skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a need? Maybe, possibly, depends on circumstances.

Is this what people are paying CS for? Absolutely.
> Companies that use it don't understand security

What should these companies understand about security exactly?

And aren’t they kinda right to not trust their employees if they employ 50,000 people with different skills and intentions?
Yes, but the general form of the problem tells you nothing about the answer to any specific case. To perform any better than chance, the model has to actually reason through the problem.
This post is incorrect in quite a few parts. Being a visitor, albeit even longer term, doesn't make you an automatic expert nor give you that much understanding, this thing isn't a linear function of time spent. Even being married or integrating hard doesn't automatically cover deeper topics.

Not going to write novel about this complex topic but in US, if you fail career/financially wise, society lets you easily die homeless on streets, nobody really bats an eye and everybody is focused on 'american dream', chasing money and career. Not so much in Europe. This stressor for newcomers aligns people towards direction that is actually beneficial to native society, unless they fail and turn to highly punished crime. Here in Europe we are often benevolent with social help (sometimes too much I'd say), and abuse is not uncommon, especially with migrants since systems were often not designed with this in mind. Most people perform very differently if they have firm pressure on them from many/all directions vs not so much.

Also, absolutely nothing you write is relevant about ie Switzerland, which works a bit more like US in terms of those pressures and it shows on the ground.

The issue is easily 10 levels deeper and wider, no point drilling into all of that. But please refrain from reductionism and clearly very US-centric and confident view and judging of society you clearly don't understand that much.
One might argue that a critique itself is stuff.
Right, trillions of cigarette butts are tipped over by wind.
You actually can use it to do that (as a lightweight Git Annex) but if everything is local then you are probably better off using `find` or `locate`

You can also track open directories:

lb webadd debian.db https://ftp.debian.org/debian/

edit: hmmm this specific site causes the script to essentially loop forever (it keeps adding more and more '/' at the end). weird! I'll fix that
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Detecting system crashes would be hard. You could try logging and comparing timestamps on agent startups and see if the difference is 5 minutes or less. Buggy kernel drivers crash Windows hard and fast.
> To be blunt, if that hadn't happened, the Jews would have probably disappeared into the general European population by the 15th Century

That seems like a bizarre claim... If anything the attacks, discrimination etc. would have encouraged assimilation. Voluntary conversion to Christianity wasn't particularly uncommon either (forced violent conversion also occurred). Even when national governments started expelling their entire Jewish populations staying and getting to keep all of your property ussually was an option. Yet most chose to leave rather than convert.

Yes, converted Jews might have faced discrimination and even violence (this depended a lot on the willingness to abandon your old customs and practices and varied hugely based on time and place, but seemingly became a bigger issue at the very end of the middle ages) but ussually they managed to more or less fully assimilate in a few generations.
Agree but if I have to bet on one or the other I'm not putting my money on the Twitter user.

And you can apply the same reasoning to literally everything. You know nothing about this random doctor who's going to perform surgery. Should you perhaps let some other random guy on twitter that claims to be a surgeon do it? After all even doctors from "most respected" universities made some stupid mistakes.

It's good to be skeptical in life, I'm not arguing against it. But at some point you have to trust at least something otherwise it's impossible to go through life.
My company installs falcon on servers!

I know because our apt mirror takes much longer now to sync. That's because the crowdstrike agent is using all the CPU to scan every .deb package.

And they're ar-tar packed, so unless there's a special algorithm to scan for them, nothing will ever be found in them anyway.
> Hardline ~~socialist~~ countries

This is true of any regime which refuses to adapt to reality. And in any case it's more or less tautological: a "hardliner" is defined precisely by the refusal to budge even when it might be to their benefit.
If I recall correctly, part of the context for this was that Microsoft had shipped its own implementation of Java separate from Sun's, but it only implemented a subset of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine
The streamer used publicly available binaries so if there's a leak here, it's on the dev team for embedding assets that they shouldn't have.
I hope Zig adds complex numbers before it is too late. It's a pity that they did not steal array syntax and slices from Fortran/Numpy.
At least OCaml, Haskell, SML.
That’s a tricky one. CrowdStrike is cybersecurity. Wait until the first customer complains that they were hit by WannaCry v2 because CrowdStrike wanted to wait a few days after they updated a canary fleet.

The problem here is that this type of update (a content update) should never be able to cause this however badly it goes. In case the software receives a bad content update, it should fail back to the last known good content update (potentially with a warning fired off to CS, the user, or someone else about the failed update).

In principle, updates that could go wrong and cause this kind of issue should absolutely be deployed slowly, but per my understanding, that’s already the practice for non-content updates at CrowdStrike.
You cannot use Europe as an example, because, it might surprise you, but European cultures are vastly different from American culture. A lot of the marginalized groups in Europe, have no problem integrating in the US.

