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Ask HN: How far ahead could the NSA be?
For clarity, the NSA or the "classified world" in general, which includes all the corporate entities as well.

Question was prompted by a remark by the following source, to the effect that,

"In the course of my research, I had an acquaintance who worked for the NSA as a civilian during the 1960s, and he offhandedly said they were running computers with a clock speed of 650Mhz at that time."

This source will be poo-pooed by many here I think, because we can probably look up Wikipedia for this person and find words like "debunked", "pseudoscience", "crank", or other such terms that when encountered by many people act like the "Jedi mind trick" and foreshorten any further consideration.

Nevertheless, it seems there could be classified breakthroughs in technology that many years later make their way into the public market. I think it's interesting to speculate how far ahead secret tech could be.

Source: Richard Dolan, Aerial Phenomena with Richard Dolan, S2 Ep8, "Is there a breakaway civilization?"
I rather use the certified UNIX that ships out of the box with Apple Silicon.
Ha, that's incredible. The MSFT employee (ralvis) cited in the article who complained about the "never combine" change in W11 is someone I know quite well, and he's not a developer. Normal users hate it just as much as us developers/nerds.
I read through the nearly 400 comments and no one brought up using the LTSC edition of Windows, which actually gets out of your way or that you don't own the OS when you use a proprietary operating system.

I'm not really sure what to make of this as it seems people prefer to complain as if they were hostages to the whims of others.

I buy my computers with Linux pre-installed on supported machines. All those complaints of Linux "still not working" in 2022 effortlessly glide over the obvious: you're already making it an unfair fight when you adopt an OS to a non-native machine.

If you don't own the OS what's the point of complaining? MacOS and Windows will never have the best interests of the user at heart because that's not where the capital incentives are. It's really as simple as that. Are you going to develop a patch for Windows that makes Windows do as you want? If you do, who at Microsoft is going to take your PR? No one?

This behavior should be blindingly obvious to anyone who thinks for a second where the incentives are. If the incentives are not aligned with yours, it's time to a. consider paying for a volume license for LTSC so you can get the experience you want that you pay for and vote with your dollars or b. use an OS that isn't abusive.

C. moan and complain isn't actually a productive strategy because the money bundled into your OS cost is neglible to the value of your metrics and pushing a subscription to Office that actually makes Microsoft money. People keep smashing this button in the vain hope something will change. Stop and think. Follow the money. Do something about your situation that doesn't enrage you so often.
Well to me it was clearly attempt to wage war against civilians, so the definition should apply. What if that malware ended up in Russian hospital which treated sick children?
Yup, I know, but it's far from uncommon though. By population, beds win, but by the area covered I'll bet futons still win (everywhere outside of major cities).
It's quite overkill for even intensive video editing. There are a number of YouTube videos of people downgrading from a m1 max to pro because the max was a waste of money and battery life.
They may start there, but they don't end there. You can objectively measure many symptoms (e.g. physical exams, blood tests, cognitive tests).

Once you start extending symptoms to "unverifiable claims made by the patient", it can be very real for the patient, but you can never eliminate the possibility that the mind is creating the symptom, and nothing is physically wrong.

That "fatigue" is one of the most common "long covid" symptoms, for example, is confounded by the fact that fatigue is one of the major symptoms of depression.
Discover European Startups
We track european startups that get accepted into or graduate from an accelerator program and send lists with new ones every two weeks.
They won't care, because all of these solutions are just emulating Windows in some fashion, so why bother with Linux.

Just keep using DirectX and Win32, and let Steam handle shipping an Windows layer on top fo Linux while calling it "Linux gamming".
Well, Hirohito is from a tradition of leadership where he's supposed to say nothing. Hitler is from a tradition where he's supposed to be a genius from which all policy flows. This obviously makes it a much more contentious assertion in Hitler's case, and it's compounded by the post-war political conveniences about who was and was not responsible on the German side.

The analogy in my head is Trump- Trump had a lot of opinions, strongly-held opinions, even, and he would broadcast them at every opportunity. However, at its base, there wasn't a coherent world-view there. He didn't really have a grand political project that his positions stemmed from. Most of what Trump did was simply to try and please his audience, whoever that was. That's unlike, say, Nixon, or Carter, Wilson, or Obama.
> needed to handle ever increasing amounts of regulations

I’m cynical about this. “These damn regulations! It would be so much better for us… I mean for the public… if we could get rid of them.”

Too simplistic and too much incentive to blame regulations. No doubt it’s a burden, and some regulations are overzealous and misguided, but there’s probably more to it.

