skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One really gets a good grasp of what syscalls exist, what they do and how to properly use them to produce secure and portable code.

Yes! The book really exposes all that hidden fun stuff that the system libraries abstract away from us. When I was a beginner I hated not understanding how they worked.

On Linux it's also theoretically possible to make system calls from any language. The binary interface is stable and really simple. Wish more languages had compiler support for this calling convention.
Isn’t it easier to get vaxxed and reduce your chance of cytokine storm than to hope that there are existing compounds that can help repair lung damage once it’s already occurring? There are already immunosuppressants that are cheap and widely available that reduce damage, and the search is on for things that inhibit viral replication. I think there is also research for universal antibodies that attack regions that are rarely mutated.

Would be great if such last possibility treatments work as patients are usually post COVID by the time the lungs are shot. The course of other diseases would profit from lung repair, possibly even smoking damage.
"Also note that Windy can get it wrong."

I kind of lost trust in it, when I was in the middle of a thunderstorm, yet windy showed me all sunny.

Granted, it was in the alps and forcasting there is hard, but it was the current state of things they got wrong.
Love this site! Saved me a lot of trouble ahead with preparation of the last few hurricanes and tropical storms in the NY area!
One is their DirectX extension that only works on WSL2. It allows you to access the DX API through a shim driver. You can now have a Linux application that needs access to /dev/xdg which is only available in WSL2.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
> It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors.

As long as it fits into a convenient, simple, marketable narrative that isn’t unacceptable to the outlet the journalist works for, its not that hard. Bonus, sure, if its one that the outlet the journalist works for is already pushing (which is probably more important in most cases than the journalist’s own priors; in fact, that this is the case is pretty visible when journalists switch outlets.)
The stupidity of (most) comments here is typical HN, they accurately represent this site.

Nothing more than I'm told I have to hate Texas so I will. Total inability of independent thought.

This seems to be doing an amazing thing.This law is what the world needs. If it's a bad implementation then explain why. Yes it might fail higher courts.

50 million active users is a fucking utility by any normal persons definition.

Utilities should not be able to discriminate.

> The law applies to web services with more than 50 million active users that let people “communicate with other users for the primary purpose of posting information, comments, messages, or images,”
PredictWind has free tier that displays something like 6 forecasts on one screen, app or browser. Def my favourite software and it’s kiwi made!

Their premium tier is for automatic routing and can get expensive for budget sailors.
..What did Apple say?
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It's not either / or. Vaccines aren't 100% effective so we still need treatments for breakthrough cases.
Sidenote: Intel does that first stage before PCI/LPC root init using a bootrom on the CPU which also contains the hash of the RSA public key required to be used on the signed firmware it loads next. The enforcement policy on that depends on BootGuard fusing and the CSME/SPS.
Perhaps it needn't be; I, with my negligible OS dev experience, just like microkernel architectures better. It seems more sensible to have microkernels managed by a microkernel loader. This might be an opinion I come to recant in time. The core of my position is that Microsoft needs to stop doing Microsoft things if they want to be taken seriously as a good faith actor, but I'm not holding my breath.

Until they make moves to break down the walls of their garden, they're just another barrier.
Sorry, I’m not following. Which company did the HR rep belong to? Which company did the ”corporate toadies” belong to? Perhaps I’m just confused how you were able to have such a direct influence on the internal goings on of a supposedly independent company.
Texas laws are either very strange, or badly communicated or possibly both. Somehow I "get" what they might be trying to do, but the first Satanist refused writing on a Christian ethics forum is hours away...
Hardware drivers for new machines? As in, Windows supports all the hardware in your machine, but Linux doesn't (yet).
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Windguru.cz yet
> Isn’t it common sense to not buy a toaster expecting it to be a server even though they both have circuit boards and technically can both compute?

The key here is control, not computational power. An ideal law, in my opinion, would be one which prohibits building and selling any device that can run code in a way which allows the manufacturer to have more control over it than the legal owner after the sale has been completed. I think this idea is actually great because it never limits how limited a device can be, it just prohibits it from being made in a way in which the OEM/maker can control it more than the end user/new owner could.

As an example, say you make a "smart toaster" with Wi-Fi and all that "good stuff" in it. If you just burn the firmware into the sillicon and that program has no way of updating itself, then you're good to go because both the company and the end user are stuck with the same level of control (In this context, "control" means "ability to make the computer parts run the code that you wish them to run")

If you include the firmware in a writable EEPROM, and no further checks for the update firmware besides checksums, you're also golden, because then both the new owner and you (OEM) can exercise the same level of control over it.

If, however, you decided to include signature checking using a public key burned in the sillicon, then and only then you would be violating this hypothetical law, because that creates a situation in which you, the OEM, can exercise more control than the device's legitimate owner after purchase.

