skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cuban regime has been able to produce an aura of legitimacy around itself through its history of resistance to US imperialism, or that's how it's framed, whether you take that at face value or how you interpret it is up to you.

If the brutal ugly side of US imperialism (in the form of military aggression or intense actually-illegal unitary sanctions etc) goes away, so does the legitimacy. People will be asking "why" they can't buy basic consumer goods, and the answer will not be believable in the slightest.

Cuba is not North Korea. It's not isolated in that way. Nor does it have a Juche style cult of self-reliance. It is heavily dependent on tourism for its economy. Even its official communist ideology emphasizes internationalist linkages and outlook.

The sanctions are counterproductive and unjust.
I don't know what makes you think that Google is incentivised to punish garbage. They certainly don't seem to mind seeing up an endless stream of slop for certain kinds of queries. I don't understand why they'd be more incentivised to serve SEO'd human generated slop than SEO'd machine generated slop.
same reason you don't corner a rabid animal
Around 6 years ago I was messing with my HN settings, and accidentally set my minaway to the equivalent to 6~ years (I set it to a random number w/o bothering to read what it did).

My first comment post-self-ban was much less epic though.
The poster might, perhaps, think that some HN posters will feel that this is relevant to them?

I'd upvote Etherwind. Well done.
Sure. It sounds very bottom-up and libertarian, the kind of libertarian I am is exactly this thing … making a new bottom-up system with software, giving people the tools to self-organize, get critical mass in various local areas, and then using the new tech to bring about change by working with the old top-down structures.

Facebook and Uber and AirBNB did it in social networking and transportation and housing, respectively, starting in colleges and cities.

I am doing it for all kinds of things, and sometimes selling it to political campaigns such as I did with https://qbix.com/yang2020.pdf but that is not really my goal, just to help some politicians was never my goal

I put out a few apps like Groups on iOS and so far we attracted a million small community leaders in 100 countries, who have our app on their phones. So the first phase (bottom-up) is under way

I even launched blockchain applications worldwide, that are actually helpful: https://intercoin.org/applications

including working on launching a fund for refugees that will be crowdfunded by people worldwide: https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees/2688

Years I go I met with Rohingya Project guys and working together to create the R Coin, Identity and Academy on decentralized platform for the Rohingya refugees:
https://rohingyaproject.com/platform/

Now this year for the first time, we got a VC (Balaji’s fund) leading our round for Network States. Balaji is a big proponent of these (kind of like Estonia’s e-residency), his fund also has Naval Ravikant, Fred Wilson and others on their investment commitee… basically a lot of people involved in Web3 (CoinBase, CoinList, etc.)

I’m going to Singapore on Sept 22nd for their conference to meet with Vitalik and others: https://balajis.com/p/network-state-conference

So if you’re serious about doing the first part of the solution (software) I recommend you can do it in software, and working on the ground with small towns and neighborhoods. I already have a platform doing just that, so if you want to do it locally, we can reach out about doing something together. We’re eventually looking to go to every part of the world, but currently we’re at a stage of just doing local pilots. Look at my profile and you can email me.

And/or come to the Singapore conference on September 22nd and let’s all meet and discuss there in person :)

But PS: our platform isn’t only about resettling refugees, although it is a big part. It’s about dating, job boards, local currencies, and much more. I think that if Donald Trump and Co get into office again, there will be a huge “crypto summer” but we need to use crypto for actual applications like the one I mentioned, with global donation crowdfunding and transparency and benefitting the stateless people on the ground, instead of crazy ponzi schemes round 4 LOL.
Odd to see gender show up in the thread.

Anecdotal: am a guy, married a woman, no diamond ring was ever in the picture.
Interesting, I was planning on hosting myself and only knew of https://codemadness.org/stagit.html
Continental Europeans have very bad experiences with British tourists. I really like Brits, but just if they stay on their Islands. And I am quite sure I get support from around a 100 Million dead guys from India.

Turks are a very big community (I guess more than 20 Million counting all generations) in Germany with a lot of not well adapted folk.

In my 2500 souls german home village live people from more than 40 nations. I never heard negative comments about them from one of the natives. But the shithole you live in of course may vary.
Jekyll, hosted on github pages is what I use

Currently using a theme from here https://jekyll-themes.com/free

When I'm travelling I could just edit the markdown/upload photos on the phone browser
What country are you referring to?

Here in Scandinavia the true enemy has unveiled itself in the last couple of years.

And don't try to fool me to think that living under Russian oppression is better than "liberal democracy" or what you would call it.

Russia may have gained some ground in Ukraine, but it has lost all confidence from all its neighbors for generations to come.
>> a stable state that lasts for a lifetime.