It’s a significant burden to the chemical factory when you make it illegal for them to dump their waste in the river (greed bad!). It’s also a burden to society because now we have to police their douchebaggery. Then there’s the (inevitable) chance that this policing is corrupted or becomes inefficient (regulations bad!). Probably a flawed analogy, but it’s what I think of whenever there’s an argument for or against regulation.
Not just insurance model. 1/3 of the population is on government funded insurance and we still have a mess. Healthcare is polluted up and down with regulation that tends to maximize profit or create rent-seeking.
Reverse Engineering LockBit Ransomware v2.0
That doesn't mean anything. I had a bad cold back in early 2019 and some symptoms persisted for more than a month. So what.
Not surprising, steam deck also supports Windows now. So lets see which OS gets mostly using on it.
Tangentially related:

Would love HN’s recommendations for blogs/writing on how to do better programming.

A lot of writing that I am exposed to is about the business of software, or engineering leadership, or architecture/tech stacks — which, to be clear, I really like reading, and find value in!

But I would love to read more thoughts on how to actually write good code on a regular basis.
knowing if it was unsigned or things might get really weird on the wrap around
Compile-time C++ library for compile-time dimensional analysis, units/quantities
Granted it's not something I normally do, but for just once I tried getting a 48 % discount on an item in a large-ish retail baby store just a couple of weeks ago. After a brief back-and-forth they were okay with it.

Despite the fact that the store in question usually has pretty crappy service and I avoid them, the customer focus in that interaction increased the chances that I'll go there again in the future.

(Why did I try if I normally don't? It actually started when I misheard the price they said, and I figured why not just roll with it and see what happens?)
> c) you have to be willing to walk away if you don't get it.

I don't fully agree with you, I've gotten good discounts on things that I was not willing to walk away if I didn't get it. I just bluffed and pretended that I did, but I knew that in the end, I'd still buy it at the original price. It weakens the negotiation leverage, but it's still worth trying to get a discount even if you know that ultimately if it fails you'll buy it a the stated price
We're taking a different approach, where we teach limits on tech. TV is not inherently bad if the right content is played for the right amount of time. Phones are not inherently bad if used for the right activity for the right amount of time. Evening gaming is not inherently bad, if used for the right amount of time.

Yeah, we don't want to raise a phone zombie. But I believe you can do that without totally shielding them from tech.

edit: a word
Huge only when we reduce it to the US school market, pretty tiny otherwise.
I think it’s very very hard to judge what a child of someone like Steve Jobs can be capable of or do in isolation of that fact such that it’s a useless comparison.
There are fairly few events in one’s person’s careers, so even though you may know yourself, you don’t know much about all the places you haven’t worked at, all the people you haven’t worked with, and all the situations you haven’t been in.

And so is true of all the people you may take advice from.

So the best is to take as many advice as you can, and decide if you want to follow them or not.

If 100 people you know and/or find smart and have experience tell you that the move you are considering is a bad idea, it’s probably best to follow that advice. It may be that all of them are wrong, and you can still ignore them if you want, but you know at least you will be aware that most people think it’s a bad idea…
One guy who makes grandiose predictions about the future convinced another guy who pretends to be a philosopher. It's the blind leading the blind. In truth, they both just make bets as any gambler does.
More like a biology economy or… ecology.

There are many participants exchanging resources and changing behavior based on how resources are shared. There is evidence of a sense of fairness between participants being maintained, a withholding trader will get less, times of plenty and lean times are “remembered” and understood as normal, not just punished.

There are varying levels of cooperation and adversarial relationships.
Very cool. How do you guys differentiate from crunchbase?
Since it is running in a VM and the host needs the GPU as well, it likely uses virtio-gpu to do paravirtualization. The latest iteration involves emulating a Vulkan device, serializing the commands, and passing them through to the host:

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/venus.html
You say "It's a supply issue, a training issue and a culture issue".

This may be true, but it's the result of how the system is set up and, in particular, the interaction between:

a) politicians

b) teachers and teachers unions

c) school district leaders

d) school district administration staff

e) students

In most systems, group (e) is the one with the least power. Their parents may be able to vote for school board members, but these elections are infrequent, and the way to get elected is not by being an advocate for students, but by aligning with a particular political party, or getting the support of teachers unions.

Parents cannot easily opt out of that system. In Alabama, per pupil spending is ~$10k/year. This distorts the market: a parochial school that costs $10k/year to run cannot compete with a public school that costs $10k/year to run, even if the former better. Because in one case the marginal cost to the parent is $0.

It comes back to what I said at the start of our conversation: The market for teachers, at least in the US, is not a 'laissez-faire market'.
Like everything else in life, I obsessed and compared pros and cons for weeks before deciding on PRK. In the end, the thought of having an 'eye flap' was disgusting enough to me to choose the older option.

The surgery was super quick, and I could see amazing right away. Then it all went away. I probably slept for 2 or 3 days straight... waking only to take a pain pill and sleep again. I remember looking at the ceiling fan each day and it looking clearer and clearer before my eyes hurt and said pills.

