skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piledriver (2012) has introduced TZCNT. LZCNT had already been supported by all AMD CPUs since Barcelona (2007).

Moreover, LZCNT is the more important instruction, because it can replace TZCNT with the addition of a couple of instructions, without using any branches, even in the more rare cases when TZCNT is desired instead of LZCNT. Some older software continues to use the "ffs" gcc intrinsic, which corresponds to TZCNT, even if it is trivial to rewrite it to use LZCNT instead. In old gcc, "ffs" was available instead of the more useful "LZCNT", because the ancient DEC VAX computers included a "FFS" (find first set bit, starting from the LSB) instruction and the gcc "ffs" mapped directly to the DEC VAX instruction.

Haswell (2013) has added both LZCNT and TZCNT, being the first Intel CPU which supports them.

Unfortunately, even if Haswell is more than a decade old, the older Intel Atom CPUs until Tremont did not provide support for these instructions, so they have become ubiquitous only since 2021, even if all non-Atom CPUs have supported them for more than a decade (up to 18 years for AMD).
God I'm so tired of these pathetic attempts at evading the point. No, it's not against the principles of democracy to fight back against someone trying to destabilize your democracy. The tolerance paradox applies here, Elon is begging, daring the UK to do something, and all is fair in love and war.
Reminds me of this:

Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123477

230 points by wirelesspotat on April 22, 2022 | 208 comments
go ahead then, explain their high-speed rail issues…
Agents. It is February, 2026
> The US constitution will absolutely permit war

Right, and it doesn't permit infringement of First Amendment rights.
I'll try to directly relate this to something you are familiar with.

> Can you tell me why it will sting for you?

Imagine Hacker News without the comments.

> The only thing I get sent from TikTok are dances and silly memes

That's like saying Hacker News is just old links about useless stuff from other parts of the internet.
> whose customers will not approve a deal by email only

That's kind of begging the question. Part of the point of the thread here is that it seems B2B is leaving some money on the table by refusing to do deals with less interaction. For example, this CTO's comment [1].

A good comparison I think is AWS and other cloud offerings. Of course, past a certain spend, you will start getting calls and have the opportunity to negotiate better rates, SLA's, etc. But, you can just go and spend 5-6 figures per month without any human interaction.

Another good example I think is 5 figure (or maybe even 6 figure) equipment purchases. You can definitely go ham buying most professional equipment without having to talk to someone over the phone. Think servers, GPU's, storage, cameras, etc.

It'd be great if more services offered this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728008
Yeah I was thinking parkour + zombie escape might be fun
AfD is not the oldest, or even that old of a party. And they absolutely are neo Nazis. Not sure if you're thinking about another party, or just sympathetic to their garbage worldview, but ignorance isn't an excuse to carry water for Nazis.
This looks very nice, I’ll have to give it a try!
No, you gotta keep at least the X-Phishtest filter (or whatever vendor your company uses for stupid phishtests), at a minimum.
The group selection part is really interesting evolution-wise. It seems a very slow and difficult method of selection. I had never considered how something dying, and not passing along their genetics, could enforce a genetic trait.
Haganah was a paramilitary organization formed after a few rather violent massacres of the Jewish population in the 1920s, climaxing with the Hebron massacre in 1929 which included horrors similar to October 7, hence why it's name in Hebrew is "Defense". Except for a short stint of a few months of something in between guerilla warfare and terror attacks against the British, it was mainly a military organization foremost, tasked with defense of the Jewish population from Palestinian attacks until the 1948 war

Irgun and Lehi were both offshoots which can be categorized as terror organizations, however they were very small, with a few hundred members and never reached the size or level of support of any Palestinian organization

While the Haganah formed most of the IDF leadership, the new country civilian leadership was based on the Jewish Agency which predated the Haganah and had completely civilian leadership.

There are many other differences between Hamas and these organizations, but in general this is an invalid comparison
Yeah that's the only reason for sure, has nothing to do with the existing regulations on vehicle dimensions or the fact these things crumble or explode if you glance in their direction.
It has been under heavy scrutiny by the security community for years, it would have already been found had it existed.
> There is a law that only U.S. citizens can own TV stations.

The communications act did not ban already-existing networks, and it did not ban specific providers. The tiktok ban is targeted specifically against one social media that the government does not like[1], with a thin veneer of "security concern" that people might specifically choose to share their contact list and that one of those contacts may be in a sensitive position.

[1] I don't even really think it's about the government not liking it! They thought they could get cheap support by drumming up anti-chinese sentiment and they ran with it. It's the most pathetic kind of politicking.
We evaluated poetry about what must be now two years ago. The hype for it was there.

But it was rather underwhelming. It's better than pip. But not worth the effort to migrate.

