skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as the attack is determined to be confined to the IT systems and not impacting the SCADA systems, they should be able to restart. However:

The control systems were considered safe for years because they were not connected to the internet, but hackers have found ways to penetrate them through unsecured remote access and networked systems. Many companies have older, vulnerable Windows platforms still embedded within energy facilities, and efforts to implement cybersecurity measures rarely move beyond the pilot-program stage, Mr. Sevier said.

Because many industrial facilities run around the clock, it isn’t easy to take down plants to patch outdated systems, keeping older machines in place and providing “the perfect path for cyber pathogens” once they are connected to company networks, said Grant Geyer, chief product officer of Claroty Ltd., a cybersecurity company that specializes in critical infrastructure environments.

Matters can be complicated by a cultural divide between the engineers who design operational control systems that run facilities and the IT teams responsible for a company’s security, according to consultants who work with such companies. The two groups rarely understand each other’s priorities, the consultants said, and often consider securing operational devices to be in the purview of the other.

Also, many people running control rooms at industrial facilities came to their positions with little experience in information technology, said Michael Hamilton, founder and chief information security officer at Critical Insight Inc.

Their mantra is “don’t touch anything if it works. But in today’s world, this stuff has to be constantly managed,” Mr. Hamilton said.
If a person were concerned, where would they find more information about this?
Tell me, devotee, how does selling carbon offsets help save the species?

https://insideevs.com/news/438345/tesla-428-million-carbon-c...
True, but existence proofs are useful if you don’t extrapolate too much from them. Ie you _can_ be a unicorn with a monolith.

I think it’s not so useful to look at 30-person monoliths though, as you say. I’m sure there are 30-person startups that are jumping the gun and building microservice architectures? Don’t do that. First build the monolith.

But I think what you are getting at in the latter part, and I agree: the question is whether there are 100, or 1000 employee-company monoliths. I don’t know of any, I’d guess there are some examples, but I’d be comfortable wagering that they are much rarer the bigger you get.
I'm not sure about the claim that Win10 itself uses a bunch of memory. On my machine with lots of stuff installed, almost all of the "Microsoft Corporation" processes running are lightweight in the 2-10mb range. Many of them could be evicted or swapped out. A few of the heavy ones are suspended UWP apps, which the OS will kick out if memory is limited.

The three outliers are MsMpEng (windows defender AV), SearchIndexer, and Explorer. The last one makes sense given how much stuff it's tracking (all my open windows, my open folder views, tray icons, etc) though I feel like it should definitely be lighter.

SearchIndexer and MsMpEng use a ton of RAM and I don't know why, that feels inexcusable. Maybe it's mostly cache pages that are reported wrong and will be evicted if memory is low?

Out of all of those, though, they predate win10 by a while. The same stuff would've been running on 7. So I'm not sure that things have gotten worse - I suspect it's all about the third-party software installed on the machine, and people have tons of third-party software installed now.

(And if you need to, you can disable Defender and SearchIndexer. Maybe you should.)

In the end most of my memory is going to third-party software (Firefox, qBitTorrent, Dropbox, Steam, LINE - all 400mb or more) or optional services I have turned on (Windows Update's "delivery optimization" will sometimes chew up a bunch of RAM if you have updates waiting to install - it seems to be caching them in memory to distribute them to other machines on your network. I wouldn't be surprised if this will get thrown out in limited memory scenarios, but make sure it's turned off!)

Every Electron app you have open is probably 400+mb on Windows at best, and often worse. (Electron on mac uses different APIs, which may help?)

Maybe the reason all these new M1 laptops feel great with 8gb of RAM is that mac users don't need to install as much third-party software, and Electron apps use less memory on OS X? I don't think most macs have a virus scanner installed, for example.
Never let a crisis go to waste

Companies always piggy back on the current crisis to make changes or blame issues on that crisis that have nothing at all to do with the actual crisis...

come to think about it, governments also do this.
Most of p2p was not running for profit.

