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Ask HN: Are you recently getting lots of cold emails from GitHub users?
This past couple of weeks I’ve had several different people reach out asking me to check out their cool new repo because they saw I had previously starred some other repos.

I’ve had a GitHub specific email publicly on my account for ages, and maybe had one person reach out in the past few years (and I star lots of repos).

But suddenly I’ve had like 6 this week so far.

Is anyone else getting this influx? I’m wondering if something changed on the GitHub side or if the stars just aligned.
I'd forgotten MS-DOS 6.0 included antivirus. I have fond memories of VSAFE (I think) buzzing the speaker and warning me more or less at random about something or other (it never was an actual virus).

Friends who used other antivirus solutions of the time (Dr Solomon and F-Prot were two of the other popular ones amongst friends from what I remember) ridiculed it for having so many false positives but somehow for me it was reassuring to see it was "working".
Well, it is a very big jobs program.
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available with Jackdbus, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling
> Should they instead invest time and public money into solving simple
product problems ... when that problem is well met by the private
sector?

I think the answer is yes, and in my earlier post said I'd actually be
happy to give more money for government projects that protect peoples'
privacy better. For me the problem is not "well met by the private
sector" because that solution imposes a hidden externality upon the
public end-users. Part of the price we pay is leaking of our data to
a non-national private company.
It is not frequently that one gets really pleased with a computing device so when it happens the memory lingers for a looong time. So it happened with the DEC Alpha. I vaguely recall that its overall desktop experience was less polished than the SUN workstations of that era, but its raw performance made up for it as it woud allow you to accomplish things previously beyond reach.

A similarly memorably experience would be quite elusive these days. For one thing the very concept of a powerful workstation is kinda old fashioned. But who knows, maybe the era of an "AI PC" will recreate some of the magic :-)
Yes this might be: Windows is included with an Office 365 sub.
Sounds like some sort of deranged experiment to see how much abuse Windows users can take.
Not saying they should, but if they wanted to they could have an API that allows you to check whether some text was generated by them or not. Then Google would be able to check search results and downrank.
For my family's personal machines that I have control over, a periodic todo.
It's from a job posting that circulated last week:

Job Description

Arganteal seeks an onsite Red Hat Linux System Admin "RHEL SysAdmin" in Las Vegas, Nevada for immediate work starting 9-21-2023. This role will be helping the MGM Grand Casino to build its net new IT environment after the recent ransomware hack.

Candidates must be willing to work everyday until the new IT environment is fully stood up.

We are open to people who will only work a grand total of 7 days!

Expected Dates of Service 9-21-2023 through 10-15-2023

Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099

Location: Onsite at MGM HQ in Las Vegas (absolutely no remote work)

Visa Status: Must be US Citizen (no Green Cards or H1b visa candidates will be accepted)

Working Hours: Expect to work 10 hours per day 7 days a week
But she has not changed anything. It is irrelevant what method you use if the status quo is not moved.
You say it doesn't extrapolate then fashion your own nonsense definition and "explanations" for clear instances where it does. Lol Okay.
Increases the odds yes, but needs to be controlled for that to actually determine causation.

You shouldn't conclude that based on the study and you -certainly- should not be giving health advice as if that were the truth.
Would be better if the LVDS ribbon cable connectors for all of these devices was more standardized, and you could just buy an adapter to HDMI/Display Port. These actually exist but AFAIK there isn't just one LVDS ribbon cable standard or even close to one.
You’re replying to a comment about context switches, not syscalls. Linux on x86 cannot do tens of millions of context switches per second per core. (I expect that, at high clock speed, carefully tuned, under ideal and possibly unrealistic conditions, you might get 2M/s — it’s been a while since I benchmarked this.)

But this is silly — shared nothing will have no substantial difference in the rate of context switches (or of syscalls) compared to a thread-per-core-shared-everything architecture. The architecture that actually loses is many-threads-per-core if it ends up in a small-batch mode in which it context switches once per request or so.
Arc browser is already summarizing things this way.
TiL: The shell does not exit if the command that fails is a part of any command executed in a && or || list except the command following the final && or ||.

Reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-set
Hi, Tech Literate person here

Crypto is a joke in search of a problem that has attracted a cult of personality ("obviously detractors are just the US government!")

In its entire lifespan the uses of crypto (by and large) I've seen went something like

- Curiosity for edge-case nerds

- Buying drugs on Silk Road

- HOLY SHIT I SHOULD PUT MY RETIREMENT IN THIS I'LL BE A BILLIONAIRE!

- Buying ugly monkey jpegs

This is ignoring all the absolutely monumental abuse of the entire sphere it generated and just trying to name the major "uses" over the last decade-plus
The argument that "this person/thing isn't impressive because there's other people/things more impressive" is always such a stupid argument

The olympic bronze medal winners are still incredibly talented people, even if they didn't win gold.
> The magic potions are brewed in the clouds of RunPod, a New Jersey, USA company. Your uploads are stored on the servers provided by Digital Ocean, a Boston, Massachusetts company, and are deleted forever after the transformation is complete.

As privacy goes, their message doesn't help much. It doesn't mention whether the storage on D.O. is encrypted or if they are getting some kind of PaaS where the local admins would have access to it. "Deleted forever" doesn't help much when we are talking about servers in the US. They don't mention the details about encryption in transit, processing, rest, backups, etc.

As much as I enjoy being converted to Elsa.. if you guys read this, please add more clarity to your data protection details.
I've done it a few times. I find that seasonal temperature changes are not as much of an issue as I first thought. Automotive radiator fluid basically never freezes. And once you have a coolant loop running outside, your options are far greater. Even radiators are a unnecessary. I once has a coolant loop run outside to 20-gallon washtub sitting on the ground under a wood deck. No radiators or fans. The entire rig cost less than 100$. Just a tiny aquarium pump pushing water up the loop into the house. The tub was in thermal contact with the ground and was so massive that it took many hours for my computer to warm it up even in high summer.
You mean Windows 10 I think.
Yes, and I said a HOUSE in my comment. I asked if the guy's friend has a HOUSE, not a flat. I said HOUSE ownership, not HOME ownership. Ay ya.
The internal version number is still Windows 10.

Edit: some references: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/824c74574893...
UAW: https://www.google.com/search?q=uaw+4+day+week | https://www.npr.org/2023/09/11/1198394085/uaw-big-3-automake... | https://www.axios.com/2023/09/25/uaw-4-day-workweek

900 US school districts because they can't retain teacher talent otherwise: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-districts-4-day-week-tea... | https://www.ncsl.org/education/four-day-school-week-overview
Air Purifier Startup Blames Bankruptcy on San Francisco's Homeless Crisis
I never ran 6, but under 3.3 and 4 we (my pals and I) had all created a complicated array of batch files to create multiple booting options (autoexec/config combos).

It was originally borne of a need to allow us all to have our own preferred setup on shared PCs in the computer lab we worked in, and just grew from there. My pal Dave may have given us the idea with his scheme of multiple boot profiles on his Amiga, come to think of it.

>moving stuff between EMS/XMS so older games could fit.

Oh god this. My pal Mike and I -- who, I note fondly, I was visiting with last weekend, 30+ years later -- spent a LONG time basically becoming subject matter experts on DOS memory allocation and manipulation. It was my first experience with hard-won knowledge that was nevertheless useless relatively quickly; I remember NONE of it now. But holy cow we futzed around with this SO MUCH -- initially to accommodate various games or other heavyweight programs, and then out of momentum.
Masayoshi Son is funding them so you know they’re gonna lose a ton of money
If it can have causal effects then we can detect it. If it can't, who cares.
Is this a surprise? Microsoft has been saying that this was their roadmap.
'Bugs' is also an idiom for arthropods and it's pretty clear from context that this is how the word was being used. I understand some people have more difficulty than others picking up on idioms but that's no reason not to take all the poetry out of everyday speech. Linguistic drift is a beautiful thing! Just embrace it.
Ah I misread :) Apologies
It seems odd to focus on the CPU here, when presumably the vast majority of those flops re coming from the NVIDIA parts?

