skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen multiple rumor-style explanations to this issue, including:

- it may have to do with oxidation of metallic copper deposited inside through-sillicon via(TSV)
- it may have to do with improper connection between die and substrate(that hard green plate) causing higher resistance and temperature somewhere, which is by the way the true limiting factor for socket Tjmax
- it could have to do with VCORE values used to meet the performance target being too high for the on-die ring bus logic including L1
- it is possibly related to big-little heterogeneous configuration and how voltages for big-core and little-core/uncore/IO are generated
- I've heard they had an HVAC outage in one of US fabs and it ruined some dies
- Yeah they just flew too close to the Sun, frankly
- ...

I have absolutely no skin in this game, and my question is: are there any more plausible technobabbly stories around? It all sounds intriguing to me. Some of it could be correct or relevant.
Indian airline gives female travelers option to choose seats next to women
45 points | 23 days ago | 53 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872276

The first airline where women can request not to sit next to men
2 points | 2 days ago | 3 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058911
MI Man's Property Seized for $8.41 Tax Debt; County Keeps Profits
Did they solve the problem of unnatural pressurespikes causing clots and microbleeds?
Uhh, I also received an email like that. I was suspecting something fishy but hoped that they just expect someone to click a link.
Any idea what they could have done? I never auth with google. And the email domain is not mine but email provider's.

To add, the welcome email doesn't directly say the domain used
Not to defend a multi-billion corporation that’s currently being raked over the coals for anti-competitive practices, but here’s the thing about all Apple products:

Apple under and since Jobs has been all about selling appliances, not computers. A bicycle for the mind, but one that gets serviced at the bicycle dealership. And while technical users would love to use their devices as the general purpose computers that they are, that goes contrary to the device’s designated purpose. The iPad is not supposed to run desktop software because that’s not what it’s supposed to do. You don’t see a lot of complaints that you can’t play Doom on your smart fridge, but it’s the same thing, except for the fact that the iPad is such an awesome form factor and combination of hardware. But once it stops being an appliance, that opens it up to a whole class of support issues and usability problems that don’t affect it in its current state.

As soon as you put a toggle in settings that says “yes, let me break things”, then you get YouTube videos that tell kids to go in and turn on the toggle so they can mod a game, or install some spyware, and break their iPad, and the one to bear the brunt of the blame for the iPad being broken is not the random YouTuber, but Apple, for allowing their product to break. That’s how the general public sees it.

Apple is not a hardware company, or a software company, they are both. The two are tightly integrated. That is one of the best things about the entire Apple ecosystem, the amount of iron-fisted, high-walled control they exercise means that the level of integration between their devices is unmatched anywhere else in the industry. Break that bond, and a lot of the appeal in Apple products goes away because yes, the hardware is overpriced. But if you look at it from the standpoint of a product that is a tightly integrated bundle of hardware and software, and that you are paying for the software as well, when you compare it to a lot of the other commercial offerings out there it starts to look like not such a bad deal.

All this is to say: if you don’t like it, then buy something else. Requiring jailbreaks is by design, not just because Apple is greedy or lazy, but because it completely changes the purpose and usage of their product to allow the installation of general-purpose software.
Privacy policies don't help your users against subpoenas.
Here in Sweden that hospital example would have been a crime, 'ocker'. The maximum sentence is four years imprisonment.
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Olympics' AI Security Stokes Backlash over Mass Surveillance
> It seems like just about any time an AI company releases such a video, they're bound to make the same mistake of not cross checking their own demo

TBH, seeing those press releases lately, they seem to do it intentionally.

Treating your users as idiots has become the norm.
They don’t.

They make bad policy, to stay in power.

Political ideologues nowadays generally have no points to make. They believe in whatever will keep them in power. That’s how we end up with a nation full of ‘conservatives’ who routinely outspend ‘liberals’. And we have a nation full of ‘liberals’ who ‘believe’ in increasing the power of the state.
Formalization is mechanical work, lets leave it for computers to do :)
A new movement of luddites is rising up against AI
Ah, that gives some perspective that he is actually the founder of the much more widely known Gentoo. I don't think that had been mentioned elsewhere at the time.
Why would that qualify as 'memory'?
It’s not their mothers responsibility to correct their incompetence, or (imo) more likely negligence and information falsification.
"Windows To Go" is the official name for a former Windows feature.

