skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Windows there's a hook on file handle close which AV products use to implement their file scanning.

I know this because I did a bunch of reading on the topic after encountering catastrophic halts inside of CloseHandle, deep inside the kernel. And even with administrator privileges I could not kill the process, or the attached debugger, and the machine was unable to shutdown because even it could not kill the stuck process. I had to hard power cycle to get back to a usable system. Near as I can tell this was because of the AV product the company was using that crashed or deadlocked or something.

Note this product was not Windows Defender.
My commuter bikes usually cost in the neighbourhood of $1k. I've had 7 bikes stolen in 30 years of commuting, going back to when I was a kid, across 3 cities and numerable living situations.

A year's worth of monthly transit passes (currently, where I am) costs $1200. 30 years of transit would cost $36k.

Compare that to the $7k I've spent on bikes to do the same job. I could have bikes stolen at
5 times the rate, and I would still be getting the best transportation deal around.

Sometimes I leave my bike alone for hours in kind of a sketchy place, and when I do it's in the hands of the fates. I don't let it ruin my fun. I'm way to cheap to be getting uptight about stolen bicycles.
I had similar experience in past. I submitted a bug report in a small library, the author/owner just rudely talked about that I should not expect him to work for free, and closed the bug. I would have been happy if it was tagged as non priority bug and did not get resolved in near future, but the already existing open bug report accepts the validity of bug and is an invitation for any willingful contributor.

I believe submitting a bugreport itself is a contribution. I know it does not mean that the developer is liable for fixing it or improving it, but if it's a valid bug at least they should politely refuse to fix or even just ignore it and let it be open.
I used to do the same thing using FreeBSD's ports collection back then. I amazed my coworkers with my skills at finding things.
The label used to have instructions on using the soap and lemon juice to prevent pregnancy, amongst other wild stuff.
I wish my old bottles had more than scraps of the labels.
Show HN: I made a tool that speeds up TCP/IP by eliminating packet loss
I have been chipping away at the problem of packet loss during TCP/IP data transfer for the last 19 years. I am new to HN – Greetings

I created this tool (Netpump Data) to optimise the size of packet segments and use nonlinear data transfer to reduce the risk of access congestion, enable accelerated delivery, and access the latent capacity of available bandwidth.

By “nonlinear data transfer”, I mean that files are segmented and transmitted through different ports (or sockets), as opposed to TCP/IP, which is a linear transfer through a single port.

I’ve found that I can get speeds usually around 2x to 5x faster than TCP/IP (but up to around 15x).

I am looking for some people to test my observations / assumptions, provide feedback and explore use-cases with me.

Netpump Data must be installed on both ends of the transfer, so it is most appropriate for enterprise networks. Theoretically, it could become a consumer product, but this has not yet been built.

I have a Demo User Guide [1] which provides instructions on how to use Netpump Data in a test environment I’ve set up across 5 servers on the Azure Cloud. There is also an Admin Guide [2] which goes into further detail concerning implementing Netpump Data in other TCP/IP environments.

To give you dedicated time on our test environment to demo the software, if you’re interested, please get started using this Typeform [3] and I will provide you a unique User ID and password to gain access to our Azure servers.

My website, contact information and FAQs are at: https://www.netpump.com/

If you’d like to know how I made this, have any feedback, or discuss how it might be used, I’ll be around to respond to any queries and comments.

[1] https://www.pacbyte.com/user_guides/Netpump%20Data%20Azure%2...

