skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only 357 syscalls in 6.0. Don't know why, but I thought there would be more.
There's also a perspective of a sender, and if you return "250 Ok/Queued" from your server, you didn't block anything, regardless of what you do with the email afterwards.
Windows AND Crowdstrike. I work for a pretty large corporation and the only effects for us was a few third party applications. We use M365 extensively and didn't see any issues there at all either.
There are more than 2 browsers, but only 2 rendering engines, which are the complicated part of the browser.
Believe it or not, ITAR regulation.

https://isititar.com/
Bold would be accusing them of not allowing you to install shit quality kernel drivers in ring0, and then accusing them of negligence when you hose your machine by doing it.
Elon Musk vs. California: what exits of X and SpaceX mean for the Golden state
You want your antivirus to be autoupdating.
That is a non-answer. Do you like pushing over gravestones too?
The legacy of colonialism still casts a dark shadow. You can replace who rules much easier than changing how they rule. Batista a dictator replaced by Castro another dictator.
Let the flowers of a thousand tools bloom.
Are there any other mathematicians out there? I love TeX, while freely acknowledging that it has flaws, but maybe it's just because it is the water in which mathematical writers swim, so that we learn it from such an early age and it becomes essentially inconceivable to use anything else.

The author carefully notes that the blog is not typeset in TeX, but I was disappointed that someone who cares for typography would think that the point of math mode is to shove everything in an <em> (not even <i>) tag. TeX sets what it thinks of as variables in an appropriate slanted (not exactly italic) type, but it would not (unless specifically instructed to do so) put the exponent 2 in y = x^2 in that same slanted type.

(Incidentally, the Turing completeness that the author mentions was against Knuth's original vision for the language; as the mythology around TeX goes—although I can't find a source right now—he added the relevant extra power (I'm not sure what it was) only "reluctantly." At Guy Steele's request, by the way!)
> Mathematical maturity has all to do with practice and experience and nothing to do with age.

That's OP's point.

"Age-appropriate" was put in quotes because it was referring to a metaphorical "mathematical age" to tie it to the concept of mathematical maturity.

And, indeed, certain books require more mathematical maturity to get through than others, even though the prerequisites may be minimal. You'll see this often explicitly described in the preface of textbooks and reviews of those textbooks.

They mentioned studying certain books to develop mathematical maturity because that's where the practice and experience happen. Calculus is one such course used as part of this process, as are many courses intended as a first exposure to proofs like linear algebra and discrete math. Some might use the Moore Method with point-set topology.
That is why he was only paid $47 million last year. He is an under performer...
> Or even ChromeOS

ChromeOS is a Linux distro BTW
No I mean reading the news I had the wrong idea of the situation. It's a total lockdown not a curfew.
I (a mere graphic designer) had mixed feelings about LaTeX for pretty much the same reasons, and realized LaTeX' modularity is its greatest power and its Achilles heel.

But I could find that "sweet spot" in ConTeXt. Switched to it 12 years ago and never looked back.

I can't feel the same way about Typst. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me it's going to have the same kind of Achilles heel than LaTeX.
you could have customer profile rating like uber does, manual or algorithmic ones (based on what happened after you went). Then, if you get framed by a weirdo like that once or twice, it will be compensated for by the majority of your good behavior.

this is so dumb lol likely will just continue with starbucks and gas stations
Rhisotope – Saving Rhinos with Science
To be honest I think typst gets it mostly right, it puts a relatively simple python/rust'esque scripting language inside the document and lets you easily reference between them.

I don't think a lisp would have been a bad option, although I generally do not really like the syntax. Certainly it is a far better option than macro expansion.
I have been considering switching to typst, but my main concern has been running into things LaTeX can do but it can't. Were there more fundamental issues you came across?
>companies allowing auto updating of executable code in production on critical systems.

crowdstrike said the update was a "configuration file".

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/technical-details-on-todays...
I'm primarily interested in full compilation performance, but thanks for the tip!
> the horrible security practices of companies allowing auto updating of executable code in production on critical systems.

That's the irony of the situation. The criticality of the systems (arguably) necessitates real-time updates, otherwise they'd be vulnerable to threat actors.
It is so much better than seeing these being weaponized.
I heard it was going to be ClownStrike.
Look, when it comes to corporate reporting, PDFs are pretty much the gold standard. Sure, they've got some potential security issues, but any decent company's IT department has them well in hand.

Think about it - you want your reports to look sharp, right? PDFs deliver that professional look every time, no matter who opens them or on what device. Plus, they've got all those nifty features like password protection and digital signatures that the big guys love.

CSV files? They're great for crunching numbers, but let's face it - they look about as exciting as a blank wall. Try sending a CSV report to the board of directors and watch their eyes glaze over.