Writing a Batch script of any length, let alone 3085 lines, is completely insane with PowerShell being part of the default install.
This is such generic advice about computing, it’s like saying:

“To make a building, you need to have a foundation, something to keep the roof up, and a way for people to move inside.”
This reminds me of Taskwarrior but would argue that TaskWarrior is more feature rich and mature since it’s been in development for over 20 years I believe
Interesting. I lived in Auckland for a month pre-Covid and liked it quite well in general -- fairly clean, modern, lots of green, and not overflowing with traffic. Not much public transport, of course, and a moderately bad homeless problem, but otherwise pleasant all around. Not to mention all the stunning nature an hour's drive away. So I'm genuinely surprised by the negative comments. Has the situation deteriorated recently? Or is the perspective of visitors and locals just that different?
Indeed.

I would wager that over the last several decades
BLAST (basic local alignment search tool)
has done more to advance our knowledge of biology than any other algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology)
Some of the big tech mentioned are fined a lot heavier than others on some of those regulations. For example, Apple has barely received anything under the GDPR. Why? They don't collect unnecessary user data with shady "consent". Microsoft also doesn't seem to be struggling too much with the DMA or DSA, just the usual anti-trust stuff they always seem to get themselves in. But their gatekeeper obligations don't seem to be a problem whatsoever.

The EU has been clear for years they're fed up with the behavior of big tech with some of those things. If you don't want to listen, you have to feel the consequences. Easy as that.
I never believed that alcohol has any health benefits. Who would believe such hokum anyway? More like, the damage you incur is the price you pay for any amusement you might extract from its consumption.
I've, somehow, made it as a 'principal SRE' with very little in terms of social skills, footprint, or cultivation beyond Learning The Tech.

Someone like me who is just obsessed with a hobby can do well. Show up to work/be dependable, become known for it. The rest takes care of itself.

Conferences and stuff should be fun. They aren't necessary. Networking happens at work, other people will do it for you
"Just", no.

Fence at the top of a cliff (make sure the AI is unbiased and can be fixed when it turns out it is) vs. Ambulance at the bottom (letting people sue if they think the machine is wrong).
> All you're doing is moving the risk from the business to the consumer

No, most of the merchant's risk with credit cards is from the design of credit cards. You have to give your payment info to every merchant but if any one of them loses it then anyone who gets it can use it at any other merchant. Then some merchant you've never heard of has bad security, criminals get cards from there and use them to buy things from honest merchants and the honest merchants get chargebacks for having done nothing wrong.

Cryptocurrency does not have this problem because you don't have to give your private keys to everyone you pay and even if you fail to protect them yourself (something you, rather than someone else, is in control of), as long as you're not trying to use cryptocurrency as a store of value instead of a payment system, your losses are limited to the e.g. $20 you had in your wallet. Customers have no problem with systems that work like this, like cash.

Chargebacks are only an issue if the customer expects the merchant to be dishonest and the value of the purchase is large. If you pay $3 for something and get ripped off, the ability to do a chargeback isn't that relevant to your life and you're just not going to patronize them anymore.

The reason most customers don't use cryptocurrency is that the government made it high friction for ordinary people to buy it. "Why is this website I don't know asking for my social security number? I'm just trying to make a small purchase."

Presumably at the behest of the existing payments industry which wants to keep their vig.
How many times have you been asked to rediscover the Fibonacci sequence and then make it useful to some stupid business?
like https://www.osnews.com/story/140301/no-southwest-airlines-is... :)
Entirely different resources though, which is why this criticism makes little sense. It is like asking management to help coding the backend -- no, you need different people for that.
> if you don’t like it, then buy something else

I did, but someone convinced _them_ it was a good idea to take out the headphone jack and removable battery too.

Many of Apple's decisions end up having a blast radius large enough to affect people who never buy their products.
This is a poor analogy. Historically there is a significant cost to making bad cars with frequent repair needs.
I always took it more as readable code.
Can’t remember where I first heard but in the 18th century in England they had wooden cat gin vending machines. You walk up, say a magic phrase, put a coin in and it would pour gin through its paw. This was apparently a way to skirt a licensing law.

https://www.gin1689.com/blogs/news/puss-mew
As a user I am totally fine with having the service provider's local laws apply though.

It is easier for me to choose a different provider than to move myself and my family to another country with better laws. Compare 'Chat control' debacle.
Nah, short and single-line functions can be good.

