skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm super down voted by open source enthusiasts who want free stuff, but I really think you should charge for this software. It's only going to be used by businesses, so they should pay for it. You wouldn't go to your local McDonald's and offer to work for free for them all day, would you?
Is this really different than Jinja2 or Twig with template inheritance and blocks ?
No, the fact that they’re actually using eBPF on Linux is what makes it safer. None of this is magic, it’s just a question of following decades of engineering experience.

Similarly, Microsoft clearly sees the benefits but note that they themselves say that’s not production ready yet. I’m certain that this incident will cause people to consider migrating as soon as that changes.
I was curious to see if I could help, and I wondered if you saw their mailing list? It seems to have some folks complaining about things they wish it did, which strangely enough is often a good indication of what it currently does

There's also "Show Parkeep"-ish posts like this one <https://groups.google.com/g/perkeep/c/mHoUUcBz2Yw> where the user made their own Pocket implementation complete with original page snapshotting

The thing that most stood out to me was the number of folks who wanted to use Parkeep to manage its own content AND serve as the metadata system of record for external content (think: an existing MP3 library owned by an inflexible media player such as iTunes). So between that and your "import Twitter" comment, it seems one of its current hurdles is that the use case one might have for a system like this needs to be "all in" otherwise it becomes the same problem as a removable USB drive for storing stuff: "oh, damn, is that on my computer or on the external drive?"
Public bathrooms are nasty even when there aren’t homeless people or addicts around. Ever been on a road trip?
Again, there are safe ways of doing this. For example, Wuffs exists: https://github.com/google/wuffs

At the very least, big money security software companies should be parsing untrusted content with some kind of rigorouly safe approach, not just squirting it through a big pile of C/C++.

And don't get me started on the whole concept of undefined behavior in those languages. To quote I. I. Rabi, "Who ordered that?"
No, why would you? Normal OSes are pretty good at doing reliable audio playback and recording, musicians wouldn't use them otherwise. They don't guarantee five-nines but who cares. They are unlikely to ruin your audio experience.
Kent Walker's betting the farm on AI spotting future f*ckups? One born every minute!
Early stage buy side can be a grind. Not for the faint of heart. Good luck
I think they don't share specific details because it will reveal how bad they handle QA and update rollouts processes for a product that expensive, maybe at some point law enforcement will reveal the embarrassing truth.
Yes, this is one of the major problems with this. I don’t like pdfs
>I remember there was an article "the six dumbest ideas in computer security" on HN a while ago, one of those was the mindset that "hacking is cool". I'm reminded a bit of this here.

Half of that post is unhinged nonsense. "Hacking is Cool" is listed right after a rant about pentesting being dumb because your software should just be designed to be secure.
If you look for optimal you are going to spend more time looking for that textbook than learning.

The optimal solution is to find a good enough textbook and start as soon as possible to learn and tonstop procrastinating.
The list has been filtered to include only non-compliant clients:

“The following list of passkey providers have not implemented User Verification in a spec-compliant manner.”
I think this is existential for Windows, and by extension MSFT. Something like 95% of corporate IT activity is either over http (ie every saas and web app) or is over the serial port (controlling that HVAC, that window blind, that garage lifter)

So what we need in 95% of boxes is not a fully capable PC - we need a really locked down OS. Or rather we can get by with a locked down OS.

I would put good money on there already being a tiny OS from the ground up in MSFT that could be relabelled windows-locked-Down(13) and sold exclusively to large corporates (and maybe small ones who sign a special piece of marketing paper)

The thing is once you do that you are breaking the idea that windows can run everywhere (or rather we claim Linux runs everywhere but the thing that’s on my default unbuntu install and the thing on my router are different
And human beings can indeed write safe "unsafe" code. But to do so consistently, you have to be very smart, very cautious, and somewhat lucky.
Shader work graphs are on the way https://gpuopen.com/gpu-work-graphs-in-vulkan/
Pretty… great? I remember 2019 fondly. Granted, I’m not a farmer, but I don’t recall people complaining much about grocery prices.
.sys files in Windows are usually drivers rather than configuration files.
I'm a college student and I use Typst in school all the time. I know I should just use Google Docs/Sheets, but because it's code instead of a WYSIWYG editor it's very easy to create reusable and consistent styles for reports and presentations, and saves time on the long run. (I use polylux module for slides.) Once you get past the learning curve (10-15 hrs if you nosedive) it's incredibly easy to create professional stuff.
Yes, the damp rock will be fine.

Humans aren't likely to die out directly, although scenarios where it all seems a bit pointless and the remaining few million humans stop reproducing are plausible.
I'm not sure 'head technical salesperson at one company became head investor salesperson at another company' is at all necessary to derive that particular and well-worn theory of ichthyo-decay.