So, yes, for reporting in a company that's got its security act together, PDFs are your best bet. They're like the well-dressed, security-savvy cousin of other file formats - they look good and keep things safe.
If there are all those externalities, the "for less money" part is a bit weak.
I'm not American, but it doesn't sound to me like this is less radical of a solution. For a country that espouses the principle of free speech so passionately - in my experience, from both sides of the political divide - for the USA to require a form of 'proof of credibility' before allowing a citizen to participate in social and political debate would be for it to lose perhaps the most important part of its identity. Would that situation preserve 'America' more than a collection of not-so-united states which would probably retain bilateral trade and travel agreements, as well as the now-immutable, deep-rooted cultural ties?
Why are you arguing about the responsibility of MS or CS when the owner of these enterprise computers is clearly the one responsible for what's on them? The companies affected are the ones who chose to install the software and run it with the inherit risks.

> Microsoft InTune is the mechanism that all configuration updates should use.

That would make it one of the most locked down operating systems in the world, killing millions of applications overnight. Enterprise IT already have the ability to control installs, updates and patches, why move that burden to Microsoft?
>IF you look sufficiently affluent, you can slip into a hotel

I did that walking in downtown Paris near the Place Vendome. I walked into a huge luxury hotel and asked where the restaurant was. I used their toilet and left. It helped I wore a dress shirt and was without sac à dos.
Tcl was the scripting language in the mIRC IRC client, and as a 13 year old, my first foray into programming.

I started writing little scripts to boot annoying people off IRC, but ended up caring more about coding than IRC politics - and ended up writing a full blown Napster clone in Tcl.

I feel like I owe my career to Tcl opening these doors for me - so thank you John.
I think it's actually one of MS moats that you can do this on Windows.

This had been much harder on macOS, and practically impossible on iOS; considering that few business take those OS seriously, it's most likely a requirement than a flaw.
Same, I was even surprised because I didn’t find anything.
We don't want to become Canada.
> LLMs do not have corporeal experience. But it's not obvious that this means that they cannot, a priori, have an "internal" concept of reality, or that it's impossible to gain such an understanding from text.

I would argue it is (obviously) impossible the way the current implementation of models work.

How could a system which produces a single next word based upon a likelihood and and a parameter called a "temperature" have a conceptual model underpinning it? Even theoretically?

Humans and animals have an obvious conceptual understanding of the world. Before we "emit" a word or a sentence, we have an idea of what we're going to say. This is obvious when talking to children, who know something and have a hard time saying it. Clearly, language is not the medium in which they think or develop thoughts, merely an imperfect (and often humorous) expression of it.

Not so with LLMs!! Generative LLMs do not have a prior concept available before they start emitting text. That the "temperature" can chaotically change the output as the tokens proceed just goes to show there is no pre-existing concept to reference. It looks right, and often is right, but generative systems are basically always hallucinating: they do not have any concepts at all. That they are "right" as often as they are is a testament to the power of curve fitting and compression of basis functions in high dimensionality spaces. But JPEGs do the same thing, and I don't believe they have a conceptual understanding of pictures.
>Crowdstrike doesn’t make anything secure.

It's not security pixie dust, and might introduce more security vulnerabilities itself, but it's probably pretty good at preventing Alice from accounting from running a random macro-enabled excel file with a malicious payload.
But what about the many skilled laborers who are just as willing to immigrate to the U.S. and other high-income countries? Don't they have at least just as much of a right to try and make it there legally?
Pretty sure it's just an asshole.
driven is so 2023, airlifted by an electric drone
Imagine being a European and not being allowed to defend yourself lol
US-Japan Patriot missile production plan hits Boeing component roadblock
Recently Andrew posted that the compiler can compile itself without LLVM in under 10 seconds:
https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/112752924367683101
So Google is presenting summary information in a way that very much implies comprehension, but without any comprehension of context — i.e. a name collision is enough to throw them off and result in unrelated pictures and bio being smashed together?

Seems pretty irresponsible of Google to do that. And also, just... kind of lame. Google is slowly but surely changing their image from "tech wizard" to "kind of a joke", and they have nobody but themselves to blame.
That doesn't seem related to your first comment?
This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.
Why not just use the search bar in Wikipedia and call it good?
David Graber's book "Debt, the first 5,000 years" goes into this in great detail. Highly recommended.
> If so, describe it for us.

I already did when I called you rude.
> Because only Crowdstrike's Windows release was broken by them and they didn't fuck it up on the other OS. How is this Window's fault?

First of all, whether it is actually Window's fault or not isn't the point. What matters is the perception by the general public and policy makers. And maybe it could have just as easily happened on another OS, but the reason why is somewhat technical, so people who have an agenda can spin it as being MS's fault.