And to put the blame of lack of integration purely on the immigrant group is very disingenuous when you have all these far-right political parties openly showing their colours and saying matter of fact that they do not want any foreigners, including legal ones, including educated ones.

And finally, what's the link between integration and crime? I don't see the connection. If anything, the people who are least integrated are the ones who are the most law abiding. The lead a pious life according to their faith. They aren't the ones going around dealing drugs in night clubs. Those drug dealers are much more integrated in the host culture. After all drug consumption is very European.
I remember it being a superset, they added an extension to make implementing native methods easier on windows. ActiveX Jdirect or something like that.
Yeah I think the most useful skill we should start teaching is critical thinking. Because it's going to be an absolutel mess navigating the digital space in the near distant future.
I've seen three hundred user businesses told they won't even quote them a price.
The minutes for this meeting is not public yet, but in general gnome foundation minutes are extremly vague on all subjects (e.g. "a change was proposed and the board approved it").

Code of conduct issues seem to bring out certain people out of the woodwork. hence to avoid conspiracy theories and witch hunts taking over I think the foundation should explain the situation as soon as possible.
> Nicaragua and Dominican Republic basically make the best ones last I checked.

You’re going to need sources on that. Cubans are still the best dollar for dollar.
Strict tracking protection mode does not block third party JavaScript. Are you referring to another extension you have enabled?
This is a thing of beauty. I used to make spreadsheets like this ages ago when I was working across Linux and Solaris, but they were nowhere near as thorough as this.
Are you a salesman for crowdstrike?
I imagine it's about type signatures. Rust makes it very easy to attach strong invariants to types. In most other languages, it's either harder to attach these invariants or harder to trust them. By one metric (definitely not all of them), this makes properly written Rust code much easier to understand (and trust) than in the other languages from that list.
You'd think that the software would sit in a kind of sandbox so that it couldn't nuke the whole device but only itself. It's crazy that this is possible.
Blasting Virtual Aliens Could Help Dyslexic Kids Parse Words
Whe I first saw news about the outage I was wondering what this malware "CrowdStrike" was. I mean, the name kind of sounds hostile.
Potentially we will see some, but this occurred in many jurisdictions across the world.
Research into trans medicine has been manipulated?
Has anyone done the <aloud> thing, and achieved some interesting results? Seems a pretty obvious thing to try, but I never heard of anything like it.
I think Twitter will probably remain popular for a long time, especially for people with a more right leaning perspective on the world. That's not really the people I associate with, and it probably needs to be mentioned here that I'm Danish. Which matters because the sort of people who post right leaning stuff here are kind of your crazy uncle on Facebook kind of people. Which means that Danish Twitter is slowly becoming a like an actual Facebook feed where the only people who post are the ones you'd likely associate with if you're here on HN. Even if you're conservative, because it's just so crazy and hateful.

I personally wish people were heading for Mastodon. I especially think that our institutions should operate Mastodon instances on their own, so that an American tech giant can't decide to "cancel" a Danish politician as an example. I mean, I don't agree with anything our far right does on social media, but the concept of a foreign tech giant being able to ban an elected Danish official is still sort of crazy. Anyway, people are going to Threads for the most part.

Note that this is a perspective from my little point of the world. Though some of our major news media have decided to ditch Twitter, as well as closing their posts on Facebook to comments.
I mean centralized control of devices is great for the far more common occurrence of Bob from accounting leaving his laptop on the train with his password on post-it note stuck to the screen.
Why? They are in a very specific business and have more incentive to cover up successful attacks than most other companies.

And while I'm 99% for Hanlon's razor here, I don't see a reason to be sure it wasn't even a completely successful DoS attack.
Oh, I always thought it is around 500k illegal immigrants per year in the US (these aren't considered refugees I guess)
Couldn't agree more.

Funnily enough it's not even that hard to 'become aware'. Start with the Wikipedia page on the Second World War, for instance, for a blockbuster entry to the topic.

The single most marginalised group of people in the West since antiquity have been the Jews (with the Romani a close second). Pretty much every European power has evicted, massacred, initiated pogroms, or otherwise persecuted Jews. The trend continues today.

Anyone who says 'anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism' is antisemitic, because that's denying a group of people their homeland or Urheimat. That is classic genocide, by the way.
> Back when I was at Pokémon, some kid figured out how to extract the images from the card game. He found an icon from the developer and said ‘Holy s----, I found a new Pokémon.’ This kid included his email, and because of the way Pokémon did account creation, when we got the child’s account, we got the parent information, which included a phone number.

