skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This debate is tiresome, and is the Ctrl-V'd response to every article that even implies we Americans pay too much for healthcare. I realize this particular subject is insulin, but really Diabetes is just the poster child for the larger issue. Is it not a problem that we bankrupt ourselves for the medical necessity of keeping ourselves alive? I don't understand how you can look at the current situation and say "Not broken, no need to fix"
Multiplayer is a thing, where both crashing servers and also attacking other clients (even in non-p2p titles) is not that uncommon. Many titles don't permit community servers any more, of course.
Wasn't it Elden Ring or another From Software game that had a RCE ? This article talks about it : https://wccftech.com/dark-souls-rce-exploit-fixed-elden-ring...

A lot of games have multiplayer functionalities these days. That make them a potential target for RCE and related vulnerabilities. Granted, if you don't play video game as root, the impact should be limited, but it is still something to be aware of.
Another anecdote, but after visiting https://apiworld.co/ conference I receive a couple spam software sales emails a day. I unsubscribed to all of them for awhile but still get them years later.
Instruction decoding is a bottleneck for x86 these days: Apple M1 can do 8-wide decode, Intel just managed to reach 6-wide in Alder Lake, and AMD Zen 3 only has a 4-wide decoder. One would think that dropping legacy 16-bit and 32-bit instructions would enable simpler and more efficient instruction decoders in future x86 versions.
what about the web browser. Isn't that also a stable ABI ?
Or its not a "Binary interface" because it only support Javascript?

What about web assembly ?
It sure feels like it was targeted. Is trying to re-register a Signal account the sort of thing an attacker is likely to do at random?
Huh, you're correct those apps have much longer support than I expected - but did not check :( - from free apps (though I guess Google Authenticator is backed a small immigrant business :D ), thanks for pointing out my error, I'd fix my comment but can no longer edit things.

What I was trying to say there are a _lot_ of very old smart phones in poor communities, and they're still in use. I searched craigslist in very poor parts of the US and I can find quite a few phones that are running android <= 4, and have fingerprints implying they were in use. I would guess that that end of the spectrum has many more offline only transactions. It's also a community who may not have internet access, and may not have library access, which is how people in larger cities can access the internet (from volunteering I discovered sometimes to watch porn :-/).

Not intended as a correction to your comment, but just as a backup for my statement that plenty of phones still can't use TOTP apps, the cheapest phones with t-mobile are not smartphones, and the cheapest ones on amazon are not running a recent enough android, and some even run Windows OS?!?!?!
Sinatra is good if what u build is minimal in business scope.
Nothing you do individually makes any difference at all. Don't feel guilty.

Manufacturing a new EV with all the attendant impact from raw materials processing and manufacturing vs keeping an older ICE car where all of that is sunk costs not a clear win in my view.
Meeting a pro is this easy
not a self-promotion, however, the founder of the website is a friend of mine. if you really want to ace your job interviews, you may want to take a mock interview at the meetapro. Or if you want to help candidates better prepared for their interviews, you can offer your mock interviews there too.
> it's a 5 € plastic part that's broken

FWIW you can buy used one for that price
In many areas of the US, it’s perfectly legal to do your own residential electrical work, so long as you get the permits and inspections.
This is a long standing question and has nothing to do with Linux or windows. It's a design philosophy.

Yes the win32 abi is very stable. It's also a very inflexible piece of code and it drags it's 20 year old context around with it. If you want to add something to it you are going to work and work hard to ensure that your feature plays nicely with 20 year old code and if what you want to do is ambitious...say refactor it to improve it's performance...you are eternally fighting a large chunk of the codebase implementation that can't be changed.

Linux isn't about that and it never has been, it's about making the best monolithic kernel possible with high level Unix concepts that don't always have to have faithful implementations. The upside here is that you can build large and ambitious features that refactor large parts of how core components work if you like, but you might only compile those features against a somewhat recent glib.