So, to summarize, from the OEM's point of view under this law, less control is good, equal control is good, more control is bad.

I think this is what should be proposed as a new bill in U.S congress, although I have to admit the Open App Markets Act serves a great purpose as of right now for some specific devices.
Varying levels of integration, with fiddling being required less and less (eg. Proton), and with a nuch higher level of privacy. Also, I don't want my computer to feel like a billboard for Candy Crush Saga.
If you have to rely on a news source’s veracity, I would not rely on the veracity of Vice and Business Insider, to put it mildly. And “New York Times bestselling author” is a marketing blurb, not a reputation for reporting the truth.
Who are these politicians who hate American companies? It's beyond stupid.
> just bind the socket into the container

I thought Wayland relied on shared memory with the compositor to work? I could be way off though
I've been using this for the several weeks on Windows 11 insider builds and its great!

For those asking comparing versus X forwarding, at least for my purposes, I've found X over a socket very limiting in that remote opengl basically stops at version 1.1. With WSLg my apps run on MESA version 4.5, meaning they actually run. I haven't even tried with the vGPU driver yet and its already a very nice improvement.

Would be even nicer if PCIe device assignment wasn't locked behind Windows Server licensing however.
Right, but they still will be slower than if there was no protection at all. 100 slower cores vs 100 cores churning out requests ASAP.

For a determined or resourceful attacker, this alone won't be good enough defense, but I can see it being a layer of defense in depth.
Reminds me of http://thevanual.com
It's still myopic to say everything Amazon does is for the greenback. Engineers at Amazon likely pushed for OpenSearch because it provides personal growth to work on open products. Working on closed source may mean you can't bring as much knowledge to another job. It's likely less people will use your work and that may be less satisfying. You may like to switch jobs for reasons other than money. And to retain employees, Amazon may agree to allow employees work on open source.
That doesn't surprise me from China. I'm not much of a conspiracy nut but... Also knowing the US they could be lying to cover their asses.
I wouldn't say revere, it's FOMO. My biggest fear is getting old and not capable of providing for my family due to not finding good jobs because I spent my time in the wrong track.

Regarding the role, I liked what I saw but it's very different so I'd have to learn a lot. The team seems very nice and has this ex coworker who I like a lot.

Finally, staying and helping with the transition would be a good thing, thanks for that.
Doesn't work for me on Firefox in Windows either. I've tried a number of things and it seems it just doesn't work on Firefox at all.
> this was at a time when masks were in very short supply and I took this as misinformation to keep medical providers from having to re-use masks.

Which has to be one of the biggest ever public health blunders. Now people are thinking “what are they lying about now?” They have severely harmed their credibility in everything now and made it 1000X harder to combat misinformation. No one can read and understand enough data about everything to avoid having to rely on experts a lot and our public health experts either made a huge PR blunder by mouthing off publicly when they didn’t have enough data or they’re liars about their initial opposition to masks or their subsequent support for them. Neither scenario helps the public to believe them about vaccines etc. In a civilized age they would all resign in disgrace.
What is the emergency for Covid in children which would justify an emergency use authorization?
Is it just me, or was it a better composition with the empty wall?

It's clear that it was there to lend an indication as to the contents of the letter -- but for me, I liked it better when it was less cluttered and more ambiguous.
The most dangerous thing here is energizing a MOT with its stock deadly high-voltage secondary coil.
If you re-wind the secondary to be low voltage as described in the video, it's no more dangerous than any other project requiring a mains power supply.
> You're trying to win an argument, regardless if it's relevant to the topic.

Are you not trying to make an argument? I would suggest you challenge yourself about why you are arguing so much if you don't want to. You have the option of stating your opinion then leaving it at that.

> The protection against covid (the vaccine/s) isn't worse than nothing. That is a fact, and what I'm arguing.

If you don't mean "always" then you should take the easy path and say "Well, you're right it isn't always better, but it is different words". Some people got vaccinated and then died from it - it is pretty clear that is worse than nothing. It is hard for the outcome of a vaccination to be worse than death. It is most certainly not an unalloyed good, there are risks even assuming the manufacturers don't stuff it up.

> So does that mean that I have complete freedom to endanger others with my actions? I assume you don't think so, so there's obviously a line somewhere.

Sure, but people being unvaccinated isn't the biggest risk, particularly since something like 30% of them have probably already had COVID and developed antibodies the natural way - and the diesease may well burn through the unvacced population before the authorities manage to strap them down and force-vaccinate them. If you go down the list of risks from biggest to smallest, the larger chance is getting COVID from someone who is vaccinated and never had the original disease.

