skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Centralised latrines with waste diverted from freshwater supplies would be a net-net win over, say, backyard privvies which soaked directly into adjacent wells and surface streams. The latter was the case in cities such as London and New York well into the 19th, and early 20th, centuries. Keep in mind that the haulage of human waste itself ("night soil" in some cultures) was a major activity with its dedicated labour pool (pardon the mental image...), though that was in part based on social shunning of those who were so employed.

Concentrations of people create hygenic issues regardless. On balance, Romes latrines were probably a net benefit, though of course the Romans lacked modern understanding of disease, both in parasitic and infectious forms.

Even today, roughly 85% of the increase in human longevity, much due to decreased infant and child mortality, is attributable to general hygiene, municipal sanitation measures (both of wastes such as sewerage, solid rubbish, and of improved air quality; and of vastly improved water and food quality. Other public health measures, including quarantine, epidemiological surveillance, and vaccinations, also played a huge role. I first became aware of this through Laurie Garrett's book The Coming Plague (1994): <https://search.worldcat.org/title/30701925>

See "The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City" for a ... graphic ... expression of the trends in mortality from ~1800 through 2000 or so:

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I mean, the search appliance was discontinued after 17 years. Not sure it's that bad...
That's certainly what the Democrats keep saying. As OP points out, though, they have an incredibly strong incentive to get you to vote for them, just as much as the Republicans do. They are not your friends, they are complicit in creating and maintaining the system that entrenches only two parties in power forever. It would behoove us to temper their apocalyptic rhetoric with a little bit of healthy skepticism.

I don't look forward to another four years of Trump and I am particularly nervous about what it will mean for geopolitics in general and the Ukraine war in particular, but based on my observations of the behavior of both parties I would be shocked if it's even 1/100 as catastrophic as internet rhetoric would lead you to believe. Watching both parties, I don't believe the Republicans have in mind anything approximating what the Democrats want you to believe, and I don't believe that the Democrats believe their own fearmongering.
Well, that says nothing about ads and tracking, right?

The value of a no-nonsense free app is that it isn't trying to exploit something off of you.

I'm not really enthusiastic about subscribing to a company's newsletter or being advertised a weight loss secret thar doctors don't want you to know
Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags
Most immigrants don't have anywhere near as bad an opinion of their home country as Cuban-Americans.
I think it was essentially a data/config file that was corrupt not a new driver kernel. nothing really to be signed and approved by mircosoft.
Native Americans called, they want their land back.
gpt said it could be updated by ms
https://chatgpt.com/share/8eca1a08-062f-4474-9310-95444bab67...
https://chatgpt.com/share/8eca1a08-062f-4474-9310-95444bab67...

said ms tests drivers
This theory does not seem like a good fit for most societies across most of the world across most of the historical record. It may tell us something about city states in antiquity around the Mediterranean.

How, for example, could it even explain the middle ages in Europe?
Cryptocurrency firm WazirX suffered a major security breach. How did it happen?
Why don't EMA/EHR systems have write only encrypted journal storage that they use to guarantee data safety against this problem?

I mean, just for _basic_ audits, you would hope to have that. If ransomeware can destroy your entire facility, than an angry insider can do much worse.
> Cuba is poor because Cuba is Communist.

Is Cuba even that poor, though, compared to its Latin American peers, and is communism the reason?

Aside from the recent weirdness with their GDP spike in World Bank's numbers, Cuba's GDP per capita is basically the same as Mexico's, and it's higher than Brazil's, neither of which are communist.

Furthermore, aside from raw GDP numbers it's higher in the UN Human Development Index rankings[1] than Brazil and Colombia along with a slew of other very capitalist countries.

If you make apples to oranges comparisons in demographics, you can make any country look bad. The UK is basically Mississippi if you take out London. The US also fares poorly if you don't count the wealthiest 15% of the population. The median Cuban isn't well off, but they aren't wildly different from others in their region.

[1] https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
If you were to start from scratch, $0/£0 in the bank, what industry or business would you tackle? I’m just curious if AI would feature or if this is a saturated market.
It was mostly incompetence mixed with a lot of corruption and petty theft.

Publicly owned businesses had no incentives to compete on quality, had to fulfill centralized plans designed by distant bureaucrats that weren't completely attached to reality. Western products were mostly unavailable or extremely costly, so no substitution possible. Lots of ossified monopolies. Factory leaders were often chosen on the base of being someone's nephew or protégé rather than expert.

If you applied for a phone line (plain old copper wire), you could wait up to 10 years before you actually got it, as there was a waiting list of 300 000 applicants in a country of 15 million ... ugh. The mess.

