skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NHS Digital have released a comment: https://www.digital.nhs.uk/article/1491/Statement-on-reporte...

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A number of NHS organisations have reported to NHS Digital that they have been affected by a ransomware attack which is affecting a number of different organisations.

The investigation is at an early stage but we believe the malware variant is Wanna Decryptor.

At this stage we do not have any evidence that patient data has been accessed. We will continue to work with affected organisations to confirm this.

NHS Digital is working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre, the Department of Health and NHS England to support affected organisations and to recommend appropriate mitigations.

This attack was not specifically targeted at the NHS and is affecting organisations from across a range of sectors.

Our focus is on supporting organisations to manage the incident swiftly and decisively, but we will continue to communicate with NHS colleagues and will share more information as it becomes available.

Notes to editors
As at 15.30, 16 NHS organisations had reported that they were affected by this issue.

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I'd be interested to know how many patients are under the care of those 16 organisations.
So the proposal is to give employers a choice:

- hire no grocery baggers

- only hire grocery baggers if they're willing to pay $20 an hour or more

...it doesn't necessarily follow that someone will end up with a living wage from this kind of regulation.

There is also the unintended consequence that (no longer employable) young people are less qualified for future work because they've never learned how to work hard, manage their bosses, etc.
They should be; but security in government organisations is pretty bad. They are heavy on security on it, but in completely ineffectual areas.
GoingARM Workshop at ISC-HPC 2017
> You can not just spend other people's money

This is exactly how banks operate.
Gawker was acquired by Univision last year.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129.
You're acting like a founder never ran off with a VC's money and that there also aren't legit cryptos. This is the real world. Scummy people exist in all facets of life.
This is an argued area, but I think most people would agree that LTRs, which make up the bulk of non coding regions, have effectively zero effect on functional selection. There are many regions which are non-coding which appear to be under selection and play functional roles, but (and this belief only changed after looking into the problem in some detail) most of the LTR regions have no effect.
Lots of speculation present in the article, which points out the need for some good science to determine whether we're facing an imminent insect population collapse or its "business as usual".

As for the cars...

More cars and more car miles this year than in yesteryear means fewer bugsplats per vehicle mile. I would assume that, once a vehicle has swept past a volume, the bug population in that volume is restored by a "random walk/fly" process that depends on the average number of insects per unit volume in the area surrounding the highways.

Also vehicles pass in clumps depending on traffic patterns and time of day, so a bug that might have splatted on your vehicle is instead swept up by a driver in front of you.

Over time, insect populations for flying insects near roadways may decline, given the death rate is higher there. OTOH that may vary depending on whether the species is attracted/repelled by light, heat, roadkill, fumes, etc.

As for the article...

The article said: "the Krefeld Entomological Society... in 2013 .. When they returned to one of their earliest trapping sites from 1989, the total mass of their catch had fallen by nearly 80%. "

Note the word "one" as in one of "100 nature reserves in western Europe". The article continues:

"Through more direct comparisons, the group—which had preserved thousands of samples over 3 decades—found dramatic declines across more than a dozen other sites."

So, perhaps 12 of 100 sites show a "dramatic decline". That's about 8% of sites, so what about the other 88 sites? Did numbers there go up, decline or what?

Like the article says, time for some good science. But NOT time for alarmism. The sky is not falling.

All-in-all, pretty anecdotal stuff that could also attract some fun modeling. But first maybe, let's get some good solid science.
Culprit behind 2014 CIA hack turned out to be … the CIA
Voip phones run on windows servers! Thanks Cisco.
Microsoft's new mantra: CEO Satya Nadella on 'intelligent cloud'
Ditto, although I find VcXsrv to be a bit faster than XMing. No scientific testing, though ;-)
How startups should do SEO
In organisation like the NHS something like active directory becomes almost mandatory.

Open sources equivalents are nowhere near as good.
http://isthenbnfastyet.com/
We've merged threads with that original from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324303.
This. A million times this. I think at this point the tech community should be vocal about this issue.

Tech has improved ten-fold this last decade, and IT consulting services simply don't care because they profit hugely from it. What makes this issue even harder to solve is the fact that IT is so simple to hide because society does not understand it enough.

Similar to the Tech Pledge, we should stand and be very vocal about the fact that you CAN build strong, secure and relatively cheap systems. If we don't do this, who else will ?

We're stuck between a part of the industry which benefit from this (and especially the big bosses, they don't care about the developers either) and a society which doesn't see the value of homegrown (as in company/government-grown) tech talent and the tenfolds decreases in IT spending it could entail.