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Even by 1997, Tucows and the recent CNET Download.com were covered in crap. It's the same problem e.g. AlternativeTo has today. There's no sense of a human in the loop at any stage, even though back then there must have been. Tucows was where you went to find the printer driver you'd lost the original disks for, not (to pick an absolutely random freshmeat.net from page from 2002) "a fully-featured role playing suite of applications that allow people to meet and play a classic "pen-and-paper" game across the internet" or a tool "adding functionality and ease-of-use to RPM, by allowing a user to search through a collection of RPMs on various FTP servers (given in a configuration file), and download and install all in one action."
That looks like something that could get you beaten up or shot, in areas I am familiar with, anyway.
If you're not into cryptocurrencies, then the volatility won't induce any anxiety since you don't care. And if you are into cryptocurrencies, you're already aware of the extreme volatility, some headlines won't change how you feel about that. So not sure what's the loss for reading some cryptocurrency headlines.

I don't care for cryptocurrencies too much (I don't have any myself), but I do check out what's happening in the developer community a bit from time to time, as some of the computer science that is happening there is interesting even if you don't work on cryptocurrencies (or own any).
Thats a good point, up until now I've assumed this is an issue of willpower. But the app is a consumer too, if I can cutoff its food supply, it'll be much weaker.
> Isn't that just move?

It is. From your description I understood that it's the problem with first selecting and cutting a file and then placing it elsewhere. Now I'm not sure what the author is referring to. Have to try it on my Mac later on.

I still think that window management in Macos is not as good as in Windows, plus I still haven't figured out how to select text between current cursor location and the beginning/end of a document. Shift–Command–Dn/Up doesn't work for me. Apple has made some good decisions along the way but getting rid of extra keys (Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Del) from their laptops is not one of them. Juggling ctrl-alt-cmd-fn combos is just too much.
I guess the question becomes how far out you want to test. If your credit card processor is a third party they could technically break something, regardless of which version of their library you use. In that case, do you really care that a transaction goes through, or do you just care that you used your third parties interface correctly (be that rest or binary api calls).

If your requirements aren't that sharp, like maybe you can take a day or two to process the credit card payments, you could get away with monitoring your application and configuring alarms for if no transactions go through. That way you'd catch errors originating from your third party as well.
A more likely outcome would be the development of Russian alternatives to that software. The pirate version would be patched binaries.

Decades ago I patched binary Commodore 64 applications to have messages in Spanish, getting as far as patching programming environments like Logo and BASIC to have not just error messages but also the keywords translated.

Even without source code it is somewhat doable, and modern applications often have localization mechanisms that remain in the compiled executable.
Same experience here with the German DPA. Bias starts at the selection stage. Every editor selecting what is important to them or what they think is important to the readers of the media that has a DPA feed subscription.

Then when doing a write up naturally include personal point of view and experience.

If subscribing to the online xml feed like many web portals and online news sites do, the order is defined by the order of topics in the top 10 media sites in Germany (as defined by the editors of the DPA).

So selection bias, personal biases and echo chamber effects. Even with every great intention these editors have (and knowing a few they really do) it just isn't possible to have neutral/unbiased news.

At no stage of the news business.
Any framework used in this project?
Look, when you’ve got to furiously rename thousands of files manually you’ll be glad the enter key lets you do so with 1 click!
Got caught by this as well - was actually scolded by the bartender in an Irish-themed pub in NY for not tipping after the third or fourth round. My group literally had no idea that this was a thing.
You may be interested in

https://airsdk.harman.com/

https://airsdk.dev/

https://github.com/airsdk

It's still actively being supported (and developed?) after Adobe transferred it to HARMAN.

"The SDK is free for personal use and for low-income companies."

Update: upon further digging I found a link to a different company developing "CheerpX for Flash", a WASM runtime that runs SWFs in the browser. Also nonfree, no pricing info, but they seem to be generous to nonprofits and education.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/
The reason it has a poor track record of working has more to do with market dominance and underhanded monopoly practices though. The situation here is arguably the reverse.
I believe it takes a suggestion made in jest way too seriously.
That seems counter to the notion of cultural appropriation being wrong. If other cultures should be allowed to duplicate any of our cultural or economic artefacts wholesale if they choose, doesn't that work the other way around?

