skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who on earth "wins" by crashing vast numbers of PCs worldwide?

Anyone who needs a big distraction so he can more likely achieve his real objective unnoticed.
> which is true, but somehow the state has to recoup money it poured into an individual eating free and using public services without paying taxes for multiple years

Please turn your business brain off. Society costs money to run - this is why we pay taxes. Your taxes routinely provide unpaid services to people because the benefits to society outweigh the costs.
Not that I use android smart phones that much any more in the capacity to replace what a laptop might do, since google's ugly head all too often places too much hindrance on the apps I prefer to use, however I do still use unencrypted microSD for times when bluetooth isn't doing what it's supposed to do to transfer photos or it's just faster to put the card into a reader and look at the contents on a laptop.

AI might seem useful - but sadly on a phone and prepackaged, I only see it becoming a minder in a short time - no thanks.
I'm sure the people who missed their flights because of this disagree.
Do Tesla’s EVs offset SpaceX rockets?
The question then becomes: if the market is producing near-monopolies of stuff that is barely fit for purpose, how do we fix the market?
Damn I just lost 'The Game'. Sorry everybody who is playing.
Maybe we should carry our phones around less often.

I carry a media player, like an iPod. 500GB sd card, balanced and unbalanced headphone outs, and actual physical buttons and knobs for control.

Phones can do everything, but there are too many compromises. Ebook readers, and media players do one thing very well.

You also get a lot of peace when you disconnect from apps, scrolling and notifications and just enjoy your music out in the world.
For serious commercial servers - for sure, there is currently no alternative to linux
I mean, this is incentivized by current monetization models. Remove the need to go through a payment based aaS infra, and all the libraries to do the data visualization could be running on the MRI dude's PC.

-aaS by definition requires you to open yourself to someone else to let them do the work for you. It doesn't empower you, it empowers them.
Only time will tell.

But the things to do to try to avert looming disaster are the same things to do to be a better person in times of no crisis.

Be kind and loving, develop compassion. That's pretty much it.

The point is not to make it or not. Entropy is the enemy and it will win in the end. So what? No one here gets out alive. The point is to be a better person, to help others, to make things better.

If we are going to make it we will make it though love and compassion.

If we don't make it, then at least we didn't waste the time we had.
Building a steam engine without knowing about gas laws or the laws of motion seems unfeasible.
You are right, it’s per minute
I believe we'll need a purpose-built ASIC with access to 100GB of good old [G]DDR5 before this becomes viable. Something like what Hailo offers, but without the "product inquiry" barrier.

I say that because we don't need datacenter speeds for a single user, but there is no avoiding memory requirements.

I don't think it will happen. The market is too niche. People are happy to fork over $5/mo.
Because they feared climate change.
You, the admin, don't get to see what Falcon is doing before it does it.

Your security ppl. have a dashboard that might show them alerts from selected systems if they've configured it, but Crowdstrike central can send commands to agents without any approval whatsoever.

We had a general login/build host at my site that users began having terrible problems using. Configure/compile stuff was breaking all the time. We thought...corrupted source downloads, bad compiler version, faulty RAM...finally, we started running repeated test builds.

Guy from our security org then calls us. He says: "Crowdstrike thinks someone has gotten onto linux host <host>, and has been trying to setup exploits for it and other machines on the network; it's been killing off the suspicious processes but they keep coming back..."

We had to explain to our security that it was a machine where people were expected to be building software, and that perhaps they could explain this to CS.

"No problem; they'll put in an exception for that particular use. Just let us know if you might running anything else unusual that might trigger CS."

TL;DR-please submit a formal whitelist request for every single executable on your linux box so that our corporate-mandate spyware doesn't break everyone's workflow with no warning.
The Roman Empire never could have experienced an industrial revolution for numerous factors, including never utilizing coal. The technological level, and their overall mode of production, simply wasn't there. People think of the Middle Ages as a time of regression, but that's flatly not true. The European "Dark Ages" witnessed the invention of three-field crop rotation and the heavy plow. These were big deals, because the increased food surplus allowed more people to work at other tasks, including technological innovation. The later Middle Ages saw the development of effective guns and the printing press (itself modeled after other mechanical contrivances).

To summarize, was a steady increase in mechanization and technology throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. The Netherlands were an early leader in the 17th century. hey had what could be described as an incipient industrial revolution. It got to the point where (IIRC) a minority of the population was employed in agriculture (which was astonishing for the time). After around 1700, various factors (among them the ascendance of British power) caused somewhat of a deindustrialization.

