skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nigeria is a barely-functioning democracy, a wildly corrupt state: or is it ‘bias’ to say so?

https://freedomhouse.org/country/nigeria
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/nigeria
https://www.cfr.org/article/nigerias-all-too-familiar-corrup...
Political parties aren’t democratic institutions. They are essentially private organizations who can operate however they want. It’s only been the last 50 years or so that either party has used primaries as anything more than a straw poll
Sometimes I despair of humans, sticking all our eggs into a Crowdstrike basket, or billions of people condemned to wars and poverty, and then, we go and do things like “hey we can measure the freaking Sun’s solar storms from actual space vehicles we have put into orbit around this planet”

We have come a long way from James Watt thinking “you know we could keep some of that hot gas” - it’s not all to do with the free energy boost we have been digging out of the ground. We do have our moments.

Just less wars and more co-operation please.
Not in his best form doesn't mean unfit for president.
But yeah, it might be better if he steps down, especially if the candidate will be Kamala Harris
> Ukraine did not dissolve

Barely. And the country is absolutely drowning in rampant corruption at levels never seen before even in dark ages after the collapse of the USSR. I don't think Ukrainian state will emerge from this war unchanged and unchallenged.

Source: am Ukrainian.
That's not how flagging works. If enough users flag a story, it's automatically killed, not killed by moderators. The active moderation tends to be suppressing the flagging on some amount of controversial stuff.
This feels like evidence of interesting new phenomenon, I get why 99% of politics topics should be removed, but if we post one when presidents get elected, it seems like something as impactful as president dropping out should count too.
Compliance was the reasoning they raised, yes.

Whether you require this particular tool to meet compliance, and whether that tool needs to be deployed across the entire stack might be open to interpretation though.
I used to work in the Group Fitness (gym electronics) space and this is exactly how some BLE heart rate monitors get around the problems with otherwise requiring the host to connect to 20+ devices to capture their data. Put heart rate into the Manufacturer-Specific region of the advertising packet and boom, no one needs a connection.

Problem is that it's non-standard, so every device packages the data a different way.
Probably TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
I mean, I don't find it surprising. At all.
And here I thought shipping a new version on the app store was scary.

Is there anything we can take from other professions/tradecraft/unions/legislation to ensure shops can’t skip the basic best practices we are aware of in the industry like staged rollouts? How do we set incentives to prevent this? Seriously the App Store was raking in $$ from us for years with no support for staged rollouts and no other options.
There has to be a recognition of:

• size of target

• souls on board

• possibility of intrusion/spying

• type of projectile used

A 747 is huge, filled with people, and is not spying on you. To take it down, you would need serious artillery. At the far other end of the spectrum, if some drone is zipping around your house and videoing in your windows, are you allowed to do anything to take it down? Could you throw a baseball at it? Whack it with a pool skimmer?

There needs to be some nuance to recognize the massive differences between a SAM fired at a passenger jet and a pellet gun fired at a small unmanned drone snooping around your house.
As a side note, I’m into storage performance and the node-exporter data is absolutely spot on. I performed storage benchmarks with FIO and the metrics matched the loads and reported os metrics (iostat) perfectly.

I actually made a Grafana dashboard[0] for it, but haven’t used this in a while myself.

[0]: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11801-i-o-statistics/
There was also a Microsoft 365 outage. On the other hand is Microsoft also known to push faulty updates
The presence of that thread disagrees with which point?

Please re-read this sub-thread.
Here's what @dang posted on the giant thread of Biden winning presidency (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967). I suspect this thread has been auto-killed by some spam algo and there's a good chance dang will resurrect it at some point.

"As many have pointed out, a dozen or so submissions on this topic were flagged by users. That's actually the immune system working as intended, but another component of the system is that moderators rescue the very most historic stories so HN can have a single big thread about them. We did that 4 years ago, also for Brexit, etc.

Since this was the first submission on the topic, it seems fairest to be the one to restore. (It's still on our todo list to have some form of karma sharing for situations like this, to make it be less of a race and/or lottery.)"
Well there is at least one way which they should be dealing with it, which is to immediately revoke the current CrowdStroke kernel driver. Surely that thing can't be kept loaded ready to explode at the next malformed "channel update". God knows the vendor can't be trusted to ensure that.
They could push a windows update that nukes CrowdStrike and re-enables Windows Defender. I'm pretty sure they've done that sort of thing in the past.
Far from universal
Correctness of safety critical code (and others) is about more than just memory and logical safety. Imagine your brake control module is running rust and something unwinds. Now your time budget is being spent unwinding the stack and you're probably going to run into a watchdog halfway through, forcing a reboot and possibly escalating into a hard stop depending on the safety model. You can imagine similar issues with cryptography for example, or network stacks.