We recently tried uv and it felt like the next step for python project management. We have not made the jump yet, but will probably do so this year.
EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations
I remember running "sdoom" instead of "xdoom" on Linux. It did seem faster on sdoom using SVGAlib.
During the Solarwinds event I saw them silently drop emails. During normal times they simple accept the mail and refuse to show it to the user (marking it "spam" and hiding it in non-inbox folders); a "shadow drop". Far worse than doing what is expected (if it really were spam, which it usually isn't) which is to refuse the email following standard protocols.
Mathematics doesn't make any sense [video]
An interesting viewpoint on why mathematicians focus so much on rigor and definitions, even to the detriment of quick learning and intuition.
I think my (and other) Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms would disagree with you.

I buy shares in the farm per my needs. The CSA takes my money and buys seeds, fertilizer, etc. I get discounted (100% :-) products from them throughout the growing season. They also sell their goods at farmers' markets, do deliveries, etc. My CSA has been growing for years. They're a part of a larger co-op org that spans the NE US, IIUC.

So yes, the "beautiful vision" can be, and is, implemented. Even in tech; I'm sure you've heard of neighbors getting together and building their own local networks because the local ISP won't service them.
The user’s password would protect the disk’s key, but would not necessarily derive it, I think.
I apologize, I got the terms mixed up, I meant a polygraph
IDK...

I've done a lot of data processing. What the kids today call ETL. Plus some parsing (writing grammars).

Here's my working taxonomy:

Parsing for source code and protocols.

Serialization when you control both ends. (Implicitly defined parsing of protocols.)

Scrapping is data processing, more or less. Find and read a value, maybe transmogrify it, write new value.

--

As for the OC, once the contract made a breaking change, the problem transmuted from serialization to scrapping.

Maybe some future runtime system will successfully enable multiple live updatable schema revisions. (I've been pondering that gordian knot for decades. Anyone else remember "objected oriented databases" hype?)

Until then, we're stuck in data processing hell.
My AWS account manager took me fishing. That’s what you get for a >$1M/yr spend. I don’t sense they would roll in mud with me, which is kind of incredible. I wonder how much you need to spend to get into mud rolling territory?
Yes. That the architectural problem with auto-unseal.
>less and less of an issue the simpler the job

Correct, everything is easy and simple if you make it simple and easy…
I use systemd heavily. I'll definitely check this out!
I meant relative to a random dude on the street.
What if they're not selling it anymore?
>I’d say it’s the closest thing to when Napster got everyone used to theft.

I think the defining feature of theft is that you deprive the victim of their property. Redefining theft to include copying just feels silly, it's fundamentally a different sin (if it's a sin at all).
This is pretty cool! As someone with virtually no experience in this area I’d love to read the source code, is it open source?
Of course whether this is an improvement is a matter of perspective.

If you love the beautiful Sonoran Desert for what it is, you'll see this as another attempt by people who don't understand it to turn it into something else. Palm trees are completely out of place.

You also won't appreciate retaining the flow if you're a downstream water-rights holder, and may have the legal means to reverse it.
Of course. The typical Linux initrd is also too complicated. It should be doing this, and nothing else:

- There's an executable called /init, link it statically with everything it needs to do.

- Load kernel modules from a list (hardcoded at build time; optional if you include common modules in the generic kernel).

- Mount the root filesystem (hardcoded at build time) and pivot.

- execve("/sbin/init", ...)

I've built a PoC in pure Go that does all of this, the resulting initrd was ~2.5MB plus kernel modules. I simply moved all the boot-time complexity to build-time. It doesn't do LUKS or TPM yet, but that's also further down the roadmap.

OpenBSD went a step further and crammed FDE decryption into the bootloader. It doesn't do TPM but simple is simple.
I do something similar, but: if I buy something and get a "why not buy something else?" email, I don't just unsubscribe; I mark it as spam. I am careful to never opt in to messages like that, so if I am receiving them then they are my address beyond the consent that I provided, so I want Gmail to downrank their trust.

I agree that either of these approaches pays dividends. I feel great about it.
In the market of AI solutions, RAG is a feature. The best way (imho) for small outfits is to have an existing expertise in a field and bring these tools to it. The big players will capture the generic, one-size-fits-all market. Specialized solutions for specific problems and industries is where it's at. Also, don't limit yourself to LLMs and RAG. There is a lot of other algorithms that are useful and provide value
https://sourcehut.org/ is a sort of coop open source project and a SaaS with an interesting model.

There is also https://opencollective.com/ which provides a platform for collective ownership of an online business.
I love it! Can't wait to try it out.
Turning off tabbed inbox was huge in helping me get down to zero emails. It got me back to one stream of data to watch and manage. Something comes in, I see it and process it. It also made the number of unread easier to reason about.

