skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf]
This shouldn't be an either-or situation; you do all of the above. A simple validating parser in the client would be easy to write and would have easily caught a null payload.

What looks especially bad for Crowdstrike is how many things (relatively simple things) had to fail in order for this to slip through. It's like walking into Fort Knox, grabbing a gold bar, and walking out unimpeded. A complete systemic failure.
This looks like a shameless clone of shadcn/ui plus you're charging money for it.

https://ui.shadcn.com/
Polls are not an election, indirectly or otherwise. The people who care most about polls are a) pollsters, and b) hacks writing tedious process stories.

My point includes the suggestion that there is never a "best"; the optimal outcome is to elect the least worst candidate.

ALI: I shall stay here and learn politics.
LAWRENCE: That's a very low occupation.
ALI: I had no thought of it when I met you.

The paradox of government is that the people most qualified to hold office - almost any office - are deterred from it by the sheer awfulness of the jobs. Someone deselecting themselves is in the general category of the dissuaded, even if they've done it before.

c.f. also Adams on presidential elections, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416
I highly recommend Australia's ranked choice voting. We still have two party politics, but if a party goes too far from the electorate they'll lose to an independent or minor party. It allows candidates to target the reasonable majority instead of encouraging fishing for the votes on the fringes.
They collect pensions in their 50's. I'm not sure what metric you judge a union by, but most people look at things like pay and medical and when they collect pensions.
No, those are just longshot odds that bookmakers, for whatever reason, have.
This is an extreme take on what will happen should Trump win. Your claim implies that the mere act of Trump winning a democratically run election means that we no longer have a democracy. How does that work exactly?

If the Republican party poses a legitimate threat on democracy or attempts to turn us into a fascist state I'm not above fighting to the death to stop that. That isn't what we have going on today though, and to claim a Trump victory will mean democracy is over and we are now fascist is itself dangerous fear mongering with absolutely no proof to back that claim.
As Jack Aubrey said, one must always pick the lesser of two weevils.
I’m over here wondering why we even need wifi in an appliance… my favorite appliances have just a mechanical knob.
Nature has one solution to creating durable complex systems. Create an ecosystem with a lot of diversity in it. Mono-anything is bad because of all the obvious reasons that we have just seen.
With multi-level modulation, baud is only half of the story, and the other half is SNR. 300 baud at QAM-4096 is 1.2 Mbps, but you have to have extremely good SNR to use QAM-4096.

SNR + bandwidth goes into a calculation of the Shannon limit of a channel.
Albania? Bulgaria?
I won't disagree with that. I was just comparing two theoreticians; I'm not sure what Greek or Roman I'd pair with Wilkinson. We tend not to know the Greek and Roman engineers by name.
With a better voting system (e.g. Approval or Condorcet) and nothing preventing a dozen candidates from running, that would be much more feasible.

These go hand in hand: our current voting system breaks down if multiple candidates draw votes from each other, but a better voting system would be immune to that failure mode and could give people a free choice of several reasonable candidates without having some of them withdraw and throw their support to others.
> I'm not sure what metric you judge a union by

Their ability to collectively bargain effectively. It doesn’t matter how good their current compensation is - they aren’t getting the fair market rate without the ability to bargain as a union. Its an example of government and corporate interests colluding to suppress labor wages.
> You can process the contents of a webpage or momentarily OCR a printed page, provided that it was legally distributed and that you don't store a copy proper.

The AI companies are definitely storing proper copies of their "corpus".

> You can make a simulated reality movie without infringing on the Matrix, for instance.

You can also make a simulated reality movie, even without the name Neo, and a court could find it substantially similar to the Matrix and thus copyright infringing. It doesn't need to be the same.
Not the author and have no skin in the game. A link back to the original and referring to their MIT license is probably a good idea for the author of this. But the main difference is that it is a theme for a completely different UI kit. Visually similar, but this is for Bootstrap CSS, whereas shadcn is for React. (These are not opposites, but you can use either without the other.)

In fact, that could even be the headline of the website: Want to use shadcn but don't want to rewrite your application in React? Use Shade/Bs!
I wish folks wouldn't speak in absolutes this much, it's incorrect and tends to raise the temperature of a generally already heated discussion.

Biden's approval rating was like 40% for most of his term. So many many many people voted for Biden for Biden. Many people followed his progress and are happy with it.
Yeah — not to be an Apple fan boy or anything, but it appears in this case Apple did exactly that: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/system-and-kernel...