I'm not saying that lint should be enabled by default. It's a highly specialized config, but it's an important protection when it's useful.
I recently found that Tailscale supports procuring real Let's Encrypt certificates for the machines on your private network. So all you have to do on the clients is install Tailscale, which I think is a little easier than trusting self-signed certificates.
Won't this break Bonjour/Zeroconf .local announcements from hosts? Should you be using .local at all?
I don't get it how conscription is going to be compatible with all the values that EU/the West has been grown to respect and spread across the world: individual freedom, freedom of cooperation, human rights and so on. Conscription goes against every one of them.

I can see the problem, it's clearly there and maybe, yes, maybe conscription is the answer. My question still stands: how can a western society be healthy and prosperous with a mandatory service enforced on the population.
Lyndon B Johnson was the last to not seek reelection, though he stepped out in late March.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics"

Note, most. Not all. Big stories such as these are, I'd say, on-topic.
It sure seems like there are better chances with him gone; but yeah, he might have already given Trump the presidency by waiting so long (and for running for this election in the first place)
“Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, *unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon*”

Emphasis mine. This is not a “general politics” story and almost certainly qualifies as an “interesting new phenomenon”.
the sad thing is Starlink satellites have a significant impact on one of the scariest human threats-- nuclear war.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
No. Johnson did not seek reelection after his first term.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/03/politics/lbj-biden-what-m...
What makes this tough is that LLMs can show logical thinking and self-correction when specifically prompted (e.g. "think step by step", "double-check and then correct your work"). It seems unlikely that they can truthfully self-reflect, but I don't think it's strictly impossible.
Inkbase is pretty far from Math Notes from iPadOS 18.

Superficially they are both "programming with pencil". Math Notes are more about numerical computing – numbers, symbols, quantities, math, etc. Inkbase tackles different problem – general-purpose end-user programming with pencil. Think SmallTalk but for pencil. While much grandiose idea, the usefulness and applicability of Inkbase(-like) model is rather limited. On the other hand, Math Notes will revolutionize math education, and in turn math itself.
He's still competent enough to be president. He just doesn't have the chops to skewer a lunatic in a live TV debate, which is unfortunately very important, because if he can't, the lunatic might be the next president.
He's just probably unfit to serve four more years, and for sure was too unlikely to beat Trump
If you don't mind, I'll chime in with an American perspective. America is itself not a perfect case on immigration. Beyond high-profile recent developments under Trump: per our history of official, state-led segregation - within living memory, and certainly within the memory of much of our existing municipal and physical infrastructure, and which famously was, in part, a model for what the Third Reich aimed to achieve - the road to assimilation for the individuals and populations seeking it is not of equal length and equally unimpeded for everyone.

Being educated helps a lot. Being wealthy helps a lot. Speaking English helps a lot. Being white helps a lot. Not having these attributes is not a deal-breaker (we DID manage to elect a black president), but they do significantly effect how someone and their children might be able to access the greater community, education, jobs, and more, and particularly outside of the immigrant community they might belong to. This is exacerbated by the state of our geography: America is big, and spread-out, and was built in its current form with an eye toward advantaging car-ownership and ethnic/economic segregation. It is possible to come to this country as someone who is not American, become American, and then become fabulously successful as an American, but it's not a given, and there are often headwinds.

It's a difficult problem. We shouldn't despair because our governments haven't been able to tackle it. It's one worth continuing to try at because the alternatives (terrorism and internecine violence on one end, a form of genocide on the other) are horrible.
> Respect and endorsement are not the same thing.

This is true, but has no bearing on posters that command neither my endorsement not my respect.

You get my endorsement if I agree with you. You get my respect even if I don't agree with you, provided you don't post lies and nonsense, AND are amenable to rational argument.
> He came to power under questionable circumstances, winning none of the bell weather counties, most votes ever received (even more than Obama), massive dumps of mail in ballots after the close of the election day, etc.

Honestly, I think the rest of your point can be safely ignored after saying something like this
Yes.

Who's arguing with you?
That's not parsing, that's the inverse of parsing. It's taking untrusted data and injecting it into a string that will later be parsed into code without treating the data as untrusted and adapting accordingly. It's compiling, of a sort.

Parsing is the reverse—taking an untrusted string (or binary string) that is meant to be code and converting it into a data structure.

