skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's introduce more foreign fauna into already messed up ecosystem instead of fixing the existing ecosystem-threatening problems, what could possibly go wrong again?
How do I check if my laptop is affected? Tried

[System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFIPK).bytes) -match "DO NOT TRUST|DO NOT SHIP"

, gives me cryptic errors and gpt of no help.
Probably:

The text was represented in UTF-8, the curly apostrophe (code point U+2019) was represented as the 3-byte sequence 0xE2 0x80 0x99. In buggy code, the individual bytes were then misinterpreted as code points U+00E2 "â", U+0080 "€", U+0099 <control>. The misinterpretation of multiple code units as multiple code points happened multiple times resulting in the continued expansion to the sequence you see here.

Misinterpreting code units from one of the UTFs as Unicode code points is a classic problem. It most often arises from weak typing where byte strings and text strings are not strongly differentiated from each other, but it can also be server misconfiguration or other problems.

(See this preso for a more thorough explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhvaeHoIE24&t=2870s )
Libmceliece
this is a design/manufacturing defect and I expect Intel will replace any defective chips.
how about we just outlaw this tracking information period. Companies can advertise to you based on searches and browser location only? and required by law to not track individuals with $1 billion dollar fines and 5 years imprisonment if caught doing otherwise?
It’s answered in the FAQ at bottom of article that they are still investigating.
Yes I have been poor, probably more than you, and I have chosen any job that's near to survive. Before starting my career in IT, I once had my car wrecked and consequently lost my job. I had to take another job nearby and commute by bicycle. If you talk about poor people benefiting from car centric cities, then you are delusional either about what "poor" really means, or about the reality of relying on a car when you're poor.
I still believe that the best approach is the contextual search embedded everywhere - I think Microsoft's approach (and now Apple's one) is a way forward.
I think my last job had a bunch of 11th Gen nucs, hope they didn't upgrade into this.
Why it's so easy to fire tech employees these days
There’s a fair argument to make that better IDE autocomplete does prevent many type-related issues even before a static type checker is run
This is an Android thread. In this context, Gradle has most definitely replaced Maven.
It'd be interesting to compare these 3 methods side by side starting with same beans.

I've tried, conservatively, a dozen and a half of different decafs available here in the EU, and some a markedly better than others. In fact, most are outright garbage with an exception of two that are virtually indistinguishable from each other even though they are from unrelated brands. So I wonder if the differences are due to the process rather something else.
I’ve seen videos on YouTube where they say intel claims the issue with laptop chips is a separate issue which the videos go on to say that it is a strange thing to say if intel isn’t sure about the root cause of either issue.
I took a bioinformatics class recently. The final project was taking wet lab data from a published paper and using it to do our own analysis and then comparing that analysis to the paper. I'm pretty sure I found an error in the paper that we were partially replicating: Their charts are swapped: mutant A's chart is labeled as mutant B and visa versa.

While the resemblance of my A chart with their B chart might be a bit subjective, I have a reproducible build of my chart and its labeling that I can trace all the way back to the source data (via nix). It might not be perfect, but at least there's an artifact available for scrutiny... at all. The published version though, it's just a PDF. I can't see their code so that I can point them at the bug that I suspect exists in it. Their data is available on NCBI, but not their code.

So yeah, I hear you re: being a bit disappointed with the reproducibility of the computational aspects of these papers. It's somewhat understandable for replication to be difficult in places like psychology or chemistry... but if the work is being done in silico, it should be a matter of two or three commands to re-do it in silico. And if that's not true, we need to fix the tooling until it is.