Please, Sam Altman ? Someone ? Please ?
Social workers all the way down?
> It seems strange to say, "Well, a film must be in a cinema" when that's not how most people watch them. (At least not the vast majority of films they watch in any of the countries I've been in.)

David Sedaris goes on at length about moving to France and falling in love with the film culture there, where movies are shown in small theatres very cheaply. This was back in 2000, so things may have changed, but he was very clear on the differences between the American and French theater-going experience.

> Film as a medium is a valuable part of culture; theatres aren't necessarily.

You should probably stop calling it 'film', then. Most theatres can still show actual films; few homes can.
Nintendo can't stop idolizing their ancient 8-bit era franchises for preschool kids like Mario and Zelda. Now they're even forcing to add them to all ported games. This silly plumber with extra chromosome and acid colours will jump even in scariest horror games.

Port of Skyrim will surely have kid-knight from Zelda as major NPC in main quest.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317171
Prototyping parallax scrolling websites: the new rules
> I always just chalked it up to the "there were more thunderstorms when I was a kid" phenomenon

That's a thing? I thought that since the house I grew up in at the time didn't have A/C and had a leaky roof just meant that thunderstorms were more important to the family. Not having A/C meant that the windows were open on hot days when thunderstorms were more likely, then had to hurry and close them when one happened. The leaky roof meant get some buckets and towels.
OMG - I have been using burst mode forever, it's the only way to get decent shots of my kids! It does burn up storage fast, but at least the UI for saving and discarding pics from bursts is decent.
Because its really weird and new to attribute high value to small amounts of data you transact over the internet to a distributed system. The cryptography and game theory needed to stop anti-social nodes(hackers and other entities) isn't developed yet.
If you're on the fast track for Windows 10 insider builds, you can see a preview of this by opening your calculator. I expect you'll be thoroughly disappointed.
I had no idea this tool existed. Thanks! Very cool!
even worse is the people recording with their phone to the side of their head, so they still get a perfect view, and you're stuck watching the bloody screen
The problem is there are too many brands. Get mad at the GM deal, 3 years latter buy a Ford, then decide it is American cans and replace the Ford with a Honda, Honda is bad buy a Toyota, then onto Volkswagen, Kia... and back to GM because maybe they have gotten better in the last 20 years.

Dealer loyalty is not something you have so they have no incentive to make you want to come back: you probably won't anyway. If you a a buyer for a large company (ie a fleet of plumbers) you will find your dealer is more responsive. Not only does it get the large sale today, but he knows you will be back next year for more if he treats you well because there are advantages to having all one make of vehicle in a fleet.
Defining "non-executable" is then an interesting exercise...

From https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/redux-comp...

> You’ve likely guessed it by now, but the Linux gstreamer media playback framework supports playback of SNES music files by…. emulating the SNES CPU and audio processor, courtesy of Game Music Emu. How cool is that?
I wonder if it would be appropriate to "dramatically overreact" and send in the SAS or similar to send a polite message that mucking with the NHS is really not a good idea.

Maybe post offer a decent reward - say £10 million for information leading to the identification of the culprits.
For what its worth, customers' fund are not "business assets". He had no legal right to spend that money.

Now, he may have thought he could use it to float some funds, and put them back, and no one would be any wiser, but that's definitely illegal.

He may not be a bad person, and he may not be an idiot in the larger scheme of things, but this was an idiotic move, and a terrible (and unethical) decision, that may very well have legal repercussions.
Holy crap, it's true: https://dogetipbot.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/wow-such-busines...

Him and a cofounder, a dev, community/customer support, and a new hire coming on to "go to the moon".

I would love to know the thought process that came up with this.

Edit: Ya they went to conventions and on and on. Built a v3 system that could do "<bold>40 transactions per second</bold>", supported Twitch and other stuff. And they raised money: "Hell, we even raised $445k in a seed round to keep this train moving well on into 2015."

Well that makes a lot more sense. And I sympathize with wanting to keep your business alive. I've seen that happen and it sucks because it's hard to cut losses and walk away.
If you're an investor with access to a private equity market you can just look at the cap table and see the current asking price to determine the discount.
I completely agree with you.

I came to the conclusion that we need a completely new language, a new communication paradigm. We can't continue to build single-purpose apps for every single thing. We need a single interface that's general-purpose enough to let people communicate what would today take 1000 different apps (or 1 natural language).

I believe that the future of UI will be a mix of task management concepts (to-dos, task dependencies, task delegation, timelines) and binary interaction (Akinator, Tinder, Mechanical Turk). Add a graph knowledge base, a blockchain, a network of trust, smart contracts and you're set.