I was talking to a doctor friend of mine who was emphatic that the vaccines didn't stop the spread at all, and I didn't understand why at the time but I've since learned it was probably because the vaccines didn't target the mucosal immune system. So it doesn't make sense to forcing people to do something they don't want to do, for a not-that-meaningful gain (everyone is still going to be exposed to coronavirus sooner or later, vaccines or no).
Earth.nullschool is the original one.
> Cows and goats etc turn sunlight we can't directly eat, the useless shrubbery, into great milk.

They can eat useless shrubbery (or more importantly, shrubbery grown on otherwise useless land), but for the most part they are fed on crops that humans could eat or that are grown on land that could grow human-edible crops instead.
I’m not sure what the point really is, they pay pennies to people in Bali to sit around and solve these. Anyone who really wants to get in is going to get in. At best it keeps honest people honest.

Check out this guy on YouTube, he can pretty much open any lock in thirty seconds without causing any physical damage, will change your whole perspective on security.

https://youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

It’s better to plan for people getting in then depend on preventing it.
Yes. They said it better. It certainly doesn't reinforce the positive, yet people seem to insist on using it as if it does. "Well, yes, that penny did land on it's edge but the exception proves the rule it had to be either heads or tails" type statements abound. No.. the exception proved pennies have three states not two: your argument is busted.
I'd be curious how well this performs on an older mobile device vs new CPU.

Seems like this might exclude users lower-end electronics that might be low-income.
People like drawing penises and swastikas. I think it's because they're simple shapes, but also taboo. A bot might very well imitate that.
rip in peace /r/deuxrama
> I wonder what Linux exclusive software they are hoping to support.

It would be more of a case of how well certain software works, or how well that software works together, than one of supporting Linux exclusive software. There have been a variety of ways to run Unix software under Windows for decades. Quite often, there are quirks to deal with unless considerable effort has also been put into the Windows native version. I doubt that WSL will actually appeal to many existing Linux users, but it will probably prevent the slow flow of people from Windows to Linux.

I agree that native ext4 support would be more useful for people who dual boot.
I’ve done the planning for our last few vacations (2x Scotland, Iceland, Maine, and Charleston SC) and quite enjoyed the research. The key for me is to NOT plan too much. Flights and accommodation, of course, but once in a location, I just list 5-6 things to do in a day and only expected to do 2-3.

A trip that needs highly coordinated planning (tour of Peru including the Inca Trail) got outsourced to a specialist.
Not dyslexic, but I actively have to fight myself from writing in bullet points - both in personal and work contexts, and even on HN!

I found that when trying to communicate actual information, prose just gets in the way. Trees (aka. nested bullet points) map much better. Alas, most people are used to reading prose, so I'm forced to degrade the message to accommodate.
What does string width have to do with SQL injection? You use parameterized queries, not just rely on your validation to reject quotes, right?
It's less dangerous than servicing CRT televisions/monitors.
If you know how to safely discharge the big capacitor and never try to energize (or dismantle) the magnetron, it's pretty benign.
dang it, now I have to move my secret base again
As a counter point, I always avoid subscribing via the app as the prices are higher than if you subscribe via the website. Google One has this where you pay more to use the apple method.
> I would rather use Apple payment system. Lots of other people will also

You might be in this mindset because up until now almost only apps that nicely fit Apple’s rules have stayed in the AppStore. I hope this ruling and subsequent changes will being in more services that made no sense before but can at last come into the AppStore with their payment system.

I see this ruling as basically Apple forced to give everyone the same position that Netflix had to bargain hard. I actually hope this will be positive for Apple, with more activity, better user experience for their platform.
Have you reviewed the studies on Vitamin D? Several have shown significant benefits and the costs are low.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
that is a good law... or at least a good start
Abbot admitting that the purpose of the law is to force unwilling private entities to promote conservative viewpoints is likely to be front and center in the ruling striking it down as an overt free speech violation. That's the part you are supposed to at least make opponents catch you saying privately to a friendly audience to prove their point...
PalmOS on Raspberry Pi
Am I missing something, or is this a clear cut reversal the first time this law finds itself in front of the Supreme Court?
It's because some have deemed that anything that has origins from a foreign culture is off limits.

The one that gets me the most is someone taking the phrase "Chinese wall" as being offensive. The phrase means a hard separation of business units in some companies, such as analysts evaluating companies and investment banking units trying to win business from those companies.

I always took it to mean "Well, there is one country that's rather famous for having an incredibly extensive barrier that serves to separate 2 areas." I literally have no understanding of how this could even be considered racist, if anything it's praising an incredible human feat and using it metaphorically.
so they can get an extra $60 out of the OEM for a new Windows license when you buy another PC
Not so sure about that. Cows eat a ton of grass. That's typically grown between other crops, or on marginal land.
This is pretty cool. I've been using VcXsrv to run an X server on the windows side so that I can pop open gui Linux tools (setting the DISPLAY variable manually to {windows host IP}:0)

The two remaining glitches here are harmonizing file system support across both domains (its fine if you are in the Linux domain and reach over and get or put files into the Windows domain, but the other direction has "issues". And some sort of USB support so that devices can be handled in either domain easily[1].

