MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-04-26 01:36:47+00:00
BAE STOP 8.8.2 completed Common Criteria security evaluation in September 2023. [0] The evaluated configuration was a BAE XTS-752 machine which uses an Intel Xeon Gold 6256 CPU (Cascade Lake, released 2020, 12 cores), although the evaluation says that the STOP operating system is supported on any "x86 CPU(s) supporting the x86_64 instruction set and features (Intel™ Core™, Intel Xeon or AMD™ x86_64)"

Unisys MCP now runs on Azure, so it would run on whatever Azure uses.

I think both work on commodity x86-64 server hardware; in BAE STOP's case, you need to use the exact hardware in the security evaluation for that evaluation to fully apply; otherwise, you may need to do further analysis and get approval to deviate from it, depending on the policies of the client organisation.

Unisys MCP lacks Common Criteria evaluation (unlike say Red Hat Enterprise Linux), so even if you believe it is more secure than mainstream alternatives, there is no evidence any third party has done any security evaluation to confirm that. (Maybe some really old version did receive a security evaluation, but that has limited relevance to current ones.)

[0] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/nfs/ccpfiles/files/epfi...
by blibble | 2025-04-26 01:38:11+00:00
> to embedded systems where boot time is critical.

if it's critical on an embedded system then you're not running systemd at all

> The number of systems that have 5 minute POST times and need deterministic boot is an edge case of an edge case.

desktop machines are the edge case, there's a LOT more servers running Linux than people using Linux desktops

> Relying on emergent behavior for consistent boot order is bad design.

tell that to the distro authors who 10 years in can't tell the difference between network-online.target, network-pre.target, network.target
by tialaramex | 2025-04-26 01:38:18+00:00
You mention that "Note that those surprised programmers are actually Rust compiler authors" but I can't figure out which of the many links is to some "surprised programmers" who are actually rustc authors, and so I don't even know if you're right.

Rust's safe subset doesn't have any UB, but the unsafe Rust can of course cause UB very easily, because the rules in Rust are extremely strict and only the safe Rust gets to have the compiler ensure it doesn't break the rules. So it seems weird for people who work on the compiler guts to be "surprised".
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-26 01:39:35+00:00
You can’t source the components in the US from US suppliers. So it’s not possible. And even if it were, it’ll be beyond the price point of most hobby electronics builders. Even if it weren’t, it is going to take years to establish end products like this in the US, as it did in China - where the entire supply chain didn’t have to be built from scratch.

It’s a fantasy to believe “America Alone” is possible.
by bigthymer | 2025-04-26 01:41:55+00:00
> There is nothing to suggest that the fall of the United States and subsequent replacement (with whatever may come) will reverse the thousand year trend of increased education and decreased violence.

We're talking about long-term cycles of change here so it is difficult to opine with certainty leaving a lot of room for differing opinions. Unfortunately, however, I think the end of Pax Americana will usher in increased conflict and violence, particularly in the West which has experienced a long period of peace due to American dominance.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-26 01:41:58+00:00
I remember a Web site, in the early oughts, called “sheppeyscum.com”. That URL now redirects to one that makes Sheppey look good.

The original one did not.

It was all about insulting the Isle of Sheppey (Western UK). I think an ex-Shep wrote it.

Looks like all traces are gone. I understand that death threats were involved.
by scott_s | 2025-04-26 01:43:15+00:00
It's not as obvious a win as you may think. Keep in mind that for every binary that gets deployed and executed, it will be compiled many more times before and after for testing. For some binaries, this number could easily reach the hundreds of thousands of times. Why? In a monorepo, a lot of changes come in every day, and testing those changes involves traversing a reachability graph of potentially affected code and running their tests.
by addicted | 2025-04-26 01:43:37+00:00
So it’s not that it won’t be published today.

It just won’t be as popular today. And would, ironically, be crapped on by other people, which is what the author is unhappy about.

