skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIUI new Debian supports enough ebpf that it doesn't need an unsandboxed kernel module, which is a useful point of comparison. Though yeah, an OS can only do so much to limit a problem running with root, and security software legitimately needs a lot of power.
A lot of the work happening in Zig includes experiments which may or may not end up kept long term. What this would solve: compile C without requiring LLVM. The plan in the community is to have LLVM as an optional dependency, and not required by default.
Thanks for posting! Burke uses the term "barter", which is wrong. Before coinage, people used credit. Barter was extremely rare.
It's typically Android.
Isn’t that name collision?
What? You can init to a standard template. The syntax is significantly simpler and definitely easier to learn, it resembles something like markdown for simple things, a huge step up from LaTeX.

I can not imagine someone having an easier time with (La)TeX than with Typist, when starting from zero.
you don't want to have to dig up your emergency reserves, only to find they've already been dug up and eaten at someone's wedding
Cabbage yields about 1000 lbs protein per acre, vs 3000 lbs protein per acre for soybeans.
I thought curfew meant only at night but sounds like nobody is allowed outside even in the daytime?
You aren't going to get custody of your child support payment is $10k/mo and your ex only spends $1k/mo on the child.
systemd, a software suite providing system components for the Linux operating systems, implements a blue screen of death similar to those of Microsoft Windows using a systemd unit called systemd-bsod since August 2023, which was fully added on December 6, 2023 starting with version 255 of systemd.[36] It does not replace the kernel panic featured within Linux (see below); rather, it is only used in the event of a boot failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death#Linux
I once switched to Google, one day in '98, when they were basically ad-free, with good results.

I once switched away from Google, one day in '23, when the first seven results for many queries were 'sponsored', and shitty.

These days, I let LLMs answer most of my questions. They are sufficiently easy to use. For regular surfing, I rely on Kagi. Both services are pay for play, but my lifetime is not unlimited, and can be spent better than shifting through advertisements.
I'd expect the HN crowd to not give Microsoft beef here or want them to lock down the OS more. At least, that would be consistent with usual comments about letting users control their OS. Companies chose (with some regulatory pressure) to install CrowdStrike at the kernel level after all.
> Everyone knows that people whose usage of the Rent-a-Potty is, ahem, strongly correlated with the state transition to an orange or red dot face price hikes, or possibly even expulsion from the app as a whole, so there's good reason to leave it at least as good as you found it.

This seems very susceptible to abuse. You (not you personally, but someone malicious) go into the restroom, mark it in a poor state, do whatever awful thing people do to get restrooms in the state in which they're so often found, and leave. Now it's the last person, who left it in a perfectly good state, who gets the blame.
I'm pretty sure I heard it in an econ class, which would have been around y2k. From the way it was presented I had the sense that it was already well known.
cant have an office outage when you can’t boot into windows
Should MS hold liability for selling a system who needs additional 3rd party components to be considered secure?
What if *some* highly intelligent immigrants oppose American values? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. They may use their capital and ability to politically undermine our civil liberties.

Most people globally aren't used to the American interpretation of free speech or gun rights. I don't want people coming here using their talents to politically remove my rights. I think this is a fair point to make.
High-skill immigrants disproportionately found companies (whose very existence implies driving up demand in the labor market), as well as disproportionately induce new consumer demand (high-skill -> high pay -> high consumption), which again drives new companies.

Out of America (and the world's) only $1T companies:
Brin and Huang are 1st gen immigrants.
Nadella is a 1st gen immigrant; he brought Microsoft out of it's malaise.

(Jobs' bio father was an immigrant, as was Bezos' adoptive father)

3/5 ain't bad. (2/5 if you're a stickler)

Tesla, which at one point was a $T company and is currently pretty close, is also famously founded by an immigrant.

There are very few people in tech in America who will not have worked for an immigrant founder/CEO at some point in their career.
Thanks for your insightful comment. And, yes. 38 is right around the corner so to speak. 'As distant as 2010' as someone elsethread put it ...
I don’t think Windows would survive for very long without other Microsoft businesses subsidizing their revenue. It might go on for a few years, but it would basically move up Linux and OSX quickly to corporate desktop status, while Windev goes bankrupt as a non-viable business.
> I don't know what the solution is, but it's something that needs to be figured out.

The "solution" is that you bust up large companies until their market share of a vertical is less than 20%.

The fact that Microsoft controls 75%+ of the desktop/laptop market should get that pulled out of the company and broken up. The fact that Google and Microsoft control the email hosting market should get pulled out and broken up, etc.
Had a similar experience with an engineering text, contacted the author and he gave me the same shit.
That sounds low... Really low. E.g. NYC has ~350k employees and I know they got hit hard. Not all of them have windows machines, but let's say 100k do. I know they basically all have falcon installed. That's 100k in just one org, not even counting their windows servers. How many Fortune 500s are mainly Windows?