Mostly I find it is an easy way to use my Linux work flow on a machine that for other reasons has to have Windows on it. Overall the impact is lower than it is if I run an actual VM.

[1] Recently discovered that a windows executable running on the Linux side can "see" the USB stuff so running dfu-util works from the Linux side.
Seven more US Capitol riot defendants plead guilty
I'm honestly not sure, because it seems to me that contract disputes should be limited to making the other party whole. They are civil matters, not criminal ones, so why should there be additional punishment?
Oh hi HN

It's interesting to see that a lot of people still believed it, even when evidence that it was a Drama troll op was provided.

The Texas bounty hunters sub wasn't the first foray of the dramanauts, but it definitely attracted the most attention out of all of them.

The C.S. Lewis quote is basically my thoughts on the matter of people's reactions to these sorts of subs.
We'll see. Their phone was derided when it came out because it didn't even have a keyboard. The famous Ballmer quote about the iPhone launch which many journalists agreed with at the time: "[the iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard"

It turned phones were better without keyboards, if you rethought the UI. Maybe glasses without cameras are too.
The journalist in this article, Steve Silberman has an entire Twitter filled with strongman rhetoric. I'm not really surprised someone with this style of rhetoric was so easily duped. I am concerned that he works for a major publication like Wired.
If you want to auto-write Haskell, use MagicHaskeller:

http://nautilus.cs.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/~skata/MagicHaskeller.ht...

And whle we're at it, if you want to auto-write Prolog, use my own Louise:

https://github.com/stassa/louise
As if anyone would have needed that if interoperable standards with FOSS implementations were around.

It’s 2021 and there is still no file system that is safe, and works on both macOS and Windows.
Which is strange considering that both Mastercard and Visa require banks to offer this feature, and provide services to make it easy to implement.

I suspect if you called up your bank and asked to block recurring payments from a specific merchant, they could do it. It’s just not advertised very well, and the implementation aren’t always granular enough (block a merchant using Stripe for example, can result in all Stripe payments being blocked).
If you seriously want to target classrooms (selling to the education sector is hard), target elite schools rather than poor public classrooms with underprivileged students. This way, at least potentially money could be made.
Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed
Absolutely agreed. Microsoft is not a pleasure to develop with, which is (in my opinion) a losing position with time. They see what Linux makes a pleasure, so they pursue the trappings of the community while damning the spirit of cooperation. Cynically, I see their moves as nothing more than an attempt to capture social capital.

Hopefully, nobody is having the wool pulled over their eyes. Don't get me wrong: their incorporation of a TTY-like interface into CMD, and the Linuxification of Powershell, demonstrate the craftsmanship that Microsoft pride themselves on. It's good tech, but tainted. I will never trust Microsoft after the RDP fiasco.
There are at least two paths to financial security: staying in a job you have some tenure and security in, for lower return but build your security in the slow path for lower risk (everyone has at-will or redundancy or other loss of job risk)

Or, the fast path via high risk high return roles. But, at risk of faster exit, burn out.

Obviously there are middle paths too. How you describe those roles, and your own risk acceptance informs how you choose what to do, regarding future financial security.

Personally I didn't want high risk high reward. I took the slower path. Many friends did extremely well on the FAANG side. So, I don't wish to say it can't work, just that the risk/reward ratio was not for me.

I don't think there is a perfect answer financially. It's possible to be happy frugal and sad wealthy. "Enough" is very contextual. Some days I think I overachieved because i am ahead of the mean. Most days I think I underachieved because I am aware of the potential I missed. That's FOMO I guess.
Another thing to consider is the difference between a global scale forecast mode (GFS, ECMWF) and a mesoscale model (HRRR, NAM, RAP). The later uses a much smaller grid size and can take into account terrain. In a place the the San Juan's (and the PNW in general), a lot of the weather patterns are coastal terrain driven so these models can be much more accurate. They catch is, they don't see out of far due to their higher computational complexity.

Here is a great resource to read up on the various models (there are far more than Windy offers): https://luckgrib.com/models/
Thankfully we only have to worry about HIPAA.
Texas judges will rule that blasphemy is not protected speech unless it’s Christian.
Just curious - did you try an AS OF clause for flashback?
Remember when those pranksters tried to turn the ok symbol onto a hate symbol.

Luckily journalists and the Left are neither stupid or lacking backbones.