And made APIs available specifically for user-space EDR: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/endpointsecurity
From an outsider perspective, the US bipartisan system seems to be a big problem. There are almost no meaningful choices. Moving to transferable vote would perhaps improve things? But I doubt that would happen anytime soon, because the current system is a live-lock of two wrangling powers that don't want more competition.
Answer is confused. Everyone knows that Roman numeral imaginary numbers need to use `j` instead of `i` since `i` was already taken.
No one is required to vote for a party's nominee.
APU is not only not a new thing, it’s a marketing term AMD themselves invented over 10 years ago pushing the entire concept of having an iGPU.
If they start to lock it down it just becomes the next iOS.

It's already horrible with their 'recommendations' left and right, and preinstalled stuff that you cannot remove.

And then it just becomes too easy for Microsoft to let their Windows Defender run in kernel mode and 3rd parties can't do that, so obviously they can outperform them.

Kinda like iOS' Safari. Hell, that one runs in user mode, but it required laws for 3rd parties to be able to provide native alternatives.
Of course, seventy-five-year-old presidents can have 55-year-old kids... Oh, hey, GW Bush! Didn't see you over there!
Correct, thats generally my hope of how things may change for the better if enough voters feel so poorly represented that they don't vote for President.

> Also do you think the next 4 years will be similarly good/bad under either candidate?

With Biden and Trump, yes I felt both would put us in similarly bad positions going forward. Their policies overlap in some surprising ways, from wanting to lock down our southern border to printing money like it's going out of style. They also differ in some ways, where Biden has seemed to have very little ability to keep the peace globally (I personally don't think many leaders respect or desr who he is today), Trump is a loose canon and I could see him playing a very dangerous game of chicken.

With Harris, I just don't see her as competent at all. At a good time maybe that doesn't matter too much, but there are quite a few situations in the world that require careful, decisive, reasoned responses and I simply don't see her doing that well or even taking it seriously.
Switching from kernelspace to userspace on every file access would eat up so much performance it would be ridiculous.
http://epaper.gmw.cn/zhdsb/html/2013-12/04/nw.D110000zhdsb_2...

He might have meant to link to this (it's in the article but as fellow relativistic technoshaman, I can see why he would choose this other point.)
mmm.page - old school web
In April 2022, at a dinner with the Heritage foundation, he said that the Heritage foundation was going to "lay the groundwork for what our movement will do."

https://x.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1811402883604050216

"Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as Heritage is to lay the groundwork, and Heritage does such an incredible job at that. [...] But this is a great group. They're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do, when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America, and that's coming."

Here's the whole transcript: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-delivers-k...

At the same time, Trump has been saying "I know nothing about Project 2025" and "I have no idea who is behind it."

Edit:

Also, CNN says 140 people from the Trump administration worked on Project 2025: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project...
Why do you find it so offensive that people get to choose who they want to be their leader?
You see your responsibility as wrong. We are caretakers of the country, we should vote for the best person to lead it, but barring that, we should vote against someone destructive taking power. If the country goes to heck in the next 4 years (and it hasn’t yet, the last 3.5 years have been pretty peaceful) because you decided voting against someone wasn’t moral, then you have to blame yourself.

Of course, if you don’t live in a swing state, then you can pretty much not vote and not feel any responsibility for the outcome, since we have so little influence anyways.
I'm reminded of the time the Windows 11 Insiders taskbar was crashing for everyone because it failed to display an ad.

https://www.neowin.net/news/how-an-ad-from-microsoft-broke-t...
At least it's on CNN's domain. I most hated that it used to always be hosted off of Google's domain.
Not "Christian conservatives", "Christian nationalists". The former have been extirpated but the latter are running the party.
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There will be a new law which states that copyrights don't have effect if the data is being used to train machine learning models (except in the EU perhaps? heh).
> Could a creature that simply evolved to survive and reproduce possibly have a conceptual model underpinning it?

Yes. Obviously. I can create plans and think on them. I can think without the need for an internal monologue or talking to myself. This has nothing to do with modalities either: I do not think through text. I use text when I do as a way of conveying the thoughts I already have.

Anyone who claims we don't have the ability to form concepts in our head distinct from the medium in which they're transmitted is saying we're effectively ears, eyes, and skin. That the modality is what is important for intelligence.

This is clearly false, and academic silliness aside, yes—emphatically—humans and intelligent agents have internal concepts and models of the world.
In the context of my comment you’re thinking very small. Yes, providing more options for users can make an application less secure. But that force to make it secure is the very force I’m describing which locks down people’s options, their ability to self-express, and their options to create personal and societal value out of their actions.

Every choice a programmer makes about how to model the world is a choice that is forced upon every user of their application.

