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> the Linux kernel has 849 overflow and memory corruption CVEs

4 years ago, they had 40 memory-corruption-related CVEs. Their actual vulnerability count hasn't increased by 2122% over 4 years – rather, they've become a CVE numbering authority and have started self-assigning CVEs even when there is no evidence of a vulnerability:

> Due to the layer at which the Linux kernel is in a system, almost any bug might be exploitable to compromise the security of the kernel, but the possibility of exploitation is often not evident when the bug is fixed. Because of this, the CVE assignment team is overly cautious and assigns CVE numbers to any bugfix that they identify. This explains the seemingly large number of CVEs that are issued by the Linux kernel team.

<https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/2024021430-blanching-spotter...>

Having a huge number of self-issued CVEs is a policy decision on the part of the Kernel maintainers.
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Both of those things might be true, but to me, it looks more like the board is acting out of fear of shareholder lawsuits. Pat's strategy has significantly destroyed value because the market lacks visibility.

Dropping Pat will alleviate their feeling of having to do "something."

As for M&A, it wouldn't just have to be approved at the DoJ. And the Chinese will never ever approve of it (but would have to). If they do a transaction without approval from the CMA, it would be like a nuclear financial war.

I think it's high time to gut intel into parts, a la GE. Sell the Fabless to QCOM or BCOM. Sell the Fabs of one by one to GF, Tower, UMC or even tsmc. Find a PE firm for the leading edge and reconstrue it with significant rnd credits as a kind of Bell labs 2.0.

Or something like that.
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s mandatory to like all of Tor’s authors but it seemed somewhat unlikely that the entire list would be female. I consider Chambers a comfort read, but I wouldn’t say she has all that much in common with, say, Ursula Vernon or Nghi Vo.
https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...
As expected, another one of the many that conflates well trained relative pitch with absolute.

Perfect pitch, for me, was an incredibly smooth and long learning curve. For each new instrument or texture I learned, I went from only hearing relative intervals, to being able to say, “this piece is probably in D major”, to being able to trace along the exact notes of the melody and bass lines, to being able to instantly lock onto notes when I wanted to. These weren’t discrete transitions either; I would have good days and bad days for recognizing pitches, and over time I would have more and more good days.

All this is indistinguishable from a person who has had received substantial ear training as is indeed the case with the author, and that is ofc commendable.

However AP is a completely different ability which largely boils down to at the very least being able to immediately [1] recognize the Hz aka note-name of any pitch-producing entity (keyboard/string/woodwind/brass instruments, toothbrush, drinking glass, car horn, airplane engines, door rattles etc.) with 100% success rate. There are even more strict definitions like being able to identify every single note of a specific cluster and there's variability of maximum number of notes each AP possessor is able to distinguish.

Also, short of old age and intoxication/sickness, the distinguishing ability is not affected i.e. no good or bad days.

All studies that attempted training any person past the infancy for this type of ability have failed and this probably includes even the notorious Valproate study [2].

I'm not saying this particular ability has no neuroscientific interest and I get the appeal of it being 'magical' however one can't help but sigh at how dreadfully disappointed so many musicians, some of them even very talented, feel for not possessing this. Maybe one could argue about it being a bit more important, not crucial though, in orchestral composition however the target audience feeling desperate to acquire it, which is perfomers of music, is definitely misdirected.

But even then, the article unintentionally presents a 'happy-ending' type of story; the author most likely definitely did not obtain AP ability but what they're describing is exactly what everyone who wants to have impeccable aural skills should strive for, and I'd wager there are many studying musicians that haven't developed their skills to the extent the author managed (and would greatly benefit from). Let's just don't perpetuate elitist obsolete conservatoire culture, which is largely where the AP possessor superiority comes from.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/7OefC0i.png

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3848041/
It's so much worse. They put a CFO and a Marketing/Sales professional in charge.
Their reason for not using btrfs as a multi-device volume manager is not specified, though it's reasonable to infer that it is because btrfs's own built-in volume management/RAID wasn't suitable. That's not really very surprising: back in ~2016 when Synology started using btrfs, these features were still somewhat nascent even though other parts of the filesystem were starting to become more mature. To this day, btrfs RAID is still pretty limited, and I wouldn't recommend it. (As far as I know, btrfs RAID5/6 is even still considered incomplete upstream.) On the other hand, btrfs subvolumes as a whole are relatively stable, and that and other features are used in Synology DSM and ChromeOS.