I know, that's happened a lot in the past, but aren't we moving towards recognising that was wrong and figuring out more respectful forms of cultural and commercial interchange?
Sweden has almost fuck-all to place anywhere compared to what it had a few decades ago. It's not like the Swedish Air Force is the fourth-largest in the world any more...
until I am out of bullets or until I am out of blood I will fight for US copyright law in russia.

i pledge my allegiance to the walt disney company
The AUR is probably the closest modern equivalent to Freshmeat. AIUI there are some projects trying yo bring something like that to other mainstream distros. Ubuntu-like distros have PPA's, while Debian calls these 'bikesheds'. But the idea is much the same.
But not having corruption at a lower level makes a lot of difference (in my opinion)
OTOH, someone in Russia could develop their own OnlyFans. And maybe use some government incentives to build that.
> Wars tend to kill silly things

Like?
> Adobe was trying to work with Apple, and Apple rebuffed them.

The opposite was stated in a legal deposition by Scott Forstall (ex-SVP of iOS) just last year[0].

We did not ship Flash. We tried to make Flash work. We helped Adobe. We definitely were interested. Again, this is one where I thought if we could help make it work, this could be great. Flash has been such a problem because the way that it hooks into systems, it’s been a virus nightmare on Windows, even on the Mac. And when we got it running on iOS, the performance was just abysmal and embarrassing and it could never get to something which would be consumer value add.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/apple-tried-to-help-adobe-bri... and many other places which reported it
Oh this brought back memories. I remember playing Sim Ant on my Macintosh Classic for hours on end. The same look and feel. Just that I had a b/w screen.

What a great way to have a throwback Monday.
The real restriction is probably not really legitimacy but that that Russia would retaliate in kind.
There is a recent (2019) Princeton study of a large scale nuclear war between NATO and Russia [1]. They assume most strikes would be against military targets and predict immediate fatalities of "just" around 3% of the NATO+Russia's total population. While that does not count fallout and indirect effects, it seems far from apocalyptic (although some areas/countries are certain to be absolutely devastated). The more I read about it, the less clear it is to me that globally, a nuclear war would be worse than a large-scale WW2-style conventional conflict (during which, for example, over 20% of Polish population died).

On a more granular scale, Nukemaps [2], which probably everyone knows by now, shows the area of fallout for a given blast based on real-time wind data.

[1] https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_russia_nuclear_war

[2] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
and stolen jobs from other families who didn't go to a fancy college... what's your point?
Remi Labs (YC W22) is hiring to build NFTs for ecom businesses
The vast majority approve of putin regime.
Exactly my experience too xD
May I ask what audio book app you are using?
There are at least four Russian Linux distros and I've heard that one of them is used by the Russian military.

Apparently the Russian government are talking about creating their own GitHub replacement, as China did with gitee.com.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/03/07/You-And-Whose-GitH...

So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.
The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
My method is super simple but does require a wee bit of self discipline. I "HALT!". I even have "HALT!" written on a post-it on my monitor. Whenever I notice that my (valuable) attention is wandering, I yell "HALT!" in my head or out loud (depending who is nearby). This makes me snap out of it, to break the pattern. Ideally, I return to what I should be doing but very often I can only do the minimum. The minimum being sitting there doing nothing, thinking of nothing (except the thing I should be doing), until I get bored and want to do something ... but only allowing myself to do what I should be doing otherwise I must continue to sit doing nothing (being halted). It's often too hard to halt AND switch do what I should be doing, so this method breaks it into two steps. Halting alone is much easier to force myself to do since doing nothing is easy. Once in halt-state, the only possible exit is to the proper do-state.

Oh, I just noticed something. HALT!
Russians sometimes name Ukrainian "Little Russian". So the newspeak name for Russian could of course be "East Ukrainian" or "Little Ukrainian".
And if I want crypto news, https://web3isgoinggreat.com is my goto
Depends on what your requirements are. If it "modern" design (let's not start the millionth discussion on what native/modern design is here), that is also supported on mobile/web, then I would say go with flutter as UI and something like rust as your main language to write your business logic in [1]. You can even use regular c++ with their FFI [2].

