skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...checks the Windows Registry for signs it is running on a virtualized environment and stops if the results are positive.

That caught my eye ^^^ Is there any virtualization software that makes VM environments indistinguishable from a "bare metal" environment?
I have never had trouble carrying my Steam Deck in my relatively small and cheap travel backpack, but I usually also check a bag. If I was trying to carry EVERYTHING on then I probably would find that more difficult.
10k cycles is roughly 30 years at one cycle per day, so not quite long enough to be infrastructure grade. Of course if its capacity continues to degrade as slowly after that, it'd be entirely usable.

Aluminum is cheap enough, and already produced at large enough scale, for this to be actually useful within the next 30 years. That is, if there are no bottlenecks in supply of the fluoride salt or the fluoroethylene carbonate.
Not fine.
I have designed large FPGAs with 5 soft CPUs. They’re immensely useful as programmable replacements of very complex FSMs and their use of FPGA resources is marginal.

One example: our vendor had an FSM to quickly save and restore trained SERDES parameters. We replaced that with a tiny CPU and it allowed us to make training decisions that could be changed without resynthesis.

Similarly, Altera themselves use a Nios CPU for their DDR4 DRAM controller IO training.

There are so many other possibilities. In one case, we fixed a corner case bug in a HW I2C controller by bit-banging the protocol.

Soft CPUs cost a few thousands gates, one or 2 BRAMs which is totally fine if you have some left. It’s no different than having tons of tiny controller CPUs in large ASICs (which literally everybody does these days.)

What makes the Vexriscv (and Nios and Microblaze) FPGA friendly is that they don’t require zero latency access to the register file. You can use BRAM instead. FF based register files are murder on the FPGA routing fabric.
sorry yeah it was sorta a socratic question
If it could be blamed on "China", it could as well be blamed on "the US" for having also funded that lab, and likely having been responsible for what security measures it would have.

And more realistically, if it was a lab leak, it was likely some lab technician being careless, or some thing breaking and whoever was responsible, not fixing it quickly enough.
Quantum Walk Computing: Theory, Implementation, and Application
I've never owned any of those things.

I believe both my parents' DVD and Blu Ray players have crapped out over the years. I still had a 24" iMac that would be a great DVD player for its size, but it didn't make the move. It's in my parents' garage now.

I think you can use a Wii as a DVD player if you find the right homebrew for it, but I haven't dug deeply.
My present take: As an infectious disease epidemiologist whose expertise lies in the dynamics of infections a week or so after an initial spillover event, I am much more cautious with my opinions on the lab leak hypothesis than a lot of people who took a single biology class as a distribution requirement in undergrad.
Which is entirely about copyright lengths being too long.
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the distinction is that men are raised not to show emotions. so when women are with their female friends, and the need for emotional support arises, they can open up because they were raised to know that this is acceptable, and they can just expect that most of their friends will be supportive.

men's friends on the other hand, don't at all mean that they can open up and get emotional support from them. they have to go an extra step in their friendships to find those that they can get emotional support from.
The contents of the post make me pretty confident that this wasn't copy protection, the jump table involved here is just missing an entry for the machine because (most likely) everyone involved in working on the ROM forgot to add a new entry to the jump table and it happened to work without a table entry by pure chance.
Gates [...] real buddy buddy with Epstein

Were those ties more business and philanthropic oriented or socially oriented?

I found this while searching for details surrounding the ties between the two:

The billionaire has acknowledged that he "shouldn't have had dinners with him" while his ex-wife Melinda French Gates said the business and technology magnate's relationship with Epstein played a role in their divorce.

However, the claim that Gates visited Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands 37 times has not been substantiated.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-bill-gates-visit-eps...
Yeah of course you don't need query builders. But maybe you want them?
I've seen some games on Steam that use filters to emulate a CRT to try to make pixel games look more like we remember them.

I wonder what a similar endeavor would look like for video. I've been messing with my old Wii this weekend and am kinda shocked at how bad it looks - just stretched to fit with an awful anti-aliasing filter over the top. It's probably not worth the effort at any scale, but there's gotta be a better way to upscale old content than to just blur it. It didn't look blurry in its day.
Failing to enforce basic health codes is not a random act of God, it's a failure to perform the minimum functions of a state. It's not a single individual's fault, true, but these wet markets are not some obscure corner shop that managed to dodge regulation, their existence would not be tolerated in any developed country.
Because they didn’t get the answer they wanted. lol.
> there's a 19 bp sequence CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG that is directly lifted from the moderna hiv vaccine patent

Sigh. Here's the first line from the patent: "The present invention provides a cDNA of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus".

You don't think that two coronaviruses just might have similar structural proteins?
> Important to who? What specifically has been good about them and what was unjust about which specific laws? Sounds like victor writing history.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"[1]

I think you know what is unjust about slavery. Dictatorship. Apartheid. Disenfranchisement of women.