This is a choice. You the developer can link whatever version you want. If you want to build in support for glib then just use features that only existed 10 years ago and you'll get similar compatibility to win32. If not then you are free to explore new features and performance you don't have to implement or track provided you consider it a sensible use cases that someone has to be running a somewhat recent version of glib.

The pros and cons are up for you to decide but it's not as simple as saying that windows is better because it's focus is backwards compatibility. There is an ocean of contexts hidden behind that seemingly magical backwards support...
All five APs in the house use the same SSID. Four of them have both 2.4 and 5Ghz radios; they use the same SSIDs. All of them are connected via ethernet to the switch.

It all works very nicely.
That's absolute what will happen in stages 1 through n-1...

People who work outdoors will transition to working 03:00-11:00 shifts rather than the more typical 07:00-15:00 that's common now.
You can use DALL-E and other models to make pixel art ("as pixel art"), although it can both be overkill and hard to get consistent results that you'd put into animation. I'm guessing that starting from more of a video model and then converting to pixel art could be better. Although it's also non-trivial to turn "realistic" video into convincing animation.
For me, the problem is time, and the result that there's a finite number of books I have time left to read.
https://jamesgill.net/pagecount/
'Molecular beverage printer' claims to make thousands of drinks
There is no 'system' glibc. Linux doesn't care. The Linux kernel loads up the ELF interpreter specified in the ELF file based on the existing file namespace. If that ELF interpreter is the system one, then linux will likely remap it from existing page cache. If it's something else, linux will load it and then it will parse the remaining ELF sections. Linux kernel is incredibly stable ABI-wise. You can have any number of dynamic linkers happily co-existing on the machine. With Linux-based operating systems like NixOS, this is a normal day-to-day thing. The kernel doesn't care.

> These libraries require carnal knowledge of the kernel-space driver, thus emphatically cannot be bundled; but the previous point means that you can’t load them from the system either.

No they don't. The Linux kernel ABI doesn't really ever break. Any open-source driver shouldn't require any knowledge of internals from user-space. User-space may use an older version of the API, but it will still work.

> whether you use Wayland or X, ultimately an accelerated graphics driver amounts to a change in libGL and libEGL / libGLX (directly or through some sort of dispatch mechanism)

OpenGL is even more straightforwards because it is typically consumed as a dynamically loaded API, thus as long as the symbols match, it's fairly straightforwards to replace the system libGL.
Tbh with GSuite + a 5$ domain I get catch alls for minimal effort.

I used to use + addressing schemes, but abandoned it for the reasons you mentioned (websites breaking horribly).
Namecheap… I tried to register a five letter domain [.com] and got a notice that the domain is of high value, and that the price would be higher. The domain name was entirely created by me. Therefore I consider that they stole my intellectual property, by preventing me from registering it.

Dealing with domain registration nowadays is a dreadful experience. The system is completely broken.
> I think it would be reasonable for glibc and similar to have similar goals

I don’t think userspace ever had this goal. The current consensus appears to be containers, as storage is cheap and maintaining backwards compatibility is expensive
Your account is tied to your phone number so pretty sure that’s the case, yep!
FWIW, targeting proton is likely the best platform target for future Windows compatibility too.
You just need to be able to run your own server?
This is a bummer. Did you order the USA model or the Chinese model?
In the last couple of years I felt like a party pooper when I brought global warming topic and its connection to consumption such as fossil fuel, meat, etc. My personal lifestyle is obviously insignificant no matter how low in CO2. But I still express my bad feeling about it and I hope more people make the same associations, if that what will permeate the issue up to top decision makers.
The Year of the Linux Desktop
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

For want of a horse the rider was lost.

For want of a rider the message was lost.

For want of a message the battle was lost.