I've been trying to start a discussion about this for years, without success. If anyone is interested in discussing this space, I encourage you to let me know.
If it were just games, I think you'd be right in there being a relatively low value cap. Gaming is a huge industry, but the issue with persistent words is that to provide value, they need to have addicted users. If i'm not going to keep logging into a game, do I really care that it's supporting a huge number of users or that a tree I felled a year ago is still decaying on the floor somewhere?

There's a low upper limit to how many such games an individual would be willing to invest in (a number not far off 1?). Some MMORPG players will play a few of them, but I suspect most will focus on just one.

I think the real value of this tech lies in its applications outside of gaming, namely huge-scale simulations. There's plenty of opportunity for lucrative contracts with governments, academia, and R&D departments.
I still don't think you understand. They are prohibited from offering consulting services to audit clients which is completely different from 'compliance'. This is about auditor independence rules.

The article states that the Big 4 are lobbying against making PCAOB disciplinary proceedings public. Disciplinary proceedings are and will be in place in the future so i'm not sure where you are getting that they do not want the government looking over their shoulder. Yes, in a perfect world i'm sure they don't want the PCAOB breathing down their neck but it's part and parcel of the job.
Payment Processing Gateway API for Developers
How does that help? We're talking about devices that need, for whatever driver-related reason, to run on the bare metal.

A non-health example: http://www.effectivebits.net/2011/08/to-run-windows-or-not-t...
Or ksh, which bash was a half-assed imitation of.

Or if you're just stringing commands together, traditional simpler Posix sh (note: 'bash --posix' isn't).
No free lunch and all that... 40% seems quite nice if you think about the transistor count (15b to 21b).
No, it was a typo.
Perfectly Resize Avatar Initials Using CSS Calc() and Variables
Deploying OSv on Kubernetes using virtlet
Correction: his name is not Mario but Super Mario.
M-Pesa, which may have first been created there (not sure, just read of it used there first), is now in India too.
A lot of polished produce lack this feature. You end up turning away a 90% solution for a 70% solution because the former isn't programmable. Emacs, for example, can easily become a maintenance nightmare.
The result will be intensify what they are already doing rather than to rethink the system.
Frankly I find the whole idea behind this company troublesome to say the least.

The solution to the gunshots problem is before the guns shoot, like background checks required to own a weapon.

That a company could make an IPO over such an idea goes very, very far in describing today's America.

Soon to come: the laptop you can assembly yourself and that can be carried in the cabin?
For me the cause for burnout was having to deal with a combination of politics, the fact that those determined my lack of technical input, that I wasn't allowed to perform at my best because I lacked input, and then getting beaten with the underperformer stick while the project was going down the tubes.
This is a bug in glibc[1] more than it's a bug in Rust.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=984 ; from the Reddit thread kibwen linked to[2]

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324331
You are misinterpreting "reciprocity"; it has nothing to do with Artifex's dual-licensing arrangement. If you read the linked PDF, you'll find this:

Reciprocity means a mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges. Something is reciprocal when it is performed, experienced, or felt by both sides. (The American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition.)

The GPL license is reciprocal, because it is “performed, experienced, or felt” by both sides—the licensor and the licensees both use the GPL.

In non-legal terms, I'd put this as "the GPL allows you to redistribute in kind: by extending the offer the original licensor made to others." The "price" of redistribution is agreeing to public participation in the co-evolution of the software.

This is not to be confused with Artifex's offer to dual-license: you may either accept the terms of the GPL or purchase a commercial license. These two worlds do not interact other than Artifex, the copyright holder, uses its rights under copyright law to offer these two alternatives.
>Sprint isn't CDMA-only any longer.

They are for calls.

voLTE coming soon! (Maybe in 2025)
kmsan – a detector of uses of uninitialized memory in the Linux kernel
Smoke and Shaders
Everybody's waiting for the model 3 ;)
I don't think HN would downvote you for having an alternative datapoint. =)

That said, you are right to a degree but the only multiple sim holding report I saw was Truecaller saying that 46% of its installs are people with dual sims. This was last year. I'd love to hear about your sources and proxies about 5.

That said, there are multiple longer run plays here:

- onboarding 1M/SIMs/day.

- pumping that much data volume/day.

- commoditisation of data packs.

- this is just the data layer of digital infra, value layers over this would be built in next 2-5 years. It is a sub percentage point of GDP growth if you measure not just the ARPU that Jio makes, but what every business makes here on top of this.

- productivity growth is hard to measure in terms of short run revenue of one company. This is digital infrastructure akin to roadways, railroads and electricity.
No, it's several specific purposes that heavily use the provided general primitives. There's nothing stopping more things from using it, which makes it general.