Thats what the author means, and represents the entirety of the “Oh I am so oppressed because I can’t say shitty unfunny jokes because other people will make shitty unfunny jokes about me in response” genre of argument.

The difference between then and now is that the people in the “crap towns” have the opportunity to call the author out.
by whaleofatw2022 | 2025-04-26 01:44:12+00:00
My concern is the vague almost weasel words. For all we know (based on that statement) once Synadia gets whatever cleared/cleaned from other contribs, the apache codebase could be 'locked' at that state and won't get updates for 2+ years.

Although, honestly with its current feature set, as long as it gets security updates in the meanwhile and people can contribute bugfixes in a meaningful way, that -could- work.

Buuuut I'm worried that wouldn't be the case because of divergence once the bsl time kicks in...
by iterance | 2025-04-26 01:44:42+00:00
It's not just acceptability. Jokes written even just five or ten years ago often fail to land on modern audiences. That taste in humor changes is neither morally positive nor negative. It's easy to look for deeper meaning in the notion that what once was funny now isn't, but often, there isn't a deeper meaning to find. Life is different now; so too must humor change.
by david-gpu | 2025-04-26 01:47:25+00:00
Broadly agreed. IMO the Canadian carbon tax had a marketing problem. It should have been called a Carbon Dividend. First, it would have replaced the negative connotation of the word "tax" with the positive connotation of the word "dividend -- and it would have been more accurate to how the program actually worked.

Second, and probably more important: the rebates showed up in your bank account with a description that didn't make the source obvious enough for laypeople. Had people seen monthly "CARBON DIVIDEND" credits in their bank accounts, they would have noticed.
by kretaceous | 2025-04-26 01:48:02+00:00
These are two very different things here, I think. You're talking about celebrity and franchise fandom which is parasocial and exists because they are actively influencing you to become their fan. They're already famous or have made it.

What the article talks about is much more grounded – being excited about other people you know and believing in them. This "fandom" doesn't necessarily originate from admiration of achievements but from sincere belief. You're becoming a fan while they're just being themselves.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-04-26 01:48:22+00:00
I agree. Wikipedia used to be a useful starting point for almost any research.

Today, not so much. I can’t remember where I read it, but there was an analysis of just one topic where it was shown that circular referencing was used to establish a narrative.

Coming back to the point at hand: the US attorney targeting Wikipedia is merely restating allegations which have been made by many others on Wikipedia’s biases for and against certain topics and individuals.
by halffullbrain | 2025-04-26 01:48:24+00:00
At least, in this case, the WAF in question had the decency to return 403.

I've worked with a WAF installation (totally different product), where the "WAF fail" tell was HTTP status 200 (!) and "location: /" (and some garbage cookies), possibly to get browsers to redirect using said cookies. This was part of the CSRF protection. Other problems were with "command injection"-patterns (like in the article, expect with specific Windows commands, too - they clash with everyday words which the users submit), and obviously SQL injections which cover some relevant words, too.

The bottom line is that WAFs in their "hardened/insurance friendly" standard configs are set up to protect the company from amateurs exposing buggy, unsupported software or architectures. WAF's are useful for that, but you still gave all the other issues with buggy, unsupported software.

As others have written, WAFs can be useful to protect against emerging threats, like we saw with the log4j exploit which CloudFlare rolled out protection for quite fast.

Unless you want compliance more than customers, you MUST at least have a process to add exceptions to "all the rules"-circus they put in front of the buggy apps.

Whack-a-mole security filtering is bad, but whack-a-mole relaxation rule creation against an unknown filter is really tiring.
by Centigonal | 2025-04-26 01:50:01+00:00
If you're about to write a diatrabe about the harms of political correctness or scold the writer on inventing a victimhood complex for themselves, please read the ending of the OP:

> Much as I’d like to, I can’t just blame the puritans if my old jokes don’t work any more. Nor can I claim that the Crap Towns books were an unqualified success

[...]

> before closing, I should admit that there is a more straightforward answer to the question of whether you can still get away with doing something like Crap Towns.