I'd prefer to have the raw data, intermediate artifacts, and their computational relationships, all made available as soon as the researcher has an inkling that they might be worth presenting to someone. Then, when it's time to celebrate those results, they can just reference things that have been publicly searchable and verifiable for a while now. That way computational verification can happen before the paper is even written, and we don't even have to bother writing prose around what turned out to be bogus results.
I did see that, and maybe I should expand my comment. From the perspective of someone doing long-term research: Undermind is a startup and is subject to the vagaries of VC funding. Currently, AI is in fashion among VCs, but my guess is that the fashion will be shorter lasting than the usefulness of the search results. So having tried out the product and finding a nice literature list in a relatively new area for me, my first instinct was to store it among my org files because the probability that your company will disappear (or severely degraded upon acquisition) is high.

Anyway, I do not mean to detract from the accomplishment -- and I liked the product! So I hope you take the above feedback/nitpicking in the spirit it is intended.
VMs as an isolation concept at the processor level are actually quite efficient, but unfortunately we use that to run whole operating systems which impose their own inefficiency. Micro-VMs that just run a process without an OS (or with an OS shim) are possible but we don't yet have good frameworks for building and using them.
>in order to get it out faster.

this is my favorite

mapquest has existed since 1996 XD

seriously tho i think it's fine that it's a limited beta.
The flight path looks like they were approaching for the east-west runway which is pretty rarely used at Tampa so that might have caused some confusion but that's what instruments and ATC are for.

If they had to divert, St. Pete Clearwater is right there and big. They probably flew right over it. Orlando and Sarasota are also much closer than Ft. Lauderdale. Maybe they didn't want St. Pete/Clearwater or Sarasota because of weather or Southwest doesn't use them, but Orlando gets plenty of Southwest traffic.
3M Jumps Most in 36 Years as New CEO Boosts Profit Forecast
https://archive.is/2024.07.26-163119/https://www.bloomberg.c...
The brain evolved around quantum uncertainty the way life evolved around thermal sea vents. An extant quirk of the natural world that a complex brain could utilize for decision making in the macro-scale physical world.
Intel will absolutely minimize any concern about the manufacturing problem and focus on the microcode, quietly deny any permanent damage concerns, and do everything in their power to avoid a recall. For big buyers like data centers they'll capitulate, but for everyday consumers they'll resist as much as they can.
Mark Zuckerberg's AI Era – The Circuit
Me too, I also have the Apollo mission plans they had on Kickstarter. They're soooo nice
Sounds similar to the Intel Atom C2000 failures, where one of the metal layers responsible for a clock signal would fail after a few years leading to permanent failure. Intel ran a replacement programme for those (https://www.anandtech.com/show/11110/semi-critical-intel-ato... https://www.theregister.com/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_t...)
Right. And also, the photographer likely wants high ISO film, to be able to take a very short, crisp exposure of the moment of impact, without needing to gamble on the amount of cloud cover, and hence available light.

ISO 1600 colour film will have been available at the time, but was probably pretty poor compared to B&W.
Warehouse Tour, RI Computer Museum – 'Puter Smith [video]
One caveat being, some high quality things really do get drowned out or conceptually polluted by loudly advertised crap. It's a tangly problem that's for sure
>with a similar number of failed attempts as a human

I'd be hard to know how many failed attempts the human made. Humans are constantly thinking of ideas and eliminating them quickly. Possibly to fast to count.
I do too. I went through the exact same series of thoughts (didnt realize the space foil thing you mention) and figured im already fully invested since the form was filled
TFA sources Intel as saying even they don't know whether Laptops are affected, given similar circumstances.
Yeah, no.

You're overestimating how much overhead btrfs has. 500MB/s read/write is way more than it needs. I wasn't even doing any sustained writes.

In any case, I've been burned by btrfs issues on SSDs several times since 2018. Metadata issues, unrecoverable problems, corruption.

If you're ok with a filesystem causing hard freezes, then all power to you.

Not me. In my world, a filesystem that has this many issues is not a filesystem I want to use.

Edit: Can't reply to your reply. So here will do. Irrelevant how fast the USB is. If the filesystem has to do things slower, then simply do things slower. There's no excuse for hard freezes.

> You're trying to drive a Ferrari on a dirt road and claiming the dirt road is ar fault when your Ferrari has issues.