It is hard to describe the omnipresent dysfunction of everyday life back then. Communism was a theoretical system dreamed out by intellectuals who never engaged in any commerce. All the violent oppression aside, economic side of Communism was just crazily inefficient.
> the "Castro" regime is dictatorial and repressive.

As someone whose family comes from the former Soviet union, and has friends that come from other repressive places let me tell you that this really doesn't matter.

Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people.

People really don't think about the oppression or lack of elections, they care how much they need to suffer to put food on the table, whether they can afford vacations on the beach, how expensive it's gonna be, etc etc.

I consistently asked my grandparents and people from oppressive places whether they cared about politics and no they didn't.

They knew that people across the borders lived the same lives they did, but they could afford a better car and better vacations that's all.

The average Joe does not care about politics, even those who talk about it and share on social media don't care.

The amount of people that campaign, try to get elected, try to do anything even in their own neighborhood has always been low and probably never as low as now.
Though other use cases for the appliance are given, it seems primarily designed for military applications?

It's designed to military standards and to be as individually transportable as other military communications equipment:

> Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) accreditation

> rugged and portable design that meets stringent accreditation requirements like MIL-STD-810H

> The appliance can be conveniently transported in a rugged case

> Weighing approximately 100lbs, it's human-portable, making it easy to transport and deploy in various locations.

> disaster zones, remote research stations, or long-haul trucking operations

Military operations are all three of these.

Its design enables the offline self-hosting of cloud surveillance tools:

> Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is designed to operate without any connectivity to Google Cloud or the public internet. The appliance remains fully functional in disconnected environments

> built-in AI solutions from the Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance like translation, speech, and optical character recognition

What about facial recognition?
I will never understand this take. Go look at a map of states implementing/banning ranked-choice voting[1], now go look at a map of states political affiliation[2]. Every state that bans RCV is Republican; every time it's passed it was done so by Democrats or a direct vote. If you want any chance at all of breaking the two party system, it's clear you must vote for Democrats.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_...

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_...
> The update proved incompatible with the latest stable version of Debian, despite the specific Linux configuration being supposedly supported.

> The analysis revealed that the Debian Linux configuration was not included in their test matrix.

This is suspiciously close to actual fraud. They declare they support configuration X, but they actually do not do any testing on configuration X. That's like telling me my car will have seatbelts, but in no place in manufacturing it is ensured the seatbelts are actually installed and work. I think a car maker that does something like that would be prosecuted. Why Crowdstrike isn't? I mean, one thing if they don't support some version of Linux - ok, too many of them, I can get it. But if you advertise support for it without even bothering to test on it - that's at best willful negligence and possibly outright fraud.
And does what? Print something?

There are immense benefits to using modern computing power, including both onboard and remote functionality. The cost of increased software security vulnerability is easily justified.
Those numbers are a lot lower for people whose first marriage is in their 30s and/or those who are financially stable. (Each of those ~halves the risk of divorce).
There's a boatload of research showing kids do better overall with structure, stability and routine.
Regulators who may not understand the difference between an OS and a driver.
Adding autonomy makes drones potentially a much more serious asymmetric weapon, as jamming command and control stops being an effective countermeasure.

Missiles, bombs and artillery are one thing, but personalized silent assassination out of nowhere, at any time, without a traceable attacker you can pin down or counterattack, is quite a different threat.

Alas, doing this with quadcopters and winged drones is really not difficult to do, for anyone with a reasonable computer science education - or come to that, a particularly bright teenager somewhere in the world. NVIDIA even market their Jetson boards as being suitable for "smart drones": https://developer.nvidia.com/buy-jetson

Of course, there's a difference between a DIY demo and a fieldable weapon, but it's one of productization, not the Manhattan Project.

I'm quite surprised that at least one of the participants in the various current wars haven't done this already. They've certainly got sufficient incentive to do it.

I'm not as worried about the Black Mirror robot dogs, current robot dogs seem far less practical to weaponize compared to suicide/surveillance drones, which are already cheap and being used as weapons already sans the autonomy.
Sure, but a lot of people seem to think Cuba is cut off from world trade. They're only cut off from one country.

Someone called it a "blockade" on this page.
> There is absolutely no justification for continuing 60+ years of sanctions just because our puppet was deposed.

