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I get the feeling I should really take the plunge and start using one of the BSDs, at least as a web server or something. I rarely see them mentioned in job postings compared to Linux, but everything I hear about them as servers sounds so much less painful.

Turn as to whether Free vs Open vs Net makes the most sense. My very uncertain guess is Free is the easiest to get used to, and that you can't really go too wrong with any of them without a specialized use case.
Plenty of global south countries have plastic bag bans at various levels of governments, with varying degrees of implementation and success.

Eventually, every country in the world should have it. And one shouldn't wait for others to do good.
You can click on the question mark and then, when you click on one of the examples, it will fill the code area with the code for that bookmarklet.
That doesn't matter though. When you design a plug you take UK into account and USB-A is about as bad as it gets. I've never plugged in the connector to my headphones the wrong way around because there isn't a wrong way. And that's a design that goes back to ... 1877!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#Histor...

There is absolutely no reason why you'd need to re-invent something as silly as this and do it wrong.
Even if you are in the USA content is being taken down and unavailable any where.
25% of all streaming globally is consumed on a mobile device. During the day (commuting to work, during lunch breaks) that number is much higher. Children's programming is also largely consumed on mobile devices (well, tablets).

On small devices like that 4K HDR+ video is kind of meaningless.
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A bit of myself, love to build products and do social charity programs. Love to do some research in technology. Recently been into fediverse and privacy-security concern.

Let's have a talk through email, hit me up!
Initially I thought that your comment was satire but that lovely profile pic with your gun has set me straight. Which was probably your intent.
Tell me more about how having all of the data for most people and almost all of the data for the rest is like having no data at all for anyone. Because I'm struggling to see the connection to that last step.

The fact remains through all of this that the IRS does actually have _all_ of the needed information for the vast majority of tax filings.

It's an extremely bad faith reach to be like "but maybe I sell my house for bags of paper cash (no banks) every year without telling anyone but want the IRS to know about it" and pretend like that's not an absolutely obnoxiously absurd argument against doing something that would help nearly everyone in the country.

Because, let us be absolutely clear, the vast vaaast majority of everyone in the country live in other states, do report sales even if they do live in those states this person is making the claim about, don't sell or buy houses all that often if at all, and especially don't do it without involving a reporting financial institution.
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This guy has probably taken part in salting the earth of Gaza

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/01/world/middlee...

Just like the Nazis did to Jewish families. Just missing some time-period-specific-items, but the end result is exact and horrifying.
I feel like just reading about these took years off my life.
When Amazon announced it's new leadership principles, people were quick to note that "strive to be" is considerably different than "is". Also, it's also a cliche for abusive husbands to promise their battered partners that they will try to be good husbands and family men even though they don't change their pattern of abuse.
If your setuid program links to glibc and uses the logging there, then you are incorporating glibc into your setuid program. You could also not do that.
> Most likely, months after ponying up $10 million to a sophisticated international hacking group, Caesars Entertainment probably doesn't want to invite some of the world's best hackers to stay and meet at its flagship resort.

Most Def con visitors would be white hats so that would be a bit disingenious. I would expect most attendees to behave (reporting issues after finding one)

Especially considering they just got hacked, a few pentests would be good for their business.
In Spanish, pyjamas is 'pijama', my saying it in plural always gets a laugh.
A) If it does great stuff it should get more money. B) If it doesn't it should get less.
Heh, you should delete this comment, please don’t give an MBA this idea, at least not for free.
You can run the headers 'up' on one side and 'down' on the other if you need more access (you then still need to bridge from 'up' back to down somewhere else but at least you'll have the room to do so.
Just don't put include files inside other include files.
Well since there are no margins you have to make up for it in no volume.
More often than not the whippersnappers that do sales and think they have a better product we should replace, 1) don't actually have a better product and 2) assume there's no cost to migrate and re-train.

And even if your thing is 5% better at some core functionality, if it misses important integrations or security controls and will take a year to replace, it makes no sense to switch.
The problem with distrust caused by the Santa lie (for example) is that adults don’t believe in Santa. If everyone believed in Santa (or paid lip service to the belief, at least, which is how it always goes with religion, etc) then it would just be a nice cultural element that wouldn’t cause any distrust.
> streaming can win on convenience

It could, but it does not. When you have to hunt for the content you want across a dozen different services you need to be subscribed to and / or that many apps, it’s not convenient.