Something I'm happy about is if I can create an object to implement some isolated part of the domain in a way that's obviously correct and consistent within itself. For example, currently I'm working on a bit of a backup analyzer to identify different problems, estimate sizes and such. One object in there is the PGBackrestState and it has a whole bunch of one-line methods like total_size_on_disk, full_backup_count, average_incemental_size. Most of these are just one list comprehension. That's nice, readable, correct and stable code - and it makes other code more readable.

But some functions in that code base are an implementation of pretty much a flow chart of grabbing information, figuring out the state of the system and eventually dropping into more specific analyzers. This can be a whole bunch of imperative code in a function. And I've tried, but chopping this into smaller functions makes the overall idea and control flow much harder to understand. Sometimes a rough screen length of logic can be easier to understand as well.
Satellite (actually aerial) images are very expensive to collect and not all that useful.

Oddly, until recently Brisbane's satellite maps on Google were over a decade old even though it showed a current year copyright. More up to date on Apple Maps, except it doesn't have Brisbane in 3D, even though it does have Gold Coast.
> Is not paying taxes a matter of principle of some sort?

Yes. Some countries have governments so irredeemably corrupt you come to regard taxes as equivalent to robbery. Worse than robbery: at least robbers don't make you provide a detailed accounting of the tributes they demand from you at gunpoint.
For Google Maps, They have an “official” limit of 500 where anything beyond that is not guaranteed. In practice, the current limit is 3,000.

I’m wondering if Apple Maps is doing something similar where they set a low official limit that they can walk back on / to in the future, as to avoid legal responsibility
4 dudes are not "a disgruntled ex employee".
There is no equivalence between (a) "internet" or "high end computer chips" (much less "technology" or "innovation") and (b) "search engines" or "social media sites". Except if one is Silicon Valley VC, Big Tech employee, "tech" journalist, payola recipient or other supporter of "Big Tech". This is false quivalence, a flawed premise. Arguments relying on a flawed premise are, of course, inherently flawed.
No known safety issue. Both issues (the overvoltage in both 13 and 14 gen chips, and the oxidation that's limited to 13th gen) lead to system instability. How quickly these occur is unknown from the Intel reports. Claims are as little as a few weeks, but independent verification is needed on that one.
I’m very aligned. I don’t love Apple , but I buy their hardware because of their vertical integration and closed systems. I get the argument that many eyes make bugs shallow , but if you want a tightly managed supply chain as a consumer , I don’t think you can do better than Apple in today’s market.
I have no idea about them, a lot of people think they're fronts for money laundering. Alternatively, dunno... I guess gamblers are also addicts of sorts? Plus I imagine they drink, abuse their bodies so they need regular medication?
And, worse, incentivized to require users to use a "coordination server" which helps with the NAT and firewall traversal problem by being something you can reach from outbound-only clients. There's a lot of verbiage there, but the general idea seems to be that Tailscale sits at the middle of this as the means by which machines find each other.

There are other ways to do that.

There are dynamic DNS schemes, so you can give your machine which only has a temporary IP address a permanent name. That's been around for decades, and seems to have a bad reputation.

There are schemes with multiple coordination nodes that know about each other, and published lists of such nodes. The list may be out of date, but as long as the published list has one live node, you can connect and get updated. That's how Kademlia, which underlies Etherium's network and some file sharing systems, works. That's about 20 years old, and sort of has a sketchy reputation.

It's possible to go only halfway, and separate discovery from transmission. Peertube does that. You find a file to stream via ordinary HTTP to a server you find by ordinary web search means. Anybody can set up such a server. The actual streaming, for files wanted by many clients, is distributed, with people currently watching also sending out blocks to other people watching. This scales well, in case your video goes viral. It's not used much, though.

So it's definitely possible to do this without someone in the middle able to cut off your air supply.
If your company requires removing privacy laws and measures to stifle anti-competitive behavior, then by all means leave. I don’t want to live in a technological dystopia just to be “cutting edge”
Very eloquently put.

Freedom for you often means freedom for others, including those with bad intentions or a disinterest in maintaining your safety.

The same philosophy applies to any ecosystem such as programming language design, package managers, app stores, etc…

Maximum freedom is not always desirable because it invites in scammers and abusers of the commons.
It is not mandatory by law. But if you want to keep being a superpower it very much is.
Projecting your power and maintaining your commitments is a major part of that.
Yeah me too, I'm having hard time going above 100K. Yes, I don't live in the US. But damn...
There's no way to detect that via signals because if there's no cell reception, people's phones won't report back where they are/aren't driving. So you'd have to report it by hand if you care.