Many programmers lean left politically, but the same type of “fascistic” qualities they complain about in political leaders seems to go unquestioned when making a program, which dispassionately divides the world into rigid categories.
The Democrats have yet to remove or seriously call for Senator Menendez to resign for serious corruption and obvious crimes while the Republicans removed Santos for campaign lies knowing a Democrat would replace him.
Thats the problem, I don't see either option as event adjacent to "good".

A bit beside the point, but I also don't appreciate the Democratic Party putting us in this position to begin with. It has been clear for over a year, even with limited public events, that Biden's health and cognitive ability was declining. We now are left with an unprecedented scenario of the party having to figure out how to pick a candidate in record time with zero voter input.
Windows update has a process to rollback bad driver updates after a handful of crashes, and I've seen it work. I think it's about three crashes and it rolls back. But there's probably situations where it won't work, I'm guessing things like: driver A's update causes a crash in driver B; the updated driver crashes, but not immediately; the driver crashes, but only after writing bad data to disk.

I also don't know if Microsoft's security software can rollback from bad definition updates.
Copyright does not protect ideas, just specific expressions of ideas. So even if something sounds like a derivative work, it doesn't mean it's infringing. You can write stories about a fictional 19th century detective living on Boulanger Street in London without infringing on Sherlock Holmes. You can write reviews of Disney movies without Disney's permission.
The number of voters aligned with old school Reagan/Bush era Republicanism has all but disappeared. The majority of GOP voters consider Romney to be part of 'the swamp'. Politics in America is increasingly driven by hatred of the out-group, so it is hard to imagine a mixed ticket doing well in 2024.
We all remember that Windows was a water-tight never-crash workhorse before the pesky EU stepped in and requested the APIs to be documented for once..
I made no allusion to ethics here; merely logic. Humans don't learn by scraping the web, but by observing the environment. The web is an incomplete distillation of humanity's knowledge of facts and various interpretations of them (which also includes "creative" works as one cannot create anything without basing said creations on environmental observations).
If there are plenty of qualified black women capable of doing the job, why not pick one as VP? Trump picked Vance and previous Pence not because they were the best choice, but he needed votes in the Midwest to win. Biden picking Kamala is an acknowledgment that he needed black support to win, VPs have never been picked outside of a political benefit, except maybe Cheney, but we all knew how that turned out.
I was very unhappy with the options in 2016 and 2020 as well. Both times I bit my lip and voted for a candidate I didn't believe in because I at least believed they could do the job and they weren't Trump. I just can't do it again, and even if I wanted to I didn't have faith that Biden could do the job any longer and I don't think Harris is qualified at all (if that's who they pick).
They make 6 figures with great benefits and retire young. By exactly how much are air traffic controllers being underpaid by market standards?
Looks like this submission got unflagged.

So was (I learned today) the one on Trump assassination attempt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957564
Might be more pragmatic to run a space salvage yard at L5.
Is this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount.

In many ways very similar to what is happening to TikTok with the US. Although, now I think of it, it is just assumed that TikTok will end up under American control? I wonder what would happen if some group like the Saudi Royal Family bought it and moved the global HQ to Dubai?
I think the prolonged drama made it far far worse for Biden's legacy
We didn't have that, but they do. If you look at one of the photos the panel in the rack has a pressure alarm for the cables. So the crew would be alerted should the pressure change.
Most legalese is ignored by the people that are supposed to read that when they do online things. But that doesn't mean it doesn't apply. Ignorance is not a valid excuse. Arguably, the average tik tok user probably did not bother to read a single word of the terms of use they agreed to. The textual content of these things does not even matter at this point when users simply don't read it at all and just blindly agree to anything you put in front of them.

Funnily enough, you can actually use LLMs to make sense of these things. We're more empowered than ever to process legal text. It used to be that your only option was to consult somebody with legal training. Which of course isn't something a lot of users would do.

In any case, you are using a moralistic argument in a legal context. That's simply not how the law gets interpreted in court rooms. It might motivate politicians to write new laws though. Which then get interepreted in court rooms. But given the complexity of the matter at hand, the outcome might not be something that is a net positive. In fact that is extremely unlikely.
This post was flagged for a while, as was the trump post, for a while.
Which is why 20 year olds cannot be president.
And on reflection: If California's electors couldn't vote for both Harris and Newsom (or any other CA-CA ticket's members), there's the prospect of Democrats winning the Presidential vote whilst Republicans win the VP vote. That would be ... interesting. And all but certainly a prospect that the Democrats would seek to avoid.

