skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does everyone here handle the patches and updates on their network? Do you perform updates when you remember to, or do you have regularly scheduled sessions, or did you (heaven forbid) automate it?

The more home servers and services I have, the harder it is to keep everything up to date…
The Soviet Union provided more material support against colonialism and apartheid than the United States. Ask Mandela.
I’m old enough to remember when windows 11 was going to be the last windows.
That's level 13, after your Thetans have been excavated, drug out to the parking lot and beaten with sticks. That's Xenu's kink, and I don't judge.

Also, it costs $14 million in "donations".
okay, Daddy...
So... my point still stands even without nuclear?
this would be an enormous mistake unless it is radically cheaper than I know it will be. It would have to be under $5 a month to be worthwhile. The market of windows users able to afford more than that is a tiny fraction of current owners, and no a lot of them aren't even pirates they just paid for it with a pc bundle deal. See netflix usage rates in romania (2.5%), hungary (3.6%) etc as an illustrative example, these are middle income countries where I can assure you people are interested in the content but will not pay $8 a month
Yes, I will keep my default credentials just as they came, that'll show the NSA
That's great but of course the problems is that for Americans that work 2-3 jobs and commute by bus there isnt much time for cooking, let alone scouring their area for good unprocessed foods.

As always, only the rich can afford the cheapest-over-time options.
In an era of 10Gb NICs in every server very few things are really IO bound.
DEC was so great! I still have my VAX 780 pen.
Nothing bad to say.
Fair or not you agreed to be paid a lump sum for the work and you were paid so that's the end of it.
>and are only possible because of x[-1]

x = ["languages", "alphabets", "keyboards", "electricity", "computers", "linux/windows", "internet", "crypto"]

I have the suspicion that we'll be blaming AI soon.

Besides, while crypto is definitely useful, the financial system seems to work fine too.

"U.S. banks and financial institutions processed roughly $1.2 billion in likely ransomware payments in 2021"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/us-banks-process-roughly-1po...
The funny thing is that the "plz delete" messages have to be executed by the browser javascript. So in theory, you should be able to capture the "deleted" messages by keeping the network tab open or recording the traffic, right?

Edit: Last time I checked, ChatGPTs web interface was using server-sent events to stream the response words. The events were clearly visible in the network tab if you opened it early enough. So if it sends "delete" messages, they should show up in there.
It does feel more like the 'Western moral prize' rather than a Peace Prize.

Truth is, the most peaceful transitions are usually military coups. 'Peacefully' won transitions are often the bloodiest. Fear is a terrible thing, but it does lead to effective peace.

With the Nobel Peace Prize, it's usually a coin toss between moral martyr, future genocider and someone who did impactful work towards peace. The best example of their schizo-ness is Gandhi. They didn't award Gandhi when he lead a peaceful resistance. But, awarded it posthumously in the aftermath of the bloodiest & nastiest population exchange in the history of humanity.
Wild underestimate. Clearly >$1B.
A part of me still feels like I could still jump right in, like it would be the most natural thing for me to quickly juggle around some config.sys and autoexec.bat lines to get that balancing act between conventional and extended right for a given game. Iirc for wing commander the amount of one or the other was even key to adjusting simulation speed relative to CPU, more memory allowing more debris particles, slowing down in-game time?

The other part of me is fully aware that I have forgotten just about everything, even the filename of config.sys was only resurfaced by other posts here.
Could this just be a translation? A non native speaker pasting their paper into ChatGPT and asking it to translate it to English, and then copying the results and hoping for the best?
Agreed.

I think what's happened is that journalists used to protect journalists --now they lean a bit towards protecting "like-mindedness" rather then being principled. When Julian was helping release incriminating evidence of US wrongdoing he was a hero, when he released evidence against someone they agreed with then he became persona non-grata and somewhat a pariah in some circles.

And yes, that the US and UK are doing this is perverted. We're not supped to be like China ,Russia or Iran.
Probably offer free parking for LV locals and members of their Casino. I don't see why they wouldn't charge non-members or people out of town. If you can't afford the $10-15 to pay for parking then the likelihood of you going in there to blow your money is reduced.

It's actually a great filter: it makes sure that people are already financially committed and keeps away tourists that don't want to spend.
they should also buy reddit
Thats a very positive and forgiving perspective on subscription fees!
They put out a job posting basically saying "We need you to work 24/7 for a few months to rebuild our infra" and then offered $100/hr
A two party protocol that involves mutual authentication and key exchange has a short set of essential variations, with some features and even some theatre wrapped around it. Not sure if you're being obtuse or misleading, but yes, GlobalPlatform used symmetric cryptography because that's the literal compatability problem they impose that is a constraint on developing more modern smart card based protocols. There are also only a few main smart card vendors and they have ecosystem constraints that favor compromises like the ones discussed. Yeah, I totally don't know what I'm talking about.