I could finally work but my eyes were super light sensitive and my resolution was trash. I was sitting in a room with no lights, sunglasses, and my laptop screen zoomed way in when I started back at work, and even then kept confusing minus for equals.

In short time it healed and like most things, I forgot the bad and am completely happy.

My wife got Lasik and could see perfectly a few hours later with no side effects.

I guess she doesn't mind that gross eye flap I kept reading about, lol.

In the end, we are both happy with our choices and would do it again in a heartbeat.
I’m pretty sure he said he has an MCSE in Microsoft Server Administration or something similar on Shark Tank lol
Ask HN: GDPR Secure Database with Microservices/Service API
Hi HN, I’m a fairly senior Danish developer with a challenge. We’re building a database that needs to accommodate different users, and different applications with different data access on a field/column level. We want to mask certain forms of data and ideally we want to build it code-first. It’ll be setup using Azure, very likely Azure SQL. I have been reading through the official documentation, and in a non-code-first situation the Azure SQL functionality seems to tick most of the boxes, but Entity Framework seems to lack behind, or maybe I’m just not understanding the EF documentation correctly. We’ve discussed handling the security in an one-ring-to-rule-them-all API, possibly using .Net and Microsoft Odata with EF, but we’re already seeing a lot of users with that considering we rub react fronts and do a lot of computing in various Azure Functions.

An example “use case” is two asset and one investment manager accessing an asset where they all have different access to the information. The asset managers get access based on their team and seniority/responsibility, the investment manager gets access to GDPR sensitive data. Now add this scenarios a hundred times, and also add this happening in 3rd party data consumers.

In the future most of the access will happen through a MDM, but the future is an enterprise architecture abstract.

How would you approach this? Do you know a place to read up on best practices for this?
I think Apple would rather you buy a new machine.
In my anecdotal experience the difference has been strongly tied to socioeconomic factors. And the first study I was able to find [1] on this topic confirmed this is the major factor. See page 18.

There's an extremely strong inverse correlation between education/income and how long people allow their children to use screen media devices. Low income, low education = high screen media time with a sharply increasing trend. High income, high education = low screen media time with a mostly flat trend. This is also happening at the same time that low income families are also having a declining rate of home access to laptop/desktops.

Suffice to say that if it turns out that screen media is indeed detrimental to the development of children then we're basically ensuring that the socioeconomic divide is going to turn into a chasm.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20211230141505/https://www.commo... (This study for some reason has been removed from their site, and so I am linking to the archive.)
My work gave me this and it’s the worst! I thought mine was faulty. Sent it for repair 2 times and then I realized it’s just garbage thermals and noise. The i9 + dGPU is too much for that form factor.
Are there any projects to bring Copilot to other unsupported editors such as my favorite, Emacs? I noticed there's a new trend of only releasing important extensions to blessed products and barring their implementation in others such as the new Python LSP, Pylance and now Copilot.
For a website that is all about user interface design, I was surprised I couldn’t get the Ukrainian profanity to go away at the bottom of the page.

(I do support Ukraine but this user interface is bad.)
"To make Medium work, we log user data. By using Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy."

No, Medium. No, I do not agree.
I have the same workflow as you. It is not that hard to write ‘make test’ when you want to run your tests.

I think there’s something I don’t understand about GP:s workflow and needs.
Yahoo, the company that had just acquired his broadcast.com startup ha!
Thanks for this. As someone who also hates undergrad with a burning passion (taking classes that seem irrelevant) you helped frame this in a way I can appreciate and reconsider.
If you also throw in "price matching" you can haggle at even more places.

The moral of the story is any place with a physical presence MUST charge a considerable markup (40% markup would be in the discount store range of markups) in order to stay in business, so if it is worth their while to make a sale they will haggle.

If they are selling commodity goods or small ticket items it's difficult to make it worth their while to even talk to someone wanting to haggle.
Why should we pay any attention to someone who needs get only one prediction right? That suggests a probability of correct predictions that approaches zero. Let me know when a prediction comes out true. I would be foolish to pay any attention before then.
> I don't want someone who did 4 years of philosophy and knows how to think deeply about things performing my heart surgery

a) you’re not getting that, if you know anything about med school admissions and b) why not? This is such a reductivist view of knowledge and talent.
I didn't quite understand why it was a problem for start with the integration test. okay, some things need to be mocked while writing the integration test, but I think the plus is more than the minus.
I have feeling the sea rise will be a lot faster than people and governments are expecting. 1 feet by 2050 will instead be 1 feet by 2035-40. The temperatures and sea rise seem to be accelerating and so far the world has plans of slowing the temperature rise not actually stop it
They surely do, because COM is part of Win32.