You don't call your PC a specific purpose computer just because all you do is use google chrome.
Watch out, we have a bad ass over here.
Read the rest of the article.
I think a big factor in burnout is that most work is ultimately meaningless, or even morally wrong, and on a deep level, we're aware of that. Why is it so hard to make yourself work? Probably because you actually should be doing something else with your life.

If someone paid you money to kick a dog, you'd feel a strong urge to do something else. That's because you shouldn't kick dogs. But when we feel the same urge to not work, we read articles (not this one so much) that are essentially lists of ways to trick ourselves into doing things that don't matter or which will make the world a worse place.

You may have an idea that you know will make you a millionaire and which you could build, but you just can't force yourself to because fundamentally money won't make you happy and the idea is meaningless at best.

At least this is often the case for me.
Hospital computers across England shut down by ransom cyberattack
Forgive my ignorance too - but I don't think the intended goal of the GPL is to allow you to dual-license, I think Stallman would (I'm guessing) not want people to license code as anything other than GPL, so I imagine he'd discourage paying for non-GPLed code.
Boost and Virgin are all MVNO's that use other networks (the big 4)

Smaller regional providers are ones like US Cellular, and really tiny ones like Indigo Wireless.
Yes it is (about atomics/sync). ARM like every other major core is "sequentially consistent" with respect to the core executing the code. The memory order only matters for external visibility (aka other threads or devices). This means that the load/store order from a single thread doesn't matter to the other threads except at synchronization points (aka locks/etc). Those sync primitives have implied barriers.

If someone has a program which is depending on load/store order in userspace then they likely have bugs on x86 as well since threads can be migrated between cores and the compilers are fully allowed to reorder load/stores as well as long as visible side effects are maintained.. I could go into the finer points of how compilers have to create internal barriers (this has nothing to do with DMB/SFENCE/etc) across external function calls as well (which plays into why you should be using library locking calls rather than creating your own) but that is another whole subject.

The latter case is something I don't think most people understand... Particularly as GCC and friends get more aggressive about determining side effects and tossing code. Also, volatile doesn't do what most people think it does and trying to create sync primitives simply by forcing load/store does nothing when the compiler is still free to reorder the operations.

An emulator is also going to maintain this contract as well. That is why things like qemu work just fine to run x86 binaries on random ARMs today without having to modify the hardware memory model.
"For what its worth, customers' fund are not "business assets". He had no legal right to spend that money.
Now, he may have thought he could use it to float some funds, and put them back, and no one would be any wiser, but that's definitely illegal."

This is true, and the comparison with banks fractional reserve isn't 1:1

The banks aren't taking your money to pay their bills, they're using your money along a legally defined path of creating and selling investment products with the government in a well-defined position to protect your savings as a guarantor.

I suspect that the Dogecoin business could have leveraged customer deposits in investment products similarly, but would likely require an insane amount of bureaucracy and i-dotting before they could do it.
Is there some kind of saying: You can't secure a network that contains legacy systems?

Start from scratch, don't connect anything legacy. Assume the LAN is already penetrated and design for that. Store no data locally, client machines run something like ChromeOS by default. Timeout anything that's not used for 6 months. Don't use passwords, only SmartCards. Snapshot data for ease of restore.
As other people already said, intellectual property laws restrict not only the work itself, but also derivative works.

A patch is a derivative work, no matter how you try to dodge that part of the law. So it would still be violation of copyright.
Doesn't this apply to anyone who pays minimum wage? Is there a Walmart specific aspect I'm missing other than that they're the country's largest employer?
I've seen some very strange things done in the name of SOX compliance. I was involved in the potential acquisition in the UK of a subsidiary of a US public company and they used to print out their AD group memberships (as screenshots) and have someone sign (wet sign - with a pen!) the printouts every week/month.

When I asked whether SOX compliance really required this they basically said they didn't really know but had to play safe as the regulations were just so vague.
Why do simulations have to be real time online systems?

Most simulations don't work like that at all.
This would have sounded crazy to me 6 months ago. However I had a friend who had a traumatic brain injury where the doctors had to remove a portion of their skull temporarily (a couple months) to releive pressure on the brain. The doctors told my friend that his brain function and parts of his personality may be different while parts of his skull was off, and sure enough it was. When they put his skull back together a couple months later his personality shifted. The stated reason the doctor gave had to do with differentials in blood pressure in the brain with and with out the skull entact. This was at a top hospital in San Francisco.
Why was the title I used changed on this post? It was originally "Sprint Corp. has started preliminary talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc.," which is literally the first sentence of the article....