Are the CPUs expected to contribute significant compute, as opposed to marshaling data in/out of the real compute units?
They get people to buy gift cards still
This was over a decade ago, but out of paranoia, I found a way to use ROXTerm to colour code my terminals. That way whenever I connected to a production instance, things lit up red so I couldn't be confused about where I was. I don't do this anymore, but it was a fun little hack.

https://michael.mior.ca/blog/coloured-ssh-terminals/
You should read book I mentioned. I'd "enjoy" it. It's a beast (read: long) but she goes deep and is super thorough. I believe it was on FT's short list for Book of the Year the year it was published.

The people who say, "I don't care if they have my data, I have nothing to hide," don't understand that Google et al are thinking, "Thank you very much. Thank you for your generosity. Now watch as manipulate you and exploit you and you won't even realize it."

Personally, I believe we're closer to The Matrix than we are to 1984. But that's another chat for another day.
Yeah… I’m a trekker… but stuff like this really riles me up… ‘neutronic’ radiation sounds a lot like neutron radiation, and neutrons are massive and cannot travel at the speed of light far less exceed it.
Do you understand why Research studies have to disclose similar links? Bias is a real thing.
>and are only possible because of crypto

I want to pick on this, because its both true and untrue, depending on how far back you look at this illegitimate business. Ransoms did not use crypto at first, but they are now the de facto payment. Antiquated ransom payment via gift cards, MoneyPak, Western Union, etc. are all still viable options for gangs.
Ah, here it is, the clueless/idiotic comment about the CCC being left that is guaranteed to show up every year on HN.
From this list I struggle the most with "Insufficient internal network monitoring", all the other 9 are easier than somehow monitoring everything going on around the entire network. For my small team, I've yet to find anything that's easy/cheap/useful built to be used for a small team. We can't have a single person specialize in doing network monitoring, but I feel like to really do it RIGHT you need someone who does that.
From the BBC:

Following his arrest, Chail was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and diagnosed as psychotic shortly afterwards.

As the judge weighed up the sentence, the extent to which his mental health issues influenced Chail's actions featured heavily.

But the judge concluded Chail had experienced homicidal thoughts that he acted upon before becoming psychotic - and therefore deserved a prison sentence.

In the end, he was given a hybrid order, which means Chail will remain at Broadmoor high-security hospital until he is well enough to serve his sentence in prison.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66108009
Genuine question, doesn't the ultra-orthodox wing reflect the popular opinion of the country ?

My understanding is that Iran has among the greatest Urban-Rural divides in the world, and that the rural population is large enough to democratically force their conservative views onto the urban population. Turkey seems to be in a similar position, but their proximity to NATO and Europe keeps them somewhat grounded.

> small group of extremists holds the entire country hostage

I'm just not sure that the group of people we consider extremists are that small.
Airdropped cash in bags? Or a hawala network with Russian businessmen who want to get USD? I would say crypto certainly simplifies the operation considerably, but it is not strictly necessary.
I wrote this

> Foot stuff has to be the most disgusting of all kinks.

Apparently this offended a lot of people on HN.

Which.... considering the amount of furries we have here, is maybe not surprising.
Prada to design spacesuits for NASA's return to the moon in 2025
Huh? Would you consider both Iceland and Spain as infinitely diverse and on the same level of diverseness?
When Bing AI first launched there were some really shenanigans where the AI would threaten to blackmail or murder the user and half a second later delete the message and replace it with a censored one.
I worked on an embedded video system once where no one took into account the slight difference between the encoder and decoder clock frequencies. If the encoder was slower, no problem, you dropped a frame every once in a while. If the encoder was faster, you would buffer frames up to the memory limit of the system. Since these systems were typically left on for weeks at a time, the pilots would eventually discover the video they were using to fly a vehicle was several seconds in the past. Luckily this was discovered before initial shipment and the code was changed to drop everything in the buffer except the latest video frame.
I haven't used it yet, but maybe openfyde.io is one of the de-googled versions of Chromium OS
You might have trouble selling that same system to other clients, the first client will claim they own it. Without seeing your contract(s), the client is probably right.