> So I called his mom and said, ‘Listen, I wanted to tell you some things that Andrew is doing on the computer.’ She says, ‘So you’re saying he hacked your game.’ And I hear in the background: ‘I didn’t hack anything!’ I start describing it more technically. She says, ‘Is this a problem?’ I say, ‘Hacking software, that’s a federal crime, but I don’t want that to be the conversation. Why don’t we make it a conversation about the good and bad things he can do with a computer?’

When you boast about threatening kids, that says a lot about what kind of person you are
Everyday theres some entity I used to look to Twitter to see news about them, and then I find out they decided not to pay some multiplier of tens of thousands of dollars a month. If I can't use Twitter on Firefox now, thats fine.
Jart: FreeBSD kernel can natively run APE binaries now
I think the argument isn't "engineer" vs. "farmer", but rather engineer (or doctor, interpreter, commercial farmer/farm manager, industrial project manager, any other specialization that realistically requires years of training) vs. lower-skilled labor like farmhand, non-management/unspecialized construction worker, stuff that can be taught and learned relatively quickly.

I wouldn't call "low-skilled" workers _unproductive_ per se, and personally think they're incredibly valuable, but economically, the cost/difficulty of replacing a "low-skilled" worker is relatively low: it's a lot easier to find a replacement farmhand than it is a replacement farmer that manages the farm itself.
An appeal to authority if ever there was one.

Their critique is written here, in plain english. Any fault with it you can just mention. The "I won't read your comment unless you get X journal to publish it" seems really counterproductive. Presumably even the great Journal of Language Sciences is not above making mistakes or publishing things that are not perfect.
The Sovereign Tech Fund lists Fortran and PHP among its investments.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech
> Previously, organizations with mission-critical workloads lacked access to important cloud and AI capabilities when in demanding edge environments, including those that present unique challenges and requirements.

I'm sorry, what???
Not the person you responded to, but I actually take a similar approach as them so maybe I can explain.

Firstly, difficulty and fun are not always directly correlated. Something can be difficult but fun, or difficult and unfun.

Following on my first point, different activities or goals usually have aspects that are more or less fun. It’s better to start with the easy and fun stuff. You don’t have to swallow the ocean.

Now this last part really is dependent on the type of person you are. For me, once I’ve gotten into a subject, I just become more curious about it. The aspects of the subject that were unfun at first are now interesting. I’m more invested and I’m more curious. And if I’m more curious, it’s more fun.

To sum it up, it’s not that one can avoid enduring difficulty. It’s more about harnessing your own strengths and curiosity.
A Short History of AI
https://archive.ph/nOVle
This year marks 40 years of Galaksija, and the magazine PC Press with the author of the Galaksija Voja Antonic released a reprint of the original special issue which introduced Galaksija. Building kit is also available. More information is available on: https://racunari.com/
They are probably pivoting to charging ransoms aka "consulting fees" to fix crashing systems and those are priced in.
Yea, I simplified that a bit. It blocks specific third–party domains that are known to host advertising trackers.
You can make as many sites as you like, but I would still ask a human to review them and make a judgment call on whether other humans might be interested in the content before indexing them.

You can record as many albums as you like as well, but the DJ needs to like your music before they play it on the radio.
How would the authors consider a paralyzed individual who can only move their eyes since birth? That person can learn the same concepts as other humans and communicate as richly (using only their eyes) as other humans. Clearly, the paper is viewing the problem very narrowly.
Most people do not understand, or care to understand, what "security" means.

You highlight training as a control. Training is expensive - to reduce cost and enhanced effectiveness, how do you focus training on those that need it without any method to identify those that do things in insecure ways?

Additionally, I would say a major function of these systems is not surveillance at all - it is preventive controls to prevent compromise of your systems.

Overall, your comment strikes me a naive and not based on operational experience.
A modest proposal on avoiding international computer failures
In our lifetime we'll see an auto update to self-driving cars that kills millions.

Well it's likely we don't see that because we might be one of the millions.
I agreed with most of what you posted, but you have a misconception about these "welfare states". The immigrants end up on welfare because they are not allowed to participate in the economy. Why? Partly because of bureaucracy, and partly, one might say also because of other reasons: protectionism, discrimination, ...etc.
As a Swede, we have always been very bad letting foreigners in. Most, even otherwise liberal and well educated, have been low key racist. One part has been that anyone not speaking perfect Swedish has been seen as bit stupid. Having a foreign sounding name has made it much harder to get to an interview. Imagine growing up with hard working parents with engineering or medical degrees working as cleaners because no one wants to employ them because of their names or the way they speak. Would you be motivated to study or work hard? The only places where you feel welcome are in the mosques or in a gang.