> I want to live in a society where bad behavior isn’t incentivized.

Oppression is bad behavior. Protest is not.

[1] https://x.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
You'll have a lower bound on the quality of the translator you're using.

There's an idea that you can generalize concepts among different languages, and that you'll benefit from the extended training corpus. As in, talking about an idea from different perspectives helps the model carve it out. But I don't have anything concrete to back that claim up.
> Surely, 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop!

I don't know if that joke was more funny in the late nineties when Linux was basically nowhere (I was already using Desktop Linux back then though) or if it's more funny today, when Linux powers the entire real world.

I mean: Linux powers 500 of the Top 500 supercomputers, billions (if not tens of billions) of devices, rockets (SpaceX uses Linux extensively), servers all around the world, routers in every single household or near that etc.

Basically: Linux powers everything besides the desktop.

Somehow I think there's some irony in thinking that joke is still funny in the same way it was funny in 1998 or so.
6 years ago, I wrote an in-depth blog post about the design principles of the Vexriscv. It’s unlike any other CPU I’ve seen.

https://tomverbeure.github.io/rtl/2018/12/06/The-VexRiscV-CP...
For me that sort of thing actually dilutes the prestige. If I'm interviewing someone, and they have "I was an author on this amazing paper!" on their resume, then if I open the paper and find 1k+ authors on it, at that point it's complete noise to me. I have absolutely no signal on their relative contributions vs. those of anyone else in the author list. At that point it's not really a publication, for all intents and purposes. You may as well have just listed the project as a bullet point. Of course I'll dig deeper during the interview to get more details -- if you have something else in your resume that gets you the interview in the first place.

In short, I won't give your name on that notable paper equal weight with someone else's name in another notable paper that has, say, 3 or 4 authors.
If SARS-Cov-2 was from a lab, what about the original SARS?

Generally though, China is somewhat better suited to producing pandemics, because they have a larger and more dense population within which a disease can spread.
Many are still here in Louisiana and Texas. But in Louisiana and New Orleans the population is shrinking.
It's HN.com but it is still Gunners complaining about refereeing. Some things never change.
I think in modern environments the odds of this sort of bug slipping into released firmware/software are much lower. Address spaces are much bigger and the vast majority of addresses aren't mapped so doing a memory operation on a garbage address is going to fail most of the time, and invalid instructions will probably fail too.

Reading from a jump table with an index that's too big is a realistic sort of bug to have, so I could see that part making it into modern shipped software. But I would expect the process to fall over when it happens, not keep on trucking like it did here.

FWIW, WebAssembly is an environment where bugs of this sort are more possible, since it has a single linear address space where every address is both readable and writable. So if your garbage address is within range you can do an erroneous read, write or CAS and get away with it. But then invalid instructions like in the post will cause the WASM module to fail to load, so it's still not 1:1 comparable with this issue in the mac's ROM.
bah - Team Stratus!!
None of this wanna be software redundancy - real computers do it hardware !!

/jk

Always was a bit of rivalry between them (at least with Wall St. data centers)
Bro, we're all part of the tech world, especially the web, where the goal is often to get users to make recurring purchases (like in SaaS). Isn't it hypocritical of us to expect others not to do the same when the software industry is driving this whole trend?
I’m sorry for your loss. I’ve been building a fence this weekend, and thinking about my late Dad who taught me everything I know about building and fixing things.

I agree that your dad would have felt very satisfied that it was you who took care of those belongings.
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Side note: The CIA can publish this, but the CDC can't put out the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Because that's where we are.
"The early, idealistic view of the Internet proved an illusion. The system went out of balance almost immediately, its spatial reach subverting its temporal depth. Far from alleviating our present-mindedness, the net magnified it."
Hmmm, so in other words, Tesla sold software with big pre-order vaporware features, still hasn't delivered those key promised features, and is refusing to roll-forward the deal for customers who are now upgrading their hardware... except they did a few times, after saying it would be one-time only, but just boost sales numbers of new models.

Sounds to me like Tesla buyers need to wise up to being in an abusive relationship, and sue for a partial refund on the never-delivered features.

P.S.: If not, then I've got this amazingly profitable bridge that I'm willing to sell to savvy and discerning investors such as yourselves...
Nintendo is holding that share tight right now
Perhaps, but this is not guaranteed. For example, demand might shift from datacenter to on-site inference when high-performing models can run locally on consumer hardware. Kind of like how demand for desktop PCs went down in the 2010s as mobile phones, laptops, and ipads became more capable, even though desktops also became even more capable. People found that running apps on their phone was good enough. Now perhaps everyone will want to run inference on-site for security and privacy, and so demand might shift away from big datacenters into desktops and consumer-grade hardware, and those datacenters will be left bidding each other down looking for workloads.
At lumiguide we use clash for FPGA stuff. It's not perfect but we are very, very happy we didn't go the verilog route. What a horrible experience that is.
You may be able to look at it and tell.

