skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The average American has more say, potential and actual, in their government than the average Iranian

Sure, if you know the right people or can buy a lobbyist. Otherwise all you can do is complain to a wall. Even lawsuits don't generally have net positive effects on society—nothing changes, we just do the same things at greater expense.

Most of our society is privatized and well out of the reach of democratic output. If you're lucky, the market in question might have some limited competition and you can choose the slightly lesser poison. That's about it.
There are a lot of great "community achievements" -- some being more than others.. or based on opinions.

- Linux Kernel + GNU

- Blender, Gimp, Git, other free/open software, etc

- OpenStreeMap, Wikipedia, etc

- Programming languages, etc.

- + more
Hard to say, but windows defender doesn't stop as many as EDR's can. There are actual tests for this, ran by independent parties that check exactly this. Defender can be disabled extremely easily, modern EDRs cannot.
And yet overpowered Commander cards continue to mess up Cube and eternal formats.
> I'd say something implementing the ideas of NixOS, i.e. immutable versioned systems

NixOS isn't immutable, things aren't mounted read only. AFAIK, it can't be setup that way.

> With NixOS, you can upgrade without fear, as you can always roll back to a previous version of your system. Regular Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows make me very nervous because that is not the case.

Because you can't roll back to a previous backup?
“Instantly” here meaning “potentially, after current contract obligations end & institutions complete the switch to a new provider”.
It's pretty sad that there are developers willing to work on crap like this. Ethics much?
Definitely not called vodka in Slovakia nor Czech republic unless its precisely that, using it in such way would show lack of pretty basic local knowledge (since alcohol use permeated much of the society).

Neither has the taste nor smell any resemblance with vodka, usually much higher quality drink compared to standard vodka (ie from plums you smell and taste plums very intensively, and its 100% from just the fruit, no marketing tricks). Also usually around 50-57% alcohol content compared to 38-40% of usual vodka. Each drink has their own name based on fruit its distilled from, plums are easiest and most common to make due to generous fermenting window and high sugar content of the fruit.

The tradition to make it at home is pretty strong for those who have gardens/houses with such trees, and those home products are of much higher taste quality than anything you can buy in any shop (once western world discover this I expect prices will skyrocket and move it into 'artisanal' category, how can anybody be satisfied with just good quality bland vodka is beyond me). It means given person collected fruits, let them ferment for very precise time for given fruit in vats, and then took it to local certified distillery, no blinding self-made moonshine which is a tool of desperate and very poor.
F-Droid only packages open-source software and rebuilds it from source, while installing from Accrescent would move all trust to the developer, even if the license changes to proprietary.

I understand that the author trusts itself more than F-Droid, but as a user the opposite seems more relevant.
As a Brit it remains bizarre to me that Britain is collectively somehow proud of this process. It makes terrible, tasteless bread.

And the other stuff that is venerated, like Danish or French bread, is equally dull white chewy fluff.

I have spent a lot of time in Norway and lived in Czechia for a decade, and their bread is so much better than the finest freshly-baked straight-from-the-oven French bread I've tasted that it's a whole different food.

And I am really sorry to my Scots friends but this goes for "Scottish Plain" as well.

And no, the fancy artisanal sourdough stuff you can get now for some ridiculous prices is not much better. It's the same pallid bland pap, but crunchier.
He is saying that Kogan want to be Amazon in Australia, and that Kogan has many dark patterns, not that Amazon is itself bad.

Though I do agree that Amazon was better when it was just a book retailer and not an example marketplace site for AWS.
You're so right. Pay us ludicrous sums to make your auditors feel good. Crazy.
> I can open PDFs on every OS I've ever used.

I can't do that, on windows, or linux. I loved the experience that evince on ubuntu gave me for comics/manga some years ago (what I want: continuous pages, no menu or scrollbar visible, centered, fixed width, variable width, scrollbar on edge hover to show progress), and nothing that I've tried comes remotely close.

I was able to come close with HTML + CSS so I am partially content.

