skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon chips degrading under high temperature and voltage is very well known. "Overclocking" was (is?) the game of deliberately turning CPU frequency up to get better performance, and turning voltage up to get stable performance, while trying to keep the chip cool enough for this to broadly work out. If you push the envelope a bit hard the stable overclock becomes unstable over time and turning down the voltage and frequency can make it stable again. That behaviour is pretty well documented. Happens to memory too.

When you draw more current - i.e. make the chip do work - the voltage drops. "Load line calibration" was introduced as a way to crank the applied voltage up as the chip worked harder to offset this. Alternatively phrased, if you set the voltage so that it works well under load, it's kind of set too high for idle, so LLC gives a way to decrease idle voltage.

There was some discussion at the time about the wisdom of this. The voltage rings when you change it (overshoots), and it's not that clear whether high voltage at idle matters very much (since the chip is cooler then). I remember reading a bunch of articles, then some materials science books, then turning off LLC in the bios as probably a misfeature.

The current Intel problem is they've built a reputation on being the fastest and the most reliable CPU. Then they lost fastest to chiplets at AMD, so adjusted to "fastest single core". They really didn't want to lose that too, and CPU's run faster when you push more voltage through them, so that's what they did.

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"Intel silicon degradation" currently refers to people noticing that desktop processors from the last couple of generations were degrading, despite not being overclocked. Some finger pointing there, Intel encourages motherboards to set fairly aggressive out of the box controls because it looks good under review. Also some more recent reports that mobile chips have the same behaviour. At a guess, the desktop ones have the voltage too high and the mobile ones are running at much higher temperature. Some reports are mentioning LLC which would be personally satisfying if it turns out to be the root cause.

I'm waiting to see if reports of degradation start to emerge on the Xeon line. Intel is claiming there's no risk of that but they're made out of the same magic sand and under really heavy competitive pressure from the Epyc chips. They've also got rather high power consumption relative to previous generations.

As to whether the same thing will hit AMD - probably not. If you take one of their chips and push the voltage up, yeah, it'll have the same degradation over time. But they're not running out of the box at the edge of feasible to try to cope with the competition because chiplets are winning the day. Also AMD doesn't have the gilded reputation of Intel to rely upon if reliability comes under question. The incentives are pointing in the opposite direction.
That might have some use cases. I may not be the target audience, but I could see it. What I was trying to say is "a mouse button that opens up a hardcoded window!!!!" was all the hype in 1998, all it takes now is to retitle the window, and all is brand new. Three decades of PROGRESS :D
What Is a SEPA End-to-End-ID?
Depends on the circuit that you are dialling out onto.

I know where I work there are some rules about presenting whatever number you want on our trunk provider, but this is something they have put in place themselves with no "legal" reason for them to do it. We've been working with them for years so we are one of their trusted clients and have the ability to present any number we want as long as we have permission to do so from the number owner.

The fact its up to the trunk provider to put these rules in place and not just standard everywhere is wild to me.
The percentage of commutes by car in Northern and Southern European cities ranges from 50% to 75%

I’m not sure where Americans get the idea Europeans don’t commute by car.
Any sources for this?

Doesn't sound something that would hold up since you can't just sign away your rights in sane jurisdictions.
I think he was being sarcastic, but can't tell exactly.
I think when tech people think of becoming a farmer they're thinking of doing something small like this https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/gourmet-farmer and maybe something like Clarkson's Farm (Series on Amazon Prime) rather than going to build and manage a modern industrial farm.

In some ways this idea of becoming a farmer can be thought of as rich people cosplaying at being a farmer rather than actually running a for-profit farm. For some this might work out and be an actual career that they are good at, but for others it might just be a hobby.

Though both the TV shows I mentioned show how much hard work there is in actually running a farm and producing food.
You have very much drunk the koolaid if you believe that Judicial Review for Constitutionality is a "fundamental function" of the Supreme Court. Perhaps it's radical of me, but I generally prefer that government institutions act within the law; and there's nothing in the law that gives them that power.

What I was saying, and have attempted to clarify multiple times now, is that Marbury v. Madison [and the other cases that have expanded the Supreme Court's power] has set a culture. You said it yourself: "then reversing the restraint just means that at worst the SC is (ab)using its constitutional powers 'without restraint' to interpret laws". Them discarding judicial restraint is a consequence of such a culture.