Mass-produced MDs were stamped (or molded) just like CDs were. There was nothing new here but stuff like the codec and the packaging -- the media itself had more in common with a CD than it had differences. They were strictly read-only.

Meanwhile, recordable MDs were a whole different magneto-optical thing, full of neat tricks.

AFAIK, there haven't been any mass-produced MD albums for a rather long time.

But there have been some recent albums made on recordable MDs -- slowly, one at a time -- whether new, NOS or recycled or whatever.
> Could AI be a con?

Two points: AI seems like a great device for "the Bobs" offloading unaffordable employees.

More generally, cold fusion, quantum computing, block chain, and AI seems to form a hype meta-cycle to hoover up investor money.
AfD's Manifesto for Germany: https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-12_afd...
> but writes incredibly well!

The post actually has a lot of small grammatical errors typical of someone not so fluent in English:

>> My reasoning went as follow: // My reasoning went as follows.

>> Is there any other numbers where this happens? // Are there any other numbers

>> I didn’t had paper at hand // I didn't have (any) paper on hand.

I'm not here to proofread a fun blog post but it's far from incredibly well-written English.

> that requires incredibly deep knowledge of the type system.

I think the solution needed more clever maths than deep knowledge of the type system---the type system knowledge can be self-studied from documentation. The clever maths, one can get used to if you Leetcode properly (you don't even need Leetcode Hard to get exposure to that).

If anything doesn't track in this respect, it's the claim that author doesn't have any kind of formal education. Not even high school? That will be extremely impressive. But maybe something got lost in translation there, or just careless exaggeration.

> Here's a viral calling card that would almost guarantee countless interviews (including from my company!) and they aren't capitalizing on it.

>> I don’t have anything to sell just yet, I am not a tech influencer so all you got was this post about a somewhat challenging FizzBuzz.

Yeah, not everyone is out to sell something, not every blog post is written as an opportunity to self-promote.

The story is definitely rather strange, even without taking into account the language barrier and the general absurdity of most tech interviews, but it's not outside the realm of possibility.
I don’t know why it isn’t obvious to everyone how this happened. The lab leak theory is true the outbreak started in force in the market where lab employees sold animals used for testing. They probably didn’t know the animals were infected. Earliest cases were among lab employees. Likely the ones who handled and sold these animals.
Even if your assertion is true, it still wouldn't be "Wrong" w.r.t "enforcing its state data privacy law"
What is the overall company strategy? Is it logical or purely aspirational? How do they think they’re going to get from where they are today to the future goal?
Smallpox, yes. But another SARS variant (even a somewhat more aggressive one)...

Obviously, it's not impossible.

But, there were even RNA samples from Covid found in other countries, months before Covid really spread in China.

I imagine the main problem with the superspreader event there was more that enough people ended up in the same hospital, and thus it was easier to identify that Covid was a distinct virus.

If it was crawling around in a less dense population, its spread would've been meh, and the hospitals might not even notice the spike much.
I have had this exact same idea, it’s a good one. We all hate ads, and muting the audio is all we really need!
What an amazing story.

That would make a great short film.
Pretty much, you want triggers to store things in a schemaless fashion in an audit format so that you are free to migrate tables.

This does require either knowing the schema at the point in time or recording enough information to do a schema on read.

The other options are of course you basically run a table like an API, always adding, never removing.
Sorry, the “this” I was referring to was the ability to consult docs, reverse engineer to this extent, etc.
And that makes me extremely suspicious of that ranking. I use it at least a few times a week when I have a problem that’s unusual for me (to see it’s just terrible in my domain but not in others). It has a 9/10 fail rate.

It is the best at OCR though. Not many people are talking about that. It’s a very nice thing to know.
And I hope my comment wasn't taken as a criticism of yours. There's no right answer here, just different valid points of view.
CAS has always been a bitch. I think I've received more bug reports about that instruction's emulation than any other instruction.

Incidentally, I remember another old "bug" in King of Fighters that "incorrectly" checked the carry flag of the SBCD instruction, which it used to decrement the round timer and end the current round. Completely undocumented of course, but if you don't emulate the arithmetic status flags when doing binary coded decimal operations, the round timer in KOF will just keep on going forever, cycling from 00 to 99 :P

SNK were really the gods of the 68000 chip.
TypeScript 5.8 Ships –ErasableSyntaxOnly to Disable Enums
How to use ChatGPT and Perplexity to read paywalled content from business insider, new york times, and more.
I think there was a brief revival in ballistic missile defense interest under the W presidency, but what people refer to as "Star Wars" was the Reagan-era initiative.
Having lived in Vietnam, learnt Vietnamese, and spoken to quite a few Vietnamese elders. My impression is that they have far fewer gripes with the Americans than they do with the Chinese. Since one seemed to have caused an issue for a short while, while the others had caused issues for much longer.
Valencia bike lane saga continues after new group files appeal
It might be worth reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Misconcep...
The only person who may have been able to make sense of the original order has passed on from this mortal coil and isn’t coming back either to assist in finding records, nor to be heartbroken or salty that she’d “ruined [his] filing system!”

