skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"…a bunch of racist humor"

Huh, perhaps where you are but I've never heard any of note. AR is pretty clean in that respect, self-policing works very well.
i would have thought that in 2024 a bad driver update is something that windows would automatically roll back.

or at least provided some level of protection against crashes in third party kernel code.
It is difficult to share an execution unit between many cores, because in that case it must be placed at a great distance from at least the majority of those cores.

The communication between distant places on a chip requires additional area and power consumption and time. It may make the shared execution unit significantly slower than a non-shared unit and it may decrease the PPA (performance per power and area) of the CPU.

Such a sharing works only for a completely self-contained execution unit, which includes its own registers and which can perform a complex sequence of operations independently of the core that has requested it. In such cases the communication between a core and the shared unit is reduced to sending the initial operands and receiving the final results, while between these messages the shared unit operates for a long time without external communication. An example of such a shared execution unit is the SME accelerator of the Apple CPUs, which executes matrix operations.
I would expect anything notifying via Slack or text would have an accompanying incident ticket in the system of record.

We had a rule in my team (before a management change that blew it all to shit) that we don’t use email or messaging for monitoring. Everything goes into the SOR. Once it’s in the SOR, if people want emails, texts, or whatever, it let them know there is work to do, that’s up to the team. Others would make dashboards… lots of options once it’s in the system, and nothing gets lost.

For example, I went from a team that looked at tickets all day to one that mainly worked on user stories in Jira. Because no one was looking at the incidents in the SOR, things were getting missed. I wrote something to check for incident tickets assigned to our team every hour, and it would post them in our team chat so people knew there was work to do. Then once per day, it would post everything still unassigned, so if something was lost on that hourly post, it would annoy everyone once per day until it was assigned/resolved. It worked out decently well. If there was a lot of stuff, it would post a message to have someone actually login to the SOR and look at all our tickets. I would sometimes use the standup to assign stuff out and get some attention on it, if things were getting bad.
>I gather in the early days the LPDDR used on laptops was slower too

Oddly, the latency hasn't improved too much - CAS is often 5-10ns for DDR2/3/4/5. Bus width, transfers per second, queueing, power per bit transfered and stored have, but if a program depends on something that's not in cache and was poorly predicted, the RAM latency is the issue.
> It's mostly old guys erecting large antennas to connect their boat anchor tube radios to...

Old guys? Tube radios? You got my attention.
Unless their developers had room temperature IQs or were actual psychopaths, I really wonder how they even managed to find developers who had the nerves to deploy to the whole world all at once like that. If it were me I'd be scared shitless, covered in sweat and probably shaking too hard to even type. Were CrowdStrike developers too stupid to even realize the magnitude of what they were doing? Or did they have cooler nerves than an open-heart surgeon? It's shocking to me that they could have done this so casually.
On a tangential note, Italian food on the Italian highways at the “Autogrill” chain (gas stations and food joints along the route) is better than 90% of “Italian” restaurants in the USA.
> this assumes that the process of time is tending towards the better.

Yes, this I generally believe, at least as far as societal maturity is concerned. We still have our moments, of course.
On a scale of 1 to 10? What kind of answer do you expect? Some people get jobs easily, others struggle to get an interview after a year. I don't think all of those experiences can get reduced to a single answer. Like everyone else your results will mostly depend on your skills, experience, professional network, and luck.
> The operation will disburse money for projects around the state. Hydrogen producers, oil companies, gas companies, green energy companies, environmental policy groups, long-haul trucking companies and fuel cell makers are among the applicants.
I use names from the ancient greeks.

Homeserver: Nyx is the Greek goddess of the night. She is one of the primordial deities and is often depicted as a powerful and fearsome figure, respected even by Zeus.

Workstation: The name "Xeno" comes from the Greek word "xenos," meaning "stranger" or "foreigner." While "xenos" itself is not a mythological figure, the concept of the stranger or the unknown plays an important role in many Greek myths and stories, often with dark or threatening connotations.