If the argument is 'we ought to have a thread dunking on this person', I don't think you'll have to wait long, there will surely be several, as this story develops.
GPT plays Pokémon (livestream) [video]
Although it's a .sys file, it's not a device driver.

"Although Channel Files end with the SYS extension, they are not kernel drivers."

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/technical-details-on-todays...
So assume they're removed.

As it happens, one of the unwilling customers is the police force where I live. I can tell you what the police would have answered: "We're supposed to take down the police servers outside our normal schedule for a problem that does not affect us? Are you serious?" How do you suggest that the next CA should answer?
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54700-x
You can indeed write buggy/unsafe code in any language. But it's a lot easier to do in notoriously unsafe languages like C/C++, which for some maniacal reason we seem to have based the world's digital infrastructure on.

C++ was a terrible, terrible mistake.
Emailing an office manager with a company security issue would be incredibly irresponsible. They're in charge of managing the physical office and are about as "outside" as you can get in a company while still being employed by that company.
If you need help merging additional data sources, this project might be able to assist. I know the folks, and they are motivated to deliver open data.

https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
For a business I had to learn how to design parts for mass production injection molded plastic. It’s simple in concept but the devil is in the details, of which there are a great many.

I couldn’t find a general non-fiction book with the information I needed, so I found and ordered the best textbook I could find on the subject.

Teaching yourself from textbooks, I think you just have to be prepared for a serious grind, involving lot’s of looking up math and other terms that you either forgot or never knew, trips down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, etc.

Those books are, for the most part, designed as teaching tools to accompany classroom learning — sometimes the whole class is going to come and not have a clue what they’ve read, and it’ll be via class or office hours they figure out WTF is going on. These books are not designed for autodidacts.

I could be less charitable and talk about a lack of competitive pressure and perverse incentives for selection of academic books, but I’ll leave it at that.

Worked out for me and the manufacturer I was working with said we were the most professional part designers he’d worked with (we were helped tremendously by software I’d written), he wasn’t a bullshitter generally, so I’m inclined to believe it.

You can be successful but it’s going to take a lot more energy than it would with a nice trade book with an animal on the cover.
Given the entire urban planning political environment has shifted towards gradual but substantial infrastructure changes, at this point the main barrier to change is just making it happen. And to achieve that all you need to do is push for new road standards and guidance at a city, county, or state level.

Once that's done the changes can roll out whenever there's maintenance or road widening going on. This is for example what Florida is doing to push for a comprehensive passenger rail system and it's what other countries have done to make their roads and streets safer and more efficient as well. So it'd stand to reason the same principle would work at state and local levels in the US for this as well.

The only real argument against it I could see is that it'll take too long but 30-50 years really is nothing for widespread infrastructure improvements.
Yeah, this is it. A year ago if I tried to find the perfect textbook to learn Linear Algebra, I would still be looking.

There are certainly good and bad textbooks, and a book good for many people might be unsuitable for your style, your goals, and your background. But there are plenty of good enough textbooks, trudging through any of them will yield far more benefits than getting that ideal book.
Yes. The term "normalization of deviance" comes to mind. Even just a phased rollout would have caught this one with just a tiny fraction of the damage observed.
I'm a happy (albeit) infrequent user of https://mataroa.blog/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896661
Why 70 is not a lot? Value for money
And you think that any realistic alternative (which does require appropriate funding) does not have similar risks?
Israel is doing well after 10 months.

No lack hostile hackers.
Kind of: they’ve been deprecated for 4 years and you have to disable SIP to load them.

https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

They’ve added system extension mechanisms for the most common needs trying to balance the various things people use kexts for against the impact on security, performance, and reliability many kexts had.
And those old computers (TRS-80, TI/99, Commodore 64, etc) that booted straight to a BASIC prompt were so simple to use. You turn them on, they booted in a few seconds and you were ready to start entering code. The programming environment was also the REPL and the OS shell. You were not distracted by those things being conceptually different. The need to use GOTO/GOSUB and line numbers was limiting but also made the flow of control very clear to a new programmer.
From that point of view, there are several million amateurs, some of them quite highly paid, out there writing terrible code.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0703/gaza-w...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/gaza-face...
Good. Microsoft doing something sensible.
Why does IT even pay $$$ for crowdstrike? Time to uninstall it and figure something else out. Just use linux or chromeOS.
> If we assume their business is proportionate to GDP...

