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>1. The government decides that prisoners can make phone calls, but they can only use a single prison-approved phone operator, and that operator is a private company.

You're saying "the government" a lot, but AFAIK there's no specific federal mandate of any kind to the effect of requiring a specific company handle calls at all jails and prisons. If anything that is the consequence of an absence of any specific regulation rather than the presence of one, which is completely the opposite of the point you seem to be making.

In reality, a variety of completely separate state and local correctional facilities put the service out to bid. If anything, it is federal level prisons that would most fit the description of "the government" where you have the best regulations, where there is scrutiny of the bidding process, where there are already caps to limit the expenses associated with calls.

At the county and municipal level, companies that tend to win the contracts have special deals in the form of a "site commission" payments, which are a kickback to the prisons, incentivizing them to give a monopoly to whichever company charges the most and kicks back the most to the prison.

Edit: I feel like I (1) spoke directly to what the parent commenter was saying (2) stated uncontroversial facts, (3) echoing a point a chorus of other commenters are making about what "the government" really means, but I'm seeing a bunch of drive-by downvotes. Would appreciate if anyone wants to chime in and help me understand what I'm missing.
Prison time for the CEO and board of directors would be nice.

Enough of this limited liability nonsense, there need to be serious, severe, life-changing consequences.
I've finally learned to spot and ignore all emotional arguments.

https://www.scribbr.com/fallacies/appeal-to-emotion
Since everything gets "thrown away" as you say (though it's not per request), you actually have to focus more on caching in order to maintain any kind of session state (if required by your application).

Memory leaks are an interesting matter because, you're right: you really don't care. All the pieces parts comprising your system are continually restarting without impacting the overall resiliency of the system. In fact, quite the opposite is happening - the system is more resilient due to all the mini restarts.

You will have to learn techniques for handling cold starts, there's a few different ways to go about it and which one is appropriate, including not worrying about it at all, is dependent on your application and the cold load ramp-up experienced.
It's Highlander rules. There can only be one master.
He says he bought seven put contracts for $7.30 at the $185 strike. Absolute max profit, from CS going to -0, would be (185-7.3) x 7 X 100 = ~$125k.

I don’t know if the absolute amount of profit affects decisions here. It seems if he were more certain of what’s going on he would have bet a lot more.
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Because there’s no money or prestige in it. There are plenty of people who understand the craft and could do it. It’s easy enough to imagine some cultural moment - say a popular romance set in the era - bringing it back for a season of baroque hype.
what about all the people that use services provided by people that use windows? should there be some sort of pushback here?
So, why did our little company's (little used) two Windows machines not BSOD overnight? They were just sitting idle. They run CS Falcon sensor. Did the update force a restart? Didn't seem to happen here.
Yeah, idk what they do, but in my company some new MacBook Pros with M3 are taking 15 minutes to login after typing the user password.
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Kind of a big thing most people don't understand about the various forms of "Business Insurance." For the most part, businesses have whatever insurance whatever they are doing requires them to have. Those requirements are set by laws/regulations applied to those entities and the various entities they want to do business with.

At every small shop I've worked when the topic of Business Insurance came up with one of the owners, the response was extremely negative -- basically summarized as "it's the most you will ever pay for something you won't ever be able to use".
Screw the crying pleas of museums and archeologists for more locale information, for with an oppressive law with HUGE disincentive to self-report accidental finds of seemingly archeological object that can knock out a good portion of your own precious land usage, there is nothing to be gained by outing yourself.

Now, if there were ample of compensations, then it becomes tenable and possibly fairer.

You should pass on this brand of British & Wales “presumptive justice” until they treat their citizen (as well as their jailed subpostmasters) better.
> and people with actual old tickets from and good memories of the 80s and 90s quote prices not so extreme

Adjusted for inflation?

> Erm, EasyJet?

EasyJet was pretty much a fast-follower, arguably; same business model, but slightly later.
Because they can't. If you mean "like Bach" in terms of the specific stylistic tropes - he literally spent a lifetime developing them, they're exceptionally complex, and there are very very few people with the same combination of taste, cognitive capacity, and book learning who might reproduce them convincingly.

And if even if someone did that - what's the point?

If you mean in terms of complexity etc - this is an era of shallower, more emotionally direct music. The complexity is all in the production, sound design, and mixing, and not so much in the writing and arrangement. A lot of skill goes into pulling a good mix together, but it's a different, much less obvious kind of skill.

