skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rich demagogue getting elected over a rich career politician technocrat who was smeared by right-wing money for decades sounds like "democracy" working well as it's ever worked.

It's easy to blame one entity or another for these sorts of upset events, but national elections are media circuses largely run by private spending on the terms of private parties and blaming any one party seems like missing the forest for the trees.

Again, election "interference" is not unfamiliar ground for democracies or republics, liberal or classic, so it confuses me why people blame the electorate rather than the flaws in our implementation of democratic ideals (eg the citizens united ruling) that allowed private capital to run rampant over our election mechanics.

To illustrate how inevitable this is, the roman republic had statute stipulating the width of the halls leading up to the ballots to physically restrict voters from being harassed or intimidated. Otherwise the richer candidate would simply pay a mob to physically bully you into voting a certain way regardless of your original intentions—or perhaps they might outright buy your vote out if they knew which way your ballot cast. It was completely understood by all involved that voting (& armies) could be bought with sufficient money and ingenuity by even single people.

Why we are discussing anything other than restricting the ability of money to interfere with our modern processes when it comes to "democratic health" is beyond me.
I’m not a child psychologist but I observed how my daughter became almost instinctively scared of the wolf. I think that less sanitized fairy tales can be a bridge between children’s imagination and the real world. Modern versions of fairy tales where the wolf becomes good give me more cringes than the ones where he is shot by the hunter.
An opportunity to make money, commercial UNIXes eventually started selling their compilers as well, a practice started by Sun.
If you're only dumping a string, couldn't you replace this dependency with some string concatenation?
In this kind of cases I always bring up POSSE[0] (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)

Never use someone else's platform as the only location for anything you're not prepared to lose at a moment's notice.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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What's missing from iOS and Android if you don't use cloud accounts?

> Windows does not force you to use the online account to access all the features of your computer

With current Windows (11 23h2) you have to know the correct incantation to be able to create a local-only account. Is it technically possible to not have a cloud account? I suppose it still is, just the same as you can technically install it on an older CPU with no TPM. Is it something Joe RandomUser will be able to figure out on his own? I doubt it. So in Windows-land, the situation is much closer to "you can't use your pc at all without a cloud account".
Well, [checks watch] it's 2024 so I'll just jetpack over and up to the parking lot, and drive my flying car home, and catch the 2nd week of the Moon Olympics.

It'd be nice, but you know what, let's look after what we have, and if we get to Star Trek, that's fine, but if we don't we still have somewhere to live.
The playing field is level. With a level playing field, the multi-billion dollar corporation will obviously trample the individual. They are more powerful than you.
No not sarcasm, perception.

It comes down to what you mean by "job". As distinct from "work". We all -work- (they certainly do) in the sense that they add value, and are paid for that value.

A "job" though is an indication of who you work for. You might get a job at a bakery, selling buns. You got to work, add value, and are paid by an employer. She decides if you're on the register, or loading the truck, or whatever. You are selling time and she can do (more or less) what she wants either it.

To avoid this lack of personal agency people start their own business. Now "no one tells them what to do". So they don't have a "job" but there's actually more work.

So there's a "job" and there's "work" and they're not the same thing.

The band (correctly) recognised that signing for a label means you are an employee of that label. They may give you some autonomy, but its not all fairies and rainbows - there's a business to feed. So there will be requirements from their side.

Indie bands work a lot more, but they have complete freedom to do whatever however they like. If they serve the customers well, they do well. If they don't, then it reflects in pay this month.

A "job" is when you work for someone else. But when you have autonomy, and do what you love AND make enough to thrive, then you are truly blessed. Its a lot of work, but it doesn't feel like it.
I just treat ChatGPT more like a framework than anything. Don't interview for problems that can be solved with a framework. You wouldn't test a web dev by asking them to set up a blog.

Red, green, refactor. Make sure ChatGPT fails the test. Make sure a human can pass the test. Then adjust accordingly. If you can't do this, then you should pay for a senior who can.
And all commercial UNIXes, mainframes, micros, embedded OSes, game consoles.

Turns out not every deployment scenario needs a compiler, and it is still an opportunity to make money outside the FOSS world.
It's not like the money went away to space - people who got the money spent it on stuff, most likely local services and products, so it returned back.

The real cost to taxpayers was either 0 or an influx of dollars due to slightly boosted local economy, not a loss.
Is this even a copyright issue? If no one archives something and it goes down, the policy for reproduction doesn't matter.
This may be the first victim of Brain Cipher Ransomware: https://www.broadcom.com/support/security-center/protection-..., just days after their disclosure.
This story about McBride's motivations really only makes sense if you're motivated to come up with some kind of post facto reasoning for why McBride is a bad guy for leaking the documents, while ABC reporters are heroes for selectively publishing them. Never passed the pub test, thanks for the link.
I don’t expect much from politicians, in my lifetime the political class has mostly seemed to be pretty nakedly self-serving.

I’m sad because so many of my personal heroes, the hackers I’ve admired, are just on board past any possible argument that it’s in the public welfare.

I learn in the same month that OpenAI is satisfying their voracious appetite for data with an NSA partnership as I do that the old-school FB infra braintrust is taking the money.

I’m embarrassed by all of this. I want to be remembered as part of something else.
> No one complains about it and instead they praise this as a great feature.

That's because we have a duopoly in phone operating systems.

> minimally technically savvy users can still create local-only accounts

On Windows 11? Can they still? I tried setting up a windows 11 arm VM recently and I couldn't find a working way to use a local account. Yes there are tutorials, but i think everyone at Microsoft is working overtime to invalidate them all.
>For silicon that's cheaper than the average coffee, that's pretty cool.

Maybe it's not the chip that it's too cheap. Maybe it's the coffee that's too expensive.
That means the results are meaningless because the control group is not representative of the whole sample.
Why would it be impossible for Signal to decrypt and re-encrypt on their server while pretending to be "peer 2 peer encrypted" if we don't know what's running on their server? What's more: we don't even have the source of the client binary running on our phone.

Also "which any nation-state can do" is an interesting angle.

Let me put that differently: why would Signal NOT be a honey-pot operated by the CIA/NSA/other? Sounds almost too easy to not be true.
The United States be like, "No! My rocks!"
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As soon as a whistleblower from one of Musk’s companies shows up you can guarantee he would get permabanned
The government doesn't even have to remove them from existence. A judge most likely wont care how you leaked information you where told to keep secret and will just throw the book at you wether you used a canary to do so or not.
I do think that memory safety is important for any network service. The probability of something going horribly wrong when a network packet is parsed in a wrong way is just too high. NTP typically does have more access to the host OS than other daemons, with it needing to adjust the system clock.

Of course, there are many other services that could be made memory safe, and maybe there is some sort of right or smart order in which we should make our core network infrastructure memory safe. But everyone has their own priorities here, and I feel like this could end up being an endless debate of whatabout-ism. There is no right place to start, other than to just start.

Aside from memory safety though, I feel like our implementation has a strong focus on security in general. We try and make choices that make our implementation more robust than what was out there previously. Aside from that, I think the NTP space has had an under supply of implementations, with there only being a few major open source implementations (like ntpd, ntpsec and chrony). Meanwhile, NTP is one of those pieces of technology at the core of many of the things we do on the modern internet. Knowing the current time is one of these things you just need in order to trust many of the things we take for granted (without knowledge of the current time, your TLS connection could never be trusted). I think NTP definitely deserves this attention and could use a bunch more attention.
"American food" is in this context is a specific cuisine that includes things like cold cereal, eggs, bacon, sandwiches, hamburgers, chicken wings, apple pie, and much more. Of course americans can still eat other food, but that doesn't make other food American food, it's only food eaten in america. If an italian eats sushi, does that make sushi Italian food? Of course not.

These classic American foods tended to be the most commonly eaten things in years past, so American grocery stores tended to carry groceries for those dishes. They were the most common type of grocery store by a massive margin, and they are the type of grocery store that sells the cuisine of the country in which they reside, so they are just called "grocery stores". In italy, do italians call the store that sells tomato sauce and spaghetti an Italian grocery store? Of course not, it's just The Grocery Store.

If alice thinks bob is less american for shopping at an asian grocery store, the problem lies with alice, not with the society that makes a distinction between "default" and asian grocery stores.
Thanks for the detailed feedback.

The growth of the log is indeed a weak point that could be improved by regularly merging entries. Missing entries are easily recognizable because a consecutive index is used. The checksums on the previous entry should improve data consistency.

The point that CRDTs themselves already contain all the information required for an update is absolutely correct. I have been working on this protocol for some time and one objective was the reproducibility of the individual changes fro accountability reasons. But this may not be necessary for all applications and could possibly be achieved in other ways. Thank you for pointing this out, I will reconsider the concept in this respect!
This usage persists in Swedish where “man” means both the human male and a generic subject for a passive tense, similar to how “one” or “you” works in English.

Man måste vara fri -> One must be free
Ask HN: Is the SaaS trend over?
Off the back of multiple very public data breaches involving third parties, it appears that my organisation has had enough of this particular risk.

Senior management have determined that the only organisation that can be ultimately entrusted with protecting our sensitive or customer records is us. So, the posture has changed and SaaS is under the review. All of it.

Is this an emerging trend in other organisations? If so, what does it mean for startups?
> they don't fully value the huge number of advancements that come with major revisions.

More spyware? Reduced hardware support for no good reason in case of Windows 11?
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Back-ups are also not going to save you if the infection is time-delayed.
I doubt he'll ever be fine after what he's been through.
There are all sorts of issues in trying to come up with a single abstraction for multiple platforms. It's an impedance mismatch problem, there is no single best solution.

I like where cosmo is putting effort. The self-hosting toolchain and build system for example. That was always a knowledge barrier for me (I'm a webdeveloper, I know nothing).

Personally, it was so different and shocking, that I started to understand a lot of things by the contrast it created with other code. Cosmos's Makefiles were different, the linker was being used in a way that made me notice it as a distinct part of the toolchain, the demos actually worked, etc. It made me interested in that stuff, made it more acessible.
I’m not sure if I care at all that he was capitalizing on it.

Frankly, I wouldn’t care if this info was dropped by the Kardashians on a very special episode. It was crucial public information and it needed to get out one way or another. If vanity is an incentivizing factor toward someone taking that risk, so be it.

What is it about someone being incentivized to be a whistleblower, in your mind, changes the validation of the act?
They call it “legit ransomware”
This is the reason why I mastered enough vi to be dangerous, back in the day, Emacs / XEmacs were usually an additional package, while any sort of commercial UNIX had vi on its default install.

Being sent down into the field, rescuing whatever random server used by a customer, meant being able to use whatever was there, and between ed and vi, better vi.
It's also funny how the later examples almost look like they could be terminal UIs. Based on this trend, I predict that the next version of Windows ("Windows One") will look like DOS.
> I don’t know why I don’t hear this point get more airtime among people when discussing the pros and cons of Python/Perl as scripting languages.

But it is.

Perl and awk one liners are very common. Bash is used everywhere you have the (controversial) `sudo curl .. | bash -` install method.

Ansible, if I'm not mistaken, requires python3 installed on remote hosts.

If your environments are homogeneous enough, and you don't have a large matrix of operating systems, you should definitely use this advantage.

The troubles start when you have very heterogeneous environment, custom or hardened Linux distros and etc.

It might seem like this is not being utilised as much nowadays, but I suspect it's because the "classical" Linux sysadmin roles are rare and you don't hear about it as much.
> The first edition wasn't even available in English

Does it even matter?

The Grimm brothers were German, the books in German do exist.

Pinocchio is an Italian work, in Italy it's always been available and a huge success, does it matter if the english version came out much later?

To me the fact that they have become available, shows that the interest among the English readers has grown.

> "actually the original Grimms' stories were pretty dark"

> kids should be exposed to the earliest, least expurgated versions of the story possible, which is very odd.

I read "The Hobbit" as a kid, it's pretty dark too, but I loved it. Read it again as an adult, didn't like it that much.

People are different, kids are not a monolith, they come from different backgrounds, especially different parents' backgrounds and opinions and values.

People I know don't let their kids watch Peppa Pig or the Winx, others don't want them to be schooled about religious stuff, they should be exposed doesn't mean they should be forced to read them, but that we should not pretend that we know better than them what it's good for them

It's not pornography or nonsense gore violence.
The glibc dependency can usually be eliminated through the same process of static compilation; the binaries I linked are also built this way with no dependencies on glibc, for example.

> platforms that don’t offer stable ABI guarantees

If we're talking about Windows, the Win32 ABI is considered stable, which would also suffice for what I'm looking for, which are portable binaries that can be run on almost any version of a system.
The expectation would be at that point that Biden is asked to pardon (or commute the sentence of?) Assange. That's the political solution if the judge were to not accept the plea deal and remand Assange.

I wouldn't expect the judge not to go along with this though - he is pleading guilty and did serve what is now being called a sentence and presumably the US government can say that there are other benefits to his freedom that should not be overriden by the judiciary.
In the paraphrasing of Chomsky, nationstate press conference lingo has subtle connotations. "Spreading democracy" means "whatever America wants", which means "whatever American businesses want." Gen. Smedley Butler probably would second it.

As an aside, I'm concurrently and in parallel concerned about the domestic front: cheap IoT, substitute control system products having backdoors, and supply chain vulnerabilities of otherwise reputable products being implanted in an NSA COTTONMOUTH, FIREWALK, or GODSURGE manner by other nation-states or ransomware actors.
$8M seems rather small for a country of such a size.
> Sweden might extradite him to the US, but the UK wouldnt

An excuse that was always made zero sense.