The protocols and proposals I did evaluations for implemented the trade offs I mentioned above. The reason it's important for hackers to focus on these technologies is because this is literally the bar institutions use to make decisions about infrastructure security. What the original post demonstrated was the protocol implemented in these cards had vulnerabilities that were consistent with the limitations of using symmetric keys that incorporate constraints from legacy protocols.

My follow up was that there are some very obvious places to check for futher vulnerabilities, and the research is important to do so because it antagonizes just the sort of authoritarian personalities you want to keep in check in a free society. This is what hackers are for. I've made my contributions to ensuring privacy laws were upheld and that backdoored digital identity schemes could not survive, and I'm very glad a younger generation of hackers is taking up this most important work.

To anyone working on these problems, don't let the personalities discourage you, it means you're over the target.
They put out a job offer that was $100 an hour with you being on call 7 days a week
The best one I ever saw was someone took a few gallons of 3M non-conductive liquid, put a working 486 motherboard in the bucket, put the bucket in the freezer, then overclocked it until it burned up.

They got an impressive overclock out of it, for a few seconds. lol
I already dual boot windows 11 and NixOS. I only use Windows for some games on Steam, everything else I do in nix land. (My work computer is a Mac but that could be switched easily as well.)

There isn't a world where I would pay a subscription for an OS, given the plethora of good and stable distros of linux (and OSX)
Ask HN: Patterns for Common Software
Does anyone know of good resources for patterns and models for things like:

ecommerce systems
Inventory systems
Etc

I know looking at public apis and reading open source projects code can give you a sense of the models and patterns but I was looking for resources that describe in general ways.
How do you transfer a monetary ransom to an organization operating within a country that is blocked from accessing western financial infrastructure?

You can't use USD bank transfers (you open yourself up to SEC and DoJ prosecution), you can't use gold (the logistics are near impossible), and you can't transfer assets (same story as above).

Crypto is unique in that it's both a virtual store of assets, and has infrastructure that can exist independent of western financial infrastructure
> Singapore recently did a deal with a company no one has heard of for their immigration process

Source? I've lived in Singapore all my life and have not heard of this. There was an outage on the 31st of March[1], and parliamentary discussion after that[2] doesn't mention any of what you said.

[1]: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/changi-airport-ter...

[2]: https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/parliamentary/oral-reply-to...
> Today, it may just be FAANG that's slashing remote perks — tomorrow, all the other companies will follow, and maybe they'll be "inspired" to "adjust" their health insurance benefits at the same time, too.

If they do it, it means the market doesn't value software engineers as much anymore so what could you do? That isn't what is going to happen though. But all of those big techs can become next IBMs, HPs, Yahoos.
Perhaps SRE's would make the best CEO's
I don't have a real answer for you, except to say every employer/work environment is different, so don't assume the worst and get discouraged by mere assumptions and impressions. Also I just saw this recent thread which might have some useful advice, though I feel bad linking something so discouraging, and there's surely better threads if you look for them:

"Ask HN: I have a computer science degree, how to I get a software developer job?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876485

Also, this post was marked dead, because you're a new account (they've made the filter really aggressive), until I just vouched for it. But it still doesn't even show on the 'ask' tab. You might have to try posting again.
Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating for AMD Graphics Cards
Right? I'm disabling firewalls and network monitoring as we speak. Nice try, NSA.
You don't enjoy the ads?
That’s a pointless argument, by that metric everywhere is infinitely diverse.
I think it's more then tedium and fun that blocks the rigor. Though, those two properties definitely hold a fair number of people back.

I'll use myself as a research subject: I really like the scientific method, and don't mind a long grind. But the main barriers I run into with software fall into at least two major categories:
1. Compatible datasets or software: it takes a LOT of manual effort to collate good data sets, and because I am a software engineer, I want to automate these things, then I end up in tarpits and rabbit holes, building bridges rather than testing hypotheses.

2. Abstraction fatigue, There is so much vocabulary that we use, and we switch layers so quickly and in different contexts that I find it very time consuming and opaque to harmonize all the concepts. Real life pressures don't always afford the ability to really understand an entire stack, which I posit is necessary for a certain level of Rigor.

For example, right now I'm trying to Grok Clojure Transducers, and some folks are saying they are the same things as Monads. Are transducers a better pattern? Are they the same? Different? How much do they overlap?

I have feelings relating to dynamic types vs static types. I have feelings about wrapping implementations. I have feelings about the JVM vs the Haskell compiler vs the V8 JavaScript engine. Also, I get feelings related to polymorphism, metaprogramming, dependent types, homoiconicty.

But nothing fully baked. To call my feelings even 10% baked would be charitable. I can't currently describe all the relationships, or why my brain is currently zeroing in here in full fidelity. Only parts of it, and I remain in a state perplexity for now.