Edit: I did some back of napkin math. ~30 million work for a fortune 500. Let's say 2/3rds of those have a Windows desktop provided by employer, so ~20M. I think I read crowdstrike has about ~25% market share, so that's 5 mil just in fortune 500. No way it's just 8.5M
It does now: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-BSoD-Picture

But yeah, kernel panics or the equivalent happen to ~all OSs.
The statement "Security is a process, not a product" refers to no _product_ can be a security strategy. _Processes_ are part of security. The security landscape keeps evolving and what was appropriate even 5 years ago may not be appropriate today. You have to evolve your strategy and countermeasures over time as part of your _processes_.
Typst, troff and some others also have a free software compiler, that doesn't make LaTeX unique in any way.
Mac doesn't allow 3rd part kernel drivers and on Linux they use ebpf. Is their product useless there?
the obsession with gun rights is doing your country far more harm than highly intelligent immigrants ever will
> presidential races (what I thought the conversation was always about, national level politics) along party lines in 2019

In primaries, which poses no threat to the party structure if the general election is still first past the post. I'm not at all interested in election systems for primaries when the issue at hand is how many parties can exist.

> You're also undervaluing that all of the ten states that have preeemptively banned RCV are Republican controlled

I'm ignoring that because I think it's more part of the general Republican hysteria about voting integrity than it is a calculated move by Republican politicians specifically to ban RCV for preserving-the-two-party-system reasons.

The question at hand is whether both parties would really rather not see RCV, and I see no evidence that there's going to be any significant movement from the Democrats towards it for general statewide elections any time soon. The Democrats just don't feel the need to make a big deal about it like the Republicans do at the moment.
He tried to take down the world before...He was given a second chance...I say he will try a third time...

"This is the 2nd time CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been at the center of a global tech failure" - https://www.businessinsider.com/crowdstrike-ceo-george-kurtz...
This is disingenuous. What the term illegal is referring to is unvetted. We could make all illegal immigrants legal at the stroke of a pen, but that's completely missing the point. We want immigration to be in service to the existing population. Giving a path to citizenship to anyone who has made it here no matter the means is just to torpedo the idea that immigration should be in service to the needs of the existing citizens.
Bad software updates can come from anywhere, and it remains bad no matter what the intention is and no matter what operating system it runs on.

When people install bad kernel-level software, they open their systems up to [more] kernel-level flaws and crashes.
The grassroots of the Republican Party absolutely want a reduction in all immigration. Few actually in Congress though. I'm talking about voters.
> (1)

Citation needed
> the code is just a transcript of the old one

That’s a very important point. Every rewrite I’ve been part of needed major architectural changes because of deep issues with the system. Switching the language was just a nice bonus.
You're quoting Software freedom 0 when referring to Microsoft? Wow, that's bold!
Crowdstrike doesn’t make anything secure. It’s the same smoke and mirrors bullshit they were selling in the early 00’s via Norton or McAfee. It slows down machines in the best case and periodically renders them inoperable.
What if I told you the cause was a failure of a dependency running CrowdStrike
To clarify: Android is based on Linux.
The embargo has been in place for most of a century, and was actually relaxed recently.
As a Cuban that is currently living in Cuba, I think it might be useful to voice my opinions, as I have read some comments here which I consider less than accurate in some respects. To avoid typing too much, I'll summarize with... bullet points?

* The published figure of 10 million people is already outdated. First, they are official figures, which means that they are not telling the truth. Second, six months have elapsed; which means the actual number of residents is less than 9 million.

* Not only a large amount of people are gone, but most of them are young, productive people; lots of them professionals in several critical aspects of a functioning society. Where I work I'm only one of the few that remains in my activity (IT & IT adjacent).

* Also gone are many of the more... reactive? brave? People that voiced discontent with the government and just chose to leave. What remains are relatively elderly people that are very conformist, or simple are not brave enough to voice their concerns.

* Is Cuba a dictatorship? No.

* Is Cuba a totalitarian state? Absolutely. The Cuban Communist Party is the only one allowed, as is written in the (relatively recent) Constitution. Even more than that, it exists above the Constitution, so this texts has no value at all.

* Are there human rights violations in Cuba? Yes, no doubt.

* Does the US embargo negatively impacts Cuba? Absolutely. Every single day, for the common people, that is. The elites? The top dogs of the Party? Of course they are unaffected; they are your run of the mill corrupt people in power, and they can have anything.

* Can Cuba trade with other countries? In theory, yes... in practice, it is very difficult. In addition, Cuba is a minuscule market that interests no one. China, for instance, has very little presence in Cuba, despite we being "allies". But they don't care.