Notebook: Ker: Keres (plural of Ker) are Greek death spirits. They are winged entities that represent violent or untimely death and are often depicted as fearsome and ominous.

(I asked chatgpt for explainations of the names, because iam not a native english speaker.) I use the naming scheme like over a decade now.

I like the name of my home net the most. Its enti.ty.
Oh no! I luckily never dealt with the ethernet drivers, but I had plenty of small issues with other drivers
This looks really cool. Hopefully the demonstration mission goes without a hitch and the tech proves as suitable as it seems. :)
Also good point on degradation. Physics based modelling is invaluable for debugging this. PyBaMM does have quite a bit on degradation yes. Here's a good notebook to start with https://docs.pybamm.org/en/stable/source/examples/notebooks/...
It's not the "previous model" at all. All of that was like 15 years ago.
What are their incentives? Are they switching off to another product quickly, or are they staying with this product for years/decades?

Do they get rewarded for long term thinking or short term results?
> You can't just let people do anything from userland, the performance would tank

Isn't the point of userland that you can (try to) do anything from there?

It seems like MacOS and Linux provide substantially safer alternatives that are still performant?

> As for restricting kernelland, EU competition regulators would not be happy

I keep seeing people say this. Is there a basis for that assertion, or is that mere speculation? Again, hasn't MacOS already deprecated kexts?
I have lot of software engineering experience and I’m working on something for which I decided to use Rails where I had zero prior experience in either Ruby or Rails. I’ve been using Claude for help.

Here’s what my personal experience: it’s been great at helping me understand things and converting stuff, which is both helping with learning about Rails as well as making progress would have been hard otherwise. It did much better at explaining than Rails documentation which I found lacking.

For example, I gave it large Go structs and it generated Rails generate commands to generate schema and XML serialization code. There was a little back and forth regarding foreign key relationships but “we” were able to figure it out.

I was even able to ask it for opinion on some table design, asked it to play the role of an experienced DBA, and it did great.

In short, it’s great if you know what you want to do at granular level, especially for new stuff. But, if I didn’t know what I know, I don’t think it would have worked.

Think of it like a calculator, can calculate what I tell it to calculate faster than me, but that’s it. But that in itself is huge.
> This suggests to me the systems are improving and don't seem at an obvious plateau yet.

No it suggests that they are hot-patching the embarrassing failures that are going viral on social media.
I wish someone could do a cost analysis of how much compute could replicate alphaproof. Alphazero was replicated in open source, hopefully this will be too!
Your car _allows_ you to drive off a cliff. If you do so, it is your fault, not the fault of the car manufacturer.

Kind of weird that anyone is blaming Microsoft for any part of this, imo
I have half-jokingly suggested that an out-of-hours page should cost the company $10k to incentivise actually fixing problems rather than releasing broken products. But I haven't thought of a way of getting around the perverse incentive to create bugs in order to get the $10k
What is "modern history"?
The enshittification of everything is on the rise, and this is just another part of the trend of “let’s see if we can get away with it” (or “whaddaya gonna do bout it?”)

From Google login popups, “open in the app” modals, and AI stealing everyone’s data, tech companies are firmly turning evil. It’s no longer about move fast and break things towards progress (even superficially), it’s about complete domination using any means necessary.

On the email side, spam is on the rise, and especially messages that claim to be “about your account” and therefore exempt from CAN-SPAM jurisdiction. “Oops, we forgot to make a functional unsubscribe page” tactic falls in the same vein.