I do use filters now, but haven't always because I was always looking for a "move to label" option in the "Create Filter" dialog. Instead, Gmail calls that "Archive," which I assumed sent it to the Negative Zone of some special compressed archive. I'm an idiot, for years I just assumed Google didn't build a move feature into it's filters.

[That said, I do find Gmail (and other Google UIs) to be full of little points of frustration like this. Maybe others have had better luck with it, but Tabbed Inbox almost feels like it's designed to make me ineffective.]
I'll have what he's having! If one man could make audio work, we all know Apple could make a rounding error and have a proper fix for this entire legacy iPod mess. Fantastic hacking stories like this one bring me hope that Apple could some day actually notice their massive legacy of broken code and protocols, all the things they have casually abandoned into the world, such that it triggers not only a legacy introspection but massive open-sourcing of legacy firmware.
It's less than 7% of their total users. The US is not that big compared to the whole world.
>Cursive never felt noticeably faster for me to write. I'm sure it would have had I been forced to do it.

I was forced to use cursive and it was still slower than print.
Once worked in a "DC" in a converted cow shed in the English countryside. Hot takes that align with your experiences:

- A key microwave link kept going down with intermittent packet errors way down in the data link layer. A short investigation discovered that a tree across the road had come into leaf, and a branch was blowing into the line of sight of the kit on our building. A step-ladder, a saw and 10 minutes later we restored connectivity
- Our main (BGP-ified) router out of the DC - no, there wasn't a redundant device - kept rebooting. A quick check showed the temp in the DC was so high, cooling so poor, that the *inlet* fan had an air temp of over 60C. We pointed some fans at it as a temporary measure.
- In a similar vein, a few weeks later the air con in another room just gave up and started spewing water over the Nortel DMS-100 (we were a dial-in ISP with our own switch). Wasn't too happy to be asked to help mop it up (thought the water could potentially be live), but what to do?

After that experience I spent time on a small, remote island where main link to the internet was a 1MB/sec link vis GS satellite (ping times > 500ms), and where the locals dialled in over a microwave phone network rated to 9600 baud, but somehow 56k modems worked... One fix I realised I needed was a Solaris box was missing a critical .so, there were no local backups or install media and so I phoned my mate back in the UK and asked him to whack up a copy on an FTP server for me to get the box back online.

And a few years after that I also got to commission a laser beam link over Manchester's Oxford Road (at the time, the busiest bus route in Europe), to link up an office to a University campus. Fun times.

It was all terrific fun, but I'm so glad I now only really do software.
This is like hearing about two people falling off a cliff right after each other and dying. Then someone says: I wonder why the first person didn’t catch on to the ledge, grab the other person with their other arm and pull them and themselves back up.

It’s the sort of thing that would only make sense in a movie.
The fact that it is an architectural problem doesn't imply that it works on latest firmware because newer firmware might be set to not trust signatures made before the patch was released. Hence the question.
Happy to hear!

Please open an issue on GitHub if you encounter any silly alpha issues.
> The problem with this analysis is that American internet users don't just have one government controlled website to get their news from. Instead, they can access a wide range of national and international media that is quite diverse.

What you need is not just diversity but independence. You can find all kinds of views on social media, but if there are only a handful of social media sites and the government can lean on the sites themselves to suppress things they don't like, that's not independence.

> It's not clear how adding the CCP propaganda manipulations to that would be especially useful.

It's obviously not optimal for the only alternative to be the CCP. What you would really like is to have no major platforms at all and instead have thousands of federated independent smaller services hosted in every country in the world. Which was basically the web and email/usenet until Google took 90% search market share and then devastated the former by downranking smaller sites and the latter got displaced by non-federated walled garden social media that actively suppresses third party client interoperability.

So now you practically need the resources of a state to put up a viable rival to that stuff, and maybe the problem you need to solve is that.
My bad, it indeed seems to not be the oldest. But it is certainly not brand new or unpopular. Can you give me evidence that they are Nazis? I don't mean finding a few Nazis that happen to be members, I mean proof that their platform is the Nazi program. As I'm sure you are aware, the Nazi party is banned in Germany and even displaying Nazi symbology can get you in trouble there.
> If you ever became frustrated while typing:

Hey, that's me ! (And I love systemd !)

I haven't installed it yet so quick question: can it connect to remote host ? I often use systemctl --host <hostname> status foo.service (status, timers, logs etc. )
Love this. I use raw CLI commands until it hurts, and have recently embraced tools like lazygit/lazydocker to get visibility into otherwise opaque system/tree states, and it’s been a huge level-up.

I have several user and system level services I manage, but debugging them is tedious. Your opening line that lists common commands and their pain points really resonated with me.