Secondly, it is possible, although I don't think terribly probable, that the bug was influenced by some quirk of the windows platform, although it is impossible to know without more details of the exact nature of the bug.
I understood the question, if you read my comment you'll note I acknowledged that. I think I was thinking of the signal numbers, which I was last looking for around the same time and had a similar man page hunt
> The US also fares poorly if you don't count the wealthiest 15% of the population.

This is false. The US has the third highest median income of any country in the world, after Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates (which clearly does not count the income of their foreign slaves). PPP adjusted, btw.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
Here's a direct link:

https://youtu.be/xi1Lq79mLeE?t=4314

"New Technology", if you want to search the transcript. Per Dave, marketing did not want to use "NT" for "New Technology" because they thought no one would buy new technology.
Game widows grieve 'lost' spouses (2007)
22% market share of the corporate anti-virus market, I read.

Its not only big corps, but hospitals, governments, mom and pops.

Crowdstrike was baaaaaaad.
What TeX gets right: flexible macros. Sometimes you really do need more control than most languages offer. A combination of XML documents with custom XSLT is probably the best alternative, but XML syntax is horrible to write.

What TeX gets wrong: flexible macros. There's a very good reason we shy away from "cannot be parsed, only executed" when designing a language these days. There's also the major issue of namespacing.

It's quite reminiscent of the Curse of Lisp, except somehow worse.
damn west coast elites living in fantasyland.
> Qubes OS starts from the position that all VMs are or soon will be compromised. Zero-trust in network design assumes the bad guys already have the whole network.

So what does Qubes OS do to protect against a hypervisor bug? Those must exist.

How do you ensure that your systems are still working and retrieving data from databases, etc, when bad guys have the whole network and can block all communications?
Shutting down trade will make life worse for Bangladeshis (and complications for apparel companies here). Textiles and garments are huge exports for Bangladesh and those industries employ many, many people there. I'm also of the opinion that the people of a country should be considered separate from its government and military (which may not have support from its people and be corrupt)
Yes, it's broken.

But when Google was young and wonderful, the web was a relative paradise, and rich with truthful (or at least well-intended) information.

Now, the web is mostly an SEO-optimized, Terminal-Stage Capitalist hellscape. Even the very best talents and intentions would find it extremely difficult to create a "good" search engine these days.

I mostly use non-Google search now. Even when it ain't better, I can imagine that I'm boosting the "people looking for less-sucky-than-Google search" stats.
But as you've outlined multiple times, the flaws of the OS are not the problem here. Changing OS, the same poor decisions can and have been made. Windows can be locked down or configured to a very stable level, and Linux can be configured to a shitshow.

I don't like Windows, but embedded edition has been the most common operating system you encounter in the physical world for decades, and broadly it works so well you don't know. I don't see a good argument that something on the Windows end needs fixing here.
Serato DJ Pro and Traktor probably
The argument would be that that conceptual model is encoded in the intermediate-layer parameters of the model, in a different but analogous way to how it's encoded in the graph and chemical structure of your neurons.
> It's just a mess, hence why I sort of gave up at some point and for some "esoteric" syscall I just hardcode them.

Presuming you don't want to keep doing this forever, but would rather do insane amounts of up-front work if it would enable you to never have to touch this again:

1. Have you considered writing some code that takes a configured + built kernel source tree; finds the intermediate build artifacts pertaining to the code unit that contains the syscall handler; and parses those? And then taking the resulting IR data-structure / AST / whatever, and doing some symbolic interpretation of it — to enable you to essentially do an xpath-like expression match on "does something specific with a concrete syscall number that isn't already in the known set for the arch"? AFAICT you could generate your own syscall table from that, and it would be exhaustive.

2. Have you considered dropping a little bit of driver-program code into the kernel source tree, that just "does syscall handling according to the passed-in paralemeters" — i.e. where the artifact built from compiling this file, would be an EFI-app pseudo-unikernel that naively pretends all kernel services were already initialized (they weren't); would do one syscall operation, calling directly into the syscall handler; and then would immediately halt afterward — and then feeding the resulting "executable" to https://github.com/google/AFL ?
To keep up your analogy, it can be said that Microsoft delivers a 2024 sports car with a 1980s naturally-aspirated diesel engine.

If Microsoft had done their job instead of inventing new UI frameworks basically for each recent Windows release, there would be no need for an antivirus engine at all.
What's your point? This is not about "knowing if the atmosphere is cooked or not".

High emission countries/individuals are most responsible for the environmental damage, and most capable of reducing their emissions with the least impact on their living standard.
It's 462
If you write a program that can run on a 386, you can run it easily on your brand-new octa-core Ryzen -- with a whole bunch of other stuff, more than if you had left the program unoptimized.

