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> But when people say "use AES-CBC + HMAC" and cite Signal as an example, and Signal's implementation does this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/app/sr...

That's very vague and therefore not very helpful. Could you say what exactly is wrong with the code you linked?

AMD continues to sabotage itself with their terrible GPU compute support. I don't understand why it's so hard for them to pick a single API and support it on all GPUs and on all major platforms (Linux, Windows).

It's no wonder why NVIDIA's market cap is so much higher.

> The orange website and the red website are popular slang that you hear around here from time to time.

A Google search for "the orange website" returns a lot of results about Hacker News, "the red website" doesn't return anything about Reddit.

> Also definitely not in the best interest of users, which isn't the Satya Nadella way of operating, at least not as demonstrated in the developer tools side of the business.

Oh yes, good tsar, bad boyars.

Whenever Microsoft does something good, like open-sourcing some dev tool, it's because of Nadella. But he isn't responsible for the state of Windows. If only someone told him about the forced telemetry, forced updates, forced Microsoft account login, pushing Edge down users' throats, and so on... I'm sure he would fix all those problems, but sadly, he doesn't know. And it's just a coincidence that all this stuff intensified when he became the CEO.

I even saw a comment on HN saying that it's "Ballmer loyalists" who are truly at fault for the current state of Windows.

There isn't. Prigozhin's official Telegram account is "concordgroup_official".

The problem is that many OSINT guys and journalists are informationally illiterate and blindly spread fakes from random Telegram and Twitter accounts.

>The Intel Xeons don’t have E-cores.

Xeons with E-cores are planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Forest

And even if they weren't, it would still be a cheap PR win.

>Also, you know AMD has recent consumer chips without AVX-512, right?

All the current generation processors (Zen4) support AVX-512, both mobile and desktop. It may be confusing because AMD's numbering scheme is intentionally misleading and they sell previous gen chips with new model numbers.

> "Woke" has always meant being grokking (in the truest sense) the plight of minorities and minority groups (e.g. LGBTQ+). In other words, people who have woken up to what's going on around them.

Exactly, and a "Nazi" is just a person who cares deeply about their country, a patriot.

The author said it's inappropriate "during their internal investigation". The way I understand it, he supports the actions of Amazon, but he wishes there was a presumption of innocence.

>Let me be clear: I fully support Amazon taking measures to ensure the safety of their drivers. However, I question why my entire smart home system had to be rendered unusable during their internal investigation.

This attitude is the reason why this keeps happening. I don't agree that it's Amazon's job to police how I use my own device.

Arrests involving Anti-Asian hate crime incidents in 2020:

BLACK: 11 (55%)

WHITE HISPANIC: 5 (25%)

BLACK HISPANIC: 2 (10%)

WHITE: 2 (10%)

Total: 20

2021:

BLACK: 31 (53%)

HISPANIC: 15 (26%)

WHITE: 7 (12%)

ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER: 5 (8%)

UNKNOWN: 1 (2%)

Total: 59

2022:

BLACK: 39 (49%)

WHITE HISPANIC: 20 (25%)

WHITE: 17 (22%)

ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER: 2 (3%)

BLACK HISPANIC: 1 (1%)

Total: 79

> These conspiracy theories lead to a marked rise in violent attacks on anyone of Asian descent in the US,

It should be noted that the statistics don't support the media narrative and there was no wave of white supremacist attacks on Asians.

Here are the stats from New York ("Arrest Statistics by Bias Motivation"): https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/hate-cr...

On the other hand, AVIF smoothes out the fine details. It struggles to preserve the texture of the receipt and the tiny specks on the inside of the cup blend together.

It's visible even in qualities higher than "tiny", which IMO is unreasonably small.

IBM version of G5, POWER4 and POWER5, was clocked a bit lower than G5, and their servers and workstations had extremely loud fans.

>The odds of a global nuclear conflict are hopefully not in the double digit percentages, but I can't see why they aren't at a historic high in history.

It's not even close. There are many precedents for nuclear powers fighting each other directly without triggering a nuclear war. For instance:

- The Korean War. It wasn't a proxy war, Western troops were directly fighting Chinese soldiers and the Soviet air force.

- The Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969. Two nuclear powers fighting each other directly on their own soil.

- Indo-Pakistani conflicts. Both have nuclear weapons and they fight each other on their own soil.

- Indo-Chinese conflicts.

I'm not advocating for it, but I'm fairly certain that even a direct NATO intervention in Ukraine wouldn't lead to a nuclear war. Hell, Putin might even welcome it, it would give him a good excuse for the poor performance of his troops.

Hidden behind a disabled-by-default feature flag. WebP and AVIF had no experimental period.

> Posting obnoxious, demanding messages on the Chromium bug tracker is not the way to win friends & influence people

It's true, although it should be noted that this is the result of the Chromium team acting in bad faith and gaslighting the users.

These are the stated reasons for the removal of JPEG XL: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

"Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely"

Why wasn't AVIF hidden behind an experimental flag?

"There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL"

This is gaslighting. The representatives of companies such as Adobe, Facebook, Intel, The Guardian or Shopify have voiced their support for the format. Not to mention the countless individuals. I don't recall AVIF getting anywhere near this level of interest.