The formality of Category Theory and Abstract algebra sounds like it would be really nice here, but it's going to take me years to get to to speed in those domains, and I'm not even sure they have the theorums to compare these two patterns!
I think just about everyone wishes we knew!
Read the statement. They said that they have confirmed there are no active flights with unapproved parts, so no need to ground the flights.

It says they couldn't say if there had been any flights previously in service with unapproved parts.
I'm gonna be the boomer here, and say that I never fully switched to Spotify. Almost 20 years after 2005, and I'm still using mp3s with foobar2000 and Shuttle on my phone.

When I want to listen to something I don't have on my phone, I find it and play it on NewPipe.
By the way, what I have done in the past is have an ongoing agreement of a few hours per month minimum charge (e.g. 5 hours/month) for support, which is not exactly like a royalty. If they don't need any maintenance, great, you write documentation or do security upgrades or whatnot. If they need more than that number of hours per month, they pay you for it, but they agree that you will get at least that many billable hours. But, this would be something for a future piece of work, it would be hard to do it now.
this seems so bizarre considering how incredible fertile the midwest is considered. you'd imagine the mississippi river system had enough geographical advantages to support the number of people you would see in China or India
Well, I actually had to take those $60 as a 12-month loan, so I've paid $7/month for a year...
I don’t believe I implied that there was one?

Dynamic dispatch is slow for usually no reason.

RAII encourages patterns that are slow.
This is actually an explicit decision, designed to maintain consistency of the user experience across GOV.UK services in terms of information architecture and content design. It's not something that departments choose to do (or not), and is codified in the GOV.UK Service Manual: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/get-a-domain-na...
This:

https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/09/25/mgm-grand-seeks-li...
Got to mention that you can use your tablet on Linux GNOME DE not only for terminal: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/use-ipad-as-second-monit... . Still waiting for even better solution, like streaming games to such second tablet "monitor".
> ...only possible because of crypto.

Yeah, it's a bummer the perfect/no crime world we lived in pre-crypto got ruined by crypto. /sarcasm
I would guess that they are not planning on charging a monthly fee to use windows on your own hardware. If I had to guess I would say that this is related to a subscription for an online version of windows. Pay a monthly fee and get a full version of windows dekstop in a browser that you can use anywhere.
I was thinking something a bit similar about news in the future. I’m already thinking I should try to put together an automated daily briefing for myself using a list of sources and ask LLMs to write a summary briefing. But then also consider in the future the news sources will also likely be generating some of the articles with LLMs. This LLMs reading LLM output is a curious development. Same for emails also btw. I already have an LLM redraft most of my emails as it makes them more readable and concise.
I don't necessarily see a problem with it for personal use by a tech-savvy person who is aware of its problems and limitations. Releasing it upon the general public where mis/disinformation is already widespread on the internet is a terrible, terrible idea.
I maintain a file with commands that I don't use often (ex: increase volume with ffmpeg, add a border to an image with convert, etc). I even have a shortcut that'll add the last executed command to this file and another shortcut to search from this file.
Does anyone else feel like there is a constant deluge of articles that would lead one to believe reasonably that society is really not set up for the masses at all? Like, it’s one thing for money to flow to the top, but it’s quite another thing for actual health and safety and general flourishing to be withheld.
I’m tech literate and very much not paid by the US govt

From my point of view I rag on crypto because I’ve yet to see it produce any real world value outside of scams, frauds, and illegal activity.

Traditional finance is slow and cautious on purpose. Having to deal with each country’s laws, regulations, and individual sovereignty is very much a real thing. A platform like venmo could do instantaneous cross border payments today if it were only a technical problem. But it’s not. It’s a human problem that arises from countries governing themselves with their own banking and finance laws.

Now, if your argument is that we should ditch countries sovereignty and ignore laws to make finance quicker, easier, and more private; then that’s argument I can understand. I don’t agree with that argument at all, but if that’s an opinion of someone I can see why an anarchistic point of view could resonate.
They mixed up Garching with Jülich.
Perhaps a flow sensor rigged up to trigger processes avoids the need to schedule. (How? Don't ask me)
The other comments here have mainly added what I had wanted to stay. Particularly what ironlake said about climbing to another level fo Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So I will approach this question from a different point of view.
On the aspect of motivation: It seems like the reasons you had for pushing were externally focused (going to get into the big leagues). But what motivates you internally? Why chase those habits? Those habits existed to serve you at a different point in your life. Ask yourself why you feel the need to chase the same you as back then. You can sustain a roaring fire for only a short term, perhaps you need to look for habits that can sustain embers that burn for much longer.

