa in earlier launches.
You are totally missing the point.
Didn't you read my last post?

>You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment?

The problem with being polite is that the other too easily mistakes the politeness itself for encouragement, even if the comment is entirely negative. Generally ridicule is a good way to get someone to stop, as it makes very clear what you think and discourages continuing. Of course name calling is too easily dismissed and can easily lead to defiance. As discussed before, any kind of politeness is easily ignored or mistaken as positivity.
LLMs can solve hard problems