This is a really bad approach. Megacorps like fb are happy to take a loss on small countries to maintain a worldwide monopoly. Perhaps I'd go with a power law distribution, rather than uniform? A few whales can cover a whole lot of leeches.
Management is ultimately responsible. Licensed engineers are already responsible and we still get chronic institutional maleficence, Boeing, Enron, Ford, Purdue etc.
Like many have said, its a shame they refuse to maintain minimal requirements to keep the links working.

Google offers cloud services. It’s like AWS saying they won’t spare some ec2 instances to keep some links working. If Google knew how to use their own cloud products then they could deploy some instances, failover, and monitoring and leave it alone, and also dogfood their own cloud products.
> knows the devilry involved

You're being too kind if anything. Whilst trying to bash HTML emails into something acceptable I questioned if my life wouldn't better have been spent as a monk in Tibet.
It is the member state authority, although EU GDPR is a Directive, is up to the member state. It doesn’t just apply to the EU, it can be UK ICO.
The problem biodegradable plastics solve is microplastic that accumulates in our bodies, ocean etc. People still have to dispose of them properly of course, because it can still take years for a whole bag to dissolve.
I was thinking the same thing 2 months ago, I used tmux locally and remotely for 5 years with advanced features in bashrc using systemd-run to start sessions and keep them open.

But there were always some problems with copying, terminfo features, truecolors, composed unicode...

And recently I changed my mind about the usefulness of a multiplexer, after all only some remote machines were adapted to my workflow, most of the time I just used it locally and had to deal with multiplexer and terminal issues at the same time.

So I tried Kitty again, Kitty claims that multiplexers are a bad idea and that the terminal can do more and better, and it's right about that. Multiplexers should be replaced by advanced terminals.
Ask HN: Is it possible to build an app from the ground up without coding?
I'm trying to build a basic prototype of a consumer social app and wondering if we're at a point where it's possible for me (non-technical) to actually do this using Claude, ChatGPT, no-code tools, etc. and without knowing how to code.

I fully realize the irony in that there's a high concentration of technical people on this site and therefore this may be a stupid place to ask this, but I bet you're have a better understanding of what's possible than me so here goes.

1. How far can you get using Claude, ChatGPT, etc. for helping code something from the ground up?

2. What other tools would you consider using to help you with this that can be used without coding?
Majority rule is a double edged sword
I don’t see how they’d be easier than midi.
E.g. OCB Eco filter tips are 100% biodegradable :

> These filter tips are designed without plastic, they are biodegradable according to NF EN14995 norm and disintegrate in water (in particular seas and oceans).

What % of these Top 100 Cigarette Filter products are biodegradable?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/hpc/10342496011/

Clear cellulose papers exist and are bidegradeable. Many products made from algae is biodegradable.

Unbleached hemp cigarette filters exist but only for slims?

There should be a law: cigarettes and their filters may only be made of unbleached biodegradables.
It's a common issues with self-learners, mathematics or not: there is no perfect course out there, and switching from courses to courses can be wasteful.

In my experience, focusing on a single, good-enough course (when in doubt, go for a famous/respected author/field contributor) and looking for other sources once in a while, has been the best approach.
The included quote by Edsger Dijkstra is completely absurd. As the article points out, learning BASIC provides a fantastic foundation to build on.
Seriously, if anyone from a16z is reading this, all you're doing is incentivizing the next exploit to be sold and used against you.
It would be interesting to see how well it optimizes compared to the established players. The fact that it handles C23 and common GNU extensions is already impressive.
I know but I don’t want to mess with the site css since that’s literally the only table I have used in 7 years ahah

I do want to make a better page for that list though so I appreciate you nudging me.
Thank You. Seems like a expert "Language Engineer" worth learning from.
IMO textbooks are dead and they were never a great source of knowledge to begin with. The idea of reading some piece of text written by someone, then edited by someone else, and expressed in an "appropriate" style and language (think formal language which uses fancy jargon), and then having to robotically solve some end-of-chapter problems is just absurd. My experience tells me the "gems" of knowledge are often found when authors and experts just say whatever the fuck they want on a forum or in personal discussions. That obviously presumes those authors actually know what they're talking about. So many math, physics, engineering, etc. books are written by people who had no business talking about those topics.
> Imagine if you had $1,000,0000 in your bank account and were spending $100,000 per year, except one year you spent $95,000. That's 2020.

It's even worse, because there's positive feedback loops we've probably unlocked (mainly artic and tropical methane).

So it's more like every year you put $100K on a credit card with high interest rate with continually compounding interest.*

Even if we stopped spending tomorrow, the debt will continue to grow exponentially.