Across the channel, the British starting using coal (and coke for steel) because they were running out of wood. The same situation happened in another place, several hundred years before. The Southern Song dynasty of China was more-or-less forced to step away from traditional Confucian agriculture-focused economic policy due to the loss of the North, among other things. Capital-intensive industry increased (such as blast furnaces). They also increasingly advanced mechanical devices. Increased iron production caused them to start running out of wood. Like the British did hundreds of years after, they switched to coke for iron production. Their iron/steel production reached around 100,000 tons/year, which is absolutely astonishing. Sadly, the Mongols were still able to overrun them.

The Southern Song Empire was the precisely the wrong time and the wrong place for an industrial revolution, even though everything else completely fit together.
Are you sure that argument still holds when everyone has Android/iOS phone with apps that talk to Linux servers, and some use Windows desktops and servers as well?
Will Trump, if he gets elected, make a change to the current economy?
The thing that’s awesome about the US is nondestructive mitigation. Systems can be upgraded in place without killing a huge chunk or percentage of the population
Except in very rare cases, congress people have no non-public material information.

Nancy Pelosi has as much clue as you about NVDAs prospects. Nancy makes more money than an average HN reader because she isn't too smart to worry about small risks that HN reader gets tripped up.

Every one knew about Covid coming. Worse, people who sold off during covid are worse off than the ones who just held it.
1929 is an example where the boom-bust was extreme, leading to a lot of pain for a lot of people. The 2008-9 was less extreme and Covid (economically) may have been more extreme, but also short lived and we never had the recession that was widely predicted. It may be that we overreacted on the handouts and put too much money into the economy and now we are dealing with elevated inflation, though that is mostly gone now and we are slightly above historical averages.

I would not use the stocks as an analogy, most people don't have them, which in itself say something about our economy. There will always be an amount of turnover in the economy, going out of business / layoffs, new companies and hiring. Having a steady rate, within some margin of error, is an aspirational goal for economists / fed, but there will always be shocks...

The current issue to me is big changes or swings in policy. Presidents come in and reverse everything, Congress is incapable of passing incremental change, with the current session seemingly unable to pass just about anything...
But this has nothing to do with encoding and decoding.
There is humor in this blog itself has 2 updates
We'll be fine. We'll have to make adjustments, but we'll be fine. So will the planet, and so will the vast majority of animals.
Except for open access models where someone -- usually the authors, but sometimes universities or other institutions -- pay so that the article can be accessed by the public for free. (Authors usually don't pay out of pocket but using grants, and OA journals usually offer some sort of "financial aid" for those unable to pay.)
The industry's track record is indeed quite peculiar. Just off the top of my head:

- CrowdStrike

- SolarWinds

- Kaspersky

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Maybe it's the same self-selection scheme that afflicts the legal cannabis industry?
This is true. Linux large fleet management is still missing some features large enterprises demand. Do they need all those features, idk, but they demand them if they're switching from Windows.
Stocks can tick upwards (between close and open) and there may be more up days than down days destroying your strategy
It's helpful to think of American governance as being simply a gigantic money funnel, where taxpayer dollars goes in the top, and the US and State legislators point the small end of the funnel at all their various favored private businesses and individuals. It's just plain old corruption but wearing a suit and tie and a spiffy "business-friendly" mask.
When I read something like this that has such a confident tone while being incredibly incorrect all I can do is shake my head and try to remember I was young once and thought I knew it all as well.
Yet it was named ".sys", an extension normally reserved for driver executables AFAIK

Brillant! [sic]
logout is unreachable here because the previous command is exec
so what I am hearing is that short-haul flights are ~24% as far as long-haul flights.

Weird use of segmented flight lengths as a comparator
You seem security-wise, so surely you can understand that in some (many?) cases, antivirus is totally acceptable given the threat model. If you are wanting to keep the script kiddies from metasploiting your ordinary finance employees, it's certainly worth the tradeoff for some organizations, no? It's but one tool with its tradeoffs like any tool.
4 hour delay at the airport in Los Cabos. At least they have tacos!
Why did you think Rust was the right tool for the job, and why not a language with a GC?
Short of China and India voluntarily holding themselves to the same standards as Western Europe and the US for free, we are not going to avoid catastrophic global warming.

The good news is, while we may not be able to prevent climate change, we are not powerless against it.

The Dutch know how to win the fight against sea level rise.

Middle Eastern architecture knows how to keep people cool even with >50°C air temperatures.

The Canadians know how to winterize an electric grid.

Sure, we may not have the optimal strategy for addressing some threats, like wildfires, right now, but the point is, we are not alone, and we are not helpless.

Countless human lives can be saved if we're willing to work together.
Say Brazil floods this year, and next year, and the year after that.