The other thing I want to state is that complacency and ungratefulness are not feelings. They are thoughts. Perhaps you are feeling insecure (I am no longer improving my skills) or feeling bored (I have nothing more to learn here). Note that the phrases in the parentheses are thoughts and not feelings. It's all too common for us to substitute feeling when we really mean thinking. Similarly,we fool ourselves into thinking that our rational thought precedes our feelings; it does not. Your cerebral cortex activates after your Limbic. You feel things first, and then your cerebral cortex uses your past experiences to attempt to provide context (loosely speaking).

So I'd really ask you, why those feelings are and how you've processed them? Often if we're externally focused, we dull our interospective awareness.

The buzzwordy solution to this is do mindfulness meditation! Honestly though, you don't need to meditate. Just do things that you're able to practice being mindful.
I think laundering is the wrong term. You are right that obviously you need to launder it, now matter the currency. But the path of the money is easier to conceal with crypto than with bank transactions, because in crypto there's a large amount of potential middlemen that don't follow any KYC regulations.

Of course you can do the same thing with USD by using cash. A package of cash mailed to a fake address (where your courier receives the package from the mailman) is as untraceable as anything you can do with crypto. It is however more effort and potential risk.
Windows is already a subscription OS, usually for businesses. Subscription licenses are included with higher Microsoft 365 tiers. It's just one of the many ways that it's sold. This doesn't indicate that the perpetual licenses are going away, but it seems logical that they would package certain services in a subscription tier like bundling Microsoft 365 with Copilot and other future features.
> The will put ads in different parts of the O/S.

They have already been doing this.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1790329/i-paid-for-microsoft...
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/microsoft_windows_sta...

Perhaps you mean third party ads from their ad network? https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us

Wait, they already do: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/ad-products/...

> Kiss goodbye to any privacy you thought you had.

If you haven't already, it's too late.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3684413/how-to-protect...

https://www.wired.com/story/windows-10-privacy-settings/

> Either way, I think this should help Apple and open source operating systems.

Doubtful. They've not cared so far, I don't know what's going to really have to change.

Most folks I know don't really care about the OS, but many or all they apps they've learned are only on Windows. So they see themselves as trapped.
It's lack of anti-trust laws and (more importantly) enforcement that allow companies to corner the market. nVidia and ARM should be worried about competition from OpenAI and Google: that's the good kind of competition that we want. If only "hardware companies" are legally allowed to make hardware, that increases their moat, not decreases it.

Let's instead go back to when we actually enforced the anti-trust laws that we have. That was nice.
The mishandling of the entire middle-east is hard to ignore. If anything, Trump's only consensus wins came from cleaning up the mess in the middle east.

> shored up the self-image of the Western world

Which tells you everything you need to about the Nobel Peace Prize.
If you want to compete with AAA games then you may need AAA graphics, but the market is larger than that. Look at Re-Logic (Terraria), Supergiant (Hades), Megacrit (Slay the Spire), Klei (Don't Starve), Evil Empire (Dead Cells), Team Cherry (Hollow Knight). Many smaller studios make games at an entirely different level of production. And there even smaller levels of success below that.

The point of the article is to find success at smaller levels before aiming higher.

However, you're right that good-looking screenshots sell, but that's just good art and not exclusively AAA art.
There is no need to be condescending. Plenty of visibly white people living in a given European country are immigrants. There are flows of people within the EU as well, it’s a big place with a lot of different countries. Quantifying cultural differences is a bit of a fool’s game, but to me it’s not obvious that e.g. Poles or Hungarians are much closer to Spaniards than Moroccans are to the French. Skin colour is just an indication of actual diversity, which includes many other factors.
Not directly related, Recently I was looking at Hetzner cloud and noticed IPv6 only server instances are cheaper, can I use such service to serve my back-end while front-end is hosted on CF pages? I think IPv4 only hardware are rare these days, Am I wrong?
(BTW sorry for my dumb questions)
If this comes to pass that might actually be true in some sense.
Unfair Advantage
When was that?
I ask because PHP made large improvements to performance in the last few years.

Sometimes it's more than 2x faster than before. They now have JIT and are planing to have an intermediate language for even more speed.

Most PHP stdlib code is pure C/C++ so it tends to be very fast, but I'm guessing Ruby is the same.
I think it's okay to use ChatGPT to write and fix your prose, but not to do your thinking or analysis for you. That's how I use it at work.
> There's the clear connection to revenue potential between zero and one commits.

But there is no correlation to revenue potential between 99 and 100 commits. And most companies are not stuck at the first commit.

> Hard problems and low output happen situationally, generally not for quarters and years on end.

Absolutely untrue. The hardest problems I have solved required me to build observability over 2 quarters, write RFCs and get buy-in from other engineers. None of these contribute to commits.
The problem is, in a capitalist world even libre/open source needs money to live. A race to thr cheapest is a loss for everyone in that kind of society. No OS is ever "done", there is always maintenance, security updates, ...