I’m on NixOS, so editing immutable unit files directly won’t work, but the service discovery, visibility, and management will be really helpful. Nice work!
RAG is going to get eaten alive by Google, MS, and OpenAI.

The only way you will be able to beat them is in tiny niches, but when it comes to importing an organizations "knowledge" it will be hard to compete with the companies that already have it (O365, Google)
You think that is jarring? How about a drug company giving kickbacks to doctors to tell patients they need a drug?
But that just makes the whole single file procedure even more dumb because it doesn’t catch everybody and it’s easy to avoid.
This looks really well done. Congratulations!
> The only sense in which banning one is anti-democratic is that it's selectively applied to tiktok instead of to all such platforms.

Personally I don’t think singling them out is anti democratic, because this platform and Chinese run companies in general have issues unique to them.

TikTok lied under oath about the location of data they claimed was stored in the US. That’s fraud and has concerning privacy and national security implications:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index....

This is why divestiture to an American entity with no ties back to a mainland China owner makes sense - it severs the tie that results in illegal surveillance. It’s not a ban on specific content or even the app - just a ban on the owner.

Another issue - it has also come out that TikTok (not Douyin) employees have to uphold the goals of the CCP as part of their job:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/tiktok-forced-staff-oaths...

And then there’s the basic lack of reciprocity in market access, since all non Chinese social media is banned in China and yet their apps can access consumers outside China.
It requires such a depth of evolution as to make it absurd to imagine that the genus homo is the point at which altruism emerged. Animals care about each other.
First, it is much easier to blame everything on a boogeyman than to invest actual effort in improving the lives of Americans and investing in their education. Tale as old as time.

Second, the US realizes that it cannot reliably manufacture consent if its citizens are not tuned in to the information sources that it can influence.
Very interesting. Any hiccups?

I just tried this last week for the first time. I asked claude to create a syntax diagram for a toy grammar. The resulting mermaid source had a syntax error (unescaped special character). Despite having its own mermaid widget thingie, I couldn't compel claude to fix its own code.
Are you guessing, or are there results somewhere that demonstrate how LLMs improve OCR in practical applications?
There has been very little public investigation. This is what I could find:

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-...

The Romanian National Liberal Party (opponents of Georgescu) bought the campaign. Their hashtag was "hijacked" (whatever that means) to boost Georgescu instead.

I do not know how TikTok works. Perhaps it is as simple as Georgescu supporters simply using the paid for hashtag for their own messages.

So, according to this article, the Russians did nothing. The Liberal Party engaged in questionable TikTok interference and Georgescu supporters jumped on the bandwagon.

The Western media falling silent on the issue would indicate that this politico.eu is correct.
Sorry but you are blurring the lines between an actual malicious attack and a badly designed driver.

The first is what the original claim was, screaming "Russians!" and "Chinese!" at the same time with poor technical understa ding.

The second is what actually happened. It's no worse than inserting a CD-ROM and installing a driver. As bad as that is, and to be criticised in its own right, it's qualitatively different from the first.

Let's not muddy the waters by conflating the two and make the (IMO legitimate) criticism of one of them wade into a conspiracy theory about the other.
I’d be curious if this could impact the $1.50 Costco hot dog and soft drink which defies inflation because it’s more than likely subsidized by Pepsi Co these days (Coca-Cola prior) rather than the narrative of Costco’s own supply chain.
How many emails do you think you could have unsubscribed from while typing your reply? You're going to check your email daily for years to come. Why not cull a few every now and then?

> It also keeps paper trail. If GitHub goes down, or I get fired, I still have most comments and decisions.

You obviously keep/archive the important things...
I’m just pointing out that it’s incredibly slow and easy to evade, so it’s really just a slow waste of time, that apparently contributes to reducing future capacity to the point of needing to demolish a block of Midtown Manhattan.
A 49% employee, 49% customer (b2b or subscription), and 2% CEO/CFO model seems better for a long-term sustainable company, especially for companies providing critical services like Mozilla, Proton, Chrome (if it were divested),etc..

That aside, I think it's important to codify into the incorporation charter or a company as well as share holder agreements that the company will never go public. Or perhaps have a clause that forces dissolution of the company and sell of assets if an IPO ever went through. It makes sense for some companies to be publicly traded but if your intent with a company is to do the public, your employees or customers good, instead of a pure profit play, then even the possibility of an IPO is cancerous.
Dang. I have never heard of `systemctl --host`.
Sadly not. It is more or less a fancy wrapper around (the local) `systemctl`.
But there is also an appimage that should make it (hopefully) easy to run it on remote servers.

Either way, feel free to open an issue and I will have a look at it.
Qt also has a directfb backend (among many others: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/plugins/platforms)