Similarly, if you build a system that unintelligent people can use, intelligent people have that much more brain power not used up fucking with the system. There are plenty of smart people who don't mind Apple forbidding them from running certain software: they're not interested in running that software in the first place, and it eliminates entire classes of malicious or undesirable software that they simply don't have to worry about.

That's why many of the smartest people I know are all-in on the Apple ecosystem. See graph:

NOOOOO! Muh user freedoms!

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Just buy / \ Just buy
Apple ---- ---- Apple
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I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary that day, except that some websites were slow.

I usually don't watch the news but hours later that night flicking through channels, I caught a few words talking about 'huge outages worldwide'. I also heard the word 'Crowdstrike' which joggled bad vibes in my head.

My day had been normal. I have a Linux computer.

Crowdstrike is a notorious organisation, always up to their necks in no good. So it's normal that they are the cause of yet more trouble.
Because the smoke spreads, and you don't always have a choice to avoid it.

It also drives up the cost of healthcare, which because of insurance or socialized healthcare we all pay more for (either higher premiums or higher taxes).
High skilled immigrants also create demand, which creates labour demand.

So it’s not clear that they suppress wages.
Because "searching for an encyclopedia article" and "asking questions about a branch of knowledge" are fundamentally different approaches. In theory, an LLM that was a talking Wikipedia would not be limited to giving you knowledge from just one page, it could extract multiple pieces of information from multiple articles to answer the precise question you had, and could accept follow-up questions on the same or similar topics.
The amount of non-LaTeX TeX users is larger than the CPython user fraction.

If TeX gets fixed in the way OP is dreaming about (but doesn't actually detail), it probably wouldn't be compatible with LaTeX. Just like many styles aren't compatible with ConTeXt.
By now I’d expect people including you to have a more sophisticated perspective about third-party software.

Yesterday was a catastrophe and you are still stuck with such naive and simplistic view: you want your antivirus to be auto updating.
Typst deals with documents, so if you want to prepare an actual document, with a defined page layout, style, font, etc. typst gives you that.

Markdown does not do any of that, it just gives you html.

You would want to use typst if you want to create a document and need to control how that document looks from the language itself. Even if you were to render the markdown html to a PDF, markdown itself, or even css doesn't give you control over many parameters of the output document.

There basically is no competition between the tools, they target different output formats.
Who are the pretentious people that you know that lead this to only being "slight?"
When I search for "Tom Faber", I expect to get results relating to a bunch of Tom Fabers.

When I see a knowledge panel result, I expect everything within it to relate to a single entity, regardless of name collisions. If it doesn't, that's incorrect. If it's too hard to disambiguate, it's better to not have the knowledge panel at all.

That said, I did this search just now. https://imgur.com/a/zEjrfte The top organic result is the author's X bio and has his profile pic in the search results page. To the right of it (across a gutter) is the knowledge panel about the physicist. I could see how one might get confused, but the X profile pic is just near the knowledge panel, not actually in it. So if this is what the author saw, I don't agree with the article. It'd be nice if he included an actual screenshot of what he's describing, instead of the cute "Why is Google..." thing.
Leave it broken, that's fine, just don't leave it misleading. And leave hints for how a passer by might improve it in the future.

Probably you'll be that passer by in the future, and you'll thank yourself. Or you won't, and someone will thank you.
Empathy for the user having sex with your software
As someone who has this week been going through, in detail (is there any other way?), the American CCL and Canadian ECL, this is absolute gold. Thankfully the items in question are no longer on the USML…
> to an endless loop of 'Lucifer' by Alan Parsons Project

Since this is tapes we're talking about, I'm curious: was this a literally endless loop? Battery life permitting, naturally.
I had figured people didn't like the dig at JS. Unfortunately the WAT video is no longer on youtube. It might be on destroyallsoftware.com.
Yeah this allows outsourcing both risk and responsibility. The institutional risk that you take in exchange is acceptable because it lowers personal risk
Do you believe it was more or less than 8.5 million machines?
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.

When it comes to restrooms, some people can not help not help themselves and leave it in a significantly worse state, or use it for other purposes (like drug use). Maintaining restrooms is, on average, thankless responsibility, even though people would be thankful to find one.
It also happen when opening a link in Incognito mode
Immigrants are substantially less likely to be involved in crime than US born persons. Don't make stuff up if you can't find a reputable source.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31440/w314...
This is what I was most curious about for this story. What exactly failed that meant the appointment had to be cancelled? If it was set up and planned for, presumably all the infrastructure was in place to conduct the fairly specific treatment.
He should become Adam Neumann's CTO.
Ah that's a good counterexample. Political education could play a big part, as well as independent media.
> The criticality of the systems (arguably) necessitates real-time updates,

This is an Oxymoron
Do you think the economy can not be influenced by political decisions? Also do you live behind the moon?