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A recent big failure of mine is to find a music player on F-Droid, to listen to albums, that

- is capable to play a song,
- is capable to seek in the song
- doesn't need access to every media file ever on my phone, only the actual file (either by popping up the file chooser, or the file is opened from an another program)

I've checked at least 15 of them, and I think it is possible. I've found multiple examples that can do two (video players that don't need access to every file, can go forward/backward but refuse to play songs, also music players that don't need access to every media file, but can't jump to a position). I eventually had to give up on this one.
It wouldn't work. The models could put stuff in the eyes but it wouldn't be able to do so realistically, consistently or even a fraction of the time. The text describing the images does not typically annotate tiny details like correct reflections in the eyes so prompting for it is useless.
I’ll say this: I did a small lab in college for a hardware security class and I got a scary email from IT because CrowdStrike noticed there was some program using speculative execution/cache invalidation to leak data on my account - they recognized my small scale example leaking a couple of bytes. Pretty impressive to be honest.
I'd suggest the obvious elephant in the room here is that the market Bach is targeted at is quite small - people who understand and appreciate technically good music (that doesn't include me). Most people have music they'd rather listen to that is not composed by Bach. The market has completely changed. Ordinary people listen to music regularly nowadays. Possibly daily. That was never a crowd that Bach did well with.

So we probably still have Bach-style compositions but most people neither know nor care.
I don’t think this is true — every airline that I know of supports “seat assignment at gate” to handle exactly this kind of overbooking.

(How it happens can vary: your PNR might not have a seat assigned, or the seat might have been double booked. Either way, at check-in they’ll typically notify you and let you through regardless, since you have a perfectly valid ticket.)
It's what you get when you let luddites, also known as managers, make the rules.
Really liked the end of the poem. Honestly could have done without my own name in there, since it was a little jarring, and dispelled the dreamlike quality of the poem.
Their visibility and process in general for handling abuse of their services is also abysmal.
As games are mentioned here -- we do have a number of "community acheivements" in the sector as well. The DooM, Build or Quake games are an example... being over 20 years old and still going strong!
People are very (and possibly irrationally) price sensitive to airline costs, so they are willing to put up with a lot compared with many other goods/services.
It's a big stretch to call this the regulator's fault when its basic lack of testing by Microsoft and/or Crowdstrike. If a car manufacturer made safety belts that broke, you don't blame the regulators.

The root cause is automatic, mindless software update without proper testing - nothing to do with regulators.
I'm surprised that the list of Zig quirks doesn't include aliasing and functions parameters: the compiler can pass your parameter by value or by reference as it wants so your function behaviour can change in case of aliasing..

An implementation defined behaviour worse than C, that's surprising..

Ada has the same issue, I wonder if Ada users can tell us if this pitfall is an issue or not in practice.
That one is just water unfortunately.
You can avoid all those charges by simply playing their game.

Minimal luggage, no extra crap like speedy boarding or so, be prepared to forfait the money if you change plans (change of flight is usually horrendously expensive) and alway print / mobile app your boarding pass.
> In building software we inevitably invent or use abstractions to represent or effect real world things.

Ehhh. Most abstractions I’ve written aren’t abstractions over the real world. They’re abstractions over low level machinery of a computer or program. (Eg there’s no HTTP request and response, DB connection or network socket outside of computer software).

The real world isn’t object oriented. It’s just a bunch of atoms moving around. You can describe physical reality as a bunch of objects that interact via ownership and method calls, but there’s nothing natural about that. OO is no better of a way to describe the real world than actors & message passing, or state & events.

Software that models “the real world” usually describes users, money, addresses and things like that. But none of those things are made out of atoms. There is no money molecule. Money is not on the periodic table. They’re all just another form of abstraction - one that happens to exist outside the software world, that we can capture in part in a database table.

Interesting abstractions are all invented ideas. Some are useful. Some are elegant to express and use in OO code, and some are not.
This is adorable.
Writing HTML might be straightforward for us, but for a 7yo it's a significant cognitive achievement. It wasn't long ago that she learned to read.
Tell her a random internet guy is proud of her.

Maybe this marks the beginning of her journey in tech - it certainly was for me. I started writing HTML at 13 and soon realized that a guestbook involves more than just a <form> tag. That led me to learn PHP.
That was 20 years ago and though I am now primarily a backend developer my passion for learning and working in tech remains undiminished.

My son is now 2 1/2, and I hope he too will develop an interest in these things in the coming years.
While I'm not expert on state of the art you should keep in mind there is huge difference with deepfakes created 100% from scratch and those created via face swap and style transfer.

Basically it's easier to create believable gesticulations when there is footage of actual person as raw material.
I think you are correct on that many SWEs are incompetent. I definitely am. I wish I had the time and passion to go through a complete self-training of CS fundamentals using Open Course resources.
> I believe they have beaten poker professionals in thousands-of-hands playoffs

I really don't know anything about poker AIs but could it be you are referring to Libratus and/or Pluribus[0]?

[0]: https://noambrown.github.io/
I do not think the government was at all surprised, punitive charges are very much a part of the prison system in this country[1] this is people deciding to lessen the burden slightly.