On the other hand, as soon as you interact with money, there are well-established means to control money flows. If the banking system stop interacting with crypto exchanges, much like they're banned from serving cartels or countries under embargo, cryptocurrency will essentially go back to the fringe status it had a few years ago.

Sure, some people may still use it to buy pizzas. But it will essentially lose its interest when it comes to unregulated banking.

That kind of regulation may actually be a good thing when it comes to blockchain operations, or at least the few of them that can actually demonstrate a benefit in isolation.
I don't have any particular opinion on the best way to do this, but from those comments by the tilix developer, it doesn't seem like the approach taken by vte-ng was the right one either.

From the VTE maintainer's perspective, adding any additional external symbols can create trouble, because those symbols have to be maintained for the duration of the major version, and they can prevent further refactorings. It's usually not easy to get public API changes into old libraries like this.
My beloved middle school band teacher used to say: It's not "practice makes perfect," but rather, "practice makes permanent."

Granted I'm not a pianist, but a jazz bassist. So I see it in light of the technical problems of the bass, which include intonation and tone formation. My approach is, if I'm struggling with a passage, I don't just keep playing it over and over. Rather, I stop and try to analyze what's hard about it, and what I'm doing wrong with my technique. Then I work on correcting those problems.

This is also what my kids' teachers do during lessons. Part of the reason for lessons is to learn a better approach to practicing.

A lot depends on what kind of music you're playing, but I often don't know what I'll be playing until I find out at the performance. The bassist is often the one who's expected to roll with whatever the rest of the band chooses. So the mastery of specific pieces can't just be an end unto itself, but it also has to pay off in improving my ability to approach the next piece. This requires making real progress on technique.
How do you do it? Do you have a Sql server, MySQL, or postgresql instance running on your machine? Do you aggressively limit how much memory these servers can use?
Higher Prices Leave Consumers Feeling the Pinch
23andMe also thanks for your data
> It makes me wonder if it would be possible to build a chip-manufacturing plant for any reasonable amount of money to produce these chips that don't need to be 7nm GPU powerhouses, but like the old clunker chips that can't get attention from the big guys.

> Almost like starting a "generics" business in pharma medication but for older chipsets.

There is actually a great interest in this business, but mainly from Chinese. World's biggest 200mm fab is in Shanghai. A decision to build a brand new 200mm fab would've never flew in the West.

Chinese 3rd-4th-n-th tier fabs been vacuuming the market for old equipment for last 5 years.

> I'm sure there's a great trade to be had in producing the lower end stuff.

At this very moment, production on 150mm-200mm wafers is actually few times more profitable than on the latest process because everybody is now ready to pay absolutely ridiculous premiums.
8 GB of soldered-down RAM on an Intel- or AMD-based Windows 10 laptop is a cost-cutting measure, though it's plenty for most Linux distros as a daily driver. Don't be Poor(TM), spend the money on 16GB (or with a manufacturer that offers you that at a reasonable price).

Apple M1-based laptops are fine with 8 GB; it's an, errm, Apples to oranges comparison.
> does anyone ever suggest a prion LUCA[1]

Yes, it totally makes sense to talk about a common ancestor!

There's one known prion-disease-causing protein in humans, the "major prion protein".

You can see the gene containing the code for this protein in human DNA, and any mammal DNA has a similar gene that is still very closely related. This suggests that the protein has some important function(s) in mammals, and has a common ancestor before these species existed.