That said, there's really nothing particularly wrong with using btrfs with another block-level volume manager. I'm sure it seems silly since it's something btrfs ostensibly supports, but filesystem-level redundancy is still one of those things that I think I would generally be afraid to lean on too hard. More traditional RAID at the block level is simply going to be less susceptible to bugs, and it might even be a bit easier to manage. (I've used ZFS raidz before and ran into issues/confusion when trying to manage the zpool. I have nothing but respect for the developers of ZFS but I think the degree to which people portray ZFS as an impeccable specimen of filesystem perfection is a little bit unrealistic, it can be confusing, limited, and even, at least very occasionally, buggy too.)
Interesting. I had "S.M.I.L.E" surgery about 8 years ago, and I find the opposite to be better for me. At night, I dim my instrument panel to as dark as possible.
"Incompatible hardware" is their corporate speak for any hardware that weakens vendor lock-in and propagation of MSFT-centered consumerism.
I don’t use windows so not sure.
How dare you insult monkeys. :0 lol. They have better short term memories than humans, per 2007 study by Tetsuro Matsuzawa and colleagues at the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan.
How much are you paying, I may have some students that are looking for internships.
Huh? That's a weird take. What should they have done? Left the entrance to their headquarters with a Sun Microsystems logo rather than their own? The Sun Microsystems sign continues to be there at the end of Willow Road, just facing toward the campus vs toward the street.

This is doing more to honor Sun than any other realistic choice they could have made.
But they absolutely can. Go see Friedemann Freese Copycat, which has zero unique rules: Everything is stolen from a popular game insiders know. Hell, it even has a misprint on purpose, matching a famous misprint! You can teach it in 5 minutes to the right people, just by reference.

The modern, kickstarter heavy 3 hour monstrosity just can't assume that the buyer has played all the games that have the same mechanics they are basically lifting from elsewhere, while only explaining the 2 or 3 places where they are doing anything interesting. But when you go through lives rules explanations among people in industry, half of the rules are really handled by reference, because you know what is going on. With some designers, the rules are almost unnecessary, as the played aids and the graphic design do 90% of the work. I've played that game with a certain designer: He sat there to answer questions, but he didn't even hand us a rulebook, or provide an explanation. Just the components in front of us and 'figure it out', as an experiment on the game's learnability
> the drones are left with a bit more autonomy than the Star Trek equivalents

I'm not sure I would describe it as more autonomy. The central ship computer was absolutly dominant within the hive mind, and had control over the ancillaries at all time.

It's more like personalities of the ancillaries feed back into the hive mind at a somewhat subconscious level, and had quite a bit of impact on the overall personality.

> If you're interested in a big space opera about an empire falling apart I found the Collapsing Empire series by John Scalzi to be much more engaging.

Yeah, the Imperial Radch series is not about the empire falling apart. That's just something happening in the background, which sometimes drives the plot forwards. Its primary goal is to explore the question of "what does it mean to be human"

I really enjoyed John Scalzi's Collapsing Empire series, which is directly about the fall of a civilisation, and how to save the people.

The interesting thing is that Collapsing Empire bucks the usual trend of empires falling apart because they grew too big, internal political instability or external rivals. It was stable and only falls apart because the form of FTL they were using to connect their star systems fell apart, and none of the star systems were self sufficient.

Also in the genre of "space operas with collapsing empires", I do recommend Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire.
Just to clarify, the x32 mixers are digital mixers (not analog). So they have non-trivial computing power (for some definitions of “non-trivial”), reasonable amounts of onboard storage/memory, and network connectivity.

This allows them to be programmed as general purpose computers.
This is exactly how I can rapidly prototype things. Once proficient with this tooling is becomes very easy to quickly spin up services and PoCs. Managing it and iterating is also a breeze.
I have perfect pitch–your color analogy is exactly how I describe my bewilderment that it isn’t the default state for humans.
Agreed.

He should have cut 25% of the workforce to get started (and killed the dividend).

Also - the European expansion and Ohio projects, while good short-term strategies, were too early.

Cut the ship down to size and force existing sites to refocus or be closed. Get alarmist. Make sure you cut out all the bad apples. Prune the tree. Be ruthless and determined.

They should hire Reed Hastings now. He's the OG turnaround king.
Here's the thing: the Dems will never be rewarded for restoring a shitty status-quo that is systematically eroded every few years. They need to embrace radical, popular change. Trump is a populist who understands that he can do all sorts of destructive, vile shit if he just promises the right people the right things.
And all the while they had blue dog conservatives like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson handicapping the proceedings.
Here's a fun render of how a real life Gerver's Sofa could look:

https://www.mdpi.com/symmetry/symmetry-14-01409/article_depl...

I kinda want one...

Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1409
Feels like you'd be a fan of
- https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect
- https://github.com/PrefectHQ/ControlFlow

Motivated by more or less the same frustration you've laid out here.
Haha, I agree with you on Murderbot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301763

And I liked the initial Imperial Radch and I liked the idea of the fracturing empire and the gender bits but my feelings now about it are influenced by some of the characters’ overthinking. Then again, perhaps placing a troop transport sentient ship’s mind into a person gives them terrible social anxiety.

Still, I was recommending it soon after I read it. These are opinions that I have now a long while after.
Some of the language in this article is a bit odd, and appears to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of satellites and orbital mechanics. The orbits of spy satellites are hardly "irregular", nor can they "shift direction often". Orbits are exactly regular, by definition. Orbital parameter changes do happen but are rare. Even the largest spy satellites have only very limited ΔV capability. And there are no stealth satellites: it's impossible to hide any large object in orbit. Amateur astronomers have identified the orbital parameters of all spy satellites.

The secret part about spy satellites is not their location but rather their payload. I suspect the reason the government wants to censor images is that a high-resolution picture could allow an adversary to infer a lot about payloads including imaging resolution, communications frequencies, power budget, and possibly even defensive systems.
Why is it important to have a static outbound ip address?
From what I understand Joe DeRisi's approach[0] comes relatively close to your "blender" idea!

[0]: I already mentioned Adam Savage's excellent podcast with him elsewhere in this dicussion but here's a direct link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzzD2F73iGU&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB
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Building a receipt management platform for <10 employee businesses to give them an easier way to track deductions. Want to offer them Working Capital loans, but need a vendor. Recommendations? Thank you!
The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.
Yes -- agree with you on Ancillary Justice (could not finish it) and Scalzi's Collapsing Empire is fantastic. Eric Thomson's Ashes of Empire series is sort of in a similar vein, although IMO not as good.
Unfortunately we gotta do both. Overlay networks like wireguard might be a good stepping stone to move software towards IPv6 anyway
>It is also why party games and simple card games stay so popular because the rules are always less than 5 minutes.

It's worth noting that "simple" games are not always simplistic, especially when they're head-to-head. I've played thousands of games of Haggis (which for two players could be played with an ordinary deck of playing cards and a notepad to keep score) online, and I can tell you that expert-level strategy gets into some pretty deep thinking.

I've also played thousands of games of Dominion online, and got to a level that I'd consider competent - above what almost any casual player would ever reach, but still awful next to real experts. A lot of people seem to hate that game in the board gaming circles I used to hang out in - a lot of players get the impression that simple strategies beat more complex ones, and the endgame is boring because you most often acquire victory points via otherwise-useless cards that clog your deck. But on a large fraction of possible "kingdoms" (and the random choice of card piles adds a huge amount of variety to the game), there are complex "engines" available that crush the simpler strategies. It's just that you actually have to learn how to implement them, which simply does not flow directly from a mechanical description of what the cards do no matter how well you teach it.

Which is to say, yes, card-driven games have some huge advantages - both when the cards define new rules space (the Dominion / Fluxx / M:tG way), but also just when they're a relatively simple component of an abstract, heads-up, imperfect information game (the Haggis / poker way). The latter benefit, I think, from a higher level of general expertise: children are commonly taught to play various sorts of card games, so they're a very familiar implement that can draw on a lot of powerful design language (set collection mechanics, numerical "ranks" vs symbolic "suits", etc.).
I tend to agree the graph approach is wrong.

I have a meta question though - there seems to be a huge amount of activity in this space of LLM agent related developer tooling. Are people actually successfully and reliably delivering services which use LLMs? (Meaning services which are not just themselves exposing LLMs or chat style interfaces).

It seems like 18 months ago people were running around terrified, but now almost the opposite.
> Hearts is a trick taking game.

Just as an FYI: from the perspective of someone who very rarely plays card games this sentence is absolutely incomprehensible. The explanation would have been better without it. (For me.) It leaves me thinking what the heck a trick might be. I know card tricks where a magician asks you to pick a card and then things happen and later they magically identify the card. Or i know “tricking” people in the bluffing with card sense. But the heck would anyone “take” any of the above? Maybe the goal is that someone will bluff and we are supposed to “take it” as in believe othes bluffs and that is somehow the game? Oh but now from the description it sounds the goal is to not “take” the points so then isn’t that a “trick not-taking” game? Or a “trick forcing” as in the active thing is to force others to take the “trick” when they would rather not?