What do you think will happen next? What will happen is Brazil will start planning for it, and then they'll be fine. There will be an adjustment period, and then, life goes on.
The comments is the content. I have always said this.
For reference: that's below $1 per resident.
I used to live next to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameryka,_Lublin_Voivodeship.
Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps
Auditing: using Windows plus AV plus malware protection means you demonstrate compliance faster than trying to prove your particular version on Linux is secure. Hospitals have to demonstrate compliance in very short timeframes and every second counts. If you fail to achieve this, some or all of your units can be closed.

Dependency chains: many pieces of kit either only have drivers on windows or work much better on Windows. You are at the mercy of the least OS diverse piece of kit. Label printers are notorious for this as an e.g.

Staffing: Many of your staff know how to do their jobs excellently, but will struggle with tech. You need them to be able assume a look and feel, because you dont want them fighting UX differences when every second counts. Their stress level is roughly equiv. to their worst 10 seconds of their day. And staff will quit or strike over UX. Even UI colour changes due to virtualization down scaling have triggered strife.

Change Mgmt: Hospitals are conservative and rarely push the envelope. We are seeing a major shift at the moment in key areas (EMR) but this still happening slowly. No one is interested in increasing their risk just because Linux exists and has Win64 compatability. There is literally no driver for change away from windows.
And probably "no true Scotsman" either back then (until 1878).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
In my office, when we swipe our entry cards at the security gates, a screen at the gate tells us which lift to take based on the floor we work on, and sets the lift to go to that floor. It's all connected.
Normally, there are 3 notable things that are unique about Windows files:

* It's standard for "security" software to be installed and hook into the filesystem. Normally this only means giving up on several orders of magnitude of performance, but as this incident reminds us: security software is indistinguishable from malware.

* The system has a very long history of relying on exclusive access to files. This is one of the major reasons for Windows needing to restart so many times, but also leads to a lot of programs being badly written, among other things making false assumptions regarding atomicity in the presence of system failure.

* There's a difference between text files and binary files, and thus a whole pain of adding/removing \r before \n (which among other things means byte counts are wrong and checksums mismatching).
> What are the hard problems? I can think of a few, but I'm probably wrong.

Billing and insurance reimbursement process change all the time and is a headache to keep up to date. E.g. the actual dentist software is paint but with mainly the bucket and some way to quickly insert teeth objects to match your mouth. I.e. almost no medical skill in the software itself helping the user.
Choice Architecture
Try the flatpak.
Who pays for the peer review? Who prevents the publication of nonsense, pseudo-science, cherry-picked findings, etc.

Granted you may argue that is done poorly today but it certainly doesn't happen for no costs.
They don't call them reboots for nothing.
How much is that in Social Carbon? Pun intended as why one would impose carbon taxes if the other countries so careless?
They’re branding experts. Getting published by Nature is far more valuable to someone compared to (all the other options). Humans prize exclusivity. We’ll hand our time and resources to people who can give us a tiny bit of it. The harder we have to work, the better.

A fancy watch. A low production supercar you can’t buy unless you have 5 of the same marque already. All the same broken stupid pattern.
I don't buy 538's new election model
The rise and fall of software developer jobs
Windows updates can definitely be manual. And anyway, this was not a Windows update. It was a CrowdStrike update.
You won't believe what the Mysterons did next
"Often a sentence fragment missing a verb (like this)."

English is generally "SVO" but that is largely optional. There are no rules of grammar except for the rules of grammar that are in play at a particular time. No language is a lepidopterist's fantasy of a pinned downed beauty. Language is unconstrained and free to flap its fractal wings at will.

Your "sentence fragment" is simply grammatically incorrect. You seem to have accidentally morphed "misses" into "missing". To miss is a verb. Another possibility is you might have forgotten to deploy "is" prior to "missing". Again, that is simply a grammatical faux pas and not a weird language form.

In both cases your parenthesised, aside clause, is false - t'ain't so.
I certainly used beeping for debugging more than once! : - )
We can definitely get local imaging with X-Ray and ultrasound - we use bedside machines that can be used and interpreted quickly.

X-Ray has limitations though - most of our emergencies aren't as easy to diagnose as bullets or pneumonia. CT, CTA, and to a lesser extent MRI are really critical in the emergency department, and you definitely need four years of training to interpret them, and a computer to let you view the scan layer-by-layer. For many smaller hospitals they may not have radiology on-site and instead use a remote radiology service that handles multiple hospitals. It's hard to get doctors who want to live near or commute to more rural hospitals, so easier for a radiologist to remotely support several.
First, I think it's been polished up a lot more. Youtubers seem to bias towards quantity because the discovery process is someone searching for a particular topic. Whereas most paid classes will go straight into the most important point. It was a bit of an insight that Kasparov didn't go into opening moves in the opening like other chess tutorials. He goes straight into the most important principles, which is attacking two pieces at once.