I feel like I've emphasised this point enough and it doesn't need further clarification. Cya, I guess.
You'll need to branch on most operations to check "am i small?". This may cause issues with the Branche predictor.
People tend to lose weight from dieting, not exercise. Unless you're training for a marathon or something, even vigorous exercise tends to burn so few calories that an hour at the gym can be erased with a single trip to McDonald's.
Windows supports eBPF. CrowdStrike was written before that supports existed, though.
What's the explanation? Better schools in Bangalore or something else?
On the other hand When you frame sales as helping to solve real problems it flips this toxic script and transforms the entire profession into something that can be amazing to be a part of.
Teenage.engineering must be owned by “people of leisure”, creating things they feel are personally fun and satisfying without worrying about the business side of things like profitability.

Sure the OP-1 and the PO-400 are cool, but the price of the OP-1 Field is a non-starter and the usability of the K.O II would make lookmumnocomputer cry.

Now… this!?! Who would look at this and say “yes, I need one of these” (I just checked the date to make sure it’s not either April 1st or Halloween)

Maybe they’re really performance artists wanting to hone their industrial design skills in parallel on the side
There are just very few applications that actually need all of this. maybe 1 tot 0.1%, for instance vercel might need it. But 95-99% can just run on several "simple" servers & keep deployment times within minutes and no complicated stuff needed. Yet Kubernetes get's pushed all the time.
+1 from me for supporting innovators and folks doing good things for the right reasons. I'm in a privileged position to be able to have this as an "extra" machine, and I want these folks to sustain and succeed.
And they'll say that it's only bad when China does it.
Which will likely affect performance as well, right? As I understood it, they were too ambitious with pushing performance using higher voltages, which now needs to be reduced using a microcode update?
perfect again, thank you!
Twitter CEO Yaccarino Files Suit Against Advertising Groups over Boycott
That's a problem for the claimant to solve. For any other dispute they would have to file against john doe and get the court to find out the identity of the accused if the case isn't completely bogus. There is no reason why copyright disputes should be able you short-circuit that sanity check.
When I decided to put the text like that, I had looked at maybe 10-20 of the biggest price comparison websites across different countries because I of course want to make sure I respect all regulations that there are. I found that many of them don't even write anywhere that the links may be sponsored, and you have to go to the "about" page or similar to find this. I think that I actually go further than most of them when it comes to making it known that some links may be sponsored.

Now that you mention idealo, there seems to be no mention at all on a product page that they are paid by the stores, you have to click the "rank" link in the footer to be brought to a page https://www.idealo.de/aktion/ranking where they write this.
yeah maybe it does, but when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Kubernetes is used all the time nowadays on simple projects just because it's the most intellectual pleasing solution. This is creating high maintainance costs by locking in companies with extremely complicated software where it's just not needed.
Jack Nicholson's Joker tried to warn us
Reader version on mobile seem broken. Hiding reader show a longer article
The entire NPM ecosystem is a garbage fire. Who cares about whatever 'principles' it supposedly has? Other than avoiding malware I can't think of something I care about less than whatever principles NPM / JS developers in general have because they've mostly been bad so far.

I wouldn't be surprised if principles in this case leave us with thousands of spam packages degrading the node ecosystem forever. It'd be exactly what I expect. So I guess I should thank the principle of consistency.
That is a blatantly incorrect summary. Might you have dismissed the article too early?
you 100% did write about it, reading that now - where did you get it fabbed? tell me more :-)
If you care about not losing your data you should reconsider using turso.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539595

Really, use some proven and mature tech for your data. Don't jump on every hype train. In case of SQLite self hosting is especially easy using https://litestream.io/.
Well, no. That’s the reason we have hash cash (the pow algo for bitcoin)

Bitcoin itself, as with most early cryptocurrencies, is and was a protest against banks and centralized finance.
not every company is going to massive or in the billions. but plenty of companies in the 100m - 500m revenue range. to get there, yeah you usually need vc money.
No, "guard" in Swift is special. Once you're in the "else" block, you MUST return or call a non-returning function (e.g. abort).

It's specifically designed to prevent bugs where flow control accidentally resumes from an error handler.

It's the same idea as the "every 'if' must have an 'else'" guideline in the code being discussed, except with "guard" the compiler will detect violations. It's a good thing.
So IoT killed his cow.

"The Zug farmer Bircher was lucky that certain parts of his milking systems were disconnected from the computer. He was able to continue milking his livestock despite the hacker attack."

Don't connect important machines to the internet... all these hacker stories comes down to the same fundamental mistake.

If not as a privacy and rent seeking nightmare. You are in reach of every hooligan in the world.
In order for someone to be aggressively buying puts, someone else has to be aggressively selling them.