Board game geeks do this often. They have seen so many games before that they learned to identify patterns in the rules and they learned names for those patterns. They say something like “this is a pool bulding, hidden movement game with the added twist that your blurbs can smorg on backturns too, let’s play”. Which is fine, as long as they play with other board game geeks. But if they also want to play with us non-boardgamegeeks these sentences confuse more than explain. Because i might be just sitting there trying to figure out where will i find water for my pool, when actually what they meant… i don’t even know what they meant. Same way as i have no clue what is a trick and why would anybody taking it in the game you are describing.
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At steady state, a classical black hole is fully described just mass, charge, and angular momentum. So there are no individual particles. Which itself was disconcerting to physicists because in the quantum world, information is supposed to be conserved. But they were okay-ish with it being "trapped in there somewhere". Hawking radiation is what blew that up because now the black hole evaporates. So now, nobody really knows. Lots of ideas, the most prominent being holograms on the boundary, but the math is still far from complete, and obviously experiments are even further.
I’m not convinced that mTLS or OIDc are good ideas
> 26€ V60

Whoa, are they going for 26 euros in Europe? That's around 10x as expensive as they're sold in Japan. Or are you referring to the glass/ceramic ones?
The article does mention it at the end. The reality is Clinton, Obama, and Biden were all corporate-friendly centrists.
I saw someone recommend a site called "The Storygraph" recently - haven't tried it yet, but it seems like an interesting alternative to Goodreads.

In particular the "moods" feature caught my eye.
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Ask HN: Why did you decide to make the background a bright white color?
I remember when the first CRT monitors were around, the brightness was not enough, and it was considered normal to make a bright background to improve the contrast of the text. But now, when LCD monitors are very bright, it is harmful to make the entire screen bright.

I will make a tour into history to better understand the question. In 1990, I had a ZX Spectrum computer. It was called that because it was color, and the previous model was black and white. The computer had 8 colors, and also had a high-brightness mode, which gave 8 more colors. This palette was similar to GCI and used 4-bit RGBI palette.

You can find the CGI palette and it says that white (also called light gray) has the code #AAAAAA , and high-brightness white (HI) has the code #FFFFFF .

If you look at the source code of a web page, many sites have a background with the code #FFFFFF , that is, high brightness. In fact, the background color code should be #AAAAAA .

I propose to organize a community to explain to page authors that they cannot use the color #FFFFFF as a background, and to reduce the relevance of bright pages to search engines.
I had "temporarily perfect" pitch when I was younger, especially when I was regularly playing the cello. I could pick up my cello and tune it without a reference, and I could recognize a note or key that was being played. I kind of took it for granted.

Then one year my family went on a long car trip for a few weeks -- without the cello or even a radio since our car didn't have one -- and when we came home, my pitch was gone. It took just a few days to get back, but I realize that I have some sort of short term memory for pitch but do not have perfect pitch. It's not something that I'm concerned about practicing or maintaining. I'm a jazz bassist today, and my pitch is good enough for picking things up by ear, and maintaining my intonation while playing.

I wonder if there's a "spectrum" of pitch ability, and also a spectrum of how readily different people can learn it.
Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return
Completely agree. IP addresses are almost never a good means of authentication. It results in brittle and inflexible architecture as well. Applications become aware of layers they should be abstracted from
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YMMV. I found it pretty tedious, especially the 2nd in the series (Children of Ruin). I liked Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series (Shards of Earth, etc) better.
In case somebody gets "over-inspired" by his words keep in mind: he probably has enough money to afford to retire or be able to retire long before 60s. Regardless, even if I'm wrong about that I don't think I'm wrong about this: he has enough money to be able to say what he said. He has enough money to get philosophical about life. He is comfortably sitting at the top of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs:

https://www.simplypsychology.org/wp-content/uploads/maslow-h...

For those of us - like me - who don't have a second row from the bottom fulfilled his advice of "don't lie to yourself and love yourself" is not too much applicable. Before you start to love yourself you need money. So go get those money first. Do what you have to to have enough money to live.

Now, with all that being said: I enjoyed watching this video. I watched it in its entirety from beginning to end in one sitting. I'm happy for the dude. I'm glad he "won life" so to speak and found his true self. I thank him for sharing his experience. I drew parallels for myself regarding his life experience and mine. I work as a software developer which bought me a house and a Fiesta ST :). But I'm no longer experiencing joy programming for companies and looking for software dev jobs and I'm looking for a way out (but I'm still enjoying driving my Fiesta). I'm considering becoming a nurse and working part time. But I got enough money first to be able to afford to do this. If you are 18 and don't know what to do - do NOT get a philosophy degree! Go get a degree that will get you money so that you can climb Maslow's pyramid and then do whatever you want.

So you go get your money and I'll go get those mushrooms. :)
Where do they show up in classical mechanics?