Hanlon’s razor is being weaponized, and ulterior motives must alway be seriously considered. We see it constantly in dark patterns, and how often Microsoft and other companies “accidentally” reset your preferences in ways that benefit whatever new feature they’re pushing.
Are you sure you didn’t get it wrong on purpose just to preemptively sabotage any potential argument? /s

It is surprisingly hard to give companies the benefit of the doubt these days, with dark patterns being somehow normalised … we have learned to assume bad faith.
> Move tool-tip APIs from kernel to user mode

?!?!
These are just discussing femtosecond lasers, I don't see any mention of coulomb explosions? Maybe it's implied, but I don't see it.
YAGNI includes time to fix things when YNI (you need it). YAGNI is not prematurely optimizing for complexity.

If a PM (or an eng for that matter) can justify the need for the complexity, either because they are extracting 2-3 use cases in to a generalizable solution, or they have 1 but know that 2-3 or more are coming real soon, then bring on the complexity.

It's a balance, for sure.
I follow RFC 1178: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1178

The theme I use is Final Fantasy characters.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Discontinuities happen.
I wouldn't mind in the least if it was a matter of using sudo. That's a logical elevation of privileges. MacOS already does this at points, asking you for your password (which if you are an administrator is basically running sudo for you). These warning messages and locking down the /usr hierarchy (even with sudo) are different as they aren't asking for more access but merely to spread FUD about open access software (yes, you can use brew if the program you want is in it, but that is just adding another garden even if less walled, and it works because someone in the Homebrew project is signing the binaries).

I have used UNIX/Linux on a daily basis for over 30 years, and OSX/MacOS daily for over 15 years. I know how UNIX systems work and where things traditionally are located. And until a few years ago MacOS was a reasonable UNIX that could be used more or less like a friendly UNIX system -- but it is becoming increasingly less so.
Back when I could still read my own handwriting, and back when I printed things with regularity, I used to use failed prints as scrap paper for my math homework. I figured that the paper was wasted, so getting any more use of out if was less wasted money.
This is an answer
https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ for cattle not pets.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

I'll share overlapping advice: don't name (conference rooms) after geographical locations or places, eg: "We're meeting in Colorado/Houston" ... too much opportunity for confusion.

I spent a little time looking for the OG "hacker's dictionary" style advice for hostname naming, but it's tough to find now, and the RFC is more official and close enough.

My fun little naming technique for my "fleet" of pi-zeros was "juan, deux, tree, faux, ..."

Cattle not pets means you can pick "fun" names for your personal (pet) computers, eg, my first SSD Max Mini I called "rock", first laptop after that I called "slab".

Something emotional or memorable is nice, or just keep flipping through word-pairs from diceware to find something suitable. https://diceware.dmuth.org/
A very unusual point of view, but you haven't provided any biologic or evidence to support it.

So here, I'll give you some from the other side.

First, the "Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance" really is literally Insurance because it's literally in the damn name and I don't know how much clearer I can make that.

Second, you can tell it's insurance because larger payouts are conditional based on bad things happening to you. That is not true for an investment account, therefore they are different.

Third, you can tell it's insurance because the benefits are typically not transferable (inheritable) to another thing (person) being insured. That is not true for an investment account, therefore they are different.

> To the recipient, SS resembles an investment account more than an insurance policy.

Being deeply misinformed doesn't make something true.
The Complexity of Lying
That’s basically the same as `tolower1` - see the bullet points below the graph
Sure, this was just me saying “I think this was the thing based-on/using it, that was said to work well”, not “here is someone saying it works well”.

The “gravitas” program is open source, so perhaps some external people may have evaluated how useful it is? (Unless it is hard to get running, idk.)
>On average, roughly 40% of inmates who are incarcerated for violent offenses were under the influence of alcohol during the time of their crime.

https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/alcohol/crimes/
Oof. Lol. If I ever start rambling about They's malfeasance in Their campaigns, may I receive as humble and direct a reply as this, as soon as possible.
I’m talking about immigration as a haystack, but you seem to think that we can know in advance who the needles are.

Are you under the impression that we can tell barbarians apart from other immigrants and that we still let them in the country?

It sounds like you are listening to propaganda media and have no idea what is actually happening with immigration dynamics right now.