And I do not think this is one of those things where if only she had spent six months studying it and doing a big wall full of pushpins, index cards, and post-its joined by yarn lines, suddenly it would all make sense and she’d inherit a magical musical truth.
It seems like the central lane design is controversial here: https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/new-valencia-curbside-bi...
I like to think if I saw an opponent escaping a lost war with his family I would understand that someone who served is not a coward.
DeepSeek really is taking out OpenAI at the knees. It's shocking that the first direct peer competition to OpenAI is also doing it for an order of magnitude less as a side project.
Yes, and ad-free, too, while you're at it, thanks :)
What are your views on South Korea defending themselves against the North in 1950?
Totally fair response, I'm an idiot, please give this guy my upvotes.
This was really fun to read!

My in-laws are immigrants from Vietnam who left during the war. These stories feel a little closer to home than they would have before meeting them.
I would love that. Happy for it to be a thin client type of thing too. Imagine a plane where you have room for a keyboard but that is it.

Makes me think: with this your phone is fine. You can run a Linux on your Android then have a thin client. Lots of options!

The laptop form factor makes a laptop fragile. To the point where a 2 yr old XPS has been serviced 20 times (pro tip: get all the top level service options for 3 yrs it was about 30% added to the cost). And I have a probably 12 year old Dell desktop with no issues at all.
I feel that that could've been an honest mistake too.

The intelligence networks there were weak, and if people were talking about it, they may have assumed wrongly that there was something there.

Politicians hunting for excuses to do what they already want to do though, is definitely a thing.
I’m not sure what this URL is. The canonical source for the Tufte CSS project is hosted here:

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
Uh, that is IG
The actual future risks don’t change based on which specific origin happened.

The correct response is likely to spend significantly more on doing actual research and a great deal on making sure everyone is well contained. It’s likely a good idea to locate such labs outside of highly populated areas as part of a defense in depth strategy.
The correct url is https://GitHub.com/copilot not /login
Is this just for running and managing github actions?

I was actually thinking this was going to help for developing github actions? Like, autocomplete, syntax checking, linting, etc.
most us cities did have subways (or streetcars), then GM bought 'em all and shut them down. [0]

[0] Taken for a Ride - The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4&t=1590s
Sex sells. That’s it.
I never said he was unpopular. I said you weren't paying attention - and every single thing I mentioned happened before the acquisition. You are being willfully ignorant.
Streaming platforms would do well to incorporate more bonus features into their releases.

OK, you sometimes get some trailers, promotional featurettes, etc. But nothing like the cool stuff I remember from the best DVD and Blu-ray discs. Interactive elements, themed menus, director & cast commentary tracks, deleted scenes, etc... I miss that stuff!
Quoting from TFA:

> the normal mathematical description of the state of n qubits involves 2n variables. For example, for 4 qubits, there are 16 variables: v[0000], v[0001], v[0010], and so on through v[1111]. ... The variables always have these squares adding up to 1, so the total probability is 1 as you'd expect.

^blink^

Why did I not know this? I've read many explanations of quantum mechanics, qubits, entanglement and I've never twigged to this drop dead simple model of what is going on. It gets better. His linked description of how a quantum works [0] is so simple a 5 year could understand it.

But it raises so many questions. A quantum computer is entangled group of qubits, right? So does that mean it gets it's speed because a time it takes gate to operate on N qubits doesn't depend on N? Is that somehow related to "spooky action at a distance" - meaning it doesn't matter how much distance separates two entangled particles, they instantaneously collapse to state consistent with the laws of the universe? Probably not, because that would make faster than light information exchange possible. Just separate break an entangled group of qubits into two, separate them, then push them though a few gates to put them in a state that favours one outcome over the other.

So one puzzle solved, but it just reveals how much more I don't know.
When did that happen? I don't recall anything breaking once we nixos 24.11??
This is my takeaway, like maybe 3 extra rules would be worthwhile but by god there is too many, what are you learning here for something so simple as fizzbuzz
Exploring the new "go tool" support in Go 1.24
i'm curious which laws you believe are not selectively enforced.
someone submitted it <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42826983> if anyone wants to discuss it separately
Thanks. Mainly I was posting to pass on the insight that I had at the time: that dealing with a death can be a process of transition rather than preservation.