[1] https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge

[2] https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/c-...
The thread in their forum: https://forum.qt.io/topic/134724/unlock-qt-in-russia
Letters of marque and reprisal were also proposed as a non-military way of policing terrorist groups, back in the early 2000s. They're an interesting idea, I'm not sure why those proposals failed to gain adoption.
Talk with Jabil. Their suite of services can help you with all aspects of the design, build and fulfillment aspects. You bring the idea, funds and go to market strategies.
The words "prevent" and "reduce risk" to me are confusing. Prevent is obvious but to reduce the risk would that mean ifyou have an autoimmune disease now it reduces health effects?
I practice typing in Workman today. Here is my experience
Over-optimizing for the walk-up-and-use experience at the expense of a more realistic subset of usage is sometimes referred to as the "Pepsi Challenge" or "sip test" observational bias. You might even consider it a special case of the "streetlight effect" where people choose their research methods primarily based on how easy it is to collect that kind of data. (When I used to teach UX I had a whole lecture dedicated to alternate approaches to avoid falling into the trap of over-optimizing for novices, things like GOMS/KLM, log analysis, heuristic evaluations, diary studies, cognitive walkthough, surveys, etc.)
> Then a case with two elements,

Then a case with three elements,

Then a case with four elements,

...

Ah yes, I see why you end up with a formidable collection of test cases.
While I'm pretty sure business decisions was involved.

But,
I had a Nexus One with all its glory of running flash.
Mobile experience with flash was horrible.
Maybe, if Apple did add Flash it was adjusted similar to adjusting website for "mobile". but still, it's much closed standard than HTML.

Part of the reason it's so important to have WebKit, Gecko and Chromium is to avoid a lock-in similar to IE where in the past, many websites performed horribly on macOS (and Linux of course).

So I wouldn't say it all lies.
Well, they can't go all-in yet. They need to be able to increase their countermeasures after the USA introduce more rigorous measures.

As someone living in Europe, I'm not happy that the EU was forced to impose sanctions on oil and gas, while the USA still imports Russian oil. And it's the Europe that will be devastated if it comes to nuclear war, both USA are big enough to partially survive.

So, yes, every step in avoiding escalation, not going to maximum is a good step, if it would increase the duration of human life in Europe for a few more years.
And for dockers, at least on the Thames, it was very much part of the culture for the men to help themselves to a portion of whatever goods were being handled.
Currently Washington post has two of the headlines twice (with the same time stamp)
I believe half-open intervals is something C++ uses for std::lower_bound and std::upper_bound.
Sidebery: Tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar with advanced containers config
I highly recommend you check Michael Lynch's blog. He built a hardware product and documented his progress from the very start on his newsletter: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot.

It has been pretty fascinating for me in comparison to al the digital product stuff I'm used to.
Agreed. For example our brain _depends_ on glucose for energy. Even if you go into ketosis, your body will still generate glucose to feed your brain (and possibly other organs?). Conversely, cigarettes offer nothing that your body depends on.

There's no doubt that too much sugar is a really bad thing, and that the average diet in USA (and other parts of the world) is way too heavy on sugars, but it's not something to be puritanical about. A little sugar in your diet is non-harmful for most people; it is a valuable nutrient.
I think you're right that cutting edge carries the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities that haven't been observed yet. And the closer you are to release, the less time the security community has had to look into it.

Conversely, there's also a factor that says that after some time, the security community will stop looking at a specific version. Even if that version still has vulnerabilities.

Those two factors lead me to believe there's some sort of sweet spot. You probably don't want the cutting edge newest version, but you still want a version new enough that it's in widespread use.
A cornered rat is still just a rat.
Sometimes I need to zoom and paint to improve the contrast of something. Even on HN for downvoted things, sometimes that helps.
> the good mainstream solutions cost actual money

They do, though a lot can be had "relatively cheap" depending on your needs.