Even being super basic and not at all in the scene, odds are the first or second piracy site you check has it, it won’t try to upsell you or give you some other content, and if it had the content at one point chances are it still does.
I'm still not sure what you suggest. Do you want to police the world of software, only allowing stuff to be released that has obvious use and limited negative effects? That won't really fly in a liberal society.. people will tinker unless you want to go the dystopian path.

I mean sure, you can nicely ask or try to shame people, but when did that ever do anything of note?
They were doing database maintenance - it's not uncommon to need 2 to 3 times free disk space as the size of the database with some systems.
Not that I have any personal disastrous experience with such things :p
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Related:

Tindallgrams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685247 - Aug 2018 (13 comments)

Tindallgrams: Crowdsourced effort to preserve NASA spacecraft software memos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10204108 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)
Only on HN do I find people who actually know what cryptography is. Almost all the people I know have never heard of it, but all of them have heard of bitcoin, and most have heard the word crypto being used with reference to cryptocurrencies.

That's not to say that my experience somehow means more than yours or is more valid. But I personally think my experience is more representative of the average layperson. You're welcome to disagree.
Big customers don't hijack your roadmap. Weak visioned product teams that can't say no to sales are the ones that hijack your roadmap.

You are not forced to say yes.
We should ban private jets too.
Sydney is pretty cold in August. Definitely not the time of year to be there.
#1 put my current employer through a lot of pain about a decade ago, and we're still digging ourselves out from that quagmire in a few ways. Despite that pain, I still give them a lot of credit for not prematurely optimizing and building a fully mature product before confirming market viability.

#2 you can live with if you don't let it get out of hand. Watch out for one enterprise customer dominating 80 or more % of your revenue though - monopsonists are as big jerks as monopolists are. (Monopoly = 1 seller / ∞ buyers, monopsony = ∞ sellers / 1 buyer.)
After WW2 we call it a war crime (or terrorism) to mass kill civilians to save military casualties. Though the US did this already before the use of nuclear weapons through mass bombing cities with conventional weapons.
No. Only in Europe Google didn't released Gemini pro for bard.
> everything I hear about them as servers sounds so much less painful.

It's a different kind of pain.

The entire "distribution" is cohesive and clean in a way that no Linux distribution manages. A lot of duplication of effort and ugliness is avoided.

But everyone develops for Linux, and you run into places where things don't work. And performance doesn't come close to Linux on the top end or even high middle end.
I appreciate the feedback, I'll ignore it, but appreciate that a few off the cuff remarks are able upset you in some profound way. I feel sorry for you.

Maybe take a deep look at why you feel the need to get so upset, and exaggerate the impact my words would have. Set some time apart to work on your mental fortitude, and you'll be happier.
Worse is better, as they say :)
That sounds about right. I love your doctor though.
I heard this story many times. One of them was froma graduate student who attended this meeting. APS March meeting happened in Las Vegas again last year (2023). While there was no official ban for APS Conferences, there was a little interest in las vegas to host anything for APS for a ~35 years.
they have only one side and no volume!
I'm not saying anything about the IRS system, I'm just saying the federal government definitely doesn't have all household sales data for all residential sales. It's not required filing in Missouri and several other states.

The federal government likely has zero clue what I spent to buy my house. They could probably find it if they bothered looking hard enough, but it wasn't directly reported anywhere with the government, especially federally.

I'm totally not against having a simple filing system though and agree for most people for most years it would be way simpler. Just pointing out a spot where you're incorrect on the federal government, especially the IRS, knowing everything. You're getting really angry at me about things I've never said. Probably time to calm down my dude.
I have a few ideas that depend on Chrome extensions, the issue is, I do not know how to monetize them either via Ads or some sort of in-app purchases.
I haven't been since DEF CON 19.

Count me out. LVCC is even less cool than Caesars and it's a mile from the strip. It's only selling point is the Loop.[0] In the past, it was convenient to book at Caesars, or nearby at the Bellagio or Venetian-Palazzo.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Convention_Center_Lo...
Caesars canceled DEF CON could it be because CaesarsPalace was hacked this year? I doubt they did it?
Black hat is just one giant bunch of sales pitches. No I haven't been there but I've had to sift through recordings that my boss (who did attend) wanted me to look at because he was too drunk himself to do a proper evaluation.

It doesn't provide information, it just provides sales suits a chance to blow their hot air :P

If I'd ever go there it would just be an excuse to go to vegas to see DEF CON as well :P I work in security but I have no time for corporatism and sales bullshit.