If someone wants to experiment with equivalent levels of intellectual complexity - get a copy of Csound or something, pick a language for a front end to generate Csound events using composition rules, and see where you get to.

IMO that's the biggest unexplored area in computer music, with the potential to combine new sonic structures - designed with taste and aesthetic awareness, not just for the sake of tinkering - with new kinds of sound design.

Is there a market for it? Absolutely not. But so what?
I think their "product" is getting people to astroturf on forums like this!

Apple always does just as bad, if not worse, on pwn2own https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-fixes-safa... as everyone else. And there are several companies that make a lot of money installing spyware on iPhones.
It's interesting how the industry mocks the image of Steve joba by putting a turtleneck on a scruffy middle aged person that speaks modern corporate gobbledygook. The big blank stage revealing some product with none of the interesting thoughts behind it
Like I said, it's...interesting. Even more so considering we have more customer demographic data than ever, and these kinds of blunders are being made.
I swear it's only getting worse everywhere.
They still do? One instance is MASTER BOOT RECORD and it's metal styled after Bach's composition styles made on a 486DX. It is very popular.

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/
Get out and push?
I know, I even said you should rather use the tools that the OS is providing, like the firewall.

All I did was challenge the statement that Windows is secure OOB.
Hold the board of directors and the C-suite personally, corporally accountable -- immediate changes for the better will follow.
In this case even dockerized environments would allow you to redeploy with ease.

But that's too much work, many of these systems are running docker resistant software. Management doesn't want to invest in modernization - it works this quarter, it's someone else's problem next quarterly.

You're basically proposing Windows 12 to radically limit what software and drivers can do. Even then eventually someone will probably still break it with weird code.

I'm actually amazed these updates are being tested in prod. Do they have no QA environments ?

Do I personally need to create a startup company called Paranoia... We actually run a clone of your prod environment minus any sensitive data, then we install all the weird and strange updates before they hit your production servers...

As an upsell we'll test out privileges, to take sure your junior engineers can't break prod.

Someone raise a seed round, I'm down to get started this week.
I can't really wrap my mind around the idea that communications in the prison system should be paid by the inmates going straight through a private company. If somebody told me this was some lore from Bioshock I'd tell them the joke is too on the nose.

Who knows, maybe I'm just too... european to truly understand.

What I'd really like to know instead is the conversation that your representatives and the telco board had on the matter. Also, the golf course where it happened.

Because I'd bet very good money that nobody in the current (or any previous) administration is in any way surprised with the outcome.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
This sounds like it both should and would land them on every anti-spam system's shitlist.
> Is urgency really a dark pattern? To me it seems like basic sales and is present on everything from TV infomercials (buy now, limited stocks, only for the next 15 minutes + operators standing by) to brick and mortar sales that only last until the end of the week.

Those are dark patterns too. In many places such scams are illegal.

It's a bit sad how people have started to just accept the pervasive and fundamental dishonesty and inefficiency of the market.
this is good. We have internet and open source software, no reason not to have open source research.

actually, making a github for peer review research papers would actually be pretty cool.

this is also relevant, similar thing happening in mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gowers#Elsevier_boycot...
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
Same here. I often write down the converted sum and then reject conversion. Later I compare my notes with the the conversion done my bank issue the credit card.

It was always so that my bank was cheaper, until very recently when it would have been to opposite way for the first time. Both my banks have recently raised their conversion fees, I think they are now 2.3% - 2.5%.

That still sounds better than the exorbitant fees some dodgy businesses are charging. I don't know whether it was a rare exception that the bank was more expensive or whether it becomes more common.
I imagine they'll look at us the way we look at people a hundred years ago. There's some anger, some pity, some amazement at the people who bucked the trend. There's even some empathy for people who made bad choices.

That's if learn that elephants are like us. Maybe we'll find out their better then way we are or worse. Getting to know that answer over time will be amazing.
Yea. One is more than enough but a few have cycled through.

When I write this just 5 minutes ago, this one (150pts) ranked first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41005181

While the current top ranking Crowdstrike post was in second with 1700pts. Happened with other updates and explainers earlier in the day.
> Give performance bonuses, but never stock. You cannot depend on a large mass of people like that to stick to a higher purpose and not get tempted by the money.

Well, if you gathered this big mass of people by dangling a nice pay and stock options in front of them then yeah, it does seem a bit odd to lament they are tempted by money.
They had me at "crowdstrike engineering"

So engineer-like.
That might be fine for a single or a few planes. But given the magnitude of the outage, what if a single airport had dozens of planes landing anyway.