*And the card is owned by a mob boss that will blow your brains out when your debt exceeds your bank balance.
To further my point I looked up the French presidential election procedures; I found the German article more informative than the English one, so I had Copilot translate that one. Turns out there were several referendums over the decades where French voters changed the rules, and they of course vote directly for a candidate. Before you can become a candidate, you have to secure a certain level of support from incumbent elected politicians; there's also a modicum of territorial distribution to the rules to ensure no single region can dominate (wonder how well that works). Anyhoo if you think that France's system is Rule of the Mob then here's why that is so; if you think it's a relatively stable, relatively democratic country, then here's how they manage to be a republic and still allow people to vote directly for presidential candidates:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4sidentschaftswahl_in_F..., translated by Copilot:

The election of the French President is governed by Articles 6 and 7 of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic. Since a referendum in 1962, the President has been directly elected by eligible voters. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of votes in the first round, a runoff election is held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the initial round.

In every election so far, a runoff has been necessary. The highest vote share in the first round was achieved by Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election with 44.6%.

The term of office for Presidents was reduced from seven to five years through a referendum in 2000. Since 2002, the French elect the head of state and the members of the National Assembly for five-year terms. Re-election is possible any number of times, but no more than two consecutive terms are allowed.

To run for election, a candidate must be at least 18 years old and eligible to vote. Additionally, they must gather at least 500 signatures from supporters who hold elected political offices. Approximately 42,000 officeholders are eligible, including mayors, National Assembly members, senators, and regional or departmental councilors. These signatures must come from at least 30 different departments or French overseas territories, with no department contributing more than one-tenth of the required signatures (i.e., 50 signatures).
Well, that statement is 100% true.

I've been an idiot as well in the past. Happily some of us actually learn though!
Yes it is my own product. Sorry for not pointing it out.
Exactly. It's like the brown M&Ms in the Van Halen rider; it's not that the M&M's were the problem, but that it was a test of diligence. People who don't care about detail are likely to screw up the big things just as badly as they screw up the little things.

Being a multi-million dollar company and using unsafe languages today is not a good look. But everyone gets away with it because everyone else is doing it.
That's silly. The police were doing a considerable amount of violent suppression of protests in Portland. People even started calling the mayor "tear gas Ted"

The protestors themselves mostly did property crimes though. The "broken windows" crowd and the far right media tried to make this out to be "violence", but even the police-reported violent crime statistics don't really support that view
He appears to have a bit of unfortunate history with this kind of incident:

https://x.com/ArtemR/status/1814349423046209701
> The engineering cost of migrating code bases is trending to 0

I work with code base of >750K LOC C++ that is 12+ years old and would like to migrate it to something fashionable like Futhark or Python. So, please, tell me more about your wonderful regular expression.
John Ousterhout also was leading a project called RAMcloud (I thought was interesting) that the article doesn't mention - [1], [2]. Also, he has a book on s/w design [3] which is short and nice, and is more of a collection of ideas rather than an approach, which I highly recommend.

[1] RAMcloud talk by J. Ousterhout:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUvU3b5co8

[2] RAMcloud paper: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud.pdf

[3] A Philosophy of Software Design, https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste...
In a lot of ways, that's worse. If it were just the politicians, we could vote them out.

We can't vote out the people. The people are angry, at each other, in ways disproportionate to the nuance and compromise. It becomes self-reinforcing.

I'll be blunt that I think some people are more at fault than others. But I don't know how to stop that.

I wish it were just the politicians, or even just the media. Then there would be things that I could do. But when the people hate each other -- and I genuinely believe they do -- I can't think of any options.
What are you referring to with "'real' thinking can be difficult at first"?
Because national polling is more frequent, and you can pretty closely approximate a state result with a national poll plus a fixed “lean” for each state.
NYC to Boston in 100 minutes: a high-speed train proposal picks up steam
Not a great analogy. Its more like if your endodontist hired a secretary who leaves the medical records unlocked, do you really trust them to be up to date with modern dental sensibilities when the rest of their office is ran so carelessly?
I'm not sure daily mail is the best source for this, since it is known for its generally sensationalized (tabloid-esque) content.. This talks about the same thing but is from Nov 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/antidepressants-ss...
That is probably a lot slower, more difficult to implement and would require even more power for the control system.
I am not from Crowdstrike, but they were under pressure in 2022-2023 to show a profit. They did that by cutting expense growth across the board, and I am now guessing QA got hit particularly hard.
What is the importance of data integrity? If important pre-op data/instructions are missing or gets saved on the wrong patient record which causes botched surgeries, if there are misprescribed post-op medications, if there is huge confusion and delays in critical follow-up surgeries because of a 100% available system that messed up patient data across hospitals nationwide, if there are malpractice lawsuits putting entire hospitals out of business etc etc, then is that fallout clearly worth having an available system in the first place?