So btrfs in this metaphor is the Ferrari? Yes, my Ferrari definitely 100% has issues XD

Anyway, this particular USB drive I was able to push to the limit with XFS. Sustained reads and writes. Way more than the manufacturer would have tested for. And no freezes. I rest my case.
So where is the microcode update? I don't see anything for Linux yet.

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Dat...
Improving Cloud Storage Access Latency with Local NVMe SSD Caching
Just get a venous catheter installed. No sense in all this pouring and crockery.
Literally addressed in TFA:

"Intel has not halted sales or clawed back any inventory. It will not do a recall, period. The company is not currently commenting on whether or how it might extend its warranty. It would not share estimates with The Verge of how many chips are likely to be irreversibly impacted, and it did not explain why it’s continuing to sell these chips ahead of any fix."
> The majority of people in The Netherlands drive their car to get to work. They don't want to have to walk 10 minutes to an edge parking or city hub.

Not if that walk is through a car neighborhood, but if it’s through a neighborhood where there are almost no cars, good sidewalks, trees and grass?

Also, aren’t many neighborhoods already somewhat like that in the Netherlands, with limited on-street parking? Even if there’s a parking garage under an apartment building, it likely already is a 5-10 minute walk to get there.
Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy
I think nobody expects any major corporation to admit any fault on their part today, they are all too afraid to do so, thinking they will preserve their share prices this way.
I am approaching 20 years at the same company. Nothing I write for work can be taken and posted publicly. If a future employer wants to see examples of my work, I’d really have nothing to show them for that reason.

The only thing I do on LinkedIn is occasionally update my job title, if I get a promotion. I have a GitHub account, but there is nothing of value there and almost no activity. I’ve dabbled in blogging, but nothing if ever point anyone to.

If having a strong online brand is required for getting a new job, I just won’t get a new job I guess. Lucky for me, my old manager has told me I have a standing offer wherever he is working, if I ever want to leave where I’m currently at. I’ve had a couple other former co-workers reach out as well. I think those would be the ways I go after a new job at this point.

I don’t think it’s realistic for companies to expect everyone have all that stuff online. I’ve only seen that from one person we’ve hired. He had a fancy website as his resume, a bunch of projects on there, and maybe a blog. It honestly didn’t factor into the hiring discussion much, if at all. He was also no better than any of the other hires who didn’t have any of that stuff.

Even with my anemic online presence, I’ve had a couple FAANGs reach out looking to bring me in for interviews. One seemed like I scam, so I ignored it. It wasn’t, someone else on my team got the same message, replied, and works there now. The other I replied to and spoke with the recruiter, but I wasn’t willing to relocate, so we ended talks there.
That's awesome! We're just putting publicly available information (abstracts aggregated by the nonprofit Semantic Scholar) through a smarter and better search process, so there's no issues with Google. And we absolutely encourage sharing, people post our search reports and send them to colleagues all the time, so please go ahead on that front.
> lol ok genocide of hundreds of children who are actually still alive. I wish genocide was always like this.

Children abducted from Native Americans and forced into abusive charter schools also lived, but that doesn't make it any less of a genocide. If this prompts retarded "lol ok" reaction from you, then perhaps you should learn what geno and cide mean.

Russians kidnap children from Ukraine, forge new birth certificates that change their name, birthday and location of birth to erase all traces of Ukrainian background, and then put them up for adoption. This is textbook example of destruction of ethnicity through the abduction of children - or genocide.

> In the same way as nothing you said refutes nothing I said.

It did refute. Rape and other forms of sexual abuse on the scale unleashed by Russia is at levels unseen in many other armed conflicts. The behavior of Russians in the final months of the WWII, compared to the behavior of western allies, is a prime example of the sharp difference. The same legacy lived on in the Afghan war, Chechen wars, and now in the Ukrainian war.