There's a very good reason airport traffic control exists.
Had a problem with a "slow network" from a mac to a nas drive, was capping about 800mbit a second, despite having a 10g link.

As I looked through I killed sophos. Suddenly speeds shot up above 7gbit. A few seconds later they dropped back down, sophos has retured.

A "while (true) pkill sophos" later and the malware was sedated.

Having proved it wasn't a network problem I left it with the engineer to determine the best long term solution.
Who is them though? The airport that used this software? You can't put all the blame on the software vendor. It can be a good and useful component when not relied on exclusively for the functioning of the airport. Not relying on a single point of failure should be the responsibility of the business customer who knows the business context and requirements.

You will have each company person pointing at the others. That's why you have contracts in place.

You won't ever have real consequences for executives and real decision makers and stakeholders because the same kind of people make the laws. They are friends, revolving door etc.
Organizations don't want to increase risk by listening to an employee with their personal opinion. Orgs want an outside vendor who they can point at and say "it's their fault", and await a solution. Employees going rogue and not following the vendor defined SW updates is a much higher risk than this particular crisis.
For the market to work wouldn't you need something to hold the corps accountable if they fail to be secure AND to make regular people whole if the crops' failures cause them problems?
It is haters' secret weapon to take archive.today down:

https://x.com/archiveis/status/1809081807452696711
IIRC, about a 12-18 months ago CrowdStrike was recruiting for a development with eBPF skills.
Absolutely key to understanding this is that "government" in (1) is a state-level government which has been bribed by the private phone company.

This sort of thing happens at every level, but it's more often than not the Federal government preventing abuses by the states.

Edit: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/02/11/kickbacks-and-c... - it's even more blatant, they're paying a large share of this revenue directly to local governments.
> I would say the government is at fault here for prohibiting competition, not the companies.

To borrow a slightly old meme, porque no los dos?

If my local government cuts firefighting budgets, and I decide to take advantage of this to become an arsonist, I don't think anyone would say that it's the government at fault for half the town going ablaze.
I believe students of composition will usually "cover" that era and intentionally write music like Bach, but it would be very strange if the teacher then said, "That's it. That's the pinnacle. Now, get working on your resumes."
Now give them minimum wage parity.
Unfortunately, any sufficiently advanced stupidity indistinguishable from malice.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
To make money? Just because CrowdStrike is available for Linux and Mac doesn't mean that a) people buy and use it in substantial numbers b) people need to buy it. It would be interesting to hear from someone using CrowdStrike in a Linux/Mac environment.
lol sounds good, but how the hell do they deploy a fix to a machine that has crash and is looping BSOD with no internet or netwrok connectivity...

You do what I've been doing for the last 10 hours or so. you walk to each and every desktop and manually type in the bitlocker key so you can remove the offending update.

at least the virtual devices can be fixed sitting at a desk while suckling at a comfort coffee..
The thing is usually this argument goes something like this:

A: Should prod be running a failover / <insert other safety mechanism>?

B: Yes!

A: This is how much it costs: <number>

B: Errm... Let me check... OK I got an answer, let's document how we'd do it, but we can't afford the overhead of an auto-failover setup.

And so then there will be 2 types of companies, the ones that "do it properly" will have more costs, their margins will be lower, over time they'll be less successful as long as no big incident happens. When a big incident happens though, for most businesses - recent history proves that if everyone was down, nobody really complains. If your customers have 1 vendor down due to this issue, they will complain, but if your customers have 10 vendors down, and are themselves down, they don't complain anymore. And so you get this tragedy of the commons type dynamic where it pays off to do what most people do rather than the right thing.