For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
It may very well be the case for the smartphone-flipping demographic that prefer WhatsApp and TikTok, but I think it's a misunderstanding/misrepresentation of the crowd that go for e.g. Signal and Telegram.
How much of this is that the accuracy and process of measurement has improved over the years?
> Yes, I've even seen them close up, during transport. But that's not how they're stored in the holding pools.

It is just a set of changing goalposts isnt it? what is wrong with storage pools? they are safe and secure inside the power plant. Most plants are protected by armed guards. The plant near me has signs on the fence warning that "deadly force is authorized to protect the plant". Is your new issue that the "pools" are dangerous because ...?

> Yes, also not sure how that's relevant here? It's not like we built them... Background radiation is a thing, and life has adapted to it. A nuclear accident that ends up high enough on the International Nuclear Event Scale however is something you're not going to adapt to.

This makes little sense. First, who is taking about "background radiation"? Next, it is extremely relevant. your position is the long-term storage of the radioactive waste is a problem.

So, when earth created its own U235 + Moderator nuclear fission reactor, where is the waste from this? All over the earth? within 10CM of where it was created?

Earths "natural reactor" ran on the same principle as modern reactors.. Enrich U235 + water (US design) or unenriched U235 + "heavy water" (Canadian design).

Enrichment is needed because there is too little U235 left these days. As i said, if you go back in time the amount of U235 increases and it reached the point enrichment is no longer needed.

Both result in the fission of U235 and create radioactive byproducts which need to be stored.

It seems "mother nature" was capable of storing "radioactive waste" all on its own, yet we cant do this because ...?

"fukushima" and "Chernobyl".. Everyone loves these as the textbook case study in reactor design? what about the millions of hours of run time from all the other reactors? Darlington Nuclear won an award for 1,000 days without interruption. Solar going to run 24x7 for 1,000 days? Wind?

if we shutdown all reactors, what will you us to power whatever device you are currently using? Wind? Solar? you cant seriously propose these sources can supply enough power can you?
Currently, we deploy three safekeepers, one in each AZ. We need to collect more stats on failure rates, and maybe we will go to 6 (3 AZs with two nodes in each) as Aurora does.
That’s just a restricted interim release. The proper public release isn’t ready yet. No timescale but sounds like days/weeks rather than months/years.
You can turn off the remote login. It's encouraged as the default, but not necessary.

Even the local login, from a device on the network, can be set up to require two-factor auth. That alone makes it more secure than a lot of consumer-grade stuff which only requires a password, which is often never changed from the default.

I'm happy with my Unifi Dream Machine as a one-device home network. I thought about getting rid of it a while back when some bad press about Unifi security was published, but it turns out it was fake news and Brian Krebs has lost all credibility in my eyes for continuing to promote it even after it was debunked.
That or a patent troll that will use it to extort semi manufacturers.
Yes, Signal’s phone number requirement is bad. But, given that, the fact that they don’t store any messages on their side and everything is client side is still a huge benefit over a lot of other apps and still a huge step forward for privacy! Criticism is definitely important but I just wanted to put that out there that all things considered, Signal is still very much a good thing.
Here in the US, we could power the entire country with solar panels by just using 1% of the land now dedicated to agriculture.
“Or life is so exquisitely tuned to optimize for earth’s conditions”

That’s how it works. Life adapts to the conditions it faces or it goes extinct.
I dated a blonde, blue eyed Mexican who was born in Mexico and traveled back to Mexico city (most) years so yes, although I understand your confusion. A lot of hispanic people just look european (and may have majority european ancestry). I would like to maintain though I don't know this for sure, the article didn't say. All we know is that she lives in LA and is traveling to Mexico
Is that true? I thought everybody got wiped out and he pocketed a huge check to make himself fabulously rich.

Can you expand?
Or, GNU could just recognise their extremely central position in the GNU/Linux ecosystem and just not. break. everything. all. the. time.