The barbarians are all religious. The only way to reduce the chance of terrorism to near zero is to either stop all immigration or to stop immigration of religious people. We don’t, because this country was founded by religious zealots and because we value freedom.
This doesn’t help because you have a time machine.

You automate the activation of your Time Machine and have the Time Machine go back in time 40min and try to crack it, if it’s not cracked it goes back another 40minuted and tries again until it cracks the code. The code might take 80 years of time in the time loop but for you it’s instantaneous.
“Nothing to do” is not the same as not having to exercise. Exercise is quite boring, and you’d have more time to appreciate the beautiful things if you didn’t have to do it for maintenance.
You might be right, but I'd want to hook a monitor and maybe a keyboard and mouse, if nothing else but for curiosity's sake
> Yes, this I generally believe, at least as far as societal maturity is concerned.

That's probably too big a discussion for here, but, on the institutional rather than the societal level, is that what you observe? Certainly it seems to me that institutions just accumulate more and more cruft over time, and, though "throw it out and re-write it" is, as well documented, rarely the right answer, neither is "trust that things are as they are because time has optimized them."
I’m pretty sure every single social network that ever existed collects such statistics and much more
Yes yes i get it :) ive grown up in a capitalist society, thats been vitriolically anticommunist, which ive drunken the koolaid fully, i get all the standard implications.

I wish typing on an ipad with a flip phone size keyboard wasnt so troublesome. So please excuse issues with my typings.

Funny enough in the bible, one can not cross into the spiritual realm with any earthly possessions. This partially highlights how nonintrinsic ownership is to reality. Looking at past serfdom societies or others ownership took a different form. Hunter gathering societies think borders are incomprehensible. Then theres colonialism where european powers took over Africa then claimed its inhabitants owed them an annual tax for the land which the natives already resided on. Israel claims ownership of Palestine on behalf the jews based on some 2000year religious inheritance and used force and manipulation to settle/colonialize already claim lands. Thats not to say im pro palestinian claims either. People will make some rationalized justification on why they are entitled to something when the natural state of nature is to just roam and intermingle freely. Theres all these weaselly ways to deprive people of property like gentrification or legal manipulations.

Then theres always exceptions like imminent domain. Theres also the flipside if force used to seize territory, theres also the force used to protect illgotten territory from trespassers. Then theres the capitalist stakeholder math that crudely gives a vast disproportionate share of ownership to a few stakeholders (usually the progenitors of the capitalistic endeavor) despite it really being a rather conmunist at least laborwise endeavor. To put clearly its strange that jeff bezos can own ten percent of all of amazons collective largess despite it being a product of a million or 100000 laborers.

All im saying is property ownership isnt natural and is usually stitched together in a crude manner usually according to the values of the times. Im uninterested in holding it sacred though i do recognize confiscating peoples properties at willynilly whims is quite problemmatic.
Only if psychology is applied physics!
Mine are all named after ships from the Expanse, generally based on what they are or how I use them. My phone is the Rocinante, big beefy desktop is the Donnager, NAS is the Nauvoo etc.
https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
The big difference is that CS is not the user. In you analogy it's like your car allows you to drive off a cliff, and an (almost) essential part of your car (for example, the pedal) drives the car off a cliff.
Slavery in penal system is also constitutional.
The trick is to pick a fun theme.

For instance, I like to name all my machines after dwarfs.

So dwarf1, dwarf2, etc etc
I use characters from books I've enjoyed.
Absurdist fantasies are to prove a point that some limits exist. The question then becomes what said limits are.
Why would the core have to wait for the write to complete?

A core stalls on a write only if the store buffer is full. As hyper threads share the write buffer, SMT makes store stalls more likely, not less ( but still unlikely to be the bottleneck).
> Authorities interviewed the kid, who apparently explained that he learned how to hide his identity online.