I don't know how this could unfold in the future, except with a total collapse. I really wish the end of the embargo, and the possibility of open an free elections. We, common people, are at the mercy of US politics and being managed by inmensely incompetent leaders. We could debate all week on who's at fault here, who threw the first stone, but, as of this moment, that would be sterile. This country will be gone.
Why legalize people who entered illegally? Why have rules and quotas then?
I honestly don't see it. Statistically or otherwise. Even if it were. It's a protected unalienable right. Cannot under any circumstances be circumvented. In my opinion of course.
The lower you go in system architecture, the greater the impact when defects occur. In this instance, the Crowdstrike agent is embedded within the Windows Kernel, and registered with the Kernel Filter Engine illustrated in the diagram below.

https://www.nathanhandy.blog/images/blog/OSI%20Model%20in%20...

If the initial root cause analysis is correct, Crowdstrike has pushed out a bug that could have been easily stopped had software engineering best practices been followed: Unit Testing, Code Coverage, Integration Testing, Definition of Done.
The nixpkgs have a rather elegant way to deal with that. Let's presume you need a libpng for an armv7 platform, such as an old RaspberryPi. Then Nix allows you to

- get a suitable cross compiler toolchain

- pick whether you want dynamic or static linking (most likely static when the target system does not come with /nix/store)

- compile all prerequisites for the library such as transitive dependencies

- compile the library with the cross compiler for the selected target arch

All in one command line call, that does not require you to 'apt-get install' any of the tools manually:

nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A pkgsStatic.libpng --arg crossSystem '{ config = "armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf"; }'
I honestly don’t know what point you’re trying to make here. The Harris Ranch statement couldn’t be any clearer about the contents of the building in question and you’re still going on about who is leasing what.

I think you’re wrong ( and know it ) and you’re digging even deeper with stuff like “When you rent an apartment, it is your property” to “win” and that is severely uninteresting to me.
Some fixes to consider other than scrolling mentioned:

- Super thin fonts on bright background makes the docs very hard to read.

- Inaccurate scrollbar that readjusts every time scrolling hits beyond the scrollbar indicates. E.g https://targetj.io/docs/timeLoop.html
Very few companies, for-profit or otherwise, keep gobs of machinery on hand "just in case". It's expensive, not only the machinery, but the space to store it, maintain it while not in use, replace it when it ages out, and so on. It's also exceedingly rare to need it.

Hospitals also have limited resources in terms of IT staff. It's not a Azure army of operations staff that can rush out to every endpoint and click buttons.

When I was in helpdesk eons ago, I was "responsible" for roughly 300 - 400 endpoints, plus a handful of servers. As were all of the other helldesk techs. If something like this happened, there's simply not enough hands to go around as fast as everyone would like.
Singapore style drug enforcement seems to work. It's just a question of political will. Same applies to speeding etc of course.
You might be interested in Pollen. It's not a direct analog to TeX at all as the intended target is ebooks, but it might tick some of the boxes you've mentioned. Racket is a far better language than TeX for general purpose expression of internal logic or generation.

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
I had always (superficially) assumed the ruler as part of coinage was, somehow, to lend 'officialness' to the currency. But your informed and informative comment makes sense. Many thanks.-
has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?
It's a nice idea, but I'm not sure the statistics line up. Searching online gives the proportion of the population (age 25+) holding at least a bachelor's degree in the USA to be around 50%, which is higher than in Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands, to make an arbitrary selection. In fact there is no northern European country whose population has a higher proportion of tertiary education attainment than the USA. As far as I'm aware, primary and secondary education is available without cost in both the USA and across the entirety of Europe.

Percentages aren't of course the whole story; maybe secondary education in these countries is of such higher quality that fewer people need to study further to participate intelligently in political discourse. Perhaps the implications of free degree education on graduates' personal finances gives northern Europeans more free time to use that knowledge and participate in politics.

I like the idea of free education, but I am not confident that this is to blame for the USA's issues - mostly because of the situation in my country, the United Kingdom. Despite having had no tuition fees until 1998, this has not done anything to prevent an almost completely two-party system from prevailing for the last hundred years. For me, the non-proportional electoral system has become both the probable symptom and the probable cause of voting tribalism in both countries.
Show HN: QRaro, store binary data into QR Codes and retrieve it later
Of course this is just for fun
Rust is already popular and old enough to have terrible Enterprise Rust code bases.

There are a few things working in Rust's favor:

* unsafe code is used to build safe abstractions around it, so most users don't have to write unsafe code themselves. It is easy to forbid use of unsafe blocks in your own codebase. You can flag unsafe code during code reviews, and have a policy who is allowed to write unsafe code.

* Rust leans on open-source dependencies a lot. Commonly used libraries are decent, since the community can band together to improve or replace them. This makes Rust applications mostly "glue" code, where there's less room to mess up in novel ways.

* the language allows defining strict library APIs which are harder to misuse. There's Clippy checking for common mistakes and sloppy code.