Happens on a massive scale everywhere they go:

Allegations of rape by Russian mercenaries, who have a large presence in CAR’s restive north-west region, have escalated in recent months. Women and girls are avoiding going to the fields and markets, and food shortages are being reported as a result. /-/ In Bouar, the country’s fifth-largest town with a population of about 40,000, the growing attacks in the farmlands are having an impact on food production as women stay away from the fields. As a result, some food prices have increased by 50% in the last eight months.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/...
A compiler is exactly that. For example it turns the int literal 4738 into a binary representation.
There's also this cycle of complexity most programmers go through.

For example, I remember when I was told patterns were important, the time I put in memorizing, implementing and reviewing all these patterns, reading GoF, etc... Now, I'd just like something that works. Patterns are great for recognizing how code is intended to function, but tests are still the only way to verify the implementation of nontrivial code. And the smaller each contained unit of logic is, the more testable. So modularity and sensible, predictable interfaces are all you need.

I used to overengineer a lot more in my younger days. Now I'm just smarter about writing extensible code up front and improving it as I go.
GamersNexus has had great coverage throughout this problem, even before Intel disclosure

- Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs: https://youtu.be/oAE4NWoyMZk

- Intel Needs to Say Something: Oxidation Claims, New Microcode, & Benchmark Challenges: https://youtu.be/gTeubeCIwRw

- Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage: https://youtu.be/OVdmK1UGzGs
Coming in mid-August.
Nice write up - curious much did it end up costing?
Bad manager problem does not explain persistent technological lagging of USSR. There were good managers too, after all. The central reason is that any significant innovation implementation is a sort of travel to terra incognita. It's hard, and risky. So it requires someone who expects to get a reward big enough to pay for all the pain. Socialist/communist approach is not compatible with it on fundamental level as big rewards means inequality. Plenty of Soviet engineers proposed ineteresting ideas, and many of them were socialistically rewarded for them (e.g. "gramota" with Lenin's face, and maybe a small bonus), but very few people wanted to risk implementing those ideas. It was always better to rely on a low-risk approach: blueprints stolen from the West.
> The elevated voltages could potentially affect any 13th or 14th Gen desktop processor that consumes 65W or more power, not just the highest i9-series chips that initially seemed to be experiencing the issue.
For a very long time, Apple refused to commit to any kind of update policy, but people could simply see their update history. I see they did commit recently (five years since release) and that was due to a legal requirement.
Expected mid-August, just after the (slightly delayed) Ryzen 9000 launch. It's not known, but reasonably likely that this microcode patch will lower performance of the intel processors, so benchmarks between Ryzen 9000 and Intel 13th/14th gen will be artificially favorable to Intel's CPU's.

Taking a wider view - there's widespread belief that both AMD and Intel are pushing the clocks of their CPU's too hard from the factory, and it's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma. If these types of issues force one company to set less aggressive clock speeds, the other company should be able to follow suit. Then end-users / partner channels would get more stable CPU's and enthusiasts would get a little extra headroom for overclock potential to play with if they are lucky with getting a "golden" CPU that can handle slightly higher voltages.

Back in the day, overclockers expected to get a 25% chance of failure from aggressive overclocks, but it was just an accepted risk on their end. Obviously CPU's shouldn't have clock/voltage/temperature curves with 25% failure straight from the factory - which Intel's currently do!
For certain chips like the 13900HX (mobile) vs 13900K, I believe they are the exact same chip. The difference is the mobile version is binned for power usage so that it can run on a laptop.

To the extent that this degradation is wholly voltage/power related, laptop chips are much less likely to degrade. They are selected to run at lower voltages and power AND their peak boost frequency is lower.

To the extent that this degradation is caused by poor design, the laptop chips that are binned versions of their desktop chips are vulnerable to the same sorts of issues.

edit: I am familiar with the 13900HX because that's what I have in my laptop and I have been trying to follow along in case I need to RMA my laptop or do some microcode update for it.
Great product!