What gives me a bit of hope is that this seem to be quite rapidly changing, at least in part of society. I have been working at a company in central Stockholm where none! of about 100 employees had even immigrated parents. I’m working in a large company right now where some departments still are 100% native Swedes, but other, that see what a waste it is to not use all this talent, employ 50% or more first or second generation of immigrants.
It sounds really interesting. But the only thing it does not do is scanning for vira/malwares, although this could be implemented using GRR I guess. How does Google mitigate malware threats in-house?
even 2 books is good. But Tchaikovsky is potentially one of the most prolific writers i've ever come across so I wouldn't worry about that too much. I think he's released 6 books in the last 12-18 months
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014484
I should be clear... I'm not talking about Nordic countries regarding Jews. Swedes, Norwegians and Danes are considered heroes in this regard, and the historical analogies to the rest of Western Europe don't hold. There was no history of ghettoization or discrimination there. I am not applying my criticism there.

It should be said that the pre-WW2 Jewish population of Sweden was miniscule, but that Swedes took great personal risks to save these refugees from a culture they did not know.

The rise in antisemitic attacks in France, conducted entirely by Muslim immigrants, is a feature of the weakness of the French pluralist/secularist and legal state which again appears to be failing to integrate new arrivals into its Enlightenment ideals. One hopes Sweden doesn't fall into the same trap. But my gripe is about integration, and historically Sweden has not had to deal with anything on the scale of what is happening now.
Why are LLMs incapable of reaching that limit? It's very easy to imagine video games getting to that point. We have all the data to see objects right down to the atomic level, which is plenty more than you'd need for a game. It's mostly a matter of compute. Why then should LLMs breakdown if they can at least mimic the smartest humans? We don't need "resolution" beyond that.
No, it has no macros, that is its greatest selling point. Instead you can use an embedded programming language which will look familiar to anyone who has some experience with software development to script it.

Replacing TeX's abysmal macro expansion language with a reasonably normal programming language is one of the reasons you would use it. Look at the example on their GitHub to see how the language works in a document.
Apollo made competitive workstations at the time until they got swallowed by HP. The Unix workstation market was bigger than Sun, but since they were the most successful nobody remembers how competitive that segment was. The model 16 was a footnote not a competitor
Medvedev's not Putin, he's Putin's useful idiot, a provocateur, west's bogeyman.

The only time he makes the news in the west is when he mentions nuking some random European country, which for the record happens quite frequently.

You should never take anything he says seriously.
In my experience, testing data and config is very rare in the whole industry.
Feeding software corrupted config files or corrupted content from its own database often makes software to crash. Most often this content is "trusted" to be "correct".
Novell bought Unix!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare#Novell
It’s not the state that put the immigrants there, but outside those areas it’s almost impossible to find something to rent, and as an immigrant without a steady income it’s kind of impossible to buy anything.
The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'. Teenagers love to position themselves in such roles due to insecurities, although I don't think anybody is completely immune to this.

Still, don't get why regular folks are so obsessed with getting desperately the news first, unless you ie trade on it or work for Reuters. Life quality is about completely different stuff, but to each their own, maybe its just Sunday chill talking from me
How can you list parks but not toilettes? If anything, pooping is as neccessary as breathing.
Huh, almost right. ("possible, but not guaranteed?" it's necessarily true. That whole sentence was a waste of space, and wrong.)

Edit: I mean "if there is any overlap", it's necessarily true. I should have quoted the whole thing.
Windows updates are also cybersecurity, but the customer has (had?) a choice to how to roll those out (with Intune nowadays?). The customer should decide when to update, they own the fleet not the vendor!

You do not know if a content update will screw you over and mark all the files of your company as malware. The "It should never happen" situations are the thing you need to prepare for, the reason we talk about security as an onion, the reason we still do staggered production releases with baking times even after tests and QA have passed...

"But it's cybersecurity" is not a justification. I know that security departments and IT departments and companies in general love dropping the "responsibility" part on someone else, but in the end of the day the thing getting screwed over is the company fleet. You should retain control and make sure things work properly, the fact those billion dollar revenue companies are unable to do so is a joke. A terrible one, since IT underpins everything nowadays.
"Para-social" is fine and in fact how it was written when it was coined in 1956.
What's bizarre is that this guy says that tracking down this kid (who btw didn't try to hide at all) made him a "legend" at Pokemon.

Quote from the article: "Which was fantastic. Absolutely baked my legend in at Pokémon for like five years."

Don McGowan is a legend though, a legendary asshole for being proud of bullying a curious kid that was poking around in legally obtained game-files.
It's not a local server! It's a hyperconverged system, as explained on the product page [0].

Which is, I assume, a very fancy expression for a local server.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/hosted/docs/lates...