If you can create a 2.0 with substantial improvements, then you might have an opportunity to shop it around and rent it out yourself. But you'll have to do all of that at your own expense.
Tablets should have a HDMI/Displayport in so that you can directly use them as displays.
> afterwards you try to water down with weasel words ("depending on the workload in question")

I was saying that the choice between multi-process with message passing or userspace/green-threads depends on workload, not watering down my assertion, though there are exceptions to that statement (see below).

> without the constraints and limitations they bring (exclusive memory space, slow creation, performance penalty caused by serialization in IPC, awkward API, etc).

That just isn't true for pretty much any UNIX-like system, but is sorta true for native Windows. Threads are processes, they are created, scheduled, and killed in the same way as processses on *nix systems. You add a flag to `fork()` that tells it to give thread semantics (ie. shared memory) to the newly forked process and that's it. There's some implicit handling of signal masks and a few other things that are important that get some saner defaults for threads, but that's about it. There are many ways to share data efficiently between processes that doesn't even involve copying. You can map shared memory pages if you really don't want to be using pipes or sockets, but the latter can both be used with zero copy and zero serialization. Sure, the native APIs for those are wonky, but nothing stops languages from making them less so.

> In multithreaded apps, to get threads to communicate between each other all you need to do to is point to the memory address of the object you instantiated. No serialization needed, no nothing. You simply cannot beat this in terms of "clean way" of doing things.

I was referring to the fact that being able to share memory freely like that encourages bad application designs because you aren't forced to distinguish between shared and unshared memory, it's just all shared by default.

Most of an exception to this is certain high performance applications on Windows, which means mostly video games these days (there's obv. exceptions, but it's the most obvious case). I think those are one of the few cases where there isn't really a way to hit your targets without threads.

Regardless of all of this, I'm mostly coming at this from the programming language design perspective, not the OS perspective. Threads are a helpful abstraction, but mostly one of convenience.

Anyways, here's some cold hard data to back up my claims:

- The 2 most popular languages on the planet, JavaScript and Python, have singlethreaded runtimes with greenthreads/async-await concurrency (just google this one, it's not controversial)
- The most popular RDBMS, PostgreSQL, as well as nginx[0], the most popular web server do not use threads, yet are highly performant and flexible
- Scaling is often done horizontally across a network these days, which lends itself to message passing architecture nicely

[0]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server
are there any games that doesn't run well on linux? Asking for a friend.
It seems to work with word processors, spreadsheets, image and video editors, CAD, animation, probably more. Software people use to accomplish a task.
The MKUltra series was my intro to the podcast. I can't speak to other episodes but I very much enjoyed those.
That doesn't scale to the $100k-1M+ ransoms such as the MGM example.
It had an effect on the astrologers/astronomers who observed and recorded it. While doing that they didn't make love with their wives, and the ancestor of a person who would have killed Hitler was not conceived.
> Not everything seeking concurrency is a web server.

Web servers should be overwhelmingly synchronous.

They are the one easiest kind of application to just launch a lot more. Even on different machines. There are some limits on how many you can achieve but they aren't anything near low. (And when you finally reach them, you are much better rearchitecting your system than squeezing a marginal improvement due with asynchronous code.)