This particular stable state has lasted more than a lifetime. The average age in Cuba is 40, which while higher than many countries still means that the average Cuban has no living memory of any of the events that lead to the sanctions, much less could they have participated in them.
Linux distros' Market Share Evolution – from 2018 to July 2024 (gaming context) [video]
Windows specifically does not allow automated rollback in case of boot drivers because:

a) that generally does not work, because the driver is required to boot into recovery environment

b) even if it did, for security like this, downgrade attacks are a consideration

and most importantly

c) in this case, Windows does not have a full backup of previous external configuration because this was not a driver update
New microcontinent being born between Canada and Greenland
Do you mean hospitals, 911 dispatch centers and other critical infrastructure buys and deploys software without having the legal department carefully analyze the terms and conditions, based on the marketing materials only?
Looks like the beginnings of something like lit elements.

Would love one that does two-way binding.
Just watch CXO interviews. Eventually you will find some good examples.

Or watch "Yes Ministers".

Or watch any politicians answering difficult questions.
Good points. And cynically I'll add: I kind of like that people for whom status is all important self-advertise the type of person they are.
Don't worry. Our AIs will be calling their AIs RSN :)
I am banned from stack overflow for 100 years. I have over 100k rep on the site. I was banned because of a rollback war on one of my own posts. It's probably for the best, the site is pretty much dog shit these days, from the cruel moderation to the rampant bullying and flood of crap questions.
I know several Yvonne's and we'd all pronounce it Ee-vonna.
Because it's a useful skill if OP wants to climb the pole, or OP simply wants to appear to be less nerdy?
Thank you for making a C# variant, with K&R braces it's just 102 lines, and 1.5 MB binary (quite a few un-strippable baseline bits like integer formatting) when AOT compiled with 9 preview, we've come a long way...
I wonder what a second HN with a $10 fee would look like.
There is great comedy in resuming some argument after great delay as if no time has passed, the pettier the better.

I’m still waiting for a ban to end on my favorite CS 1.6 server so I can go back in and point out that people that awp mid on dust2 suck and probably have no friends.
Github pages + HTML/CSS. Maybe with a markdown converter.
It is, assuming your disk driver or related drivers aren't the ones failing.

Then again, nothing is preventing an update loop here.
Carving ELF Files
For the obvious reasons.

What is interesting to you? Talk about QM or compiler internals? Celebrity gossip? There are way more interesting things in the world, and this is one of those.

This is a forum for hackers and startup types. Long lasting flame wars and user behavior in forums are already in the set of topics of interest. Someone returning to a thread after a 100k hour ban is by itself hugely amusing.

Besides, posts don't get on the home page based on some personal or objective criterium for "interesting-ness". They get on the first page based on voting.
A fun thought, but really Iust a reading error from someone ho didn’t know that i and j used to be variant forms of the same letter.
OK but structural engineering and anesthesiology are sciences with a lot of hard data behind them…

… arguing for 100% test coverage or SOLID principles are more like philosophies and anecdotes without a lot of hard data supporting them.

Software engineering looks less like engineering and more like a lot of bike shedding conversations.
The list of cables is valued less than the list of western footguns.
Responsibility lies on large numbers of processes, teams, and people.

I thought this blog might have some substance about proper postmortem investigations and how to evaluate and address the circumstances that led to a failure like this, but it has none of that. It’s just a very angry rant about CEOs and middle management. The premise is that engineers can’t bear any responsibility for their actions because they don’t get “respect”

This has to be the 10th time I’ve seen arguments that “blame” is the right action in this case, but with the key exception that we’re only allowed to blame people other than the engineers. The last article was a lengthy rant about how it’s actually QA’s fault and engineers shouldn’t be expected to ensure their own code is correct, therefore engineers are blameless.

This is empty calories for people who like ragebait, but nothing more.
> While it's funny to imagine it cancelled, in all seriousness I don't think it'll be out before 2016 tbh. Would be happy to be proven wrong. I guess we'll wait and see.

What a strange thing to post in 2024 after a 10 year ban. Makes me wonder if it's a bot with a message stuck in queue and it's been trying until now. Far-fetched I know but not as unlikely as a human doing the same thing.
Oof, I still have mine from 2003. 14 Year old me, cute.

ArtMoney with a filter pack that allowed you to place furni in walls. You'd get room rights and then grief the place and you couldn't get them out without the same script.

Same as rigging someone's doorbell to TNT in Minecraft.

I miss those days.
Very fun stuff, and nice post.