> That answer is: yes. There’s a website (I won’t link to it) that has kept on running a survey of the worst places in the UK for years and years- and, honestly, when I look at it, I hate it. Partly because I feel like they’re ripping off my project, but mainly because when I read the comments on there about incels and chavs and carbuncles and brutalism it all just seems grubby. Maybe even cruel.

> I could argue that I don’t like this website because their approach and criteria are different to mine - and I hope there would be some truth in that. But I also know that I now also just react against the whole thing. It’s been done. It’s grown stale. It doesn’t fit - especially since so much has changed around it. In short, the world has moved on. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing?
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-26 01:50:05+00:00
If you're talking about the ford transit (I'm just guessing) but maybe the tariff rules changed? IIUC The transit was shipped to the US from europe as a "bus" because it was configured with car seats on board and then they would strip the seats and ship them back to europe. Buses are exempt from tariffs otherwise municipal public transit would be even more in the drink.
by svat | 2025-04-26 01:54:12+00:00
Loved the fact that this post didn't go where I expected it to (or at least, didn't remain there). That a book like this probably wouldn't be published today, or would be less popular today, is a point that has been made many times by many people, about many different books, TV shows, jokes, etc. But the author actually moves on from there; the observation is that even in his own opinion, the same joke isn't funny today — in fact, the equivalent thing being done today just looks “grubby”.

So it's something deeper than the usual “political correctness” debate: the question really is, what is it about the world today that trumps the hallowed British traditions of celebrating failure, of moaning, of affectionate self-mockery? Why isn't the joke funny any more, or why doesn't the mocking seem affectionate?

(He points at the malaise that exists today—it was only funny when there was some hope—but I'm not sure that's the only answer…)
by ollin | 2025-04-26 01:54:13+00:00
Yup, definitely similar! There are a lot of video-game-emulation World Models floating around now, https://worldarcade.gg had a list. In the self-driving & robotics literature there have also been many WMs created for policy training and evaluation. I don't remember a prior WM built on first-person cell-phone video, but it's a simple enough concept that someone has probably done it for a student project or something :)
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-26 01:54:33+00:00
You're right though that a truck could offer a floor shifter manual or a column auto because it's an easy conversion.

European cars did have the 4 on the floor but that's dated and these didn't have an automatic for the US (afaik).

I'm looking at the period when bench seats died though. A major change in car sizes and the dominance of imports.
by layman51 | 2025-04-26 01:55:04+00:00
At first I thought, was this caused by everyone learning to code? Well of course not everyone codes, but I’m just saying that this was a meme and it did become more possible for non-technical people to be more efficient.

I have never worked in tech, but in my mind, all of these perks mentioned in the article were the tech company’s tactic to get the tech worker to stay in the office. Some of the comments in the WSJ section are kind of mocking and derisive, but I get the tech workers’ morale hit because this is what made (most? some?) of them work really hard.

Then there’s the older photo shown of Zuckerberg yucking it up with employees. I think what that’s trying to convey is now there’s less chance for the workers to freely give input.

Lastly, I see they mentioned AI specialists still being rewarded more. I was reading an older article about the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” recently where it had something about how the job market could bifurcate more and more into jobs that require more skills/talent and those that do not. Would this mean that most tech workers would do well to try to get into AI somehow, or try to get a PhD?
by mindslight | 2025-04-26 01:55:12+00:00
If the federal government is no longer beholden to the law because the king executive refuses to follow or enforce inconvenient laws, would it be appropriate to consider it a rebellion? It seems more like basic law enforcement to me.

I was under the impression that state governors could refuse to federalize their National Guards. A quick read on Wikipedia points to the Constitution saying it would take Congress for the federal government to take command unilaterally. That could be a sticking point by the time it gets to the point where there is enough support for state governors to be deploying their state National Guards to keep the peace versus the lawless federal executive.
by amiga386 | 2025-04-26 01:58:18+00:00
> There’s a website (I won’t link to it) that has kept on running a survey of the worst places in the UK for years and years

I will, it's ChavTowns.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061013053524/http://www.chavto...

Still running as https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/

Also the owner is giving up on it as of the start of this year -- mainly because nobody visits the site; churnalists just freeboot it and they rank higher on google. https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/top-10-worst-places-to-live-in-e...
by solardev | 2025-04-26 01:58:59+00:00
Wait, is this really a new thing...? I could've sworn I've seen it in streaming services before, where you could choose between dialog only and closed captioning. One is usually called "English" and the other is "English SDH" or similar, where SDH is "subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing". It's the exact difference this article points out (sound effects and music etc., as opposed to just dialog). https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/whats-the-difference-subtitl...

Video games have also had this as an explicit option for many years, maybe decades (Half Life 2 comes to mind).

Not only did Netflix not invent this, I could swear some of their shows have had it for years already...
by emacsen | 2025-04-26 01:59:50+00:00
Basically, almost any time Zionists are mentioned, they're mentioned in a negative light and with genuine disinformation, such as that Zionism is the belief that Arabs needs to be destroyed. That is like saying the Civil Rights movement in the US was about killing white people.

They also position things in such a way that implies antisemitic things, such as saying that Zionism is only 200 years old, or discussing the Israel wars only or primarily through an Arab lens.

These biases around Jewish topics are small individually but large in aggregate, especially in how they present Jews and Jewish topics.

Multiple Jewish and civil rights organizations have done a more comprehensive job at discussing this, even organizations who don't usually agree on things. While they talk about "anti-Israel bias" Wikipedia articles on or mentioning Zionism (80% of Jews are Zionist) are IMHO just as, if not more damaging, and demonstrate the issue.

Most importantly though, talk to the Jews in your life about this. They will tell you.

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wikipedia-entrie...

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-846563

https://cameraoncampus.org/blog/seven-tactics-wikipedia-edit...

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...

https://www.standwithus.com/post/it-s-time-to-correct-wikipe...

https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-edit...
by robomartin | 2025-04-26 02:00:11+00:00
Interesting.

No mention of crash testing or crash-worthiness/safety. Airbags? ABS braking? Collision avoidance (brakes engage based on distance and speed to cars or objects ahead), etc.

Before the hounds say "it is refreshing..." remember that lots of safety features are there because so many people died before they were instituted.

How safe is this plastic body from lateral impact by an F150 or SUV?

One of the reasons for which I do not like or buy old vehicles is the lack of safety features that are common today. All it takes is to land a loved one in the hospital (or worse) to quickly regret the choice to buy a cheap car or an old unsafe car. Years ago my father was t-boned by a full size SUV at a neighborhood intersection, launching his car diagonally across the intersection and onto the front yard of the corner house...through a couple of trees. He walked away from that one because the safety engineering of the vehicle he was driving save his life.

Another note: To me, while this is interesting, it is also a sad commentary on the state of manufacturing in the US. The ONLY WAY to make a $20K car in the US is to strip it down to bare metal...err...not even use metal...or paint...or electronics...or comfortable seats...and have HALF the range of other EV's...and even take out the speakers, etc. And then, you sell not having all those things as a FEATURE! Yup. Brilliant. What's the least we can do to build a car and get away with it?

My prediction is that this thing will die a pretty rapid death or they will have to pivot into making real cars for this market. There's a reason nearly three million conventional trucks were sold in the US last year. Plastic bodies, 150 mile range and barren interiors did not fit the description of a single one of them.
by seattle_spring | 2025-04-26 02:00:33+00:00
OTA updates are considered bad? What?

OTA updates on my truck have vastly improved suspension response and cruise-control/ lane-assist features. My wife's car has had OTA updates that improve her cars charging curve, and have implemented recalls for stuff like brake light response when regen braking.

Sure one could say these things should have worked perfectly from the factory, but that's not realistic: not with my cars, not with your cars, and not with this new brand either.