Edit: I know it's a bit of a hot take but I've been to so many conferences where sales goons spew all the pretty pictures and then later when we actually got our hands on the product it turned out that it couldn't do half the stuff that was promised. Or there were other weaknesses like excruciatingly bad support. I've become very cynical due to this.
He was busy getting us towards wifi first.
I'm more of an infinite volume half full kind of optimist myself.
It's really much more likely the people that are in the business of defending against just that.
Pointing a finger at someone else does not mean that your HN comments were ok.
Removing critical functions isn't a necessary part pod being beta, so no, betas can be betas without that
I doubt that part about sales taxes. Sales taxes are state, not federal. There are states that are solidly under Republican control and there are states that are solidly under Democrat control yet they all handle sales tax the same way. If there was anything political about why sales taxes aren’t included in item prices we’d expect to see differences between states.

The real reason is most likely the large variability of sales tax within most states. If sales tax were included in item prices you could not print the prices on packaging until you knew what place a particular item would be sold. And what price would you put in advertising when the ad will be seen by people in areas with different sales tax rates?
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This is the first time I've seen the NetBSD announcement. "Escape from the political wars" is an interesting bit because it sounded like 386BSD completely devolved into a flamewar, and this confirms that it was more political than technological.

Linus T wrote a book called "Just For Fun", and idk but maybe fun-factor maybe won out.
USB wasn’t a reinvention of an audio connector. It was a replacement for a dozen if not more D Sub and DIN connectors that other serial connections used. Thus the ‘U’.
I no longer have to track or care about what service a show is on. It's bliss.
Probably the same way other people do it: DHT surveillance of suspected copyrighted works which log IPs of seeders... or some variation of that
>But canceling an already scheduled event because of low revenue per guest doesn't seem very likely to me?

Not to be TOO snarky, but given how quickly corporate cancels employee labor despite rising revenue, it would not surprise me for other corporate to also cancel "low paying customers" for "high paying customers". Loyalty is beyond dead so cancelling a contract is just a cost of business if they feel the alternative gives more money.
I can understand why Netflix et al want to block Apple from their data, but back in the beginning you could just say “Play the latest episode of House of Cards” on Apple TV and it just worked. At the end of day user experience is just degraded… and for what?
I'd argue that the CTF competitors are a minority in attendance (but that doesn't mean they are none at DEFCON).
The paper is full of insightful parts. For instance, on challenge with LLMs is parsing the model output. The participants suggest that instead of forcing the model to return a JSON, it should be allowed to return the results in its preferred format, and then these results can be parsed into a structured format.
Quote: "if the model is kind of inherently predisposed to respond with a certain type of data, we don’t try to force it to give us something else because that
seems to yield a higher error rate"
I like the quote too, and I love pg's writing and his style, but Gaddis and similar novelists are playing a very different game.
Awesome post! When will we be able to operate our car without it spying on us? Will we eventually be able to turn off the "phoning home" function/part?
I've heard stories about "hackers" at former DEF CON's pouring concrete down sinks and doing all sorts of other socially clueless vandalism, and resulting backlash for the organizers. While the infosec community is much bigger and more... "normal" than it was back then, I imagine the guests are still more of a liability than the average conference attendee and as you said, probably not big spenders.
I'm not angry at you. Sorry if it came across that way. I was referencing the other comments upthread not made by you that seem like a bad faith troll.
Question from someone knew very little in this domain: what stops mass adoption of WebAssembly?

A few years ago, I used a WASM demo website which can use a WASM version of ffmpeg to mux audio and video into a file (transcoding obviously wasn't practical, at least not at that time), and I was very impressed. I can see lots of potential of it.

But I still haven't see much usage of it even today.

(To be totally honest -- i'd rather it's not popular because it would make debugging websites/web applications close to impossible; but that's besides the point.)
Why do you single out 2k?
The term "4k" is just as wrong and purely marketing driven as well.

The resolution that's usually behind 2k, which is 1440p as you've correctly pointed out, is usually available as torrents too.
I have to say as a European the choice of location has always puzzled me. Corporate interests basically run las vegas, I find it a really odd choice for such a free-thinking anti-establishment community.
Our country's most famous aviator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Batten
I don't care to go to Las Vegas, and I don't care to go to DEFCON, but you can easily fly from anywhere to Las Vegas, any time of year. (Subject to US visa issues, of course)

Others have said August is off-peak for Vegas (perhaps because of the weather), which means its a good time for a conference as space should be less expensive.
Ah the No True Scotsman argument

> If people’s time was truly valuable then no one should be ______ anyway.
Genus-1 earlobes !
To shrink MIC budgets, using lasers to counter tactical missiles in clear weather will be significantly cheaper to operate than expending expensive missiles. Repeated drone and improvised rocket attacks shouldn't lead to an expensive war of attrition that only makes defense contractors rich while taking away budget from better uses.
Why Vegas in the first place really. This city should not even exist.
> Is it normal to forget the steps you took to accomplish a task?