Genes that have a shared history but are less closely related (and don't appear to cause disease) can be found for example also in zebrafish ('Shadoo' gene) and in humans ('Doppel' gene).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15449459/
Can you give an example? Modern "compact" pickups like the Tacoma are significantly larger than something from 20 years ago like an S10.
Vulcan and Falcon 9 does not compete in the same league. Vulcan exists as a backup choice for the US government to have guaranteed access to space. All commercially relevant features regarding reusability to get the costs even close to Falcon 9 have been shelved for years. For example the "SMART Reuse" they touted when announcing the rocket.
This is changing. UK law will soon require property bought through companies to reveal the names and details of significant shareholders.
They've been low for a while now too. As annoying as it is to have a $670 car payment each month, you really can't beat 0% interest on a $40k loan. Especially in a market where the average monthly return on $40k in stocks has been pretty substantial.
I think we'll crack fusion power before level 5 self-driving cars. And that's been ten years away since 1950. :-)
I didn't realize how good Teslas had gotten until I had the chance to spend significant time in one. Their insane acceleration was always apparent, but they've gotten really good in other ways as well.

They've had a chance to do a clean sheet rethinking of cars, and it works wonderfully well. If you have your phone on you, you just walk up to the car and the door is unlocked and on by the time you touch it. There's no "start" button, you just press the brake, push the mode stalk to drive or reverse, and go. When you walk away, the car locks itself silently and turns off. Depending on whose key it depends, the seat, steering wheel, and mirrors are adjusted by the time you sit down.

There's no "idling" to keep the AC on, so there's no guilt about doing it. They've recently added a very efficient heat pump that shares loops with the battery so the heat doesn't drain much, either. We spent an hour in the car with AC on recently, it used about 1 mile of range.

I thought I'd hate the touchscreen controls, but what I didn't realize was that you generally don't need to use them while driving. Wipers and climate are automatic and work well, so there's no real need to adjust them. The voice control is incredibly good, and seems to have access to almost every non-driving setting. Press a button on the steering wheel, and speak "Set wipers to auto", "I'm cold", "Play Spanish Moon by Little Feat", "Navigate home". They all work as you'd expect.

Jury is still out on "autopilot", lane following and dynamic cruise control are fine, but the onscreen world representation (cars, especially) is very jittery. I guess not too surprising, it's a DNN making guesses about the state of the world, but I'm surprised there's not a more persistent context vector between states. If it's very sure about a car being there in frames 1-10, it should really not expect that car to just blip out of existence in frame 11.

But overall, I'm extremely impressed, and I think I'll have a hard time going back to cars by traditional automakers. The impression is of a holistic design that's extremely well integrated, rather than the impression of a hodge podge of poorly integrated new and old systems that I've gotten with any car with an "infotainment" system that I've ever used.
Maybe it's a great time to start reading non-Western philosophy too?

Indian, Chinese, Japanese is fascinating, and reading them can be eye opening too
Bizarre that this is (at this time) the top comment with numerous replies and nobody has yet pointed out that this is not a NYTimes journalism piece; it is an opinion piece by Cal Newport.
As well, no idea about the legality, but this particular article is readable with Javascript disabled, JFYI.
2 of my colleagues run SQL on their laptops; I have a lower spec laptop, so I run it on a desktop with 128 GB of RAM. Not something many people do, but 3 in my team of 8 do it.
I love trains, and would love to see proper high speed rail in the US, but let's be honest, that's primarily a political problem, and I don't expect to see it within the next 30 years.
A nicely done episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast on this topic: https://youtu.be/ghmjIBD2Fd4

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/05/06/episode-5-...
How’s three years not “years to see”?
Early-on I taught my kids that “Practice makes perfect” is wrong. The right advice is “Practicing correctly makes perfect, because practice makes everything permanent, including mistakes”. This applies to music, chess, swimming, anything really.

Start slow and in small chunks with a focus on “correct”, everything else takes care of itself.
> “That really gets to the heart of it. Was it negligence, or was it just a thing that could have happened at any of the BSL labs with some small probability? What exactly is the mistake rate in similar labs around the world? Was it really more likely to have happened in WuHan, or is that just where the cosmic dice landed? There's this pervasive assumption in your comment and others that the virus escaping a Chinese lab must have been due to the incompetence of the Chinese government. Yet the Chinese governments response to the virus was more serious and more competently executed than almost anywhere else. They practically reopened months ago. How do you square that circle?”