Reminds me of my 2048 game clone in Ruby in about 100 lines (https://github.com/wkjagt/2048)

And I just saw that I did this - oh god - 9 years ago. Time goes way too fast.
No, this paragraph was not hyperbole. This was in conclusion and the author’s serious opinion.
X did the same experiment last year. $10 won't stop spammers and trolls
I disagree. You shouldn’t have to learn two debuggers just because you occasionally have to use a different OS. GDB has the right architecture here; the actual debugging operations are implemented by a gdbserver, and gdb is only the user interface that lets the user tell the server what to do. When you’re debugging on a different platform you use use a different gdbserver and keep using the same user interface that you are familiar with.

When you replay a recording, rr first starts its custom gdbserver (which reads from the recording instead of from a live process) then starts a gdb process that connects to it.
The Real Estate Nightmare Unfolding in Downtown St. Louis
Cuba was hit extremely hard by the COVID crisis, is my understanding.

Not just internal policies and procedures, but consider that tourism is Cuba's #1 industry. And not many of us Canadians, etc. were heading down there spring 2020, winter 2021 or even winter 2022...
Thanks for the advice and I'll look into supporting email forwarding, but I'm not sure why users would need PGP.
Again, you’re repeating MAGA talking points. Targeting zero crime is code for restricting legal immigration via Byzantine immigration requirements. Moreover, the goal has been largely achieved: immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than Americans [1], [2]. Your last sentence is nonsensical in the current context.

[1] https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/immigrants-are...

[2] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31440
The Fusée Mechanism Described
How old is he? Is he socializing with children his own age who are not outcasts themselves?
> What would it take for the US to lift sanctions

Open the doors to US investors to exploit every single resource Cuba has to offer.

Kicking out Batista the dictator and closing those doors was the reason sanctions were applied in the first place.
What really blew my mind about this story is learning that a single company (CrowdStrike) has the power to push random kernel code to a large part of the world's IT infrastructure, at any time, at their will.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't kernel-level access essentially God Mode on every computer their software is installed on? Including spying on the entire memory, running any code, deleting data, installing ransomware? This feels like an insane amount of power concentrated into the hands of a single entity, on the level of a nuclear submarine. Wouldn't that make them a prime target for all sorts of nation-state actors?

This time the damage was (likely) unintentional and no data was lost (save for lost BitLocker keys), but were we really all this time one compromised employee away from the largest-ever ransomware attack, or even worse?
Prescription-drug middlemen face more pressure from FTC in new report
Ångströmson? Talk about nominative determinism!
>$10 won't stop spammers.

Are you sure? It sure seems to me like it would if every spam spree resulted in account shutdown with the result that to continue to spam, the spammer had to pay another $10.

I think the argument you want is that it discourages desirable signups too much.
I think you will need a list of categories first.
> When a stock whipsaws, as in Crowdstrike’s Friday tumble, it can appear as if insiders were selling before an anticipated drop, but the planned transactions were set up more than a year ago.

> CrowdStrike stock had soared in 2024, hitting a record intraday high of $398.33 on July 9. It isn’t surprising that a surging stock price would trigger sales from trading plans.
This applies to the entire EU/EEA, too.
The $10 barrier only works if users are actually at significant risk of getting banned for breaking the rules, Twitter just let the bluecheck spambots run rampant.
One thing to keep in mind with AMD claiming that their chip is faster than the M3 is that isn’t the latest generation design from Apple. AMD is making claims that their unreleased chip is faster than something Apple has been selling for a year. And, Apple already has their M4 chip on the street- granted that the M4 in the iPad is probably hard to do a comparison against, but my guess is that an M4 will be in a laptop before too long.

I guess what I’m saying is that AMD has better be bringing something faster than the M3, that’s the bare minimum if you’re bragging about a new design.
Just curious is there any RE done on CS itself? Like what it does and how it achieves the objectives.
A tutor can give you an opinionated approach to a subject. They can offer you what they believe are the best (well, good) references. They can give you intuitive explanations for why things are true - the kind of explanation that is missing in a typical “rigorous” book. They can tell you what lines make sense to explore at your level and what things you should save wondering about for later. A tutor is another name for a professor, if you expect enough.

Studying statistics / ML, I absolutely found that there were “truths” from the text that I would try to prove with simulations and … couldn’t really reproduce. Having somebody tell you that “that chapter is good but those particular statements are controversial / wrong / not exactly saying what you think they are saying” is really valuable.

In the end, my opinion is that if you find it easy to learn from a text, probing the boundaries of your understanding could be good. Some stuff is easy. Other stuff just sounds easy but there is a deeper understanding to acquire.
The blog responds to a very particular aspect of the fallout from the crowdstrike outage. The "Responsibility lies on large numbers of processes, teams, and people" was actually addressed in the article. It makes the case that executives claim that responsibility is correlated to pay. All the author asks in this case is for them to walk the walk.