[1] https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investi...
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Admittedly, I don't know exactly what's in these files. When I hear 'content' I think 'config'. This is going to be very hypothetical, I ask for some patience. Not arguments.

The 'config file' parser is so unsafe that... not only will the thing consuming it break, but it'll take down the environment around it.

Sure, this isn't completely fair. It's working in kernel space so one misstep can be dire. Again, testing.

I think it's a reasonable assumption/request that something try to degrade itself, not the systems around it

edit: When a distinction between 'config' and 'agent' releases is made, it's typically with the understanding that content releases move much faster/flow freely. The releases around the software itself tend to be more controlled, being what is actually executed.

In short, the risk modeling and such doesn't line up. The content updates get certain privileges under certain (apparently mistaken) robustness assumptions. Too much credit, or attention, is given to the Agent!
I agree completely. It makes me wonder if other engineering disciplines have this same competency issue.
That's something I think about as well. He said "we’re solving the problems of injecting some liberal arts into these computers" and I think he was sincere and successful. There are so many Jobs-wannabe's out there that have picked up on the being-an-asshole part of his management style and ignored his appreciation of the humanities.
> 3. Impact to manager: minimal, if audits were all passed.

I don't know about you, but I'll be making sure everyone knows that the manager signed off on the spectacularly stupid idea to push through an update on a friday without testing.
> it will taste bland and boring

There are plenty of examples of produce bred for color, size, and shelf-life over flavor (e.g. tomatoes). In general, the fruits and vegetables we have today are fantastically more delicious and edible than long ago. Watermelon might be the best example of this: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9050469/watermelon-breeding-pa...
Looks like a great way to bypass crowd strike if I'm an adversary nation state
I've watched it occur countless times. Often times the people making the purchase decision are largely incompetent.

They usually come out and take your team to a nice lunch. Then they run you through a fancy slide deck and convince you to let them run some scaremongering reporting tool over your infra. By the end of the day, most of your leadership is convinced they need the solution.

Rinse and repeat hundreds of times and you have the 3rd party vendor hodgepodge hellscape that constitutes most large corporations' IT infrastructure.
Fewer and fewer. And there's VM for that, so you can rollback in case like this.
Gas lamps? Ox carts (did you mean donkey or horse)? Home-sewn clothes?

I'm not sure what year you visited, but none of these are common. At least that's my experience of living there for 25 years and having been in most parts of Moldova.
I’ve never flown on any airline that charges for a lap infant. I don’t think the concept exists yet in the USA, even on budget carriers.

Who says Europe doesn’t innovate?
Ha, I just saw this: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/112812414641968405
Wish there was more discussion of Datalog here. That’s come up in a few interesting places and I’d love to hear about folk’s experience with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
Perhaps it took this long for the offending file to pass 64K Excel rows... :)
It's because, certainly the last time I was on Ryanair, if you wanted cabin baggage the cheapest way to get it was to order Speedy Boarding.
Even with no drug or vaccine, eradication of Guinea worm is in sight
Imagine being anywhere near the team that sent this...
It's probably not that bad when everybody goes down at the same time.
From my global (US) understanding of it: Prison telco providers also often provide their services at zero or negative cost to the prison (i.e. commissions on calls or services). They also provide additional "value-add" services to the prisoners which are also extortionally priced (music downloads, ebook purchases).

The tablets are also often starting to replace physical mail - inmates are being denied physical mail, instead letters and drawings being filtered, scanned, and uploaded remotely from elsewhere. Or they can write letters outbound - just have to pay for "digital stamps" - even for electronic mail. Double points for making people on the outside buy the "digital stamps" to send them inwards, too!

Every single corner is designed to extort the prisoner while making themselves look like the Good Guys for providing access to all this information and capabilities in such a safe and controlled manner and at "no cost to the taxpayer!"
This looks like a decent PDF reader too, especially with Adobe's decision to cease shipping the Acrobat Reader to Linux
Because for some people (certainly not all), their objection is not to a "corporate" OS, but to the specific things Microsoft does that Apple does not.
> it will be a bit of a stretch to say Microsoft should have stopped us deploying CrowdStrike

I read GP's post to mean that if you take a step back, Windows' history of (in)security is what has led us to an environment where CrowdStrike is used / needed.
Warning: photoshopped portraits (and most of pro portraits ARE photoshopped, even slightly) may add "catch lights" in the eyes, to make the portrait more "alive"

So that kind of "clues" only shows that the picture has been processed, not that the people on the picture doesn't exists or is a deepfake
I'm not so sure it's hyperbole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002977
How to delete this file in cloud servers in azure and aws
> I particularly love iActive Directory, iExchange, iSQLserver, iDynamics ERP, iTeams. Apples office products are the reason noone uses Excel any more.