This is precisely why the truth matters and learning about the origins is important.

The cover up and lies out of China don’t necessarily mean it wasn’t a “cosmic dice” situation, but it doesn’t inspire confidence. The false PR about it having to have originated outside of the country makes it look even worse.

Maybe their response was more serious and competent because they had a better understanding of what they were dealing with? They also suppressed information - it wasn’t until the doctor went public that we began to learn the truth of its severity.

A lot of their measures (fever tents, mandatory isolation) play to the strengths of an authoritarian society.

Without knowing the truth it’s hard to evaluate the level of negligence. The western media should not be participating (wittingly or not) in the CCP’s disinformation.

> “Trying to explain the nuance of "there is some evidence it might have escaped a lab but that by itself doesn't necessarily imply anyone is at fault" isn't worth my time”

I’d argue this is the only thing worth your time. The truth absent political tribalism is the thing that can persuade people. Nuance is important, it helps make you more persuasive, even when the people you’re trying to persuade are mostly driven by motivated reasoning.
AOL and Yahoo squandered their internet empires
Interest on savings accounts is far less than inflation, out side of an emergency fund there is little reason to save cash.
Can you give examples of model years and decisions to back up your claim? Last I checked this (common) misconception is patently false.
Kubuntu with "Plazma" was the most RAM I have ever seen a Linux distro take at idle. Xubuntu was a breath of fresh air in comparison and had far fewer weird UI bugs. I don't recommend kubuntu for resource constrained systems.
'sonder' means 'without' in Afrikaans. In Dutch, the same word is spelled zonder. A common word you'd use at least a few times a day.
But they say "an historian."
Or save up enough that you can pay cash. I would think for the HN crowd it should be feasible. I think when you're spending money that's already in your account you make better decisions. Like you'll be less inclined to pay thousands more for an upgraded model with a bunch of superficial nonsense added
I fail to see how this is related to tech news, sorry!
> The trouble is, this is a temporary shortage

It isn't. Designs on 200mm were in dire shortage for half a decade, and Chinese foundries were making very decent money on decades old chips.

For the last 3-4 years, 200mm-180nm had a 12 month+ backlog across the whole market.
> I don’t understand this viewpoint

Well no wonder you don't understand this viewpoint because what follows is a loud attempt to invalidating it by shouting it down with your own.

As if people pointing out what's gone wrong with technology aren't aware the internet and AirBnB exist.

The oceans are full of garbage and the planet is on the path to runaway global warming. There are bigger problems than expanding your gaming clique and titillating your need for consumption.
This is a regular source of confusion on HN, usually accompanied by dozens to hundreds of comments about how you just can't trust the media, also if anyone points out the nature of opinion pieces you usually get a doubling down about how its printed by the NYT so its the same thing as reporting.
also hyenas can open doors with lever handles. there was one that escaped into the hallways at a university lab while i was there. luckily no one was hurt.
The Mythical Man Month as I remember only argues that adding more people to a PROJECT is a killer and that adding more people to a team gives you non-linear productivity gains. Project being defined as a self contained piece of work with a scope and deadline. In the long term more people with a decent structure will give you more overall output although less efficiency. If that is worth it is a business decision.
There's a dead sibling comment stating that car sales won't be a job in 20 years. I would speculate that sales and other careers that are high-touch and relationship focused are precisely the kind of jobs that will be most resistant to automation.
> What's fundamentally wrong with people losing a lot of their money on crypto? A lot of people lose money on Penny stocks, OTC markets, casinos,

Yes, and people who lose all their money in casinos also need to be protected. I would be in favor of anyone who loses the equivalent of a mortgage payment at a casino and then misses said payment being forbidden from gambling for five years, as an example.

> Everyone knows DOGE is a joke

You know DOGE is a joke. Some people really are investing in it to make money. They are taking savings, not entertainment, funds and putting them in DOGE.

> if you assume we're all capable of independent thought, what would you propose that is not a paternalistic view of the world?