Anyway, if it's showing on a consumer map that probably means it was never removed from official data sources like USGS TIGER.
> it seems reasonable to say that foreign aid is not a mandatory expenditure.

Is it reasonable to say though?
How is staying on top of global power structures not mandatory for the US? It was in the last 80+ years or so the highest priority.
No, not at all as QE didn't change the amount in circulation. From an inflationary standpoint they are mostly a no-op.
doi is indeed very nice

one can even make a get_pdf_by_doi() by employing curl and sci-hub
why cant i get this on my smartest smart watch?

Makes me want to go back to the old casio
If there is one thing we need to be afraid of, it is, that we don't regulate tech giants enough. That they can continue to exploit people. Maybe also, that GDPR continues to be violated by 90% of companies, because they think they will get away with it.
>No

Starting like that, writing that whole paragraph and you completely misread what I said. "No, merchants have risk with credit cards". That is literally what I said in the post you are replying too. Sloppy and rude.

>Cryptocurrency does not have this problem because you don't have to give your private keys to everyone you pay and even if you fail to protect them yourself

Credit card fraud isn't a problem for consumers because of chargebacks and insurance. If a criminal steals my card and racks up charges I am almost always getting my money back. All the risk is again on the merchants. Consumers like that balance. Trying to convince them to take on more risk just to benefit the merchants is not going to happen ever.

>Chargebacks are only an issue if the customer expects the merchant to be dishonest and the value of the purchase is large. If you pay $3 for something and get ripped off, the ability to do a chargeback isn't that relevant to your life and you're just not going to patronize them anymore.

This is also completely wrong. People do chargebacks all the time because of a poor outcome that has nothing to do with being dishonest. There are also cases like bankruptcy where a chargeback will get you your money back but if you paid in crypto you'd just be another creditor.

The reason most customers don't use cryptocurrencies is because they are stupid and pointless for payments. They make the process worse for consumers unless you're needing to hide your identity. Crypto is like mailing companies envelopes of cash. There is a reason no sane consumer does that anymore.
The more experience I accumulate, the more I rely on GUIs. Explanation: when I was younger I used exclusively the CLI and underestimated GUIs. Now I tend to appreciate GUIs and use them more.
"you can build yourself"

Technically yes, but that is a serious project.
To answer some of my questions based on the "Preliminary Post Incident Review", the config file was indeed invalid, it was only checked with a (buggy) validator, and then released to the whole world at once. Never was the config file ever tested with the actual software that would read it in an actual environment like the customer machines that got this update.

They don't say why it was invalid or really what the file is, but it seems like it is some kind of relatively complex set of rules that are evaluated by the kernel module. Presumably they are manually authored and reviewed and it seems possible the bug was missed in review because this was a relatively new type of rule.

So this isn't a case of an incident that slipped through a rigorous testing and release process process following industry best practice, but rather a "disaster waiting to happen". Further, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz should have known better, considering an analogous incident happened under his watch as CTO of McAfee in 2010.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediatio...
> But, at the same time, I'm sure a guitar or ink and paper were comparatively expensive, so who knows.

When I once came across the price for paper in mid 18th century Germany (I did not keep a reference unfortunately), I compared it to the estimated average annual wage of that time and used today's average annual wage to calculate a price in Euro. The result: the price of a DIN A4 sized piece of paper (623.7 cm²) was aprox. 1 Euro. Not cheap, but in principle still affordable in low quantities for most people. And this is half of today's typical price for one such sheet of handmade paper.
The analogy I would make is that living in the command line is like using a CAD program while living in IDEs is like using CorelDraw to design houses.

CorelDraw feels more efficient because one quickly has what looks like a beautiful, colorful house on the screen. And then one does not understand why the doors don't work correctly.
> speaking as an overeducated Asian American

It is only people who are not educated enough that feel the need to call themselves "overeducated". That single phrase tells me all that everybody needs to know about you i.e. a self-aggrandizing "troll" hiding behind anonymity on the Internet.

Given your ignorance (both of the domain knowledge and basic communication etiquette) I had tried to educate you by pointing to actual resources but of course you are incapable to studying/debating them. To say that all are "reducible to naive cultural relativism" is the height of ignorance. Nowhere in any of your comments has there been even a indication of coherent thought and ideas but merely empty verbiage and needless vitriol. You would do well to follow this age-old advice - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
Not paying taxes is one of the strongest human instincts
TIL

$ ls
$ cat >a.c <<EOF
int main(){return 42;}
EOF
$ make a
cc a.c -o a
$ ./a; echo $?
42
$
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