It honestly really shouldn't be this hard, but GNU seems to have an intense aversion towards stability. Maybe moving to LLVM's replacements will be the long-term solution. GNU is certainly positioning itself to become more and more irrelevant with time, seemingly intentionally.
The same “antivaxers” that elected to take the Lymerix vaccine, were injured and then fought to stop others from also being injured?

The profoundly idiotic weaponized use of the word antivaxer will be an embarrassment for decades to come.

“Damn antivaxers!”

“But they have all their recommended vaccinations and only were injured with myocarditis on their second COVID Booster”.

“…damn antivaxers!”
> Is trying to re-register a Signal account the sort of thing an attacker is likely to do at random?

Yes. I mean why not, you've got the number(s).
Ask HN: What is a good cheap windows-in-the-cloud pay-per-minute option
I’m asking because I’m working on macOS, but every now and then I want to run some software that only works on Windows 10/11.

So I’m thinking if I could just install that software on a cloud PC that I connect to when needed, then I’m in the clear.

I looked at https://shadow.tech and it works well but it’s a bit too pricey for a poor guy like me.

Any suggestions?
Right, but we get closer to that ever year. And we can probably assume a linear progression. So if you have a child right now, we will be more than half way there by the time they get into college.
> The point I was trying to make was that specificness is a purely logical concept. In the aforementioned example, there are 3x directory entries at 3x arbitrary locations and any of them can be used to access the data referenced to via an i-node. Once a file is opened using either of those three directory entries, it is not possible to trace the open file descriptor back to a specific directory entry. Therefore, none of the three directory entries is more specific than the others – they are all equal.

I see.

Then I would agree that every path is equally specific.

But I never wanted to trace a file descriptor back to a specific directory entry. The question that matters is whether all the directory entries for a file are in secure locations. That treats them all equally.

Also, part of the scenario I laid out is that the file is not open to begin with. (If you were to try to check if the file is open, that's outside the scenario, but also shouldn't care what directory entry was used.)
It is extremely common to put solar panels on residential roofs 4m high, often higher. Complaints are rare.

It is extremely uncommon to site dedicated solar farms within 100m of residential areas.
> Developers natively porting to linux seem to be wasting their time.

Factorio runs so much better than any of this emulationware, it's one of the reasons I love the game so much and gifted licenses for friends using Windows.

Some software claims to support Linux but uses some tricks to avoid recompiling and it's always noticeable, either as lag, as UI quirks, or some features plainly don't work because all the testers were windows users.

Emulating as a quick workaround is all fair game but don't ship that as a Linux release. I appreciate native software (so long as it's not java), and I'm also interested in buying your game if you advertise it as compatible with WINE (then I'm confident that it'll work okay and you're interested in fixing bugs under emulation), just don't mislead and pretend and then use a compatibility layer.
Really? I would have assumed that they do what keychain on macOS does which is password gate the decryption key, so it's good to know they're just sitting on disk somewhere. It's a shame as half assed stuff like this is why people don't trust these tools :-/
So if you have a phone number that someone else used to create an account, you can't use Signal?
The article seems to document ways in which it isn't. I have no idea personally, are these just not really practical problems?
Some post-pandemic real estate arbitrage play? pmarca trying to one-up Masa?
Global food insecurity due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection
Are you seriously trying to cherry-pick a single outlier to refute a planet-wide data set?

FWIW: if your point was that you were expecting Mexico City to be hot like Cancun, you need to check a map. The city is in the middle of a mountain plateau at 7000' MSL!
Does graphics on Linux work by loading the driver into your process? I assumed it works via writing a protocol to shared memory in case of Wayland, or over a socket (or some byzantine shared memory stuff that is only defined in the Xorg source) in case of X11.

From my experience, if you have the kernel headers and have all the required options compiled into your kernel, then you can go really far back and build a modern glibc and Gtk+ Stack, and use a modern application on an old system. If you do some tricks with Rpath, everything is self-contained. I think it should work the other way around, with old apps on a new kernel + display server, as well.
Not only that, I don't want any service that I use tied to a phone number. Partially for the reasons you listed, but also because there are better alternatives; email, authenticator apps, physical keys, cards, etc.