I'm not convinced that people are capable of being purely rational economic actors if that's what you're asking. Even if they were, they're overworked and don't understand the risks. It's not a coincidence that cigarette smoking trailed off once the surgeon general started putting warnings on packs as opposed to the previous few decades when he just announced it in statements.

> We don't need more bullshit like accredited investor credentials which create huge differences in access to investments

Well, we could just outlaw things like DogeCoin. We outlaw snakeoil and chain letter pyramid schemes for the same reason.
Not sure exactly how old that fridge is but I think it’s unlikely that it’s anywhere close to as energy efficient as an equivalent fridge made today would be.

Appliances have made huge strides in energy efficiency in the last 30 years.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/527deb7fe4b009d7e...
Well, in this case, they both get to install the RAM themselves and to pay for an even more overpriced markup.
In reality, I believe we're being let down by software developers who consider hardware resources like RAM and CPU as a free and unlimited resource. This includes web development.
Electron apps like Discord/Slack/MatterMost/VSCode/etc. are a good example of this. Or Windows 10 versus Linux (or even macOS).
>The OS uses the ram as this makes running tasks faster. No point in keeping it free.

this meme[1] needs to die. windows, mac, and linux (htop) all correctly differentiate between "used but used for cache" RAM and "used for application" RAM. When people are talking about not having enough free ram, they're talking about chrome, spotify, and slack taking up 2GB each, not the output of "free" showing only 8MB free.

[1] https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I think buying new expensive laptops for personal use is waste of money anyway, unless you do something like heavy video editing or gaming where you really need the power.

For my daily use (programming hobby projects, studying, browsing) a 10-year old Thinkpad T520 with i7 is more than adequate after upgrading it with SSD and 16GB of RAM, especially when using Linux instead of Windows.
> are we talking about assemble in the USA?

No. Did you read the thread before asking?

> they both have semiconductor fabs!
> He ended up leveraging his last penny of his own money

I somehow think there was absolutely zero chance that Elon could have been ruined financially.
The article is now titled "Man Beheads Teacher on the Street in France and Is Killed by Police" [1], but there is at least one link to it using the title you give [2], and the Jerusalem Post supports the idea that it was changed later. I wouldn't call it "hating on [your] country", but it is not the appropriate framing (and it was changed, to be fair).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/europe/france-decap...

[2] https://www.15minutenews.com/article/190276644/french-police...

[3] https://www.jpost.com/international/french-teachers-murder-b...
"an old misconception (with roots both in religion and classical philosophy)"

There is also a new misconception (with no real roots except egalitarianism taken too far) that everything is the same as everything else "to varying degrees." That isn't very interesting though. I live in the US. To "some varying degree" I live on the east coast; but that degree is nil because I live far west of the mississippi. Human language, use of tools, artistry etc. are so massively remote from the animal cases that it's worth labelling it a "distinction" and not a "difference."
2 of my colleagues run SQL on their laptops; I have a lower spec laptop, so I run it on a desktop with 128 GB of RAM

If you are a developer you absolutely do not need 128GB of RAM to run SQL Server! But if it convinces your management to buy you top spec kit, fair play to you.
I claim OS X/Mac (from a consumer's perspective) is doing just fine, or at least it's not doing any worse because it allows apps outside of App Store.
This is the same thing people said about Trump. "Maybe he said X crazy thing as part of a masterplan to..."

I've got bad news for you. There is no secret plan that explains the irrational behavior.
So we're all supposed to believe they sold off all those cars we watched burn during the summer of 2020 at those mostly peaceful protests?

OK sounds great, I wouldn't want to be accused of telling the next "Big Lie"!
I have been driving two Teslas over the last few years. I find that their voice recognition to be roughly 75-85% accurate.
More important, the manuals for the cars have not correctly described operation of voice commands for over a year. This speaks volumes to the software culture at Tesla. If you can't make the code conform to the documentation, you really can't trust the code.