Now I admit it is a bit more complex than calling C functions, but only if one insists in calling COM from C.
not even nudity. we run a website with virtual avatars, and some people like to dress them up with sexy clothes. somehow adsense detects nipples behind virtual clothes
Good C++ library for that topic is [0]. You can even go further and combine with something like [1] which is super helpful for kalman filters and other stuff where you have heterogeneous units in one vector.

[0] https://github.com/mpusz/units

[1] "Daniel Withopf - Physical Units for Matrices. How hard can it be? - Meeting C++ 2021" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4LmMwhM8ODI
I fully agree. And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well. Also tablet devices work better on Wayland. If you’re running Linux on a Surface, you should definitely switch to Wayland. It’s really time to ditch XServer and I wonder why Ubuntu and derivates still use it by default.
We don't have strong evidence, but one animal study found that injecting the vaccine into a vein increased the risk of heart damage.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34406358/
It's still a long shot. He didn't commit any crimes on EU soil. Also Moldova has the breakaway region of Transnistria which they do not control and was used in the past by other American citizens. It's still kind of unconfortably close to the war and there's nowhere to flee from there except Moldova or Ukraine. From Baku it's easier to flee to the Middle East.
God I love F#'s unit types. C# is okay and all, but F# is, IMO, the best FP-language-on-a-corporate-backed-VM ever, even if the integration with the underlying VM and interop can get a bit fiddly in places (Caveat, my opinion is about 7 years old).

Yeah, you heard me Scala.
You raise a good point.

If an exit checker ever did say "Wait! Stop!" of course I would be friendly and let them check my receipt.

This would be the simplest solution, as my goal was not to prove a point about my rights, but simply to exit the store in an expeditious way with the merchandise I paid for.

But they never did question me, so it was never a situation I had to worry about.
Personally I don’t like to negotiate with farmers. They’re usually family run and is rather they make a good living. At car dealerships like autonation? Oh fuck that, I’ll fight for every dollar!
It's not the secure enclave thing. These aren't SSDs. These are raw storage modules. The SSD controller is built into the M1/T2. You are upgrading the raw storage behind a single, global SSD. Of course when you change the layout of the raw storage, the data arrangement changes and you have to reformat. It'd be like swapping out chips on a regular SSD and expecting your data to still be there.
yes there are. if you e.g. try to start a nudist community where no sex is involved, you can't monetize it through ads, and mastercard&visa require that you hold government ID proof for every member that uploads images.

demonetization is for all intents and purposes prohibition
> To negotiate successfully: a) you have to know what you want b) you have to ask for what you want c) you have to be willing to walk away if you don't get it.

It is probably part of "know what you want", but to state it explicitly, I think that having an idea of the actual value is also necessary.
How else do you know what is a good price? You could negotiate a 50% discount and still pay too much.
An example for unfamiliar folks.

Many Languages

var lengthInFeet = 2;
var weightInKg = 2;

var sum = lengthInFeet + weightInKg; // Runs without issue but is an error

F#

[<Measure>] type ft
[<Measure>] type kg

let lengthInFeet = 2<ft>
let weightInKg = 2<kg>

let sum = lengthInFeet + weightInKg // Compile time error

More info at https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
Not really sure where the confusion comes from. Personal expression in art is translating feelings, ideas or concepts you have into a work of art. If other people understand you through your work of art, you've done a good job as an artist.

Growth can come in many forms. Learning something about the artist, learning something about yourself while studying art, learning how to distinguish good critique from bad critique, how form and function of art work together, and so on.

There's nothing nebulous here. It's ironic that you go on a rant about 'art types' and demand critical thinking but then in some passive aggressive tone deserve that people serve you definitions on a platter.

And sure you can disagree, nothing I said implies you can't, I didn't call anyone mentally stunted so I don't know where that comes from.
Does anyone know why it connects Sütlüce to Lapseke rather than Kilitbahir
to Çanakkale further southwest along the Dardanelles? The gap looks about one third as wide there.

Perhaps most of the traffic will be coming from the northeast on the Europe side and the east on the Asia side, so Kilitbahir-Çanakkale would add an hour of driving for them? But if that's true, why didn't they built it at Gelibolu-Çardak, which naively looks like a similarly wide gap but would save half an hour?
I’m surprised more YouTube channels haven’t capitalized on twin presenters. Twice as much content per filming hour.
So you are satisfied with a world wherein if the price the market puts on your labor is too low to ensure your survival, you are chaff?
That way leads to madness, and I don't follow that style/philosophy of mocking components.

Only mock the things you can't easily set up in your unit tests to get them to work, like database connections. For spring-based components, try to use the real components where possible, but where needed use mock components that do enough to get the system working.

That does mean that if you are testing function A you are also indirectly testing function B, but that is fine.
I think you should checkout www.juce.com framework github https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE.