skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd call BS on this story, but I know a friend that bought a home a few years back from a homebuilder that did a similar thing, except at a whole home level. Absolute disaster. he's been chasing him for half a decade now via legal means to get things fixed.
Not certification, licensure. That can and will be taken away if you violate the code of ethics. Which in this case means the code of conduct dictated to you by your industry instead of whatever you find ethical.

Like a license to be a doctor, lawyer, or civil engineer.

There’s - perhaps rightfully, but certainly predictably - a lot of software engineers in this thread moaning about how evil management makes poor engineers cut corners. Great, licensure addresses that. You don’t cut corners if doing so and getting caught means you never get to work in your field again. Any threat management can bring to the table is not as bad as that. And management is far less likely to even try if they can’t just replace you with a less scrupulous engineer (and there are many, many unscrupulous engineers) because there aren’t any because they’re all subject to the same code of ethics. Licensure gives engineers leverage.

Super unpopular concept, though.
I wish the protestors all the best. Sad that this kind of situation is happening.
Would this have changed something for this specific problem? I usually 100% agree with you fwiw, I just don't think this would've helped here because it seems like an almost "non update"? Most people claim there has been no update to the software, and no prompt or option to update it or not
Tanshumanism is a tag for many things. Philosophically is the modern variant of ancient Greeks "golden age" or Christian's paradise, at least the tendency to such utopia.

Practically so far it's mostly automation to reduce human stress, fatigue, doing more things with less effort. With a long term goal to do better: today we have A/C at home, in cars etc but not when we are outside, it's common imaging future "dress" able to keep us not only hot in winter but also cool in summer. In the near terms are some medical devices to allow an amputee to have legs again and perhaps having inside prosthetic legs some extras like a built-in GPS connected to a small display like sunglasses to have road navigation without external device and of course a bottle opener.

Those who are "against" state it's to better subjugate us injecting surveillance and command devices in our body and so on.

There is no "Tanshumanism Manifesto" agreed by all who treat that tag-topic to appreciate or critic honestly, but there is MUCH narrative like low quality sci-fi plots...
never do.

i can recall just before COVID hit seeing Azure AD go down -- broke all of our shit.

but you look at the dashboard and it's 100% green. "it's fine" they said, and fought us for months.
> your GPU driver can crash, your screen will flicker and maybe apps that were using it will crash, but the system recovers

Only if the userspace part of the driver has crashed. It's not really relevant to what happened here (it was kernel code).
Agreed. Visual programming focuses on visualising the structure of the _program_, but what matters more is visualising the structure of the _data_ and, even more importantly, what the program is doing to the data (visualising in the time domain).

A major bottleneck for people learning programming is developing a mental model of what is in the memory during the runtime and what it looks like. The most successful introductions to programming start by making drawings or small games since it's more intuitive for beginners to iterate and have immediate feedback.
The law everywhere does prohibit a LOT of jerk behaviours and a lot of jurisdictions have jurisprudence (I live in a common law country where jurisprudence is enormous) that amount to ''don't be a jerk''.
"It seems like you’ve never worked with critical infra."

My entire career has been spent building, and maintaining, critical infra.[1]

Further, in my volunteer time, I come into contact with medical, dispatch and life-safety systems and equipment built on Windows and my question remains the same:

Why is Windows anywhere near critical infra ?

Just because it is common doesn't mean it's any less shameful and inadequate.

I repeat: We've fully understood these risks and frailties for 25 years.

[1] As a craft, and a passion - not because of "exciting career opportunities in IT".
(I've detached this offtopic subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002977.)

Your original comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007985. I detached it from its original parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002977) because it was more of a generic tangent than a specific reply.

It's a vital moderation function to do this, particularly when the parent is the top comment of the entire thread. Those tend to attract non-reply-replies, and that has bad effects on the thread as a whole. It causes the top part of the page to fill up with generic rather than specific content, and it makes the top subthread too top-heavy.

I'm not saying that you did anything wrong or that your post was bad or that it was unrelated to the original parent. The problem is that the effects I'm describing pile up unintentionally and end up being a systemic problem. It isn't anybody's fault, but there does need to be someone whose job it is to watch out for the system as a whole, and that's basically what moderators do.

Sometimes we comment that we detached a post from its original parent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and sometimes not. (Perhaps the software should display this information automatically.) I'm less likely to do it when a comment stands on its own just fine, which was the case with your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007985 and which is usually the case with the more generic sort of reply—in fact it's one test for deciding that question.

> so now there is the whole other pointless branch polluting the relevance of the tree

Yes, please don't do that—especially in the top subthread. I understand the frustration of "WTF where did my comment go", but you can always reach us at hn@ycombinator.com and get an answer.
> i did find it interesting that 30% of ios users use Chrome. wild!

As someone who used to use Chrome on iOS, it's not that wild to me: the UX of Safari on iOS sucked pretty bad for a long time (up until iOS 16, IIRC). I usually have hundreds of tabs open, and the old Safari UI for viewing all tabs was horrible: it used a skeuomorphic design, simulating a stack of paper. The 3D effect is distracting, and it's also a terrible use of screen real estate; a grid of all open browser tabs/pages is much better for quickly finding what you're looking for. Prior to iOS 16, I used Chrome specifically because the tab overview UI was so much better.

In case anyone has forgotten, the first few seconds of this video shows what the tab overview UI looked like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSXJow3LAWA

Strangely, there are people who would like the old iOS Safari UI back, despite it being strictly less usable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254384502?sortBy=best

I eventually switched back to Safari when I accidentally realized that Apple had fixed their tab overview UI (and I couldn't get ad blocking to work reliably with Chrome).
Reminds me of Phil Harrison who always seems to find himself in an of executive position, botching launches of new video game platforms - PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Google Stadia
> A bad hire might cost you 3 months salary 30,000

I think this sounds "correct" at first glance but really neglects the fact that there is onboarding and other team dynamics at play. Maybe if you are a giant org and can deal with churn it's okay, but if you're a "small" company, new hires are a drain on everyone's time and emotional resources. You're going to lose that persons salary sure, but also what's the dollar equivalent for how much time others spend onboarding? Probably 2-3x that? And then if you keep hiring and firing people you are going to burn out your team of people that liked being at your job but now hate that you have so much churn and they are tired of onboarding people that are going to quit or be fired in a few months.
Scientific language is not like Portuguese or English. Is a language in the same way as math or music are languages. Is a method universal to name things unequivocally with a fixed set of rules --and-- to honor the people that sweated blood and tears to discover this organisms for everyone of us to enjoy them.

Introducing politics in scientific language, is as obnoxious as claiming that is unacceptable that a score contains more white notes than black notes.
STONED!
creepy, reminds me of the webpage someone made years ago that shows a stalker looking through all the personal information and friend lists of the user visiting the page
Boring but profitable. It's super easy to take money from a "calling machine": just bet big when you have a strong hand.
> Hard to imagine how many millions of not billions of dollars this one bad update caused.

I mean, if the problem is that hospitals can't function anymore, money is hardly the biggest problem
I think transhumanism will happen along an unanticipated path. The image of immortal humans with brain computer interfaces seems like it won't happen, to me. Rather, as we are witnessing now with advances in AI far outpacing advances in BCI, I think what will happen is that synthetic life will prove to be easier than augmented life. Or put another way, the limitations of augmented life inherited from the past make sure it will always pale in ability compared to synthetic life designed from scratch.

Transhumanism can be more trans or more humanism; the author is leaning on the humanism part but I think the trans part will prove more salient in the future.
> We'll never figure out how to do it because it's unethical to experiment on humans.

Ah, yes, we never do that. All of our advancements in medical and psychological sciences just pop into existence out of no where!

> It's all half-assed woowoo nonsense meant to bolster this or that political ideology

Right. And your comments here aren't pushing an agenda at all. Definitely not a bigoted, inhumane agenda.
Master Donald has taught them well.
When it is said that humans innately understand physics, no one means that people innately understand the equations and can solve physics problems. I think we all know how laughable such a claim would be, because how much people struggle when learning physics and how few people even get to a moderate level (not even Goldstein, but at least calculus based physics with partial derivatives).

What people mean when saying people innately understand physics is that they have a working knowledge of many of the implications. Things like that gravity is uniformly applied from a single direction and that is the direction towards ground. That objects move in arcs or "ballistic trajectories", that straight lines are uncommon, that wires hang with hyperbolic function shapes even if they don't know that word, that snow is created from cold, that the sun creates heat, many lighting effects (which is how we also form many illusions), and so on.

Essentially, humans know that things do not fall up. One could argue that this is based on a "laundry list of superficial hacks" and they wouldn't be wrong, but they also wouldn't be right. Even when wrong, the human formulations are (more often than not) causally formulated. That is, explainable _and_ rational (rational does not mean correct, but that it follows some logic. The logic doesn't need to be right. In fact, no logic is, just some are less wrong than others).
Indeed, I wish there was something like it today with a modern design. Like a DHT with your public key fingerprint as a lookup. Anyone who 'follows' your .plan also hosts it as a torrent. You 'approve' followers by signing your .plan file with their pubkey, or for a fully public .plan, just sign with your private. Blah blah blah decentralized cypherpunk social media utopia.
Emm, 10x developer is a myth. The real 10x developer is the one that creates such an infrastructure/libraries/culture that enables 10 other engineers to move fast. The 10x developer is not the person that is 10x faster than other developers on the code base simply because they can hold the spaghetti code they wrote in their head.
Isn't this, together will all other wins in things like environment protection, bound to be rolled back in the event of a Trump victory?
Well... the UKs Tories have been a corrupt shitshow for the last decade. Germany's President Steinmeier was involved in the Murat Kurnaz mess (an Afghani dude wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo), the Chancellor in the Cum Ex tax-cheating scandal, and the opposition parties are taking lessons from Trump in rhetoric tactics. Italy's government is composed of a literal post-fascist party whose youth openly glorifies Mussolini, and then you got the legacy of Europe's most corrupt and creepy politician (Berlusconi).

No matter where you look, corruption and unpunished scandals galore in the West. And the general public doesn't care.
When governments do such things, expect bad results. The protesters' demands aren't unreasonable at all. Just be meritocratic in civil service appointments.
There are no rules for side projects. Consider just removing or skipping the test parts if they are slowing you down. Sometimes project progress and fun is more important than industry best practices.

Maybe decide to release by the end of the weekend, and be brutal about dropping anything that's not absolutely necessary for release.
Not really. I agree with what he says but listen to what he says: he's talking about popular music. He has explicitly stated he's not talking about music subcultures, of which there are many and many are thriving. If there was a Bach like composer subculture that was significant but unable to break into pop then he'd be giving the answer.

Bach wasn't popular music when he was alive.
> The US has a number of factors that give Trump's faction a substantial leg up. He has never won the popular vote. There is a very good chance that he will win this November the same way.

Trump is, according to polls, well on his way to winning the national popular vote this time. But that's irrelevant because the national popular vote is irrelevant in the US ... and in Canada. The US electoral college is in essence a parliament elected by the various states for the single purpose of electing the president. In any parliamentary system with a first-past-the-post system (the UK, Canada, and India, for example), it's similarly possible for a party to win the most votes across the country but not win the election because another party won more seats. This has happened in Britain four times, the last in February 1974. In Canada this happened in 1896, 1957, 1979, 2019, and 2021.

The Liberals have formed a government three consecutive times under Justin Trudeau despite, in the last two elections (2019 and 2021), the Conservatives winning the national popular vote and, further, the Liberals not winning a majority of ridings in the last election. In 1979, the Conservatives formed a government despite receiving 4.2% fewer votes than the Liberals, a size discrepancy between the popular vote and the actual outcome that has never occurred in the US. In 1896 the Liberals formed a government despite receiving 6.8% (!) fewer votes than the Conservatives!

>The US Supreme Court has also been captured for coming decades by Trump's party. Those are lifetime appointments -- and their decisions guide who will replace them.

Trudeau, like any Canadian prime minister, has complete control over naming new supreme court members (other than one third being from Quebec). There is no appointments clause or equivalent in Canada or other Westminster countries.

>But the US has become extremely ugly, and it's hard to choke down that ugliness when you know the power structures are tipped against you, and show every sign of becoming monotonically more so.

Sorry to again shatter your illusions, but the Canadian prime minister is probably the single most-powerful head of government in the developed world. Not in terms of military might, but in terms of what he can do within his political system, with the above being one small example.
It is interesting that operating systems exist for server applications at all.

What is the problem they are solving?

What is the difference between what an operating system contains and can do and what you need it to do?

Why would I want to rent a server to run a program that performs a task, and also have the same system performing extra tasks - like intrusion detection, intrusion detection software updates, etc.

I just don't understand why compiled program that has enough disk and memory would ever be asked to restart for a random fucking reason having nothing to do with the task at hand. It seems like the architecture of server software is not created intelligently.
But that's the thing, forced updates are not akin to maintenance or certs that expire on an annual basis. I'm not sure where you seem to be getting your "you should expect people to point out how ridiculous you're being" line from. Your the only one I'm seeing arguing this idea.
I receive many such emails that I signed up for and am happy to get.

The senders of those emails are happy to send them.

Unless you - an unrelated third party - think you have the right to insert yourself into this business relationship, it's completely legitimate.
>However, sheet notation tells you precisely the duration of each note,

True but the reason that guitar tabs missing the duration of the notes is not much of a handicap compared to traditional sheet music notation is that the guitar players learning popular music already get the notes' durations from listening to the actual recordings.

This is the same reason that printing out the lyrics for songs don't require notations of durations for each syllable of every word. People singing karaoke or whatever already get the durations by hearing the recordings. (Indeed, lyrics sheets are also missing the pitch of each syllable.)

On the other hand, traditional notation was invented before recordings so musicians often had no idea what the music sounded like unless they correctly decoded the notes durations on the page.
> In this case even dockerized environments would allow you to redeploy with ease.

Not if the CIO mandated that your bare-metal OS hosting Docker has to run a rootkit developed by bozos.
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Who says they sent it out willy-nilly?

It’s not unheard of for things to slip by testing and CI.
Video calls are also often 'not working right now, sorry' something they couldn't get away with with visitation (though visitation often reaches 'capacity, sorry, you can't come in').
The difference being that RHEL has a QA process which crowd strike apparently does not. The quality practices for open source involved companies is apparently much higher than for large closed source "security" firms.

I guess getting whined at because obscure things break in beta or rc releases has a good effect for the people using LTS.
> Why would Windows systems be anywhere near critical infra ?

Why would computers be anywhere near critical infra? This sounds like something that should failsafe, the control system goes down but the thing keeps running. If power goes down, hospitals have generator backups, it seems weird that computers would not be in the same situation
What browser do you use? I can see the link to the settings.
“More expensive” - and herein lies the root of most problems - the world is ruined in the name of two things: profit and cost cutting.
> he was at a party and he was about to be killed

I feel like your story is really missing some details.
The actual injection of this program is what would generally require a high-value exploit on most devices.
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This is absolutely stunning!

but I don’t think it’d ever be implemented. Old projects like Linux Mint are not very comfortable with the idea of looking more modern and sleek.

You’d have a better chance with a new design for ZorinOS but I don’t know if that’s needed since it’s already so modern.
Cherry picking specific examples doesn’t prove anything.

Overall windows ux is not even close to what apple have invested in their ecosystem. It’s not even apple to oranges comparison.

Even if there are few nice and handy features here and there.
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Chemosynthesis often does produce pure sulfur as a byproduct but so do volcanoes. a priori I'd put the most likely scenario for Mars at chemosynthetic life with photosynthesis never evolving, but this press release doesn't really move the dial on that with the information so far.
Famous for enabling one of the very early Internet Worms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
You can follow Hector Martin @marcan at https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/

He works on Asahi Linux, a Linux port to arm64 Apple hardware.
GP is hyperbolic but essentially correct. Generally, states will move as much as science and technology research that is not militarily sensitive to the public sphere - such as NASA. This is because many scientists won't work for the military directly [1], but will work on stuff that has both military and non-military applications. This science is then used by the military for their purposes.

Many people have also written quite a lot about how the race to the moon was primarily funded because it was a military domination competition. Once the USSR decisively lost, the US stopped doing that expensive science. A good overview of the geopolitics of space exploration and research is the book Dark Skies by Daniel Deudney [2].

[1] Combination of ethical reasons and having to do security checks and your freedoms somewhat restricted.

[2] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dark-skies-978019090...
>I know here in the US, we can take one look at our own presidential candidates

Yeah, the US presidential candidates are either an old senile man and an old xenofobic liar, either not great options, but none of them have run the country into the ground no matter how shit they are. I mean Trump spews complete nonsense and Biden can barely string a coherent sentence together or remember what he said 30 seconds ago, let alone run a country and yet the US seems to be doing fine.

Part of me thinks that the US still functions so well no matter the president or political situation is that F500 actually run the US and the president is just for show.
> Talking to non-tech people means you're going to be copy-pasting screenshots and replying in blue text next to their bullet points that was written in black text.

None of that requires HTML. Using ">" to denote previous conversation quotes is the standard and they normally get highlighted different than reply text. And images just need a decent 'drag-to-add-attachment' flow.

Marketing emails don't matter as they are an abuse of the platform.
Not disagreeing with you but we need operating systems with snapshots before updates and a trivial way to rollback the update.

Linux has some immutable OS versions and also btrfs snapshots and booting a specific snapshot from the GRUB bootloader
I don't have a technical writeup to offer, but your assessment around the BSOD seems correct enough. Without having an affected machine but knowing how NT loads drivers like this, I'd hazard a guess that the OS likely isn't even getting to the point where smss.exe starts before the kernel bugchecks. This means no userspace, which almost certainly means no hope of remotely remediating the problem.
> Took down our entire emergency department

What does this mean? Did the power go down? Is all the equipment connected? Or is it the insurance software that can't run do nothing gets done? Maybe you can't access patient files anymore but is that taking down the whole thing?