Also like any good course, it comes to terms. It assumes that you're experienced. No explanation on economic formulas, but a reminder that economics is about human behaviour, which many master economists can forget. It then reviews why this human behaviour can be reliably modeled, some key things that the rest of the course is built upon. Like in Philosophy, it's reviewed why Socrates is awesome but the one big flaw in Socratic thinking is that it's emotionless. And then goes into Cornel West's principles relating it to humanity and love.

YouTube videos tend to either review these basics too often or assume the viewer knows.

The other thing is it cuts deep, really deep. There's a saying that books are the best investment because for $50, you get a lifespan of experience.

It's the people who have seen all of it. Some are quite old. They cut through all the hype. They've built lots of things and know what works, what doesn't. Sometimes it's a basic principle early on reapplied. Sometimes it's something more complex, but this is broken down into something simpler. Like cellular automata is just calculating the next tile, which can be used to calculate traffic and then a whole city. Or Monte Carlo is just throwing darts and getting a sample and building from there.
Indeed, in JS you can call the method with the object explicitly (which allows you to call one objects method with a different object—for better or worse, though usually some meta-programming).
Do you have any idea how much CO2 is released in a single rocket launch? LOL
Do you mean something like Gnome's Javascript ? https://gjs.guide/
They don't. Authors can publish to Arxiv and other public pre-print servers. Consumers can boycott parasitic middle-men with certain websites... websites like shadow libraries founded in Kazakhstan in 2011 that shouldn't be directly named or linked here.
You do realize peer reviewers are also unpaid.
Which configuration lange should we pick for Glasskube Native packages?
Currently Glasskube only supports wrapping and patching Helm Charts and plain manifests. As Helm chart creation has its quirks (https://glasskube.dev/blog/5-helm-shortcomings/) creating native Glasskube packages is high up on our road map.

Our main priorities are:

- Well defined package structure
- Comprehensive but scaleable configuration options
- Integration with existing typed configuration options & dependencies
- Support for in Code and optional dependencies
- Tooling that will package a Glasskube packages and generate manifests

We would also appreciate your vote on our GitHub discussion.
It’s a little hard to tell from the article, but I think this is about books not research articles, and that the authors have some amount of revenue sharing.
> Short of China and India voluntarily holding themselves to the same standards as Western Europe and the US

China and India emit significantly less CO2 per capita than Western Europe and the US [0] - and that's ignoring the fact they do all of our manufacturing.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
“Save the earth?! The planet will be absolutely fine… humans on the other hand..”
This whole thread looks like nonsense to everyone outside the weird finance bubble
There are several different ways, but the easiest is mod_reqtimeout/mod_qos/mod_security. Check your install with "sudo apache2ctl -M", and there should be several legacy tutorials available (I'd ignore deprecated mod_antiloris.)

Rate-limiting token-bucket firewall settings are a personal choice every team must decide upon (what traffic is a priority when choking bandwidth), and often requires tuning to get it right (must you allow mtu fragging for corporate users or have a more robust service etc.) These settings will also influence which events trip your fail2ban rule sets.

Have a great day, =)
I'm 49 and have been out of work for a year now. The tech job market in the US is abysmal.
I would add Kaseya VSA Ransomware attack in 2021 to that list.
I don't know about running a country to the ground. They are economically doing quite well with metrics exceeding those of neighboring countries like India.
> poorly architected OS

worth noting Microsoft had a solution a few years ago that would of prevented this issue from happening, Windows 10X, due to atomic updates.

> In Linux, software doesn't even get that option. Nothing ever gets kernel access except the kernel itself. Root is not kernel access.

root has kernel access, even if the kernel restricted it, it can write to the disk and change the boot process.

also worth nothing that a popular form of software distribution on Linux is curl http://randomscript.sh | sudo sh which is arguably worse than anything on Windows.
the reforms you're hoping for are not going to happen until the countries with bad infosec get conquered by the countries with good infosec. that is going to be much worse than you can possibly imagine

it's not microsoft's fault at all; crowdstrike caused the same problem on debian systems three months ago. the only way it could be microsoft's fault is if letting users install kernel drivers is microsoft's fault
I think the article is interesting. But you are right, golang is the one language I would recommend to someone who does not like updates.
I call this "throwing dye in the water".
Indeed, everyone believes congresspeople have some special exception to insider trading rules. In fact, they are subject to the same insider trading rules as everyone else, and the conduct they engage in simply doesn’t meet the (unintuitive) legal definition of insider trading.

Some efforts to impose a different, more expansive definition on congresspeople have failed, which might be the source of that misconception.
There was a time before console.log existed.

In fact, later when it existed in FB if you called it in production code it would cause an exception for your users (console didn’t exist unless you had Firebug installed).