One thing I'd improve is how it asks followup questions.

For example, I asked "What are the best types of videogames that improve cognition?"

The followup response was

```

Are you specifically looking for studies that focus on cognitive improvements as measured by standardized tests, or are you more interested in everyday functional improvements observed in real-world settings?

Could you be more precise about which cognitive domains you're interested in? For example, are you focusing on memory, problem-solving, attention, or something else? Additionally, are you looking for papers that compare different genres of videogames (e.g., action, puzzle, strategy) or studies targeting specific age groups or populations (e.g., children, older adults)?

Lastly, are you interested in experimental studies where the cognitive benefits were directly measured pre- and post-intervention, or are observational studies that report correlations between videogame use and cognitive performance also of interest to you? Understanding this will help determine the type of articles we should prioritize in the search.

```

It would be great if it turned those into multiple choice. For example:

```

Could you be more precise about which cognitive domains you're interested in?

[] memory

[] problem-solving

[] attention

[] something else (please specify)

```

Would save a ton of time having to reply/ reread everything.
Rust can Compete with Python [video]
They will, however, inevitably be sued.
People think of advertisements/sponsorships as "free money" to support things that otherwise couldn't be budgeted for (arts, sports, infrastructure), but if you think a bit deeper companies wouldn't pay for ads if they didn't expect a return on it.

If an ad during a sports game pays the teams/league 10 million dollars, that means they expect the audience to spend in aggregate 10 million more dollars on the product. Sure, the company might be making a bad bet, and sometimes they do, but surely it would be better for everyone involved (except the advertisers and advertising company) if the league/teams just charged customers 10 million dollars more (not necessarily 10 million/ticket number per ticket, it could be merch, or perks, or upcharging for the nicer seats, but they do that anyway).

If you think about it, ads are basically a tool to fix broken monetization. But as long as they exist, we'll never address why monetization is so broken, and I suspect people would be more willing to spend disposable income on the things they actually enjoy, instead of the things they see ads for.
This. I may still give up on running ZFS on Linux due to the common (seemingly intentional from the Linux side) breakage, but for my existing systems switching them over to CachyOS repos has been a blessed relief.
> They'd have to a) know they got a suspicious file, b) know how to find its password, and then c) upload it to Google.

One scenario might be:

1. Some dodgy website A hosts a file on a different file uploader website B.

2. File is encrypted with some password that's visible on website A, but not visible to any other website that hotlinks to the file on website B.

3. User visiting website A has some idea of what they might find in the file that they just downloaded, but because website A has a dodgy reputation, and Chrome offered to check the downloaded file on their behalf, they then willingly submit the password that was found on website A.

Users do #3 because it's convenient. Also, they would be protected from whatever bug that might have been triggered on extraction.

Though personally what I would do is download the file, extract it locally, and scan it locally. Assuming that I trusted the website in the first place.
i read the article and had the same conclusion, i was expecting "over-engineering" in the solution complexity sense, the article is more like market analysis and initial capacity planning.
>> The CRE problem is not a creature of debt. It’s a function of a previously-useful asset becoming, suddenly, less useful.

While I agree with that, the reason it's become a national economic problem is because of the scale of the problem. I probably would not be as big a deal if interest rates never went so low.
Intel's statements in the article make it sound like they want to just sweep it under the rug. They don't plan to halt sales, won't do a recall, don't plan to inform customers, tell you not to be worried about permanently damaging your CPU because a future microcode update will make sure that from that date onward it won't be damaged from this specific cause (which seems to be one of multiple) and they don't have a comment on whether they will extend the warranty
MicroCenter, a USA-based gamer/enthusiast focused computer retailer, sends me emails with motherboard/CPU/RAM bundles - they always have at least 1 AMD and 1 Intel option featured.

The most recent one I got featured the Intel 12th gen CPU; no mention in the ad of 13th/14th gen CPUs, which is what they have been featuring for months, up to now.