"The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default"

Really? https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl

BTW, this article doesn't even mention all of the JPEG XL's advantages. For instance, it doesn't mention the high resolution support. AVIF images are limited to 65536x65536, but images larger than 8192x4352 must be tiled, which results in border artifacts between the tiles. JPEG XL, on the other hand, has no problems with images up to 1073741823x1073741823.

CUDA is a success because 1) it works on all NVIDIA GPUs made since 2006 2) it works on both Windows and Linux.

This may seem like a very low bar to clear, but AMD continues to struggle with it. I don't understand it. They act as if GPU compute was a fad not worth investing in.

This is the official Debian repository. The package versions are frozen in each major Debian release. However, they may backport security and bug fixes.

In practice, in the case of less popular packages, they do this on demand, when someone requests it in the bug tracker.

I noticed climate change denialism is being replaced by "it's happening but it's not a big deal" or "others are polluting more so we shouldn't do anything".

> So if your software is BSD or anything without attribution I can probably upload it without problems.

BSD and MIT licenses absolutely do require an attribution.

I don't get why some of the commenters are so surprised by the article. There's a long history of newspapers showing the "human side" of famous criminals. Even Charles Manson got articles like these.

You should always apply a bit of Straussian reading to them. For example, note how in the opening sentences the author confirms that Elizabeth was faking her voice the whole time (as many have suspected). That's not something a truly sympathetic article would have pointed out.

>It's only tone deaf to people who understand "undefined behavior" as an epithet or as synonymous with giving a license to compilers to screw you over. The term doesn't have either of those meaning to those on the C committee.

It's unfortunate but not surprising that the C committee isn't aware of the problems with the undefined behavior.

In fact, after I started reading WG14 meetings minutes, I completely lost faith that any of the serious problems with the standard will ever get fixed.

I don't think it's a good idea, because of the second order effects. Assuming this tax can't be evaded (which, to be fair, is a pretty big assumption), high net worth individuals will be paying >100% tax rate. This means they will have to quickly sell the stock they own to afford the tax. And who will be able to buy it from them? This guarantees a complete, permanent crash of the stock market.

And this is just one of the problems. What about high-capital-low-margins businesses like retail stores and, especially, farmers?

Also, assessing the net worth of a person is incredibly hard. How much is a private company worth? One might think it's easy because Forbes does that, but they're mostly pulling the numbers out of thin air.

>This is extremely incorrect. India is buying Russian gas and cooperating on payment networks to bypass American sanctions

Not participating in western sanctions isn't "providing assistance", it's the default state. That being said, it's interesting that BRICS countries aren't selling weapons to Russia and it has to get them from Iran and North Korea.

>Huh? Its an actual organization with actual rules and actual institutions.

Of course, the organization exists, it wasn't my point.

> False.

What is false?

The UN votes? Recent example: UN resolution A/ES-11/L.7 ("Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine"). The only countries that voted against are Belarus, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Syria. Brazil supported the resolution, while China, India and South Africa abstained.

Lack of assistance? I haven't seen Russia using, say, Chinese missiles or tanks in Ukraine. They import weapons from Iran. It's odd, considering that China is a major arms exporter.

>This feels like a lot of reality-denial. Or copium at best...

What part is "reality denial"? Are you saying that India and China aren't having border skirmishes? South Africa is a healthy state? Brazil isn't a middle-income country?

>The five stages of grief.

You're right but not in the way you think. Russia is desperate to prove they aren't isolated internationally.

I'll be frank, every article that presents BRICS as a real thing is propaganda. It isn't a coincidence that we're seeing a lot more of them since Russia invaded Ukraine.

India and China are enemies, they keep having border skirmishes. South Africa is a failed state and it has negligible influence on the world stage. Brazil is one of the reasons why the term "middle-income trap" was devised.

BRICS members don't even vote in each other's favor in the UN. Russia has received zero meaningful assistance from them during the war in Ukraine.

It's entirely possible that in the future a real anti-western bloc will emerge. But it isn't BRICS.

Running out of resources doesn't mean they will suddenly stop shooting. It isn't binary.

It means the intensity of artillery and missile strikes is decreasing. It means they have to import arms from Iran. It means they are now using ancient T-62s and recently started pulling T-55s out of storage.

All that leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt shows is that the US most likely participated in the (failed) negotiations for a new government with Yanukovych as the president and a opposition candidate as the prime minister.

It isn't, however, a proof that the US somehow caused the protests to happen. How would that even work?

On the other hand, there's a mountain of evidence for Russian military involvement in 2014, including Putin himself admitting that.

>Another part of the Ukraine conflict that is strangely absent is that Ukraine has been in a civil war since 2014 when a CIA backed coup toppled their government. It is always presented as if one day for no reason Putin invaded a peaceful Ukraine.

This is one of the most annoying tankie talking points. Maidan? Duh, obviously it was a CIA coup. There's no need to prove it, everyone knows that only anti-western uprisings can be genuine.

OTOH, when Russia sent their soldiers to Crimea and Donbas, it clearly was a show of the local people's will. Also, it's better not to mention that the separatist movement didn't exist before 2014 and then they suddenly were organized enough to wage a full-scale war.