I hate looking at my phone. I hate using my phone. I don't want to have even more reasons to keep my phone charged and in my hand. Phones suck.
If anything the fact that it took a non-trivial pay bump to get him to move is probably a good sign he did like (or at least not dislike) the city. Now if someone took a pay cut to play on a different team, that might be a slap in the face.
> No, what they did was update the software to prefer cloud-login and push you to set it up during onboarding for new products because they use cloud-login for remote management and anti-theft/device tracking.

Was that all? Did they add telemetry or something else? I had read that I'd need to edit some text config file or something to opt-out of something I didn't want, because they provided no option in the UI.

I believe this might be what I was thinking of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/fhlowt/where_is_t....

I took a wait and see before I sorted it all out (since none of their stuff is external facing on my network), and haven't gotten around to it.
Not just Tylenol: Calgary pharmacist says cold and flu meds are in short supply
Google: Dynamic Rendering Is a Workaround and Not a Long-Term Solution
On a cosmic scale, "soon" could be measured in millennia.

Yes, you are technically correct.
SafetyNet and "authenticating the platform" is used for remote attestation, so app authors can deny phones access to apps and services if they're running root/kernel-level CPU code chosen by the user (or also an attacker without access to the phone's OS signing keys) rather than by the phone's manufacturer.
They heavily push their cloud management, apparently tried doing required cloud logins for their UDMs (implied in another comment), and 100% require you to purchase their hardware or use their cloud for Unifi Protect. In the past, one could run the Protect software on their own machine.

Ubiquiti is the least smelly networking solution in a room full of really smelly options. They are not consumer friendly like they used to be.
> Linux desktop is a distro concern now. Not an ecosystem concern. It’s long left the realm of an linux concern when MacOS went free (with paid hardware of course) and Windows was giving away free windows 10 licenses to anyone who asked for it.

You seem fixated on the Free Beer misinterpretation of Free Software.
The article is talking about userland, not the kernel's ABI.
Also pleasantly surprised. Rebecca Slaughter used the term surveillance-economy previously when advocating for data minimization, saying that this "should mean that companies collect only the information necessary to provide consumers with the service or product they actually request and use the data they collect only to provide that service or product."

It's a principle that we use in making our own design choices, but we are an outlier, for now.

Anyway, interesting starter questions include:

1. Has X company gone beyond data minimisation?

2. If so, in what ways is this done?

3. To what extent does this amount to commercial surveillance?

4. What are the known and potential consumer harms of this commercial surveillance?

5. What problems can be solved, in society and the economy, with data minimisation as the default?
Similar to the other reply, I imagine it would be along the lines of:

"Holy shit are those Signal 2FA codes? That's wild"

In my head, this is something a more teenager (e.g. Lapsus) might think?
Shady? Yes

Conflict of interest? Probably

Fraud? Almost certainly not
> Of course, with open access and the ability to run the model on a widely available GPU, the opportunity for abuse increases dramatically.

> “A percentage of people are simply unpleasant and weird, but that’s humanity,” Mostaque said. “Indeed, it is our belief this technology will be prevalent, and the paternalistic and somewhat condescending attitude of many AI aficionados is misguided in not trusting society.”

Holy shit.

On the one hand, I'm super excited by this technology, and the novel applications that will become possible with these open-source models (stuff that would never be usable if Google and OpenAI had a monopoly on image generation).

On the other hand, I really really really hope Bostrom's urn[0] has no black ball in it, because we as a society seem to be rushing to extract as many balls as possible over increasingly short timescales.

[0] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Open GitLab MRs from the commandline

https://github.com/helpermethod/mr
This is great. Especially agree with the part about not being on your phone - sometimes the basic cliche productivity advice (exercise, get off social media, etc) is the most powerful. It's cliche for a reason!