Both are the result of taking untrusted data and assuming it'll look like what you expect, but both are not parsing issues.
Or just

pdftk input.pdf input_pw YOURPASSWORD output output.pdf
> This is not a “general politics” story

Who's arguing that it is?
Another thing that rr sadly doesn't support is GPUs. I'd love to use it but most of my stuff involves GPUs in some way or another.
Telling people to wear a harness is not "covering every edge case so that everything grinds to a halt". It's just ensuring that the bare minimum is being done to prevent workplace deaths.
Fair enough, I've never used them either!
I am not sure the past was better. All of the industry insiders think so but I am not seeing it. In my region — which is huge, with a robust nation-sized economy — we never had a good traditional newspaper. The legacy newspapers produced garbage for decades. Today we have an excellent group of independent internet news outlets providing daily coverage of events and politics, many specialized to one or another of our hundreds of distinct cities. The state of actual reporting here is now much better than it was during the peak of the newspaper era.
wccftech has repeatedly been unreliable source. IMHO should really be banned.
> but probably just happens by simple association "blue screen of death = Windows problem"

This certainly happens. Before driver signing, an extremely common cause of BSODs was a page fault in the kernel caused by a driver bug that failed to lock down a page during I/O. Only if you had the hex codes of the various exceptions memorized would you be in a position to tell a driver-caused BSOD from some other cause. So.... "it must be Windows again". This was a powerful motivation for MSFT to start a driver validation lab that they forced vendors through.

And then... you have OS/2 -- where they actually used more than two security rings. Kernel in ring 0, user space in ring 3, and drivers in ring 1. Now the kernel can properly blame the driver. But of course, that can't be ported to CPU's with only 2 security levels.
Don't forget, Saint Ronald I. was (allegedly) basically a potato in the latter year(s) of his presidency. So there's precedence, with such a situation.
The problem is that the Republican controlled house would have to confirm the appointed VP. The senate might take a minute, but it would likely get it done.
I'm not sure it rises to 'opposition' per-se. For instance, I don't think anyone is sitting there cackling about how they're killing anyone due to them being obese fat asses, and figuring out how to make it worse.

It's really macro-economic and social inertia. Those sedentary folks have also convinced themselves they LIKE IT, and there is room (and real economic incentives) in the US trending in those directions. Like low property prices in the 'burbs, cheap gas (by global and economic standards), etc.
Where did the name "Dilbert" come from? [video]
I found a WW2-era US Navy video called "Don't Kill Your Friends!" on YouTube that called guys who ignore safety rules "Dilberts."

I'm sure the US Navy got the same from somewhere.

Does anyone know the origin of the name "Dilbert?
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Well, about 6% of Americans live in the NYC metro area. And many who don’t follow the NYT. So maybe it’s not that unexpected.
Related talk:

28c3: The Science of Insecurity (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
Migration from poor countries to wealthier countries has always been a thing.

Communist revolutions tend to happen in the poorest countries so you are mistaking cause and effect. The countries that communism took hold on have been poor to begin with. Yes, communism is not magic and can not make you the richest country on earth overnight but neither can capitalism.
Yeah, in translation.

In English-German translation, Google Translate will make at least 1-2 errors per document, and it's sometimes worse than that. GPT-4 generally produces error-free documents.

In English-Japanese translation, Google Translate's results are very poor, and GPT-4, though not perfect, is much better across the board.

Another thing is that Google Translate only produces word-for-word translations. GPT-4 can be told to modulate its results, like "translate this in an informal, casual voice," or "translate this in sparse and exact language for a corporate legal memo." Or even, "translate this into [specific dialect]."
A lot of snarky replies to this comment, but the reality is that if you were selling an anti-virus, identified a malicious virus, and then chose not to update millions of your machines with that virus’s signature, you’d also be in the wrong.
A submarine launched nuclear missile takes about six minutes to hit its target. Presidents probably shouldn't even be permitted to drink alcohol during their time in office as responding to nuclear attacks is one of the major duties of office, even if one we hope they never have to perform.
Wonder if airlines and hospitals should be forced to use non-overlapping infrastructure so a black swan event wont bring all of them down. IIRC US technicians for X mobile operator must carry phones with Y operator's sims.
Hmm.. I must be even further out of the loop than you, why would that be embarrassing?
Unfortunately his domestic achievements have been somewhat mediocre.

His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people.

I really do think his major failure was not pushing for a lasting achievement like implementing federal parental leave. He had the chance, but opted for a 1 year extension of child tax credits.

And of course the US has an illegal immigration problem. European right on the rise from 1/10th the number of illegal immigrants the US gets.
I have a book on the list. I'm lucky enough that at this moment I'm at an institution that will cover the download traffic. But my prior school actually withdrew that support at some point, and in any event I will retire someday. I don't think I can ask my wife for us to pay for that. (I won't mention the possibility of a deadly bus encounter.)