I see your sarcasm backfire as most you are listing is just Microsoft dog-food with no real usefulness. The only good thing in your list is Excel, all the rest is bloatware. Teams is a resource hog that serve no useful purpose. Skype was perfectly fine to send messages or have some video call.

I admit I don't have experience as an IT administator but things like managing emails, accounts, database, manage remote computers can be done with well estalished tools from the linux/BSD world.
> "look how many people are using them, how was I supposed to know they are crap".

if all your friends jump off a cliff, do you as well?

This is taught to children at a young age to teach them not to blindly follow others. Why do you think these adults deserve a pass?
What do we do next week?

So assuming everyone uses sneaker-net to restart what’s looking like millions of windows boxes, there comes recriminations but then … what?

I think we need to look at minimum viable PC - certain things are protected more than others. Phones are a surprisingly good example - there is a core set of APIs and no fucker is ever allowed to do anything except through those. No matter how painful. At some point MSFT is going to enforce this the way Apple does. The EU court cases be damned.

For most tasks for most things it’s hard to suggest that an OS and a webbrowser are not the maximum needed.

We have been saying it for years - what I think we need is a manifesto for much smaller usable surface areas
I think this is more of a failure on the software development side than the domain specific functionality side.
Microsoft is also trying to make drivers and similar safer with HVCI, WDAC, ELAM and similar efforts.

But given how a large part of their moat is backwards compatibility, very few of those things are the default and even then probably wouldn't have prevented this scenario.
Oh, I wondered why some people were visiting theeggandtherock.com from Hacker News. (I popped over to check.) I see, it’s downstream of this…

Yes, a very nice Brazilian guy set up theendpoem.com the day after I put the End Poem in the public domain.

There are a number of such sites now, in different languages. Someone recently did a Japanese translation. People have put it to music, made little films, used it in comics, and so on.

I saw a great live/virtual reality hybrid show in the Barbican in London, where they’d translated it into Mandarin, and an old woman sang it. (The text also appeared in English, beneath the dome of a virtual temple.) Lovely to see it out there in the world. Feel free to play around with it, that’s why I gave it away.
Windows is also the platform where this sort of spyware has been normalized for decades as best practice.
Excel runs just fine on Macs, though, so that only explains "why not Linux?", not "why Windows?"
"the government" as an entity here really elides the difference between the federal government and state governments; state governments hold the majority of prisoners in the US and the ability of the federal government (via the FCC) to regulate prison phone calls that do not cross state lines is new since 2022.

But even on top of that, what would the dream free market implementation even look like here? An entire licensure and certification system for these tablets which will inevitably be crammed with as many upsells as the law does not prohibit? What is the recourse for someone who is in prison and chooses a company whose products do not work? Are they supposed to call tech support?
It was Windows in this case but nothing is stopping it from happening with any other widely used system that gets online updates. CrowdStrike has root on Linux/MacOS as well after all.

The problem is relying on networked computers for critical infrastructure with no contingency plan. This sort of thing will happen whether because of a bug or because of ransomware. The software and hardware industries are incapable of producing reliable and safe products in our economic system.

Important services such as hospitals, groceries, water treatment plants, and electric grids should be able to operate in offline mode when this sort of thing inevitably happens.
Why don't they listen to music like they the did back then?
Do you expect them to run on Android?
It seems like this would indirectly tell us what systems use Cloudstrike. Could that in of itself be information that could help an attacker? I know the security team at work is adamant about not leaking details of our system.
And Ryanair’s “Priority” boarding service just means you get the privilege of standing around on the tarmac in the rain and cold for longer than non-Priority customers.

Other added Priority perks include being stared at disinterestedly from inside the warm, dry aircraft by the cabin crew, and being allowed to bring a bag that every other airline allows you to bring for free.
What aspects or use cases of crypto do you find important?
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> I can only assume that you weren't around for the transition. Intra-EU flights cost multiples of the average industrial week's wages before Ryanair. Air travel was inaccessible or rarely accessible to the vast majority of people in the continent.

That's not true. Otherwise you'd be gouged on every route not served by Ryan Air, which is definitely not the case.

Have they pushed prices down? Arguably, yes. But not by orders of magnitude.
I wonder how true this is for face swap. Since actual scammers likely wouldn't generate deepfakes completely from scratch or static image.