Yes, it’s very common. Immediately after doing it, in fact.
No, it's not. Sell me downloadable video files.
FlowState : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowstate

Its an ambient sound mixer i build to listen to while coding.
We just launched now on HN and today in Product Hunt.
I wonder how that image is generated? The Cybertruck doesn’t have FSD yet. I also read that Apple was blocking the AVP from working when it detected you were moving fast. That they had to make special provisions to allow the AVP to work on planes.
You seem to misunderstand the 75% rate:

The requirement is that the expected value for a play on a machine is >75%. And most are >90%. But that’s not a cap on profit margin, as 25% of the expense for a play may be more than the cost of that play.

Eg, having a machine that costs $1 with $0.75 expected return (and $0.25 revenue for the casino) may only cost the casino $0.10 a play — which would be a 60% profit margin.
Ask HN: Subscription vs. One Time Payment
A Design and Development solution as a service. which one is a better option to pick for a founder
The hard part about this nobody is willing to experiment with their $30k+ vehicle and risk bricking it. If you want a car that doesn’t spy on you you’re gonna have to look back a decade or so.
Black Hat is a giant commercial conference run by a company that runs dozens and dozens of giant commercial conferences. No event venue is ever going to fuck with them.
oh no, I'm 21. But there's just a lot going on lately(University work, side projects, internship work, some errands, daily language lessons, exercise, writing, reading <- this is fixed) and time is of the essence.

PS: I am also having house reno, so most of my time is getting occupied over there.
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Do any small, handheld R Pi cyberdecks exist that one can just purchase pre-made? Every time I see this stuff I can't believe this kind of thing isn't just some ubiquitously common thing, and that people are 3D printing their own cases and keyboards and etc.
This was really the best design. The metal one that was a big clip.
> type google
> get anything but google

??
Drove me away. Increasing the price on my yearly renewal wouldn’t have been noticed. Sending me adverts means Amazon have lost out on far more than my cancelled prime subscription - I haven’t bought anything from them, and that’s over $100 a month revenue lost.
used maybe
> You may be able to get away with just an HDMI dummy plug

Or, you can just pirate it and not have to put up with any of this BS.
FYI OP, No such problem here.
Mass adoption in what way? What benefit does the average CRUD web app gain from using some form of WebAssembly?
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That attitude is insane and politically naive.

Yout biggest peer competitor copy-pasted your military technology because you can't keep secrets.

You made your allies poor by taking away the advantage of research and you can't stop China from owning American technology for free.

The volcanic rage that attitude generates, is building sight unseen to the precious snowflakes hiding behind soon-to-be worthless Aircraft carriers.

Ctrl C, Ctrl V is a warcrime.
Do you have a source for the claim that sperm count for many mammals has been declining?

I was only able to find "Sperm counts in semen of farm animals 1932-1995" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9401823/

Which states that farm animal sperm count has unchanged or has increased over time.
Don't forget gmail having 1GB of storage at a time when most email providers offered a few MB.
Caesars has a $9.3B market cap. They're not beating anybody up for "casino justice".
I have a couple of USB A cables that work in either orientation - seems like a design that should have been adopted more widely, though they seem a bit easier to damage if you step on them.
> the services have taken the piss?

Which services do you mean?

Netflix? Or do you mean the other 7 services, which didn’t exist back then.

There was a brief window of time when streaming was able to compete with piracy (free) and it’s when there was just one streaming service. Netflix was able to have a robust (if not comprehensive) catalogue (because it had no competitors), and was dedicated to user experience (becaues it was willing to burn money to grow its customerbase), and had just secured multi-year licensing deals for content from all the major film and television distributors at bargain basement prices (because no one else had yet realized how valuable those streaming rights were).
Isn't that a bit what hy (https://hylang.org/) tries to do ? AIUI it is a lisp interacting directly with the AST of Python, allowing seamless interop: Python modules can be used from hy and vice versa, everything is transparent.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we will have to ban you. I just warned you about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182597.
I'm going to sound like a zealot at this point but:

'"Why not tell people to "simply" use pyenv, poetry or anaconda'

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use