> The name of the 11-year-old has been released but Gizmodo is opting not to share it. The decision to do a bunch of swatting calls was dumb and incredibly dangerous and hopefully, this kid eventually learns his lesson. But he’s still young and here’s hoping this doesn’t ruin his life in ways that he can never bounce back from, though he does face very serious charges.

Gotta love that irony.
Ask HN: Are passwords protected for WiFi SSIDs
I was just thinking about this: when I change my router and I use the same SSID and password, all my devices automatically connect. So that implies the devices are sending the old password to the new router.

What exactly stops someone from setting up a router, naming it the same SSID, and collecting the passwords that the devices are trying to authenticate with?
Yes, it's technically correct, but you said a larger dice, which a d12 is not :)

I would be curious to know if the larger dice version is impossible, but then I would also expect it to tell me.
NixOS Option Inspection
That the US will continue to sell debt securities at some level in the future is incontrovertible. That is not what I was responding to, which was that idea that "historically what usually happens to government debt is that it isn't really paid back but sits there and is reduced in value over time by inflation".

This is referring to current debt, not the idea of ending the debt cycle. The US doesn't have the option of letting current debt just sit for an arbitrary amount of time and get reduced by inflation, but has to pay according to the obligations of the outstanding debt securities. It also doesn't buy back the debt securities before they are due. The real value will be reduced due to inflation until the point where obligations are due, but there isn't a choice to arbitrarily let it sit.
The Feds already do check clearing, and they do it for free or nearly so. That's why your ISP probably gives you a discount on your bill if you (a) go paperless and (b) pay by ACH.

As near as I can tell, check clearing is fast and accurate and very rarely screws up. It's also adequately funded. The divisions of government, local state and federal, that are funded, do well. The ones that aren't funded adequately are awful. This is consistent with companies like CenturyLink that don't fund branches properly: those branches are terrible.
But is that true? Do new facts elbow out the old ones?
I mentioned this in a sister comment, but I will add:

* Schenkerian analysis is probably the modern method of looking at Bach. A sister comment also indicates that Schenker was a controversial figure (he was a German fascist), but I believe the follow-ups from other theorists on his methods are the modern ones to use for analysis.

* Analyzing otherwise in the context of counterpoint and intervals - see Gradus ad Parnassum and Kennan's book on counterpoint.
Mmm… meaningless analogies are kind of meaningless?

More like:

If you install a security product that then prevents your car from starting; are they entirely blameless for letting you install it?

If you pull the hood up, tear off the “voids warranty” seal, ignore the “don’t open this” labels, crack the seals open and shove something into the engine… sure.

…but if you just slap a widget with the “vendor approved” sticker on your dash and it bricks your car; that’s a bit sucky right?

I do feel Microsoft is not entirely blameless in this.

It should be easier to recover from this kind of thing.

They should have been paying attention and made a fuss that one of the biggest security vendors has been doing this literally since they started.

I would bet money that until two weeks ago Microsoft was high-5ing them for best security practices.

It’s not “their fault” but they can’t just go “wasn’t us!”.

It was them.

It wasn’t macOS. It wasn’t *nix.

Suck it up. They should’ve done better.
It’s hard for people to understand that these massive ‘security’ enterprises are often connected by a large amount of bodies instead of competence.
Both systems can co-exist. This is what happens when the USA uses its big-dick energy to 'police' the world. Other friendly or non-friendly countries will get tired of it and fight back. Since 9/11, the USA has used the US dollar as a weapon, and I'm actually glad there's an alternative. One country shouldn't wield this much power against others, whether friends or foes.
How is string theory useful?
My key threshold is the three particle generations, e.g.: electrons, muons, and tau particles.

If your TOE doesn’t even mention them, then that’s a bad sign. Any mention at all will have me sitting up straight and putting my reading glasses on.

Wolfram’s theories are so, so far away from this threshold that it’s hard to even explain to non-physicists.