These things aren’t that reliably directional as the headline makes it seem
It’s not a foundry issue, it’s a “how far can we push voltage for better performance to compensate for older architectures” problem. That’s why it can be resolved using a microcode update.
Show HN: Built a tool to auto-create Gantt chart timelines from task lists
The K.O II makes the Octatrack look like a UX Award Winner
Is it just me or is quality decreasing catastrophically everywhere? I'm seeing it in solvents for my LC, a sudden uptick in food recalls, tools that just rust if you look at them funny...
One of the best gear demo I watched in last few years
We already did. The format supports attaching related content, the scraped info, with the archive itself. So you get your data along with the means to generate it yourself if you want something different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARC_(file_format)
Hi HN,

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Hmm… “good” is relative. Lots of stuff out there

Ciani has been a pioneer in this space since the 70’e
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Ciani

Check out the boiler room set of
https://caterinabarbieri.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25FTlO42VY

Vogelsinger has pieces all over YouTube.
https://helenevogelsinger.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxheEGl2oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25FTlO42VY

Some others that come to mind:
https://polypores.bandcamp.com/

https://bluetech.bandcamp.com/music

Evan B’s label for this music only
https://www.behindtheskymusic.com/
I switched to stainless steel, maybe issues with chromium and nickel though. It's also not non-stick, but if you add oil to a dry pan after it's already heated it up, it will form a sort of non-stick surface. (Scratches in the pan surface will impede this effect)
Few new features (not revolutionary) and bigger memory
ChatGPT as OCR for PDFs
“subatomic particles, contrary to what scientists thought, are always symmetrical.”

This cannot be called challenging a law of nature. He questions what his colleagues generally believed. He challenges a convention of physics profession not a law of nature. But we know that media must exaggerate to sell papers.
The rise of 'ento-veganism': how eating crickets could help save the world
Hi and thanks :)

I did not created such thing ... but You can use SingleFile browser extension:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

To save entire page with images and videos as a single HTML file.

Use it this way:

- https://i.imgur.com/vFiPhFv.png

Not exactly what You needed - but still IMHO a step into right direction.

Regards,

vermaden
Fascinating, thank you!

One small correction, Wikipedia claims that the prohibition against brewing during the summer months was to minimize fire risk, not spoilage.

> The cool seasons were chosen to minimize the risk of fire when boiling mashed grain into wort. Numerous conflagrations had occurred, which resulted in the prohibition of brewing during the summer months. In response, large breweries dug cellars in the banks of the River Isar to keep their beer cool during storage. "Beer cellars" for consuming beer on premises naturally followed.
That was my first thought… I thought it was silly, but it was my first thought.
People with the talent/skills/motivation to make music will end up making music with whatever they can get their hands on, and for anyone who doesn't fall into that category, no amount of equipment purchasing will fix it.
I have doubt for any of the big tech companies - not just microsoft.

Microsoft are profit driven and if any opportunity comes where they can trap you, they will. Same with Amazon. Same with Google. Etc.

I do not hate them... I accept the world we live in where they will dominate and control whatever they can. I just do my best to limit using their tools.

I work for companies using google or microsoft. At home, I keep to free software as much as I can.
Sonnet 3.5 has a lot of alignment issues. It many times refused to answer simple coding questions I asked, just because it considered them "unsafe". 4o is much more relaxed.
Regarding math, sonnet is a bit better than 4o though.
Watchdog to fine NHS IT firm £6M after medical records hack
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It’s a parody of the writing style of the article itself, all excitement and noise, saying little to nothing.
Are those usually discounted via coupon sites?
you submitted data about Iraq, before Iraq invasion and on other countries too. now everyone knows how much truth that was. The point is whenever the country got natural resources such as oil and gas and want to use it for themselves that benefits people they face all this democracy, freedom and election rigging issues. everyone in the world can see that, except people of usa, who are brainwashed too much.
Some vendors offer "in-store prices" on Instacart.
How far you can push the voltage is definitely foundry technology dependent. If Intel foundry internally specced a voltage that actually damages a chip I would say it IS a foundry issue.
V for Vernal!
I think it’s inaccurate to say that they don’t need talent to keep the lights on at Twitter. Maybe not a lot of new architectural development is happening, but you definitely need a lot of ops people that know what they’re doing to keep the lights on there.
Implementing it is one thing. Continue supporting it another
I've managed to convince myself over the years I wouldn't actually use any of Teenage Engineering's stuff, however I might lust after it. But 200 hours of Manor Lords and a Lankum gig later, this was the fastest £249 I've ever spent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9mRQK9kCHA
I did something very similar but for the price of wood from sellers here in the UK but instead of Platwright, which I'd never heard of at the time, I used NodeRED.