And the thing is, in practice, doing the thing most people do is probably not a bad yardstick - however disappointing that is. 20 years ago nobody had 2FA and it was acceptable, today most sites do and it's not acceptable anymore not to have it.
That's interesting. Back when I used Android a decade ago I thought you had to enter a passcode for LUKS or something, to decrypt all the user data. Maybe I am misremembering?
What? You think non EU countries should be affected by EU decisions?
A friend of mine spent half a million on a storage device that we never used. It sat in the IT area for years until we were acquired. Everyone gave him so much shit. Finance asked me about it numerous times (going around my friend the CTO) so they could properly depreciate it. He didn't get dinged by the board at all. It remained an open secret. We were making million dollar decisions once a month, though.
No longer. Everything is there. Just switched work machines to Mac from Win
MacOS has been phasing out support for third-party kernel extensions and CrowdStrike doesn't use a kernel extension there according to some other posts.
A pilot WILL land, even without clearance. They're not going to crash their own plane. Either way, ATC has fallback procedures and can just use radio to communicate and manage everything manually. Get all the planes on the ground in safe order and then wait for a fix before clearing new takeoffs. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43379/is-there-...
What are you talking about? Credit cards have been around since the 1950's
I am lucky not having to fly with them since 2006 or so. I would only ever visit their web site if I am completely desperate and there is absolutely no other alternative transportation and I must travel
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999470
Didn't bookmark it or anything and going back to the original reddit thread I now see that there are close to 9,000 comments, so unfortunately the answer is no...
I don't expect to have to research the bag sizes every time I fly to the same destination just because Ryanair might have made them ever so slightly smaller.
> It seems if he were more certain of what’s going on he would have bet a lot more.

Outside of the HN bubble, $125K is already a pretty big sum of money to get all at once, and unlikely to bring too much scrutiny, if it was somehow not a coincident. Seems like a smart strategy, if the user was sitting on inside information and didn't want to ring too many alarm bells.
People use Teams and OneDrive because it’s “Free” when you use Office. IMO, that’s a bit of an anti-trust problem. Both have good competitors (arguably better competitors) that are getting squeezed because of the monopoly pricing with Office.

But with SQL Server, on the other hand, I think you are right. It is a good piece of software. But it also has high quality competition from multiple vendors. Some of it enterprise (Oracle, DB2), some of it FOSS (Postgres, MySQL). Because of this, it has to be better quality to survive… they couldn’t bundle it to get market share, it actually had to compete.
Crowdstrike is basically corporate malware - the failure is in large part with security dept deciders who signed off on policies that compel people to install these viruses on their work machines.
Costco has been selling these for at least a few years. I think they carry them once a year for a little while.
Yeah, tongue firmly in cheek, but that was a very specific, prescient analysis.
How to Fix the Crowdstrike Thing
> I don't have experience as an IT administator

Then you probably shouldn't speak on software exclusively understood and administered by IT administrators. I've worked in IT for some time and every single one of those products(aside from Dynamics) have been the most important parts of our administrative stack.
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All of those are product that creates huge risks when deployed to mission critical environments and this is exactly the problem.

The entire wintel ecosystem depends on people putting their heads in the sand and repeating "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft/crowdstrike/IBM" and neglecting to run even the most trivial simulation of what happens when the very well understood design flaws of those platforms gets triggered by a QA department you have no control over drops the ball.

The problem is that as long as nobody dares recognizing that the current mono culture around the "market leading providers" this kind of event will remain really likely even if nobody is trying to break it and and extremely likely once you insert well funded malicious actors(ranging from bored teenagers to criminal gangs and geopolitical rivals).

The problem is that adding fair weather product that gives the illusion of control though fancy dashboards on the days they work is not really an substitute for proper reliance testing and security hardening but far less disruptive to companies that don't really want to leave the 90ies PC metaphor behind.
Just like the 20 fingers disappeared
As I said, don't break their laws. When in Rome...
> foss

Because you just want stuff to work and couldn't care less about the ideology part?

Also no feature parity (it's not about Windows being "better" than Linux or the other way around, none of that matters) there are not out of the box solutions to replace some of the stuff enterprise IT relies in Windows/etc. which would mean they'd have to hire expensive vendors to recreate/migrate their workflows. The costs of figuring out how to run all of your legacy Windows software, retraining staff etc. etc. would be very significant. Why spend so much money with no clear benefits?

To be fair I'm not sure how Apple figures into this. They don't really cater to the enterprise market at al..
Fair. But, one more point, even with its pre market drop, it’s still way above that strike, though the value of the put is going to be up.
By “impossible to bypass” are you meaning that it provides good security? Or that it makes pen testing harder because you need to be able to temporarily bypass it in order to do your test?
This is pretty much it. Music is always a business, and composing things "like Bach" (whatever TFA wanted that to mean) is very hard and time consuming. It's just not worth doing.

On top of that, the taste of contemporary music buyers is often toward things that are downright weird rather than things that sound like old music.
I understand that might be case for a lot of SW development. But in the context I was talking about, the HW is so much more complex than the SW. Valid for a lot of cases too. But then, why? If we know that we cannot build a 100km long bridge, nobody attempts to build that and waste resources. Why does software development lack this?