In my summerhouse i just want to keep an eye on things when i'm not there, and a dirt cheap Eufy Pan & Tilt [1] camera costs around $50, does object classifcation on board, and has HomeKit Secure Video built in, and if you subscribe to iCloud+, it supports from 5 to unlimited cameras.

As it were, we already had an iCloud+ subscription, so the camera operates "for free". It uses very little power, and integrates with my HomeKit bridge in the summerhouse, so no additional infrastructure was needed.

Total power consumption for camera + bridge is around 7W, meaning it uses around 62 kwh / year, which matters with european energy prices going through the roof currently. Haven't seen electricity at below €0.5/kwh for a few weeks, and have seen peaks of €0.9/kwh.

[1]: https://eu.eufylife.com/products/t8410
What is the right amount of sugar? What are the health benefits of sugar? Your body does not require it at all, it is strictly negative impact unless you're literally starving or trying to gain fat to avoid starvation.

You're making this weirdly personal. No one is saying you're a bad person for eating sugar or "as bad as" a smoker. There's no pedestal.
Remember when we shared recipes on the Usenet with the Meal-Master format?
AFAIK even though from a very high level perspective they are similar, in practice IrisGL differs a lot from OpenGL - it isn't just a rename.

Also AFAIK IrisGL had functions for creating windows, etc, that didn't exist in OpenGL (GLUT was meant to bridge that gap).
> ... but my workload is more than a simple web developer

Oof... "simple web developer" is not very nice of you.
The very fact that opposing media is being shut down, matters.

Shutting down the media limits the average person’s reason to know there is even a thing to protest against.

It’s not absolute power over the people, but it does diminish the power of the people.
For something named just 5 I don't think I was expecting such a dense display of information haha
You're still downloading random stuff from the internet. A vulnerability in your package manager could let an attacker bypass the hash check, or they could discover a hash collision.

If you really want to be sure, having the exact bits on a system you control seems like the right move.
This is written from a position of ignorance on European companies. There are successful midpoints between US style capitalism and communism. In Germany, for example, company boards (for large firms) have worker representation: https://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Rela...

Heck - even functioning trade unions (not crippled as they are in the UK and US) provide a form of democratic check on individual companies.

The mistake is to paint this as a black or white choice, which tendency in the US is driven by hysteria media reporting of any policy which doesn't suit the needs of big business and rich elites.
i always read eff.org as eff.off, i dont know why...
> For example our brain _depends_ on glucose for energy.

Right, but you don't need to eat sugar. Your body is capable of manufacturing glucose as-is from fat or protein. If you have 0 grams of sugar in your diet it's not like your brain will starve.

> it is a valuable nutrient.

No it isn't. Your body does not require that you eat sugar and it does not benefit from it either.
My ability to read a long article notably dropped after Tik Tok. That app in particular is one of the worst.
Hi guys! Any feedback would be priceless. :-)
Between this and the news they are now arresting anyone for posting or broadcasting anything they consider "fake news" (and shutting down BBC in Russia) they are in full culture collapse.

Anyone can see this won't end well and won't end anytime soon, what country is going to end sanctions while even one Russian soldier is still in Ukraine and for example it took TWENTY years for US to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. So likely still there until 2030 unless somehow Putin is replaced with sanity which is unlikely.

Now I wonder what country they will do this to next because they are already under maximum sanctions and they know NATO/US won't go in and won't even do a no-fly zone. So why not double down with yet another country?
Flash in Internet Explorer used ActiveX[1], which basically was OLE at its core, so that'll almost certainty be the way Flash content was embedded into PowerPoint originally.

[1] Other browsers used NPAPI as the plugin system.
have you tried contacting one of his partners mentioned in the panama papers :D
Snowden did not choose Russia.. he's always been stuck in transit there. He is not able to leave.