So no, a Harris-Newsom ticket is highly unlikely.
From what I read it got approved but their government last year but Star Link plans were to make it available next year. But it likely need a ground station which could still be blocked by the government.
It's not obvious how much of this is Sanders' impact on Biden vs. Sanders' impact on the party as a whole, but Biden's pro-union and pro-worker stances are pretty pronounced compared to Obama and Clinton (and remarkably so compared to Trump, and Bush). So he's easily the most pro-worker/union president in my lifetime, which is a fairly Bernie-ist position.

Same with (partial) student debt relief, and you see shadows of the Green New Deal in the Inflation Reduction Act.
feels pretty good from just a few searches. I used DDG for some time as an alternative to google. In the end I had to switch back to google - the quality just wasn't as good as google's. Mojeek appears to have been around for 20+ years... is the business model just to sell search APIs to others?
AI does not understand what ideas are. AI does not think. It just takes source material and regurgitates it.
Sad news. Highly recommend his "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States".
In an enterprise setting where you can prevent people from fucking with it, it pretty much is. M365/office is the vast majority of our help desk tickets.
I think Trump, not really being into policy at all, just populism, really does have no idea what it’s project 2025, but he is still going to pick many of the writers and supporters of it to run his government, he doesn’t really have better choices.

Trump is the kind of guy who will say he is against abortion while asking and paying for his mistress to get one. He has a great sense on how to work populism, but doesn’t really have ideals/policies of his own.
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If neither option is acceptable, you should be doing a lot more than boycotting the vote. Anyway, extreme hypotheticals are distractions.
Low effort post but just wanted to say thank you for unflagging it, I appreciate the support.
That's funny.

The Open Source Operating Systems that are around have much tighter security than Windows, yet their openness hasn't hurt them.

Perhaps the problem is more with Microsoft than anything else?
Well, it seems GPU driver fraud were (and is?) rampant: a snippet from Defrauding the WHQL driver certification process (2004, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040305-00/?p=40...)

Some unscrupulous drivers will detect that they are being run by WHQL and disable various features so they pass certification. Of course, they also run dog slow in the WHQL lab, but that’s okay, because WHQL is interested in whether the driver contains any bugs, not whether the driver has the fastest triangle fill rate in the industry.

The most common cheat I’ve seen is drivers which check for a secret “Enable Dubious Optimizations” switch in the registry or some other place external to the driver itself. They take the driver and put it in an installer which does not turn the switch on and submit it to WHQL. When WHQL runs the driver through all its tests, the driver is running in “safe but slow” mode and passes certification with flying colors.

The vendor then takes that driver (now with the WHQL stamp of approval) and puts it inside an installer that enables the secret “Enable Dubious Optimizations” switch. Now the driver sees the switch enabled and performs all sorts of dubious optimizations, none of which were tested by WHQL.
Go down to the feedlot store and pick up a bottle of liquid Ivermectin, 10mg/ml. Adult dose is ~3ml for the first couple days (0.6mg/kg), ~1.5ml (0.3mg/kg) thereafter 'til symptoms cease. Catch it with in the first 48 hours of symptoms for best results.

Covid has been so done for so long where I'm from, that I can't believe this is still a thing some places...
AI will train from AI then. The copyright source is twice removed.
Time to wield the pen.
> The AI companies are definitely storing proper copies of their "corpus".

Their own lawyers would be on their case if they were infringing halfway through the pipeline. They don't have to, and it would weaken their case where it counts.

> a court could find it substantially similar to the Matrix and thus copyright infringing

Substantially similar is not the standard, otherwise they would have had to stop making time travel movies about 70 years ago.
iOS is great!

An OS that is secure by design arguably needs no third-party malware protection, and therefore there's nothing to permit.
Wait, why does it matter who actually authors the commit that makes it into the final code? Does that come up in performance reviews or something?

If another team member copied my code and pushed it through without going through a proper review, I would just assume they were working on a bunch of different things and probably didn't want to deal with merge conflicts. Is that a possibility here, vs some sort of malfeasance?

But then again I work in a small team that generally trusts one another.
Average life expectancy is a poor metric.

It includes people who die at birth, childhood illnesses, etc.

Once you were past 20, your remaining life time jumped significantly
11:00 mark nailed it pretty much how many engineers here doesn't simply understand and blames Microsoft. I refrained from commenting earlier because people don't see these during chaos mode.
That's exactly how we got 4 years of Trump, people in the critical swing states weren't motivated to go vote for Hillary. He then attempted to disenfranchise millions of Americans in the 2020 election, coming surrealistically close to achieving that goal, and incited an insurrection. So please don't make this mistake.
https://archive.md/JOr85
Yes, funny... https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...
Yes, that's how I found out it had been deleted.