Two weeks ago Russia landed an armada there in a show of force right off the US coast. It’s not an easy black and white situation where you can just say “USA bad.”
Given what Broadcom did to almost all of VMWare's products, I'd be a lot more worried about PCF than really anything else.
Surreal analysis is sort of a thing but it is quite far out there (e.g. you can have transfinite series instead of merely infinite ones). Maybe you meant nonstandard analysis (NSA), which is real analysis done with infinitesimals, but the machinery justifying it is way outside of what you'd see in even a theory-oriented intro calculus class. There was an intro calculus text (Keisler, 1976) that used infinitesimals and NSA. I don't know how it dealt with constructing them though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_Calculus:_An_Infini...
The Astral OSS Fund
It's market share on servers (a juicy target) is not small at all.
The funniest thing was that when the batteries ran low the music would get slower and slower. It happened gradually so it wasn’t noticeable until it was blatantly obvious that people were singing in “slow motion”.
Does anyone care about this except DoD?
These numbers are…not great.
Microsoft's culpability lies in the fact that their OS is still ridiculously brittle. How it can't seem to manage to be able to automatically roll back changes from something as serious as a kernel change is ludicrous.

It's CrowdStrike's fault that the kernel was faulty. It's Microsoft's fault that it caused a never ending bootloop that needed manual intervention to fix.
Russians didn't give two shits about "free access to information", they cared to see that people in US lived richer lives that's it.

Russians in Soviet union had to illegally trade and commit felonies to get their hands on some Italian mortadella. They had to go through insane lengths to buy a new tv.

It wasn't glasnost but the oil crisis that ultimately killed the SU's economy and made people think that in democracy it was gonna be better.

Is it better? In absolute terms, yes, but so is virtually everyone in the world compared to 1989.

In terms of gdp per capita Soviet russia was 33rd in the world in that year. Modern Russia is 52nd.

But you wouldn't be able to say that such a massive decline happened when modern Russia is far cleaner, richer and very low unemployment.

Modern Russians are richer in absolute terms, but poorer in relative ones.
As an anecdotal data point, I’m happier than in my early and mid 20s, and I have hope for my 30s.
Sorry, but that does not matter. If they did anything illegal, they should be prosecuted by and in the country it happened, but you are presuming collective guilt here. That is always, universally, the wrong thing to do.
"computer people for peace" were ahead of their time (2018)
This is to let the military use AI to help kill people.

“Don’t be evil” is dead.
So normies in governments are finally seeing the issues, it’s for the wrong reason indeed, but is it though? It could have been an MS trip up and then it may have been worse even…
What TeX Gets Right
Fun fact, some weird syscalls don't even appear under /sys/kernel/debug/tracing because they lack ftrace metadata. It was pretty fun (read: a nightmare) to deal with some of those in my tool. You can grep -R -F "NOT found in ftrace metadata" in the logs in my db (https://github.com/mebeim/linux-syscalls/tree/master/db) to see which ones.

The most interesting one, which doesn't even appear in my logs because I had to hardcode it since its esoteric definition, is fast_endian_switch for PPC64 (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10/source/arch/powerpc/k...).
Oh my bad, I thought you were being serious for a second.
There’s a very sizable number of low paying, dirty, dangerous, and/or boring jobs that we can’t find enough locals to do. Think farm hands, home care aides, meat processors, etc. Unskilled immigrants do those jobs because that’s what is available to them (I.e unskilled). If they weren’t doing those jobs, we’d have to pay significantly more for the goods and services that labor depends on. Immigrant labor is disinflationary or at least prevents or ameliorates it.
It looks like this is an evolution of an offering they've had for some time:

https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud#modern-experience...
I think people are simply too little "social" (in the real world sense) for open society: modern societies tend to concentrate people to a point of starting some real-life human variant of an old experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink and that's why we see many flawed, tribal behaviors IMO.

Aside I suspect that most people are unable to know/understand the purpose of a society, why we do anything, so they do their best to avoid any change and anyone who is "different" as a way to "remain on the right track". However this seems to be always the case at least in large part of known human history and in the past we have had many open societies so such behavior while presenting many social issue should not be a showstopper for an open society anyway.
Calories conventionally come from grains. If you measure cabbage's nutrition by its minerals and vitamins it packs quite a punch.
Businesses see human and machine as resources.
Need:

- photo/video
- root of trust definition (TPM? OpenTitan?)
- firmware and OS description
- specs

There's an edge device family from AWS, with specs and photos, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-snowcone-sm...

> AWS Snow Family of physical edge computing, edge storage, and data transfer devices for rugged or disconnected environments.. can be used in a variety of environments including desktops, data centers, messenger bags, vehicles, and in conjunction with drones.. enclosure is both tamper-evident and tamper-resistant, and also uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) designed to ensure both security and full chain-of-custody for your data. The device encrypts data at rest and in transit using keys that are managed by AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and are never stored on the device.. use Snowcone for data migration, content distribution, tactical edge computing, healthcare IoT, industrial IoT, transportation, logistics, and autonomous vehicle use cases.