There's a lot to gain from non-blocking IO, so you can serve lots and lots of idle clients. But not much from asynchronous code. Honestly, I feel like the world has gone crazy.
Yes this war is lost. The web of 2023 is accessible only from 720p+ screens. If your device is 240*320 or has no HTTPS support then you are not going to browse anything except of HN. And nobody is going to give me an HTTP version (at least read-only) with no handshake overhead requiring at least 2.5G (EDGE) for preventing timeout constraint while using web from a really poor connection.
A sysadmin at one of my startups once mixed up c and x in a tar backup. Our source repository suddenly teleported back in time. We polled ourselves to see who'd updated most recently, and that guy's snapshot became commit #1 in the new repo. (Unfortunately this was the age of cvs, so the local copies were just source, not the history.)
Mongolite – SQLite for MongoDB
Instead of Arc and Mutex you'd be using Rc and RefCell. Wouldn't it be just as complex and verbose code-wise?

I understand that it is less efficient but in the case you describe wouldn't paying for a few extra atomics be negligible anyway?
Both Amazon and Google already do this, there are reports that Microsoft does as well.
> to write and fix your prose

fix prose, absolubtely. To write?

Well a lot of the more egrerious errors ive seen when trying to get it to write academic writing comes from it not having a full context of what the problem is/whats been done/ what you are trying to do. Ive been turning over the idea in my head that for one to fully give it all the required context one might as well just use that context as the piece of writing in the first place. There is no advantage into stretching the relevant information to 6 paragraphs instead of 2. Not to say it should never be used but trying to use it while being thorough and actually reading its output has usually led me to extending context more and more and eventually just writing the section myself.
Isn't it mostly GPUs/accelerators based rather than CPUs?

Does NVIDIA even sell those anymore without the whole package deal since they came up with Grace?

The last supercomputer with NVIDIA GPUs and third party CPUs I remember reading about was with Zen 2 cores, multiple years ago.
I actually do have many of them attached at once. I have an extra-wide desk and two PCIe expansion cards that provide 7 USB ports each, with their own USB controllers to solve bandwidth/timing issues.
Why hard-right libertarian Javier Milei wants to dollarise Argentina’s economy
There is always the Confucius Peace Prize for those that want a 'Eastern moral prize'.
In fact there are multiple things in the world that people disagree about. This post addresses a different debate than the one you wanted me to write about, that's all.
I don't think that he was talking about not paying for software. I think he was talking about not renting software.
> Can you point me to where OpenAI admitted they illegally acquired copies of works for training data?

Yes. It's on the first page of the linked PDF:

> For this response, we draw on our experience in developing cutting-edge technical AI systems, including by the use of large, publicly available datasets that include copyrighted works.

They then go on to try to claim this is just how everyone does it, as though that makes it okay, including making copies of the copyrighted works:

> Modern AI systems require large amounts of data. For certain tasks, that data is derived from existing publicly accessible “corpora” (singular: “corpus”) of data that include copyrighted works. By analyzing large corpora (which necessarily involves first making copies of the data to be analyzed)...

> at this point you’re being deliberately obtuse

No, I just suspect we fundamentally disagree about the value and importance of many technologies.
"yes MGM please go to your local CVS and pick up a green dot card and fill it with 10 million dollars and give me the code on the back once completed"
What about: MacLean, Assange, Manning, Snowden, Crane, Swartz, Drake?

McCarthyism? The entire Twitter Files exposé? Arrests over social media arguments (I'm recalling cases particularly in the UK).

Both in the US and in Western Europe there's been a frightening and ever faster decay of freedom of speech over the past years.
Right now most Russians want to get money out of Russia, not in. Assuming they need it in Russia, the can get paid the ransom to an account in Cyprus, and just swap deposits with a wealthy Russian trying to get rubbles out. Sadly, the obstacles in the financial system only work for law abiding citizens, criminals always find creative ways to circumvent them.

"In 2012, U.S. federal regulators hit HSBC Holdings with a $1.9 billion fine, along with $665 million in civil penalties, for significant lapses in its compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) systems. HSBC laundered over $881 million for Mexico's Sinaloa and Colombia's Norte del Valle drug cartels."
What Is an Invariant?
I did some experiments with webauth a couple months ago and I was pleasantly surprised that chrome has an authenticator emulator built into dev tools! I mainly use firefox but I had to install chromium for this feature alone, it's super helpful.