It later emerged that at the time of the Swedish investigation, there was no indictment from the US.
Ah I see, so everything becomes more "steamy".
Yes and no. In a way a system interpreter is just like a compiler. It's there to enable the user to run programs written in a particular language.

The trouble usually starts when a program needs some third party library. So maybe the rule is more like: the system libraries are for the system, not for you. Unless, of course, they are -dev libraries. I do believe modern Ubuntu won't even let users pip install stuff, which should improve things (Gentoo has been configured like this for years).
One step closer to them just declaring it's actually a brand new ISS module and is never coming back.
Record labels sue AI music generator startups over copyright
> Instead, the proper way to address this situation would be to compile static binaries, that, by their very nature, become distribution agnostic. The only reason I assume this wasn't pursued, I assume, would be that the developers working on this weren't even aware this was an option.

Nowadays you even have younger developers praising static linking, as if this wasn't what we had around since the invention of the first linker, and dynamic linking only became mainstream in the 1990's.

Naturally only knowing Linux, GCC and glibc doesn't help.
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I agree they have no idea about journalism. I remember they had put a big pile of emails sent to some government agency in Turkey. It was all some people complaining about daily things, reporting issues in their cities etc (emails were not anonymized of course), They just dumped them and claimed they were exposing the corrupt government.
There are some space between windows when using this, which create some komorebis
Corrupting legal processes with a combination of weasel talk and bureaucracy is always the first step towards a Navalnyj situation. When that happens to political dissidents how ever bad they are we should all feel great concern.

But I might missunderstand you.
You shouldn't assume this much competence of anyone, including anyone in upper management. This is a fallacy both you and the GP make, though it is a bit easier to believe that they think their company suffers because people work from home. It is a fairly incompetent attitude, with very little if any basis in real data.
Just like how junk food is loaded with salt, fat and sugar. It stimulates our receptors and healthy food seems bland in comparison.
Does anyone know what the explorer replacement(?) is that is seen in the videos?
Perhaps once you try considering the matter in the context it actually exists within instead of a vacuum you'll understand the answer to your asinine rhetorical.
Once I've added my second gmail to the email app on the Android phone and it added it, not only to the email app, but to the whole system. I just wanted to be notified about receiving new mail to that address, but Google decided it needed to sync and backup everything on the phone also to that second email. I consider these kind of things hostile, dark patterns.
Played into the hands? Didn't Assange personally hate the Clinton's, that seems less played into the hands of and more intentional?
Perl 5? What version? Perl has been on that major version for some 20+ years, right?!
This is silly.
Soldered CPU, RAM, SSD.
Pretty much the only thing repairable is the battery.

I'd argue that this was a cheap business decision to make.
Keep the price gouging on parts, while satisfying regulators on "right to repair", and even get some free marketing from iFixit.

It only takes one part to break for you to have to buy an entire new device.
I have been thinking about music AI and it seems to be very much more complex than language.

Does anyone have any insights?
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> It was a mistake and a huge legal risk for IA to do this. It could easily have brought down the whole organisation, and all that they've archived to date.

Agreed. But the problem here is not the daring action but linking it to a sadly unique resource.

> You can support Robin Hood, but you shouldn't be shocked when Robin Hood is caught and sent to jail.

You can however still protest robin hood being sent to jail and you can shame the fat nobles calling for robin hood to be hanged and you can grab the pitchforks and make sure they loose more than they gain. The law is meaningless if it doesn't have the support of the people. Copyright is already routinely ignored by almost everyone when its convenient (outside commercial activity).

Lobbying is all well and good but that's the corporations' turf. Nothing wrong with deciding not to play their game and choose other ways to fight the absurd copyright laws.
I think you mean David McBride?
In addition to the UK, it's almost certain that this had high level political influence between Australia's prime minister and the US president. I don't think the perspective that the US would be willing to damage their relations with Australia and the UK over this especially while the US is

Considering the lengths Assange has gone to to avoid entering US custody, I think he's weighed up the ability to trust the US on this one with probably more information than we have.
What’s the actual view on him in oz? We’ve got exiled Aussie politicians here in the U.K. saying that he’s universally reviled, and that nobody even sees him as a “real” Australian, and that Australians will never forgive him for violating their privacy (oh, the bleeding irony). No alternate viewpoints, looks like 100% of sampled Australians hate him?
they should call it barely plastic :)
I hate downplaying how much some people seem to be struggling (and that's probably why we don't hear about it much) but let's say for certain pockets, the tech market is pretty hot right now.