The only alternative I see here is the old fashioned way of having to bring it to a dealership. I would rather have an entire foot of ingrown toenails over dealing with dealership service centers of any brand.
by entrepy123 | 2025-04-26 02:00:43+00:00
Phenomenal, I've long wanted to have or make a very simple site that made tshirt designs on the fly. Defining it with prompts makes it great.

To take off more, I suggest an ultra cheap option alongside, like HALF the price or less (for people ok with absolute bottom of the barrel shirt and print quality but wanting lots of custom prompted shirts).

And maybe an ultra premium option that is like TWICE the price but the best quality shirt and printing money can buy for the value.

Also, how can we trust the site with payment info? Make sure you specify how we know it is ok. It's on its own domain, without info about who runs it, or the payment processor used, etc, all the help/about pages are 404?
by jaredcwhite | 2025-04-26 02:01:43+00:00
"but most work tasks I'm given are fairly boring"

Part of the joy of craft is the actual process of building a thing, even if the thing you're build is itself "boring". One of my clients right now is a React/Next.js app, which in terms of architecture I find deeply problematic (I tend to advocate vanilla JS, web components, close-to-browser-metal approaches, etc.)—but I still find ways to enjoy the work I do and furthermore I'm proud of the work that I do. I find it anathema that I'd offload any of that craft to a synthetic code text extruder.
by frognumber | 2025-04-26 02:02:13+00:00
Ergo, I posted a link to an analogous legal situation in Massachusetts.

We can agree with what the judge did, but it doesn't make it legal.

We can also agree that ICE is breaking laws, but it also doesn't make what the judge did legal. It does help a bit -- in another comment I explained why -- but not enough to change the legal analysis.

As a footnote, modern LLMs aren't worse than Fox News. They have a lot of case law in their training set. They make mistakes so shouldn't yet be used for anything critical, but the legal analysis from Claude or GPT4.1 is a lot better than e.g. 95% of forum posts here.
by AndrewOMartin | 2025-04-26 02:02:52+00:00
This is perfectly reasonable, but I think it is a bit general. The notion of a chain of trust leading to a curated feed can equally apply to YouTube if you stick to the subscribed channels view.

There are also specific skills I've picked up from being subscribed to the Hacker News "top" RSS feed. Namely judicious use of the "mark all as read" button.
by ctxc | 2025-04-26 02:04:31+00:00
Crazy stuff, you got me curious

https://web.archive.org/web/20040411225059/http://www.sheppe...

> The island was shat from the arse of the Norse god Fuctup whilst he was suffering a bout of diarrhoea as a side effect of his recent withdrawal from scag. And that's true, as true as I'm sitting here. > A large number of policefolk who work on Sheppey are "Specials", which by a startling coincidence is also an affectionate term used to describe people with learning disabilities. > Christian based cults aside, the main religious practices on the island usually resemble primitive tribal type worship. Drug induced trances are a common tool for reaching the spirits beyond. These trances are often extended to include ritual drug induced self sacrifice- a deeply sacred activity known commonly to the natives as "Overdose".

You go to the "culture" section and there's just a single word, "NO." xD
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-26 02:04:32+00:00
Not necessarily. I think the interesting idea the article dances around is changing attitudes and sensibilities. In many ways, I think media of the 90s and even 2000s had a different balance of optimism and cynicism. Critical commentary was an edgy (or in this case humorous) counterpoint. 1999 saw dark edgy and dystopian films like the matrix, fight club that felt like a warning, criticism of a future to be avoided.

Similar subjects today are noticably darker without the buttress of social optimism. Films like The Joker seem less like a cautionary tale and more like a documentary. Is the joker now the protagonist?
by p_ing | 2025-04-26 02:04:54+00:00
Windows can be configured to have whole-volume case-sensitivity with NTFS, or even directory-specific case-sensitivity.

However, case-sensitivity is user-unfriendly. README.DOCX, Readme.docx, ReAdMe.DocX -- which document did they really want? When Jane Doe calls and tells John Doe to open the "readme" document, which one does she mean?