Go back to middle management.
FWIW, "liberal" was used by the American right as an ironic snipe at the American left for as long as I've been paying attention to international (I'm British) politics.

25 years ago, it was about guns.
The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration
https://archive.ph/ktWa5
i think the apps you are looking for get out-competed by the scummy ones.

i have an app like that in the app store. no subscription, no data harvesting, just pay up front once and own it forever. it's nearly impossible to get users to buy it.
It was actually ſ+z, which is easier to see if you look at it in Fraktur, and is literally the name of the character. I have long been puzzled by how its romanization became „ss“. In older writing ‘s’ was just the terminal form of ‘ſ’ — if you needed two you just wrote ſſ, same as in English into the early 19th century.

Other ligatures like tz and ch did not survive the jump into Roman letterforms, only ß for some reason.

By the way the now obsolete dual letterforms of s (ſ/s) was inherited from Greek. We’re lucky it was still in use in Leibniz’s time or calculus notation would be more confusing!
I was really hoping this was your first comment in 6 years, but alas not.
> we don't want to fund what their government is doing

What is their government doing that is so terrible?

Anyway let's suppose Cuba is a brutal dictatorship, even though it really isn't by any metric. Why are there no sanctions on Saudi Arabia? Why no sanctions on Taiwan during the white terror? Why no sanctions on Chile when they threw alive protesters from flying helicopters? I could go on for a while.
Because isolating the display and every machine to which it is necessarily connected obstructs monitoring and greatly increases the cost and delay of fixes if something should go wrong.

Also I doubt any slimmed version of Windows is sufficiently malware proof without added EPS.
Show HN: Moocable – find people studying the same online course/book
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The only people who find the Cuban regime legitimate would find an excuse to promote its legitimacy with or without sanctions. Trade would benefit the government of Cuba as it did with China and helping nations with totalitarian dictatorships is a failed strategy.

As the communists like to say "The capitalists will sell us our pitchforks".

No, we don't have to.
Is it really that hard to find?

About 270 patients, mostly children, were nosocomially infected with HIV subtype G in seventeen hospitals in 1988–1989. The infection was mainly transmitted between children through contaminated catheters and needles, and from children to mothers through breast-feeding.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905505/
That’s nominally the reason for the CIA - and every other national intelligence agency.
That doesn't sound right.

"2024-07-14 9:04 am BST" - "2013-02-14 10:24 pm BST"

equals 11 years, 149 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes

(it is 100,018 hours as mentioned in the article)
> Many of the companies have Crowdstrike enabled and automatic updates turned on to check some audit box. They have to keep the updates going out regularly.

While many companies probably do that, it's usually not required if you can argue for an alternative approach and how it fits your risk appetite better (e.g. progressive updates on a routine schedule).
Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Hypothesis
We do have hard data as well, we have safe languages like ADA and Erlang, we have embedded engineers and special operating systems that are embedded with you applications.

It’s just nobody wants to pay for these specialist skills and would rather slap something on top of windows and call it a day
What clickbait. The sales were prearranged long before. Executives are compensated heavily in stock and will convert some of it to cash via these pre planned sales.
Maybe something like https://lobste.rs/ where you have to get vouched by another poster before you can comment.
Disneyland workers vote to authorize a strike
Sun gets the crown because prior to the sun/1 there wasnt really any such thing as a UNIX workstation. You had a terminal connected into a host running UNIX (or VMS) and that was that. My pet theory is that Sun succeeded against Apollo because Sun decided to sell to Wall St quants for their day job number crunching whereas Apollo (and later HPE) sold to engineers doing simulations and CAD. Naturally the quants told their colleagues and the stock went brrr.

Later entrants like SGI targeted their workstations at media creatives (helpfully, Apple were in crisis by this time so A/UX wasnt remotely a problem). IBM and DEC just produced me-too workstations but there was nothing special about AIX or Ultrix unless you were already a customer.

The UNIX wars of the 90s were basically the UNIX vendors trying to take over the whole market and not just their classic turf.
> because they don’t get “respect”

Nah, that's not what the blog post says. It says engineers aren't given sufficient responsibility, so that they can assume the respective blame, when something goes wrong.

If an engineer says it would take 1 month to build a feature so it's sufficiently reliable, and the manager says "nah that's ridiculous, you have 1 week", then when the cobbled together feature breaks in production the manager should take the blame, since they effectively took the responsibility away from the engineer, upon themselves.