AWS Snowball hardware, https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIx9bbe58K8

GDC video of users and control panels, no hardware, https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5fCfgNaPE0

With hardware expertise from servers, OpenCompute, Project Ara, Chromebooks, Pixels and TPUs, hopefully this appliance is more than a PC OEM whitebox.
They've been called that way before they made Jun 19 the International Bluescreen Day.
I agree with this sentiment. If you ask me, the entity that comes out looking the worst from this Crowdstrike debacle are the companies that bought their service. Crowdstrike made a poorly designed and maintained product. I heard multiple people on reddit say it's the best of that type of product, but what the hell? Why does it need kernel-level control?

Why did we get here? If you're installing kernel-level software you might as well run a kiosk that only runs presigned code and runs off a read-only system image. And a lot of the machines in question DO APPEAR to be kiosk settings (like hospital data entry terminals).

It's easy to sit back and armchair, I'm sure there will be many cybersecurity experts who would figuratively jump at my throat for suggesting that trusting a vendor to run a rootkit on your computers is a bit incompetent. LOL. :D
The Perun video is really very good.
Comparing eras' difficulties is ultimately meaningless. When you're an adolescent, everything is new and for the first time (more or less). You have nothing to compare it to. Every decision you make has the potential to shape your entire life, except you don't know which ones. Nothing will ever feel like that again.

Everything else is just a footnote.
Firefox reader says 58–73 minutes. TL;DR. I assume it says something like:

We don't guarantee our products do anything. They could destroy your organization, bring about the fall of civilization or cause a rip in the fabric of space-time. This is not our fault. By reading this you accept these terms.
This happened 50 years ago. I think we can let it go and worry about more current matters. I can't imagine still being hung up on this.
aka the spaceship operator. By defining just the spaceship operator for some types A and B, the compiler can synthesize overloads for the typical comparison operators like < <= == >= > for A vs B and B vs A.
I would love to replace latex but I only use it for making physical books and none of the replacements have the features needed...
> Look at the mess in Israel at the moment. That's a coalition government in failure mode. Italy has coalition governments, but in recent years they seem to have coalesced into two main factions.

Coalition governments are intended to fail fast, then for new replacements to be wiser, to not repeat the old mistakes. Coalitions may make the government slightly more inefficient, but as soon as there is a hint of extremism, the coalition is bound to fail. It protects against real extremes. Factions can emerge, but they can't get carried away with instituting too many crazy ideas.
This site is being overrun by human beings sharing their experiences!
Samsung A15 has a headphone jack, 128gb storage, OLED screen, and SD card slot in the SIM tray.

It should have 4 years of updates too, which at $270 CAD is $5.63 per month of support.
The Hooli/Pied Piper box - https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_box
is it? where Linux = Redhat or Ubuntu in the real world, Ubuntu managed to force snaps and advertising for Ubuntu pro down everybody's throats and the Linux foundation was utterly helpless against that.
The customer is the DoD. They know how to negotiate contracts to cover this scenario and have the clout to negotiate such and enforce it.
I have no experience in this space, but I suspect supplying the US Air Force with this equipment may have a number of indirect benefits.
Microsoft are signing kernel drivers for over-the-air updates pushed by vendors.

Whilst telling their corporate customers that using Microsoft InTune will allow them to be in full control of their configuration management.
Cuba’s ability to trade with the rest of the world severely impaired by the US embargo.

Most international banks get very nervous about facilitating transactions involving Cuba and even tourists who visit Cuba can have their travel to the US restricted.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa/entry-requireme...
Not every company increases wealth though. Selling addictive poison (cigarettes) for example does not increase wealth.
I’m not a regulator, but I think the solution may actually be to break up Microsoft.

Right now, there is a product that is critical to the economy: Windows. By “Windows” I mean the OS, its security mechanisms, and its update mechanisms. Changing Windows to a multi-source model seems challenging, to say the least. Right now, though, Windows is not merely single-source, but that single source also makes OneDrive, Office, a not-very-secure cloud offering, ads, AI, etc. Most of the revenue comes from crap layered on top of Windows.

If just the base Windows were split out, then the company behind it could focus on making a secure base. Maybe they could actively mitigate attacks, even from the rest of the layers (e.g. the “AI” recording crap, OneDrive, telemetry, etc). And maybe CrowdStrike would become unnecessary because the Windows company itself could offer adequate endpoint security.

Getting this right would be hard, but having the base OS for much of the world in the hands of Microsoft is not going so well.
Really? Is this the future of developers to just blindly trust a statistical text generator?

It's cool that you know how to ask a question on ChatGPT.
But don't share it as if it's the truth on an obscure, halluncinable factoid.
And that sees plenty of attacks too. But here Windows wasn't under attack or a Windows vulnerability exploited, CS just fucked up and companies were stupid enough to put all their trust in CS.