You just reminded me, it's probably still running today :-D
I really like that the CPUs from the last few rounds have a mini-GPU on board. This is a 16 core, 4.3GHz base processor, with pcie 5. It's going to work really nicely for misc software dev. The onboard GPU probably can't do gaming in satisfactory fashion but it'll drive a bunch of monitors just fine.
Hence the term "hobby farm". It is a retirement dream: buy some land, hire some locals to do the lifting, and spend a few months each year pretending to be a farmer ... but one not fettered by financial concerns. Such people toy with various farm-related schemes but invariably settle in to a low-work pace with a few farm animals as pets, a back acre strewn with the various implements they bought and discarded after a season or two. Clarkson seems pretty open about this. I'm not sure whether he means to be entertaining, to show the absurdity of the process, or whether he actually enjoys it.
From your numbers Vantablack is 0.035%, whereas the new process bottoms out at 0.3%. So they’re within 10x of Vantablack, but not on the same level.
Its more my summary of the case. I'm not sure if this needs to devolve into machine rights though. If you treat the computer just like a tool, then it comes down to is it ok to mimic an artist using raw talent, but not using technology like samplers or vocal modulation? Does intent matter? It would suck if naturally sounding like Robert Plant was not a blessing but a curse.

Personally, I think the law is going to decide that you can't make the tool by feeding it copyrighted material without permission. And maybe go further by requiring permission of the performers (who may not be the copyright holders, say in the other high profile case of mimicking Hollywood actors, or just public domain material or bootleg recordings). Not sure what will happen to ownership of material generated by such a tool though. Or if you can make these tools in the privacy of your own home.

I think the law already treats humans different to some machines, such as photocopiers or VHS recorders.
DuckDB has their own string type (quite similar to this) that deviates from Arrow (large)-string type, so it had to do a copy anyway. Nothing has changed on that front.
Ye imagine if you got 50c for each call or email you received not on a whitelist and the social contract was to refund it by pressing #1 after the call ended or whatever.

Pay numbers are a thing so I guess it should be doable.
Yeah, I could see this going either way. The "default" vs "only" nuance is one that can be exploited by Google in their appeal and even though it's a monopoly one could argue that they simply just became better than competitors. Whether the means used to get there were illegal is a different question.
We're talking about kids here though, not all commuters.

And at least in the Netherlands, sample size of my office (around 300 people) maybe a dozen people max commute by car because they live ~2 hours away or in tiny villages where the trains are only hourly rather than every 10 minutes. I'd assume that metric varies a lot depending on the country you're looking at, and if we're talking about how kids go to school/practice/wherever, I'm willing to bet even in car-heavy European countries that the vast majority of kids take public transport or their bikes.

I have friends with kids in the (rural) North of the Netherlands, and their kid's school is ~15km away from their house. The kids bike that every day, to quote my friend, "they've got legs and wheels, why would I chauffeur them around?"
Imap library to dump the attachment, pandoc to convert it to html, then DOM library to parts it statically.

Likely easier than website scraping.
I think that's true for most package managers. That if there's a lock file, there's typically a default command to use it for installs and ignore the main config file.
Secret warrants only in the context of counterintelligence and counterespionage investigations that target foreigners.

Which in that particular context I don’t know what else would possibly be considered a reasonable alternative.

The vast majority of countries don’t have to go in front of a court at all to do this exact same thing they just go ahead and do it. I know people here tend to get super pissed about the boogeyman that is FISA but if you had a more transparent example to point to I would love to see it. I think people get really caught up on the fact that they personally don’t have access to that information and then make a large magical leap to all kinds of conclusions that aren’t based in reality at all.

If that system was being abused to go after illegitimate targets for example then sure, that’s something to be pissed about but I don’t think we have any compelling evidence of that at this stage.

I just find the entire public debate on this topic incredibly lacking in nuance but never lacking in conviction.
This is the type of scheme that would be improved hugely by adapting IDF: instead of full copies he'd make the majority incremental or differential, saving time.

I realized today that the mechanism, given multiple devices, where in an IDF one does not always backup from "target" to "drive" but occasionnally from "drive" to "drive" could unlock new possibilities.

Regardless, I would mention IDF to your friend, with the note that he'd have to use backup software that encrypts for it because encrypted LUKS images don't tell their contents and thus can't be used in IDF. This actually leads to the last point about interfaces and tools in my post: it seems that to gain the efficiency of IDF a tool must at least offer encryptation.

Consequently, we get yet another theoretical question: How should the cryptography in IDF-TOH be implemented?

I mean: making F 16 words, D 8 subwords of F, I 4 subwords of F, would hugely improve security!
This is cool and all but can you name a single case where filing bogus DMCA notices has lead to any real consequences for the abuser?
Thx! Will look into that.