Rust already assumes that it will be written by less than prefect programmers.
Cubans can not eat your blame.
It does increase wealth for shareholders. This is why there is so much capital allocated for opioids as well as other extralegal pharmaceuticals.
It takes energy to fight entropy.

I believe that the entropic state of human civilization is brutal authoritarianism.

Fight the current, indeed.

It's quite remarkable how effectively the citizens of the United States have managed to do that over the years. To resist the sweet, seductive lies of utopians who seek power.

I hope we're able to continue.
LaTeX3 (https://www.latex-project.org/latex3) is in some sense meant to be just that. (The author's Tectonic project apparently also aims to do this: see https://newton.cx/~peter/2024/the-new-latex .)
If it were a simple name collision in the way the original commenter seemed to mean, you’d search for your name, and see the photo and biography of a different person.

The article writer searched for his name, and found his photo attached to somebody else’s biography. That’s an incorrect search result.
Any media that does not have the attention of its audience is pretty pointless, no?
Another article blaming the upstream vendor and not bothering to put any onus on the horrible security practices of companies allowing auto updating of executable code in production on critical systems.

This is unacceptable practice. I understand non tech media not getting it, but this lack of awareness from tech news is sad.
It seems like he doesn’t learn from
postmortems or mistakes. Can’t blame him though, the incentives are aligned so he doesn’t have to
Then I would say they should read their own blog post:
"...a reminder of how important it is for all of us across the tech ecosystem to prioritize operating with safe deployment and disaster recovery using the mechanisms that exist..."

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-cust...
You've got to be careful about which LLM. I asked Microsoft Copilot for advice about staying in Paris, and then as a followup in the same thread, asked about navigation apps.

It started recommending apps that work well... in New York City.

If Copilot can't retain context, in the same thread, after a single message, then it's useless.

ChatGPT, which apparently Copilot is based on, didn't have this problem.

And from the linked article I have just discovered "Perplexity", which looks a bit like ChatGPT only plugged into a search engine. ChatGPT is also plugged into a search engine, so maybe it's plugged in... more? Not sure.

If anyone working at Perplexity is reading this, please add an "about" page to tell me what the site actually does. Nowhere I could find would explain. Everything assumes you already know, and I eventually had to go to Wikipedia to find out.

If anyone makes an LLM which only knows what's in Wikipedia, and doesn't hallucinate anything else, they would clean up.
> In the US, we have the Committee To End Pay Toilets In America to thank for this state of affairs.

We really have amazon to thank. Major book sellers ( Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Waldenbooks, etc ) were a major source of clean bathrooms. If you needed to use a bathroom, you could visit a bookstore, use the bathroom, browse for some books you might like to buy and go home and order it on amazon tax-free that night. Unfortunately, amazon did to bookstores what the asteroid did to dinosaurs and we are all worse off for it.
How many unskilled laborers do we need to accept to get one future Einstein? The ratio matters.

>Making to the United States is quite a test of endurance, flexability and competance so people who pass that filter are quite likely to be intelligent

I doubt this is true in cases where you can literally just walk across the border.
Is that really so hard? Isn’t the problem mostly solved by signing your update and verifying the update at the client? As long as you can keep the private key secret, that should be enough, right? Or are we assuming you can’t keep a single key private from your adversary?
That's name collision. The photo is chosen based on the name.
Do they run crowdstrike though?
if you burn out the engine of your car with third-party tuning chips, would auto manufacturers cover that under warrantee?
>Is their product useless there?

Probably? For instance I doubt an EDR product can detect malware being executed on iOS/Android, because all the apps there are heavily sandboxed and provide no mechanism to do invasive monitoring of everything's that's being run.

>Linux they use ebpf

According to wikipedia it's been ported to windows and on linux you can still load kernel modules which are crashable.
It’s like trying to study the effectiveness of antivirus. But you already said it. As long as it produces consumable metrics a c-level can ingest, then it’s worth it. Because really, how does it make sense to add something so invasive? Anyways in the 90s, antivirus makers also wrote viruses. They’d go on to flood networks with their creations, but magically block infection for their subscribers.
Hulk Hogan being at the RNC convention felt like it had to be Peter Thiel's handiwork (see: Thiel using Hogan to get Gawker shutdown.)
These might of interest to you:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43788-6

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24228-1

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-02462-8

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-21262-8
It means whatever the men with guns say it means
>What if some highly intelligent immigrants oppose American values? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. They may use their capital and ability to politically undermine our civil liberties.

That should be perfectly acceptable and within the bounds of free speech in a democratic society. It's up to you to counter "bad speech" with other speech in the marketplace of ideas. At least that's what I'm told when I complain about all of the American racists and lunatics whose speech I'm supposed to hold sacred, while they try to undermine my rights and values.