In thinking about where the work might live in order that I could hope it is available, say, for the next decade, it is reasonable to look at people who can use the traffic to keep their lights on.
Rebuttals of Chinese rooms are also rebuttals of embodiment as a requirement! To say the system of person+books speaks Chinese is to say that good enough emulation of a process has all the qualities of the emulated process, and can substitute for it. Embodiment then cannot be essential, because we could emulate it instead.
no sir, the default .local are still accessible

on Macbook, you could check General > Sharing > scroll the bottom and you will see something like RUBIs-MacBook-Pro.local, and it's still working.
Then are the null bytes just a coincidence? Why does deleting it fix the issue then, and why is it that it is missing the 0xAAA... file signature?
The blog posts I haven't written (yet)
While OSHA can be a bit onerous it really does help to have an organization with teeth pushing safety culture. Instead of the conflict between the workers and their bosses 'stupid rules' it's the 'stupid rules' of some 3rd party.

OSHA standards are quite a low bar in general. An organization that is simply "OSHA compliant" is definitely not taking safety seriously. Moreover, OSHA is often far down the list of regulatory agencies that companies are worried about. For example, killing a protected bird species is far more likely to incur 6-7 figure fines and/or land management in prison than a workplace fatality.

That said, the situation with OSHA isn't particularly concerning. Most major companies are aggressively safety oriented. Even ignoring the legal liabilities of injured workers the fact is that, in the long term, unsafe working conditions are often less productive and potentially extremely damaging to capital investments. To illustrate, an accident at an oil refinery could easily run into the hundreds of millions in damage, in addition to an equal if not greater amount in lost production. The costs of settling lawsuits and/or fines for safety violations are trivial by comparison.

Nowadays, the greatest risks to U.S. labor is not from the likes of Kiewit, Union Pacific, Rio Tinto, etc. It is the small and under capitalized businesses. So, what can be done? Such businesses are already walking on a financial tightrope. If OSHA were to properly scrutinize such businesses even their limited fines would present a significant stress. Some people might retort that if a business can't operate safely than it shouldn't be operating at all, which is a fine. The downside is that all of those services will become substantially less competitive and more expensive.
What you wrote here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41025321

"So?

I'd rather live in the modern day, "unequally" with the rich, than starve or die of disease equally with the rich of the middle ages.

Just because the rich have 100Xed in quality of life over the last century, doesn't negate the fact that the poor have 10Xed in quality of life.

Making everyone equal is easy. Just make them all equally dead, starving, or miserable, just like they were in past centuries."

Shows a lack of historical knowledge. If all were so miserable, how did they built the greatest civilization, Christendom? Did Newton or Leibniz starve to death? The picture you are drawing here of past centuries is ahistorical and completely disregards the unbelievable quality of art and architecture that was possible during times where people were, according to you, "dead, starving, or miserable". (As if they aren't today.)

I don't want to live at all. I would kill myself immediately did I not fear God, Christ, and eternal damnation.
I'd guess a kernel of corn has a similar humans per square inch ratio. It took about 10,000 years to bio-engineer the stuff at your grocery store.
Biden started those wars? American troops are on the ground in those conflicts?
the part about right shift not being equivalent to a division by 2 even if sign bits are copied didn't really convince me.

-1/2 = -0.5

floor of that is -1.

-1 >> 1 == -1

What's the issue? It's integers. The floor is implied.
I am, admittedly, very glad that Biden stuck to his word in 2020 that he will be a single-term incumbent president for the last 4 years... I just wish the DNC kept their word on bolstering a more compelling candidate within that timeframe as well.

They had 3 1/2 years to bolster the reputation of Kamala, and largely sidelined her after using her as a play for minority vote. Now they're (likely) running her in a remaining timespan of a little over 3 months left before election -- after no one has thought of her since the last election. This isn't good.
Trump would (has promised to do so on live television) just give Ukraine to Russia. Biden/USA/allies have stood down Russia, which has been seriously damaged both by battlefield losses, by not achieving their strategic goals and instead entering a second Afghanistan, and by the rapid conversion of the EU economy to no longer need Russian energy.
> housing regulation

is it? I think you may want to do some research of your own.
I can understand that perspective too, but a problem with that approach is that he might seem arrogant and out-of-touch - and I would have difficulties trusting a party who is so clear in their communication for so long, and then abruptly change direction completely
Are you being daft? You arrogantly told someone to “read the policy”, presuming they haven’t. And you stated that general politics are not allowed under the submissions policy. I’m pointing out that this is far from general. I think I’ve been quite clear.
Don’t worry, it’s still low paid.
interesting found, while the primary purpose of tailscale are easier P2P connection, I might take a look how this real Let's Encrypt certificate are being used for .local/custom FQDN and implement it on Lokal, appreciate it.
Biden winning the race in 2020 [1] was the most commented post on HN.

I found that yesterday while trying to figure out how popular the "crowdstrike" post was, and it is actually the second most commented one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967
As an anti-trump voter (aka a circumstantial democrat) - that’s what I’m worried about too. It feels like we’ve left it til too late without the democrats putting up anyone that people are excited about - while we know how the other side feels about trump.